Gabelli, of course, has his own proprietary method of analysis in valuing stocks.

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There's also, of course, the low-level method, which is--you've heard of Dumpster diving and people going through mailboxes and that kind of thing.

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The MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School have developed training courses covering topics such as course design, teaching techniques and the case study method.

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Of course, with the amount of money involved in his method, he would probably be better off just paying buying a few extra copies of any disc he might purchase, and storing 'em in a vault someplace.

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The profusion of choices, of course, can also be a curse if you have no method to your investing madness.

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Any analogy can be stretched too far of course but an exercise for the comments section: who uses the Davis method of management?

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