So did Nets owner Mikhael Prokhorov, as well as Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz.
Jonathan and I knew each other from working for the Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
"It's very smart marketing, " says Michael Markowitz, an advertising development consultant in Santa Fe, N.
"The acute side effects of interferon tend to happen right after dosing, " says Markowitz.
But this is the math behind modern portfolio theory (MPT) developed in the 1950s by Harry Markowitz.
Markowitz used mathematics to explain the relationship of risk to return as it relates to asset allocation.
The economist Harry Markowitz won the Nobel prize for designing a complex mathematical formula for picking fund managers.
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So, as Markowitz postulated, it would place the investor at the point on the locus of maximum utility.
" said Sol Markowitz, CEO at CTA DigitalTM, "We're looking forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership.
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During his ceremony speech Markowitz referred to Ratner as "Cousin Brucie, " a reference to the famed, Brooklyn-born radio DJ.
While Markowitz and other PhDs in Economics may fit that description, most investors do not (see behavioral finance).
Right now that drug doesn't look as potent as Vertex's drug, based on the limited data available, says Markowitz.
Jenner and Markowitz are watching Schering-Plough's development of a protease inhibitor, as well.
Another doc, Jay Markowitz, 43, a biotechnology analyst and vice president at T.
In a 1952 paper and 1959 book, Portfolio Selection, future Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz expounded MPT for the investment world.
Three other companies that Jenner and Markowitz own are working on a different class of enzyme-attacking drugs called polymerase inhibitors.
In the early 1950s, another doctoral student named Harry Markowitz posited a statistical approach to investment selection called Modern Portfolio Theory.
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Both of them physicians, Markowitz and Jenner have a feel for what may work in the arcane field of drug development.
That promise has prompted Jenner and Markowitz to invest in firms that are usually deep in the red, typical of biotech outfits.
With no trial data yet, it's too early for Jenner or Markowitz to make a call on the drugs' likelihood of success.
The leader in the pack with protease inhibitors for the hepatitis virus, say Markowitz and Jenner, is Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, Mass.
Nobody loves Brooklyn more than Markowitz does, and sometimes he gets so enthusiastic it's as if he's doing an SNL impression of himself.
Data from a small, midstage clinical trial with its protease inhibitor, known as vx-950 or telaprevir, were "nothing short of spectacular, " says Markowitz.
Markowitz says the drug has modest potency, but is undergoing a trial in combination with interferon and ribavirin that may show better results.
Markowitz built a diversified portfolio model that assumed that the portfolio structure would be located on the frontier point that would yield maximum utility.
The model quickly became a cornerstone of investing theory, and it helped earn William Sharpe and Harry Markowitz the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1990.
Markowitz says that based only on preliminary data, the Roche drug appears to be more potent than Idenix's drug, but it has to be given in high doses.
Her friend Jill Markowitz conceded she feels awkward hawking products.
As a surgeon Markowitz performed liver transplants before joining T.
But Markowitz's heirs have gone on to show that it is possible to combine securities in a portfolio in order to achieve a higher return as well as a lower risk.
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