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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Northwestern University comes up
Herb Wagner – Opportunistic Value at Finepoint Capital (EP.460)
- ▶ 13:24 Herb Wagner And Chicago is a great city where both University of Chicago and Northwestern have night programs.
Succession - Sarah Samuels on Generational Transitions (EP.400)
- ▶ 32:35 Sarah Samuels And then when we think about family-owned businesses, we've got Northwestern and Colgate and Northeastern.
Adam Karr – Extreme Alignment at Orbis (EP.338)
Amy Falls – From Bonds to Boards to Leading Northwestern (Capital Allocators, EP.316)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Amy Falls, the Chief Investment Officer at Northwestern University, where she oversees the school's fourteen billion dollar endowment that supports university operations and funds about a quarter of the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:02 Amy Falls I think the excitement about coming to Northwestern had two aspects to it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:56 Ted Seides That roster of managers could be different from the one you stepped into at Northwestern. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:47 Amy Falls And it's like, I'm never not wearing my Northwestern jersey, but I can't do anything harmful.
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 29:58 Tom Lenehan Working with Tian Hao Wu, my great colleague from Rockefeller, who's now at Northwestern with Amy and with Joyce.
Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25)
- ▶ 10:58 Justin Fishner-Wolfson I got into a few different places and I actually almost went to Northwestern. 2 times in the scene
Mike Smith and Nikhil Basu Trivedi – Footwork Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.12)
- ▶ 46:48 Mike Smith Carter's a professor at Northwestern at the business school there.
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap –Inside the Sausage Factory of the Caesar's Restructuring (Capital Allocators, EP.209)
- ▶ 8:23 Max Frumes And rode that to a career of niche and specialized journalism, eventually going back to school at the Medill School of Journalism to get my master's in Chicago and Northwestern, and then continuing to head east from California, but wound…
Katy Milkman – How to Change (Capital Allocators, EP.199)
- ▶ 25:20 Katy Milkman So my favorite insight in the chapter comes from research that was done by Lauren Eskress Winkler, who's about to be a new professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.
Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)
- ▶ 15:48 Colette Chilton The last person who I met in the process was the guy who was the president at the time, Morty Shapiro, who's now at Northwestern, and he's just an amazing guy and salesperson.
Brett Jefferson – Inefficiencies in Structured Credit at Hildene Capital Management (First Meeting, EP.19)
- ▶ 13:16 Brett Jefferson I then realized I wanted to go to business school, and I applied to Northwestern to their evening program, Kellogg.
Gary Klein with Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson – Conducting Pre-Mortem Analysis (Capital Allocators, EP.109)
- ▶ 22:59 Gary Klein And we're talking about putting this in the field, like during Desert Storm or something like that, to be used by a history major who graduated from Northwestern and is now in the reserves, and he's now thrust into this job, and at that…
Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
- ▶ 10:47 Jon Harris So I was on my way back to business school at Northwestern,
Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75)
- ▶ 37:14 Michael Lombardi Northwestern has a workout every year for all the local kids from Chicago.
Scott Malpass – The Fighting Irish's Twelfth Man (Capital Allocators, EP.25)
- ▶ 21:42 Scott Malpass But then you think about Notre Dame, and Northwestern, and others, as they started growing, they were doing the same things.
Adam Blitz – Inside Hedge Fund Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.17)
- ▶ 7:58 Adam Blitz And then, um, it was really fortunate, you know, lucky, uh, break to meet, uh, David Wagner, who was the CIO at Northwestern University, and he was about to leave Northwestern, start a business, and, uh, met him through some acquaintances… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:04 Ted Seides So, in a classic like Markowitz mean variance optimization framework that, you know, Dave would have seen at Northwestern, there's the studies that tell you that asset allocation is what drives performance more than security selection.
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 18:45 Chris Douvos But you look at, kind of, what Princeton and Yale and, you know, Northwestern's ten billion dollars, Stanford's twenty billion dollars, you know, these guys continue to put up great numbers