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Print Management Program Offers Compelling Return On Investment Without Up-Front Investment Or Risk
Apr 2010
As organizations explore and consider speculative cost reduction initiatives, their decisions regarding which initiative(s) to pursue and of those which to prioritize are typically based on a...
Provided by e-LYNXX
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Analyzing Your Business's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Jun 2006
SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) is a method of assessing a business, its resources, and its environment. It helps you discover what you do well; how you could...
Provided by Business, The Ultimate Resource
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The Deloitte Business Simulation Game: Accelerate The Implementation Of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
May 2010
The development of effective learning and leadership skills comes through practical experience and structural reflection. However, companies can seldom afford the time and resources to explore and...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Short-Term Trends Rule The Day In An Unpredictable Recovery
May 2010
With a recovery tentatively underway, many executives are trying to ride the wave of short-term economic trends, making minor strategic adjustments to go farther, faster. Is this the right...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Pattern-Driven Performance: Should You Start With Tools - Or With Talent?
May 2010
Companies everywhere are catching onto the wisdom of mining information for patterns of performance. Using a combination of advanced statistical tools and good, old-fashioned experience, they're...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Making The Leap: After Making A Huge Acquisition To Expand Into Services, This Computer Company Needed To Completely Revise Its Playbook
May 2010
Facing a more challenging environment for its hardware-focused business, this computer company did what many of its competitors had already done: it acquired a technology services company to...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Saving The Pennies That Save Lives: Helping A Non-Profit Organization And Its Chapters Embrace Efficiency To Do More Good
May 2010
A large non-profit relief organization with hundreds of local chapters throughout the United States wanted to reduce costs and improve standardization and control across the enterprise. Deloitte...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Redrawing The Map: How A Fortune 100 Technology Company Simplified Its Channel Strategy To Improve Profitability, Speed And Service
May 2010
A major high technology company relied on a dizzying variety of routes to move its products to market. While company executives suspected that their approach was inefficient, they had no way of...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Battle Ready: Revolutionizing Major Weapon System Production For A Major Global Aerospace And Defense Company
May 2010
When this aerospace and defense company landed a major military contract, it needed to develop a global production model to deliver a major weapon system faster, and more efficiently. Deloitte...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Global Recovery: Assessing Its Durability And Strength
Apr 2010
The financial crisis not only laid open the fault lines of the global economy, it also put to test one of the world's most ambitious economic cooperation projects: the euro. The debt crisis that...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Paper Profits: Improving Supply Chain Operations, Procurement And Integration At A Major Paper Company
May 2010
A major global packaging systems and paper manufacturing company wanted to solidify its competitive position and reduce costs. But decades-old procurement and supply chain practices posed a...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Everything Elastic: Accenture Technology Vision 2010
Feb 2010
High-performance businesses use the Vision to help understand potential opportunities - and challenges - that lie ahead. In this vision business capabilities - infrastructure, people and thoughts...
Provided by Accenture
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Smarter, Swifter, Safer: New Imperatives For Achieving High Performance In A Multi-Polar World
Jan 2010
Today's high performers in transport and logistics owe their accomplishment to exceptionally astute global growth strategies and mastery of internal process technologies - core capabilities that...
Provided by Accenture
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Reassessing Your Business Plan
Aug 2009
Business planning experts always stress that a business plan is a living document-one that you should regularly reassess and change as your business grows. Well, now is the time to take that...
Provided by Bank of America
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High Performance Business In China 2007: In Pursuit of Profitable Growth
Aug 2007
The astonishing growth rates of so many Chinese companies have become a matter of great pride for the nation's business leaders - and a matter of concern for competitors around the world. But can...
Provided by Accenture
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Envy At Work
Apr 2010
Comparing yourself with successful coworkers can be motivating, but it can also trigger envy. The authors' research suggests that such feelings may cause real damage, both to your own career and...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Banking On Recycling
Aug 2008
Ron Gonen will change the way you think about recycling. He's been honing his strategy ever since the day he convinced his high school of the economic benefits of purchasing reusable metal...
