Thursday, August 25, 2011

Madoff & Harvard Business School ?


Reuters’ Charlie Gasparno writes: Bernie Madoff is feeling pretty grand these days. He’s got reporters (including myself) hounding him for interviews and his insight into Wall Street and its misgivings. He’s the toast of the federal prison in Butner, NC., where he’s serving a life sentence for carrying out the greatest white collar swindle of all time -- a Ponzi scheme that cost investors some $50 billion.

And, at least in his mind, he’s getting ready to help the prestigious Harvard Business School develop course work for its students from his jail cell at Butner. In one of the handful of interviews he has given since his arrest in 2008, Madoff said that Harvard is interested in his input to develop a course in business ethics. Now he tells FOX Business that the school’s focus is in “building an Entrepreneurial course” not just on his career as a swindler (though that will certainly come up), but also his pre-phony hedge fund days, when Bernie Madoff was considered one of the best traders on Wall Street….

Find out more (if you dare): http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/08/25/madoff-im-victim-too/

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