Masters in Business

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Robert Cialdini, whose bestselling books include "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" and "Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade." A professor emeritus of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University, he has conducted extensive research on the science of influence and is the founder of Influence At Work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Brad Stone, author of the just-published “Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire” and senior executive editor for technology at Bloomberg News. Stone is also the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon,” and “The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Harindra (Harin) de Silva, a portfolio manager and team lead for the Analytic Investors team at Wells Fargo Asset Management, which has $603 billion in assets under management. He was previously a principal at Analysis Group Inc., and holds a doctorate in finance from the University of California, Irvine.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Carson Block, who is the chief investment officer of Muddy Waters Capital LLC, an activist investment firm with $261 million in assets under management. Block was featured in the book "The Most Dangerous Trade: How Short Sellers Uncover Fraud, Keep Markets Honest, and Make and Lose Billions" and the documentary "The China Hustle," and is the co-author of "Doing Business in China for Dummies."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Scott Sperling, who is co-CEO of private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL), and a member of the firm’s management and investment committees. He previously spent more than a decade as managing partner of the affiliate of Harvard Management Company that managed all alternative asset classes for Harvard University’s endowment fund. He has an MBA from Harvard University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with behavioral economics expert Daniel Kahneman, who wrote the bestselling book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and won the Nobel Prize in economics. Kahneman is a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University and a fellow of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His latest book, coauthored with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein, is "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Michael Lewis, who is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His books include “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,” “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” “Liar’s Poker” and “The Fifth Risk.” He also has a podcast called “Against the Rules.” His published his latest book in May 2021: “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuel Inc., a real estate appraisal and consulting firm he co-founded in 1986. He is a state-certified real estate appraiser in New York and Connecticut who performs court testimony as an expert witness, and holds the Counselor of Real Estate (CRE) and Certified Relocation Professional (CRP) designations. He is also an "Appraiser A" member of the Real Estate Board of New York and a former two-term president of Relocation Appraisers and Consultants (RAC). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jack Brennan, chairman emeritus and senior adviser at The Vanguard Group, which as one of the world’s largest investment companies has more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Brennan joined Vanguard in 1982, was elected president in 1989, served as chief executive officer from 1996 to 2008, and served as chairman of the board from 1998 to 2009.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robert Arnott, the founder and chairman of the board of Research Affiliates LLC. Arnott plays an active role in the firm’s research, portfolio management, product innovation, business strategy and client-facing activities. As of December 2020, $157 billion in assets were managed worldwide using investment strategies developed by Research Affiliates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with John Schlifske, who is chairman, president and chief executive officer at Northwestern Mutual. He rose through the ranks after having joined the company in 1987 as an investment specialist. Northwestern Mutual has more than $300 billion in total assets and $31 billion in revenues, and underwrites more than $2 trillion in life insurance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Shirl Penney, who is the founder of Dynasty Financial Partners, a leading integrated platform services company for independent wealth-management advisory firms. Penney currently serves as Dynasty's president and CEO and is a member of its board of directors. The firm has over $60 billion in assets on its platform.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Gary Chropuvka, who recently joined the quantitative asset management firm WorldQuant as president. He was previously the co-head of the quantitative investment strategies team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with legendary venture-capital investor Bill Gurley, who has spent more than 15 years as a general partner at Benchmark Capital. Prior his work in venture capital, Gurley spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at Credit Suisse First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software. He was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO. He is also the author of the long-running Above the Crowd blog, which focuses on the evolution and economics of technology businesses.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jeff Immelt, who is a venture partner at the global venture capital and private equity firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Prior to joining NEA in 2018, Jeff was the ninth chairman of GE and served as chief executive officer for 16 years. He has received 15 honorary degrees and numerous awards for business leadership, and chaired the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness under the Obama administration. His new book is “Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company,” a memoir of leadership in times of crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with the financial theorist and retired neurologist William J. Bernstein, who co-founded the investment management firm Efficient Frontier Advisors and has written several books on finance and economic history. His titles include “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created,” “A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World,” and “Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History.” He was also the 2017 winner of the James R. Vertin Award from CFA Institute. His latest book is “The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jean Hynes, Wellington’s incoming CEO, on rising through the ranks, managing one of the world’s largest asset managers, and investing in health care in the days of Covid. She manages the $51 billion Vanguard Health Care Fund.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Doug Braunstein, founder and managing partner at Hudson Executive Capital, which has underwritten several successful SPAC offerings and manages $1.6 billion in assets. Braunstein previously held several roles at JPMorgan Chase — including working directly with Jamie Dimon as chief financial officer and member of the executive committee — and served as head of JPMorgan’s Americas investment banking and global M&A.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ben Inker, the head of asset allocation at GMO, which manages about $60 billion in assets. In his nearly three decades at GMO, Inker has served as an analyst for the quantitative equity and asset allocation teams, as a portfolio manager of several equity and asset allocation portfolios, as a co-head of international quantitative equities, and as CIO of quantitative developed equities. He is also a member of the GMO board of directors and a CFA charterholder. