Masters in Business · Friday, August 14, 2026
Ankur Crawford identified the transition from analyst to portfolio manager as the most challenging part of her career at Alger. This shift required her to move from detailed, hands-on analysis to a broader, more strategic role, utilizing a Socratic method to guide her team, which was a significant departure from her previous analytical responsibilities.
“That transition to portfolio manager, however, required a different skill set, which was allowing for other people to do the thinking and or the detailed work which I loved to do, and kind of taking a much more macro perspective and a bigger picture perspective, where you know, it was a much more socratic methodology of questioning and asking the right questions to guide the analysts in the right direction”
“So, you know, and that was like I. Used to do that with the companies, right, I would ask all these questions of the companies, But doing it with your peer set and people that work with you is a little bit different, and so that was a kind of a tough transition for me.”