Masters in Business

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 tho...

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...

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....

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...

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 Blo...

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, t...

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 Deal...

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 gover...

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, Faceb...

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...

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 omnystudi...

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 interv...

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...

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 Instit...

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,” p...

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 privac...

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...

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 in...

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/list...