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kevin Landis, who is CEO and chief investment officer of Firsthand Capital Management. Landis founded Firsthand in 1994 and has since become one of the nation's best-known technology investors. He has been making venture capital investments in primary transactions since 1998, focusing on the technology and cleantech sectors. He has over two decades of experience in engineering, market research, product management and investing in the technology sector.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with legendary investor Ron Baron, who is the chairman, CEO and portfolio manager at Baron Funds. He founded Baron Capital Management and Baron Capital Inc. in 1982, and boasts more than a half century of research experience. Today, Baron Funds is known for its long-term, fundamental, active approach to growth investing; it has $49 billion in assets under management. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Andrew Beer, who serves as the managing member at Dynamic Beta investments LLC (formerly branded Beachhead Capital Management) and is co-portfolio manager of the firm's investment strategies. Beer has more than 25 years of experience in the alternative investment business. For more than a dozen years, his focus has been identifying strategies to match or outperform portfolios of leading hedge funds with low fees, daily liquidity and less downside risk. He started in the hedge fund industry in 1994, when he joined the Baupost Group as one of six generalist portfolio managers working for Seth Klarman.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Adam Karr, a portfolio manager at Orbis Investment Management and head of the firm’s U.S. division.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Sébastien Page, author of 2020's "Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation" and head of T. Rowe Price's multi-asset division, which manages $363.5 billion. Page is also a member of T. Rowe Price's asset allocation committee and management committee. He was previously an executive vice president at Pimco and a senior managing director at State Street Global Markets.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dave Welling, CEO of Mercer Advisors, a Denver-based RIA that manages more than $21 billion. Welling's nontraditional career path involves experience in consulting, private equity and technology, which has given him a unique perspective on the financial services business.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jeff Poggi, co-CEO of McIntosh Group, the legendary manufacturer of premium audio equipment. Despite the pandemic, the company has notched its best year for sales in its 70-year history. Prior to joining McIntosh Group, Poggi — an engineer by training — was at Harman International and Bose Corporation, and earned an MBA from Duke University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Tom Slater, who is head of the U.S. equities team and a decision maker on long-term global growth portfolios at the U.K.-based investment firm Baillie Gifford.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mike Swell, co-head of global fixed income portfolio management at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), where he is responsible for co-leading the global team of portfolio managers that oversee multi-sector portfolios. He joined the firm in 2007 as a managing director and head of structured products. Swell manages over $700 billion dollars in fixed income assets for GSAM.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Catherine Keating, the chief executive officer of BNY Mellon Wealth Management and a member of the BNY Mellon Executive Committee, the company’s most senior leadership group. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Keating was the chief executive officer of Commonfund and held a variety of senior positions at J.P. Morgan over two decades. She has been named one of the most powerful women in finance and one of the most powerful women in banking by American Banker, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York. BNY Mellon has $2 trillion dollars in assets under management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Greg Fleming, who is the president and CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management. Prior to leading Rockefeller Capital Management, Fleming was the president of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley Investment Management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dennis Lynch, who is the head of Counterpoint Global at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1998 and has 26 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a sell-side analyst for J.P. Morgan Securities. Counterpoint Global is running $130 billion in assets.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Penny Pennington, who is the managing partner of Edward Jones, a Fortune 500 financial services firm. She began her Edward Jones career in 2000 as a financial adviser in Livonia, Michigan. Penny is also senior executive sponsor of the firm’s LGBT+ & Allies Business Resource Group, and was recently named No. 33 on the Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list, in her second appearance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Adam S. Posen, who has been president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2013. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to research and public policy regarding monetary and fiscal policies in the G-20, the challenges of European integration since the adoption of the euro, China-U.S. economic relations, and developing new approaches to financial recovery and stability.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mario Giannini, who is the CEO of private markets firm Hamilton Lane, one of the few publicly traded PE shops. The firm oversees more than $500 billion in privately invested assets, with $68 billion in directly managed funds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ray Dalio, who is the founder, co-chief investment officer and co-chairman of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Dalio is known for his practical yet unconventional understanding of economics, which he spells out in his video “How the Economic Machine Works.” He's also the author of the New York Times bestseller “Principles: Life and Work.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with automotive design expert Paul Wraith, who is the chief designer for Ford Motor Company’s relaunch of the iconic Ford Bronco.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Simon Hallett, who is co-chief investment officer at Harding Loevner, a firm that manages more than $72 billion in assets. Previously, Hallett was the director/investment manager at Jardine Fleming Investment Management in Hong Kong. He is also the chairman and majority owner of Plymouth Argyle Football Club in the U.K.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with New York Times business investigations editor David Enrich, whose latest book is “Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction.” He is also the author of “The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of The Greatest Scams in History.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The killers of Berta Caceres had every reason to believe they’d get away with murder. More than 100 other environmental activists in Honduras had been killed in the previous five years, yet almost no one had been punished for the crimes. Bloomberg’s Blood River follows a four-year quest to find her killers – a twisting trail that leads into the country’s circles of power.Blood River premieres on July 27.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Sir Martin Ellis Franklin, the founder and CEO of Mariposa Capital LLC and chairman and controlling shareholder of Royal Oak Enterprises LLC. Franklin is also the founder and executive chairman of Element Solutions Inc. (previously known as Platform Specialty Products Corporation), a director of Restaurant Brands International Inc., and a director of APi Group Corporation. In addition, he was the youngest CEO of a corporation listed on the NYSE.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.