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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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What Prospects For Institutional Convergence Across Advanced Industrialized Nations? Evidence From the Belief Systems Of Senior Executives In Germany And Japan
May 2007
Drawing on a growing body of literature suggesting a linkage between belief systems ("Rationale") and the shape of national institutional structures, the paper explores the possibility of...
Provided by INSEAD
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Getting Smarter About Manufacturing Strategies: The Case Of Pharmaceuticals
May 2007
The concept of flexible manufacturing capacity is not entirely new. However, in the pharmaceutical industry, its application and real value is just now being seriously analyzed. In...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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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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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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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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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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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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Whitepapers
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)
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Cooperation Among Strangers: An Experiment With Indefinite Interaction
Jun 2007
The authors study the emergence of norms of cooperation in experimental economies populated by strangers interacting indefinitely and lacking formal enforcement institutions. In all treatments the...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Strong Valid Inequalities For Orthogonal Disjunctions And Polynomial Covering Sets
Sep 2008
In this paper, the authors develop a convexification tool that enables construction of convex hulls for orthogonal disjunctive sets using convex extensions and disjunctive programming techniques....
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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Existance Of Perfect Equilibria: A Direct Proof
Oct 2009
The authors formulate and prove a modification of Eilenberg-Montgomery fixed-point theorem, which is a generalization of Kakutani's theorem. It enables them to provide a direct proof of the...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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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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The Soft Approach: Transforming Hardware Companies
Dec 2008
The transition of both film and video editing from hardware to software is emblematic of moves by leading companies in the technology, industrial goods, and consumer electronic industries....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Thinking In New Boxes: How To Bring Fundamental Changes To Your Business
Jul 2009
The ability to survive in a world of accelerating change and challenge calls for ever greater creativity in the thinking. But to become more creative, one needs to understand how the minds work....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Hiring And Recruiting Challenges Survey 2008 Preliminary Results
Nov 2007
The survey data at this point indicates that few companies are developing proactive, multi-channel sourcing programs. This is worsened by the lack of widespread implementation of a formal hiring...
Provided by Adler Group
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Ten Tips For Measuring & Improving Performance
Jan 2010
Healthy revenue and profit margins are crucial to any company. However, monitoring your bottom line is only one part of the formula. It's essential that you determine the factors critical to your...
Provided by Stengel Solutions
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Conquering The Crisis
Jul 2009
In 2008, investors fled asset classes that were perceived as risk', illiquid, or nontransparent, gravitating toward asset classes that were perceived as safe. Investors that chose to remain in...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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The Business Of Sustainability: Imperatives, Advantages, And Action
Sep 2009
A good indication that sustainability is here to stay is the fact that fewer than one-fourth of the survey respondents told one that their companies have pulled back on their commitment to...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Seven Myths Of The Downturn
Sep 2009
To be sure, trading down for discount and value brands is gaining ground across many consumer-goods categories. Retailers are increasingly positioning themselves as defenders of budget-constrained...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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China's Luxury Market In A Post-Land Rush Era
Sep 2009
China continues to be an important market for global luxury-goods companies. Although not immune to the global economic crisis, the country has suffered far less than others, and economists are...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Searching For Sustainability: Value Creation In An Era Of Diminished Expectations
Oct 2009
T key value-creation challenge for companies in today's economy is sustainability, by which the authors mean developing an approach to shareholder value that allows a company to deliver...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Sustainability And Competitive Advantage
Oct 2009
However, the business implications of sustainability merit greater scrutiny - and scrutiny of a different kind than the "Green"-oriented focus that's most common. Will sustainability change the...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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M&A: Ready For Liftoff?
Dec 2009
The ongoing uncertainties about the economic outlook and sustainable levels of profitability are likely to lead to smaller, lower-risk consolidation deals than before and might deter some...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Winning The BRIC Auto Markets: Achieving Deep Localization Brazil, Russia, India, And China
Jan 2010
The world's leading automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers, facing stagnating or declining sales at home in the triad markets (Europe, Japan, and North America), are turning their attention to the...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Retail Banking: Winning Strategies And Business Models Revisited
Jan 2010
Throughout more than two years of financial crisis and economic turmoil, the retail business has proved to be an irreplaceable source of stability for most banks What this sector lacks in...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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What Your Employees' Personal Branding Means To Your Company
Oct 2010
Personal branding experts tell just about everyone that they need to be promoting themselves - that a personal brand is the secret to better jobs and better pay. That can mean that anyone employed...
