Besides securing the brightest minds in sports management, finance, economics, information technology and mathematics, Major League Baseball would be targeting exceptional individuals with an affinity for baseball as well as the capabilities to conduct quantitative research.

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Those who do speak their minds often find that management will no longer take their phone calls, making their jobs close to impossible.

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This has become a problem for big asset-management companies, who are losing their brightest minds to the hedge fund industry.

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Allied Minds, as parent, provides interim management and back-office functions such as legal and payroll to the subsidiary as it "de-risks" the technology on the cheap.

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