Alex is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated top of his class from Oxford University and...
Alex is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated top of his class from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (NYC). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton, where he was granted tenure and won 14 teaching awards in six years. Alex’s research interests are in corporate finance, behavioural finance, CSR, and practical investment strategies. He has been awarded the Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing and the FIR-PRI prize for Finance and Sustainability, and was named a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by Yale University. Alex co-led a session at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, and runs a blog, “Access to Finance” (www.alexedmans.blogspot.com), that aims to make complex finance topics accessible to a general audience.
This is Germany, the largest economy in all of Europe by a significant margin and the forth largest in the world...
This is Germany, the largest economy in all of Europe by a significant margin and the forth largest in the world falling just behind japan. The economy of Germany is so interesting not just because of its size though but more because of it’s tenuous and surprisingly short history.
http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most...
http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused b...
Today, Europe is facing a mass influx of refugees, just as it did when Alexander Betts began working on this topics,...
Today, Europe is facing a mass influx of refugees, just as it did when Alexander Betts began working on this topics, 16 years ago. Politicians and the intern...
In this video we tour a traditional Icelandic turf house at the Islenski Baerinn Turf House museum...
In this video we tour a traditional Icelandic turf house at the Islenski Baerinn Turf House museum (http://islenskibaerinn.is/english/). Turf houses are the ...
Sajan George on "The Future of Education" Sajan is the Founder & CEO of Matchbook Learning, a national non-profit...
Sajan George on "The Future of Education" Sajan is the Founder & CEO of Matchbook Learning, a national non-profit school turnaround management organization t...
In this harrowing film Sky’s Mark Stone witnesses the extraordinary rescue of hundreds of migrants off Libya's...
In this harrowing film Sky’s Mark Stone witnesses the extraordinary rescue of hundreds of migrants off Libya's coast. Shows scenes of migrant rescues and dea...
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Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized ev...