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Science-based industries such as biotechnology offer the potential of high growth, but they are fraught with risk. The payoffs can take many years to materialize or may never come. Even though the traditional venture capital/entrepreneurial model has been shown to stimulate innovation in a wide range of technology settings (software, computers, Internet, electronics, et cetera), it wasn't designed to deal with the costs, risks, and slow payout of...
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Are you ready to turn your culinary passion into a successful restaurant business? Look no further than "Plate to Profit: Mastering The 7P Strategy of a Successful Restaurant Startup." This book is your practical guide to building a thriving dining business. Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the complexities of starting a restaurant? Do you find yourself searching for proven strategies to attract loyal customers and maximize profits? Well, it's time...
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"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers" "Finalist for the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA Institute" "Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award" "One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017" "One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books...
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"Winner of the Silver Medal in Personal Finance / Retirement Planning / Investing, Axiom Business Book Awards" Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. His many books include Adaptive...
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Andrew W. Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering. He is the coauthor of A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (both Princeton).
The hedge fund industry has grown dramatically over the last two decades, with more than eight thousand funds now controlling close to two trillion dollars. Originally intended for...
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Andrew W. Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A. Craig MacKinlay is Joseph P. Wargrove Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. With John Y. Campbell, they are the authors of The Econometrics of Financial Markets (Princeton), which received the Paul A. Samuelson Award in 1997.
For over half a century, financial experts have regarded...
8) The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding Financial System Dynamics
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“The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH)” presents a formal and systematic exposition of a new narrative about financial markets that reconciles rational investor behavior with periods of temporary financial insanity. In this narrative, intelligent but fallible investors learn from and adapt to randomly shifting environments. Financial markets may not always be efficient, but they are highly competitive, innovative, and adaptive, varying in their...
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An introductory finance textbook for the healthcare industry
We are living in a golden age of biomedical innovation, yet entrepreneurs still struggle with the so-called Valley of Death when seeking funding for their biotech start-ups. In Healthcare Finance, Andrew Lo and Shomesh Chaudhuri show that there are better ways to finance breakthrough therapies, and they provide the essential financial tools and concepts for creating the next generation...
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Andrew Lo, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and his co-author Jasmina Hasanhodzic, present the creation and evolution of technical analysis, spanning several civilizations, from the most ancient onesas far back as the Stone Age, through the rise of Wall Street as the world's financial center. It is filled with interesting facts, such as that speculative trading came into existence in ancient Babylon, where market values of various...
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"Winner of the 2014 Eugene Fama Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Education, University of Chicago Booth School of Business" "Winner of the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Economics, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 1997 Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA-CREF" John Y. Campbell is Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. Andrew W. Lo is Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance...