Sep 09
An event study captures the impact of a certain event(s) on a marketplace. This technique is most commonly used in the context of the stock market, when analysts study the effects of certain events on stock prices. Analysts look at share prices prior to the event of interest (e.g. a stock split, CEO resignation, etc.) …
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Aug 28
The owner of a Tennessee hotel named at the top of TripAdvisor’s 2011 list of America’s dirtiest hotels has lost its bid to sue the website for defamation. A federal appeals court agreed with the 2012 ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips’ determination that users would not reasonably conclude that the resort was literally “America’s dirtiest …
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Aug 27
The Los Angeles Business Journal (LABJ) just published its list of the best companies to work for in Los Angeles for 2013. The LABJ ranks the top 100 companies in Los Angeles, and segregates the list into Large (250+ employees), Medium (50-249 employees) and Small (15-49 employees) companies. The best places to work in Los …
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Aug 16
What alcoholic beverage do people like to drink? Well Gallup conducted its annual Consumption Habits poll and the verdict is in. Jeffrey M. Jones summarizes the survey results on behalf of Gallup (see here). A majority of American’s drink alcoholic beverages, with 63% percent of survey respondents since 1939 historically indicating that they drink occasionally. …
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Aug 08
In 1969, Johnny Cash released his recording of “A Boy Named Sue”— a ballad of a seemingly spiteful father who abandoned his son but only after naming him Sue. The song reaches a memorable finish when Sue’s father says, “Son, this world is rough And if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough …
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Jul 31
When survey results change drastically from one period to the next the results are often chalked up to actual changes within the population that the survey was intended to measure. However, the possibility also exists that not all changes correspond to true changes in the underlying population. Pollsters rarely survey the same respondents from period …
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Apr 27
Businessweek has released its current list of the top undergraduate business programs in the US. The top three placeholders held strong from their 2012 ranking: University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management The fourth and fifth place …
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Apr 16
There have been a number of cases in recent years regarding damages allegedly caused by negative online reviews. A dentist in New York is currently the target of a class action lawsuit regarding efforts to head off such issues. Stacy Makhnevich, DDS, allegedly had patients sign a form prior to treatment that they would not denigrate …
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Apr 11
Many investors never evaluate their investment performance beyond simply noting gains and losses. Perhaps this is because they are not aware of how to conduct a proper evaluation. A couple basic calculations can help you better assess your portfolio returns and your financial advisor. A growth calculation is quite simple for the portfolio that never …
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Mar 01
Top Five Reasons that Chocolate Doesn’t Create More Nobel Laureates for Your Country
March 1, 2013
The article “Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates” recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrates that even published research may contain errors. The author, Franz H. Messerli, examines the correlation between countries’ chocolate consumption per capita and Nobel laureates per 10 million people. The linear relationship is strong, as shown …
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