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Fryer and Torelli also found that while African Americans are often suspected of suffering the most from “acting white,” Hispanic students often face even more social pressure to underperform in class than do black students...
...cost index funds. Investors have one man to thank for making that option available to them: Jack Bogle, founder of the Vanguard mutual fund group and creator of the first index fund in 1975. Bogle's genius was to recognize that most investors--including the managers of mutual funds--underperform the market. Factor in the transaction and management fees imposed by traditional mutual funds, and investors fall even further behind the market. Bogle's simple idea was to create a fund that would track the market. There was no longer any need for high-priced stock pickers or heavy portfolio...
According to a new study, chief operating officers can be likened to your appendix. Not only are they unnecessary, but they can also turn into expensive problems. The study, which will appear later this year in Strategic Management Journal, concludes that companies with a CEO-COO combination substantially underperform those without a second-in-command. For boards of directors, the COO position is always a thorny issue, particularly if they have strong-willed CEOs. Researchers examined 10 years' worth of data, from 1987 through 1996, for more than 400 companies in 21 industries to yield a sample...
Levin sourced the problem to “the recruitment process, not...the time commitment required for a sport,” noting that recruited athletes underperform academically even during the off-season and in instances when they have stopped playing their sport altogether...
Levin and Adams argued that recruited students face lower admissions standards, underperform once admitted and tend to isolate themselves on campus...