AP: Wal-Mart launches ads in self-defense

Professor Paul Argenti via Associated Press about Wal-Mart's right but late move to start advertising its positive image damaged by a continuous criticism from union-funded watch groups.

"Now it looks like its just a response. It's not a good position to be in, to be defensive," said Argenti, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.

Source: Associated Press via Business Week by Marcus Kabel, August 30, 2006

AP: How illegal workers affect the economy

Professor Andrew Bernard via Associated Press about illegal work force in the United States:

Still, they [illegal workers] expand the nation's overall labor pool and productivity. "We can make more stuff and that can add to overall economic activity," said Andrew Bernard, professor of international economics at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business.

Source: Associated Press via MSNBC April 4, 2006