"And we're reducing risk to both the company and the financial system by evaluating businesses that are not core to the strategy or were bolted on".
"Yes, There Is a Job That Pays You to Shop" (March 13) gave good suggestions for finding reputable companies that hire secret or mystery shoppers to evaluate businesses' goods and services.
Whereas stock market investors are often evaluating businesses on a quarterly basis.
As with Yelp, Qype members evaluate businesses, places or services such as bars, restaurants, you name it.
Instead of simply looking, say, at an applicant's tax returns when evaluating businesses, On Deck uses software to examine a business' day-to-day operations.
As with Yelp, Qype members evaluate businesses, places or services such as bars, restaurants, stores, petrol stations, nurseries, doctors, pet shops or sports clubs.
When venture capitalists evaluate businesses, they're often looking for intangible qualities that signal success.
For Internet companies, they consider customer volume and sales growth and evaluate business partnerships.
The D&B Corporation, which sells information companies use to evaluate business risks, said yesterday that Steven W. Alesio was named chief executive, succeeding Allan Z. Loren.
They argue that shareholders should be able to evaluate business executives' oversight of company resources and that S.E.C. regulations already require disclosure of similar information, like executive compensation.
