Yale - L6. Guest Speaker David Swensen
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Yale - L6. Rise of the Joint Stock Corporation
Professor Rae explains how the growing scale and complexity of railroads in the US were foundational to the development of modern capitalism. Operating the railroad system require…
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Yale - L7. Can You Sell a Scheme for Operating on Beating Hearts and Make a Business of It?
Dean of the Yale School of Management, Sharon Oster, explains the CardioThoracic business case. Barriers to CardioThoracic's success are discussed, including competition from othe…
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Yale - L7. Efficient Markets
Initially, Professor Shiller looks back at David Swensen's guest lecture, in particular with respect to the Sharpe ratio as a performance measure for investment strategies. He emp…
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Yale - L8. Mortal Life Cycle of a Great Technology
Professor Rae uses the case of Polaroid cameras to highlight key features of the capitalist system. Polaroid's business model, corporate culture, and firm trajectory are discussed…
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Yale - L8. Theory of Debt, Its Proper Role, Leverage Cycles
Professor Shiller devotes the beginning of the lecture to exploring the theoretical determinants of the level of interest rates. Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk names technical progress, r…
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Yale - L9. Corporate Stocks
Professor Shiller emphasizes the worldwide importance of corporations by looking at World Bank data for corporate stocks as traded on global stock markets. He, then, turns his att…
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Yale - L9. Guest Lecture by Jim Alexander: Managing the Crooked E
Jim Alexander, former CFO of the Enron subsidiary Enron Global Power and Pipeline, offers an insider's account of Enron's corporate culture and operations before the company's spe…
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