To Guide or Not to Guide

An investigation shows that investors suffer when firms stop giving quarterly earnings guidance.

Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting

This book is the first comprehensive, scientifically based study of the nature and impact of intangibles. Weaving case studies and real-world examples with contemporary business theory, Baruch Lev
* establishes an economic framework to analyze managerial and investment issues concerning intangibles;
* surveys the impact of intangibles on corporate performance and market values, including management difficulties, risk, questions of property rights, marketability, and cost … [ Read more ]

Building Value by Measuring the Immeasurable

In this series Baruch Lev, of NYU’s Stern School of Business, alerts us to potentially hidden sources of value in our organizations – the intangibles. As the value of these assets become an increasingly important component of total value, management must understand how to not only maximize their value, but also how to communicate it to capital markets.

As Lev explains in Episode 1, intangibles … [ Read more ]