Here’s a testimonial from Eva Woo, the first recipient of the award and the first from mainland China.
For the last ten months I have been following (literally) the financial crisis as it spread from West to East; from New York to Beijing—after spending two years in New York, I moved back to Beijing a week before the Olympics.
On top of that, I’ve been lucky enough to see another equally important story of our time unfolding: the changing dynamics of capital flow, political power and communication around this world.
I say that because at Caijing magazine, a leading economic and financial publication in China where I work, we cover that story every single day. More interestingly, we are a part of the story ourselves–simpl by providing a platform for communication and understanding between the two worlds.
Luckily I am equipped to tell that story and be a part of that story with what was taught at the BER program: The inverted yield curve I first learned at the macro class two years ago predicted the recession long before anyone had a sense of it. The Foundation of Finance class taught me some of the perfect models behind the current bubble, one of the biggest in financial history.
The tricks to dig out financial details of companies and the techniques to tell a compelling story on a relatively "boring" subject taught at the journalism classes all came in handy…
