Maybe You Should Not Take a Promotion

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

When Should You NOT Seek Promotion? It may seem counter intuitive, but there are numerous reasons that you may want to turn down a promotion. This might mean turning down the position temporarily or avoiding this type of promotion for the remainder of your...

How and When to Seek Promotion – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

How and When to Seek a PromotionSuccessfully seeking promotion means building a case for why you should be promoted and presenting it at the correct time. In our article, What Will Help you Get Promoted, we discuss various situations that frequently lead to...

What Will Help You Get a Promotion?

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

How Do You Get a Promotion?In this article, we discuss some of the factors that give rise to an employees promotion. Notice that I use the word help in the title. Ultimately, getting a promotion is dependent upon a lot of things. Below are some of the things that...

Behaviorist (Finance) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Behaviorist?A behaviorist refers to one who adheres to the behavioral economics theory. This theory holds that investors neither act rationally nor do they act in their best interests. Investing decisions, like every human activity, are subject to a complex...

Bellwether (Trading Markets) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Bellwether?A bellwether, often misspelled as bellweather, refers to an indicator or event which displays the likely presence of a trend. The performance of specific stocks/companies and bonds are seen by analysts to depict the condition of the financial...

American National Standards Institute – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

What is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)?The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) supervises the creation and dissemination of United States business norms and standards. ANSI is a nonprofit and private organization that doesn’t develop...

American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is the American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation?The American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation provides insurance against default on municipal bond offerings.How Does the American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation Work?The American Municipal Bond...

Average Annual Return – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is an Average Annual Return?Average annual return (AAR) refers to a percentage utilized when reporting the historical return, like the three-, five-, and ten-year average returns of a mutual fund. The average yearly return is stated net of a fund’s...

Three Way ANOVA – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Research, Quantitative Analysis, & Decision Science

What is Three-Way ANOVA?A three-way ANOVA which is also referred to as three-factor ANOVA refers to a statistical method of ascertaining three factors’ effects on an outcome. ANOVA is the acronym for analysis of variance, and variance is the data variability...

Lifecycle Hypothesis – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy

What is the Life-Cycle Hypothesis?The Life-Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) refers to an economic theory which involves people’s spending, as well as, saving habits over the course of a lifetime. Franco Modigliani and Richard Brumberg, his student, developed the...