Provided by Columbia University
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Franchise Vs. Independent: Learning From The Other Guy
Jan 2010
There are many paths to small business triumph: You can introduce a product or service that no one else offers, put a spin on an existing commodity that no one else has yet, or apply your business...
Provided by MasterCard
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A Bigger Bang: Making The Right Workforce Investments
Oct 2007
Historically, human resource management and investments in workforce capabilities have largely been applied in the same way across all types of jobs and roles. This has been, in part, due to...
Provided by Accenture
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Tomorrow's Global Giants? Not The Usual Suspects
Oct 2008
In the largest emerging markets, established multinationals and local players are battling for dominance. Conventional wisdom says MNCs rule in high-end, knowledge intensive businesses; local...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Five Stages Of A Turnaround
Dec 2009
Rising competition, cyclical financial markets and economic volatility have created a climate where no business can take economic stability for granted. As once-stable companies struggle to...
Provided by Bank of America
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Tips For Managing A Fast-Growing Company
May 2008
It seems like any entrepreneur would kill for the chance to become an early leader in one of the many fast-growing global industries. Yet fast growth can lead to a wide range of problems, from...
Provided by Columbia University
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Lab Work For Your Business Model
Apr 2010
Management professor Rita McGrath says experimentation must be an integral part of a company's strategy in order to remain competitive in the future. "The level of uncertainty and speed of change...
Provided by Columbia University
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Reduce Maintenance Costs
Apr 2008
Maintenance usually isn't top priority for many companies until something breaks at the worst possible time. Then it's a matter of urgency to get everything up and running on schedule again. But...
Provided by MasterCard
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Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?
Mar 2008
How many people struggle hard every day to uphold obligations to the bosses, families and communities even as the quality of the lives erodes? And how many feel too overwhelmed to examine the...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Paper Or Plastic
Oct 2009
The statistics staring at budding entrepreneurs are ugly-nearly two out of three new businesses won't survive past six years. A lack of a rigorous business plan, insufficient marketing, and poor...
Provided by Bank of America
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Vaccinate Your Small Business
Dec 2009
As the H1N1 flu outbreak looks to spread throughout the upcoming winter, many small businesses could find the disease a serious threat to their profitability and, perhaps, long-term survivability....
Provided by Bank of America
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Mastering The Challenge Of Reach For High Performance: The Clock Is Ticking
Feb 2010
Achieving and maintaining compliance with the "Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals" (REACH) legislation puts pressure on each and every organization in the...
Provided by Accenture
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Looking Back, Leaning Forward
Feb 2010
For many business owners-large or small-there may not be much interest in looking back at the year that was 2009. Sure, the personal retirement savings may have rebounded, but the stock market's...
Provided by Bank of America
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Make The Right Moves During Business Downturns
Jan 2010
Downturns and slowdowns are inevitable in every company. In order to weather slow periods, you've got to cut costs and build business. How you do each will have a major impact on the future of...
Provided by MasterCard
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Business Plan 2.0
Oct 2009
A sound business plan is the foundation of any successful business, but this particular foundation should not be set in stone. The world changes faster and more frequently now than it ever has...
Provided by Bank of America
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Cracking The Carbon Conundrum A New Paradigm For Achieving High Performance In The Travel And Transport Industry
Aug 2009
The transport industry confronts a dilemma: How to adjust to the inevitability of a carbon-constrained global economy and support environmentally sustainable development with - out sacrificing...
Provided by Accenture
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The Networked Market
Feb 2009
Lying at the heart of the most common market theory - the efficient-market hypothesis - is the assumption that financial returns, including stock prices, are independent of one another. The...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Hard Demand For A Soft Panel: Winning The Race To A Plug-And-Play World
Dec 2008
The communications and technology world in which most of us grew up was one where explosive innovation ruled - often at the expense of ease of use, interoperability and a quality customer...
Provided by Accenture
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6 Reasons Why You Need A Business Coach Today
Jan 2010
Successfully building a profitable business, year after year, has been compared to balancing an egg on your head, while standing barefoot on sharp knives. It's not easy to do and a wrong decision...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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Compatible Aims: Sustainability And High Performance
Jan 2009
No company today can avoid the issue of sustainability. How to approach this challenge remains an open question, however, as it can seem to be much more about what not to do than about...
Provided by Accenture
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7 Key Business Survival Tips
Jan 2010
Surviving in a down business cycle and emerging as a smarter, leaner market leader requires an organization to cut costs wisely, while keeping strategic business units strong and retaining the...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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Tomorrow's Utility: Industry Structure And Market Development In Europe Over The Next 10 Years
Jun 2008
The utilities industry is fraught with significant uncertainty. To help players position themselves for an uncertain future, Accenture developed three possible scenarios for tomorrow's European...
Provided by Accenture
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After The Crisis: How Revenue Agencies Are Achieving High Performance
Apr 2010
Three mutually reinforcing trends - the increasing power of information and communication technology, government policies to promote economic openness, and the increasing size and reach of...
Provided by Accenture
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Creating Leading-Edge Marketing Organizations
Jan 2010
The rapidly changing marketing environment is making it harder than ever for marketers to compete effectively. Many traditional approaches to organizing the marketing function result in a group...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Powering Strategies: Profit Power In A Transparent And Interdependent World
Dec 2010
Why is the 21st century economy so different, and how can for-profit companies and not-for-profit organizations succeed? During the past decade, the business world has crossed a threshold from...
Provided by Vikalpa
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Is CEO Pay Really Inefficient? A Survey Of New Optimal Contracting Theories
Feb 2009
The authors argue that executive compensation is set by CEOs themselves rather than boards on behalf of shareholders, since many features of observed pay packages may appear inconsistent with the...
Provided by New York University
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Endogenous Information Flows And The Clustering Of Announcements
Sep 2008
The authors consider the release of information by a firm when the manager has discretion regarding the timing of its release. While it is well known that firms appear to delay the release of bad...
Provided by Stanford University
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Oracle Scorecard And Strategy Management
Feb 2011
More and more executives are realizing the effectiveness of key performance indicators when it comes to measuring and communicating organizational goals. This data sheet explains how the Oracle...
Provided by Oracle
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Risk Aversion, Prospect Theory, And Strategic Risk In Law Enforcement: Evidence From An Antitrust Experiment
Mar 2008
In this paper the authors investigate the effects of risk preferences and attitudes towards risk on optimal antitrust enforcement policies. First, they observe that risk aversion is negatively...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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Epistemic Robustness Of Sets Closed Under Rational Behavior
Mar 2009
This paper provides two conditions of epistemic robustness, robustness to alternative best replies and robustness to non-best replies, and uses these to characterize variants of CURB sets in...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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Evolution Of Theories Of Mind
May 2010
This paper studies the evolution of peoples' models of how other people think - their theories of mind. First, this is formalized within the level-k model, which postulates a hierarchy of types,...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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Management Consultants As Professionals, Or Are They?
Aug 2008
Managers make great use of consultants, giving rise to a rapid annual growth rate of 15% in consulting industry revenues where the authors estimate that today there are over one million...
Provided by University of Southern California
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Building A Collaboration Capability For Sustainability: How Gap Inc. Is Creating And Leveraging A Strategic Asset
Sep 2010
Organizations are being challenged to find socially acceptable and ecologically proactive solutions while fulfilling economic expectations. One emerging pattern in response to this challenge is...
Provided by University of Southern California
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Delays In International Patent Application Outcomes
Dec 2007
One component of the duration of pending patents - why applicants choose to delay the examination process - is modeled. The authors use a matched sample of 9,597 patent applications. Controlling...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Sterilized Intervention In Emerging-Market Economies: Trends, Costs, And Risks
Mar 2008
The author examines recent trends in sterilized intervention among emerging-market economies, to determine the size and extent of this policy in relation to earlier periods of heavy reserve...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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Transition Economy: Urbanization, The Processes Of Creation And Accumulation Of Property
Jul 2010
The urgent problems of urban development and the processes of property creation and accumulation in the context of economic, social, political transformations in the society are analyzed. The...
Provided by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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Toward A General Theory Of Strategic Action Fields
Jan 2010
In this paper, the authors offer an over brief sketch of a general theory of Strategic Action Fields (SAF). They begin with a discussion of the main elements of the theory, describe the broader...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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The Impact Of The Global Business Cycle On Small Open Economies: A FAVAR Approach For Canada
Jan 2011
Building on the growing evidence on the importance of large data sets for empirical macroeconomic modeling, the authors use a Factor-Augmented VAR (FAVAR) model with more than 260 series for 20...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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The Roles Of Arbitrageurs - UK evidence
Aug 2008
The UK context with its distinct regulation on information disclosure during the takeover period provides an excellent setting to examine how the regulation can affect the roles that arbitrageurs...
Provided by Development & Policies Research Center
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Control Rights In Complex Partnerships
Dec 2010
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two players who are in a "Complex" partnership, that is, a partnership which produces impure public goods. The authors show that...
Provided by University of Warwick
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Closed Loop Performance Management: Closing the Gap between Strategy & Execution
Feb 2011
Formal performance-management (PM) methodologies and solutions can give organizations the discipline to prosper during difficult economic times while providing the flexibility to pursue...
Provided by SAP
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Growing Towards A Sustainable Biofuel Future: A Comprehensive Policy Strategy For Navigating Tradeoffs And Stakeholder Interests In U.S. Agriculture
Mar 2008
Rapid growth of biofuels production in the United States is reshaping the agricultural industry, delivering both benefits and conflict among stakeholders. Routes forward on biofuels production...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Simulating The Impact Of Strategy Development Frameworks On Transportation Infrastructure System Performance
Aug 2010
This paper develops, through a simulation model, a deeper understanding of the relationship between transportation infrastructure strategy development frameworks and system performance. A strategy...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Portuguese High Speed Rail Network; Relating Financing To Strategic And Operating Issues
Jan 2011
This paper describes the implementation of the Portuguese High Speed Rail (HSR) Network. The business model developed by RAVE for the PPP's related with the HSR infrastructure is described and...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Stochastic Stability In Large Populations
Jul 2009
Most work in evolutionary game theory analyzes a deterministic adjustment process on a continuum of agents. However, both the assumption of a continuum and that of no randomness are...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Tournaments As Optimal Contracts
Jul 2007
The author considers a standard multi-agent moral hazard problem with an added assumption that puts an upper bound on wages. The author shows that when the distribution of the aggregate shock to...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
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Constructing Universities As Strategic Actors: Limitations And Variations
Jun 2008
Recent changes in the funding and governance of research universities have attempted to make them more strategically active in contributing to national goals. However, the ability of universities...
Provided by University of Manchester
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IT Outsourcing In Higher Education Institutions
Oct 2007
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have examined IT outsourcing strategies, to ensure that their IT functions could sustain their service requirements while remaining effective and competitive....
Provided by University of Manchester
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Demand-Based Innovation Policy
Jan 2008
Innovation policy has become tremendously differentiated. This is to some extent a consequence of a more systematic understanding of the innovation process as described in innovation system...
Provided by University of Manchester
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The Strategic Value Of Assessment: Building Business Advantage With Accurate Information About People
Jan 2010
For years, executives have asserted this claim - "People are the company's most important asset." But in practice, it is seldom applied - not because companies do not believe it or are insincere,...
Provided by Development Dimensions International
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Voluntary Disclosure And Its Impact On Share Prices: Evidence From The UK Biotechnology Sector
Jul 2007
The earnings of high-R&D expenditure firms are therefore likely to convey less value relevant information to investors than those of less research-intensive firms. Using a sample of firms from the...
Provided by Florida International University
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Aligning Enterprise Analytics To Support Your Business Strategy
Sep 2007
Business strategy and enterprise analytic capabilities are often planned separately, yet they are tightly related to each other. Business strategy sets the corporate direction. It includes the...
Provided by Intelligent Solutions
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Multivariate Fractional Regression Estimation Of Econometric Share Models
Sep 2010
This paper describes and applies econometric strategies for estimating regression models of economic share data outcomes where the shares may take boundary values with nontrivial probability. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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What Are The Costs Of Meeting Distributional Objectives For Climate Policy?
Oct 2010
This paper develops an analytical model to quantify the costs and distributional effects of various fiscal options for allocating the rents created under prospective cap-and-trade programs to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Liquidity Traps: An Interest-Rate-Based Exit Strategy
Nov 2010
This paper analyzes a potential strategy for escaping liquidity traps. The strategy is based on an augmented Taylor-type interest-rate feedback rule and differs from usual specifications in that...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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For Better Or For Worse, But How About A Recession?
Nov 2010
In light of the current economic crisis, the authors estimate hazard models of divorce to determine how state and national unemployment rates affect the likelihood of divorce. With 89,340...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Car Notches: Strategic Automaker Responses To Fuel Economy Policy
Dec 2010
Notches - where small changes in behavior lead to large changes in a tax or subsidy - figure prominently in many policies, but have been rarely examined by economists. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Household Incomes In South Africa
Jan 2011
This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between 1993 and 2008; the start and the end of the first fifteen years of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Pet Overpopulation: An Economic Analysis
Aug 2009
This paper considers the problem of pet overpopulation. It develops a tractable dynamic model whose positive predictions square well with key features of the current U.S. market for pets. The...
Provided by Brown University
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Mineral Resources: Stocks, Flows, And Prospects
Jan 2010
This paper focuses on metals as they provide the clearest example of the challenges and opportunities that mineral resources present to society, in terms of both primary production and recycling....
Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Empirical Investigation In CEO Compensation Across Continental Europe And United Kingdom
Sep 2010
The paper presents a detailed investigation of the top management / Chief Executive Officer (CEO) remuneration package and reveals why this is important to the economy. The goal of this paper is...
Provided by Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
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Modeling Of Management Decisions
Apr 2008
The possibility of using instruments developed by quantitative sciences in organization's product sales, operations and other activities management is analyzed in this paper wanting to make a...
Provided by Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
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An Analysis Of Slovakia Using Competitive Advantage, Core Competence Concepts: Implications For Lithuanian Business
Mar 2009
This paper analyses Slovak business environment and opportunities using the concepts of National Competitive Advantage and Core Competence. These are two fundamental concepts in the literature on...
Provided by Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
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Location Strategies For Agglomeration Economies
Nov 2009
Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Cracking The Carbon Conundrum A New Paradigm For Achieving High Performance In The Travel And Transport Industry
Aug 2009
The transport industry confronts a dilemma: How to adjust to the inevitability of a carbon-constrained global economy and support environmentally sustainable development with - out sacrificing...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The Networked Market
Feb 2009
Lying at the heart of the most common market theory - the efficient-market hypothesis - is the assumption that financial returns, including stock prices, are independent of one another. The...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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White Papers
Hard Demand For A Soft Panel: Winning The Race To A Plug-And-Play World
Dec 2008
The communications and technology world in which most of us grew up was one where explosive innovation ruled - often at the expense of ease of use, interoperability and a quality customer...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
6 Reasons Why You Need A Business Coach Today
Jan 2010
Successfully building a profitable business, year after year, has been compared to balancing an egg on your head, while standing barefoot on sharp knives. It's not easy to do and a wrong decision...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Compatible Aims: Sustainability And High Performance
Jan 2009
No company today can avoid the issue of sustainability. How to approach this challenge remains an open question, however, as it can seem to be much more about what not to do than about...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
7 Key Business Survival Tips
Jan 2010
Surviving in a down business cycle and emerging as a smarter, leaner market leader requires an organization to cut costs wisely, while keeping strategic business units strong and retaining the...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Tomorrow's Utility: Industry Structure And Market Development In Europe Over The Next 10 Years
Jun 2008
The utilities industry is fraught with significant uncertainty. To help players position themselves for an uncertain future, Accenture developed three possible scenarios for tomorrow's European...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
After The Crisis: How Revenue Agencies Are Achieving High Performance
Apr 2010
Three mutually reinforcing trends - the increasing power of information and communication technology, government policies to promote economic openness, and the increasing size and reach of...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Creating Leading-Edge Marketing Organizations
Jan 2010
The rapidly changing marketing environment is making it harder than ever for marketers to compete effectively. Many traditional approaches to organizing the marketing function result in a group...
Provided by McKinsey & Company
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Achieving High Performance Through Information Management Services: A Realistic Route To Capture The Next-Generation Customer
Mar 2009
Many communications, entertainment and high-tech companies have lost sight of what their customers want today and what they are looking for in the immediate future. They are tied to obsolete views...
Provided by Accenture
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Knowing Beats Guessing How Governments Are Using Analytics To Improve Service And Efficiency
Jun 2008
In more and more tax jurisdictions worldwide, government agencies are starting to use advanced analytics methods to answer such questions, improving their revenue collection systems while...
Provided by Accenture
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Small Business Recession Tactics
Dec 2009
So, it is official. We are in a recession. Should you open a new business? Should you be in the small business capital market right now? The simple answer is YES! This paper used real world...
Provided by ABC Business Consulting
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Rapid And Sustained Cost Management: The Winning Edge In Uncertain Times
Sep 2009
In times of economic uncertainty, organizations have two fundamental choices: hunker down or strengthen their strategic positions. What is the winning strategy? Accenture's High Performance...
Provided by Accenture
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Why The Best CFOs Are Both Financial Guardian And Strategic Leader
Jun 2007
To succeed today, an organization's chief financial officer frequently serves as guardian of the company's finances and as a strategic leader. While the two roles require different skill sets, the...
Provided by Bank of America
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If You're Not Making Money Now, You Never Will
Feb 2008
It's Boom Time. Across the board, business in our country has never been stronger. Strong employment. Strong retail sales figures. Overall growth that doubles official estimates. We're the world's...
Provided by ActionCOACH
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Walk Away From Your Business For A Lifestyle Of Dreams
Jun 2008
Here are six tips for designing and implementing business strategies and systems that work - and earn more money - while their owners' enjoy living out their dreams. (1) Spend more time dreaming...
Provided by ActionCOACH
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Strategy As Learning
Apr 2010
Businesses that seek sustainable competitive advantage must set aside the view that strategy is planning and embrace the idea that strategy is learning, says Willie Pietersen - Professor of the...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
When To Walk Away From A Deal
Nov 2007
Is your company prone to 'Deal fever - getting so excited while pursuing acquisitions that it skimps on due diligence? Caught up in the thrill of the chase, many firms use due diligence to justify...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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The Green Link To High Performance In Retail
Aug 2007
Going green isn't just good for the environment - it's good for business too. By making green a core value, involving the entire enterprise in a process of transformation that embraces all of the...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
Corporate Responsibility And Sustainability In Retail
Jan 2010
A large U.S. based consumer goods retailer realized that to offer goods at outlet prices, it needed to keep its own costs under tight control along with extracting total value for money with its...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Aligning People, Processes And Technology To Drive Profitability In The Retail Sector
May 2010
A leading discount retailer realized that they had a problem with turnover, but was unsure about how much turnover was really costing it beyond the typical "HR Costs." Also, the company was...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Sustainable Procurement
Mar 2009
Businesses are under increasing pressure from multiple forces to become more sustainable and cost competitive. The drivers include an increasing focus on social and behavioral responsibility, as...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
Mergers And Acquisitions: Planning And Executing For Success
Oct 2008
Mergers and acquisitions are always challenging, but today's deals represent an altogether different breed. When transactions move this quickly and the time for due diligence is compressed, risks...
