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Case Studies
Carlos Ghosn As CEO Of Nissan And Renault: Can He Rework The 'Nissan Magic'?
Feb 2010
In March 1999, Renault, the then ninth carmaker in the world announced its alliance with Nissan investing $5.4 billion. The alliance had helped both the companies equally, in terms of cost savings...
Provided by IBS Case Development Centre
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White Papers
Wharton On Career Management: Getting In, Getting Ahead, And Getting Out - Gracefully
Nov 2008
A generation ago, employees never had to worry much about managing their careers; their companies did it for them. As anyone knows who has been in the workforce for the last decade, times have...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Wharton On Career Management In Turbulent Times
Apr 2009
Navigating a career path - not to mention a particular job - can sometimes seem like shooting the rapids in a kayak. Change inside an organization, within an industry and in the overall economy...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Breaking The Recession Mind: Simulation Encourages Strategic Innovation
Mar 2009
In running a business simulation during a recent session of Wharton's Executive Development Program, Todd Norris, CTO of Simulations International, noticed that participants were more conservative...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Case Studies
Brand CEOs': The Case Of Martha Stewart
Feb 2010
"Martha Stewart, acclaimed as "Ms Perfectionist", "Domestic doyenne" and a rolemodel for any businesswoman, is the 'second' most written about woman in the world. This well-known entrepreneur of...
Provided by IBS Case Development Centre
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White Papers
Touching The Void: Critical Lessons For Leaders
Dec 2009
In a study by Wharton Professor of Management Robert House, the effectiveness of top-level managers was measured under both stable and uncertain market conditions. House and his colleagues...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Strategies To Think Your Way Out Of A Downturn
Aug 2009
As U.S. gas prices accelerated above $4 per gallon this summer, sales of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and large trucks hit a brick wall. By June, sales of SUVs had fallen 34 percent and full-size...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Case Studies
Balancing Stakeholder Needs
Jul 2009
A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in what a business does or an influence upon the business. Large organisations have many different stakeholder groups. Some are internal to the...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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Case Studies
Provo Craft & Novelty
May 2010
Provo Craft & Novelty, Inc. (Provo Craft) is the leading designer and marketer of electronic cutting systems, marketed primarily under the Cricut brand, and related craft products in the United...
Provided by Bank of America
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Case Studies
Stakeholders In Recycling And Re-Use At Vodafone
Jul 2008
Since Newbury, Berkshire-based company Vodafone was set up in 1985, there was never looking back for them. In 2006, income of the company reached a £5 billion mark. Vodafone is one of the very few...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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White Papers
Improving Strategic Outcomes With Toyota's Example
Apr 2010
A singular focus on one strategy means you're not paying attention to other key areas. Develop support mechanisms for your strategy that help you continually scan the horizon. Stay focused, but be...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Four Tools For Achieving Spectacular Growth
Mar 2010
Opportunities for growth abound, and every organization wants to position itself to take advantage. But the failure rate of growth strategies is high. How can you determine which opportunities...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Case Studies
Managing Firms Throughout The Business Cycle
Jul 2009
The first decade of the 21st century has been a rollercoaster ride for economic activity. Business confidence was high at the start of the millennium. This was particularly fuelled by the growth...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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White Papers
Doing It Your Way: Creating A Personalized Strategy And Leadership Program
Jan 2008
When Dan Petronella, vice president and treasurer for Abercrombie & Fitch, recently negotiated a lease for the company's first Asian store in the Ginza section of Tokyo, he drew upon his...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Case Studies
Meeting Responsibilities To Stakeholders
Jul 2008
The provision of energy to meet the needs of society is a pressing issue today. Many of the world's non-renewable resources such as coal, oil and gas are limited in supply. From the 1970s onwards,...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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Case Studies
Continuous Improvement As A Business Strategy
Jul 2008
Corus is transforming production at its Scunthorpe plate mill through Continuous Improvement. This way of working encourages all employees to behave as team members to identify and support work...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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Case Studies
Integrated Cost And Schedule Development - Keeping The Schedule Alive
Jan 2010
A program office at NARA was created to deliver a $27 million, 8-year program at a large government organization. The program office team was having difficulty developing a comprehensive Work...
Provided by Management Concepts
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Case Studies
Fast, Furious - And Focused Unilever Sells Two Major Shared Services Centers In The Blink Of An Eye And Refocuses On Its Core Business
May 2010
Unilever is among the largest consumer products companies across the world. With an intention of focusing on its core business activities in Latin America that were exhibiting exceptional growth...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Five Keys To Flourishing In Trying Times
Dec 2009
We are in the midst of the most severe recession in the memories of most anyone alive. Many experts estimate that the causes of this recession are more severe than those that created the Great...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Political Connections And Business Strategy
Nov 2007
This paper presents a model that considers a moral hazard setup wherein leveraged firms have incentives to take on excessive risks and are thus rationed when they attempt to borrow in order to...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Beating Recession Fatigue Requires Right Diagnosis
Jan 2010
In periods of reduced consumption, like now, managers may be anxious to kick their "Turnaround plan" into high gear. But before prescribing any wonder remedy, it's vital to make a correct...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Don't Look Far For Your Next Best Opportunity
May 2010
In the January issue of Wharton@Work, executive coach Deb Giffen provided a three-step approach to proactive career management. Here, she speaks with the academic co-directors of Wharton's...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Wharton On Senior Leadership: Strategic Management
Jun 2009
When it comes to strategy, should companies focus on increasing market share, improving shareholder value, diversification, or some other goal? And how should the strategy be executed? Mergers and...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
The Organization Of Expertise In The Presence Of Communication
Nov 2009
A decision-maker has to elicit information from multiple informed experts about a policy's value. The principal may prevent communication among agents. However, it may be in the principal's...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Delegation Vs. Control Of Component Procurement Under Asymmetric Cost Information & Price-Only Contracts
Apr 2009
A manufacturer must choose to delegate component procurement to her tier-1 supplier, or to control component procurement by contracting with both the tier-1 supplier and the tier-2 component...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Three Strategies To Build A Winning Portfolio Of Alliances
Jan 2009
Alliance portfolios, or "Egocentric networks," play a key role in firm performance. Take Apple, whose portfolio of ties with EMI, Google and Microsoft, to name a few, were instrumental in the...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Analyzing Alliances: What To Look At And How
Jan 2008
An alliance, or an arrangement for cooperation between businesses, is a mix of market transaction and merger or takeover among companies. Though allied, each party retains its own independent...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Designing Your Future Business Model: An Activity System Perspective
Feb 2009
Building on the received literature, the authors conceptualize a firm's business model as a system of interdependent activities that transcends the focal firm and spans its boundaries. The...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
The Dark Side Of Stakeholder Management
Jan 2009
Can a company act ethically and make a profit? Stakeholder Management (SM) theory suggests so: If managers take everyone with an interest in the company into account, they will act responsibly. It...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Supply Chain Strategies For Sustainable Companies
Apr 2008
Companies can make money while operating in socially responsible and environmentally friendly ways. It just takes what supply chain expert Hau Lee calls the Triple-A approach - having agility,...
Provided by Stanford University
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Whitepapers
Thriving In Tumultuous Times: Jetpool Flies High
Mar 2009
GM, Ford and Chrysler might not have suffered the public relations black eye of their executives taking private jets to Washington to beg for bailout money had their CFOs known about the Jetpool...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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White Papers
Competitor-Oriented Objectives: The Myth Of Market Share
Dec 2007
Competitor-oriented objectives, such as market-share targets, are promoted by academics and are commonly used by firms. A 1996 review of the evidence, summarized in this paper, found that...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Do Emerging Economies Integrate The Internet Better?
Apr 2008
Don't assume that emerging economies lag developed economies on all business fronts, warns Nigel Melville, assistant professor at Michigan's Ross School of Business. According to his recent study,...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Market Organization And Efficiency In Electricity Markets
Jun 2009
Electricity markets exhibit two forms of organization: decentralized bilateral trading and centralized auction markets. Using detailed data on prices, quantities, and production costs, we examine...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
2008 Supply Chain Monitor "How Mature Is the Green Supply Chain?"
Feb 2008
Limiting damage to the environment is the major challenge society faces over the coming years. Now that companies are beginning to step up their environmental programs, their objective is to...
