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Princeton Vs. MIT: Who's Got The Better Investing Strategy?
Monday, October 3, 2016 - 5:05pm | 823The Peeptrade University Challenge kicks off Monday, where graduate students from nine top business schools will manage competing portfolios of $10,000 for 2 months. As the contest gets underway, Benzinga caught up with one of the members of the MIT and Princeton teams to find out how they...
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Are Short Sellers Trying To Hurt Facebook With A "Totally Bogus" Princeton Report?
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 1:58pm | 562Princeton University sparked a brief controversy after two researchers claimed that Facebook (NYSE: FB) would lose 80 percent of its users by 2017. The researchers compared Facebook to a horrible plague and predicted that it would eventually die out. Their theory was partially based on the fact...
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Princeton to Facebook: "You Will Die" – Facebook to Princeton: "So Will You"
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 1:18pm | 528A recent study by Princeton researchers, ostentatiously titled Epidemiological Modeling of Online Social Network Dynamics, concluded that, like many infectious diseases, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) would eventually die. In response, Facebook researchers, using the same type of data used by those at...
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Wrestling Hits Back Hard Into The Olympics
Monday, September 9, 2013 - 12:34pm | 442Michael Novogratz, president of Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG), Princeton University wrestling team alumni and spokesman for the Committee for Preservation of Olympic Wrestling, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning to comment on the International Olympic Committee's choice to bring...
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Company Pay Is A Secret, And For Good Reason
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 9:37am | 170According to The Wall Street Journal, companies keeping pay rates a secret is probably a good thing for workplace morale. In a study they conducted at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University, it was suggested that if all salaries were to be made publicly known, half of us...