Provided by Accenture
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What Being In Business Really Means
Mar 2008
Ever thought you'd like to be in business? Lots of people do! Many of these same people perceive that being in business really means 1) making the big bucks; 2) working fewer hours; 3) building up...
Provided by Planned Growth Business Development Solutions
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How To Present An Executive Scorecard
Jan 2010
One of the most challenging and stressful situations is presenting a performance scorecard or ROI results to an executive team. The challenge is convincing this highly skeptical and critical group...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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The Winning Edge In Uncertain Times: Improving Performance Through Rapid And Sustained Cost Management
Sep 2009
In times of economic uncertainty, organizations have two fundamental choices: hunker down or strengthen their strategic positions. What is the winning strategy? Accenture's High Performance...
Provided by Accenture
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Are You The Weakest Link In Your Company's Supply Chain?
Aug 2007
Do you know how your company's supply chain is performing? If not, you risk alienating customers and suppliers, eroding shareholder value, and losing control of your fixed costs. These are...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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How To Manage Scorecard Feedback
Jan 2010
The most important reason for collecting performance scorecard data is to provide feedback so that adjustments or changes within the organization can be made in a timely manner. The process for...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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14 Big Businesses That Started In A Recession
Jan 2010
It might seem counterintuitive to start a new business when the economy is in the dumps. But a recession can actually be the ideal time for launching a company. In fact, many well-known and...
Provided by Tippit
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Positioning Your Business To Stand Out From The Crowd
Mar 2008
No business exists in a vacuum. In the marketplace alongside of you are competitive products/services and companies. Like it or not, potential customers have a certain perception of your company...
Provided by Planned Growth Business Development Solutions
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Touching Customers Regularly ? Why?
Mar 2008
The market - both consumers and the business community receive a large number of emails together with direct mail letters/catalogs - all focused on convincing them that another vendor can serve...
Provided by Planned Growth Business Development Solutions
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In-Vehicle Infotainment A View Of The European Marketplace
Mar 2010
A number of trends are impacting the automotive industry, creating fertile ground for change. These drivers will need in-vehicle systems to help them more readily navigate congested city roadways,...
Provided by Accenture
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How To Collect The Best Scorecard Data
Jan 2010
The fundamental premise for measuring an organization or project is to collect data directly related to the objectives of the company. To help organizations focus on the desired measurements, a...
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How To Develop A Strategy Scorecard
Jan 2010
Leading organizations have found the performance scorecards that map to their business strategy. Leading organizations have broken away from the traditional measurement techniques and software,...
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Helping India On The Journey To High Performance
Nov 2009
The world's business media now devote plenty of ink to India's energetic giants such as Tata, Reliance and Bharti Airtel. Business leaders around the world are increasingly familiar with 'Sunrise'...
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Tips For Competing Against The Big Box Stores
Mar 2008
Resellers nationwide are struggling with the big box stores encroaching on their product mix surf. They get upset, complain to their friends and contemporaries, try and get their local politicians...
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When Are Emerging Markets No Longer 'Emerging'?
Apr 2009
Call them the darlings of the global market - the economies of India, China and Brazil have exploded in recent years, igniting both business opportunities and challenges. These countries are...
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Holding On To your Place At The Top: Maintaining Competitive Advantage
Jan 2010
When Progressive Insurance began providing quotes for its competitors' policies to potential customers, many in the industry scoffed. The move seemed counterintuitive for a company driven to...
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A Dose Of Healthy Paranoia Brings Sound Financial Rewards
Dec 2009
"Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, commenting on his company's recent better-than-expected earnings, noted that the company's eReader, Kindle, is their top-selling item by both unit sales and dollars. During...
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Ultimate Leadership: Winning Execution Strategies For Your Situation
May 2008
There is no single style of leadership that works. But there are basic principles of leadership that all effective leaders apply regardless of their personal style of leadership. This paper is...
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