Counterintuitive Investing is a unique book which combines cutting-edge academic investment research with street-smart ideas to improve investment performance. The book's central thesis is supported by results from a major academic research project that reveals the substantial upside potential from a counterintuitive investment program. (Counterintuitive refers to doing the opposite of what is considered "normal or typical"; it implies investors who march to a different drummer).The power of the book comes from its foundation, which is based on an academic research project conducted at Northeastern University by Harlan Platt. To that end, the author compiled an extensive and systematic data set of stock trades, which were thoroughly tested using rigorous statistical tools. The book shares these important results with the reader while keeping the presentation readable and more practical.

Counterintuitive Investing

Business & Money

Platt, Harlan

Finance

Cengage Learning'

International turn-around gurus describe how to rescue a company from the brink of disaster Why, even in the best of economic times, do so many apparently healthy companies fail? The surprising answer offered by the authors of this breakthrough book is "denial," or more specifically, the inability of top management to acknowledge that they've been backing a losing strategy and to take the necessary, often traumatizing, steps required to set their companies on the right course. Using cogent case studies and lessons learned from working with Fortune 500 executives who have survived tough turnarounds, Pate and Platt vividly describe what happens when good strategies go bad. Drawing upon their experiences at top firms, they develop proven real-world turnaround strategies, tools, and techniques and show readers how to put them to work in their companies.

The Phoenix Effect: 9 Revitalizing Strategies No Business Can Do Without

Pate, Carter

Management & Leadership

wiley

Investors have come to realize that a buy-and-hold strategy is often times unsuccessful. Market turbulence and other disruptions have hit the equity prices of many companies hard. This book discusses a different method of stock trading, one not for everybody, but one which has demonstrated success for some traders. Chipping was written by a noted professor of finance at Northeastern University.

Chipping: The New Stock Market Method for Surviving Turbulence

Signature Publications

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