To: SEC-ond-chance who wrote (80417 ) 9/23/2002 8:38:53 PM From: SEC-ond-chance Read Replies (9) | Respond to of 122087 There are ten movies The Heysek Report has adapted as Movies for Case Studies in Investment Management (or, What Harvard should be teaching).[1] In the Wild Bunch, William Holden tells one of his co-bank robbers to hold the customers at gunpoint, and "If one of them moves, kill 'em". Professional…a minimum of wasted moves. Versus, say an amateur, a word derived from the Latin verb amare...to love…or, to do something for the love of it. If you are an investor in the stock market, you are competing with the type of person who always had to have all the marbles when a child. Sharing was a problem too. Ironically, the small cap and micro cap sectors of the stock market are probably one of the richer veins for Individual Investors to mine since larger institutional investors are not yet interested either due to a stock price under $5 /share or due to limited market recognition of that company; and market inefficiencies can be found among these smaller-sized companies (i.e. current market valuation inconsistent with its commercial outlook); it is a statistical fact that 83% of all publicly-listed companies have zero coverage by the "Street". You may not get rich reading The Heysek Report---Commentary about Companies, People and Events. You might even profit from a contrarian POV (point-of-view)…and you'll always know where we stand on any issue or company about which you write into us (see Contact Us button on home page). We are occasionally wrong, but never in doubt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------[1] Those ten movies are (alphabetically): Day of the Jackal; Godfather ; Gone with the Wind; Parallax View; Seven Samurai; The Sting; Sliding Doors; The Thomas Crown Affair; Wall Street; The Wild Bunch. While all of these movies are entirely different, in the context of a Business school Case Study, they all embrace three principals fundamental to any well-run business: Planning; Capital; and Information geocities.com