Muffie Benson-Perella (muffie AT muffmarkets.com) was an Associate in the Investment Banking Division of a “Bulge Bracket” bank. She holds a B.A. in French and Art from Vassar College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She concentrated in Contemporary French Poetry at prep school where she was awarded the exclusive premiership of the school’s “French Club.” Today, Ms. Benson-Perella is the Founder and Managing Director of “Muffie on Markets” (http://www.muffmarkets.com), a deep dive into capital markets, finance and investment strategy. She is also the Founder and Managing Director of Muff Cap, LLC., an invitation only, private investment vehicle for non-existent, prestigious and accredited investors only, employing an actively managed, long-short strategy.
Apparently it has become fashionable to bash higher education. And it seems to be even more fashionable to bash higher higher education and the graduate programs that compose it. It doesn’t take an in-depth understanding of non-linear systems in mathematics to draw a straight line right to the premise that bashing the highest institutions of higher higher education [(higher)3 if you will] has become the most fashionable. This little bit of social algebra is borne out by the number of no-nothing articles, petty blogs and opinionated op-ed pieces that have, of late, attacked no lesser a monument than the noble and proud edifice of the Harvard Business School.
A recent Bloomberg piece (written by a Columbia graduate, obviously) went so far as to suggest that a November task-force was formed at HBS as a reaction to scrutinize the ability of HBS to teach risk management and develop a case to facilitate that goal. Of course, this betrays a very poor understanding of the role of cases at HBS. Harvard cases are written to market to other institutions. Attempting to teach actual Harvard cases to Harvard students would result in a massive and near violent revolt of apathy and boredom. The width and breadth of world experience already under the skirt of the matriculating Harvard student makes any attempt to teach the trite and condescending prose that typifies the average Harvard case the height of effrontery. To the extent cases are discussed at all in HBS classes it is to critique them for their eventual redistribution to the Crimson-challenged. Clearly, the task-force discussed in the article is to distribute better risk management teaching expertise to the world and prevent the sort of melt-down that non-Harvard types seem to enjoy causing every 20 years or so. Despite all our efforts to place alumni at the top, and in key positions around the country, incompetent minions, listless staff and executives who cannot learn to take orders manage to scuttle our progress time after time.
Of course, it comes as absolutely no surprise whatsoever that the same dreadful article seems to think it entirely devoid of irony to point out what the likes of Scamford University is up to “out West.”
The new series of seminars at the school, near Palo Alto, California, help “students discover and defend their values,” Dean Robert Joss said in an article for Stanford Business magazine’s forthcoming May/June issue. Classes include “Understanding Cheating,” which looks at why people make unethical decisions.
Yale School of Management, in New Haven, Connecticut, initiated a similar program in 2006, according to the school’s Web site.
Muffie Benson-Perella is, of course, totally unsurprised.
Normally these things don’t rise to a level worthy of my attention, and I have been frightfully busy lately, but I couldn’t help but finally comment on the kind of slander that apparently passes for journalism of late.
And speaking of being busy, I must admit that I feel a little guilty that I have been so absent and neglectful of my many fans. To make it up to you, I know my many fans will be thrilled to learn that it is now quite easy to show your love and support for me at home or in the office with this new Muffie Benson-Perella Luxury Tea & Coffee Mug (hereinafter “LTCM”). Emblazoned prominently with your humble author’s morning office-recovery ritual, it is an ideal gift to yourself, a reward for permitting yourself the finer things in life, particularly in times of trouble and when resentment has grown to absurd levels. Perfect for engineering your own Monday morning office-recovery after a bit of well-deserved Sunday night self-indulgence with the BFFs!
Though I know none of my fans would even dream of microwaving your tea or coffee, but it happens to be microwave safe anyhow, just in-case jealous co-workers or family members should “borrow” your perfect beverage container for extended periods without first asking.
Reward yourself today, because the Muffie Benson-Perella LTCM won’t be around forever!
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you couldn’t make this POS longer?
4 – Yes, we already know that, do try to best the rest of the Cardinal mouth-breathers.
These spoiled rich white girls need to go back to breeding children, instead of being corrupted by rampant materialism and greed.
4,
That is absurd.
@4- yes.
@9- grow brain, see @4, understand that “muffie” does not exist.
Harvard got some splainin’ to do….
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/04/03/ex_employee_says_she_warned_harvard_of_risky_moves/
yawn. what fans?
#11…..yes, #9 should grow brain…but it matters not. “rich white girls going back to breeding” – what kind of rhetoric is that? if “rich white girl” was smart – note the word – smart enough to get into Harvard – that does not automatically make her corrupt. neither does the fact that her parents may be wealthy have any bearing on her value as a human being. putting the equal sign between rich and corrupt – that’s the sign of the need of brain.
you went to vassar for undergrad. nuff said
@15- way to lob a dis at an imaginary person who didn’t go anywhere for undergrad.
@14
The Wasps had a 2.0 birth rate and look what happened to them they are greatly outnumbered now. Now some other whites want to be like them and are adapting to the same lifestyle. Welcome to Latin America.
@14
rich + white * legacy = HBS nuff said.
