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Home Dictionary S Skin in the Game The skin in the game refers to owners, executives or executives with a significant stake in the shares of the company they manage. The skin in the game is important for investors because it shows that the leaders share a share in the success of the company. The SEC requires companies to report insider ownership or trading in company securities that is available to the public. 90/10 Strategy
September 25, 2022 The 90/10 retirement investment strategy involves investing 90% of investment capital in low-cost S&P 500 index funds, and the remaining 10% in short-term government bonds. Anomaly
September 25, 2022 Anomalies are events that deviate from the predictions of economic or financial models and undermine the underlying assumptions of those models. Board of Directors (B of D)
September 25, 2022 The board of directors of a public company is elected by the shareholders. Board of Trustees
September 25, 2022 The Board of Trustees is responsible for the management of the organization. C-Suite
September 25, 2022 “C-suite” refers to senior executives in a company. Chi Square Statistic
September 25, 2022 The chi-square statistic (χ2) is a measure of the difference between the observed and expected frequencies of the outcomes of a set of events or variables. Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
September 25, 2022 The chief executive officer (CEO) is the highest-ranking person in the company. Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
September 25, 2022 The CFO is a top-level manager. Chief Operating Officer (COO)
September 25, 2022 The chief operating officer (COO) is the senior officer tasked with overseeing the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the business. David Tepper
September 25, 2022 David Tepper is a renowned hedge fund manager and co-founder of Appaloosa Management L.P. Discrete Distribution
September 25, 2022 Discrete probability distribution counts events that have countable or final outcomes. Electronic Commerce (e-commerce)
September 25, 2022 E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet. Fortune 500
September 25, 2022 The Fortune 500 is an annual list of the top 500 US companies ranked by total revenue for their respective financial years. Friedrich Hayek
September 25, 2022 Social theorist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek and his colleague Gunnar Myrdal received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. Game Changer
September 25, 2022 A game changer is a person or company that significantly changes the way we work. General Manager (GM)
September 25, 2022 The general manager is expected to improve efficiency and increase profits by managing the overall operations of the company or division. George Soros
September 25, 2022 George Soros vies with Warren Buffett for the title of the most successful investor of all time. Gordon Gekko
September 25, 2022 Gordon Gekko is a fictional villain from Oliver Stone’s hit film Wall Street, who has become a cultural symbol of greed. Growth Curve
September 25, 2022 A growth curve shows the direction of some phenomena in time, in the past or in the future, or both. Hersey-Blanchard Model
September 25, 2022 The Hersey-Blanchard model suggests that no leadership style is better than another. Homoskedastic
September 25, 2022 Homoscedasticity occurs when the variance of the error term in the regression model is constant. Intrapreneur
September 25, 2022 An intrapreneur works within a company to develop an innovative idea or project that will improve the company’s future. Intrapreneurship
September 25, 2022 Intrapreneurship is a system that allows an employee to act as an entrepreneur within an organization. Inverse Correlation
September 25, 2022 Inverse (or negative) correlation is when two variables in a data set are related so that when one of them is high, the other is low. Jack Welch
September 25, 2022 Jack Welch was Chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001.