I hope you and your family are healthy and well. During this season of giving and thanks, I would like to extend my gratitude to you as a supporter of the Stephen D. Cutler Center for Investments and Finance. The wealth of programs, events, and resources the Cutler Center offered this semester was only possible because of your support. Wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season and New Year!

Regards,

Patrick

As part of our Distinguished Speaker Series, the Cutler Center was thrilled to welcome Michael Mauboussin, Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, to campus for a candid discussion on investing. A very special thank you to our friend and moderator, Kenechukwu E. Anadu, CFA, CAIA, who led the conversation with Michael on topics that included public vs. private markets, competitive strategy, and valuation. Stay tuned for more details on our spring speaker!

Gabriel Papa ’23 won the 12th annual Babson Trading Competition, which attracted 48 undergraduate and graduate students from Babson College, Wellesley College, and Olin College to the Cutler Center finance lab. Hosted by Professor Ryan Davies, the chair of the Finance Division, the competition pits students competing against one another using the Rotman Interactive Trader software, which simulates an order-driven market.

In October, Cutler Center student assistant Andrea Torres ’24 traveled to New York City for the sixth annual WAVE Conference. The WAVE forum helps provide a unified platform leveraging support from affiliated industry groups, to help encourage women to lean into and persist with the business. Andrea was also joined by fellow Babson classmates Kaylee Briana Campos ’24, Jyothisha Chilukuri ’25, Nimisha Deshmukh MSF ’23, Metonowaji Egopija, Casey Lynch MBA ’23, Rishika Mishra MSF ’23, Sara Villegas MSF ’23 and Nurain Yasim MSF ’22.

Congratulations to finance superstar Joyce Wang ’23, who received the Ralph Z. and Charolotte R. Sorenson Scholarship Award for Meritorious Achievement at last week’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony. This scholarship is presented to a student who has excelled both in the classroom and in co-curricular activities in their sophomore or junior year.

Last Thursday, the Cutler Center hosted its first-ever Babson FinTech Start Up Pitch Competition, sponsored by BlueSnap. The competition featured select students from the undergraduate fintech course pitching their start up ideas to a group of esteemed fintech professionals for a chance to win cash prizes. A special thank you to our judges Ralph Dangelmaier, Deniz A. Johnson, Abdul Abdirahman, and Linghang Zeng for taking the time out of their busy schedules to engage with our finance entrepreneurs.

Babson College Finance Professor Michael Goldstein, the Donald P. Babson Professor of Applied Investments, was appointed editor of Financial Management (FM). Goldstein is joined by Kathleen Kahle of the University of Arizona and Shawn Thomas of the University of Pittsburgh as the new editors.

With the first checks and direct deposits from a nearly $3 billion pot of excess tax revenue headed back to taxpayers, assistant professor Luke Stein was interviewed by Mary Saladana of WCVB5 to offer insight into this news story.

Assistant Professor Linghang Zeng was awarded the best paper in fintech at the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting. The paper, “Measuring Firm-Level Inflation Exposure: A Deep Learning Approach”, develops a novel measure of firm-level inflation exposure by applying a deep learning model to firms’ earnings conference call transcripts. The paper is co-authored by Sudheer Chava, Wendi Du and Agam Shah, all of the Georgia Institute of Technology.