Sunday, August 07, 2022

How to Succeed in the Introductory Finance Course (or any other one, for that matter)

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I've probably taught the introductory finance course 25 or 30 times over my career, with well over 1000 students having passed through m...
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Thursday, December 05, 2013

How Students Can Write Better Assignments

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I'm finishing up the semester, and am in the middle of grading about 20 write-ups that my students had to do for a case we covered in cl...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Student Loans Are Diving Underwater

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The student loan market has a lot of factors that seem to say "Stay the heck away!": they're relatively easy to qualify for, c...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

But I'm Not Dead

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It's been almost a year since I last posted.  And a lot has happened at Unknown University since then.   I'm waiting to hear from th...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Cat Abuse and Technology - Be Still, My Heart

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A Dutch artist named Bart Hansen recently decided to memorialize his dead cat (Orville) in an unusual way - by turning it into a remote-cont...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Department of "What Were They Thinking?"

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I'm back. Unknown University has a new initiative.  They want to encourage more "interdisciplinary" research.  So, they'...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

The 7 Habits of Spectactularly Unsuccessful Executives (and Deans)

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Just came across this article ( The 7 habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives ) in Forbes. It seems like the same characteristics c...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

Someone Need an A$$ Whoopin?

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This reminded me of my childhood. My father's "weapon of choice" was his slipper. That may sound funny, but he could reall...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Fly Away, Little One. Be Free!

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It's been a good couple of days: Yesterday, we just got a very good sized check from the IRS (we'd let some things slide when the Un...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

The Semester Goes Out Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper

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I was just commenting to the Unknown Wife how this semester was ending going so well compared to previous ones - my student managed investm...
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