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How to Read an Annual Report (if you only have 20 minutes)
Quarterly financial statements and annual company reports are the language of investors and executives. At the end of the day, the results of managerial business and capital allocation decisions get translated through audited ...
The Math of Investing and Our Unease with Rational Thought
Professor Richard Thaler won this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics, in part, for research confirming that we (humans) believe we are smarter and more rational than we actually are. Asked how he plans to spend the $1.1 million prize ...
Communicating in Public: How to Make Effective Impromptu Comments
At times, you will feel compelled or asked to share your opinion in a meeting, at a business event or during a conference. For these situations, a bit of advance planning will reduce the pressure and increase the likelihood of making ...
When Do We Overvalue Investments?
In 1990, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman and two colleagues published a study documenting how we can “overvalue” things we already own (D. Kahneman, J. Knetsch and R. Thaler, “Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect ...
Common Errors and Potential Approaches for Evaluating Investment Strategies
Understand how to understand and frame the current situation. [That was not a Rumsfeldian typo.] Executives and investors make, or don’t make, decisions on how to allocate capital and other resources based on their understanding of ...
Learning: Tips for Conducting Informational Interviews
Informational interviews provide one avenue for learning about a business, developing professional relationships and sharing ideas. We initiate informational interviews as job seekers, entrepreneurs and researchers to tap the ...
Analyst’s Creed
You are an Analyst, a warrior shrouded in mystery and feared for your ruthlessness with Excel. Your actions can throw Board meetings into chaos, and your existence will shape the company during this pivotal moment in ...
Aunt Fanny Publishes a Book on Timberland Investing
I woke up, on schedule, at 4:14 in the morning, rolled over and switched off the alarm before it chimed. At 4:15, the phone buzzed.
“Good morning, Nephew!” said Aunt Fanny. “You up?”
“Yes, Ma’am,” I said, swinging my ...
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