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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Most turn out not to.