SENATE INVESTMENTS
Real estate professor Alan Ziobrowski made an initial media splash last year with his research paper on Senate investments. His study found that U.S. Senators have a propensity to do significantly better in the stock market than most investors. The recent publication of the paper in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis started the flurry once again. Ziobrowski was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING
Halloween, the day after Thanksgiving and the day before Christmas are three of the biggest shopping days of the year. This season reporters turned to Ken Bernhart and Rajeev Dhawan for their perspective of the season's prospects. They were quoted in the Pittsburgh Press, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) and Brandweek.
INSURANCE FRAUD
As 2004 was coming to an end, business scandals continued to consume the headlines. This time it was the insurance industry, and the topic was fraud. William Feldhaus and Robert Klein fielded a bevy of media calls. Their comments appeared in the Associated Press, Investor's Business Daily.com, CBS Marketwatch, Forbes.com, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Miami Herald, New York Newsday, the Tampa Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Post and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
RAJEEV PRESENTS
Robinson's Economic Forecasting director continues to be a highly sought-after speaker. In recent months he has delivered a briefing at the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors meeting in Atlanta; presented the keynote speech at Western Washington University's Outlook Program; addressed the 2004 AUBER (Association for University Business and Economic Research) meetings in Tucson, Arizona; and spoken at the S&R (Savings and Retirement) Staff Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, October 14, 2004. He also by-lined an op-ed column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the impact Delta's financial problems could have on the local economy.
"THAR SHE BLOWS"
The multiple hurricanes that ripped through Florida left many with a lot of questions about how catastrophes affect the insurance industry. Experts from Robinson's top-ranked risk management and insurance department, Martin Grace (professor), Robert Klein (professor and director of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research) and William Feldhaus (associate professor) were tapped by the Associated Press, the Houston Chronicle, New York Newsday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) and Tulsa World.
RETAIL MERGING
When Sears and Kmart announced their plans to merge, creating the nation's third-largest retailer, many reporters turned to Robinson's resident marketing expert, Ken Bernhardt, for his analysis. Bernhardt was quoted in Reuters, the Associated Press, the Toronto Star, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
DELTA FIGHTING TO STAY ALIVE
From internal cost-cutting measures to cutting fares, Delta has been working hard to avoid bankruptcy. Each step of the way, the media has been there with help from Robinson experts Ken Bernhardt (marketing chair), James Owers (finance professor), Rajeev Dhawan (director, Economic Forecasting Center), William Bogner (assistant professor, managerial sciences) and Chris Lemeley (marketing). Their quotes have been included in several top tier media outlets, including the Associated Press, Dow Jones News Service, National Public Radio, the Boston Globe, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Star-Ledger (Newark), the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Seattle Times and WXIA-TV (NBC).
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