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...highest price. That's right--almost. According to a study by Penn State professor Abdullah Yavas, they sell their own houses for an average of 3% more than they get for their clients. That difference may not mean a lot on a standard 6% commission, but it could help fatten your bottom line. So the next time a broker is putting your home on the market, tell her to price it as she would her own--just a bit more...
...home teams, the boom in top-of-the-line sport-utility vehicles has helped expand the market for luxury in new directions and fatten the profits of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler as Motown-made Navigators, Expeditions and Grand Cherokees have amassed the lion's share of the SUV segment. Last year SUVs accounted for 17.7% of overall Big Three sales, up from 12.7% five years ago. But even that segment is under pressure. In Detroit this week BMW is unveiling its X5, a so-called sport-activity vehicle that combines the company's vaunted performance with a light truck...
...cost-cutting executive at general Mills, Mark Willes helped put the maker of Wheaties, Trix and Lucky Charms on a strict diet and fatten the company's bottom line. These days, as chief of the Times Mirror Co., Willes is crunching more than Cheerios--he has set out to prove that newspapers can be packaged and marketed as effectively as snack food. And he has chosen the goliath Los Angeles Times, the chain's flagship, as his latest demonstration project. In the process, the former champion of breakfasts is demolishing the old order at America's fourth largest paper. Last...
What's more, with so much riding on the test results for both students and school, there is a tendency to "teach to the test," emphasizing narrowly focused drills rather than broader--and ultimately more useful--education. "Believing we can improve schooling with tests is like believing we can fatten cattle by weighing them," says Monty Neill of FairTest, a Cambridge, Mass., advocacy group...
...That caveat notwithstanding, however, such companies as Hoffmann-La Roche--orlistat's manufacturer--can be forgiven for feeling that they have hit the pharmaceutical jackpot. About 58 million Americans already spend $30 billion annually battling the scale. Even if the new drug doesn't slim waistlines, it will surely fatten someone's bottom line...