Yale Class of '52
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Arthur Schleifer, Jr.
Yale 1952 Data Analysis, Regression, and Forecasting (1995 Course Technology Inc.) This book is one of four textbooks in a series entitled Managerial Decision Analysis that Art wrote with his Harvard Business School colleague David Bell. This series combined text and cases and were designed for a required first-year MBA course. These books are devoted to practice, not theory, and attempt to introduce “big ideas” without getting bogged down in technical detail. This book is concerned with what managers can learn from data. Although experimental data produce the most unambiguous insights, what is typically available to mangers is “observational” data-relationships in which many uncontrolled factors interact to affect some variable of interest. Because of this causal complexity, many statistical texts state that all that you can infer from observational data is association, not causation. Although ”causal inference” has become a topic of interest in the technical literature, this book was one of the early attempts to introduce it to MBA students and demonstrates to this audience the relevance of statistical analysis. |
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Following his Army service in Korea, John's business career has been in the investment field in the New York area. Shaking the Money Tree, coauthored with Win Knowlton articulated an investment philosophy, which although written some thirty years ago, is the basis of his investment beliefs today. These fundamentals still provide practical investment assistance. John is a dual contributor to "Yale's '52 Artists and Authors" Exhibit. For years he has found painting a true escape from the stress of business. Outdoor scenes are his favorite, including this one done many years ago, as he watched the seas pounding on the Maine coast. |
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Walter B. Schwab Transferring Your Marriage; A Guide to Opening the Doors in your Relationship. Walter and his wife Judy counsel couples, helping them reset their relationship so that staying together and being together becomes mutually enhancing. Achieving this kind of “healing relationship” connection occurred for few couples in the past, and the social changes of the last half-century have added further strain to the mix. About ten years ago they decided Walter should write a description of their work. It is their conviction that: New expectations are being laid onto “couplehood” and those new responses are needed -deeper and more profound- the “same-old-same-old” doesn't cut it. At the same time, the power to heal and improve starts in the family unit. When the relationship between a woman and a man becomes one of mutual support and challenge-and by that we mean one that asks both partners to grow and become all they can be-then that relationship improves the world. It does take rigorous work to get there, but that kind of a relationship has a profound influence on children and on all that it touches. |
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