Management
Essays

Many academics advocate that markets are "efficient." They argue that all stock and business information is embedded in the current price of an asset. As new information enters the market, the asset price immediately adjusts to reflect the new market sentiment. As a result of these efficient markets, investors can only hope to achieve the market rate of return given the amount of risk taken. There is very little opportunity, according to the academics to achieve higher rates of return in regards to capital expenditures than the overall market warrants. It is my contention however that the markets are inefficient in both valuations and subsequent reappraisals of assets and capital projects. Behavior finance and the teachings embedded within its theories are proof of the inefficient market theory

¶ … business ethics in the context of the Enron scandal. Business ethics are seen to be very important today, but yet there are still many businesses that do not engage in ethical behavior, either toward their employees…

Enron, once the epitome of the American dream, quickly became America's nightmare. Kenneth Lay, Enron's first CEO, was a master of recognizing the unique opportunities presented by the deregulation of the American…

Southeast Asia SARS outbreak of 2003: The anatomy of an epidemic.

NASA From an Outsourcing Consultant's Perspective

Discrete Manufacturing vs. Process Manufacturing

¶ … pursuing an MBA degree at this time in your life? What characteristic about Pepperdine's program made you decide to apply to Pepperdine specifically? What expectations do you have of Pepperdine's MBA program?

Strategy-Making, Strategy-Executing Process:

The case of Integra and the software that they tried to develop deals with the study (or lack thereof) of how the market would really respond to what was being created. Since the preliminary studies were only conducted…

Governmental acquisition can involve many different things. It is important for organizations that deal with governmental acquisition to understand why they do various things and what it is that they must do (Angelis,…