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How to Beat Analysts and the Stock Market with Machine Learning
Analyst expectations of firms’ earnings are on average biased upwards, and that bias varies over time and stocks, according to new...
Oct 13, 2020


Why Higher Income Taxes Incentivize Insider Trading
Profits from insider trading are a means for executives at publicly held U.S. companies to offset changes in income taxes at the cost of...
Sep 29, 2020


Preparing for What’s Ahead: The Case of Sonoma County Winegrowers
For winegrowers, no two seasons are the same. Facing droughts, flooding, wildfires and other unforeseen forces, they have learned to...
Sep 14, 2020


How Firms Can Become More Resilient in the New Normal
Emerging from the pandemic, tomorrow’s successful businesses will make themselves more resilient to unexpected crises. They will...
Sep 4, 2020


Why Is the Stock Market So Strong When the Economy Is Weak?
The continuing strength of the stock market even as the coronavirus pandemic batters the U.S. economy has baffled many observers. The Dow...
Aug 31, 2020


How Firms Use Pre-IPO Confidentiality to Fend Off Lawsuits
A well-intentioned feature of U.S. law helps firms planning initial public offerings (IPOs) maintain confidentiality on their regulatory...
Aug 24, 2020


Can Tesla Maintain Its Momentum?
Electric vehicle and storage battery maker Telsa and its cofounder and CEO, Elon Musk, have stunned the world with robust performance and...
Aug 24, 2020


How Leaders Can Regain Trust in Untrusting Times
Pandemic confusion, police brutality, corporate corruption and unchecked elitism have eroded our faith in leaders who are supposed to act...
Aug 19, 2020


Why Inclusion Starts in the C-suite
When Gwen Houston tries to explain just how deep the diversity chasm is in corporate America, she pulls out a statistic so astonishing...
Aug 18, 2020


How Fixed-income Portfolios Match or Beat Stocks in the Long Run
Fixed-income portfolios have performed as well, if not better, than the U.S. stock market in the past five decades, while exhibiting...
Aug 12, 2020
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