Masters in Business

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Bloomberg Radio host columnist Barry Ritholtz looks at the people and ideas that shape markets, investing and business.

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Steve Case on Startup Entre...

09.23.2022

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur and investor Steve Case, who came to prominence as a co-founder of America Online and has spent the last 15 years with Washington-based investment firm Revolution. In addition to serving as chairman ...

Masters in Business episodes:

09.23.2022 Steve Case on Startup Entrepreneurship Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur and investor Steve Case, who came to prominence as a co-founder of America Online and has spent the last 15 years with Washington-based investment firm Revolution. In addition to serving as chairman ...
09.16.2022 Albert Wenger on Global Venture Capital Firms Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Albert Wenger, who is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Wenger was the president of del.icio.us as well as an angel investor; he also founded or co-founded several companies. ...
09.09.2022 Kristen Bitterly Michell on Wealth Management Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kristen Bitterly Michell, who is Head of North American Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which manages $800 billion in client assets. Prior to joining Citi, she led structured product sales to Latin American ...
09.02.2022 Lynn Martin on Market Models and Meme Stock Trends Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Lynn Martin, who is the 68th president of NYSE Group. NYSE Group includes the New York Stock Exchange — the world’s largest stock exchange, with 2,400 listed companies and a combined market capitalization ...
08.26.2022 Eric Balchunas on the Vanguard Effect Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Eric Balchunas, a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence who has more than a decade of experience working with ETF data, designing new functions and writing ETF research for the Bloomberg Terminal. Balchunas ...
08.19.2022 Bill Browder on High Finance, Murder and Justice (Podcast) Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Bill Browder, who is head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of the recently released “Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath.” The founder ...
08.12.2022 Kenneth Tropin on Quantitative Hedge Fund Strategies Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kenneth G. Tropin, who is the chairman and the founder of Graham Capital Management, a multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund with $18 billion in assets under management. Prior to founding GCM in 1994, Tropin ...
08.05.2022 Anat Admati on Banking Regulations and Techlash Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Anat Admati, a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition to being a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a director ...
07.29.2022 Hannah Elliott on Automotive Industry Trends Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek staff writer Hannah Elliott, who reports on the automotive industry with a special focus on hyper-cars, motorcycles, and electric and luxury vehicles. She lives in Los Angeles, where car culture is ...
07.22.2022 Graham Weaver on Private Equity Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Graham Weaver, who is the founder and CEO of Alpine Investors, a PeopleFirst private equity firm in San Francisco which invests in software and services. Graham has been in private equity for over ...
07.15.2022 Antti Ilmanen on Expected Returns Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Antti Ilmanen, who is the principal and global co-head of the portfolio solutions group at AQR Capital Management. His most recent book, "Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer ...
07.08.2022 Spencer Jakab on the Death of Meme Stocks Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with the Wall Street Journal’s Spencer Jakab, author of “The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit and the Fleecing of Small Investors.” Jakab, who edits the Journal’s Heard on the Street column, also wrote “Heads ...
07.01.2022 Perth Tolle on ETF Freedom Metrics Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Perth Tolle, who is the founder of Life + Liberty Indexes and creator of the Freedom 100 EM Index (FRDM index). Prior to forming Life + Liberty Indexes, Tolle was a private wealth ...
06.24.2022 Jonathan Miller on Urban Real Estate Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jonathan Miller, who is president, CEO and co-founder of the real-estate appraisal and consulting firm Miller Samuel Inc. Miller, a state-certified real-estate appraiser in New York and Connecticut, holds Counselor of Real Estate ...
06.17.2022 Charles Strom on the Diagnostics Industry Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Charles Strom, who has spent the past 30 years in the fast-changing field of genetic testing. The CEO and co-founder of Liquid Diagnostics, which uses new technology to analyze ultra-short DNA fragments ...
06.10.2022 Mark Mobius on Emerging Market Funds Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mark Mobius, known as “the Godfather of Emerging Markets,” who has spent more than 40 years working in and traveling throughout developing economies. Prior to launching the eponymous Mobius Capital Partners in 2018, ...
06.07.2022 Arnold Schwarzenegger's Secret Weapon Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star-turned-California governor, has been interested in business since long before he was Conan or the Terminator. For more than four decades, his behind-the-scenes partner has been Paul Wachter, whose Main Street Advisors was born 25 years ...
06.03.2022 Daniel C. Chung on Probability Theories for Investors Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Daniel C. Chung, who is chief executive officer and chief investment officer of the asset-management firm Alger. He is also portfolio manager of several Alger strategies, including the Spectra fund, which is worth ...
05.27.2022 Adam Parker on Strategies and Valuations Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Adam Parker, who is the founder and CEO of Trivariate Research LP. From 2010 to early 2017, Adam was the chief US equity strategist and director of global quantitative research at Morgan Stanley, ...
05.20.2022 Gerard O’Reilly on Academic Research and Stocks Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Gerard O’Reilly, who is co-chief executive officer and chief investment officer at Dimensional Fund Advisors, which has $650 billion in assets under management. O’Reilly is also a director at the firm. Prior to ...
05.13.2022 Boaz Weinstein on Credit Investments Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Boaz Weinstein, who is founder and chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management. Prior to launching Saba as an independent firm in 2009, Weinstein was co-head of global credit trading at Deutsche Bank, ...
05.06.2022 Alex Gurevich on Global Macro Investing Strategies Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Alex Gurevich, the founder and chief investment officer of San Francisco-based global macro investment firm HonTe Advisors. Gurevich, who has more than 20 years of trading experience, formerly ran global macro at J.P. ...
04.29.2022 Michael Lewis on His Journey to Wall Street Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with author Michael Lewis, whose books include “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,” “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” “Liar’s Poker” and “The Fifth Risk.” He is also a Bloomberg Opinion columnist ...
04.21.2022 Mark Jenkins on Leveraged Finance and Pension Plans Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mark Jenkins, who is head of global credit at the investment firm The Carlyle Group. Carlyle has more than $300 billion of assets under management; its global credit platform manages over $73 billion. ...
04.14.2022 Luana Lopes Lara on Kalshi’s CFTC Approval Journey Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Luana Lopes Lara, who is the co-founder of KalshiEX LLC. Kalshi has developed an asset class – “event contracts” – and a financial exchange for trading on the outcome of events. After receiving ...
