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Business Intelligence:A Guide for Midsize Companies: Improving Your Company's Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size
Jul 2010
Your company's focus has been on streamlining operations, acquiring customers, increasing revenues and profitability, and outpacing the competition. And while your company has continued to improve...
Provided by SAP
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Modeling Co-Existing Business Scenarios With Time Series Panel Data
Sep 2007
Due to customer segmentation, multiple types of dynamic business scenarios (business-as-usual, escalation, hysteresis, and evolving business practice; Dekimpe and Hanssens 1999) may coexist within...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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It Can Be Done! Seven Insights To Give Your Strategic Initiatives A Winning Chance
Feb 2008
In the observation, when a strategic initiative fails, at least one of these seven insights was violated. These insights are common sense. Why are they so often ignored? Execution is a different...
Provided by IMD
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How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? Theory and A Field Experiment
Jan 2009
Popularity information is usually thought to reinforce existing sales trends by encouraging customers to flock to mainstream products. A theoretical model was developed which predicts the...
Provided by MIT
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Rent Shifting, Exclusion And Market-Share Contracts
Oct 2008
The authors study rent-shifting in a sequential contracting environment in which two sellers negotiate with a common buyer. They find that the ability of the buyer and the first seller to extract...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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To Bundle Or Not To Bundle: On The Profitability Of Multi-Item Auctions
Feb 2009
Bundling, a strategy of selling two or more distinct products as a package for a single price, is widely practiced in today's marketplace. The paper investigates under what conditions it is more...
Provided by University of Alberta
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Transformational Leadership In Project Management
Mar 2010
Poor Communication and Strategic Alignment within Projects Result in Lost Opportunity and Poor Performance. Develop stronger systems for linking strategy to project investments by connecting...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
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The Impact Of Hedging On Firm Value: Evidence From Brazil
Feb 2008
This paper examines the impact of company's hedging activities on firm value for a sample of non-financial Brazilian companies from 1996 to 2005. The results show that hedging activities do...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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A Positive Theory Of Social Enterpreneurship
May 2009
i propose a theory aimed at scholarly research in social entrepreneurship. by highlighting the key off trade-off between value creation and value appropriation and explaining when situations of...
Provided by INSEAD
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When Worlds Collide: The Internal Dynamics Of Organizational Responses To Conflicting Institutional Demands
Jan 2010
Institutional theory suggests that organizations are strongly influenced by the pressures for the compliance exerted by their institutional referents. Yet, organizations are increasingly subject...
Provided by INSEAD
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Sound Long-Term Strategy Is Key, Particularly In A Crisis: Harvard's Michael Porter
Aug 2009
With the current global economic downturn, there's been plenty of talk of doom and gloom. But Professor Michael Porter of Harvard University, a leading authority on competitive strategy, begs to...
Provided by INSEAD
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Strategic Loan Defaults And Coordination: An Experimental Analysis
Jun 2010
The authors used experimental methods to study whether the uncertainty about bank and about borrower fundamentals affect borrowers repayment behavior. They find that solvent borrowers are more...
Provided by Tilburg University
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Integrating China Into Your Global Business Strategy
Jun 2010
A new program, Global Business Strategy: China, will be offered by Columbia Business School Executive Education August 5-6, 2010. Presented in partnership with Cheung Kong Graduate School of...
Provided by Columbia University
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Mastering Strategy: What The Experts Say
Oct 2009
"Most participants come to a strategy program because they recognize that it is an essential part of leading effectively," says Willie Pietersen, Professor of The Practice of Management, Columbia...
Provided by Columbia University
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Aligning Technology With Business Strategy
Oct 2009
"Injecting technology into a company without process and organizational change creates waste and chaos," George Colony, founder and CEO of Forrester Research, has famously said. It's true. Despite...
Provided by Columbia University
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Spotlight: Strategy Is Action - Not Just A Word
Mar 2008
Strategy. The word itself conjures excitement, even intrigue. But strategy is not just a word: it is an action. "Most participants come to a strategy program because they recognize that it is an...
