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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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On The Effectiveness Of The California Enterprise Zone Program
Jun 2009
Recent empirical evidence (Neumark and Kolko, 2008) finds that the California Enterprise Zone (EZ) program does not increase employment. The result is in stark contrast to other empirical work...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
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Predicting Politics: Prediction Markets Out-Predict Political Pollsters
Feb 2009
Political prediction markets - in which participants buy and sell "Contracts" based on who they think, will win an election - accurately predicted Barack Obama's 2008 victory. New research shows...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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When Does One Good Deed Deserve Another?: The Calculus Of Reciprocity
Jan 2009
Rationality suggests that trust should build slowly and that people should proceed cautiously when building a relationship. But what if you only have one chance to decide whether to trust someone?...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM And Emerging Business Opportunities
May 2009
The empirical evidence is that only a tiny fraction of organizations live to age 40. Why this should be is a puzzle, since when firms are doing well they have all the resources (financial,...
Provided by Stanford University
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Firm Size And Service Level
Sep 2008
Customers often select service providers - ranging from mobile phone service to fast food chains - based on three attributes: service level, price, or another attribute of the firm (such as...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Mandatory Or Voluntary Corporate Disclosure?:Full Disclosure Is Not Always A Moneymaker
Aug 2007
"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis on the importance of openness and transparency in society. Such sunlight can be a pretty profitable...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Softening The Blow Of Bad News
Oct 2007
Chief financial officers and investors focus on earnings per share more than any other single financial figure. Researchers in accounting have long confirmed that the price of a company's stock is...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Cournot Competition Under Yield Uncertainty: The Case Of The U.S. Influenza Vaccine Market
Dec 2008
This paper is inspired by the recurring mismatch between demand and supply in the U.S. influenza vaccine market. Economic theory predicts that an oligopolistic market with unregulated but costly...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Nobel Designs: Understanding Mechanism Design
Nov 2007
The laureates themselves have gamely tried in sound bites to describe their contribution and its importance. However, mechanism design does not lend itself to such a task. Its importance comes not...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Big Fish, Little Fish-Choose Your Pond
Jan 2008
The top to average pay gap has been growing both within most countries and between them, within and between industries, between executives and workers, and among executives themselves. Still, the...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Playing Well Together
Feb 2008
Research findings suggest that the value of organizing lawyers into firms is to facilitate the exchange of information about economic opportunities. What firms do is essentially weaken...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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CRM Business Strategy
Jan 2010
CRM strategy should be aligned to the organisation's mission and purpose in order to bring about a sustained achievement of business objectives and profitable customer relationships. CRM...
Provided by CRMforecast.com
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Customer Relationship Management: Strategies And Practices In Selected Banks Of Pakistan
Nov 2009
As economic globalization intensifies competition and creates a climate of constant change, winning and keeping customers has never been more important. Nowadays, Banks have realized that customer...
Provided by World Business Institute
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What Kind Of Customer Support Can CRM Help My Business Achieve?
Jan 2010
A good CRM strategy helps you to evaluate your audience and read their comments to find solutions that best suit their needs. In some cases, you only have to provide the solution and then notify...
Provided by CRM & Social Media Online
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Are There Benefits To CRM Training?
Jan 2010
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategy that allows companies to manage and sustain their customer database, sales leads, and accounts. There are a variety of benefits to CRM...
Provided by CRM & Social Media Online
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What CRM Consultants Can Do For Your Small Business
Jan 2010
As a small business owner, you understand that every decision you make affects your company's success. Your business is dependent on your actions in a very real way: each day brings with it a...
Provided by CRM & Social Media Online
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What Kinds Of Businesses Can Benefit From CRM Services?
Jan 2010
As a business owner, you understand your organization better than any other individual. You understand its quirks, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as the intricacies that govern your particular...
Provided by CRM & Social Media Online
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Successful Sales And Customer Relationship Management Go Hand In Hand
Jan 2010
Customer relationship management is a way to streamline all communications and processes related to your customers, whether on the sales, marketing, customer service or social media side of...
