Disagreement, Tastes, and Asset Prices

Confused about the differing assumptions of pricing models? More than likely you know that the assumptions don’t hold very well and you probably know much research has looked at how the assumptions matter. Fama and French now provide a framework to hopefully make sense of some of this confusion. In a working paper they show that investor tastes and expectations matter. For … [ Read more ]

Lufthansa – maintaining change momentum

This article – a specially abridged version of a full case study – describes how the company went from the brink of disaster to becoming one of the world’s leading airline companies.

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Using Sale Cues to Influence Customer Purchasing

Everything in Moderation: The 10th Annual Cost Management Survey

According to CFO Magazine’s latest survey, companies have been diligently pruning overhead, leaving them primed to capitalize on an economic recovery.

Editor’s Note: The actual text of the article is of limited and topical value, but the reason I have posted this is for the useful CI info found in the industry tables, which list average cost management index (CMI) values for a variety of … [ Read more ]