Preface: Models at Work I am not a Quant. I always wanted to be one but it took a single meeting with Goldman’s Firmwide risk team in London to clear any delusions I may have harbored. All remaining reservations were removed in the one PhD elective in Finance that I took with Maria Vassalou at Columbia. Despite [...]
Every year we put together a short guide for the PASHA delegation participating at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. Here is the 2013-2014 pre Awards preparation guide for teams presenting to judges at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. Items (1) to (5) require access to YouTube. Google Spotflux if that is an issue for you. [...]
Monte Carlo Simulation – iBook teaches how to build financial simulations in Excel. Building Monte Carlo Simulation iBook, our latest iBook on Monte Carlo Simulators in Excel is now live on the Apple iBook store. With 136 pages, 8 video lectures and 5 review sessions the iBook reviews the process of building Monte Carlo Simulators in [...]
Download Reboot for iPad without an iBook store A number of followers and friends would love to read the new Reboot, 3rd Edition, iBook on their iPads. If you have iBook 3 on your iPad you can now download a slightly scaled down version of Reboot. The scaled down version doesn’t include the videos since they [...]
Google for Entrepreneurs Week Presentation slide deck For two consecutive Saturdays, I was invited by a group of close friends to speak about Startup Failure. Last Saturday the audience was primarily students and young professionals at IBA new auditorium. This Saturday, it was a mixed group of technology and start up professionals at the Marriot at the [...]
Saw Jobs, the movie this evening. Not sure if the review debate has really gotten out of hand. Here is the low down. Yes it is not perfect and it always possible to do a better job. Steve lived a complex life, it is difficult to do justice to it i...
Why did Yahoo buy Tumbler or Facebook buy Instagram or Google buy YouTube? For Jeff or any other technology company married to the conversion game it comes down to content and traffic. While we may disagree with the opinions and orientations of the Post, the Post still has an incredible following. If you look at the [...]
Getting Published. My road to a publishing contract. The short answer is that I was incredibly lucky. I wrote and shared something on Linkedin last November that caught the eye of an editor who wrote back. Two calls, eight emails and six months later I...
Help us find the right name for the new book on risk management Here is the background story. I have just sent in my manuscript for a text book on risk management to Palgrave Macmillan. Macmillan is likely to publish in the book by December 2013. The book is being positioned as a desk reference for practitioners [...]
Estimating Exposure and Impact – Emirates Airline Emirates airline is a leading Middle Eastern airline known for its commitment to redefining business travel and operating the largest business and first class transit lounges in the world at Dubai Airport. Emirates flies 40 million passengers a year and its last reported financial year (2012-2013) grossed just [...]