Alice in Wonderland at Wells Fargo Bank; Panic Prevails at Saks 5th Avenue; Selective Distribution Approved in Common Market; High Profits for Federated Department Stores; Questioning the National Crime Information Center; Why Business Gets a Bad...
Do You Use Ringers?; Porno in Retail Advertising; Maintaining an Image; Effective Corporate Tax Rates; Laughing All the Way to the Bank; What Special Executive Ability Creates a High Return on Equity?; Concealing Information from Stockholders; Big...
Fire-when not ready, Gridley; How does one define service?; 1981 corporate resolutions; I have discovered the most stupid retailers in the world; What is a conservative? What is a liberal?; At last--many stocks are selling for close to book value!;...
Also applaud federated department stores; The 1982 outlook; Free enterprise; A great moment in retailing; Dangerous use of numbers; Abuse of numbers; Pray for Gimbel's; [A statistical supplement]; Surprise in numbers!; Why westerns pick a...
Arch Patton agrees with RT!; Banking and retailing — separated by a plastic card; Must retail chief executive officers operate by lying?; How serious is employee theft?; Does your firm get the Nilson Report?; The 1983 outlook; Credit Office...
Does insensitivity underlie continuing discrimination against women; The changing population characteristics ; Why Nordstrom's must fail; Who are the market-value leaders in retailing?; Policies on figts to employees; Short shorts; The 1984...
Automated collections; Griffin Bell condones corruptness in E.F. Hutton; A specialty may be great, but it doesn’t last forever; Bad handling of numbers; Good handling of numbers; Are debit cards a good deal for retailers?; How customer-oriented...
How do you classify The Broadway?;Thanks to TRW for words we should never forget; Corporations have had it too good under the tax law; Speaking of households and families; Do we have a 5-year plan for us, the society?; Circle K operates with little...
Why draw any salary in 1987?; How many does a house hold?; Additional information on Mervyn’s; Have vs. the have not : retail style; Great recapitalization game; Financial characteristics of high-income families; Your name is for sale!; Does a...
I still think what Hechinger did was right; Can minnows live with whales?; Did you know that February is Black History Month?; It makes me wonder about GAAP and CPA’s [generally accepted accounting principles]; Which ad appeals to you most?;...
Imagine paying a retail CEO $1,000,000 a year to do this!; The cure for present dishonest pricing; Tiffany; Liars, damned liars and statisticians; I wonder what reports by impact resources tell us?; Maintaining stupidity of banks; And they expect...
Does your employment rejection letter help your image?; Vol. 25, no. 1; A new definition of 'free'; If you had been there, this is what you'd heard; Why I like California; Short shorts; Is this why department stores are failing?; A quick look at...
Is Consumers Union less ethical than department stores?; New Year resolutions -- in three parts; Phony patriotism; Where did the trees go?; Who should you thank?; May D&F v. The State of Colorado -- and it loses; Short shorts Bias' is a synonym...
Why retailers should worry about literacy; Ethics in business -- and in business school; Should you charge for parking?; No wonder retailers go broke; Short shorts; The decision makes 'cents'; When looking at the same thing, do we each see...
Should I be reading this kind of story about Penney’s?; National advertising division of The Better Business Bureau; The headline I have been waiting for: ‘Sears to spend $4 Billion to revamp stores’; What I have learned in 60 years of...
Can we retailers be proud of this?; Should you have an ombudsman?; Job stealing -- the American way; When it comes to service, the boss is not always right; My reaction to published studies; Who spends how much on advertising?; Does a deceptive...
Irresponsibility at AT&T; The high cost of interactive retailing; New Year resolutions worth repeating; Are you surrounded by "yes-men"?; More from great-grandfather Baum's diary; What is your "market value added"?; The...
What percentage of your accounts are active?; One more plea for retailers to join the; EPA's Green Lights program; New Year resolutions -- in three parts; The side of Wal-Mart that the daily and trade press doesn't report; U.S. finances retailer...
The IRS is checking on the use of LIFO inventory valuation; Does Casper Weinberger know what he's talking about; By patting itself on its back, the Federal Trade; Commission almost broke its arm!; Answering a reporter's questions; Remember when the...
Not enough retailers are active in NOD; Who will take the next step; Although this was written before Christmas…; A good turn that deserves recognition; Who coined the term "associate"?; Should we accept the conclusions of these...
How goest the Christmas season?; What has happened to Christmas?; Bad practices in strange places; 27 Attorneys General and the FTC settle with May department stores; Retailers are going broke because they don't understand English; A secret to...
C.E. Turner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology and Public Health wrote G.A. Pennock and M.L. Putnam. The letters discuss testing causes for increased output, analyzing output by 15 minute intervals, testing vascular skin...
Interviews with the relay assembly test room operators to find out why there was low inspection efficiency. The observer concluded that talking did not delay production, but probably decreased concentration. The group had the tendency to go fast...
Several reports, memoranda, and letters. It includes two copies of a preliminary report concerning the experiment in personnel counseling by which Personnel Man would interview employees and supervisors in an attempt to find problems in his...
Summary of why layoffs had to occur and how employees were chosen for layoff. Also included are the employee and supervisor comments regarding the layoffs
Two reports, one by Mr. Lovekin and one by Mr. Roethlisberger regarding their interviewing of the supervisors. Mr. Lovekins report divided by topics that the men discussed and then analyzed by percentage that felt one way or the other on each...