04.08.2022 Jonathan S. Lavine on Private Equity Investing (Podcast) Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jonathan S. Lavine, who is chief investment officer of Bain Capital Credit and co-managing partner of Bain Capital, a leading private investment firm with some $160 billion in assets under management. Bain Capital ...
04.01.2022 Bill Gross on Institutional Bond Trading (Podcast) Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with "Bond King" Bill Gross, who has been a pioneer in fixed income investing for more than 40 years. Gross co-founded Pacific Investment Management Co. in 1971 and served as managing director and its ...
03.25.2022 Samara Cohen on Managing ETFs (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Samara Cohen, who is chief investment officer of ETF and index investments at BlackRock. Her group oversees more than $3 trillion of BlackRock's $10 trillion in assets under management. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
03.18.2022 Darren Palmer on the EV Revolution (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Darren Palmer, who was recently named Ford Motor Co.'s vice president for electric vehicle programs. Palmer was previously Ford's head of battery-electric vehicles, where he was responsible for leading the automaker's EV business ...
03.11.2022 Michelle Seitz on Alternative Investments (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Michelle Seitz, chairman and CEO of Russell Investments Group LLC, a global investment solutions firm with $331.5 billion in assets under management and $2.8 trillion under advisement for clients in 32 countries. In ...
03.04.2022 David R. Kotok on Fed Studies of Pandemic Shocks (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with David R. Kotok, who is co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Cumberland Advisors, which has $4 billion in assets under management. Kotok is also a director at the nonprofit Global Interdependence Center, ...
02.25.2022 Sebastian Mallaby on How Venture Capital Made Silicon Valley Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with journalist Sebastian Mallaby about his new book, “The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future.” Mallaby, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a senior fellow at the Council on ...
02.18.2022 Samantha McLemore on Longevity Risk Management Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Samantha McLemore of Miller Value Partners, which has some $3.1 billion in assets under management. McLemore has worked alongside Miller Value Partners founder Bill Miller on opportunity equity for some two decades, and ...
02.11.2022 James Anderson on Why Fund Management Is 'Broken' (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with James Anderson, a longtime partner at Edingburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co. and joint manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC, who will be retiring in April. Last year, he drew headlines for criticizing ...
02.04.2022 Rebecca Patterson on Global Macro Investing (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Rebecca Patterson, who serves as director of investment research at the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. In addition to shaping the firm's research agenda, Patterson is a member of the executive committee, ...
01.28.2022 David Conrod on Successor Funds and Growth Equity (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with David Conrod, who is co-founder and chief executive officer of FocusPoint Private Capital Group. Prior to co-founding FocusPoint — which raises capital for private equity, credit, real estate, real assets and direct transactions ...
01.21.2022 Tina Vandersteel on Emerging-Country Debt (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Tina Vandersteel, who is the head of GMO’s Emerging-Country Debt team. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, she worked at J.P. Morgan in fixed-income research developing quantitative arbitrage strategies for emerging debt and ...
01.14.2022 Jim McKelvey on 'The Innovation Stack' (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur Jim McKelvey, author of “The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time.” McKelvey is the CEO and founder of Invisibly and (with Jack Dorsey) co-founder of Square, ...
01.07.2022 Ray Dalio on the Key to Success: Failing Well (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ray Dalio, who is founder, co-chair and co-chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. His most recent book is “Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations ...
12.31.2021 Richard Nisbett on Flawed Reasoning and Societies (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with social psychologist Richard Nisbett, an emeritus professor at the University of Michigan who has studied how culture affects cognitive processes, among other issues. He is the author of several books, including "The Geography ...
12.23.2021 Max Chafkin on the Social Good of Tech Companies (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek features editor and tech reporter Max Chafkin, who is author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power." Chafkin's work has also appeared in Fast Company, Vanity Fair ...
12.17.2021 Michael Mauboussin on How to Read Stock Prices (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Michael Mauboussin, who is head of consilient research at Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Counterpoint Global and co-author of the recently revised and updated book "Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns." Mauboussin ...
12.10.2021 Maureen Farrell on WeWork’s Investments (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with New York Times business reporter Maureen Farrell, who co-authored the 2021 book "The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion" along with Eliot Brown. Before joining the New York ...
12.03.2021 John Doerr on Sustainable Investments (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with venture capitalist John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins and author of the recently published “Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now.” Doerr also authored 2018’s bestselling “Measure What ...
11.24.2021 Steven L. Fradkin on the Creation of Wealth (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Steven Fradkin, president of Northern Trust's wealth management business unit, which has $355 billion in assets under management. Fradkin was previously chief financial officer and head of international business at Northern Trust, among ...
11.24.2021 Edwin Conway on BlackRock Alternative Investors (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Edwin Conway, the global head of BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI). BAI, one of the fastest-growing parts of the investment giant BlackRock – which is itself the world’s largest asset manager, with $9.46 trillion ...
11.12.2021 Robin Wigglesworth on the Creation of the Index Fund (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robin Wigglesworth, who is the global finance correspondent for the Financial Times and author of the just-published “Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever.” ...
11.05.2021 Thomas S. Gayner on Things That Matter in Markets (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Markel Corp. co-chief executive officer Thomas S. Gayner. Gayner oversees investing activities for the company — which boasts a capital portfolio of $27 billion — as well as the Markel Ventures companies. He ...
10.29.2021 Lisa Jones on Investing With a Purpose (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Lisa Jones, who leads the $100 billion U.S. arm of the French asset management giant Amundi, which has more than $2 trillion in assets under management globally. In addition to serving as president ...
10.22.2021 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy on Entrepreneurship (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, a tech executive and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience founding, scaling and advising companies. She is founder and chair of theBoardlist, a premium talent marketplace, and author ...

