Average American Household Telecom Spending
Paid Music Downloading, MP3 Player Sales Double
Total US Online Banking Households to Rise
The Illusory Nature of Momentum Profits
Market efficiency is a tough thing to beat. Go ahead, find an anomaly and then have it torn to bits in future papers. Lesmond, Schill, and Zhou come to the defense of market efficiency and find that the reported profits from momentum investing are minimally overstated and possibly non-existent because of the higher than normal transactions costs involved with the necessary trading. … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Chunsheng Zhou, David A. Lesmond, Michael J. Schill | Source: Social Science Research Network (SSRN) | Subjects: Finance, Industry Specific | Industry: Investing
European Airline Industry: Ryanair in 2003
This case takes the reader through a step-by-step evaluation of Ryanair in a highly competitive, high-pressure industry and examines future strategy options for the company and its competitors. How big can Ryanair become with its current strategy, and what strategy will they need to go beyond that? What is the growth potential in its niche and beyond? Is it now time to think about ‘the … [ Read more ]
Content: Case Study | Authors: Alessandro Buccella, Herman Fung, Javier Gimeno, Karel Cool | Source: INSEAD | Subjects: Industry Specific, International – Europe | Industry: Airlines | Company: Ryanair
Russia Leads Mobile Subs for Region
Web Swallows Chunk of Prescription Sales
Wi-Fi Is Hot But Users Still Warming to It
Strong Future for Yellow Pages Advertising
Continuing Dangers of Disinformation in Corporate Accounting Reports (.doc)
In a hard hitting article Kane looks at the accounting profession and does not like what he finds. After laying out “an unremitting flood of accounting scams” he “traces a major part of the problem to the flawed ethics of the accounting profession” which he claims “by designing and certifying reporting options that help troubled firms and rouge managers to conceal adverse information from … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Edward J. Kane | Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Subjects: Accounting, Industry Specific
Business Masters Awarded (US)
New Luxury Market
Who’s Playing with Power in the Gaming Industry?
Technology after the bubble
IT will rise again-but only if the providers learn how to help their customers make money.
Editor’s Note: in addition to discussing the future of the IT industry, the article offers 5 best practices of companies that realized real value from their IT investments.
Content: Article | Authors: James Manyika, T. Michael Nevens | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Industry Specific, IT / Technology / E-Business | Industry: Information Technology
Why Your Bank May Cut You Loose
Everybody needs to make money, but CFOs may chafe if their bank puts its own profitability needs first. Here’s how to obtain the banking services you need with reasonable terms and conditions.
Content: Article | Author: Richard H. Gamble | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Finance, Industry Specific | Industry: Finance / Banking
Online Bibliography of Military Leadership
This site provides over 4,000 references on leadership, particularly but not limited to military leadership. It is intended to be of use to those doing research on military leadership or leadership in general.
Editor’s Note: keep in mind this is a bibliography – there is nothing you can read directly on the site to learn about leadership, merely references to good sources to read…
Content: Online Resource | Author: David D. Van Fleet | Subjects: Industry Specific, Leadership | Industry: Military
DSL Leads Globally, U.S. Gap Narrowing
Welcome to Tesco, Your “Glocal” Superstore
How the U.K. retailer won over the world, one market at a time.
Content: Case Study | Author: Victoria Griffith | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Industry Specific, International | Industry: Retail
Products and Peripherals to Push PC Sales
Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispriced Stocks Break the Rules of Efficient Markets
According to the law of one price, identical assets should have identical prices. Driving this law is arbitrage, in which an investor buys and sells the same security for two different prices to make a profit. In a well functioning capital market, arbitrage prevents the law of one price from being broken, and in fact, violations of the law are rarely seen.
Content: Article | Authors: Owen A. Lamont, Richard H. Thaler | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Finance, Industry Specific | Industry: Investment Banking