Provided by ESCP Europe
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White Papers
Firms Survive By Recognizing Fundamental Industry Changes
Sep 2008
Enduring companies survive because employees throughout the firm, not just those in the executive suite, learn to keep an eye on how related industries are evolving. Longevity comes not just from...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Confucianism And Its Implications For Industrial Relations In China
Nov 2009
The paper aims to examine the impact of Confucian values on industrial relations in China. The existing literature suggests that these values have a significant influence on industrial relations...
Provided by ESCP Europe
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Whitepapers
The Top Five Mistakes New Leaders Make And How To Avoid Them
Jan 2010
After being recognized for years of accomplishing tasks and making individual contributions, new leaders are suddenly confronted with a much different situation. They are now held accountable for...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Whitepapers
Managing A True A-Team Of Far-Flung Experts Requires Special Leadership Tactics
Sep 2009
Managing a virtual team requires a different form of leadership than the command-and-control method that would work with people working in a shared location. Leaders of virtual teams will be more...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Whitepapers
Business Responds To Climate Change
Jan 2010
As 2010 begins, looking back at how the posture of business towards climate change has changed over the last decade is fitting. Although a landmark global agreement did not emerge from the...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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White Papers
How To Complete The M&A Integration Process, Minimize Disruptions, And Achieve Desired Synergies
Oct 2009
Research shows that most mergers and acquisitions fail to meet the expectations set for them. Despite the best intentions, deals often fall short when the time comes to begin translating carefully...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Mobile Line-of-Business Applications For The Midsize Business : An ROI Analysis
Jun 2008
Mobile solutions continue to make inroads into companies of all sizes. Once perceived as an ad hoc solution or tool, mobile solutions have become key components of core business processes. The...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Management Excellence Framework: Investigate To Invest
Oct 2009
External stakeholders ask not for a budget, but for projections, forecasts and market guidance. If you miss external trends that have an impact on your business the repercussions can be serious....
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Management Excellence Framework: Design To Decide
Oct 2009
The Design to decide management process is the key to strategy formulation. It helps companies decide how to realize the highest returns for all stakeholders in the most appropriate markets. To...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Sustainable Business: Minimization Vs. Optimization
Feb 2010
'Sustainable development' - or simply, 'sustainability' - is most commonly defined as "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to...
Provided by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
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White Papers
A Total Benefits Strategy Is A Valuable Approach In HR Outsourcing
Jan 2008
It's a given that employees value their benefit packages as key components of their work/life experience, but for both employees and employers, there's more to the picture than merely...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Economic Crisis Pushes Outsourcing To New Heights
Oct 2008
In normal economic conditions, the option of outsourcing - delegating the supply to third parties, through the terms of service-level agreements - is encouraged by a number of factors. Heightened...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Womenomics: Winning The War For Talent And Customers
Jan 2010
Business leaders have been talking about talent wars for years. These executives complain that they can't find enough qualified people to fill the leadership pipeline even in these tough economic...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Tapping The Uptapped: A Winning Strategy For Emerging Markets
Jan 2010
Innovation is often a key driver to a company's success. Take Siemens, for example, which has a reputation for being innovative - and successful. But the correlation doesn't stop there, according...
Provided by INSEAD
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Whitepapers
Making Collaboration Work for the 21st Century's Distributed Workforce
Oct 2010
This Forrester Consulting white paper examines three surprising findings from a recent study of working behaviors that impact how businesses communicate and collaborate with an increasingly...
Provided by Citrix Online
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White Papers
Why Business Intelligence Makes Sense for Midsize Companies
Dec 2010
Find out how to meet the challenges facing your midsize company and benefit from the road map that takes you through the process of deploying a BI solution, enabling you to start small and then...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
The Value Of U.S. Life Sciences: A White Paper Exploring Competitiveness, Delivery And Challenges
Apr 2009
The life sciences industry in the United States is one of the country's greatest resources and simultaneously one of its greatest puzzles. This field has given birth to some of the fastest growing...
