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Bypassing Security Toolbars and Phishing Filters Via DNS Poisoning
August 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Security toolbars are used to protect naive users against phishing attacks by displaying warnings on suspicious sites. Recently, web browsers have added built-in phishing filters mimicking the...
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Business Clusters And Government Policy: How Labor Re-organizes Itself
January 28, 2010, 12:00am PST
At a time when employment concerns are high from the financial crisis fall-out, entrepreneurship seems a logical focus. Can government control anything about how this manifests with stimulus...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Through A Higher Calling
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Firms such as Google, Shell Oil, NEC Corp., and Procter & Gamble are experimenting with new business models and adopting sustainable business strategies that have positive economic, social, and...
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Transparency In Earnings: Poor Earnings Quality Is Costly
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The earnings announcement is a window into a firm's economic viability and future profitability. Recent billion dollar write-offs by financial firms, resulting from the subprime mortgage meltdown,...
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At The Edge Of Product Development: Investment Or Innovation Sharing?
June 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Owing to complexity in technology and the need for better, faster, smarter product development models, businesses are finding new ways to innovate and collaborate in new product design and...
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Getting Smarter About Manufacturing Strategies: The Case Of Pharmaceuticals
May 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The concept of flexible manufacturing capacity is not entirely new. However, in the pharmaceutical industry, its application and real value is just now being seriously analyzed. In...
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Regulation Change Forces Foreign Firms In To U.S. Financial Market
July 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In an attempt to make U.S. financial markets more attractive for foreign firms, a new Securities and Exchange Commission deregulation effort post-Sarbanes-Oxley has had the opposite effect. The...
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Traders, Brokers, And Money: The Past Is Your Present And Future
April 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With Wall Street bonuses under the spotlight, new evidence on the performance of Wall Street traders offers more nuance. Trillions of dollars in stocks are traded month after month in financial...
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Parsing The Financial Crisis: First Evidence Of A Lost Decade
February 23, 2010, 12:00am PST
Many financial experts classify this recent financial crisis as the most severe since the Great Depression. The authors analyze the trading difficulties for institutional investors, market...
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Managing Business Complexity: Aligning Strategy For Growth
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Complex strategies emphasizing both product exploration and exploitation or market exploration and exploitation are more successfully implemented by large firms. For example, large firms in highly...
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Being Global Adds To Firm Value
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Firms such as Coca-Cola, P&G and Apple understand that being diversified globally adds value to their firm. Other types of firms such as conglomerates diversify industrially, across business...
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Marketing To Seniors: Age Really Is A State of Mind
October 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the U.S.'s future, marketing to seniors will become even more important as the group of those 65-years and older nearly doubles in size: from 37 million to 72 million by 2030. There are already...
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Oil Market No Mystery: Look To Fundamentals
September 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
From their "breathtaking ascent that reached $145 per barrel by July 2008," oil prices then dipped below $40 per barrel again before the end of 2008. Previously, oil prices were stabilized around...
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Merchandisers: Returns Matter In Product Assortment Choices
August 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the competitive world of retail sales, product assortment is a very important strategic marketing decision. Factoring returns into the equation has often been an afterthought - an operational...
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Confessions Of A Satiated Consumer
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Economic theory and empirical evidence suggest natural limits to consumption within a purchase category. But the idea of consumers being satiated - maxed out with respect to their ability to...
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When Cash Isn't King: The Case Of Unionized Firms
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
When is cash not king? Holding excess cash reserves can be less desirable when a firm has a more unionized workforce. The author finds that firms in more unionized industries strategically hold...
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Short Selling Shows Alpha In Mutual Funds
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Hedge funds have historically used short selling as a trading strategy, while mutual funds have generally not permitted the practice. But, mutual funds are increasingly allowing their managers to...
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Hybrid Products' Marketing Challenges
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Voice recorder-MP3 players, crossover and hybrid, duel-fuel vehicles, and many other hybrids products are growing exponentially. Marketers hope when two product categories blend together that...
