lost most of its gains after the company reported a soft bottom line improvement in the second quarter. // Insert JAKK1.png Notwithstanding those who might think the bearish trend in the stock would continue‚ below I highlight the reasons why investors should look to buy the stock at current levels. Toymaker has finally turned the corner The award-winning licensee of several popular trademarks announced narrower year-over-year losses for the first and the second quarter of 2014. // Insert JAKK2
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Management Decision Making Dr. Natalia Karelaia 05 – Overconfidence and Illusion of Control Overconfidence • Overconfidence in skill: o 80% of people say they are in the top 30% of safe drivers; o 80% of entrepreneurs believe that their chances of success are at least 70%. • Overconfidence in prediction: Too narrow prediction intervals. • Meta-Knowledge: Confucius test: How much do you think you know? • Conviction is blinding: It is easy to forget one’s fallibility (in judgment).
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CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY . Introduction International Trade is increasingly becoming a fast – paced environment as it has given birth to a new economy through a technological revolution. New technologies are reshaping and impacting international trade‚ one of these is the Internet. The Internet is becoming a key platform for commerce that is increasingly happening between buyers and sellers located in different countries‚ thereby driving international trade. Additionally‚ as the
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INTRODUCTION - TECHNICAL ANALYSIS In finance‚ technical analysis is a security analysis discipline used for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data‚ primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis use many of the same tools of technical analysis‚ which‚ being an aspect of active management‚ stands in contradiction to much of modern portfolio theory. The efficacy of both technical and analysis is disputed by efficient-market hypothesis which
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Yale ICF Working Paper No. 0803 First Draft: June 1998 This Version: February 2006 Pairs Trading: Performance of a Relative Value Arbitrage Rule Evan Gatev‚ Boston College William N. Goetzmann‚ Yale School of Management‚ International Center for Finance K. Geert Rouwenhorst‚ Yale School of Management‚ International Center for Finance This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://ssrn.com/abstract=141615
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Great by Choice Jim Collins Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty‚ even chaos‚ and others do not? Based on nine years of research‚ buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories‚ Collins and his colleague‚ Morten Hansen‚ enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable‚ tumultuous‚ and fast-moving times. Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on performance‚ but also on the type of unstable
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Spock’s comments to others should be well balanced and he would be willing to learn from other people. Mr. Congeniality and The Soul Seeker would receive the feedback gracefully; I only hoped that both could gracefully convey one’s weaknesses. The Contrarian might be different; he might not easily receive feedbacks‚ although it was unclear whether he would openly criticize other people. During the feedback time‚ because the rule was that the recipient of the feedback couldn’t make comments when the
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argue: favorable to Carr (Laskey)‚ neutral (DeJarnett)‚ and unfavorable to Carr (Trainor). Edited versions of their remarks are presented below. Keywords: value of IT‚ perception of IT‚ role of IT‚ Nicholas Carr‚ I.T. Doesn’t Matter‚ IT Does Matter‚ contrarian point-of-view‚ strategic advantage‚ vanishing advantage of I.T.‚ ubiquity‚ management of technology I. MAKING SENSE OF THE IT DOESN ’T MATTER DEBATE by Robert Laskey INTRODUCTION Perhaps too much has been written about the debate surrounding Nicholas
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Did Thomas Jefferson Abandon His Ideals By Making The Louisiana Purchase Yes‚ we believe that Thomas Jefferson did abandon his ideals by making the Louisiana Purchase because he believed in the least amount of purchases made by the government as possible. He was big on small farming communities‚ and states’ rights and was against large government purchases because it gave the government too much power. He wanted the nation’s capitol to be a small city with only a few thousand people in it.
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possession of drugs needs to be decriminalized is made‚ because of the belief that the criminalization of drug use and possession violates the rights of citizens. In this paper‚ I will defend de Marneffe’s position by refuting a possible objection. Contrarians may claim that decriminalizing drugs will inevitably lead individuals to try harder and more dangerous drugs. Beginning his argument by differentiating between legalization and decriminalization‚ de Marneffe‚ states that legalizing drugs indicates
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