Provided by CRM & Social Media Online
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Why CRM Is Failing
Jan 2010
Despite millions invested in it, Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) does not seem to deliver the benefits that it promised, and may, after all, be a failure. Why has it failed? CRM is based on...
Provided by Database Marketing Institute
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How To Choose The Right CRM Software For Your Business
Mar 2009
Having trouble coordinating your customer transactions, or keeping track of which customer only buys your products in pink or always orders ten of everything? Keen to build a closer relationship...
Provided by Reed Business Information
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CRM Works For Small/Big Industries - A Look At How It Achieves This
Jan 2010
CRM can be implemented having even one customer .That is the barest minimum required. As such small industries too benefit from CRM implementation. In CRM terms a small business would generally...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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Bloomberg Open Symbology and Market Identifiers Overview
Dec 2010
Any action or condition that adds friction, opacity and/or cost to transaction processes detracts from the value sought by the principal parties in a trade. Proprietary market identifiers add...
Provided by Bloomberg LP
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Selling Your Company
Apr 2010
How Selling Your Company To Management Can be a Smart Exit Strategy Business owners often overlook selling their company to management as a possible exit strategy. But for solid companies with...
Provided by Lantern Capital Advisors
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Failed Strategies
Jan 2010
The broadest insight is that almost half (46 percent) of the catastrophes stemmed from misguided strategies not from bad luck or from poor execution, even though conventional wisdom is that good...
Provided by Chief Executive Group
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Rethinking Manufacturing Strategy
Jan 2010
Tweaking competitors and bucking trends, B. Braun Medical CEO Caroll Neubauer has been busy expanding U.S. production over the last few years, raising the domestic manufacturing payroll to about...
Provided by Chief Executive Group
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Corruption And Product Market Competition: An Empirical Investigation
Apr 2010
To what extent does the lack of access to formal financial services impede business growth in low-income countries? While most research on this issue has so far focused on credit market failures,...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage And Good Governance
Sep 2010
A copyright system is designed to produce an ecology that nurtures the creation, dissemination, and enjoyment of works of authorship. When it works well, it encourages creators to generate new...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Hybrid Organizations As Agents Of Positive Social Change: Bridging The For-Profit & Non-Profit Divide
Oct 2010
This paper argues for a model of a corruption constraint on organizational growth and development in the form of a business ethics glass ceiling. Although the problem of corruption's negative...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Challenges In Marketing Socially Useful Goods To The Poor
Feb 2010
The authors examine a supply base diversification problem faced by a buyer who periodically holds auctions to award short term supply contracts among a cohort of suppliers (i.e., the supply base)....
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Reducing Poverty Through Employment
Sep 2009
In today's financial geography, Wall Street intersects Main Street. When it comes to sound bites, politicians recognize that ordinary Americans feel the effects of plummeting financial markets in...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Lessons From Germany's Banking Crisis: Taking A Closer Look At Boardrooms
Sep 2010
German banks are divided between the state-owned Landesbanken and privately-held institutions like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. The Landesbanken not only fared far worse in the crisis but have...
Provided by INSEAD
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Relationship Building: A Key Driver For Securing Repeat Business
Jan 2010
D'Aunno says that the major factor for clients deciding to re-hire Celerant is Closework, the 'same side of the desk working' approach on which Celerant prides itself. For the company, that means...
Provided by INSEAD
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Fast Strategy: Staying Ahead Of The Game
Jan 2010
Kosonen says he faced the challenges of strategic agility for years in his roles with the Finnish telecoms firm as head of strategy and chief information officer. At Nokia he became familiar with...
Provided by INSEAD
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Sula Vineyards: India's Case For Wine
Nov 2009
When foreign sommeliers come to India, they come with very low expectations. After all, India is better known for its cotton industry than wine production. However that is now changing. "Nashik...
Provided by INSEAD
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Where Next For GE?
Oct 2009
The author talked to the mostly business crowd about the world economic situation, how GE is positioning itself in the world, values of leadership and the Southeast Asian grouping, ASEAN. He's...
Provided by INSEAD
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The Power Of True Strategy
Aug 2010
Greene explains that this happened because, in order to keep control, the leader needed more people to keep power centralized. With that, he had to assemble a team of military advisers. But as the...
