Has anyone taken Eugene Fama's "Theory of financial decisions" at Booth? Supposedly it's the hardest MBA course in the country. Even a lot of the booth finance Phd students struggle in it.
Toughest MBA course
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That's funny. This is supposed to be a PhD course but then some MBA's try to do it and generally fail miserably (but there are some noteworthy exceptions). Its good to have them there as Gene makes it much easier and the PhD's have a class to sleep in the morning (it also lets the PhDs get higher grades on the curve because the MBAs occupy the whole left tail). It get funnier in that MBA's infiltrate some of the other PhD courses and the other profs simply have a f**k you attitude and throw everyone into the middle of the ocean in the first few weeks so that the MBAs get to cry a bit before leaving (I have even seen an MBA student arguing with the professor saying that nobody could ever solve things that hard all while the prof is showing them a PhD student's PS to show them how somebody solved the problems).
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That's funny. This is supposed to be a PhD course but then some MBA's try to do it and generally fail miserably (but there are some noteworthy exceptions). Its good to have them there as Gene makes it much easier and the PhD's have a class to sleep in the morning (it also lets the PhDs get higher grades on the curve because the MBAs occupy the whole left tail). It get funnier in that MBA's infiltrate some of the other PhD courses and the other profs simply have a f**k you attitude and throw everyone into the middle of the ocean in the first few weeks so that the MBAs get to cry a bit before leaving (I have even seen an MBA student arguing with the professor saying that nobody could ever solve things that hard all while the prof is showing them a PhD student's PS to show them how somebody solved the problems).
You obviously don't go to booth. The highest grade in that class this past year was by a MBA who just started at AQR, a job that finance Phd's would kill to have.
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That's funny. This is supposed to be a PhD course but then some MBA's try to do it and generally fail miserably (but there are some noteworthy exceptions). Its good to have them there as Gene makes it much easier and the PhD's have a class to sleep in the morning (it also lets the PhDs get higher grades on the curve because the MBAs occupy the whole left tail). It get funnier in that MBA's infiltrate some of the other PhD courses and the other profs simply have a f**k you attitude and throw everyone into the middle of the ocean in the first few weeks so that the MBAs get to cry a bit before leaving (I have even seen an MBA student arguing with the professor saying that nobody could ever solve things that hard all while the prof is showing them a PhD student's PS to show them how somebody solved the problems).
You obviously don't go to booth. The highest grade in that class this past year was by a MBA who just started at AQR, a job that finance Phd's would kill to have.jjc spotted. procede cautiously, he appeared to be agitated and disoriented, thought this was autoadmit.
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That's funny. That capital management firm founded by a chicago finance phd? Do you know how connected AQR is with faculty in Booth? Do you really really know? This is the point where you take the opportunity to be quiet so that we don't spank you. AQR is easy if you come from Chicago PhD and are really motivated and interested in taking that route.
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I don't know if they actually teach it at this level but I have an Time-Series book on my bookshelf that is supposedly written for booth MBA's. Its definitely too light for use in a Ph.D course, but it could be used for an undergard time-series course in an economics department.