World-class organizations, those with the most effective investor relations, provide the financial community with information that is candid, open, specific, timely,and future oriented. Higgins selects the best of these companies and finds that the benefits of open disclosure include lower cost of capital, improved liquidity, a larger and better informed analyst following, and more "patient" investors. His contributing authors, all in high places at topflight organizations, provide state-of-the-art approaches to strategic financial communication and give first hand-poofs that open disclosure truly works.