PBJ Sandwich

How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Henry Blodget

January 20, 2012

A website dedicated to the popular show Lost published a post a while back about how each of the characters on the show would make a peanut butter and jam sandwich. I have borrowed this idea to illustrate how some finance or risk management professionals might make their own sandwich. In my 4th instalment we look at how former equity analyst Henry Blodget might make a sandwich. How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Henry Blodget Make an ordinary peanut butter and jam sandwich. Tell everyone that peanut butter and jam sandwiches are the best sandwiches in the world. Throw out your own sandwich…

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How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Norman Marks

January 19, 2012

  In my third instalment of this increasingly less funny series, we look at how popular auditor and blogger Norman Marks might make a PBJ sandwich. How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Norman Marks Add jam and peanut butter to bread. Perform a self-assessment to determine if that was actually peanut butter, jam and bread. Check off boxes. Ask Tim Leech if this is an adequate sandwich. Draft a new framework about how to make a peanut butter and jam sandwich. Solicit input on LinkedIn from others who like peanut butter and jam sandwiches. Publish findings in Internal Audit magazine.

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How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Donald van Deventer

January 18, 2012

A website dedicated to the popular show Lost published a post a while back about how each of the characters on the show would make a peanut butter and jam sandwich. I have borrowed this idea to illustrate how some finance or risk management professionals might make their own sandwich. In my first PBJ post, we looked at how Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan might make a sandwich. In today’s post we look at how one of my Twitter chums, Donald van Deventer, founder of Kamakura Corporation, might make a sandwich. How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Donald van Deventer Take Starship…

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How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Nassim Taleb

January 17, 2012

A website dedicated to the popular show Lost published a post a while back about how each of the characters on the show would make a peanut butter and jam sandwich. I have borrowed this idea to illustrate how some finance or risk management professionals might make their own sandwich. In my first PBJ post, we look at how Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan might make a sandwich. This is intended to be jokes. How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich: Nassim Taleb 1. Complain that statisticians, mathematicians, physicists, financial analysts, Nobel prize winners cannot make a peanut…

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