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New Collection of Springer e-books available on trial through May 31st

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments

A wide selection of e-books at SpringerLink is now available for the Poly community to use on a trial basis through May 31st. SpringerLink offers journals and books in a variety of disciplines such as biomedicine, chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics. Free access to tables of contents, detailed abstracts and editorial […]

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Britannica world data resources

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Do you ever need to find quick and comprehensive statistical data on a country?  Ever interested in comparing lesser known quantitative data from two or more countries?  Have a look at the Britannica Online World Data Analyst.  “Country Snapshots” provide the basic  data on a country.  “Ranked Statistics”  lets you view the countries with the […]

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Featured Resource: Business Source Elite

January 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Next time you need the latest information from the world’s top management and marketing journals, check out Business Source Elite (log-in required). It provides full text coverage for over 1,000 business and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to full text dating back as far as 1985, this database offers […]

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The 100 Most-Cited Scientists

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

In-cites compiled the 100 most-cited scientists for 2007 in the following fields:

Biology & Biochemistry
Chemistry
Economics […]

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Tags: Management & Finance · Science

New @ the Library: Books that make cent$

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Money making strategies at your fingertips. Visit our “New Book” shelf for recent arrivals on Finance and Risk Engineering.
Links below will redirect you to publishers’ webpages where you will find more information.
Analysis of Financial Time Series by Ruey S. Tsay
Credit Derivative Strategies: New Thinking on Managing Risk and Return edited by Rohan Douglas
Focu$ on […]

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World authority in the finance of rare events to speak at Poly

November 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Bestselling author and practitioner of mathematical finance, Nassim Taleb, will be speaking at Poly’s Pfizer Auditorium on Wednesday, November 28 at 6 pm as part of the Topfer Chair Lecture Series in Financial Engineering & Technology Management.
Nassim Taleb’s latest book, The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable, takes its title from his […]

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Recent Faculty Publications @ Dibner Library

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Rohan Douglas, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management in the Financial Engineering Program has edited Credit Derivative Strategies: New Thinking on Managing Risk and Return. It is a comprehensive analysis of investment strategies, risk management strategies and pricing and valuation using real life applications.
Roy S. Freedman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management in […]

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Email and productivity (or lack thereof)

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Think Email is a big productivity booster? An affirmative answer falls in the prevalent camp; however, there is more than one opinion on this. Management consultant, Ken Siegel, believes that sometimes email is actually a way to avoid being productive, while appearing to be so. It has also become an “interpersonal coward’s […]

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Featured Resource: Directory of open access journals

October 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Open Access publishing continues to rise at an astronomical rate as researchers hope to maximize their impact by providing free access to their scholarly articles online. But all this newly available material does little good if you don’t know where to find it. Fortunately the good folks at Lund University in Sweden have […]

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Nobel Prize in Economics 2007

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments

The New York Times wrote today that the Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to three Americans, for “creating and developing a sophisticated explanation of the interaction among individuals, markets and institutions.” The work of Leonid Hurwicz, Roger B. Myerson and Eric S. Maskin enabled mathematical economic models to be used effectively as a […]

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