Recently, leasing has been prominent in the press due to the Air Force’s recent ill-fated attempt to obtain the use of Boeing re-fueling tankers. Forgotten is that, in the early 1980’s, a highly controversial Navy long-term leasing program of Maritime Prepositioned Ships had a different...

During the last ten years, strategic planning models have become increasingly popular among large, diversified companies as an aid in making strategic resources allocation decisions. In general, these models classify the business units that comprise a company into one of four categories...