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CONTENTS
Dean's
Welcome
Astros
Owner Opens the Fall Season of Dean's Lectures
MBA
Students Lead MBA Jungle Portfolio Management Contest
Jones
Partners Golf Tournament
El
Paso Energy Donates $2.5 Million to the Jones School
Enron
and Lay Family Give $8 Million
Enthusiastic
Students Organize Student Clubs
Jones
School Welcomes Murray Weidenbaum as Visiting Scholar
Maya
Houston (MBA '99) Is New Director of Development
GWIB
Means Business: Rice Graduate Women in Business Off to a Strong
Start
Action
Learning Program
ExxonMobil
Donation to Benefit Academic Programs
Keep
Your Eye on the Rice Alliance
First
Annual MBA Marketing Case Competition Puts Jones School on the Map
David
Ikenberry: A Testament to Teaching Excellence
Jim
Turley, Chairman-Elect of Ernst&Young -- His Community Has Become
the Entire Globe
Diary
of an MBA: A First-Year Student Writes Journal for Business Week
Jones
School Receives Brillante Award
Faculty
News
Alumni
Association President's Letter
Class
Notes
Annual
Alumni Career Forum
Please send
comments to:
Deanna Sheaffer, Editor
Director of Alumni Affairs
Jones School of Management - MS 531 Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston TX 77251-1892
e-mail:JGSalum@rice.edu
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MBA Students
Win MBA Jungle Portfolio Management Contest Two Straight Months
– By Debra Thomas, Director of
Public Relations
“Do you have what it takes to beat the market? Can you whip the
S&P? Drub the Dow? Whack the Nasdaq?” challenges MBA Jungle
(mbajungle.com).
“Invest $50,000 in a fantasy portfolio and if yours has the best
performance, you win $2500 in real money and a shot at the grand
prize of a two-year lease on a new BMW Z3.”
The contest, sponsored by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and Korn/Ferry
International runs monthly from October to April. First two winners
are—drum roll please—Bill Blackwell (’02) in October and Alex Guang
Yu (’02) in November.
How did Bill and Alex beat out the hundreds of MBA students against
whom they were competing? Bill’s strategy was two-fold: sell short
companies missing their earnings estimates and buy companies that
are the subject of takeovers where there is still some doubt about
the transaction. Alex outperformed everyone by using both fundamental
and technical analysis. When a company predicted a huge increase
in revenue, he purchased it. Meanwhile, he used technical analysis
to find the proper time to take action. When the market was going
down, he did some short sell.
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