Provided by Milken Institute
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Whitepapers
The Future Of Application Outsourcing Making: The Move From Tactical To Strategic
Jul 2008
In the near future, application outsourcing will need to address a variety of challenges, some external and some created by the very opportunities application outsourcing has itself created. For...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Secrets Of The Winners In Business - Casey Jones
Dec 2010
Business Growth is an important issue for many business owners and directors. Have you noticed that some businesses still seem to be growing and have been shrugging off the economic slowdown? Not...
Provided by PR Log
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White Papers
Adopting A Knowledge Outsourcing Strategy
Mar 2010
IT outsourcing is a business transaction which involves contracting or selling an organization's IT assets, people and activities to a third party supplier. Several different forms of outsourcing...
Provided by Emerald Group Publishing
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White Papers
Outsourcing Strategy - Adopting A Holistic View
Jan 2010
Is outsourcing all about cost reduction? In many cases it is, but there is much more that outsourcing can provide. In order to maximize the overall benefits, outsourcing strategies should...
Provided by Amdocs
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White Papers
Exploring The Continuum Of Social And Financial Returns: When Does A Nonprofit Become A Social Enterprise?
Aug 2009
The rate of innovation in the nonprofit sector appears to have accelerated in recent years. Although the new efforts compose a relatively small portion of the sector, they are occurring with...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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White Papers
Building Your Retail Store's Brand Equity
Jan 2010
When a customer thinks of your store, what do they think of? Your store's identity is the sum of many critical decisions that you make, involving every aspect of your business. It is the nexus...
Provided by Hurlbut & Associates
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White Papers
Managing Retail Inventory And Maximizing Return On Inventory Investment
Jan 2010
Inventory may be the largest asset on your balance sheet, which makes it very important, but it's not the most important asset. Your most important asset is the customer relationships which enable...
Provided by Hurlbut & Associates
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White Papers
Balancing Your Budget And Investment: When Is The Right Time To Outsource?
Jan 2010
Many multichannel merchants focus on how they can lower operating costs when they consider outsourcing certain tasks. But when you outsource operations, you also outsource the investment. Sounds...
Provided by F. Curtis Barry & Company
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White Papers
A History Of Emerging Domestic Markets
Jul 2007
The 2000 U.S. Census dramatically illustrated what many observers already knew - that America's racial and ethnic make-up is diversifying rapidly. Over the next 40 years, if projections hold, more...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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White Papers
SOA Business Analysis
Feb 2008
Abstraction Business Analysis for SOA is a response to the urgent need to get SOA from pilot stage and turn it into a mainstream IT practice. As this white paper shows, while SOA is in urgent need...
Provided by Sparx Systems
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Whitepapers
Connectivity-IBM SOA Appliances, Redefining the Boundaries of Middleware Whitepaper
Dec 2010
Speeding the go-to-market time of enterprise innovations is critical for increasing business agility. Applications and supporting infrastructures must be built to change, built to last, and built...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Starting A New Business: An Educational Brochure For Alabama Taxpayers
Aug 2009
Contact all necessary agencies that you feel may affect your business or yourself. Do not rely on secondhand information or someone else to contact all the agencies for you. There are forms that...
Provided by Alabama Development Office
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White Papers
Small Business Guide To Doing Business In Alabama
Apr 2010
There are a number of steps which should be taken before anyone starts a small business in Alabama. Detailed descriptions of all the areas involved in planning a business venture are discussed in...
Provided by Alabama Development Office
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White Papers
The Future Of Advertising Is Happening Now
Jun 2009
Globally, media consumption patterns are rapidly evolving in favor of the digital medium, with consumers increasingly spending many hours a day communicating, collaborating and chatting online....
Provided by Comviva Technologies
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White Papers
Strategic Management In The Public Sector: Improving Organisational Intelligence
Sep 2010
The public sector is under increasing pressure worldwide to improve outcomes and increase outputs of their organizations, while simultaneously improving efficiencies and effectiveness. Pressure...
Provided by TechnologyOne
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White Papers
The 12 Reasons Business Owner Transitions Fail
Sep 2009
Over the past several years, authors' have spoken with business owners around the country who had decided they had reached the point of being ready to leave their businesses. However, no one was...
