One of the major problems of managerial behavior is the setting of priorities.Time is a scarce resource and managers have to find ways to deal with the multiple tasksthat face them. This paper addresses the issue of priority-setting among tasks bymanagers by proposing analogies from job-shop...

While analysts provide an important source of information in today's markets, they also offer an array of confusion when their commentary is followed with a reference to a relatively simple valuation metric; the price earnings ratio. In bull markets, analysts appear prophetic for their...