Does it pay for acquirers to be friendly?

Competitive Environmental Strategies: WHEN DOES IT PAY TO BE GREEN?

P rogressive corporations have invested in increasingly ambitious sustainability initiatives. While environmental investments are welcome by society, managers need to identify the circumstances favoring the generation of both public benefits and corporate profits. For some firms, better utilization of resources may pay-off as environmentrelated investments. For others, obtaining ISO 14001 certi...

Does it Pay to be a High School Athlete ? Brandin Heidbreder

“Sports and other forms of vigorous physical activity provide educational experiences which cannot be duplicated in the classroom. They are an uncompromising laboratory in which we must think and act quickly and efficiently under pressure and then force us to meet our own inadequacies face-to-face and to do something about them, as nothing else does...Sports resemble life in capsule form and th...

“Corruption and local politics: does it pay to be a crook?”

Does it pay to be nice? Personality and earnings in the UK

This study uses data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and employs all basic traits from the Five Factor Personality Inventory – openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism – to examine the relationship between individuals’ personality and wages in the UK. The results indicate a negative linear relationship between wages and agreeableness a...

Does It Really Pay to Be Green?: An Empirical Study of Firm Environmental and Financial Performance