Santa Fe Institute

Risk: The Human Factor

Topical Meeting

October 10, 2012

Business Network Topical Meeting

Held at Morgan Stanley World Headquarters, 1585 Broadway, 41st Floor, New York, NY

Speakers:  

Edward O. Thorp, Hedge Fund Manager, Author, former Professor of Mathematics, Noted Blackjack Gambler.

Nicholas Barberis, Stephen and Camille Schramm Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management.

Elke Weber, Graduate School of Business, Psychology, and Earth Institute, Columbia University 

Vincent Reinhart, Managing Director and Chief U.S. Economist, Morgan Stanley

David Laibson, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Phil Tetlock, Departments of Management and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Gregory Berns, Department of Economics, Emory University

Purpose: Business Network

More Info

  • * SFI community lectures are free, open, & accessible to the public.
  • * Seminars & colloquia are geared for scientists but free & open to the interested public.
  • * All other SFI events are by invitation only.
  • * Note: We are unable to accommodate members of the public for SFI's limited lunch service; you're welcome to bring your own.

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