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...play a key role in filling special orders for hard-to-find sizes and widths and give the company more flexibility to help out independent retailers--a lucrative niche. The firm has a reputation "as the easiest company to do business with," according to the trade publication Sporting Goods Investor. As for the wage gap, Davis says it's overblown. All his U.S. plants are highly automated, with bar-coded parts and computerized stitching and embroidery machines, resulting in about 25 minutes of manual labor to produce a pair of shoes versus more than four hours in a less automated...
...case for divestment becomes significantly stronger with this development,” said Eric Reeves, an English professor at Smith College and independent Sudan analyst. “There is no cover whatsoever for any American investor...
...Marsh's CEO fired? It wouldn't be his first use of prosecutorial leverage to push for dramatic change. When he went after the mutual-fund industry for late- trading violations, he used the opportunity to force funds to lower their fees, which critics decried as overreaching but investor-rights advocates praised. He's now locked in a legal battle with former N.Y.S.E. chief Richard Grasso, trying to force him to return millions of dollars in compensation...
...most important aspect of the new model is the change from a single-entity league to a franchise operation. In the old WUSA, each investor operated a team or two--Time Warner Cable, for example, ran the Carolina Courage and New York Power, and Hendricks ran the San Jose CyberRays and Washington Freedom. The owners split losses equally. Under the franchise model, danger does loom: one team can acquire more riches, creating competitive imbalance that bankrupts other teams and adds instability (see Yankees, New York, and Expos, Montreal, in baseball). But single-team ownership builds incentives to leverage local sponsors...
...addresses America’s top public pension funds, the insights—and action items—associated with a counter-terror divestment campaign can be easily applied to university endowments, as well. Like public pension systems, endowments comprise one part of what is known as the institutional investor community. (Institutional investors are investment funds with more than $500 million under management...