Provided by INSEAD
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How Do You Measure Success At The Top?
Mar 2010
Perhaps at no other time in history has CEO compensation come under such scrutiny. What makes these business leaders, who are more often than not men, worth so much money? "The initial idea was to...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
Michael Burcham And David Furse On Thinking Like A CEO
Jan 2010
Michael Burcham has over 20 years of extensive experience in health care innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup venture coaching. He is currently serving as President and CEO of the Nashville...
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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Webcasts
David Owens On Strategic Innovation
Jan 2010
Professor Owens serves on the faculty at Owen in the area of organizational behavior. Specializing in strategic innovation and product development, Owens also delivers executive education programs...
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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Webcasts
Erik Vynkier GLS 2010 Interview
Jan 2010
In this webcast Erik Vynkier (MBA2000), Director, Standard Life, explains about what we can learn from emerging markets.
Provided by London Business School
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Webcasts
Mohammed Althani GLS 2010 Interview
Jan 2010
Sheikh Mohammed Althani (SEP50), President, Qatar-Connect, on what we can learn from emerging markets.
Provided by London Business School
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Webcasts
Stephen Olabisi Onasanya GLS 2010 Interview
Jan 2010
In this webcast Stephen Olabisi Onasanya, Group Managing Director and CEO, First Bank of Nigeria, explains about what we can learn from emerging markets.
Provided by London Business School
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Webcasts
Sir John Egan GLS 2010 Interview
Jan 2010
In this webcast Sir John Egan (MSc01), Chairman, Severn Trent plc, explains about what we can learn from emerging markets.
Provided by London Business School
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Webcasts
Osaze Osifo GLS 2010 Interview
Jan 2010
In this webcast Osaze Osifo (MiFPT99), CEO, FBN Investment Banking and Asset Management, explains about what we can learn from emerging markets.
Provided by London Business School
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Your 2011 Lead Generation Strategy Outline
Nov 2010
Lead generation is the number one item on every small business marketing plan. What strategies and tactics will you use to attract customers? Many small business owners and CEOs say they can't get...
Provided by American Express
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The Great Fall: Losing Your Business Reputation
Oct 2010
Some of your business planning should be devoted to handling problems in advance of their appearance. What's the game plan if you issue a faulty product? What do you do if an employee starts...
Provided by American Express
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3 Keys To Knowing Your Business
Nov 2010
What is your business? It seems like a simple question, yet so many cannot accurately describe their business. Perhaps the simplest way to think of it is: If you can't tell it, you can't sell it....
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Orchestrate Digital Initiatives to Better the Customer Experience
Nov 2010
An increasing share of business' customer interactions take place online, and in response, businesses are shifting investments to digital venues. But these efforts don't always result in a...
Provided by IBM
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The Power Of Cost Transparency
Jan 2009
The economic downturn has companies scrambling to cut costs and generate cash - especially in the face of tight capital markets and the imploding financial sector. Some forward-looking companies...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Leading Out Of A Downturn
Feb 2009
The gravity of the current economic downturn is pressuring CEOs everywhere to act decisively and immediately. Just how much can - or should - be accomplished in three or even six months is...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Planes, Trains, And Automobiles: Crossing Paths In European Travel
Mar 2009
Europe's travel sector has been evolving for some time, but the pace has accelerated as competition has intensified among modes of travel and across national borders. Rail ways and airlines are...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Predicting Politics: Prediction Markets Out-Predict Political Pollsters
Feb 2009
Political prediction markets - in which participants buy and sell "Contracts" based on who they think, will win an election - accurately predicted Barack Obama's 2008 victory. New research shows...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
When Does One Good Deed Deserve Another?: The Calculus Of Reciprocity
Jan 2009
Rationality suggests that trust should build slowly and that people should proceed cautiously when building a relationship. But what if you only have one chance to decide whether to trust someone?...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM And Emerging Business Opportunities
May 2009
The empirical evidence is that only a tiny fraction of organizations live to age 40. Why this should be is a puzzle, since when firms are doing well they have all the resources (financial,...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Firm Size And Service Level
Sep 2008
Customers often select service providers - ranging from mobile phone service to fast food chains - based on three attributes: service level, price, or another attribute of the firm (such as...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Mandatory Or Voluntary Corporate Disclosure?:Full Disclosure Is Not Always A Moneymaker
Aug 2007
"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis on the importance of openness and transparency in society. Such sunlight can be a pretty profitable...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Softening The Blow Of Bad News
Oct 2007
Chief financial officers and investors focus on earnings per share more than any other single financial figure. Researchers in accounting have long confirmed that the price of a company's stock is...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Cournot Competition Under Yield Uncertainty: The Case Of The U.S. Influenza Vaccine Market
Dec 2008
This paper is inspired by the recurring mismatch between demand and supply in the U.S. influenza vaccine market. Economic theory predicts that an oligopolistic market with unregulated but costly...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Nobel Designs: Understanding Mechanism Design
Nov 2007
The laureates themselves have gamely tried in sound bites to describe their contribution and its importance. However, mechanism design does not lend itself to such a task. Its importance comes not...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Big Fish, Little Fish-Choose Your Pond
Jan 2008
The top to average pay gap has been growing both within most countries and between them, within and between industries, between executives and workers, and among executives themselves. Still, the...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Playing Well Together
Feb 2008
Research findings suggest that the value of organizing lawyers into firms is to facilitate the exchange of information about economic opportunities. What firms do is essentially weaken...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
A Borderline Question: The Economics Of Immigration
Apr 2008
Snaking 1,900 miles from Tijuana to Matamoros, San Diego to Brownsville, the border between Mexico and the United States might seem large. But its physical size is dwarfed by the passions that it...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Business Incubators And Market-Oriented Socio-Economic Development In Emerging Market Economies
Feb 2010
Business incubators present an increasingly popular approach to attempting to develop private sector businesses in emerging market economies. However, little is known about the nature of incubator...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
With Or Without U? - The Appropriate Test For A U Shaped Relationship.
Sep 2007
Non-linear relationships are common in economic theory, and such relationships are also frequently tested empirically. The author argues that the usual test of non-linear relationships is flawed,...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Forbes Gives 5 Keys For "Golden Era"
Jul 2008
"In terms of our global economy today, the headlines are rather grim," the author says to 252 business graduates from 35 nations who gathered at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa near campus....
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Multidisciplinary Process Integration And Design Optimization Of A Classroom Building
Oct 2008
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) professionals typically achieve very few design and analysis iterations during the conceptual stage of a project. One primary cause is limitations...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Holding Business Professionals Accountable For Leadership Malpractice
Mar 2009
As the economic meltdown continues and major blue-chip companies fall into a tailspin, questioning business strategies and senior-level decision making has come into vogue once again. How could...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Global Leaders Need More Than Global Knowledge
Jul 2008
At a first glance, leading a global business may not seem very different from leading a local or regional business. Whether global or not, the leader of a business corporation deals with the...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Strategies For Success In Latin America
Sep 2008
Common themes and patterns tie Latin America together, but global managers who view the region as a single unit will stumble. Trade rules, customs and geography vary across the region, and...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Living In Interesting Times
Jan 2010
It is said by some that the purportedly Chinese proverb may you live in interesting times is actually a curse. But to say that we are now living in interesting times, at least from a business...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Using Information To Create Value Efficiently
Nov 2009
Every company is confronted with growing complexity. Relationships with competitors, customers, and suppliers are becoming more complicated and involved. Internally, many companies have complex...
