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A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Hackers have learned to leverage the enormous number of poorly protected home computers by turning them into a large distributed system (known as a botnet), making home computers an important...
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Passive Wireless Sensing Using SWNT- Based Multifunctional Thin Film Patches
February 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
This study presents a high-performance inductively coupled multifunctional carbon nanotube thin film sensor for structural monitoring applications. A versatile layer-by-layer self-assembly sensor...
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Virtualization-based Techniques for Enabling Multi-tenant Management Tools
August 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As service providers strive to improve the quality and efficiency of their IT (information technology) management services, the need to adopt a standard set of tools and processes becomes...
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Virtualized In-Cloud Security Services for Mobile Devices
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Modern mobile devices continue to approach the capabilities and extensibility of standard desktop PCs. Unfortunately; these devices are also beginning to face many of the same security threats as...
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Towards an Understanding of Anti-Virtualization and Anti-Debugging Behavior in Modern Malware
April 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many threats that plague today's networks (e.g., phishing, botnets, denial of service attacks) are enabled by a complex ecosystem of attack programs commonly called malware. To combat these...
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TrapperKeeper: Using Virtualization to Add Type-Awareness to File Systems
May 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
TrapperKeeper is a system that enables the development of type-aware file system functionality. In contrast to existing plug-in-based architectures that require a software developer to write and...
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Deterring Malware by Imitating Virtual Machines
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Securing hosts against intrusions is becoming increasingly important as resource and identity theft are rising in frequency and severity. Attackers often gain control of a system through software...
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Analysis of Survival Data With Recurrent Events Using SAS
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the application of survival analysis methods using SAS/STAT to a large clinical trial, which was designed to test the treatment effect on preventing recurrent stroke and...
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An Introduction to Multiple Imputation of Complex Sample Data Using SAS v9.2
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents practical guidance on the proper use of multiple imputation tools in SAS 9.2 and the subsequent analysis of multiple imputed data sets from a complex sample survey data set....
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Using a Few Key Elements of SAS DATA Step Code and a Couple of Procedures to Optimize the Observation Length of a Data Set
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The SAS DATA step supports quite a few statements and functions. Many of these are usually accompanied with acceptable default values. Due to the nature of SAS programming, however, the function...
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Understanding and Abstracting Total Data Center Power
May 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data centers of various small and large organizations are alarmingly aware of the need for energy-efficient power consumption methods that can reduce energy and costs. With the range and...
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Fault-Based Attack of RSA Authentication
December 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Security of a computer system is of utmost importance, since it acts as the repository of the information. For this purpose, hardware as well as software needs to be reliable. This paper studies...
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Culture Change From The Outside/In
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
An senior executive called recently and said that he wanted to "Change his culture." When the author asked what he had in mind, he talked about how he felt that the underlying norms, values, and...
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The New HR Organization
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Increasingly diversified businesses require more complex human resources operations, Dave Ulrich contends. Here, the author and consultant breaks down the roles today's HR departments must fulfill...
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Change, Change, And Change Some More
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Change happens. It is in the technology that makes our cell phones internet devices and our new seemingly products out of date. It is in changing global economic cycles with simultaneous growth in...
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Paradoxes Ahead In HR's future
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
No one can predict the future. An executive recently said that a business that took 20 years to create could be gone in two years if it cannot adapt quickly to unpredictable changes. Even with...
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Build On Your Strengths To Strengthen Others
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
You can't walk into a conference these days without bumping into a speaker who is trumpeting the value of building on your strengths. It's easy to understand why this message resonates. "Build on...
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Positive Leaders Enables Peak Performance
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Positive Leadership enables extraordinarily positive performance by emphasizing what elevates individuals and systems (not only what diminished them), what goes right (not only what goes wrong),...
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Five Keys To Flourishing In Trying Times
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
We are in the midst of the most severe recession in the memories of most anyone alive. Many experts estimate that the causes of this recession are more severe than those that created the Great...
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Stocks Of Bad Companies Often Outperform Those Of Good Ones
February 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
According to a study by Deniz Anginer, a doctoral student in finance at Michigan's Ross School of Business, stocks of admired companies have lower returns, on average, than stocks of despised...
