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Read in order to practice thinking! Think about what you are reading.
Two, you might discover that you simply do not enjoy reading these blogs. Have to make yourself read them? Not interested in the material? Perhaps you should reconsider getting an MBA.
Some people pursue an MBA out of lack of plans for what to do with their lives, or dissatisfaction with where they are, or just because they were laid off. If you are not not interested in these blogs, stop and think about what you like. If you figure out that an MBA is not for you, consider yourself fortunate that you did not waste tremendous amounts of money and several years of your life.
The End is the best thing I’ve read about recent financial train wreck of Wall Street. Written by the author of Liar’s Poker
How AIG Cratered. According to a WSJ article, AIG hired Gary Gorton, a finance professor who teaches at Yale School of Management to build risk models to help manage AIG’s credit default swaps. Apparently, the models looked only at bond defaults. The models ignored the much more likely occurrence of AIG having to pony up extra collateral in the event of the decline in value of the bonds even though AIG was contractually obligated to do just that. Before I joined the high-tech software world, I made a living building computer models. People put too much blind faith in models. That said, Clusterstock takes it from there.
Hedge fund manager’s goodbye from the scorched earth files.
On the cost of education run amok by by Epicurean Dealmaker.