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- Introduction As a result of the National Security Strategy (1) and the Quadrennial Defense Review, (2) the Air Force (3) posture statement outlines forces and major challenges that are driving current Air Force military strategy. The Air Force, and the military as a whole, operates in an ever-changing environment...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
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- nullRE: "Good To Great" a Big Mistake?How is underperforming the remaining 490 companies in the S&P 500 a good thing? "We get a little stuck on the empirical side"It reminds of the tale of the turkey being fed for 300 straight days, then on day 301...Numbers aren't the whole storyFirst,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Crime and punishment in Major League Baseball: the case of the designated hitter and hit batters
- I. INTRODUCTION Are you seriously going to throw at somebody when you're facing Randy Johnson? --Curt Schilling (1) In 1973, amid waning fan interest in baseball, the American League AL of Major League Baseball MLB instituted the designated hitter rule as an experiment. The stated goal of...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- The Lesson of the Angry iPhone Users
- Early adopters of the iPhone were outraged when Apple announced last week that it was lowering the cost of the device by $200. So angry, in fact, that Apple offered iPhone users a $100 coupon for Apple products. Apple's pricing decision makes good economic sense -- start a new product...
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- NHL, players' association hold 14-hour meeting
- NEW YORK-- The NHL and the players' association met for 14 hours Thursday in the longest bargaining session since the lockout began last September. It was not immediately known if any progress was made in the meeting that followed two days of less formal discussions. "We're...
- Research articles 2005-05-20
- A precarious balance: Neoliberalism, crisis management, and the social implosion in Jamaica
- This article examines the process of structural adjustment in Jamaica, and the various ways in which the contradictory tensions embedded in the current order are being contained. Although political, economic and social realities are deeply inequitable and potentially unstable, there are serious barriers to understanding, dialogue, organisation and optimism among...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Cultures of illegality in the National Hockey League
- 1. Introduction The economic model of crime demonstrates how an individual might decide to engage in illegal activity. It demonstrates that such activity may be motivated by incentives associated with a person's human capital skills, the availability of legitimate activity, preferences for risk, the potential sanction, and the probability...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- NHL seeing red Wirtz says little after hearing report on league's dire financial situation.(Sports)
- Byline: Tim Sassone Daily Herald Sports Writer Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz sat in a United Center suite with reporters Thursday and watched via satellite the independent auditor hired by the National Hockey League predict catastrophic results for the league if the economic landscape doesn't...
- Research articles 2004-02-13
- Report: NHL teams lost $273 million
- NEW YORK -- Painting a gloomy financial picture that could lead to a lockout, the NHL released a report Thursday that its 30 teams combined for $272.6 million in operating losses last season. To bolster its contention of widespread red ink, the league hired former Securities and...
- Research articles 2004-02-13
- Levitt tells Big 4: put investors first!(Arthur Levitt)(Transcript)
- NEW YORK -- In a meeting in late November with the partnership of Big Four firm KPMG, former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Arthur Levitt said that auditors must make the investing public their top priority. "First and foremost, auditors must put investors first," he said. "For too...
- Research articles 2003-12-15
- How the U.S. accounting profession got where it is today: Part II.
- A Gradual Degeneration of Professional Values By 1980, a deterioration in professional values appears to have set in. At the Institute's annual meeting in October, outgoing Board Chairman Wm. R. Gregory, a practitioner from Tacoma, Washington, vividly warned members of the increasingly fractious climate in the profession: ...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Taken by the street.
- May 08, 2003 (Superfunds - ABIX via COMTEX) "Take on the Street" depicts the experiences of Arthur Levitt. Levitt was the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC from 1993 to 2001, the longest that anyone has held the position. Levitt writes...
- Research articles 2003-05-08
- Arthur Levitt's Revenge: Take on the Street.(Book Review)
- What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know. What You Can Do to Fight Back by Arthur Levitt with Paula Dwyer (Pantheon, New York, 338 pages) $24.95 Reviewed by Gregory Bresiger If you like...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- The Miami Herald Business Book Review Column.
- By Richard Pachter, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 21--Take On the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know, and What You Can Do to Fight Back. Arthur Levitt and Paula Dwyer. Random House. 288...
- Research articles 2002-10-21
- Detroit Free Press Susan Tompor Column.
- By Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22--EX-SEC HEAD SAYS STOCKS STILL VIABLE: While some would like to call it quits on stocks, former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt mixes tough criticism with hope. ...
- Research articles 2002-10-22
- proliferation of "special" accounting items: A threat to corporate credibility, The
- Allegations of earnings management have persisted an academic literature and the business press for many years. However, researchers' attempts to document management interference with the financial reporting process have yielded mixed results. The business community is also divided on the issue of earnings management. Some managers argue that researchers and...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
- British Government Avoids Action on Accounting Industry.
- Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 28--When a crisis is brewing, Britain's Labour government slips effortlessly into a well-rehearsed plan of action: launch an inquiry, make some proposals, then promise to produce a report sometime hoping the crisis will...
- Research articles 2002-07-28
- The Mess on Wall Street.(Arthur Levitt)(Brief Article)(Interview)
- Interview with Arthur Levitt As chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 until last year, Arthur Levitt saw his share of financial scandals. Yet the scope of the recent Enron failure and the stunning string of corporate scandals that have followed seem...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- Influence of accountants rises in Washington
- WASHINGTON -- When Arthur Levitt Jr., then chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, tried to impose tough conflict- of-interest rules on the accounting industry two years ago, he was hit by a barrage of high-powered lobbying, including calls from 10 or 11 senators. The senators, whom he did not...
- Research articles 2002-01-22
- A positive political model of supreme court economic decisions
- Tony Caporale (*) Harold Winter (+) We develop a positive political model of the U.S. Supreme Court. Looking at the Court's economic cases for the period 1953-1993, we find a significant larger fraction of conservative decisions under Republican presidents and more conservative leadership of the House and Senate...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
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