Juan Orbea

Bill Browder, MBA '89, founder and CEO, talks about Hermitage Capital Management's investments in Russia and the fall out from the widespread corruption that still pervades Russia's economy.

Complexity – A typical complex system is composed of myriad individual constituents or agents that once aggregated take on collective characteristics that are usually not manifested in, nor could easily be predicted from, the properties of the individual components themselves. For example, you are much more than the totality of your cells and,... See more

- Strategies for growing as a researcher.

Performance Metrics

Total Value to Paid-In Capital (TVPI)

TVPI is a measure of both the realized and unrealized value of a fund as a proportion of the total paid-in, or contributed, capital. It is calculated by (total value) / (paid-in capital) where total value is (distributions + net asset value). A TVPI over 1.00x means an investment’s value

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Socrates isn’t giving many graduation addresses these days. Yet this wisdom is at the heart of a new generation of aptitude assessments intended to help individuals, including middle- and high-school students, understand themselves better.

Rushkoff unpacks parts of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, on the need to collectively break away from a top-down mindset to embrace circularity and resiliency. 

The Course 6-9 curriculum provides flexibility to accommodate students with a wide diversity of interests in this area. This includes topics from neuroengineering (reverse engineering circuits in the brain and developing brain interfaces) to biologically-inspired approaches to artificial intelligence.