Jeffrey Ma

The House Advantage (eBook, ePUB)

Playing the Odds to Win Big In Business

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As part of the notorious MIT Team depicted in Ben Mezrich's now classic Bringing Down the House, Jeff Ma used math and statistics to master the game of blackjack and reap handsome rewards at casinos. Years later, Ma has inspired not only a bestselling novel and hit movie, but has also started three different companies-the latest of which, Citizen Sports, is an innovative marriage of sports, betting, and digital technology-and launched a successful corporate speaking career. The House Advantage reveals Ma's cutting-edge mathematical insights into the world of statistics and makes them applicable to a wide business audience. He argues that numbers are the key to analyzing nearly everything in the world of business, from how to spot and profit from global market inefficiencies to having multiple backup plans in anticipation of every probability. Ma's stories and business lessons are as intriguing as they are universally applicable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230109681
• Artikelnr.: 38167491

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Ma was a member of the MIT blackjack team, which utilized sophisticated card-counting strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide in the mid-1990s, and was the basis for the main character of the book Bringing Down the House and the film 21. He has been the technology lead for two internet startups and was an options trader on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. He co-founded PROTRADE, a sports stock market website, and consults for professional sports teams including the Portland Trail Blazers and the San Francisco 49ers. He lives in San Francisco, CA.

Inhaltsangabe

The Religion of Statistics
Why the Past Matters
Confirmation Bias
Asking Questions
Pragmatism vs. Idealism
Psuedo Statistics
It's All in the Plan
Making the Hard Decision
Aligning Goals
Why People Hate Math
There is No Intuition
The Holistic Approach