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Financial Market Deregulation: The Roach Motel No More
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Heard of Hotel California or the roach motel? In March 2007, the SEC's passed Rule 12h-6, which loosed the regulations of the 1933/1934 Exchange and Securities Acts. The rule required foreign...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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The Price Women Pay For Under-Pricing Services
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
As their numbers grow, women are increasingly making pricing decisions in the professions. But the role gender plays in the income-gender disparity is still not well understood. A new study on...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Innovation And Imitation: How Entrepreneurs Impact Economic Growth
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
What or rather who contributed to China's economic miracle? A good deal of research on economic growth focuses on spending in research and development (R&D) with its ability to produce...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Are Securities Class-Action Suits Anticipated By Investors?
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Securities class-action lawsuits have become more highly contentious as of late. Plaintiff's attorneys claim they keep Wall Street accountable. Business executives complain that suits are lining...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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High Impact Advertising: Just Making Memories
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
How can a product become memorable in the minds of consumers? This paper shows that vivid, imagery-evoking information more heavily influences memory, attitudes and behaviors than does pallid,...
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Savvy Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Concern with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is growing like a wildfire. In 2006, about 10 percent of assets under management in the United Stated - an estimated $2.3 trillion out of $24...
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Key Protection for Private Computing on Public Platforms
December 30, 2009, 12:00am PST
Private Computing on Public Platforms (PCPP) is a new technology designed to enable secure and private execution of applications on remote, potentially hostile, public platforms. PCPP uses a host...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Traffic Engineering in Metro Ethernet
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Traffic engineering is one of the major issues that has to be addressed in Metro Ethernet networks for quality of service and efficient resource utilization. This paper aims at understanding the...
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Authentication and Privacy
September 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Radio communication is highly appealing for the convenience of mobility - the freedom from a fixed location. For this reason, wireless services have been growing rapidly. In 2005, an ITU study...
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Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
August 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This chapter gives an overview of the major types of electronic attacks encountered today and likely to continue into the foreseeable future. A comprehensive understanding of attackers, their...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Intrusion Detection in Wireless Mesh Networks
November 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless mesh networks are potentially vulnerable to a broad variety of attacks. Hence security is an important consideration for the practical operation of wireless mesh networks. Within...
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Intrusion Detection for Viruses and Worms
November 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Viruses and worms are created for the purpose of spreading to as many computers as possible by self-replication. They differ only in their method of self-replication. Viruses replicate themselves...
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Network Worms
November 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Internet users are currently plagued by an assortment of malicious software (malware). The Internet provides not only connectivity for network services such as e-mail and Web browsing, but also an...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Protection of Privacy on the Web
December 24, 2007, 12:00am PST
Most people are concerned about online privacy but may not be aware of the various ways that personal information about them is collected during routine Web browsing. The authors review the types...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Coupled 802.11 Flows in Urban Channels: Model and Experimental Evaluation
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
Contending flows in multi-hop 802.11 wireless networks compete with two fundamental asymmetries: channel asymmetry, in which one flow has a stronger signal, potentially yielding physical layer...
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Fiscal Stabilization With Partial Exchange Rate Pass-Through
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the role of fiscal stabilization policy in a two-country framework that allows for a general degree of exchange rate pass-through. The author derives analytical solutions for...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Bayesian Additive Regression Trees-Based Spam Detection for Enhanced Email Privacy
January 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Spam is considered an invasion of privacy. Its changeable structures and variability raise the need for new spam classification techniques. The present study proposes using Bayesian Additive...
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How Demographics Impact Economic Growth And Entrepreneurship
April 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The demographic structure of a country matters for economic growth. Equally important, entrepreneurship matters for economic growth. Countries with younger populations or those tilted toward the...
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Tis The Season To Reflect On Gift Giving
December 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
Believe it or not, gift giving is really a complex social and psychological phenomenon. Remember the movie "The Family Stone," when the uptight Manhattan executive Meredith Morton, played by Sarah...
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Stressed Out Overworked Systems Should Just Say "No"
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The consequences of pushing an operation to its max can lead to many negative consequences such as increased costs and worker burnout. In the extreme, family members of deceased workers from...
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Avoiding The Never-Never Land Of Marketing Communication
October 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Marketers beware: There is an ideal level of communications that the customers will tolerate. Beyond that point, they will be turned off of one's company's products and messages, providing...
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How China Can Sustain Growth Cleaner And Greener
September 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
China recently became the number one energy consumer in the world, surpassing the U.S.'s dominance on that score for nearly a century. With China's greater electricity demand from power-hungry...
