Economics Ethics Math 
The Big Picture
JULY 1, 2025
Bachelor’s in economics and a BS in computer science from Wellesley in Boston and then an MBA from Harvard Business School. I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. And if you think about, again, our optimizing function, most institutional investors focus on economic returns.
The Big Picture
JULY 19, 2022
And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. And so, I write about it both — I do know, the simple maths about it how you can double shop ratios for uncorrelated strategies and then remind that it’s really difficult to find for uncorrelated strategies in long-only world. ILMANEN: Yes.
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Brown Advisory
JUNE 16, 2022
We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. Specifically, economics has a half-life of 9.4 Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation. GAAP in 2002 7.
Brown Advisory
AUGUST 1, 2018
Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. political and economic system, wondered if the divisions among people had grown in the last 50 years and if Buffett had any words of wisdom to help narrow the political divide.
Brown Advisory
AUGUST 1, 2018
Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. political and economic system, wondered if the divisions among people had grown in the last 50 years and if Buffett had any words of wisdom to help narrow the political divide.
Good Financial Cents
APRIL 19, 2023
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The Big Picture
JUNE 6, 2023
That led to the next three or four years of learning how to sell, how to create value, and not worry about selling out, but do it in a very ethical way. It’s much deeper than math. There’s something qualitatively different about buyers and non-buyers. Do it my way. SETHI: Yes, I think I became more comfortable.
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