Provided by Columbia University
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Political Regimes, Business Cycles, Seasonalities, And Returns
Dec 2008
This paper provides a method for testing for regime differences when regimes are long-lasting. Standard testing procedures are generally inappropriate because regime persistence causes a spurious...
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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Predicted Asymmetric Timeliness And The Persistence Of Special Items
Nov 2007
The paper hypothesize that firms with greater expected asymmetric timeliness of earnings will report more negative special items that are transitory, because their special items are likelier to...
Provided by Washington University Olin
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How Top-Down And Bottom-Up Strategy Processes Are Combined In Manufacturing Organizations
Nov 2009
The authors study strategy processes at six German manufacturing organizations in mature businesses. The authors use an organizational search perspective to interpret simultaneous top-down and...
Provided by INSEAD
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Customer Relationship Management And Firm Performance
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors examine the impact of customer relationship management (CRM) on firm performance using a hierarchical construct model. Using the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Global Newton Method For Stochastic Games
Feb 2008
The Global Newton Method for games in normal form and in extensive form is shown to have a natural extension to computing Markov-perfect equilibria of stochastic games. This paper features four...
Provided by Stanford University
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Cass Business School Workshop On The Proposed New UK Regime For Resolution Of Banking Problems
Apr 2008
This is a record of the discussion that took place on 7th April at a workshop organized by Cass Business School, on current proposals for a new UK regime for the resolution of banking problems....
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Decision-Theoretic Forward Induction
Jan 2008
A player's pure strategy is called relevant for an outcome of a game in ex tensive form with perfect recall if there exists a weakly sequential equilibrium with that outcome for which the strategy...
Provided by Stanford University
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Computing Equilibria Of N-Player Games With Arbitrary Accuracy
Feb 2008
From a variant of Kuhn's triangulation the authors derive a discrete version of the Global Newton Method that yields an epsilon-equilibrium of an N-player game and then sequentially reduces...
Provided by Stanford University
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Managing Business Schools To Weather Economic Change
Jun 2009
Many business schools are heavily dependent on revenues from executive education: they are feeling the impact of the current economic turmoil. Schools such as Wharton, INSEAD and Kellogg to name a...
Provided by INSEAD
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Bias In The Boardroom: A Field Study Of Failures In Governance Of A Not-for-Profit Organization
Jun 2010
This paper is a case study based investigation on limits to the monitoring and control function of boards of directors. The paper describes a 2-year study of a housing association in the United...
Provided by Coventry University
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What Makes A Test Score? The Respective Contributions Of Pupils, Schools, And Peers In Achievement In English Primary Education
Sep 2008
This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. The authors implement this...
Provided by INSEAD
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Corporate Responsibility And Operations Management
Sep 2008
The world has changed since the "Limits to Growth" book of the Club of Rome in the 70s, and so has the discipline of Operations Management. The 80s and 90s brought dramatic innovations like Total...
Provided by INSEAD
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Long-Term Impact Of Investments In Early Schooling - Empirical Evidence From Rural Ethiopia
Nov 2009
This paper identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in a developing country context using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as...
Provided by Fordham University
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Productivity Matters For Trade Policy: Theory And Evidence
May 2009
In the growth literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity, nearly all studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is...
Provided by Fordham University
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Oil Market No Mystery: Look To Fundamentals
Sep 2009
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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The Price Women Pay For Under-Pricing Services
Jan 2009
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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Project Management Contracts With Delayed Payments
Mar 2010
When managing projects with considerable uncertainty such as those arising in construction, defense, and new product development, it is customary for a manufacturer (project manager) to offer...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Managerial Beliefs And Corporate Financial Policies
Jan 2010
The paper measures the impact of individual managerial beliefs on corporate financing. First, managers who believe that their firm is undervalued view external financing as overpriced, especially...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Seeking An Aggressive Competitor: How Product Line Expansion Can Increase All Firms' Profits
Jan 2010
Conventional wisdom suggests that a firm's profits will decrease when a competitor expands its product line because the firm's sales will decrease in the presence of the new product. This paper...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Pay For Performance? CEO Compensation And Acquirer Returns In BHCs
Feb 2010
The paper examines how managerial incentives affect acquisition decisions in the banking industry. It's found that higher Pay-for-Performance Sensitivity (PPS) leads to value-enhancing...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Process Location And Product Distribution With Uncertain Yields
Nov 2009
The paper considers the process location and product distribution problem with uncertain yield found across a wide range of industrial sectors such as food processing, pharmaceuticals, and...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Category Management And Coordination In Retail Assortment Planning In The Presence Of Basket Shopping Consumers
Jun 2007
This paper studies the assortment planning problem with multiple merchandise categories and basket shopping consumers (i.e., consumers who desire to purchase from multiple categories). The authors...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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How To Look At Your Company With Fresh Eyes
Jun 2010
How do you keep your business edge after years of running the same company? You can fire and hire yourself, says Robert LoCascio, founder and CEO of LivePerson. That's what he did last year, so he...
Provided by American Express
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Top Five: Business Strategies To Avoid
May 2010
Business owners are always looking for ways to grow their companies, but what strategies should you avoid? This webcast talks about five things not to do courtesy of "The Retail Doctor" Bob Phibbs.
Provided by American Express
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Life Insurance In Asia: New Realities And Emerging Opportunities
Apr 2010
In the years leading up to the global financial crisis, multinational life insurers converged on Asia.' They were drawn to the region's strong economies and rising household wealth, as well as to...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Collateral Damage, In The Eye Of The Storm: Ignore Short-Term Indicators, Focus On The Long Haul
May 2010
Why have so many companies been so willing to take a knife to costs and then demonstrated reluctance to go on the offensive in pursuit of growth? In previous papers, the authors have looked at...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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The African Challengers: Global Competitors Emerge From The Overlooked Continent
Jul 2010
The African economy is overshadowed by Asia to the east and, to a lesser degree, by South America to the west. Over the last decade, however Africa has begun to emerge. Hidden in plain view,...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Megatrends: Tailwinds For Growth In A Low-Growth Environment
May 2010
It's time to grow again. During the last prolonged bear market, from 1966 to 1982, almost all of the 20 companies that most strongly outperformed their industry peers on the basis of total...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Lean Advantage In Telcos: Reducing Complexity And Transforming Culture
Jul 2010
When managers at telecommunications companies look for cost savings today, few find much to cut. Most established providers have been through numerous rounds of cost cutting over the past few...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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In Search Of Stable Growth: Global Asset Management 2010
Jul 2010
Although the value of global AuM increased in 2009, average AuM and the economics of asset managers deteriorated for the second consecutive year. Average AuM fell by 4 percent, net revenues by Ii...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Business Model Adaptation In Retail: A Growing Need
Jul 2010
Change in retail markets comes slowly and almost silently, so it is not always easy to gauge its impact. For example, on the demand side, the mass movement of women into the workforce has been...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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The Future Of Telecommunications: As wireless Earnings Wane, Carriers Confront Hard Choices
Aug 2010
Since deregulation in the 1980s and the emergence of the commercial Internet in the 1990s, the telecommunications industry has faced disruptions and premature reports of its untimely demise. But...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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No Shortcuts: The Road Map To Smarter Marketing
Sep 2010
Companies invest staggering sums of money in marketing with surprisingly little rigor. Because it is notoriously difficult to measure and optimize the return on marketing investments (ROMI),...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Global Sourcing In The Postdownturn Era
Sep 2010
The worldwide economic downturn and its aftermath have had a significant effect on how companies view and approach global sourcing. Exports from low-cost countries (LCCs) dropped sharply during...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Achieving Success In Business Process Outsourcing And Offshoring
Aug 2010
The list of companies that have launched efforts at business process outsourcing (BPO) and offshoring grows daily. Many of these organizations, however, are destined for disappointment. Indeed,...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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When World Collide: Navigating Supply Chain Integration
Dec 2007
A large global manufacturer has just acquired a competitor. The deal made good sense on paper affording the company greater scale, new products, access to new markets, and lower costs. Now the...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Missing Link: Focusing Corporate Strategy On Value Creation
Sep 2008
When the authors began the Value Creators series, in 1999, global capital markets had enjoyed nearly two decades of relative stability Little did they know that they were at the beginning of a...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Does Your Strategy Need Stretching?
May 2010
Too often, executives equate "Strategy" with the rigid, template-driven, top-down planning approaches that prevail in most corporations. Executives commonly describe these processes as ossified...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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New Metrics For Market Share: Lessons From The Airlines
Mar 2009
Taiichi Ohno, originator of the Toyota Production System. is famous for having advised people to ask five whys before deciding on a how. Only by questioning your assumptions over and over again,...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Winners And Losers In Packaged Foods And Beverages
Mar 2009
Powerful forces are sweeping the consumer industry and they are shaking up the packaged food-and-beverage sector. Worldwide macroeconomic conditions - coupled with new, wide-ranging trends in...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Beyond The Boom: The Outlook For Global Steel
Jul 2010
Steel is booming. Around the globe, mills are busy day and night turning out some 3 million tons of steel daily at sustained utilization rates rarely seen before. Steel companies in the so-called...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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The Unretired
Nov 2007
Many companies now recognize that they need to anticipate and plan for the retirement of baby boomers. However, there is another problem: the unretired or workers who will not retire for several...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Shifting Battlegrounds In The Passenger Car Market
Jul 2007
The competitive landscape is shifting in the passenger car industry - and that shift is rewriting the established rules of the game and reshaping the prospects of players around the globe. Back in...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White paper: Delivering Trusted Information with IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools
Nov 2010
As businesses undertake information centric projects such as Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Smart Analytics, Master Data Management, Application Consolidation to unlock business value of...
Provided by IBM
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The Show Must Go On: Managing Talent In A Downturn
Oct 2008
In an uncertain economic climate, is it a business irrelevance or strategic advantage to manage talent? Human capital community Telecom-Careers looks down the employer lens at the issues around...
Provided by TelecomCareers.com
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DMI Informix - Verizon Customer Reference White Paper
Nov 2010
In the competitive telecoms industry, providers must adapt quickly to deliver faster and more cost-effective services—while maintaining their reliability. When Verizon Communications wanted a more...
Provided by IBM
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How IBM's New zEnterprise - Blade Environment Can Be Used to Break Down IT Organizational Barriers
Nov 2010
In this Research Report, Clabby Analytics takes a closer look at the organizational benefits that can be achieved by moving to a standardized management governance environment for heterogeneous IT...
Provided by IBM
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Enterprise Data Center Modernization - IBM Unveils the Future and a Path To Get There with IBM zEnterprise System
Nov 2010
The problem facing every business today is the rising cost and complexity of IT. This issue has intensified with the unprecedented growth in the numbers and types of smart devices connecting the...
Provided by IBM
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How Effectively Are Companies Using Business Analytics?
Oct 2010
Although BI adoption is widespread, it is often stuck at lower levels of BI maturity often seen as standard reports instead of mission critical applications that executives can use to keep their...
Provided by DecisionPath Consulting
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Human Resources From An Organizational Behavior Perspective: Some Paradoxes Explained
Nov 2007
American workplaces exhibit three facts which, taken together, could constitute anomalous or paradoxical organizational behavior, especially when seen through the lens of the rationality and...
Provided by Stanford University
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How Can B2B Marketing Help Your Business?
Jan 2010
The purpose of B2B marketing is to give exposure to manufactures, wholesalers and exporters by putting their products right in front of their most targeted audience in the global market. What does...
Provided by TradeKey.com
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3 Reasons Why Most B2B Branding Fails And Scares Prospects Away
Mar 2009
In the B2B market, CEOs and marketing managers struggle with the answer to this question which helps them allocate budgets, create company messaging and develop tactical programs to generate...
Provided by Value Forward Network
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B2B Content Marketing: 2010 Benchmarks, Budgets And Trends
Sep 2010
B2B Content Marketing: 2010 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends represent the largest, most comprehensive survey about content marketing in the business-to-business (B2B) space to date. The authors...
Provided by Content Marketing Institute
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Competitor Analysis. . Keeping Ahead Of The Game
Jan 2010
Competitor analysis ('CA') is the in-depth study of one or more rivals (or potential rivals) to gather information on their structure, strategies, strengths, weaknesses and future directions. This...
Provided by Business Advantage Group
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International B2B Research
Jan 2009
In an increasingly global market and with research budgets having to cover more and more countries it can be difficult to find cost effective solutions to researching new and/or niche B2B markets...
Provided by Business Advantage Group
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Planning and Managing a Digital Strategy
Oct 2010
In 2009, the IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) predicted that internet advertising - just one small part of a digital strategy - would overtake TV advertising by the end of the year. This was...
Provided by Red Ant
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Why Google Won Desktop Search
Oct 2010
Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, formerly the COO of Yahoo!, discusses how Google supplanted Yahoo! as the leading desktop search engine during the mid-2000s. Rosensweig points out Yahoo! served many...
Provided by Stanford University
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Veer Away From Heavy Management Theory
Oct 2010
Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, formerly the COO of Yahoo!, discusses how Google supplanted Yahoo! as the leading desktop search engine during the mid-2000s. Rosensweig points out Yahoo! served many...
Provided by Stanford University
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Challenges In Managing A Family Business
Jul 2007
When you put up your own money and operate your own business, you prize your independence. It's MY business, you can tell yourself, in good times and in bad. In a family company, however, it's OUR...
Provided by SBA
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Ideas And Energy Define Entrepreneurship Conference
May 2007
Entrepreneurship will bloom in its own good time, suggested Professor Steven Rogers, a Kellogg School expert in the subject. In fact, said the director of the Larry and Carol Levy Institute for...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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What To Do When The Heat Is On
Jul 2007
As the global economy barrels forward with unprecedented speed, non-governmental organizations are watching companies closely. If too much oil is burned, too many trees are cut, a product fails,...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Goal-Based Leadership
Jan 2008
Why are so many goals not relevant for the organization? A Fortune cover story "Why CEO´s fail" discussed the difficulties of organizations to implement their strategies. It was estimated that...
Provided by Krister Forsberg
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Heng Swee Keat: Talent Management Strategies In Singapore
Jun 2008
The developments in global financial markets in the last one year have important implications on human resources strategy. For instance, among the many findings in the report released by the...
Provided by bis
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Ravi Jagannathan's Stance On Bank Regulation Reflected In New Proposal By President Barack Obama
Feb 2010
Last month, President Barack Obama unveiled a proposal to rein in the U.S. banking sector. Drafted by Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve head and chairman of Obama's Economic Recovery...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Project Management Contracts With Delayed Payments
Mar 2010
When managing projects with considerable uncertainty such as those arising in construction, defense, and new product development, it is customary for a manufacturer (project manager) to offer...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Managerial Beliefs And Corporate Financial Policies
Jan 2010
The paper measures the impact of individual managerial beliefs on corporate financing. First, managers who believe that their firm is undervalued view external financing as overpriced, especially...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Seeking An Aggressive Competitor: How Product Line Expansion Can Increase All Firms' Profits
Jan 2010
Conventional wisdom suggests that a firm's profits will decrease when a competitor expands its product line because the firm's sales will decrease in the presence of the new product. This paper...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Pay For Performance? CEO Compensation And Acquirer Returns In BHCs
Feb 2010
The paper examines how managerial incentives affect acquisition decisions in the banking industry. It's found that higher Pay-for-Performance Sensitivity (PPS) leads to value-enhancing...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Process Location And Product Distribution With Uncertain Yields
Nov 2009
The paper considers the process location and product distribution problem with uncertain yield found across a wide range of industrial sectors such as food processing, pharmaceuticals, and...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Category Management And Coordination In Retail Assortment Planning In The Presence Of Basket Shopping Consumers
Jun 2007
This paper studies the assortment planning problem with multiple merchandise categories and basket shopping consumers (i.e., consumers who desire to purchase from multiple categories). The authors...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Webcasts
How To Look At Your Company With Fresh Eyes
Jun 2010
How do you keep your business edge after years of running the same company? You can fire and hire yourself, says Robert LoCascio, founder and CEO of LivePerson. That's what he did last year, so he...
Provided by American Express
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Top Five: Business Strategies To Avoid
May 2010
Business owners are always looking for ways to grow their companies, but what strategies should you avoid? This webcast talks about five things not to do courtesy of "The Retail Doctor" Bob Phibbs.
Provided by American Express
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Sentiment-Driven Overvaluation And Management Forecasting Strategies
Jan 2010
Prior research suggests that managers adopt disclosure strategies to exacerbate sentiment driven overvaluation, concluding that managers either "Keep quiet" or inject bias into certain voluntary...
Provided by University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
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Ask Norm: On Determining The Viability Of A Business
Mar 2010
Columnist Norm Brodsky speaks about how to know if the business is viable. Norm explains that when there is adversity, there's opportunity and it's important to "think differently than everybody...
Provided by American Express
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American Business: Baked To Perfection
Mar 2010
Department stores wanted one entrepreneur's clothing designs, but he turned them all down. Find out why staying small is sometimes better and more profitable than marketing to the masses.
Provided by American Express
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Team With Your Competitors
Mar 2010
Rebecca Boenigk, Owner of Nuetral Posture, runs a $20 million dollar company, but only controls one percent of the market share. To increase her revenue, she decided to team up, rather than...
Provided by American Express
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The Parties That Cook Rule
Feb 2010
"If you don't provide great service, somebody else will." - The Parties that Cook Rule. In an episode of Small Business Rules, Gibby Gignilliat says she grew tired of her corporate job she decided...
Provided by American Express
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Made To Stick: Sparking Curiosity
Feb 2010
Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, speaks with Fast Company about how to get one's ideas across through the power of testable credentials.
Provided by American Express
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Better Your Business: Rod Kurtz And Bob Prosen
Jul 2010
Rod Kurtz, Executive Editor of AOL Small Business, and Bob Prosen, President and CEO of The Prosen Center For Business Advancement and author of "Kiss Theory Goodbye: Five Proven Ways to Get...
Provided by American Express
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Building A Successful Partnership
Jul 2010
Arianna Huffington calls The Huffington Post her first partnership and describes herself as "a bit of a loner." She met her fellow co-founder, Ken Lerer, two years before the launch of the news...
Provided by American Express
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American Business: Bronx Blues
Jun 2010
While some entrepreneurs have expressed a growing optimism about the economy, thousands of mom and pop operations are still struggling. That's the case for one New York City hardware store. It...
Provided by American Express
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Business Answers: Ready To Retire And Government Contracts
May 2010
Alfred Edmond, editor-in-chief of BlackEnterprise.com, and Scott Belsky, founder and CEO of Behance and author of the book "Making Ideas Happen," answer viewer questions about what one can do with...
Provided by American Express
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Learning From The Pros: Gary Vaynerchuk
May 2010
It's been a very good year for wine entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. The host of the vlog "Wine Library TV" and the author of the book "Crush It!" has some vintage advice for small business owners.
Provided by American Express
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Making Your Company Stand Out
May 2010
Most business ideas aren't unique; so, the door is always open for copycats to take away the market share. HopStop CEO Joe Meyer understands this dilemma with behemoth Google Maps breathing down...
Provided by American Express
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Mentor-Protege Program
Apr 2010
Lisa Dolan, CEO of Securit, understands the importance of relationships when attempting to procure government contracts. During her panel at OPEN's Victory in Procurement (VIP) event, Lisa...
Provided by American Express
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Business War Chest: Reinvention
Apr 2010
The ups and downs in the economy have forced many business owners to stay flexible. For some entrepreneurs, that means being ready to reinvent their services in a pinch. In this webcast Pamela...
Provided by American Express
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The Importance Of Resilience
Apr 2010
Resilience is key to success says CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. In her new book, The 10 Laws Of Enduring Success, Bartiromo talks about the importance of recognizing past mistakes and learning from...
Provided by American Express
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Going From Small To Big
Feb 2009
"The emotional tie that entrepreneurs have to an idea is one of the greatest drivers of entrepreneurship," says John Borthwick, CEO and co-founder of Betaworks. What's important, however, is...
Provided by American Express
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Always Be Planning
Mar 2010
Marilyn Bushey, CEO of PowerPAC, knows the importance of devoting time to strategic planning. Speaking at the American Express OPEN Women's Business Summit, Marilyn reinforces the importance of...
Provided by American Express
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Business Answers: Charging More And Managing A Family Business
Feb 2010
In this webcast, Phil Town, investment adviser and author of the new book "Payback Time," and Ryan Blair, the CEO of Visalus Sciences and author of the new book "Nothing to Lose," answer viewer...
Provided by American Express
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Business Answers: Independent Contractors And Franchising
Feb 2010
In this webcast, Jen Groover, serial entrepreneur and author of the book "What If and Why Not," and Kristy Johnson, an entrepreneur and editor-in-chief of Shepreneur Magazine, answer viewer...
Provided by American Express
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Happiness (And Profit) Is A Warm Customer Smile
Feb 2010
The bottom line will always be the yardstick, but the true picture of a company's success can also be measured elsewhere. In this webcast, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, discusses the true picture...
Provided by American Express
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Business Answers: Laying Off An Employee And Finding A Business Partner
Feb 2010
In this webcast, Steve Strauss, small business columnist for USA Today, and Eric Frankel, CEO of 10 Minutes to Change, answer viewer questions about the amount of severance a laid off employee...
Provided by American Express
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The Pursuit Of Happiness
Jan 2010
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, defines happiness as a concept that transcends both professional and personal boundaries. He also sees it as a virtual guarantee of the employee culture at...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
"Happiness In A Box"
Jan 2010
For customers of Zappos.com, the overall experience is more than just receiving a pair of shoes via overnight shipping. It's about the entire process from ordering to receipt and the service...
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Webcasts
"There Are No Bad Employees, Only Bad Management Of Employees" - The Goldberg's Bagel And Deli Rule
Jan 2010
Sometimes customers just want a place to call home. The foundations of Goldberg's Deli lie in comfort, reliability and uncomprimising quality. Armed with his MBA, Wayne Saxe said in an episode of...
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Webcasts
Perfecting Your Plan
Jan 2010
In this webcast, Rod Kurtz, senior editor at Inc. Magazine, and Phil Town, investment advisor and author of the new book Payback Time, answer viewer questions about the key components of a...
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Webcasts
Small Business Rules: "The Fish Stinks From The Head" - The Myriad Rule
Oct 2009
A business started with one restaurant and one restauranteur on an unassuming corner in Tribeca has helped revitalize a neighborhood and made a star entrepreneur of owner Drew Nieporent. This...
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Webcasts
The Power Of A Mailing Address And Working With Family
Oct 2009
In this webcast, Divya Gugnani, a former venture capitalist and CEO of the website Behind the Burner, and Allan Grafman, the CEO of All Media Ventures, answer viewer questions about the best...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Corporate Sustainability Management: Best Practices
Mar 2010
Sustainable business practices can open up new markets and improve a company's reputation. In this way, leaders in corporate sustainability are securing a unique competitive advantage. In fact, a...
Provided by Yudelson Associates
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White Papers
Growth Management Strategies
Apr 2008
Managing growth to achieve a desirable community pattern can require tools and techniques beyond Euclidian zoning and basic subdivision and land development provisions. This paper offers a brief...
Provided by Lebanon County
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Whitepapers
Create A Smarter Storage Strategy
Sep 2009
As file data continues to grow at a rapid pace, businesses are looking for more ways to cut their storage costs and lighten the management burden on IT. But where should one begin? The storage...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Asset Management Whitepaper
Jun 2009
This white paper covers two topics. First is a brief description of Asset Management and the two primary activities involved in it. Second is an overview of the decision tools needed for managing...
Provided by S. Chapel Associates
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White Papers
How Changes In The Market Changed The Face Of Outsourcing
Jun 2009
Lean, green, and savings now are the mantras of IT buyers today, says Penn. The days of simply adding a server when the enterprise purchased new software have gone the way of the 16-bit processor....
Provided by Everest Partners
