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Mar. 13, 2009
Scientists on Wall Street
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| When the market was flying high, many mathematicians and physicists made their way from academia and scientific research to the trading floor. Now that some of their models and equations are being blamed for a role in the economic downturn, are scientists still welcome on Wall Street? |
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MIT Sloan School of Management
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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