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Masters in Business episodes:

Steve Case on Startup Entrepreneurship

Albert Wenger on Global Venture Capital Firms

Kristen Bitterly Michell on Wealth Management

Lynn Martin on Market Models and Meme Stock Trends

Eric Balchunas on the Vanguard Effect

Bill Browder on High Finance, Murder and Justice (Podcast)

Kenneth Tropin on Quantitative Hedge Fund Strategies

Anat Admati on Banking Regulations and Techlash

Hannah Elliott on Automotive Industry Trends

Graham Weaver on Private Equity

Antti Ilmanen on Expected Returns

Spencer Jakab on the Death of Meme Stocks

Perth Tolle on ETF Freedom Metrics

Jonathan Miller on Urban Real Estate

Charles Strom on the Diagnostics Industry

Mark Mobius on Emerging Market Funds

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Secret Weapon

Daniel C. Chung on Probability Theories for Investors

Adam Parker on Strategies and Valuations

Gerard O’Reilly on Academic Research and Stocks

Boaz Weinstein on Credit Investments

Alex Gurevich on Global Macro Investing Strategies

Michael Lewis on His Journey to Wall Street

Mark Jenkins on Leveraged Finance and Pension Plans

Luana Lopes Lara on Kalshi’s CFTC Approval Journey

Jonathan S. Lavine on Private Equity Investing (Podcast)

Bill Gross on Institutional Bond Trading (Podcast)

Samara Cohen on Managing ETFs (Podcast)

Darren Palmer on the EV Revolution (Podcast)

Michelle Seitz on Alternative Investments (Podcast)

David R. Kotok on Fed Studies of Pandemic Shocks (Podcast)

Sebastian Mallaby on How Venture Capital Made Silicon Valley

Samantha McLemore on Longevity Risk Management

James Anderson on Why Fund Management Is 'Broken' (Podcast)

Rebecca Patterson on Global Macro Investing (Podcast)

David Conrod on Successor Funds and Growth Equity (Podcast)

Tina Vandersteel on Emerging-Country Debt (Podcast)

Jim McKelvey on 'The Innovation Stack' (Podcast)

Ray Dalio on the Key to Success: Failing Well (Podcast)

Richard Nisbett on Flawed Reasoning and Societies (Podcast)

Max Chafkin on the Social Good of Tech Companies (Podcast)

Michael Mauboussin on How to Read Stock Prices (Podcast)

Maureen Farrell on WeWork’s Investments (Podcast)

John Doerr on Sustainable Investments (Podcast)

Steven L. Fradkin on the Creation of Wealth (Podcast)

Edwin Conway on BlackRock Alternative Investors (Podcast)

Robin Wigglesworth on the Creation of the Index Fund (Podcast)

Thomas S. Gayner on Things That Matter in Markets (Podcast)

Lisa Jones on Investing With a Purpose (Podcast)

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy on Entrepreneurship (Podcast)

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