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...roughly 50 staffers—part of Mendillo’s desire to “rebalance the company to better suit the portfolio I want to have going forward”—it is now actively looking to hire some top-notch internal traders as well.A LEARNING EXPERIENCEWhile she has tackled the financial crisis opportunistically thus far, Mendillo says the past year has also been a learning experience. Maintaining liquidity will be an extremely important consideration in the near future, she says, compared to the past decade when markets boomed. And while she does not think risk...
...committee has framed the openness of the legislation’s wording as an opportunity to encourage professors to teach whatever they want, however they want, to make their field of expertise accessible and exciting to non-concentrators. Gen Ed committee members say they hope that the lessons students learn in Gen Ed courses will “stick” with them after they graduate and shape them into more thoughtful human beings.“The Core was in some ways linked to the academy or to have a better sense of why academics do what they...
...It’s really important that we have a regular and ongoing opportunity for students to learn about and explore LGBT issues,” said Susan B. Marine, director of the Women’s Center, “including history, philosophy, theory, and what’s going on in the LGBT rights movement...
...result, the economic turmoil might have the beneficial side-effect of causing graduates to think through what career choices would be most fulfilling, she said. Kagan extended two other pieces of tried and true advice to the degree candidates—to cultivate personal relationships, and to learn to listen to others in addition to simply arguing with them. “Nobody ever learned anything when they’re talking,” Kagan said. “You only learn something when your ears are open, not when your mouth is open...
...would still fail to predict securities prices perfectly. Relying heavily on this dataset and acting according to the outputs of the models would change economic parameters so that the original assumptions are no longer valid.“Unlike in the physical sciences, where with enough data you can learn what the truth is, in markets the truth is moving around a little bit,” Stein says.In a fundamentally uncertain world, placing too much faith in predictions, no matter how sophisticated, can be a mistake.“[People] think of us as having much better forecasting skills...