OCTOBER 2004

Weighted Averages Determine Transfer Pricing
Transfer pricing, determining how to price goods shipped between related companies often in different countries, has long been debated by accountants and managers. Researchers now say that using weighted averages to determine prices can solve the dilemma [Details]

Citizens Get Satisfaction from Voting
Individual voters stand a better chance of being hit by lightning on the way to the polls than of having their single vote determine an election. Yet, say researchers, we continue to vote because we get satisfaction from seeing the outcome. [Details]

Even Furniture Can Affect Our Attitudes
Objects, whether a briefcase or a flower pot, can affect the behavior of individuals. Briefcases or other things that seem to represent a business setting will prime people for a different reaction than items not associated with business. [Details]

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Socially Conscious Employees Can Affect Corporate Change [Details]

The Sports Business and Consumer Behavior
Jackson Library offers a list of websites:

Forbes.com.
The Business of Football, Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey [Details]

comScore Network
Consumer behavior. [Details]

No Easy Answers to Outsourcing Problems
California loses as many jobs to other states as to other countries says Carl Guardino, executive director of the Silicon Valley Manufacturers' Group. [Details]

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Nardelli Describes Remodeling Home Depot [Details]

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A Lumber Company Profits from Being Green
Hayward Lumber Co. is carving out a niche serving environmentally focused customers. The case details competing certification standards, and the components of Hayward's environmental strategy. [Details]

Breakfast Briefings for Executives
A speakers program hosts industry leaders and tenured faculty from Stanford University, giving their views on current management topics. [Details]

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The Highest Goal [Details]

EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS

Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders
Feb. 27- March 10 [Details]

OTHER RESOURCES

Stanford Business magazine [Details]


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