2011 ranking of FT MBA- Dartmouth...York...HEC Paris...London

Per US News (2012)

Rank	School name	Tuition	Enrollment (full-time)
#1	Harvard University	Full-time: $51,200 per year	1,808
	Boston, MA
#1	Stanford University	Full-time: $55,200 per year	803
	Stanford, CA
#3	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	Full-time: $53,926 per year	1,669
	Philadelphia, PA
#4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)	Full-time: $52,628 per year	804
	Cambridge, MA
#4	Northwestern University (Kellogg)	Full-time: $54,000 per year	1,201
	Evanston, IL
#4	University of Chicago (Booth)	Full-time: $53,400 per year	1,160
	Chicago, IL
#7	University of California--Berkeley (Haas)	In-state, full-time: $46,416 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $53,396 per year	492
	Berkeley, CA
#8	Columbia University	Full-time: $55,868 per year	1,264
	New York, NY
#9	Dartmouth College (Tuck)	Full-time: $53,490 per year	547
	Hanover, NH
#10	Yale University	Full-time: $52,750 per year	475
	New Haven, CT
#11	New York University (Stern)	Full-time: $48,320 per year	784
	New York, NY
#12	Duke University (Fuqua)	Full-time: $50,300 per year	888
	Durham, NC
#13	University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross)	Out-of-state, full-time: $52,750 per year	1,000
	Ann Arbor, MI
#13	University of Virginia (Darden)	In-state, full-time: $44,000 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $49,000 per year	659
	Charlottesville, VA
#15	University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson)	In-state, full-time: $45,386 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $52,580 per year	750
	Los Angeles, CA
#16	Cornell University (Johnson)	Full-time: $51,480 per year	546
	Ithaca, NY
#17	University of Texas--Austin (McCombs)	In-state, full-time: $32,140 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $47,136 per year	534
	Austin, TX
#18	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	Full-time: $54,800 per year	420
	Pittsburgh, PA
#19	Emory University (Goizueta)	Full-time: $43,600 per year	312
	Atlanta, GA
#19	University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)	In-state, full-time: $23,339 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $47,221 per year	575
	Chapel Hill, NC
#21	University of Southern California (Marshall)	Full-time: $46,781 per year	455
	Los Angeles, CA
#22	Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)	Full-time: $46,000 per year	287
	St. Louis, MO
#23	Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley)	$43,460 per year	448
	Bloomington, IN
#24	Georgetown University (McDonough)	Full-time: $47,544 per year	508
	Washington, DC
#25	Ohio State University (Fisher)	$42,405 per year	231
	Columbus, OH

BW, 2012

1 Northwestern (Kellogg) 2 Chicago 3 Harvard 4 Stanford 5 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 6 MIT (Sloan) 7 Columbia 8 Michigan 9 Duke (Fuqua) 10 Dartmouth (Tuck) 11 Cornell (Johnson) 12 Virginia (Darden) 13 UC Berkeley (Haas) 14 Yale 15 NYU (Stern)		16 UCLA (Anderson) 17 USC (Marshall) 18 UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 19 Carnegie Mellon 20 Indiana (Kelley) 21 Texas (McCombs) 22 Emory (Goizueta) 23 Michigan State 24 Washington (Olin) 25 Maryland (Smith) 26 Purdue (Krannert) 27 Rochester (Simon) 28 Vanderbilt (Owen) 29 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 30 Georgetown (McDonough)		Non-U.S. Schools 1* INSEAD 2* Queen's University 3* IMD 4* London Business School 5* Toronto (Rotman) 6* Western Ontario (Ivey) 7* Rotterdam School of Management 8* IESE 9* HEC - Paris 10* York (Schulich)

Per Forbes

Rank	School	Total 5-Year MBA Gain ($thou)	5-Year MBA Gain As % of Expenses	Years to Payback	Pre-MBA Salary ($thou)	2010 Salary ($thou)	Tuition ($thou)	Median GMAT Score
1	Harvard	118	51	3.6	79	230	112	730
2	Stanford	116	54	3.5	77	205	110	730
3	Chicago (Booth)	112	52	3.5	72	205	106	720
4	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	111	48	3.7	79	225	109	720
5	Columbia	106	48	3.6	76	198	115	712
6	Dartmouth (Tuck)	102	48	3.6	74	200	104	720
7	Northwestern (Kellogg)	101	50	3.5	68	183	105	720
8	Cornell (Johnson)	100	53	3.5	65	180	104	700
9	Virginia (Darden)	99	53	3.5	68	178	104	700
10	MIT (Sloan)	97	42	3.7	77	200	104	720
11	Yale	96	54	3.3	57	150	105	720
12	Duke (Fuqua)	93	49	3.6	63	162	102	700
13	UC Berkeley (Haas)	88	49	3.7	68	171	102	710
14	Michigan (Ross)	81	45	3.6	62	146	103	710
15	Brigham Young (Marriott)	81	73	3.1	47	108	42	680
16	UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	78	48	3.6	55	136	96	700
17	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	78	47	3.6	59	144	93	690
18	NYU (Stern)	77	42	3.7	61	160	97	710

