Posts tagged with the "luck" tag

Feeling Lucky? The Prequel (aka the Back Testing Problem)

Feeling Lucky? The Prequel (aka the Back Testing Problem)

September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment A couple of years ago, I took the 14-hour Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Sydney and back. For a slow reader like me, 14 hours is the perfect time to polish off a book from cover to cover. On the way to Sydney I read Thomas Schelling's Micromotives and Macrobehavior. …Read More
Do You Feel Lucky? Well, Do Ya?

Do You Feel Lucky? Well, Do Ya?

June 25, 2009 | Be the first to comment! Clint Eastwood said it and Pete Peterson's life story is apparently filled with it, but can luck be quantified? Yes, according to two Business professors, Robert Connolly of the University of North Carolina and Richard Rendleman of Dartmouth. Their work is the subject of a short article in a recent Wall …Read More