As I explain to my students at IE, the most any business school can hope to do is move you from unconscious ignorance to conscious ignorance of a subject. In other words, a course can lay a firm foundation in a subject, and then provide a jumping off point for future self-study. After my MIAF course “Geopolitics [...]
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Geopolitics and Investing: A Reading List
Posted in Methodology & Tools, Theory, tagged analysis, asset allocation, CIA, demography, economics, energy, event trading, forecasting, Geopolitics, Geostrategy, Graham T. Allison, Hedge funds, Intelligence Analysis, investing, Luttwak, Richard Neustadt, Use of history on May 1, 2012 | 4 Comments »
How to Think like an Intelligence Analyst
Posted in Methodology & Tools, tagged CIA, Cuban Missile Crisis, Ernest R May, Geopolitics, Geostrategy, Graham T. Allison, Hedge funds, Integrated Strategy, intelligence, Intelligence Analysis, Morgan D. Jones, non-predictive strategy, Philip D. Zelikow, Richard E Neustadt, strategy, Timothy Walton on April 6, 2011 | 10 Comments »
To follow up on Philippe’s post about Thinking in Time: at IE I teach a course called “Geopolitics” to Masters in Advanced Finance students, and “The Multinational Firm and Geostrategy” to Masters in Management students. Students in those classes sometimes ask me to recommend books to help them “think like an intelligence analyst” and apply [...]
