List of Contributions

As a practical matter based on my 35+ years as a business professional and the half-decade I spent in academe, I think that multiple regression analysis is the limit of what any undergraduate will use in a business situation. Therefore, I cannot imagine that a hefty, expensive, cover-the-waterfront statistics ...

As a CPA and CFA charterholder who makes his living valuing private-equity securities by, among other methods, comparing them with similar public companies, let me add a hearty "Hear! Hear!" to Tim's and Jim's cautionary words. They are dead-on. But let me take the conversation a few steps further: ...

Fred and other valued colleagues-- Let me add my voice to Carter McNamara's and Gary Lear's in expressing a strong preference for Carter's taxonomy to filter candidates for the list. Otherwise, the result will be an unwieldy and unused laundry list. I also agree that keeping off the list ...

Al: "The Goal" is the starting place. Every good manufacturing person I know has read it. It's a cult book of sorts among them. I think I've read that there are over 1 million copies of its various editions now in print. Its author, Eliyahu Goldratt, an Israeli physicist by training, ...