If you’ve ever been on an overbooked flight, you know the drill: The airline offers vouchers good for future air travel, and usually enough people are willing to trade a little inconvenience today for a free flight later.  What you…

It’s too early to talk about the need for additional fiscal stimulus, University of Illinois economist J. Fred Giertz says. He believes the recession will end this year, and notes that most of this year’s $787 billion stimulus package hasn’t…

The ESOP Association estimates that 10 million U.S. workers, about 10 percent of the private-sector work force, participate in employee stock ownership plans at 11,500 companies. Many people would look at those numbers and see upbeat, motivated employees, their incentives fully…

The editors of the Current, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, are unhappy about the name of the school’s new business school building. They split hairs about why it will be called “Anheuser-Busch Hall” instead of “Anheuser-Busch…

Even as an $819 billion economic stimulus bill moves forward in Congress, about 200 economists have signed an advertisement saying that it won’t work. The ad, funded by the Cato Institute, starts out with a quote from Barack Obama saying that “there is…

Washington University’s Olin School of Business has the 28th-best MBA program in the country, according to Business Week’s new biennial rankings. That’s down a notch from 27th place in the 2006 ranking, and a fair bit below the 17th-place slot that…