Provided by BriefBack Business Institute
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White Papers
The New Value Of The Business Analyst
Dec 2007
Today's business analyst is expected to do much more than just document business requirements and perform rudimentary analysis tasks. The BA is now equipped with the skills and tools required to...
Provided by Enterprise Agility
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Webcasts
Connectivity - Considering moving to Cloud? Developing strategy, provisioning plan and good SOA governance is a must
Dec 2010
Cloud Computing is rapidly driving real business value. The advancements in IT virtualization, rapid provisioning and hardened security are transforming how businesses derive benefits from IT,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
CRM's Sticking Points - And Seven Tips To Survive Them
Nov 2010
Making a strategic CRM implementation a success takes some time, but if you can get it right it will transform your business, insists Sage CRM evangelist David Beard. "It requires consultancy and...
Provided by Sift Media
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White Papers
The Future Of CRM: Commoditisation Or Innovation?
Dec 2010
CRM is a bit different compared to then. The vendors that survived 2001-2003 are more robust, they rely on maintenance revenues more, subscription is now 25% of the market with lower churn rates,...
Provided by Sift Media
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Webcasts
Caesar IT Services: The Challenges Of Diversification
Jun 2010
Caesar, a professional IT services firm, has competed in the Dutch IT market since 1993. Its initial value proposition was providing its customers with qualified human capacity at a low hourly or...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Webcasts
Sustainability: The Next Big Imperative
Jun 2010
Kevin Roberts, Saatchi & Saatchi: "The recession has been a good reset, forcing brands to be sustainable culturally, socially, environmentally as well as economically, or else be rejected by...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Higher Expectations From CRM
Jul 2007
Initially, Customer Relationship Management systems (CRM) were simple databases to capture prospect information and provide reports for following up with Internet and phone leads. Today, they have...
Provided by Dealer Marketing Magazine
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White Papers
Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Is There A Future For CRM?
Aug 2007
CRM is more fluid and changing-it needs to be managed and supported. It seems the original function of CRM is blurring, as well. Originally intended to build and improve customer relationships,...
Provided by Dealer Marketing Magazine
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White Papers
CRM Starts With Your Customers
Aug 2008
Customers don't have to be thought of as just a lead for the sales department, a service department customer, or parts department customer. Dealers can use CRM tools to link all threads together...
Provided by Dealer Marketing Magazine
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White Papers
Is Your CRM Use Growing Or Stunting Your Business?
Jun 2010
Every dealer should be implementing new growth strategies as the market finally picks up steam. Your CRM system can be a valuable asset if utilized properly. On the other hand, it can be a growth...
Provided by Dealer Marketing Magazine
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White Papers
Building Blocks Of CRM
May 2008
Achieving the long-term value of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) requires a strategy involving the whole business and should be approached at an enterprise level. Only a small, but growing,...
Provided by InterAktiv Technology Pte
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White Papers
Discovering Your Advantage With CRM
Jan 2010
Customer relationship management software can only work to your advantage if you view as more than just a tool for getting more from your customers. It helps you do more for your customers. You've...
Provided by Mansueto Ventures
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White Papers
Market Organization And Efficiency In Electricity Markets
Jun 2009
Electricity markets exhibit two forms of organization: decentralized bilateral trading and centralized auction markets. Using detailed data on prices, quantities, and production costs, we examine...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
2008 Supply Chain Monitor "How Mature Is the Green Supply Chain?"
Feb 2008
Limiting damage to the environment is the major challenge society faces over the coming years. Now that companies are beginning to step up their environmental programs, their objective is to...
Provided by ESCP Europe
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White Papers
Firms Survive By Recognizing Fundamental Industry Changes
Sep 2008
Enduring companies survive because employees throughout the firm, not just those in the executive suite, learn to keep an eye on how related industries are evolving. Longevity comes not just from...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Confucianism And Its Implications For Industrial Relations In China
Nov 2009
The paper aims to examine the impact of Confucian values on industrial relations in China. The existing literature suggests that these values have a significant influence on industrial relations...
