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Paul Mende

MIT Sloan School of Management

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Paul Mende

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Paul Mende is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.


Mende co-founded, co-owned, and served as director of research from 2002 to 2010 for Fort Hill Capital Management, LLC, a hedge fund specializing in equity derivatives and dedicated to quantitative research, trading, and risk management. Fort Hill actively participated in the launch and success of Bay Hill Fund LP and Bay Hill Capital Management LLC in 2007 as a multi-strategy volatility hedge fund. In 2004, Fort Hill launched Absolute Strategies Fund and Absolute Investment Advisers LLC as an innovative absolute-return fund-of-funds structured as a Securities and Exchange Commission registered mutual fund, with daily liquidity for investors and full position-level transparency from managers.


Mende previously held positions as director of the Money Management & Trading Group at Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc., and as an analyst in the Quantitative Strategies Group at MDT Advisers, Inc. He also held positions as an assistant professor of physics at Brown University and as a research associate at the Center for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Mathematics at MIT.


Mende holds an AB in physics from Harvard University and a PhD in physics from Princeton University.

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Management and Leadership

Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive

Business Analytics

Digital Business & IT

Financial Management

Global Economics & Markets

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Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive
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Nov 10–11, 2026

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Cambridge, MA

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2 days

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8 hours/day

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$4,900

STARTING

Nov 10–11, 2026

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,900

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