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Not Lost In Translation
February 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Advertisers pushing products in bilingual countries generally focus on how best to turn a phrase or coin a slogan. But they should be spending time determining the actual language that best suits...
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Into Africa
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
African nations soon could surpass India and China to form the next hub for low-cost labor, resources, and production, said experts at the first Africa Business Seminar at Ross. In addition, the...
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Note To IT Professionals: Get An MBA!
April 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An IT professional with an MBA degree earns 37 percent more on average than one with any other master's degree, according to a study by M.S. Krishnan, professor of business information technology...
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Better Management Through Better HR
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the economic downturn rides roughshod over the nation's workforce, human resources professionals face a wide range of new challenges. Whether protecting a collective culture or protecting one's...
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Mortgage Crisis: Blame The Bank?
August 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Banks have played a big role in the mortgage crisis, not only because they issued loans to suspect borrowers, but because many originated and sold bad loans to other lenders, says a University of...
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Election Balance Sheet
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Business and economic issues are at the forefront of the 2008 presidential election, so voters have to sort through a plethora of complicated issues. To help with that, a panel of Ross professors...
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A New Lens For Viewing Team Adaptation
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Companies have come to rely heavily on downsizing through layoffs, early retirement and buyouts as a quick and relatively easy way to trim costs. But such initiatives often fail to realize their...
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Negative Buzz Proves Doubly Damaging
December 21, 2007, 12:00am PST
Companies in the service industry typically spend millions of advertising dollars on the introduction and promotion of new service offerings, in hopes of gaining market share, improving customer...
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Overwhelmed, Overloaded
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Companies invest billions of dollars a year developing leaders by using outside training programs and on-the-job work experience. Previous research and common practice has suggested that the more...
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Cause Marketing: Altruism Or Greed?
June 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Companies that join with social causes to sell products not only enhance their image, but also improve their bottom line, say researchers at the Ross School of Business. Cause marketing, in which...
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ACSI Slip Suggests Tepid Consumer Spending Growth
August 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Customer satisfaction continues on a bumpy path without momentum or trend in the second quarter, according to the latest report from the Ross School's American Customer Satisfaction Index. After a...
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Power Trip: CEOs And Firm Performance
March 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
Despite the public outcry over CEO pay and abuses of authority, powerful chief executives can be good for the bottom line. E. Han Kim, professor of finance at U-M's Ross School of Business, says...
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Should Managers Provide Forecasts Of Earnings?
September 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Despite the risk of manipulation, management forecasts of earnings in investor communications are beneficial, says a University of Michigan researcher. In a new study commissioned by the...
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Maybe Fine China Really Does Make Food Taste Better
March 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Does food served on a paper plate taste worse than the same food served on china? Does a drink served in a glass taste better than the same drink in a plastic cup? For some of us, the answer is...
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Do Emerging Economies Integrate The Internet Better?
April 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Don't assume that emerging economies lag developed economies on all business fronts, warns Nigel Melville, assistant professor at Michigan's Ross School of Business. According to his recent study,...
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Effects Of Predictable Tax Liability Variation On Household Labor
May 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Economic theory assumes that taxpayers use their true Marginal Tax Rate (MTR) to guide their economic decisions. However, due to complexity of the tax system, taxpayers may incorrectly perceive...
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Business Evolution In China
October 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Extensive study on industry evolution has produced fairly set models on the ways in which technical innovation drives success and determines winners and losers in the market. A few large,...
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Too Many Office Knickknacks? Professional Image May Suffer
September 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Family photos, kids' artwork and favorite knickknacks help personalize an office workspace, but too many personal touches may reflect poorly on a worker's professional image, say researchers at...
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More Risk Than Reward
April 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Financial market reform is a top-of-mind issue these days, as can be expected after a historic collapse in the global economy. It is particularly top of mind for average Americans whose retirement...
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To Franchise Or Not To Franchise?
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
For a company pondering the question, "To franchise or not to franchise?" new research from Michigan's Ross School of Business suggests that performance differences between corporate-owned and...