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An Axiomatic Approach for Large-Scale Disaster-Tolerant Systems Modeling
December 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Disaster tolerance in computing and communications systems refers to the ability to maintain a degree of functionality throughout the occurrence of a disaster. The authors accomplish the...
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Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Identity-Based Cryptography
November 20, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has played a crucial role in many military and civilian applications. However, with the increase in popularity of such networks, the demand for security is also...
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Bits, Bytes, Bandwidth, And Barrels
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In early may, some 67,000 people made their way to Houston's Reliant Center for the annual Offshore Technology Conference, which marked a 13 percent increase in attendance from last year. The...
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Paving The Path For India's Growth
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Budget time in India always brings fresh feel-good spending measures to improve the lives of the rural population. And with parliamentary elections probably less than a year away, Finance Minister...
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Drilling For Oil: Deeper Issues Drive Firms' Behavior
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Though Republicans and Democrats find ways to make more drilling possible by opening up previously restricted areas, the actual decision by a firm whether to drill or not matters too. The policy...
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In Need Of New Ideas? Try Brainwriting
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Looking ahead to a new year, a different approach to generate novel ideas may bring employees, managers and the customers they serve out of the doldrums. Organizations and societies all need good,...
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Women Entrepreneurs: How They Fare Across The Globe And Why
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Women entrepreneurship matters - for individuals, communities, and countries as well. In recent years the rate of new business formation by women has significantly outpaced that of men in the U.S....
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Regulation Change Forces Foreign Firms Into U.S. Financial Market
July 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In an attempt to make U.S. financial markets more attractive for foreign firms, a new Securities and Exchange Commission deregulation effort post-Sarbanes-Oxley has had the opposite effect. The...
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Building A Better Environment For Investors: Global Bond Control
August 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In the quest for higher returns and more diversification, investors turn to global bond markets. But investing in bonds from foreign countries, especially ones with less stringent laws and...
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Stars, Stripes Or Goldilocks: Employee Relations Set The Tone
September 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Does your firm foster innovation and creativity like a Google or Apple? Or perhaps the star system came crashing down when the economy hit bottom? Something considered more elusive (yet tangible...
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How China Can Sustain Growth Cleaner And Greener
September 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
China recently became the number one energy consumer in the world, surpassing the U.S.'s dominance on that score for nearly a century. With China's greater electricity demand from power-hungry...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Avoiding The Never-Never Land Of Marketing Communication
October 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Marketers beware: There is an ideal level of communications that the customers will tolerate. Beyond that point, they will be turned off of one's company's products and messages, providing...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Stressed Out Overworked Systems Should Just Say "No"
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The consequences of pushing an operation to its max can lead to many negative consequences such as increased costs and worker burnout. In the extreme, family members of deceased workers from...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Tis The Season To Reflect On Gift Giving
December 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
Believe it or not, gift giving is really a complex social and psychological phenomenon. Remember the movie "The Family Stone," when the uptight Manhattan executive Meredith Morton, played by Sarah...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
How Demographics Impact Economic Growth And Entrepreneurship
April 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The demographic structure of a country matters for economic growth. Equally important, entrepreneurship matters for economic growth. Countries with younger populations or those tilted toward the...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
Bayesian Additive Regression Trees-Based Spam Detection for Enhanced Email Privacy
January 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Spam is considered an invasion of privacy. Its changeable structures and variability raise the need for new spam classification techniques. The present study proposes using Bayesian Additive...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Fiscal Stabilization With Partial Exchange Rate Pass-Through
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the role of fiscal stabilization policy in a two-country framework that allows for a general degree of exchange rate pass-through. The author derives analytical solutions for...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Coupled 802.11 Flows in Urban Channels: Model and Experimental Evaluation
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
Contending flows in multi-hop 802.11 wireless networks compete with two fundamental asymmetries: channel asymmetry, in which one flow has a stronger signal, potentially yielding physical layer...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Protection of Privacy on the Web
December 24, 2007, 12:00am PST
Most people are concerned about online privacy but may not be aware of the various ways that personal information about them is collected during routine Web browsing. The authors review the types...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Network Worms
November 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Internet users are currently plagued by an assortment of malicious software (malware). The Internet provides not only connectivity for network services such as e-mail and Web browsing, but also an...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
