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Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing (video)

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Topical Meeting

All day

July 30, 2014

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This event is closed to the public.

Venue: Credit Suisse, New York, NY

Co-organizer: Michael Mauboussin, Credit-Suisse and Chair of SFI Board of Trustees

Many forms of human endeavor involve combinations of skill and luck, and in most cases those two components of performance are inextricably entangled. Based on the work described in co-organizer Michael Mauboussin's "The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing”, this topical meeting will review the conceptual and methodological strategies needed to distinguish skill from luck to the extent possible, and to use those distinctions to help formulate better decisions.

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Welcome and Introduction to Skill and Luck

AuthorsChris Wood and Michael Mauboussin

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Why is Baseball Better at Using Its Data to Allocate Assets than the Financial Industry?

AuthorsJoe Peta

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Winning and Luck on Golf's PGA Tour

AuthorsMark Broadie

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Are the Highest Performers the Best?

AuthorsJerker Denrell

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More than Just Lucky: Three Rules for Exceptional Corporate Performance

AuthorsMichael Raynor

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Untangling Skill and Luck Among Active Portfolio Managers

AuthorsRuss Wermers

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Parallel Universe for Decision Making: Investing and Ice Hockey

AuthorsJim Morrow

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