Provided by ESCP Europe
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Whitepapers
The Top Five Mistakes New Leaders Make And How To Avoid Them
Jan 2010
After being recognized for years of accomplishing tasks and making individual contributions, new leaders are suddenly confronted with a much different situation. They are now held accountable for...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Whitepapers
Managing A True A-Team Of Far-Flung Experts Requires Special Leadership Tactics
Sep 2009
Managing a virtual team requires a different form of leadership than the command-and-control method that would work with people working in a shared location. Leaders of virtual teams will be more...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Whitepapers
Business Responds To Climate Change
Jan 2010
As 2010 begins, looking back at how the posture of business towards climate change has changed over the last decade is fitting. Although a landmark global agreement did not emerge from the...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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White Papers
Japan And Her Dealings With Offshoring: An Empirical Analysis With Aggregate Data
Jul 2009
First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject....
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Shareholder Rights, Boards, And CEO Compensation
Feb 2008
The paper analyzes the role of executive compensation in corporate governance. As proxies for corporate governance, it uses board size, board independence, CEO-chair duality, institutional...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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White Papers
Curing Work-To-Family Conflict Across Cultures
Jan 2009
How many of us have missed a school play because we've had to work late at the office? Or met with a lack of sympathy from a supervisor when we've felt down about problems at home? In the U.S.,...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Compaq And HP: Ultimately, The Urge To Merge Was Right
Jun 2007
In 2001, when Hewlett-Packard's then-CEO Carly Fiorina announced that the technology giant proposed to merge with Compaq Computer Corp., she set off a firestorm of controversy. Michael Dell, CEO...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
More Competitors = Less Competition
Feb 2009
In a forthcoming research paper in Psychological Science, a series of studies by Stephen Garcia, adjunct assistant professor of management and organizations and assistant professor of psychology...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Economic Nationalism In Mergers & Acquisitions
Apr 2010
This paper studies the government reaction to large corporate merger attempts in the European Union during 1997-2006 using hand-collected data. It documents widespread economic nationalism in...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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White Papers
Challenges And Opportunities In High-Dimensional Choice Data Analyses
May 2008
Modern businesses routinely capture data on millions of observations across subjects, brand SKUs, time periods, predictor variables, and store locations, thereby generating massive...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
When Firms Go Private: Signs Are Obvious
Sep 2007
Many factors that drive public companies to go private are evident throughout their public life - even at their Initial Public Offering (IPO), say researchers at the University of Michigan's Ross...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
The Role Of Boards Of Directors In Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey
Apr 2009
This paper is a survey of the literature on boards of directors, with an emphasis on research done subsequent to the Hermalin and Weisbach (2003) survey. The two questions most asked about boards...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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White Papers
Cut Costs Without Losing Competitiveness
Jan 2010
Ninety percent of business leaders say they have paid more attention to costs since the financial crisis took hold. Some have asked every department for an across-the-board 10 percent cut in...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Offshoring: Facts And Figures At The Country Level
Aug 2009
Offshoring has lately received wide attention. Its potential effects, mainly to be materialized in employment and productivity dislocations, are yet to be fully assessed. However, some consensus...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
The Health Hazards Of Managed Care
Jan 2008
One of the most significant changes in the health care market over the past decade has been the shift from the traditional insurance system to managed care. In the past, health insurers paid...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Casino Gambling: Hold 'Em Or Fold 'Em?
Oct 2008
People who gamble at casinos know when to hold 'em - or quit while they're ahead - but have trouble deciding when to fold 'em when they're behind, says a University of Michigan researcher. A new...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Manager's Background Improves Control System Performance
Jan 2009
Previous research has shown that management control systems (MCSs), rather than impeding the innovation process, can enhance it. In their latest paper, Reasons for Management Control Systems...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Private Label Introduction: Does It Benefit The Supply Chain?
Nov 2009
Private labels, also called store brands or distributor brands, have changed the retail industry during the last three decades. Consumer data shows strong growth of private label market share, and...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Institutional Or Structural: Lessons From International Electricity Sector Reforms
Oct 2007
The widespread privatization of national electricity sectors across both the developing and developed world provides a broad base of experience to assess the relative performance of various...
