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Gods at War details the recent deals and events that have forever changed the world of billion-dollar deal-making. This book is a whirlwind tour of the players determining the destiny of corporate America, including the government, private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds. It not only examines many of the game-changing takeover events that have occurred in the past years, but also … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Steven M. Davidoff | Subjects: Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions

In a fast-moving narrative, Wall Street Journal reporter Patterson explores the coterie of mathematicians behind the Wall Street crash of 2008. The story’s stars are “an unusual breed of investors” called quants, who “used brain-twisting math and super-powered computers to pluck billions in fleeting dollars out of the market.” Following the first quant, Beat the Market author Ed Thorp, from his graduate school days in … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Scott Patterson | Subjects: Finance, History

No company can afford a flawed understanding of customer profitability, least of all in a recession when the margin for error (as well as profit) is whisper-thin. The flip side is that improvements in this area can be a very effective way of bolstering the bottom line — and companies can often make those improvements with only a modest initial investment.

Content: Article | Authors: Ed Johnson, Julie Meehan, Mike Simonetto, Ranjit Singh | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Finance, Management, Marketing / Sales

Skittish investors will not be surprised to learn that the bottom line of a company’s income statement fails to tell the whole story. New research by Jan Barton, an associate professor of accounting at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, suggests that subtotals near the center of the income statement, such as operating income, have a much stronger association with contemporaneous stock returns than do the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Emory | Subjects: Accounting, Finance

An entrepreneur’s guide to offering trade credit, crafting a credit application, and evaluating a customer’s credit-worthiness.

Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Finance, Management, Small Business

“…the Laffer Curve simply reveals that higher tax rates will lead to less taxable income (or that lower tax rates will lead to more taxable income) and that it is an empirical matter to figure out the degree to which the change in tax revenue resulting from the shift in the tax rate is offset by the change in tax revenue caused by the shift … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Dan Mitchell | Subjects: Economics, Finance

In the first of a three part podcast series Donald Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management at London Business School, discusses closing the gap between strategy and execution, focusing on strategy and its discontents.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Donald Sull | Source: London Business School | Subject: Taxation

A somewhat controversial, but nonetheless interesting attempt to explain exactly what money is, how it is created, etc.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Paul Grignon | Subjects: Economics, Finance

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The economist Hyman Minsky has reminded us, “Each state nurtures forces that lead to its own destruction.” All of history testifies to the truth of this observation. Greater liquidity leads firms to borrow more than before. But higher levels of debt mean increasing vulnerability to adversity and negative shocks in an ever-changing world. For these reasons, as Minsky put it, stability leads inevitably to instability. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter L. Bernstein | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Economics, Finance

Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin | Subjects: Economics, Finance

In 2008, market events showed that some of the protection provided by diversification is lost when correlation among asset classes changes rapidly. Now, the question is: Are traditional diversification concepts no longer applicable due to some systemic change? Or is there still a simple, repeatable approach to diversification that can lead to significant protection against loss of principle?

Many factors could be contributing to recent volatile … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: James DiLellio | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Finance

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Strategies to improve working capital deficiencies and unearth excess cash from corporate balance sheets.

Content: Article | Authors: Barry Jaruzelski, Conrad Winkler, Eric Dustman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Finance, Management

In a fascinating in-depth interview with John Authers, 85-year old mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot discusses his now 40-year old groundbreaking critique of the “efficient markets” hypothesis and why new theories on price movement discontinuities are needed after the credit crunch. [Hat Tip to FinanceProfessor.com]

Editor’s Note: there are two parts to this video so after watching the first wait for the second to automatically load and begin … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Benoit B. Mandelbrot | Source: Financial Times | Subjects: Economics, Finance

Countless hours have been spent by stock market investors researching the historic performance of the S&P 500 stock market index but until now, they’ve had to slog through spreadsheets or go datamine other reams of data to be able to extract the data they’re after, and that’s before doing any number crunching! Now however, everything has changed because we here at Political Calculations are putting … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Political Calculations | Subjects: Economics, Finance, Free Stuff / Tools, Reference / Search

This academic analysis of our evolution from an industrial to a postindustrial portfolio society offers provocative clues for anyone seeking to understand the current financial crisis and Americans’ financial security. Davis, professor of management at the University of Michigan, asserts that in the eras of financial capitalism (1900–1930) and managerial capitalism (1930–1980), Americans looked to the corporation and long-term savings to provide them with security. … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Gerald F. Davis | Subject: Finance

The head of Behavioural Finance at Barclays Wealth says hot-brained humans often buy and sell right when they shouldn’t.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Greg Davies | Source: The Economist | Subjects: Economics, Finance

Executives need to embrace transparency if they want to help investors make investment decisions. But what should be disclosed?

Content: Article | Authors: Robert N. Palter, Werner Rehm | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Finance

Differing beliefs lead to price drift: The standard view of how stock prices move—that investors act rationally on information and that markets are efficient—does not account for price drift. Snehal Banerjee explains that price drift may occur because investors agree to disagree about the average valuation of an asset.

Content: Article | Authors: Ilan Kremer, Ron Kaniel, Snehal Banerjee | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subjects: Economics, Finance