How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?

From "Strategic Humor" in HBR Sep-10 . We, lumberjacks, could if we should - To Tree Or Not To Tree ;)


This has a serious background, because we still find tree based methods even in newer quant finance presentations nad discussions. To make no mistake, tree-based methods are great for understanding, say, the option theory, but they are firewood if applied as solvers of complex financial PDEs.