Masters in Business

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Felix Zulauf, the founder and president at Zulauf Asset Management AG. He founded the firm in 1990, focusing on macro and strategic issues, and has more than 30 years of experience in the financial markets and asset management. He now runs Zulauf Consulting and manages his own wealth in his familyoffice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Greg Sands, founder and managing partner at Costanoa Ventures. Prior to founding Costanoa, Sands was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill, where he invested in early stage enterprise software startups, such as Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Youku, Quinstreet, and Feedburner. He was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and built the SuiteSpot Business unit from $0-$140M. He also served as a business development manager at Cisco where he architected a channel management plan. He served a term as the President of the Stanford DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund and remains on the executive committee. He is also the former Trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust and former Chair of its Venture Capital Committee. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jean Case, a philanthropist, investor and pioneer in the world of interactive technologies. She worked in the private sector as a technology executive for nearly two decades, including at America Online Inc., before she and her husband, Steve, created the Case Foundation in 1997. In addition to her role as CEO of the Case Foundation, Jean is chairman of the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees and also serves on the boards of impact of investing in philanthropy Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), the White House Historical Association and BrainScope Co. Inc. She sits on the advisory boards of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund, and the George W. Bush Presidential Library Center’s Women’s Initiative Policy Advisory Council.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews John Montgomery, who founded Bridgeway Capital Management in 1993. The firm manages $8.4 billion dollars, and -- somewhat uniquely -- donates half of its profits to nonprofit organizations. Montgomery serves as chairman and chief investment officer, and is responsible for portfolio management, research, risk oversight and (his favorite) mentoring. Montgomery worked with computer modeling and statistical methods as a research engineer at MIT in the late 1970s, and later, at Harvard, investigated ways to apply such modeling to portfolio management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and author of the recent New York Times bestseller "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google." Galloway is also the founder of several companies, including the business intelligence firm L2, and is the creator of the Digital IQ Index, a global ranking of prestige brands' digital competence. He has also been named one of the World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders of Tomorrow." He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jim Ross, the executive vice president of State Street Global Advisors and chairman of global SPDR. He also serves as chairman of the board of SSGA Funds Management, and as chairman and chief executive officer of State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors. In addition, he won the 2016 ETF Lifetime Achievement Award. Ross explains how SPY, the S&P 500 ETF offered by State Street, became one of the biggest exchange-traded funds. He also discusses the origin of the Spyders Gold Trust, which briefly was bigger than SPY. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Paul Wilmott, the financial consultant specializing in derivatives, risk management and quantitative finance. He has worked with many leading U.S. and European financial institutions and has written several books, including the recent "The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets." Wilmott really wants you to know his feelings about quantitative models -- he calls them the “engine room of both the global economy and its most recent meltdown.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fred Fox is the founder and CEO of Planalytics, a company specializes in business weather intelligence -- the study, development and commercialization of weather analytics. His clients are companies and NGOs who seek to better understand the impact of weather-related events. Fox advocates developing a corporate weather history in order to make assessments when future events occur. Planalytics gets granular with its data -- so much so that it can reasonably forecast how much an inch of snow will impact the month’s and quarter’s sales. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ranji Nagaswami is chief executive officer of Hirtle Callaghan, a firm that helped popularize the idea of the outsourced CIO. Previously, she was co-head of U.S. fixed income at UBS Asset Management; she also was chief investment officer of Alliance Bernstein Investments, the group’s retail/mutual fund division, and served as chief investment adviser to the city of New York during the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (founder of Bloomberg LP). She discusses the agnostic approach to investing, considering everything from passive management on one end of the spectrum to alternative investments like private equity and venture capital on the other. Nagaswami, who has five women on her executive team, also explains why including women in leadership is important for investment firms, noting that extensive research shows that women are less emotional when it comes to portfolio management, make better decisions, and have better performance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Matthew Rothman, the head of global quantitative equity research at Credit Suisse and a senior lecturer in finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was hired a few years before the financial crisis hit to be the global head of quantitative research at Lehman Brothers (and then moved to Barclays Capital, following the Lehman bankruptcy). In the midst of the quant crash in 2007, he published “Turbulent Times in Quant Land,” which became the most highly distributed research note in Lehman’s history. He is a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, and as an analyst often weaved song lyrics into his research notes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the fascinating Victor Niederhoffer, a nationally ranked squash champion and former Berkeley professor of finance and statistics. An undeniably brilliant man who was still unable to adequately manage risk, he offers crucial lessons for all traders. In his first book, "The Education of a Speculator," he reveals the risk-embracing style that created his first fortune. In his follow-up, "Practical Speculation," he almost -- but doesn’t quite -- accept responsibility for the prior disaster. It was published before the devastating second set of losses suffered during the credit crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Not many strategists begin studying technicals in college, but that was the route Katie Stockton took. As an undergraduate at the University of Richmond, she studied graduate level coursework in technicals, eventually becoming an intern at technical analysis firm Dorsey Wright.Stockton discusses how the total volume of stock-market trading has fallen since the financial crisis. Is it algos or indexing or HFT causing the fall-off? Some combination of all of the above? She describes her favorite indicators (Trend, Fibonacci, etc.) and some of her not-so-favorites (Elliot Wave).As chief technical strategist for BTIG in New York City, she looks at the world as a top-down analyst, considering everything from interest rates to stock prices to economic indicators. But she keeps coming back to charts and the trend as the dominant factor driving all of her analysis. Her work led her to win the 2017 Best Institutional Brokerage for Equity Research at the 2017 Technical Analyst Awards.