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Impact of SOA Use on Performance Outcomes of Information Sharing in Supply Chain
October 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically analyzes impact of SOA adoption on performance benefits of information sharing in supply chain using a cross sectional dataset of large US firms. This paper shows that...
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International Reserves And Underdeveloped Capital Markets
May 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Informal, under-the-table, payments to public health providers are increasingly being seen as a critically important source of health financing in developing and transition countries. With minimal...
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Does Foreign Exchange Reserve Decumulation Lead To Currency Appreciation?
May 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The informal sector accounts for a very large share in African economies, both in terms of GDP and employment. However, most national surveys on the informal sector focus on labor market issues...
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Informal Payments And The Financing Of Health Care In Developing And Transition Countries
June 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the interaction between minimum wage legislation and tax evasion by employed labor. The author develops a model in which firms and workers may agree to report less than the...
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Informality, Productivity, And Enforcement In West Africa: A Firm Level Analysis
June 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the relationship between product market competition and corruption. The existing theoretical literature produces ambiguous implications for the sign of this relationship,...
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Minimum Wage And Tax Evasion: Theory And Evidence
July 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to informal labor market in a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically...
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Corruption And Product Market Competition: An Empirical Investigation
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To what extent does the lack of access to formal financial services impede business growth in low-income countries? While most research on this issue has so far focused on credit market failures,...
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage And Good Governance
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A copyright system is designed to produce an ecology that nurtures the creation, dissemination, and enjoyment of works of authorship. When it works well, it encourages creators to generate new...
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Savings Constraints And Microenterprise Development: Evidence From A Field Experiment In Kenya
September 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
How do changes in competitive intensity affect trade patterns? In this paper, the authors exploit a quasinatural experiment associated with increased anti-trust enforcement activity over the last...
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Using Proactive Law For Competitive Advantage
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the distinctive characteristics of hybrid organizations; a new organizational form that expands the existing categories of organizations by bridging for the profit and...
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Divisional Managers And Internal Capital Markets
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the determinants of capital allocation to financial institutions under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). It's found that banks' political ties played a significant...
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Hybrid Organizations As Agents Of Positive Social Change: Bridging The For-Profit & Non-Profit Divide
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper argues for a model of a corruption constraint on organizational growth and development in the form of a business ethics glass ceiling. Although the problem of corruption's negative...
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TARP Investments: Financials And Politics
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the integrated optimization problem of procurement, processing and trade of commodities over a network in a multiperiod setting. Motivated by the operations of a prominent...
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Governance And Corruption Constraints: The Business Ethics Glass Ceiling In Middle East Corporate Governance
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Market based solutions to alleviate poverty have become increasingly popular in recent years. Unfortunately, there are very few examples of profitable businesses that market socially useful goods...
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Integrated Optimization Of Procurement, Processing And Trade Of Commodities In A Network Environment
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In recent times there has been a growing dissatisfaction with both the market and the state as mechanisms to serve social needs, and to solve the interrelated social, economic and environmental...
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Challenges In Marketing Socially Useful Goods To The Poor
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors examine a supply base diversification problem faced by a buyer who periodically holds auctions to award short term supply contracts among a cohort of suppliers (i.e., the supply base)....
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Social Entrepreneurship: Beyond The Hype
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Private for-profit companies are playing an ever-larger role in the microcredit industry. The volatile combination of profit seeking companies, minimal competition, and vulnerable, ill-informed,...
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Bargaining Power And Supply Base Diversification
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Widespread poverty is an urgent challenge for the world. Creating opportunities for steady employment at reasonable wages is the best way to take people out of poverty. Reducing poverty through...
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Regulate Microcredit To Protect Borrowers
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author's investigate gender differences in insider trading behavior of senior corporate executives in the U.S. between 1975 and 2008. It's found that, on average, both female and male...
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Reducing Poverty Through Employment
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In today's financial geography, Wall Street intersects Main Street. When it comes to sound bites, politicians recognize that ordinary Americans feel the effects of plummeting financial markets in...
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Regulation Of The Financial Services Industry: Whose Money Is At Risk?
