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Summary: BEST OF CLASS
Review: As a senior analyst at a prominent Wall Street firm, I found this book extremely helpful in advising my Fortune 500 clients on their valuation strategies. The interactive CD demonstrates that the author does not only have the powerful tools of knowledge and insight, but offers cutting edge technology that helps the reader put insightful words into immediate action. This highly acclaimed book provides extremely useful techniques for senior managers whose ultimate goal is to maximize shareholder value.
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Summary: BEST OF CLASS
Review: As a senior analyst at a prominent Wall Street firm, I found this book extremely helpful in advising my Fortune 500 clients on their valuation strategies. The interactive CD demonstrates that the author does not only have the powerful tools of knowledge and insight, but offers cutting edge technology that helps the reader put insightful words into immediate action. This highly acclaimed book provides extremely useful techniques for senior managers whose ultimate goal is to maximize shareholder value.
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Summary: New York Investment Banker
Review: Don't know who wrote such silliness from the previous review. Obviously, not someone who is a senior member of the financial community. Mr. Glantz, well done! For readers yet to come, this book demonstrates and applies brilliant techniques. Enough said!
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Summary: New York Investment Banker
Review: Don't know who wrote such silliness from the previous review. Obviously, not someone who is a senior member of the financial community. Mr. Glantz, well done! For readers yet to come, this book demonstrates and applies brilliant techniques. Enough said!
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Summary: Top Notch!
Review: Extremely impressed with the author's insightful explanations. As an analyst at a prominent institution, I look forward to Mr. Glantz's continued works. Bravo!
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Summary: State-of-the-Art Financial Management
Review: Highly challenging, thorough presentation of state-of-the-art financial techniques for corporate valuation and risk assessment. The focus of this book is necessary and long overdue in today's fast changing business environment. It does not only discuss theory, but teaches the reader practical methods for deployment of these scientific applications. A great addition to any business reference library. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Money not wisely invested
Review: I wonder what the other reviewers see in this book as it seems not highly valuable to me. The book presents more a general overview of different techniques such as Monte Carlo simulation or Neural Networks without going into the necessary depth. Moreover, most of the explanations and expamples in the book can be found in a similar way on the web pages of the software companies mentioned in the book - for free.
I regret having bought this book - having learned nothing but not to trust too much euphoric reviewers.
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Summary: Don't bother!
Review: If you think this book has a rather pompous title ... wait 'till you see the contents!This book is a collection of loosely connected chapters which are dangerously lightweight. But of course if you are a busy executive/decision-maker, you won't need to know any better, will you? (NOT!) This must be a coffee-table book the authors distribute to their clients ... you know .... 'I wrote a book ....I must be an authority...you're so lucky to be my client'...
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Summary: Don't Bother Reading the Review Entitled "Don't Bother"
Review: In sharp contrast to the anonymous reviewer from Toronto, I found the book to be highly instrumental for a busy professional who found the "loosely-connected" chapters to be highly helpful as each unit serves as a complete stand-alone section loaded with very useful insights. Without particular understanding into Prof. Morton's background or motives in writing the book, reviewers, such as the mysterious reader from Canada, are well-advised to refrain from cynical, flippant and irrational commentaries. Smug remarks, wholly unjustified, referring to the book as nothing more than a "coffee-table book" are only helpful...in the kindergarten playground.
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Summary: Real Options Made Practical
Review: Mort Glantz has written a very practical and helpful book tohelp managers apply modern techniques of finance to real lifesituations. The book is excellent value for money because of itsdemystifying discussions and step by step application of all those socalled sophisticated analytical techniques we hear about but areafraid to use. For example, we hear a lot said about using optionpricing theory to project analysis and capital budgeting."Scientific Financial Management" takes this theory andapplies it to project assessment using real option theory in a valueenhancing way. The book not only takes you step by step through thetheory but also includes software to help apply it from the verybeginning. Now the manager who was just absorbing the implications ofdiscounted cash flow analysis can find easy ways to use real optionstechniques in assessing investment decisions plus other sophisticatedtechniques such as monte carlo simulation. The combination ofpractical handbook and application software is a unique opportunityfor any financial manager wanting to close knowledge gaps but alsoimprove the decision making process in assessing capital budget andproject risk.
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