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What is a soft-landing in economics?
A soft landing in the business cycle is the process of an economy shifting from growth to slow-growth to potentially flat, as it approaches but avoids a recession. It is usually caused by government attempts to slow down inflation.
The national mission statement of Scholars of Finance.
How would you cook three eggs?
If you gave a sensible answer, congrats!
The founder of Bentley University
Who is Harry C. Bentley?
The sole financial statement I'd pick if I was on a stranded island.
What is the Cash Flow statement?
All the academic buildings
What is Morison, Adamian, Jennison, Smith, Lindsay?
The current 10Y Treasury Rate.
Why are manhole covers not square?
So they can be rolled off the street no problem
The leader of Constantinople
Who is Emperor Constantinople?
The exact score and walk-off touchdown scorer in Super Bowl LVIII
What 25-22 and who is Mecole Hardman?
How would you value an apple tree? Also, how many years are you projecting out? (Bonus points for creativity)
By looking at comparable apple trees and the value of the tree's future cash flow.
(Relative and Intrinsic Valutation)
The last goal scorer in the FIFA 2022 World Cup.
Who is Kylian Mbappe?
You toss a coin 10 times and it lands on heads all 10 times, what are the odds it lands heads on the 11th attempt?
50%
The symbolism of the fall of the Berlin Wall
What is the End of the Cold War, German Reunification, the Beginning of the end of Communism, etc.?
Rule of Thumb, how long can milk sit outside the fridge per the FDA
What is two hours?
Let's say you're valuing a brand-new biotech company with no existing revenue. How would you approach this valuation?
Comps
What is Snickers?
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
A secret
The name of the economic plan that sought to rebuild German economy post-World War I, stabilizing its currency and ending hyperinflation?
The Dawes Plan (1924)
Walk me through how you create a revenue model for a company.
A bottoms-up build and a tops-down build.
Bottoms-Up: Start with individual products / customers, estimate the average sale value or customer value, and then the growth rate in sales and sale values to tie everything together.
Tops-Down: Start with “big-picture” metrics like overall market size, then estimate the company’s market share and how that will change in coming years, and multiply to get to their revenue.
The population of Waltham, MA
Points rewarded within 500+/-
What is ~64,000 (2021)
Name 3 out of the top 5 highest-grossing ANIMATED films of all time
What is Lion King (2019), Frozen II, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Frozen, and Incredibles 2?
This is an unusual paragraph. Just kidding but you got an x-ray? How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing is wrong with it at all. In fact, nothing is wrong with it. But it is unusual. Mind showing why? You may obtain a vacation looking at buzzwords following this!
Answer: The letter 'e', which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.
The infamous WW2 General who played a critical factor in the Allied offensive in the Mediterranean and a "decoy" in the invasion of Normandy.
(Also has a movie about him)
I can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a head but never weep, have a bed but never sleep. What am I?
What is a river?