Category: School
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Risk-Based Strategy for Sustainable Investment
Executive Summary This report outlines a strategic approach to constructing an ESG investment portfolio by focusing on the second-order effects of long-term environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks. By understanding and analyzing these effects—such as operational disruptions, economic downturns, and regulatory backlash—investors can identify companies that are well-positioned to benefit from these evolving challenges. Approach…
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4: Analysis of Financial Statements
Ratio analysis Liquidity ratios Current Ratio: the primary liquidity ratio. Measures a company’s ability to pay short-term obligations with its short-term assets Current Ratio = Current assets / current liabilities Quick or Acid test ratio More stringent liquidity ratio that excludes inventories from current assets to assess a company’s ability to cover short-term liabilities without…
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“Crime wave” and Policing
What is the social contract when it comes to police brutality OR when it comes to police not intervening in times of crime surges? What is the decent thing to do in these situations? (Connect to crime waves driving businesses out of cities in the bay area as well as last week’s topic of systemic…
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Example: Ethics at Work
Note: In the previous assignment, I explain why I reject Kantian ethics in favor of Sartre’s critique of Kant. Prompt: “Write a story about something that you saw in business that you thought was ethical. Make the story about someone you personally know (a friend, relative, or yourself). Why was it ethical? Part 1: What…
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Categorical vs Hypothetical Imperatives
Prompt: What is a hypothetical imperative that is currently gripping you? No matter how trivial or weighty. What would have to change for the imperative to vanish? My Answer: Is it ok to vote for Biden — even though the international court of justice just found him guilty as an accessory to genocide — because…
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Term Paper: Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence
PHIL 828 Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence Term Paper Any attempt to regulate artificial intelligence is fundamentally a futile exercise. If we are doing it to make ourselves feel like we did something, then fine; regulating AI would be an effective coping mechanism. It wouldn’t be an effective way of preventing any of the things…
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Phenomenal Consciousness: Between the Lines of Experience and Representation
Here is an essay I wrote for the following prompt in a class on the philosophical issues of artificial intelligence… Please write a 500 words comment explaining your views about the relation between experiencing and representing a content. To keep things manageable, please focus on color or pain. The relevant examples from the book are…
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FIN 785 – Week 2
Watch Videos Intro Financial Statements Key financial statements Balance Sheet Income Statement Statement of Stockholders’ Equity Statement of Cash Flows Performance Lecture Annual Report Balance sheet: provides a snapshot of a firm’s financial position at one point in time Income statement: summarizes a firm’s revenues and expenses over a given period of time. Statement of…
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DS 786 – Week 3
Watch Videos Forecasting- Linear Trend Let’s consider more patterns Smoothing filters work best for stable timeseries data when there aren’t trends or seasonality Seasonality (like sine waves) is its own thing with different analytical techniques Trends up and down are not good for smoothing filters; regressions are Nonlinear trend analysis Not what we’re doing in…
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DS 786 – Week 2
Watch Videos Introduction to Forecasting (5:59) Forecast: a statement about the future To be of value, the forecast is about a future event that we don’t have complete certainty for? Given what we know now, how much do we expect to sell next month? Forecast Time Horizons Short-range: immediate future to three months Medium-range: several…