Intrusion Detection for Viruses and Worms
November 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Viruses and worms are created for the purpose of spreading to as many computers as possible by self-replication. They differ only in their method of self-replication. Viruses replicate themselves...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
Intrusion Detection in Wireless Mesh Networks
November 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless mesh networks are potentially vulnerable to a broad variety of attacks. Hence security is an important consideration for the practical operation of wireless mesh networks. Within...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
August 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This chapter gives an overview of the major types of electronic attacks encountered today and likely to continue into the foreseeable future. A comprehensive understanding of attackers, their...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
Authentication and Privacy
September 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Radio communication is highly appealing for the convenience of mobility - the freedom from a fixed location. For this reason, wireless services have been growing rapidly. In 2005, an ITU study...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Traffic Engineering in Metro Ethernet
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Traffic engineering is one of the major issues that has to be addressed in Metro Ethernet networks for quality of service and efficient resource utilization. This paper aims at understanding the...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Key Protection for Private Computing on Public Platforms
December 30, 2009, 12:00am PST
Private Computing on Public Platforms (PCPP) is a new technology designed to enable secure and private execution of applications on remote, potentially hostile, public platforms. PCPP uses a host...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Savvy Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Concern with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is growing like a wildfire. In 2006, about 10 percent of assets under management in the United Stated - an estimated $2.3 trillion out of $24...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
High Impact Advertising: Just Making Memories
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
How can a product become memorable in the minds of consumers? This paper shows that vivid, imagery-evoking information more heavily influences memory, attitudes and behaviors than does pallid,...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Are Securities Class-Action Suits Anticipated By Investors?
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Securities class-action lawsuits have become more highly contentious as of late. Plaintiff's attorneys claim they keep Wall Street accountable. Business executives complain that suits are lining...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Innovation And Imitation: How Entrepreneurs Impact Economic Growth
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
What or rather who contributed to China's economic miracle? A good deal of research on economic growth focuses on spending in research and development (R&D) with its ability to produce...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
The Price Women Pay For Under-Pricing Services
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
As their numbers grow, women are increasingly making pricing decisions in the professions. But the role gender plays in the income-gender disparity is still not well understood. A new study on...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
Financial Market Deregulation: The Roach Motel No More
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Heard of Hotel California or the roach motel? In March 2007, the SEC's passed Rule 12h-6, which loosed the regulations of the 1933/1934 Exchange and Securities Acts. The rule required foreign...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Hybrid Products' Marketing Challenges
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Voice recorder-MP3 players, crossover and hybrid, duel-fuel vehicles, and many other hybrids products are growing exponentially. Marketers hope when two product categories blend together that...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Short Selling Shows Alpha In Mutual Funds
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Hedge funds have historically used short selling as a trading strategy, while mutual funds have generally not permitted the practice. But, mutual funds are increasingly allowing their managers to...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
When Cash Isn't King: The Case Of Unionized Firms
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
When is cash not king? Holding excess cash reserves can be less desirable when a firm has a more unionized workforce. The author finds that firms in more unionized industries strategically hold...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Confessions Of A Satiated Consumer
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Economic theory and empirical evidence suggest natural limits to consumption within a purchase category. But the idea of consumers being satiated - maxed out with respect to their ability to...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Merchandisers: Returns Matter In Product Assortment Choices
August 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the competitive world of retail sales, product assortment is a very important strategic marketing decision. Factoring returns into the equation has often been an afterthought - an operational...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Oil Market No Mystery: Look To Fundamentals
September 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
From their "breathtaking ascent that reached $145 per barrel by July 2008," oil prices then dipped below $40 per barrel again before the end of 2008. Previously, oil prices were stabilized around...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Marketing To Seniors: Age Really Is A State of Mind
October 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the U.S.'s future, marketing to seniors will become even more important as the group of those 65-years and older nearly doubles in size: from 37 million to 72 million by 2030. There are already...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
Being Global Adds To Firm Value
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Firms such as Coca-Cola, P&G and Apple understand that being diversified globally adds value to their firm. Other types of firms such as conglomerates diversify industrially, across business...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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