When you are cute your questions tend to get answered.\u00a0 Read the whole thing!<\/p>\n
While unsure if we can stomach yet another book on the crisis, a killer thesis on the topic? Now that piqued our curiosity. We tracked down Barnett-Hart, a 24-year-old financial analyst at a large New York investment bank. She met us for coffee last week to discuss her thesis, \u201cThe Story of the CDO Market Meltdown: An Empirical Analysis.\u201d Handed in a year ago this week at the depths of the market collapse, the paper was awarded summa cum laude and won virtually every thesis honor, including the Harvard Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work.
\nLast October, Barnett-Hart, already pulling all-nighters at the bank (we agreed to not name her employer), received a call from Lewis, who had heard about her thesis from a Harvard doctoral student. Lewis was blown away.
\n\u201cIt was a classic example of the innocent going to Wall Street and asking the right questions,\u201d said Mr. Lewis, who in his 20s wrote \u201cLiar\u2019s Poker,\u201d considered a defining book on Wall Street culture. \u201cHer thesis shows there were ways to discover things that everyone should have wanted to know. That it took a 22-year-old Harvard student to find them out is just outrageous.\u201d
\nvia Michael Lewis\u2019s \u2018The Big Short\u2019? Read the Harvard Thesis Instead! – Deal Journal – WSJ<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you are cute your questions tend to get answered.\u00a0 Read the whole thing! While unsure if we can stomach yet another book on the crisis, a killer thesis on the topic? Now that piqued our curiosity. We tracked down Barnett-Hart, a 24-year-old financial analyst at a large New York investment bank. She met us … <\/p>\n