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This month in Institutional Investor extra: PNC Financial’s CEO James Rohr, who has made a routine of riding out storms, sees the mortgage crisis as just one more to take in stride – so far. In our Did II Say That? segment, read what Institutional Investor was saying about bank regulation back in August 1999.

Your extra content from Alpha this month includes hedge fund activists going after The New York Times, and the three-pronged approach to reforming the hedge fund industry.

Myths abound regarding the pros and cons of biofuels. Here is a scorecard to separate truth from fiction.

Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani says the West should lose its arrogance and the East should step up to global leadership.

Women: The calendar below will set the course for your healthiest month ever.

The Family Jewels is the informal name used to refer to a set of reports that detail activities conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Considered illegal or inappropriate, these actions were conducted over the span of decades, from the 1950s to the mid-1970s.

William Colby, who was the CIA director in the mid-1970s and helped in the compilation of the reports, dubbed them the "skeletons" in the CIA's closet. Most of the documents were publicly released on June 25, 2007, after more than three decades of secrecy. The non-governmental National Security Archive had filed a FOIA request fifteen years earlier.

Abstract
When performances are evaluated they are very often presented in a sequential order. Previous research suggests that the sequential presentation of alternatives may induce systematic biases in the way performances are evaluated. Such a phenomenon has been little studied in Economics. Using a large data set of performance evaluation in the Idol series (N=1522), this paper presents new evidence about the systematic biases in sequential evaluation of performances and the psychological phenomenons at the origin of these biases.

JEL codes: D81, Z1
Keywords: order effects, memory, television show

In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here's his five-point plan for how to make the leap.