Per Economist (9th annual ranking) 

Historical Fiction Fit For A Queen

History Of A Pleasure Seeker

by Richard Mason

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Hardcover, 277 pages

Richard Mason's History of a Pleasure Seeker is one of the most enjoyable books I've read all year. Set in belle epoque Amsterdam, it is filled with sensuous detail and vividly drawn characters. Its protagonist, Piet Barol, is a fascinating blend of manipulator and victim, hero and cad. Born to poverty, he uses his preternatural charm to secure himself a place as a tutor in one of the richest households in Amsterdam, and once there, sets about thoroughly sampling its many delights. Despite Piet's sometimes ruthless exploitation of others, I couldn't help rooting for his rags-to-riches dreams, all while basking in Mason's lush evocation of the period's art and architecture. In particular, Mason is a genius when it comes to describing music, making a drawing-room concert feel as high-stakes and vivid as a spy thriller. Do you, for instance, know what piano key is best for seducing aristocratic ladies? Piet Barol does. Read this witty and deeply pleasurable novel, and learn from a master.

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/23/155275410/rich-reads-historical-fiction-fit-for-a-queen 

HHhH

by Laurent Binet

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Hardcover, 327 pages

HHhH is a startling novel. For one thing, it's Laurent Binet's first, though you'd never know it, given the flawless, self-assured storytelling. On top of that, who would expect a postmodern exploration of the limits of historical fiction to be a page turner? But it is, absolutely, thanks to Binet's skill with his fascinating subject matter: the assassination of Himmler's brutal right-hand man, Reinhard Heydrich, by two Czechoslovakian resistance fighters, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis. The book's main character, however, is really Binet himself, who makes a wonderfully nontraditional and unreliable narrator as he struggles to unearth the truth beneath layers of history. The result was awarded France's prestigious Prix Goncourt for a first novel, and is now freshly translated into English by Sam Taylor. If you are curious about the unusual title, it comes from a bit of German wordplay: Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich, or in English, Himmler's brain is called Heydrich.

Cancun trip planning

3rd day–Mexico City, Veracruz
Morning drive to the port city of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico. En route see the towering snow-capped Popocatepetl Volcano, weather permitting. Lunch in Veracruz. For centuries Veracruz has been the crossroads to the Americas, with Caribbean, European, African and Mexican cultures. Explore the romantic plaza, the oldest in Mexico, with strolling mariachis, serenading guitarists and marimba bands. Enjoy dinner. BLD


Day 8 – Mérida, Chichén Itzá
Morning drive to visit the Mayan-Toltec ruins of Chichén Itzá. See the Castle Pyramid. Visit the Ballcourt, the Sacred Cenote and the Group of a Thousand Columns. Learn about achievements made by the Maya more than 1500 years ago, including the 365 day, 19 month Mayan Haab calendar. Enjoy lunch. Return to Mérida. Drive by Mérida’s colonial mansions. Mérida offers great shopping for paintings, handicrafts, hammocks and huipiles. Enjoy dinner. BLD




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Venture outside the resort to visit Coba, a city of ruins where you can climb Nohoch Mul, the tallest pyramid in the Yucatán. Marvel at the stunning views and wander more ruins in the ancient seaside city of Tulum, then take a dip in a cenote, a natural freshwater pool.

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A Bounty of Beach on the Riviera Maya

Vertica & Z's use

http://184.106.12.19/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ZyngaSocialGraphing.pdf

 - Z only started using Vertica (an  HP company) in 2009.
 - Three key metrics driving social gaming economics: 1) churn rate, 2) )viral coefficient (100 user bring in 5 new users --> 1.05 coeff.); 3) ARPU
 - MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) and Scaling Solved
 - A columnar structure helps with efficiency