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens when Paul McCartney asks, “What are you doing for the next few years?” For Lawrence Juber, you think about it for a nano second, before saying “I guess I am playing with you.” The session guitarist, musicologist, former Wings guitarist and Grammy-award winning composer with 25 albums to his name describes rehearsing with Paul and Linda before their next tour. McCartney wanted to record some tracks, but his favorite studio, Abbey Road, was unavailable -- so he built an exact reproduction of Abbey Road inside his own studio. He explains how composers and performers get paid a meager amount from music streaming, and why the real money is in television and movie soundtracks. The music business model has changed from record sales to live performances and merchandise sales.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Steven Clifford. Compensation consultants are parasites, so says Steven Clifford, author of "The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it." Clifford is a former tech company chief executive officer who has grown disillusioned with the procedures and practices that serve no corporate purpose other than enriching the CEO and senior management. What was supposed to be pay for performance, he said, has become a scheme to transfer wealth from shareholders to insiders. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ellen Zentner, the chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley. She explains why Texas came through the financial crisis so well, courtesy of its rainy day fund. Her career took her from the Texas Comptroller's office to Morgan Stanley, where she leads the North American Economics group. She said starting in government gave her time to think “deep thoughts” and develop her analytical approach. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Matt Wallaert, a behavioral scientist who works at the intersection of technology and human behavior. After several years in academia and two successful startups, he joined Microsoft, where he led a team of experts using technology to help people live happier, healthier lives. During his time with Microsoft, he was a director at Microsoft Ventures, the firm’s venture capital arm. He sits on the boards of a variety of startups and nonprofits. Wallaert and Ritholtz discuss the role of behavioral psychology in startups. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Richard Clarida, a global strategic adviser for PIMCO and former assistant secretary of U.S. Treasury. His first day at the Treasury Department was Sept. 11, 2001, and he describes what it was like to start work during such a chaotic period. He also reminds us that during the financial crisis, many were originally concerned with a deflation scare. He gives the Fed high marks for crisis management during the Great Recession, but says that since the recovery has begun, it has been too slow to normalize and not very clear in its communications.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Rich Barton, the Microsoft engineer who developed Expedia while working for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in the 1990s. Barton then co-founded real estate app Zillow and jobs site Glassdoor, and joined the board of directors at Netflix, where he remains to this day. Barton tells Ritholtz that his companies bring transparency to industries that have traditionally lacked it. “Power to the people” says Barton, is not a political slogan, but “a technological one.” This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alan Shaw, founder of the Market Technicians Association and former managing director of the technical research department at Smith Barney, tells Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz that he's happy he's not working today: It's much more difficult to be a technician and be in institutional sales than it was when he was working.\u0010\u0010(Note: This is a podcast extra which will not air on Bloomberg Radio.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jesse Eisinger, the Pulitzer-winning journalist now working at ProPublica, tells Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz how the collapse of Arthur Andersen, Enron and WorldCom led to a neutered Justice Department. The title of his new book, "The Chickenshit Club," comes from a speech that then-Southern District U.S. Attorney James Comey gave to prosecutors saying that if they were never losing, they were only taking on easy cases. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ed Thorp, one of the most storied people in finance. A math professor at MIT and UC Ivine, Thorp figured out how to beat Las Vegas at blackjack and baccarat, created statistical arbitrage, and ran a hedge fund that not only beat the market by a wide margin, but never had a losing quarter. He is the author of several books, including "Beat the Dealer" and "Beat the Market"; his latest book is "A Man for All Markets." Thorp tells Ritholtz that the secret to beating the market is having an edge that's specific, definable and mathematical. If you don't, you should be in index funds instead. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Duff McDonald, a journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite" and "The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business." McDonald tells Barry Ritholtz why the elite institutions that feed into government, business and finance are broken, and what must be done to fix them. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Chris Anderson, a co-founder and CEO of 3D Robotics, and the founder of DIY Drones. He was with the Economist for seven years before joining WIRED magazine as the editor-in chief. Anderson tells Ritholtz that the dot-com collapse masked the organic growth of the internet by real users. The innovations of the late 1990s are obvious at Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple, but there is a new crop of disruptive and innovative technologies coming up right behind them. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Anindya Ghose, a professor of information, operations and management sciences as well as marketing at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, tells Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz that technology is changing things even more rapidly than we might have guessed only a few years ago. The future as envisioned in such science fiction films as Philip K. Dick’s “Minority Report” isn’t several decades away -- it's only two or three years away. And it is profoundly changing economies. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ned Davis, a senior investment strategist who founded the Ned Davis Research Group (NDRG). He is the author of "Being Right or Making Money" and "The Triumph of Contrarian Investing." This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He is the co-author of "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" and among the most cited economists in the world. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews William F. Sharpe, the STANCO 25 professor of finance, emeritus, at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Sharpe is a past president of the American Finance Association and received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. Professor Greene is world-renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory, including the co-discovery of mirror symmetry and the discovery of spatial topology change. He is the director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He serves on the boards of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Anki, Honor, Lytro, Mori, OpenGov, Samsara and TinyCo. He is also on the boards of Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and MODE Media. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Byron Scott and Charlie Norris. Scott is a former head coach and player with the Los Angeles Lakers; Norris is the chairman of the board at Freshpet Inc. They are the co-authors of “Slam-Dunk Success: Leading from Every Position on Life's Court." This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Michael Zezas, who is chief strategist for public policy and municipal bonds at Morgan Stanley. Zezas earned a bachelor’s degree in political economy from Georgetown University and a master’s in public affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a CFA charterholder as well as a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Securities Analysts, the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Meir Statman, the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University. His research focuses on behavioral finance. He attempts to understand how investors and managers make financial decisions and how these decisions are reflected in financial markets. His most recent book is “Finance for Normal People: How Investors and Markets Behave,” published by Oxford University Press. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering and the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lo holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University and a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Charles D. Ellis, who founded the international strategy consulting firm Greenwich Associates in 1972. He now serves as an investing consultant to large institutional investors, government organizations and wealthy families. His latest book is “The Index Revolution.” This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ken Fisher, chief executive officer and co-chief investment officer of Fisher Investments, a multibillion-dollar independent money management firm. This interview aired on Bloomberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz presents a replay of Burt Malkiel's interview, Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics, Emeritus, senior economist. He is the author of the widely read investment book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Derek Thompson, author of the book "Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction." Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, labor markets and the media. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Yuval Noah Harari, author of the international bestseller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” Professor Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer in the department of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Simon Lack, managing partner and founder of SL Advisors LLC. Lack sat on JPMorgan’s investment committee allocating over $1 billion to hedge fund managers and founded the JPMorgan Incubator Funds, two private equity vehicles that took economic stakes in emerging hedge fund managers. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Scott Galloway, an adjunct professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to second-year MBA students. He is also the author of the Digital IQ Index ®, a global ranking of prestige brands' digital competence. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and professor of health policy and management at Columbia University. His most recent book is "To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace" (2013). This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management. Marks is a member of the investment committees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Edmond J. Safra Foundation; a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum; chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Drawing School; and an emeritus trustee of the University of Pennsylvania (where from 2000 to 2010 he chaired the investment board). This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Sebastian Mallaby, a Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. One of his latest book is “More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite.” This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Saadia Madsbjerg, managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation. She leads the foundation’s work on innovative finance solutions. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Charles D. Ellis, who founded the international strategy consulting firm Greenwich Associates in 1972. He now serves as an investing consultant to large institutional investors, government organizations and wealthy families. His latest book is “The Index Revolution.” This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Brett Steenbarger, a clinical psychologist who has published numerous articles and books on trading psychology. He is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Dana Telsey, chief executive officer and chief research officer of Telsey Advisory Group (TAG). In 2015, Ms. Telsey also formed Telsey Consumer Fund Management LP, an asset management firm that manages a long/short hedge fund investing in consumer-based companies. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Bruce Tuchman, president of AMC Global and Sundance Channel Global. Prior to joining AMC Networks, Tuchman worked as president of MGM Worldwide Networks and as general manager of Nickelodeon Global Network Ventures. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews John Roque, a technical analyst at Key Square Capital Management LLC. Roque previously worked for Soros Fund Management and Natixis Bleichroeder Inc. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews financial journalist Michael Lewis, author of "Flash Boys," "The Big Short," "Moneyball," and, most recently, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds." Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Princeton and a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics. He is also a columnist for Bloomberg View. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.