Get back to suckin on 8======D~ ~ ~ ~
@14
rich + white * legacy = HBS nuff said.
Get back to suckin on 8======D~ ~ ~ ~
#19 – go pick up your welfare check. #14 paid enough taxes for you to get your money.
#20 – “poor” (those making less than $180K a year) – go to Harvard for free. Those from bad neighbourhoods get in even with bad grades, ahead of “rich white kids” who actually deserve to be there because of their smarts, not money. Money does not buy admission to Harvard and its likes. so go back to drinking and admiring your city college diploma.
@19 Awesome!
@22 then how come every Harvard grad i met in banking was from a family that owned a bank? Do all the inner-city Harvard grads go back to the inner-city?
Another alumnus of HBS…..Jeff Skilling.
#24 because it’s nature, not nurture. you can take somebody out of inner-city but you can not take inner-city out of them.
@22 – Harvard has a lot of people from Asia (including Israelites) now. Not so much Blacks/Mestizos/Natives.
#26 – Israelis – not Israelites. That’s one. Two – Israelis are actually white, except for very few coming from Ethiopia.
@ 24: beacuse intelligence is genetic, and if her daddy was smarter than your daddy and made more money, she will probably be smarter than you and will make more money.
pwnt
4 – Yes, we already know that, do try to best the rest of the Cardinal mouth-breathers.
@27 – Jews are originally Middle Eastern. They came from Arabia. Some Ashkenazi Jews have European admixture, however they still have a high degree of Middle eastern blood.
Also how much white blood do you need in order to be considered white now?
@ 30. You must be at least 90% northern European, imo.
#30 – Middle Eastern people are now considered to be black? and you studied this where?
@28 – daddy, daddy, daddy? Do I detect an almna of Bennington?
I went to Stanford…so what does that indicate about my genetic material?
- from 24
@27
I think #26 said Israelis are Asian, as in from a country located in the continent of Asia (which they are).
In Europe, people from the Middle East are commonly referred to as ‘Asians’, along with people from Eastern and Southeastern Asia.
He didn’t say Israelis aren’t white.
man, who is this written for? it is so fucking long and boring. no one reads it, get rid of it.
The more money you make the smarter you are and the less you make the dumber you must be. Therefore, lottery winners are amongst the smartest and physics professors the dumbest. If we let capitalism decide intelligence, then Einstein would be among the dumbest and Pam Anderson would be among the smartest. Sure, often times smarter people are wealthier but not always. Currency can break the rule for example – the smartest Indians make less than American janitors.
@35- “get rid of it”
hahahah
do you seriously think this is going to be taken down b/c of one dbag comment from you? buy a clue.
#26/32/34 Under the US Census Osama Bin Laden would be white too. What do you know?
#36 – the key word is “make”. Lottery winners are not “making” money.
31 – 100%, I don’t care what the constitution said…
27 – um no, BL knows what she is.
@40 wtf are you talking about? bess is in no way Israeli.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
You can’t argue with an idiot; they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
@32- 30 never said that Middle Easterners were black.
All he is saying is that Jews are from Arabia and Israel is in Arabia technically.
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@30 & 43
did you guys get your GED together?
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/46584,opinion,mba-the-letters-that-spell-financial-ruin-at-harvard
Some list of HBS: George Bush, Hank Paulson Christopher Cox, Rick Wagoner, John Thain, Stanley O’Neal without forgetting Jeff Skilling. And now its HLS’s turn:)
@45 Jews speak a SEMITIC language and come from the Middle East.
If Jews are not Middle Eastern, but White Bread Europeans then why the hell do they claim Israel as their homeland?
There is Harvard, and then there is Harvard….
George W. Bush went to Harvard, ….go figure!!
Obama’s went to Harvard, all they all came from the hood. But they are super classy people. You can’t each that at Harvard.
So is neither where you came from nor that you were born with silver spoon(wealth).
In the end, you can have all the money and all elite education and still be a moron. And no one gives a damn.
You can be raised from the ghetto and still be classy.
There is Harvard, and then there is Harvard….
George W. Bush went to Harvard, ….go figure!!
Obama’s went to Harvard, they all came from the hood. But they are super classy people. You can’t teach that at Harvard.
So is neither where you came from nor that you were born with silver spoon(wealth).
In the end, you can have all the money and all elite education and still be a f’ing moron. And no one gives a damn.
You can be raised from the ghetto and still be classy.
Congratulations to HBS, you managed to mortgage our country to China. All the arrogance and Chinese owns our behind…
It doesn’t matter which part of USA you orginate, or elite or poor, you are still working for the chinese, sorry those are just hard facts….
@47 – Because Greenland is too frickin’ cold.
you know Muff is fake, right? made up. not real. keep beating it though…
@51 Intuits are native to Greenland.
@52 thanks sure will
Israelis are descendants of King Herod who sent 3 wise men to looked for baby Jesus so he would kill him.
EP: that’s “Know-nothing”, not “no-nothing”.
48/49 – That was easy to follow. Did you learn English at Yale?
53 – Intuit is f***ing software company.
Now, where’s the line for Muffy hummers?