:”As more and more corporate executives have been paraded on perp walks these last few years, a question has repeatedly been raised: Where was the board? After all, isn’t it the board’s responsibility to make sure the fox isn’t hired to run the hen house? Doesn’t the board help protect the interests of investors and employees?”

“I received an intriguing email this week asking this question: ‘[…]if we were to put a quantitative value against each best practice, summed them up, and compared the total against a possible maximum could we have a predictor of project success?’”

“Businesses that send marketing e-mail have huddled with their lawyers in recent weeks, trying to figure out how to comply with the nation’s first antispam law when it takes effect Thursday [1 Jan 2004]. They face an unusually tight deadline. President Bush signed the bill, known as the Can Spam Act of 2003, on Dec. 16, leaving companies with little time to study the law and tweak their e-mail marketing plans.”

“Price discrimination is the practice of charging different customers different prices for the same good. One strategy for implementing this is to produce two distinct qualities of product — a high-quality product and a damaged or crimped version. In addition to providing a justification for the price differential, this strategy also prevents arbitrage that might erode the gains from price discrimination in the first place.”

“TakeAIM-Present is a new online service providing easy delivery of PowerPoint presentations, documents, images and multimedia files to anyone having a PC-based browser.”