Masters in Business

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Lisa Cook, a professor in the department of economics and in international relations at Michigan State University. As the first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College, she received a second B.A. from Oxford University before earning her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and has held positions or conducted research at the National Bureau of Economic Research; the Federal Reserve banks of Minneapolis, New York and Philadelphia; and the World Bank. In 2019, she was elected to serve on the executive committee of the American Economic Association, where she is director of the AEA Summer Training Program.

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Joel Greenblatt, who serves as managing principal and co-chief investment officer of Gotham Asset Management. Greenblatt is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches value and special situation investing, and is the author of numerous best-selling books. His latest is “Common Sense: The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth."

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dave Portnoy, who founded the blog Barstool Sports in 2003 and has since built it into a sports media powerhouse. The company was recently valued at $450 million.

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Boomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Pedro Earp, the chief marketing officer of international brewing powerhouse AB InBev. Earp also leads AB InBev's incubator and venture-capital arm, ZX Ventures.

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with high-profile car critic Doug DeMuro, whose YouTube channel has more than 3 million subscribers. In addition to creating videos, DeMuro has written for Autotrader, Jalopnik, GQ and The Week, and has appeared as a guest on "Jay Leno's Garage." He recently launched the modern enthusiast car auction site Cars & Bids. 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Will Danoff, who is the Contrafund portfolio manager at Fidelity. During his nearly 30-year tenure, the Fidelity Contrafund has outperformed the S&P 500 in 100% of rolling 10-year time periods. The Fidelity Contrafund is a large-cap growth fund with $139 billion in assets under management. 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Morgan Housel, who is a partner at Collaborative Fund and author of the new book "The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed and Happiness." A former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal, he is also a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (formerly the Society of American Business Editors and Writers). 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with BlackRock Senior Managing Director Salim Ramji, who is global head of iShares and index investments (the total AUM is over $4 trillion) and a member of the firm’s global executive committee. Ramji was previously head of BlackRock's U.S. wealth advisory business and global head of corporate strategy. Before joining BlackRock, he was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company where he led the asset and wealth management practice areas. He started his career as a corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions lawyer in London and Hong Kong. 

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mandell Crawley, who is Morgan Stanley's head of private and international wealth management. Crawley also co-leads the institutional client coverage group, and is a member of the firm’s management committee, global wealth management operating committee, multicultural client strategy committee and global securities operating committee. He was previously Morgan Stanley's chief marketing officer. He joined the firm as a high school intern in 1992 and never left.

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Claudia Sahm, director of macroeconomic policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She has policy and research expertise on consumer spending, fiscal stimulus, and the financial well-being of households, and is known for developing the “Sahm Rule.”

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