By Richard Khavkine The billionaire investor Howard Marks has simple advice for market players who want to become superior investors: Be idiosyncratic—and then follow through. Marks asserts that distinguishing yourself takes patience, discipline, and psychological know-how. He addressed a packed …
The Alternative Investment Club’s conclusion: BlackRock would be a great place to work. Juniors and seniors confirmed this when they visited BlackRock’s offices on East 52nd Street last month. Three executive presentations, a Q-and-A with young analysts and a networking …
by Justine Humenansky (GSB ’14) Young women in New York City have been learning about nutrition from Fordham senior Marie Georgantzas (GSB ’14), who has been featured in the New York Daily News and on Good Day New York for …
by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) “This is a street fight. This is war.” That is what TrepCon keynote speaker John Caplan — presently the CEO of “social shopping” web site OpenSky — recalled about the competition in the 1990s between …
by Farzana Ali (GSB ’15) We are at a time when corporations are working with theologians. One of Fordham’s newest business faculty research centers, the Center for Humanistic Management, recently organized a conference in Tübingen, Germany, that brought together those …
by Balt Heldring (GSB ’14) Ever wonder who was behind AT&T’s “It’s Not Complicated” advertising campaign? A series of TV commercials that feature funny conversations among four little kids and a young man seated around a classroom table, the “It’s Not …
by Tom Stoelker reprinted from the university blog What does literature have to do with value investing? What about biology? Or philosophy? Well, according to author Robert Hagstrom, it has quite a bit to do with it, as does physics, …
Five Fordham business students are headed to Deloitte University. That’s not a hot new MBA program you haven’t heard about. It’s the site of the finals for the Deloitte-sponsored FanTAXtic Case Competition, and it’s in Texas. Fordham’s team is headed …
by Jason Chan (GSB ’17) Dr. Di Lorenzo’s Ground Floor class listened to Stew Leonard’s in-store animatronics while sampling the market’s freshly glazed cinnamon doughnuts. As the animated butter sticks sang, three tour guides described how Stew Leonard’s grew from …
The Gabelli School was represented at last week’s Bloomberg/NYU conference on New York City real estate by Andrew Burns (GSB ’15), John D’Alessandro (GSB ’17), Gleb Ditrikh (GSB ’16) and Meg Muha (GSB ’14). Our students joined professionals from all over …
