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Hockey's bottom line is so bad that last month's league-sponsored report by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt found that the NHL's 30 teams lost $273 million last season. "The results were as close to catastrophic as I've seen in a business of this size," Levitt said. Last season the average regular-season game scored lower ratings on ABC than bowling, billiards and poker. The NHL's contract with ESPN and ABC ends this season and won't be renewed in its current form, which yields only $4 million a year per team--compared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the NHL Save Itself? | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...authors, Kennedy School Assistant Professor of Public Policy Brian A. Jacob and University of Chicago Professor Steven D. Levitt, concluded that local policies attributing more weight to standardized testing made it more likely that teachers would cheat...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: High Stakes Test Lead to Cheating | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...chose University of Chicago professor Steven D. Levitt for the medal. He is best known for his study of crime and, more recently, a controversial paper linking America’s decreasing crime rates in the 1990s to the legalization of abortion...

Author: By Iliana Montauk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs Passed Over for Prestigious Econ Award | 4/29/2003 | See Source »

Jonathan W. Coffin, an employee at Serendipity’s next-door neighbor Levitt & Pierce, said his and other Mass. Ave. stores closed immediately after they heard fire alarms...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fire Closes Off Mass. Ave. | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

When deregulation came to Wall Street in 1975, Weill found his weapon. Fixed 15% commissions were history and soon, too, were some of the old brokerage battleships that had stayed upright with that ballast. Weill and his partners Roger Berlind, Arthur Carter and, later, Arthur Levitt torpedoed one competitor after another because they were better stock pickers and better managers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book-Shelf: Sandy's Story | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

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