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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems.