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Enterprise Resource Planning Made Easy
Take a look at this white paper to learn more about an ERP solution from IBM and Microsoft that can take the hassle out of ERP and make you more competitive.
Sponsored by IBM Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800
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White Papers
Strategy Guide to Business Risk Mitigation
Feb 2011
Disaster recovery is an important consideration for all companies. For midsize organizations, it is critical, however, because even brief interruptions can have a significant impact on...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Research
Gartner Report: "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup Recovery"
Mar 2011
While backup is among the oldest, most performed tasks in the data center, the industry is undergoing significant change as organizations accelerate new technology adoption and show a propensity...
Provided by CommVault Systems
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White Papers
Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud - Free Trial
Aug 2011
Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud offers comprehensive security for your Windows-based computer systems without installing additional hardware or management software and allows you to centrally...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Strategy Guide to Business Risk Mitigation For Financial Services
Feb 2011
In an increasingly competitive market for financial services, community banks and credit unions have a unique advantage: the ability to offer personalized, "hometown" service. As strong as that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Attack of the PDF Documents: How Adobe's PDF Format has become one of the top carriers of malware
Mar 2011
PDFs have become one of the most common methods for infecting systems with malware. The PDF standard now supports JavaScript, along with tighter connections into user systems from the Adobe Reader...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
Contract Risk & Compliance For All (Economic) Seasons
Apr 2010
Many companies have become increasingly dependent on external business relationships for their business success and survival. Executives recognize that a contract cannot guarantee the success of a...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Webcasts
Internal Audit and Risk Mitigation - Effective and practical use of the COSO and COBIT methodologies
Nov 2007
This webinar discusses how to align your audit risk assessment, audit ecosystem, audit plan, and audit engagements with the larger organization's strategy, vision, and values. It is designed...
Provided by ComplianceOnline
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Webcasts
Auditing Requirements and IT Responsibilities for HIPAA electronic record security regulation
Nov 2007
This webinar provides an overview of the regulatory evolution from 21 CFR Part 11 to include protected health information (PHI), the security standards, auditing requirements, IT responsibilities...
Provided by ComplianceOnline
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White Papers
Calculating Total Cooling Requirements for Data Centers
Oct 2004
All electrical equipment produces heat, which must be removed to prevent the equipment temperature from rising to an unacceptable level. Most Information Technology equipment and other equipment...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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White Papers
Podcast: Tax Risk - A Call to Action
Apr 2010
If you still think tax risk is only about avoiding penalties, assessments and over-payments, you're only getting a slice of the story. While the traditional view of tax matters has stopped at...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Health Care Reform
Apr 2010
National health reform is here. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the House-passed reconciliation bill will trigger sweeping changes and disruptions — some rather quickly and some...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Tom Davenport Study: Linking decisions and information for organizational performance
Nov 2008
Tom Davenport's new client study looks at approaches to linking information and decisions and how our every-day business information can help improve overall business decision making.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Managing The Business Risk Of Fraud: A Practical Guide
Jul 2008
All organizations are subject to fraud risks. Large frauds have led to the downfall of entire organizations, massive investment losses, significant legal costs, incarceration of key individuals,...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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Webcasts
Data Classification and Working with Data Stakeholders
Feb 2010
Understanding business processes for the many departments within large organizations poses one of the largest challenges that information security professionals face when implementing a DLP...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
A Risk Intelligent Approach to Data and Intellectual Property
Apr 2010
Lock it up or set it free? Most companies carefully guard their intellectual property with expensive layers of protection and through costly and time-consuming demand notices, injunctions and...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Onshore Jobs, Offshore Compliance: Tax Provisions in the HIRE Act
Apr 2010
The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act imposes new information reporting requirements, withholding requirements and penalties to curb abuses of offshore financial accounts. Explore...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
TDWI Checklist Report: Operational Data Quality
May 2011
Failing to ensure high-quality operational data may put at risk many worthwhile business goals for operational excellence. There are many areas within the average enterprise where high-quality...
Provided by Trillium Software
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Webcasts
Service Providers and SAS 70 Reports Understanding Requirements, Compliance and Benefits
Nov 2007
This webinar gives a complete overview of the SAS 70 report and explains what a SAS 70 Report is and who can issue it, which types of entities are candidates for SAS 70 audits and what is the...
Provided by ComplianceOnline
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White Papers
Portable Panic: The Evolution of USB Insecurity
Jun 2009
As USB devices have evolved into useful storage media, they've also turned into a security nightmare for organizations. The usage of USB devices should be encouraged and embraced today in our...
Provided by Lumension
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White Papers
Achieving Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance (FDCC) with Lumension® Solutions
Jun 2009
The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) is an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandated security configuration set applicable within United States Federal Government agencies. Private...
Provided by Lumension
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White Papers
Risk Intelligence In The Age Of Global Uncertainty: Prudent Preparedness For Myriad Threats
Apr 2007
"Organizations that are most effective and efficient in managing risks to both existing assets and to future growth will, in the long run, outperform those that are less so. Simply put, companies...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
The Risk Revolution
Sep 2008
The subjects of this paper are understanding risk and implementing risk tools. The paper is organized into four sections. The first discusses the historical emergence of risk management. The...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Resource Center
A better backup to get you back up, fast
Jul 2009
Hardware failure, viruses and user errors can strike any time. Maintaining regular backups of data is crucial for recovery after such a disaster. But manual processes such as tape backups can be...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Operational Risk Management: While You May Not Be Able To Control The Event
Jan 2009
Remaining productive, staying competitive, and enjoying continuous improvement means making the best, most informed operational decisions in a timely manner. However, a sudden event, such as...
Provided by Marsh
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White Papers
Business Continuity Risk Management And Crisis Readiness
Jan 2009
Business continuity management is an integrated approach to business continuity planning, emergency response, and crisis management. No matter the size of an organization or its industry, business...
Provided by Marsh
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White Papers
Reputational Risk & Crisis Management: Reaching The People Who Affect Your Organization
Jan 2009
Every organization faces "Routine" risks or challenges in the normal course of doing business that can significantly impact the bottom line. These can include facility expansions, litigation,...
Provided by Marsh
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White Papers
Critical Incident Prevention Practice
Jan 2009
Theft, workplace violence, and other violent crimes continue to demonstrate the need for security and crisis intervention planning and training. The events of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath...
Provided by Marsh
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White Papers
Property Risk Consulting
Jan 2009
Loss of physical assets and operational capabilities can quickly translate into lost market share, reduced revenue, and diminished shareholder value. Property loss inevitably involves uncertainty....
Provided by Marsh
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Case Studies
TAC Prepared for Aggressive Growth with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Sep 2008
TAC, a Schneider Electric company, provides building automation solutions based on Open Integrated Systems for facilities IT. Facing aggressive growth, TAC Americas found it increasingly difficult...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Top 10 Tips For Small Business...: How To Get Ready For Swine Flu, Floods, Power Outages And IT Issues!
Aug 2009
Are you a law firm, consultancy, local council, accountants' firm, manufacturer or other Small or Medium-sized Enterprise organisation (SME)? Have your customers or regulators asked you yet for...
Provided by business as usual
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White Papers
Real World Intrusion Prevention for the Demands of a New Security Reality
Jan 2009
In an age where e-commerce and business critical applications are quickly becoming "Webified" and security threats are morphing faster than ever, an organization needs to explore what can be done...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
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White Papers
Eight Questions To Ask About Your Intrusion-Security Solution
Jan 2009
Network security is too important to fall victim to marketplace confusion and misleading claims. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) have similar names and...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
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Webcasts
Protect Data and Client Trust: An End-to-End Approach to Protecting Your Web Applications and Your Organization
Sep 2009
Every day, more and more business is conducted online creating new challenges for meeting Web application security and compliance. It's a hacker's dream and your security nightmare. Due to the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Sybase Raises the Bar on Database Replication
Jul 2009
In the past year, Forrester interviewed 27 Sybase customers who are using Sybase Replication Server to investigate their implementations. Most customers found that Sybase met or exceeded their...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
Achieving Compliance with Massachusetts Data Protection Law
Jul 2009
As of March 1, 2010, all organizations with operations and/or customers in the state of Massachusetts will be required to follow comprehensive information security requirements regarding both...
Provided by Lumension
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Book chapters
Mobile Device Management for Dummies
Sep 2009
Every day, more and more of your enterprise - along with its data and transactions - is moving to the frontlines where you interact directly with your customers. The frontlines present a key...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
Risk Management: Protect and Maximize Stakeholder Value
Feb 2009
Recent economic volatility has given risk management a new focus and eminence. The strongest companies are the ones that are able and willing to adapt, who actively integrate risk management as a...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Leaping Forward: SQL Server 2008 Compared to Oracle Database 11g
Jul 2008
Microsoft SQL Server has steadily gained ground on other database systems and now surpasses the competition in terms of performance, scalability, security, developer productivity, business...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Instantly Responsive Enterprise: Integrating Business Process Management and Complex Event Processing
Aug 2008
Read this white paper for an explanation of how business process management melds with complex event processing. The combination nets intelligent business processes that react to changing business...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Red Hat Open Source Security
Sep 2009
No software is perfect—even the most rigorously tested and secured operating system or application will contain flaws and vulnerabilities. Open source technology gives administrators control over...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Finance Executives on the Value of Technology Investment for Midsize Companies - CFO Research Paper
Jan 2012
Read this report from CFO Research Services to learn why finance executives at midsize companies say that an integrated approach to BI and planning helps maximize their ROI in technology.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Do Students Expect Compensation For Wage Risk?
Mar 2009
The authors use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk....
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Efficient Probit Estimation With Partially Missing Covariates
Mar 2009
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. The authors derive a new probit type...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Risk Attitude And Wage Growth: Replication And Reconstruction
Apr 2009
The authors replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Risk Exchange As A Market Or Production Game
Oct 2007
Risk exchange is considered here as a cooperative game with transferable utility. The set-up fits markets for insurance, securities and contingent endowments. When convoluted payoff is concave at...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
A Risk Contribution Approach To Asset Allocation
Nov 2008
The aim of this paper is to verify whether efficient portfolios, obtained using traditional tools of asset allocation, supply real diversification in terms of risk, in addition to the division of...
Provided by University of Siena
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White Papers
Integrated Foreign Exchange Risk Management: The Role Of Import In Medium-Sized, Manufacturing Firms
Mar 2009
Empirical research has focused on export as a proxy for the exchange rate exposure and the use of foreign exchange derivatives as the instrument to deal with this exposure. This empirical study...
Provided by University of Aarhus
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White Papers
What Fuels Oil Company Risk?
May 2009
This paper has a simple research question: what determines the risks of oil producing companies listed in Australia and the United States, and are there any differences between their risk...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Managing Microfinance Risks Some Observations And Suggestions
Jul 2008
Risk is an integral part of financial intermediation. Hence, risk management must be at the heart of finance. However, it is disturbing to note that systematic risk management is still not as...
Provided by Asian Development Bank
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White Papers
Inefficient Continuation Decisions, Entry Costs, And The Cost Of Fluctuations
May 2011
Fluctuations in firms revenues reduce firms survival chances and are costly from a social welfare point of view even when agents are risk neutral if the decision to continue operating a firm is...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
A Multi-Factor Model For The Valuation And Risk Management Of Demand Deposits
May 2006
How should we value and manage deposit accounts where deposits have a zero contractual maturity, but which, in practice, remain stable through time and are remunerated below market rates? Does the...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
Risk Premiums And Macroeconomic Dynamics In A Heterogeneous Agent Model
Oct 2008
The authors analyze financial risk premiums and real economic dynamics in a DSGE model with three types of agents - shareholders, bondholders and workers - that differ in participation in the...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
Are We Extracting The True Risk Neutral Density From Option Prices? A Question With No Easy Answer
Feb 2009
In this paper, the authors raise a question on the theoretical foundation of option implied risk neutral density. They prove that given any number of options, there exist numerous risk neutral...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
Bank Competition And Economic Stability: The Role Of Monetary Policy
Feb 2009
This paper analyzes the dual role of monetary policy for economic efficiency and stability in a model of endogenous bank competition. Multiple equilibria emerge from the complementarity between...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Leaders, Followers, And Risk Dynamics In Industry Equilibrium
Feb 2009
The authors study own and rival risk in a dynamic duopoly with a homogeneous output good, stochastic industry demand, and real options to expand or contract capacity. They focus on asymmetric cost...
Provided by Vienna University of Economics and Business
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White Papers
The Role Of Heterogeneity In Asset Pricing: The Effect Of Clustering Approach
Jan 2009
The authors use novel clustering approach and local Taylor series approximations of the stochastic discount factor to examine the role of heterogeneity in asset pricing. They present evidence that...
Provided by Penn State University
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White Papers
The Stabilizing Effects Of Risk-Sensitive Bank Capital
Feb 2009
The aim of the present paper is to assess the pro-cyclical impact of risk-sensitive bank capital. The authors develop a theoretical model where banks may apply two capital management rules: either...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
When Uncertainty Blows In The Orchard: Comovement And Volatility Risk Premia
Jun 2009
Writers of index options earn high returns due to a significant and high volatility risk premium, but writers of options in single-stock markets earn lower returns. Using an incomplete information...
Provided by University of Lugano
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White Papers
Household Decision Making And The Influence Of Spouses' Income, Education, And Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment In Rural China
Apr 2009
The authors study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Dynamics Of Poor Health And Non-Employment
Apr 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Does Beta Move With News? Systematic Risk And Firm-Specific Information Flows
Feb 2009
This paper studies time-varying patterns in the systematic risk (or beta) of individual stocks during firm-specific information flows. The authors show that systematic risk increases by an...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
Inflation Expectations, Real Rates, And Risk Premia: Evidence From Inflation Swaps
Mar 2011
This paper develops a model of the term structures of nominal and real interest rates driven by state variables representing the short-term real interest rate, expected inflation, inflation's...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
Systemic Risk Analysis Using Forward-Looking Distance-To-Default Series
Apr 2010
Based on contingent claims theory, this paper develops a method to monitor systemic risk in the European banking system. Aggregated Distance-to-Default series are generated using option prices...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
Cross-Sectoral Variation In Firm-Level Idiosyncratic Risk
Jan 2009
In this paper, the authors use data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database in order to assess the extent of the cross-sectoral variation in firm-level idiosyncratic risk and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
Incomplete Markets And Households? Exposure To Interest Rate And Inflation Risk: Implications For The Monetary Policy Maker
Oct 2007
The present paper studies optimal monetary policy when the representative agent assumption is abandoned and financial wealth heterogeneity across households is introduced. Incomplete market makes...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse And Altruistic?
Sep 2009
The authors assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of their paper is...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
The Life-cycle And The Business-cycle Of Wage Risk: A Cross-country Comparison
Sep 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. The authors draw their inference from household...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock
Sep 2009
The authors survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty in the future wage to be earned after completing an education. There...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Multiple Trees Subject To Event Risk
Jun 2009
The authors study an equilibrium asset pricing model with several Lucas (1978) trees subject to event risk, that is, the possibility that trees experience unexpected disasters. They exploit the...
Provided by University of St. Gallen
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White Papers
Optimal Design Of Rating-Trigger Step-Up Bonds: Agency Conflicts Versus Asymmetric Information
Dec 2008
Agency conflicts and asymmetric information are two possible explanations that may rationalize the use of a step-up provision in the bond indenture. Within a continuous-time framework with...
Provided by WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
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White Papers
Consumption, Liquidity And The Cross-Sectional Variation Of Expected Returns
Dec 2008
Recent papers in asset pricing have added a market-wide liquidity factor to traditional portfolio-based or factor models. None of these papers has reported any evidence on how aggregate liquidity...
Provided by Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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White Papers
Arbitrage Opportunities: A Blessing Or A Curse?
Dec 2006
This paper argues that arbitrage is limited if rational agents face uncertainty about completing their arbitrage portfolios. This "Execution risk" arises in the authors' model because of slippages...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
The Equity Premium And The Volatility Spread : The Role Of Risk-Neutral Skewness
Jun 2009
The authors introduce the Homoscedastic Gamma [HG] model where the distribution of returns is characterized by its mean, variance and an independent skewness parameter under both measures. The...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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White Papers
Dynamic Hedging In Incomplete Markets: A Simple Solution
Nov 2008
Despite much work on hedging in incomplete markets, the literature still lacks tractable dynamic hedges in plausible environments. In this paper, the authors provide a simple solution to this...
Provided by London Business School
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White Papers
The Failure Of Models That Predict Failure: Distance, Incentives And Defaults
Dec 2008
Using data on securitized subprime loans issued in the period 1997 - 2006, the authors demonstrate that as the degree of securitization increases, interest rates on new loans rely increasingly on...
Provided by University of Chicago
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White Papers
The Executive Turnover Risk Premium
Apr 2008
Executive compensation has increased dramatically over the past 15 years, but so has forced CEO turnover. The authors argue that part of the development of CEO pay can be explained by the adverse...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
The Determinants Of Operational Losses
Nov 2007
The authors examine the microeconomic and macroeconomic determinants of operational losses in financial institutions. Using 24 years of U.S. public operational loss data from 1980 to 2003, they...
Provided by Syracuse University
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White Papers
Risk-Neutral And Physical Jumps In Option Pricing
Nov 2007
When jumps are present in the price dynamics of the underlying asset, the market is no longer complete, and a more general pricing framework than the risk-neutral valuation is needed. Using Monte...
Provided by University of Essex
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White Papers
Privatization And Risk Sharing: Evidence From The Split Share Structure Reform In China
Mar 2008
A fundamental question in economics and finance is whether and how removing barriers is associated with any efficiency gains. The authors study this question using share issue privatization in...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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White Papers
Policy Relevant Heterogeneity In The Value Of Statistical Life: New Evidence From Panel Data Quantile Regressions
Oct 2009
The authors examine differences in the Value of Statistical Life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Strategy Guide to Business Risk Mitigation For Financial Services
Feb 2011
In an increasingly competitive market for financial services, community banks and credit unions have a unique advantage: the ability to offer personalized, "hometown" service. As strong as that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
The Relationship Between Perceived Risk, Perceived Value And Project Competencies
Aug 2010
Perceived risk and value. The concept of perceived risk has been conceptualised as corresponding to situations when there are potentially negative outcomes. Later studies distinguished between...
Provided by University of Szeged
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White Papers
Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud - Free Trial
Aug 2011
Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud offers comprehensive security for your Windows-based computer systems without installing additional hardware or management software and allows you to centrally...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Strategy Guide to Business Risk Mitigation
Feb 2011
Disaster recovery is an important consideration for all companies. For midsize organizations, it is critical, however, because even brief interruptions can have a significant impact on...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Best Practices for Benchmark Factory® for Databases
Dec 2009
With IT budgets being stretched to the breaking point, you're being asked to do more with less while minimizing downtime... and application and database performance problems are out of the...
Provided by Quest Software
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White Papers
Liquidity Risk Management Readiness Checklist
Sep 2008
Are you ready for the more onerous liquidity risk management requirements that were recently proposed by the Basel Committee and the Committee of European Banking Supervisors? The Basel Committee...
Provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
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White Papers
Portable Panic: The Evolution of USB Insecurity
Jun 2009
As USB devices have evolved into useful storage media, they've also turned into a security nightmare for organizations. The usage of USB devices should be encouraged and embraced today in our...
Provided by Lumension
-
White Papers
Achieving Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance (FDCC) with Lumension® Solutions
Jun 2009
The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) is an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandated security configuration set applicable within United States Federal Government agencies. Private...
Provided by Lumension
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White Papers
Risk Intelligence In The Age Of Global Uncertainty: Prudent Preparedness For Myriad Threats
Apr 2007
"Organizations that are most effective and efficient in managing risks to both existing assets and to future growth will, in the long run, outperform those that are less so. Simply put, companies...
Provided by Deloitte Development
-
White Papers
The Risk Revolution
Sep 2008
The subjects of this paper are understanding risk and implementing risk tools. The paper is organized into four sections. The first discusses the historical emergence of risk management. The...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
-
White Papers
Calculating Total Cooling Requirements for Data Centers
Oct 2004
All electrical equipment produces heat, which must be removed to prevent the equipment temperature from rising to an unacceptable level. Most Information Technology equipment and other equipment...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
-
Resource Center
A better backup to get you back up, fast
Jul 2009
Hardware failure, viruses and user errors can strike any time. Maintaining regular backups of data is crucial for recovery after such a disaster. But manual processes such as tape backups can be...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Operational Risk Management: While You May Not Be Able To Control The Event
Jan 2009
Remaining productive, staying competitive, and enjoying continuous improvement means making the best, most informed operational decisions in a timely manner. However, a sudden event, such as...
Provided by Marsh
-
White Papers
Business Continuity Risk Management And Crisis Readiness
Jan 2009
Business continuity management is an integrated approach to business continuity planning, emergency response, and crisis management. No matter the size of an organization or its industry, business...
Provided by Marsh
-
White Papers
Reputational Risk & Crisis Management: Reaching The People Who Affect Your Organization
Jan 2009
Every organization faces "Routine" risks or challenges in the normal course of doing business that can significantly impact the bottom line. These can include facility expansions, litigation,...
Provided by Marsh
-
White Papers
Critical Incident Prevention Practice
Jan 2009
Theft, workplace violence, and other violent crimes continue to demonstrate the need for security and crisis intervention planning and training. The events of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath...
Provided by Marsh
-
White Papers
Property Risk Consulting
Jan 2009
Loss of physical assets and operational capabilities can quickly translate into lost market share, reduced revenue, and diminished shareholder value. Property loss inevitably involves uncertainty....
Provided by Marsh
-
Case Studies
TAC Prepared for Aggressive Growth with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Sep 2008
TAC, a Schneider Electric company, provides building automation solutions based on Open Integrated Systems for facilities IT. Facing aggressive growth, TAC Americas found it increasingly difficult...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Top 10 Tips For Small Business...: How To Get Ready For Swine Flu, Floods, Power Outages And IT Issues!
Aug 2009
Are you a law firm, consultancy, local council, accountants' firm, manufacturer or other Small or Medium-sized Enterprise organisation (SME)? Have your customers or regulators asked you yet for...
Provided by business as usual
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White Papers
Real World Intrusion Prevention for the Demands of a New Security Reality
Jan 2009
In an age where e-commerce and business critical applications are quickly becoming "Webified" and security threats are morphing faster than ever, an organization needs to explore what can be done...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
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White Papers
Eight Questions To Ask About Your Intrusion-Security Solution
Jan 2009
Network security is too important to fall victim to marketplace confusion and misleading claims. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) have similar names and...