Provided by University of Western Ontario
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White Papers
Two Sides Of The Same Coin: How Category Leniency Affects Multiple Audience Evaluations
Nov 2009
Research across many literatures indicates that organizations with unclear identities will suffer in terms of external evaluations. In this paper, the author suggests that this depends on the type...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Measuring The Impact Of The Business Cycle On Your Industry
Jan 2008
The ability to make plans based on forecasts of a business cycle, using publicly available information, is essential now more than ever. Information on the exposure and intensity of exposure of a...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
The Common Good Of The Company And The Theory Of Organization
Jan 2009
The concept of common good occupies a prominent place in political and social philosophy, yet it has had little impact on the theory of the firm. This is despite some recent attempts to resituate...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
A Moral Crisis?
Jan 2009
The dimensions of the current economic and financial crisis have placed it at the center of today's political, scientific and media agenda. Many analyses have been carried out as to the causes,...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Is Monetary Policy Becoming Less Effective?
Jan 2008
The mild recession that struck some advanced economies in 2000-2001 led to a revived interest in the study and management of economic cycles. More recently, monetary policy has attracted renewed...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Selling Vs. Selling Out
Feb 2009
The real question is not whether social investing will become real, or whether it will become a more important asset class. Social investment is growing, and its growth is in line with societal...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
The Commodity Terms Of Trade, Unit Roots, And Nonlinear Alternatives: A Smooth Transition Approach
Mar 2008
This paper extends the recent literature on the Prebisch - Singer hypothesis of a long-run decline in the relative prices of primary commodities. The main innovation is testing for and estimating...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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Rating The Ratings: How Good Are Commercial Governance Ratings?
Jun 2008
Proxy advisory and corporate governance rating firms play an increasingly important role in U.S. public markets. Proxy advisory firms provide voting recommendations to shareholders on proxy...
Provided by Stanford University
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Doing It The Chinese Way: Disney's Strategy For A Lucrative Ride In China
Jun 2010
As trite as the phrase 'think global, act local' may be, it nevertheless encapsulates The Walt Disney Company's approach to making a success of its business in China. To that end, producing...
Provided by INSEAD
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How To Distinguish Smart Big Moves From Stupid Ones
Apr 2009
Big moves, in the form of strategic shifts with a major commitment of resources to achieve a new goal, are pivotal points in the history of companies. When top executives make shifts in direction...
Provided by IMD
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Oiling Board Processes: The Dynamic Evolution From 'Company Secretary' to 'Corporate Governance Officer'
Jan 2009
In the wake of the current financial crisis, a new wave of regulation will certainly emerge on how boards should be run; the processes and structures to support board performance. As the number of...
Provided by IMD
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How To Be An Effective Strategic Initiative Sponsor: Roll Up Your Sleeves! You Matter!
Dec 2008
Should corporate executives be held responsible for their company's strategic initiatives? One would think so. Any yet, surprisingly, only 31% of individuals questioned recently felt that their...
Provided by IMD
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Shape Up Your Technology Start-Ups!
Dec 2007
High-innovation, technology-based startups have a very special role in both intra and entrepreneurship. They produce proportionately far more jobs and value than their low- and medium-innovation...
Provided by IMD
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The Key Commandments For Doing Business In Russia
Jan 2008
Russia possesses many opportunities being the world's largest country in terms of territory, possessing vast natural resources, having a population of over 150 million people, having had one of...
Provided by INSEAD
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Performance-Structure And Market Power Versus Efficiency In Latin American Banking
Feb 2008
Since the mid-1990s the Latin American banking sector has experienced profound changes due to financial liberalization, a significant increase in foreign investments and greater mergers...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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A Matching Theory Of Entrepreneurs' Tie Formation Intentions And Initiation Of Economic Exchange
Feb 2010
This study advances our understanding of network dynamics by applying matching theory to examine entrepreneurs' intentions to add new ties to their personal network. The author propose that task...
Provided by INSEAD
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Entrepreneurs' Networking Actions And Referral Based Search For New Exchange Partners
Jul 2008
Existing theories of inter-organizational relationship formation imply that decision makers use referrals from current partners to form new ones, leading to dense ties that aggregate into...
Provided by INSEAD