Provided by IMD
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White Papers
Corporate Social Responsibility Through A Higher Calling
Feb 2008
Firms such as Google, Shell Oil, NEC Corp., and Procter & Gamble are experimenting with new business models and adopting sustainable business strategies that have positive economic, social, and...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Entrepreneurs To The Rescue As Recession Swirls
Jul 2009
Governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars to save banks, automakers and insurance companies, but the author, calls that a mistake. Big corporations that benefit the most from...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Earth Provides Model For Sustainable Profits
Sep 2008
In a world where the price of oil is fluctuating, government regulation of greenhouse gases is tightening and consumers are switching to more ecofriendly products, sustainable product development...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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China Works To Close Experience Gap In International Finance
Jan 2010
Rapid industrialization requires a steady supply of foreign commodities, and China has responded with investments in mines, factories and other projects all over the world. "China is using its...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Consider Motives Before Taking Risks
Sep 2008
Some executives stuck in a rut take risks to turn around a bad situation or to fulfill unmet aspirations. Other executives bolstered by a history of success take risks to accomplish something...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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A Context-Oriented Synchronization Approach
Jul 2008
Synchronization gained great importance in modern applications and allows mobility in the context of information technology. Users are not limited to one computer any more, but can take their data...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Surviving And Profiting From The Crisis Means Leading Through And Learning From The Crisis
Oct 2009
The current economic crisis has clearly left its mark on the business community. Although some companies, like Goldman Sachs and IBM, have recently reported profits again - nourishing hopes that...
Provided by IMD
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White Papers
Marketing's Renaissance: Crisis Brings Era Of Reinvention
May 2009
The current economic crisis is creating a great period of reinvention. It could prove an exciting time for marketers who are prepared to seize the opportunity. As the dust begins to settle on the...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Focus On 'Velocity' Helps Esterline Grow Lean, Mean
Sep 2008
The key to success, the author says, involves tapping into the minds of plant floor workers - the ones closest to the action - and empowering them to make decisions and streamline processes. "We...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Managing Information, People And It To Improve Business Performance
Apr 2010
The near-omnipresence of Internet technologies and mobile communication solutions enables companies today to invent new business models, launch innovative product and service offerings, and adopt...
Provided by IMD
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White Papers
Challenges For The Chinese Exec
Jul 2008
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that by 2025, China's GDP will make up 25 percent of total global GDP, with the US at 18 percent and Europe at 10 percent....
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Understanding The Mechanisms Through Which An In Uential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes James Heckman, Lena Malofeeva, Rodrigo Pinto, and Peter Savelyev
Mar 2010
The Perry Preschool program was a randomized social experiment with long run followup that supplemented the early environments of disadvantaged African Ameri-can children. Evidence from the...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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The Impact Of Take-Back Legislation On Remanufacturing
Jul 2009
There are about 500 million obsolete computers in the U.S. alone. More than 130 million cell phones are tossed away annually. And there are about 24 million TVs sitting unused in homes and...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Blockwise Coordinate Descent Procedures For The Multi-Task Lasso, With Applications To Neural Semantic Basis Discovery
May 2009
This paper develops a cyclical blockwise coordinate descent algorithm for the multi-task Lasso that efficiently solves problems with thousands of features and tasks. The main result shows that a...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Harnessing Power To Capture Leadership
Jun 2008
This paper examines the relationship between the related yet distinct constructs of power and leadership. Although power (asymmetric control over valued resources) is often a foundation of...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Economic Crisis Adds Urgency To Fight Against Corruption
Mar 2009
This paper highlight that companies sailing into choppy waters during the economic crisis could be tempted to relax their ethical standards. "Corruption thrives when there is poverty and the...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Does The Growing Presence Of Large Domestic Blockholders Around The World Affect Bank Performance?
Jul 2007
Large-scale bank privatizations over the past ten years have resulted in increased foreign and domestic blockholder ownership of banks. This paper explores how these changes in bank ownership...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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Explaining Anomalous High Performance In A Health Care Supply Chain
Sep 2008
How can independent organizations, in a supply chain, coordinate and collaborate in a process improvement endeavor, in the absence of financial or contractual mechanisms to enforce compliance...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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Business Strategies And Manufacturing Decisions: An Empirical Examination Of Linkages
Aug 2007
This paper seeks to investigate whether linkages, proposed by previous researchers, among business strategies and structural and infrastructural investment decisions of manufacturing are...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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Inefficient Redistribution And Inefficient Redistributive Politics
Nov 2007
This paper examines the effect of inefficient redistribution in Myerson's (1993) model of redistributive politics. Regardless of the absolute levels of the efficiency of political parties'...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
