Theo Colborn, PhD, is President TEDX ( The Endocrine Disruption Exchange) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

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Only the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a Harvard Business School professor, a member of the Squam Lake Group, were there to address lingering concerns.

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"If you write a call on your IBM shares, you reduce both risk and potential return, one for one, " says Bob Whaley, a Vanderbilt University professor who in 1993 developed the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, or VIX, which tracks investor expectations for market volatility.

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Since then, says Joseph Grundfest, a law professor at Stanford University and former commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, directors have realised that failure to sack a bad boss is bad for their own reputation.

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It was conducted by University of Southern California business professor Kevin Murphy, based on company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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That is the conclusion of Joseph Grundfest, a securities class-action expert, professor of law and business at Stanford Law School and former commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Dr. James Angel, associate finance professor at Georgetown, noted that 70% of the trades canceled on May 6 were from exchange-traded funds.

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