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The Business Lessons of the Belmont Stakes

Harvard Business Review

Well, we can quantify that with something called a Beyer Speed Figure , a measure of a horse's performance adjusted for track conditions. For a market to be efficient, where price is an unbiased estimate of value, investors must be cognitively diverse. When views are diverse, prices tend to reflect value reasonably well.

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The Business Lessons of the Belmont Stakes

Harvard Business Review

Well, we can quantify that with something called a Beyer Speed Figure , a measure of a horse's performance adjusted for track conditions. For a market to be efficient, where price is an unbiased estimate of value, investors must be cognitively diverse. When views are diverse, prices tend to reflect value reasonably well.

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