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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

The article (it's behind a seemingly unbreachable paywall) has acquired the reputation of having marked the end of the dot-com boom. Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory.

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Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I As CFO, A.J. Doom and Gloom. Confident words.