UPDATED 12/31/06: This research was recently featured at CFO.com The Harvard Business Review cites unusual - but "rigorous" - research demonstrating that the lunar cycle affects stock market returns. Professors at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor...
For the avid readers out there here are a few round ups of the best business books released in 2006: Tom Peter's Notable Books 2006 Fast Company: Best Business Books of 2006 Slideshow Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2006 (free registration) Business...
The SEC is expected to pass a ruling on Wednesday that will allow companies to direct shareholders to the online version of their annual report and mail printed copies only upon request. The rules change obviously reduces the cost of printing and mailing the reports....
Business Week's December 18th issue features their second annual "Best and Worst" recap. The HP boardroom scandal is highlighted as the Worst Boardroom Rivalry, and attributes the debacle to the contentious relationship between Thomas J Perkins and...
Milton Friedman, the Nobel prize winning economist, died today. Statement from the Milton & Rose D Friedman foundation here. Excerpted from the The New York Times: Rarely, his colleagues said, did anyone have such impact on both his own...
For those of you watching the mobile payments space, read on... a recent panel titled Next Generation Insights featured six Silicon Valley young adults. The panel (and write up) focuses on marketing to the 15-24 year old market, but it's more interesting to think...
Recent research from Stanford explores why consumers disregard social responsibility at checkout - despite the fact that they claim to make purchases in line with their values and pressure companies to behave responsibly. AbstractConsumers often say they want to be...
The following quiz was given at CFO Magazine's CFO Rising West conference this week. It's not as easy as it seems - I got a D+. (A link to the correct answers is at the bottom.) Test Your Finance KnowledgeCourtesy of CFO Magazine1) What's the average...
Are you a Steve Jobs or a Sam Walton? CFO Magazine highlights a recent book on the connection between how executives view money and how they make mangement decisions. E. Ted Prince, author of The 3 Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders observes that... managers...
This has nothing to do with finance and everything to do with your day-to-day life (at the office and elsewhere). Guy Kawasaki - VC, former Apple evangelist, and a very entertaining blogger - recently posted a list of things he wished he'd learned in school and...