March 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Expanding diversity in the workplace is often seen as a good way to inject fresh ideas into an otherwise stagnant environment, and incorporating new perspectives can help members tackle problems...
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Transforming HR to Create Value
July 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
HR transformation has become all the rage as the function seeks to deliver value. But, heed the warning, transformation efforts that focus exclusively on improving HR are bound to fail. The point...
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The Fraying Of Free Trade
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the world facing an economic downturn, populist appeals to limit foreign goods or investment are inevitable. While there have been some scattered protectionist moves and chatter, the G20...
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Leading Innovation In The Real World
January 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
With corporate budgets tight and customers ever more demanding, C-level executives are looking for self-starting leaders with imagination - the kind of imagination that transcends expectations. In...
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Shedding The New Venture Mystique
June 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With big companies shedding jobs in this recession, some former employees and unattached executives are exploring entrepreneurship. Those venturing there for the first time will find entrepreneurs...
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Blogs Can Help Predict Product Sales
September 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
While traditional advertising is still the main driver of product sales, blogging and other new media are fast becoming predictors of market outcomes. In a new study, "Marketing Activity,...
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Lessons For Tax Policy In The Great Recession
May 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
While policymakers struggle with identifying and enacting the appropriate short-term policy response to the financial crisis and economic downturn of 2008, 2009, and perhaps beyond (henceforth...
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Nearly Modular Structure Offers The Best Of Both Worlds
February 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
While modularity has gained popularity as an organizational and technical architecture in complex systems, its proponents have overlooked the down side, says a Ross School professor. Granted,...
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The People Paradox: Keys To Business Growth Inspire Little Confidence
October 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
While business leaders recognize the importance of hiring the right people, providing adequate training, promoting teamwork and maintaining a positive organizational culture, few of them are...
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How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Whether one is talking about U. S. presidents, chief executives, major league coaches, or wartime generals, leaders of all kinds are remembered for their best and worst judgment calls. In the face...
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Mapping Social Networks To Improve Product Quality
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When the phrase "Social network" comes to mind, people generally think about Facebook or Twitter. Volumes of academic studies have been written on this relatively new phenomenon. But engineers who...
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Valuing Toxic Assets: Will New Accounting Standards Help?
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Valuing asset securitizations always has been a difficult issue for the accounting profession. Now, with the recent collapse of the credit and financial markets, a new layer of complexity further...
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Tax Rebates Not A Quick Fix For The Economy
January 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
Using the U-M/Reuters Survey of Consumers, Slemrod and colleague Matthew Shapiro asked more than 2,500 Americans what they did with their 2008 federal income tax rebates, which accounted for more...
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Automakers Put The Pedal To The Metal
December 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
U.S. automakers worked hard to get a recent $17.4 billion loan from the Bush Administration, but now the real work begins, says the author, the Ford Motor Co. Clinical Professor of Business...
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Tax Reform For Grown-Ups
March 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Two days after his re-election, President Bush announced that he intended to spend his political capital on an ambitious domestic agenda, topped by reforms of both Social Security and the federal...
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Make Time For A Leadership Check-In
June 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To facilitate excellent performance, a regular progress check-in is critical to ensuring one's success and the success of one's team. Yet leaders rarely know how they are doing beyond the daily...
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Innovate Now: Lean Times Can Be The Best Times
October 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To compensate for the sour economy and pullback on consumer spending, many companies are cutting costs like never before. But are they trimming fat or bone? It may sound counter-intuitive, but a...
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The Capital Structure Decisions Of New Firms
September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the capital structure choices that firms make in their initial year of operation, using restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey. Contrary to many accounts of...
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Companies Show Clever Currency Moves
April 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There's always been a bit of a mystery in the currency markets as to whether it's possible to predict price changes. Unlike stocks and bonds, currencies generally move on macroeconomic - not...
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Loose Standards, Sluggish Economy Make For Mortgage Muddle
July 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The soaring number of "For sale" signs on the nation's front lawns due to foreclosures can be blamed on two culprits: looser mortgage underwriting standards and a weakening of local economies. The...
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