Category: Aviation, Business & Commerce, Employment How to Value Airline Pilot Careers: The $8 Million Dollar Man has Wings! TASA ID: 616 Airline pilot careers are much more valuable than many attorneys, spouses, and even the pilots themselves often realize. Even after all of the well-publicized pay reductions and retirement plan failures at our established legacy passenger airlines, these careers are still providing high career values. Read more
Category: Business & Commerce A Simple Test to Determine your Firm's Competitive Advantage TASA ID: 4374 Defining a firm’s competitive advantage is difficult. Both my students and friends in the business world struggle with this often. Many students and practitioners of business strategy fail to understand whether a firm has the ability to do something better than the competition. There can’t be a more important question in business strategy, can there? Unless we understand what our company does better than the competition, then we can’t understand how we should compete. It’s similar to a boxer going into a match without knowing his best punch; he won’t have a very good strategy for defeating his opponent. Read more
Category: Business & Commerce, Employment Are You Prepared to Deal With Marijuana in the Workplace? TASA ID: 321 Medical marijuana is now legal in 23 states and Washington D.C. which is proving to be confusing for businesses, employees and job applicants. It becomes even more confusing because federal law classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 drug -- the same as heroin and overrides state laws. So how does this affect your company policies? Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Environment, Food Safety and Production Counsels’ Guide to Risks and Uncertainties that Depreciate Damage Estimates in Seafood Production/Marketing Cases Whitepaper TASA ID: 390 The arrival of the dreaded and presumed cannibalistic “Asian tiger shrimp” along shores in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic Coast points out a simple, but often overlooked proposition [1]. Seafood harvesting and processing operations are risky, and plaintiff’s damage estimates that do not account for risks and uncertainties are overstated, hence ripe for challenges [2]. Read more
