Masters in Business

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who led the department from 2015 to 2017 and now serves as the director of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His latest book, “Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons From a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon,” was released this year. 

Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Barry Ritholtz sits down with University of Chicago economist Eugene Fama — a Nobel laureate widely known as "the father of modern finance" — and his onetime student, Dimensional Fund Advisors founder David Booth, for a special Masters in Business conversation. This discussion was broadcast live on Tuesday, November 5. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the Wall Street Journal's Gregory Zuckerman, a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism who writes about big trades, big firms and big personalities. His latest book, "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution" will be released Nov. 5.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews economist and Nobel laureate Michael Spence, whose research interests include emerging markets and the impact of leadership on growth. A professor of economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business, Spence is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Francis M. Kinniry, a principal in Vanguard Investment Strategy Group responsible for capital market research, portfolio design, development of customized investment solutions, investment market commentary and research. He is a chartered financial analyst and earned his master's in business administration from Drexel University.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Binyamin Appelbaum, the lead business and economics writer on the New York Times editorial board. He was previously a Washington correspondent for the Times, covering the Federal Reserve and other aspects of economic policy. His book “The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets and the Fracture of Society” was released in August.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the Nobel-winning economist Robert J. Shiller, whose latest book, "Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events," came out Oct. 1. Shiller, a professor at Yale University, has written about financial markets, innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics and real estate, among other topics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen in 2013. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews film and TV producer Brian Grazer, who co-founded Imagine Entertainment with Ron Howard in 1986. Grazer has been nominated for four Academy Awards and won the Best Picture Oscar for “A Beautiful Mind” in 2002. His book “A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life” was a New York Times bestseller. His latest book, “Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection,” was released in September. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Sarah Ketterer, the chief executive officer and fundamental portfolio manager at Causeway Capital Management, which has $52 billion in assets under management. Ketterer, who was named Morningstar’s 2017 International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year, co-founded Causeway in 2001. Ketterer earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford and her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and serves on the advisory board of Girls Who Invest. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Lord John Browne of Madingley, who is executive chairman of L1 Energy and chairman of the supervisory board of Wintershall DEA. As group chief executive of BP from 1995 to 2007, he led the company through a period of major expansion. From 2007 to 2015, he served as a partner at Riverstone Holdings. He is also chairman of the Francis Crick Institute and chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews influential tech journalist Kara Swisher. Swisher is the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode, producer and host of the Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts, and co-executive producer of the Code Conference series. Prior to her work with Recode (now owned by Vox), she was at the Wall Street Journal, where she co-produced and co-hosted the “D: All Things Digital” tech conference. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Harold J. (Jay) Bowen III, who is president, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Bowen, Hanes and Company Inc., an Atlanta-based investment counseling firm. The firm has received national acclaim for its 43-year tenure as the sole manager of the City of Tampa Firefighters’ and Police Officers’ Pension Fund. Bowen is also a trustee for the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ron Williams, the former chairman and chief executive officer of insurance giant Aetna Inc. Williams is a current member of the Peterson Center on Healthcare Advisory Board and the RAND Health Advisory Board, and has served on President Barack Obama's Management Advisory Board and as chairman of the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare. He is currently chairman and CEO of RW2 Enterprises.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Josh Wolfe, co-founder and managing partner at Lux Capital and a director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs and Variant. He is also a founding investor and board member with Bill Gates at Kymeta, which makes cutting-edge antennas for high-speed global satellite and space communications. A Westinghouse semi-finalist and a published scientist, Wolfe previously worked in investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in capital markets at Merrill Lynch. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Danny Blanchflower, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. His book "Not Working: Where Have All The Good Jobs Gone?" was published by Princeton University Press in June. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Rajiv Jain, chairman and chief investment officer at GQG Partners, which has $24 billion in assets under management. In 2012, Jain was named Morningstar’s International Manager of the Year. He previously served as co-chief executive officer, CIO and head of equities at Vontobel Asset Management. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Nathan Sheets, who is chief economist and head of global macroeconomic research at PGIM Fixed Income, one of the the largest global fixed-income managers. Prior to joining PGIM, Sheets held positions with the U.S. Treasury, Citigroup and the Federal Reserve. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (This was recorded earlier in the year before the yield curve inverted. The current AUM is $776 billion.)

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Allison Schrager, an economist, writer and co-founder of the risk advisory firm Lifecycle Finance Partners LLC. Her book "An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk" was published in April. Schrager is a reporter at Quartz and has been a regular contributor to The Economist, Reuters and Bloomberg Businessweek. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Scott Kupor. Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he is responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He has been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion. Kupor served as Chairman of the Board of the National Venture Capital Association (2017-2018). He is the author of the national bestselling book Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Tim Hockey and Tom Nally Tim Hockey is CEO and President of TD Ameritrade, a company that serves individual investors and independent RIAs (total client assets $1.3 trillion, as of June 30) Tom Nally is President of TD Ameritrade Institutional, which provides custody and brokerage services to more than 7,000 independent RIAs. (roughly $650 Bln under custody) TD hosts Elite LINC each year, a more intimate conference for executives leading some of the industry’s largest and most successful RIA firms. Last month, more than 200 advisory firm executives managing more than $300 billion dollars met in Dana Point for the annual event.