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The Prisoner’s (Hedge Fund) Dilemma

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SAC Manager Arrested for Insider Trading at Hedge Fund. If you speak to most hedge fund managers, they will tell you what they create is efficient markets. The payoffs hedge fund employees are real, but the business has the feel of a game. Back in March, one SAC Manager (Michael S. by Gary Cohen.

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Should You Put World of Warcraft on Your Resume?

Harvard Business Review

Harvard has used high-stakes poker as a real-world game theory laboratory for strategic thinking. For sheer bonhomie and bonding, golf remains a global opportunity for American, Asian, and European executives to mix business with pleasure. ” The ambivalence around virtual gaming is practically—if not ironically—palpable.

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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Far from counseling that everyone must major in statistics, in the edited conversation below he advises students and executives alike to roll up their sleeves — no matter their statistical literacy — and get their hands dirty with data. The manager doesn’t want to seem like he’s not sure what he’s doing.

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