Let the Buyer Be Well Informed? - Doubting the Demise of Caveat Emptor

Returning home from grocery shopping one evening last spring, a forty-two-year-old architect was killed in the presence of his wife and children on the street outside his St. Louis townhouse by a gunshot to the neck during an attempted carjacking.2 By the next morning, police had arrested and obtained a confession from a recently released parolee wearing an electronic ankle bracelet.3 Several homes in the neighborhood, previously considered to be generally free of serious crime, were listed for sale at the time of this incident. Human experience teaches that other homes are likely to be offered for sale in the aftermath of this incident. Private morality and conscience will inform each seller\u27s decision whether to volunteer information about this notorious crime to potential purchasers from outside the community, or to respond expansively if asked about security. Some of these sellers may also seek the advice of counsel

Technical service as a marketing tool for industrial goods

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston Universit

Evaluation and rationalization methodology for the acquisition of packaging capital equipment and services

The development of proactive methods for the evaluation, selection, standardization, and rationalization of capital equipment and services used in the medical device industry will benefit equipment/process interchangeability and will result in lower costs of goods (COG). Reduced exposures to legal and regulatory issues are also expected. At the time this study began, senior management believed staff should have the latitude to make continuous improvements initiated without the burden of a corporate regulatory, engineering, quality, or procurement oversight, as long as each facility continued to meet or exceed appropriate performance standards and government regulations. This work seeks to document the technical, quality, commercial, legal, and supplier assessment tools that can ease the selection, acquisition, and ownership of capital equipment. The development of a standardized set of supplier engagement tools, created cross-functionally, has enabled groups from different business units, cultures, countries, and continents to form consensus opinions when projects were led according to this planned methodology

Value Creation by Business Lawyers: Legal Skills and Asset Pricing

What do business lawyers really do? Embarrassingly enough, at a time when lawyers are criticized with increasing frequency as nonproductive actors in the economy, there seems to be no coherent answer. That is not, of course, to say that answers have not been offered; there are a number of familiar responses that we have all heard or, what is worse, that we have all offered at one time or another without really thinking very hard about them. The problem is that, for surprisingly similar reasons, none of them is very helpful

Lawrence\u27s Anderson on the Uniform Commercial Code

Treatise discussing Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Cod