University of Chicago
So Maybe Getting A Zoom-Based M.B.A. Was A Good Idea
Seems being a warm body with a degree is worth something after all, even if you never set foot on campus.
Fab Tourre’s Fabulousness Extends To Grading Papers
The newly-minted PhD. Brings more empathy to the task of TAing a class in asset pricing than his students can possibly imagine.
Ken Griffin Ensures Ample Supply Of People To Hire And Fire Going Forward
The University of Chicago will be churning out little Ken Griffins—and those training the little Ken Griffins—for the foreseeable future.
Fabrice Tourre Will Beat These Financial Crisis Charges, Just Like He Beat The Fightin' Friedmans
(Before his season-ending injury.)
That's Dr. Fab Tourre To You!
Goldman Sachs's former resident of fabulousness is going back to school. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a 2010 complaint that Goldman Sachs and Fabrice Tourre, 33, who is on unpaid leave, defrauded investors in a collateralized debt obligation known as Abacus 2007-AC1. The regulator identified Tourre as a “resident of Kigali, Rwanda,” in court papers filed March 21 in Manhattan federal court. Tourre had been in the African nation’s capital working for a non-governmental organization before beginning his studies at the University of Chicago, according to a person familiar with his travels who declined to be identified because the matter isn’t public. “Tourre is a U.S. resident studying for a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago,” his lawyer, Pamela Rogers Chepiga, said in a statement March 21. Steve Koppes, a university spokesman, said Tourre has been enrolled in the program since September. [Bloomberg]