Word: malkiel
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...best to provide that book in Bogle on Mutual Funds. I'd say, if you're really a basic investor, Bill Schultheis's The Coffeehouse Investor. And if you're more sophisticated, I'd certainly do Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street...
Some skittish firms turn to buyouts to escape unwelcome suitors. "Management has often used them as a weapon to defend against hostile takeovers," says Burton Malkiel, dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management. Directors of Storer Communications, a major cable-TV operator, voted last summer to take the company private for $93.50 a share, rather than accept a $95-to-$96 bid from Comcast, a smaller cable company. Revlon pursued a similar path last month when it arranged a complex $1.8 billion transaction that would break up the cosmetics firm but keep it out of the hands...
...code, which permits investors to deduct the interest on their debts. That makes heavy borrowing attractive, since debtors can use IOUs as tax shelters and thus charge part of their cost to Uncle Sam. "Our tax laws clearly encourage this kind of activity," says Yale's Malkiel...
...number of A-range grades given at Princeton, like at Harvard, hovered around 47 percent for the 2002-2003 academic year. And according to a study conducted by Princeton Dean of the College Nancy W. Malkiel, 11 top schools including the Ivy League universities, Stanford University, and MIT, have awarded 44 to 55 percent of grades in the A-range in recent years...
Last year, both Princeton and Harvard awarded about 47 percent A grades. And a study conducted by Malkiel found that 11 top schools—Stanford University, MIT, the University of Chicago and the Ivy League universities—have given 44 to 55 percent A-range grades in recent years...