{"id":353751,"date":"2010-02-23T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:399531"},"modified":"2010-02-23T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:27:00","slug":"ivey-mba-students-ready-to-pick-warren-buffetts-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353751","title":{"rendered":"Ivey MBA students ready to pick Warren Buffett&#8217;s brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett is certainly showing his love for Canada this month.  <\/p>\n<p>Fresh from his Monday luncheon in New York with the folks at Salida Capital, a Toronto-based hedge fund that paid $1.68-million through an annual charity auction to break bread with the Oracle of Omaha, the Richard Ivey School of Business has announced that Mr. Buffett will welcome a contingent of MBA and undergraduate students from the London, Ontario -based program to the Berkshire Hathaway headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska later this week.  <\/p>\n<p>According the itinerary released by the school, the trip will take place February 26 and include a tour of Nebraska Furniture Mart, one of Berkshire&#39;s companies, as well as a question-and-answer session and luncheon with Mr. Buffett. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a once in a lifetime opportunity,\u201d said George Athanassakos, professor of finance, who heads the Ben Graham Centre of Value Investing at Ivey. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a chance to interact with a financial genius and learn from him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dpett@nationalpost.com%20\">David Pett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=399531\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett is certainly showing his love for Canada this month. Fresh from his Monday luncheon in New York with the folks at Salida Capital, a Toronto-based hedge fund that paid $1.68-million through an annual charity auction to break bread with the Oracle of Omaha, the Richard Ivey School of Business has announced that Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}