Provided by TippingPoint Technologies
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Webcasts
Protect Data and Client Trust: An End-to-End Approach to Protecting Your Web Applications and Your Organization
Sep 2009
Every day, more and more business is conducted online creating new challenges for meeting Web application security and compliance. It's a hacker's dream and your security nightmare. Due to the...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Sybase Raises the Bar on Database Replication
Jul 2009
In the past year, Forrester interviewed 27 Sybase customers who are using Sybase Replication Server to investigate their implementations. Most customers found that Sybase met or exceeded their...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
Achieving Compliance with Massachusetts Data Protection Law
Jul 2009
As of March 1, 2010, all organizations with operations and/or customers in the state of Massachusetts will be required to follow comprehensive information security requirements regarding both...
Provided by Lumension
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Book chapters
Mobile Device Management for Dummies
Sep 2009
Every day, more and more of your enterprise - along with its data and transactions - is moving to the frontlines where you interact directly with your customers. The frontlines present a key...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
Risk Management: Protect and Maximize Stakeholder Value
Feb 2009
Recent economic volatility has given risk management a new focus and eminence. The strongest companies are the ones that are able and willing to adapt, who actively integrate risk management as a...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Leaping Forward: SQL Server 2008 Compared to Oracle Database 11g
Jul 2008
Microsoft SQL Server has steadily gained ground on other database systems and now surpasses the competition in terms of performance, scalability, security, developer productivity, business...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Instantly Responsive Enterprise: Integrating Business Process Management and Complex Event Processing
Aug 2008
Read this white paper for an explanation of how business process management melds with complex event processing. The combination nets intelligent business processes that react to changing business...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Red Hat Open Source Security
Sep 2009
No software is perfect—even the most rigorously tested and secured operating system or application will contain flaws and vulnerabilities. Open source technology gives administrators control over...
Provided by Red Hat
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Webcasts
Database Virtualization Using Clusters: Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better
Sep 2009
Learn how a virtualization approach that is built into the database can create deployment flexibility for better service levels, shift workloads for less downtime, and free-up valuable DBA...
Provided by Sybase
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Webcasts
Business Ready Security Video
Sep 2009
This video excerpt discusses the future direction and trends of enterprise security. The speaker discusses the importance of security as a primary business activity that must be embraced by...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Addressing Compliance Initiatives With Tripwire and the Center for Internet Security (CIS)
Mar 2009
In this paper, discover what you need to build an effective compliance program by understanding benchmarks, the basic building blocks of compliance initiatives. This whitepaper looks at: What the...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
Sustaining SOX Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs
Jul 2009
To successfully sustain SOX compliance, organizations must implement best practices to ensure IT systems not only achieve a known and trusted state but they also maintain that state. Management...
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An Overview of the Issues, Concepts, and Solutions to Secure Today's Digital Document Workflow
Jun 2008
The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance on the fundamental issues and concepts of information security, as well as present solutions designed to protect information assets. While this...
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Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services
Jun 2008
Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.
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Reduce the Cost to Achieving HIPAA Security Compliance with Lumension® Solutions
Oct 2009
Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online. Lumension helps organizations address these compliance...
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Privileged Access Lifecycle Management: How PALM Refines Strategy for Enterprise IT
Oct 2009
Strengthening security, maintaining compliance, and achieving efficiencies and economies of scale are top-of-mind issues for enterprise IT executives. In this paper, IDC analysts examine the role...
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Improving Efficiency in IT Administration by Implementing Policy Automation
Oct 2009
Privileged access is critical for smooth ongoing administration of IT assets. At the same time, this access exposes an organization to security risks, especially regarding insiders. The right...
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Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise
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Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. Too often, however, these efforts pay far too little heed to the risks posed by...
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How to Achieve 40:1 Backup Compression with LiteSpeed® for SQL Server's SmartDiff
Oct 2009
Although there are many benefits of differential backups for your SQL Server database, they're not always the right choice. In the new Quest Software white paper, "How to Achieve 40:1 Backup...
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