Recent studies by Robert E. Whaley , T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor at Fuqua, challenge some popular nations about the benefits of stock-splitting. The New York Post also cited Whaley's work. A joint study found that while stock prices rise in the 10 to 20 days following the announcement of a stock split, they subsequently fall. I think that investors get hammered. In a USA Today feature on Olympic advertising, Marian Moore , associate professor of marketing, discussed the trend among national advertisers to air highly emotional commercials during the 1996 Games.
Advertisers know that viewers are especially plugged in to their emotions during the Olympics.
Fuqua remained at No. 11 in this year's Business Week rankings of leading business schools. The School was named among the five programs showing the greatest improvement and was ranked eighth among the 10 programs where companies say they find the best operations graduates. Fuqua was also noted as one of the schools having strong networks based on the percentage of alumni who donate money annually to their alma maters. More and more European car companies are sizing up the Southeast for possible manufacturing operations, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal . In recent months, following the lead of BMW and Mercedes-Benz, representatives of Volvo, Saab, Porsche and other automakers have been looking into possible manufacturing sites in the region.