Wellesley in the Workforce
Susan Wagner '82 worked in the mortgage finance group at this firm before co-founding BlackRock
What is the Lehman Brothers?
This controversial author founded the Wellesley Russian department
Who is Vladimir Nabokov?
The relationship between inflation and unemployment in the short run is illustrated by this famous curve.
What is the Phillips Curve?
This Chinese e-commerce company is often called the “Amazon of China.”
What is Alibaba?
HTML is used for building the structure of webpages. The “H” in HTML stands for this.
What is Hypertext?
The year that Wellesley alumna Robin Chase co-founded Zipcar
What is 2000?
This iconic piece of decor was added to the campus in 2023, and it supposedly spent time at a MIT frat in the 80s
What is the bison head in Sci?
A country imports far more than it exports, leading to a negative balance of trade. This macroeconomic issue can weaken its currency over time.
What is a trade deficit?
This music streaming service got its name when one founder misheard the other during a brainstorming session, and they just decided to keep it.
What is Spotify?
This statistical foe appears when a variable is correlated with the error term, making your regression coefficients about as trustworthy as anonymous course evaluations.
What is endogeneity?
This Wellesley ‘00 founder quit her job on Wall Street and sold her engagement ring to start a beauty company out of her garage in San Francisco.
Who is Vicky Tsai?
Here, performers have reported seeing a figure in a top hat silently watching them, while lights flicker inexplicably during shows.
Where is Black box theater in (alumni hall)?
This effect describes how higher government spending can push up interest rates and reduce private investment.
What is crowding out?
The world’s largest consulting firm by revenue (as of recent years).
What is Deloitte?
When a startup sets aside shares for future employees before raising money, it changes founders’ ownership. This is called a:
What is option pool shuffle?
This Wellesley alumna ’75 is leader of a community-development financial institution, and is known for her work around affordable housing and LGBTQ+ activism.
Who is Elyse Cherry?
She plays "Betty" Warren” in the Wellesley-inspired movie “Mona Lisa Smile”
Who is Kirsten Dunst?
The idea that consumers respond less to tax cuts they view as temporary than to permanent ones is part of this fiscal theory.
What is Ricardian Equivalence?
This notorious tech company once sold a flamethrower.
What is Tesla/Space X?
In a leveraged buyout, this obscure ratio, defined as (EBITDA – CapEx) ÷ Cash Interest, measures a sponsor’s ability to service interest after necessary reinvestment, and is particularly scrutinized in “cov-lite” credit agreements.
What is Fixed-Charge Coverage Ratio (post-maintenance CapEx)?
Within 15 years of graduating, more than this percentage of Wellesley alumnae have ascended into management roles (e.g., owner, partner, CEO)
What is 40%?
In 1942, before the U.S. entered WWII, students at Wellesley clandestinely took a secret course at the college’s observatory teaching this subject.
What is Cryptography?
The decomposition of GDP into trend and cyclical components is commonly performed with this statistical smoothing method.
What is Hodrick–Prescott (HP) filter?
This website sold a grilled cheese with the face of the Virgin Mary for $28,000
What is eBay?
This asymptotically optimal algorithm for multiplying two n×n matrices in O(n^2.3728596) time was first described in a 2020 paper by Alman and Vassilevska Williams and is considered a refinement over Coppersmith–Winograd.
What is the Laser Method (or the Alman–Williams matrix multiplication algorithm)?