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The MBA Journey, Unfiltered II: Managing the Margins

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 Bryce Pointer

This is my second post on my business school experience at Yale SOM. I wrote earlier on the application and decision processes here. Happy holidays!

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The MBA Journey, Unfiltered: Getting in the Door

September 4, 2025September 4, 2025 Bryce Pointer

For context: this blog has been dormant for a while, because I recently left my equity research job to pursue my MBA at the Yale

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Getting Political: The Wealth of Nations, Part 3

June 22, 2024June 25, 2024 Bryce Pointer

One imagines that in writing his book, Smith consider Volumes 4 and 5 to be the knockout blows. Sure, he’s alluded already to “spendthrift” governments, expounded upon the nature of money (especially metal currency), and anticipated a critique of capitalism

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Stock vs. Capital, City vs. Country: The Wealth of Nations, Part 2

June 15, 2024June 25, 2024 Bryce Pointer

This part of the work is packed with observations about the importance of frugality and prudence, ones which our present age would do well to remember. Volume 3 details the march of economic progress

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March Madness, Presidents Edition: Part 5

March 31, 2024February 10, 2024 Bryce Pointer

Over the past four weeks, we’ve been doing a March Madness-style bracket in which we evaluate presidents head-to-head.

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March Madness 2024, Presidents Edition: Part 2

March 10, 2024February 10, 2024 Bryce Pointer

I’ve decided to apply it to former U.S. presidents in a series of posts, in the spirit of the annual March Madness basketball tournaments…

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Introduction: The Ten-Minute Major

July 16, 2023December 22, 2023 Bryce Pointer

Comedian Groucho Marx had a pretty good bit called “The Five Minute University ”—essentially cutting higher education down to the bare bones: what people will typically

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