Provided by American Express
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Mobile By The (Astonishing) Numbers
Oct 2010
These days the buzz about mobile marketing is deafening. Seems like every vendor, blogger and geek next door is suggesting you take your business mobile. They're correct. You should. But if you're...
Provided by American Express
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The Trendiest CRM Solutions - What Makes Them Capture The Market
Jan 2010
Customer emotional reaction plays an important role in deciding whether the customer buys again or not. Purchase decisions are not just about the right price, product, location etc but also the...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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CRM's Challenges - What's Going Wrong?
Jan 2010
CRM, despite all the talk about it being one of the most 'profitable' customer strategies of the decade, still allows room for failure. The most important aspect of CRM problems is its excellent...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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Scrutinize CRM Vendors - Get The Best CRM Solution
Jan 2010
A CRM vendor serves to create, manufactures, and sell CRM solutions. The vendor from whom an organization purchases its final choice of CRM solution is vitally important. It is imperative that an...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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Know Your Vendors Before You Choose
Jan 2010
The choice of CRM software has to come after much deliberation and thought. Customer Relationship Management (CRM), is far more than merely keeping track of vendors or customers, it is a strategy...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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Bringing In Outside Resources When CRM Fails - Does It Help?
Jan 2010
Why opt for a consultant? Is it essential? What are the services a CRM consultant has to offer? Is employing a CRM consultant truly beneficial? How much can you actually expect from a CRM...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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CRM ROI - Far From Expectations
Jan 2010
Does the ROI from CRM implementations meet expectations? This seems to be the question on everyone's mind. The answer? Despite the fact that the estimations of the return on investment from CRM...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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CRM's Unfulfilled Promise - Why CRM Fails At Customer Retention
Jan 2010
If CRM is the customer strategy of the decade then why do companies employing the strategy find it so difficult to achieve customer retention? What is to blame for the exodus of loyal customers to...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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CRM Fails At Times - Who's To Blame?
Jan 2010
CRM fails at times - myth /fact? The truth is that CRM failures is a sure thing if not properly implemented. Despite the fact that the staggering statistics show all is well in the CRM arena and...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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CRM Benefits - How Much Do Organizations Stand To Gain?
Jan 2010
The popularity of CRM is due to its fundamental and increased focus on customers. CRM benefits include its ability to help to ensure excellent customer service as it is aware of customer needs and...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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CRM Software - How To Choose The Best
Jan 2010
Since CRM software is highly complex and consists of several processes the selection process is difficult. There is a wide variety of vendors all offering several software with almost the same...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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CRM And Its Components - Why Are They Essential?
Jan 2010
CRM comprises several components absolutely essential to the organization. Each of them offers something different yet its importance cannot be undermined. Recent trends have enabled users to...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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CRM's Phenomenal Growth - Fact Or Fiction?
Jan 2010
Customer Relationship Management although a recent customer strategy has evolved into a perquisite for most organizations. Witnessing its phenomenal growth the advocates of CRM have forecasted...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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Holistic Gains Of CRM - The Rewards Are Huge
Jan 2010
CRM is the business strategy that understands, anticipates and manages the needs of an organization's customers. It puts the customer at the focal point of the business. CRM can improve an...
Provided by crminfoline.com
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How To Market A Green Product
Oct 2010
The Federal Trade Commission recently proposed changes to its "Green Guides," which provide a road map for companies making claims to sell environmentally friendly products. That includes...
Provided by American Express
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3 Questions Every New Business Owner Must Answer
Oct 2010
So, you've just made the decision to start up a business. Congratulations! Now is the inevitable questions and doubts: Do I have enough money to start up my business? Should I get a loan right...
Provided by American Express
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Small Business Skills You Need For The 21st Century
Oct 2010
Before last year's TED conference, the author made a visit to Disney's "Imagineering" Facility. They call it "Imagineering" because the facility seeks to merge imagination and the engineering...
Provided by American Express
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7 Kinds Of Getting Stuck
Nov 2010
Is getting stuck a bad thing? Not always. In fact, it's good to be getting stuck in the right way. It is part of the growth. Stuck outside the field: You are stuck outside the playing field...
Provided by American Express
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Why Business Will Grow Again: "We Have Met the Enemy And He Is Us!"
Sep 2010
The one characteristic of American business that consistently wins is its ability to adapt, evolve, innovate and compete in the face of all kinds of adversity. It is what Americans seem to do...
Provided by American Express
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Entrepreneurial Innovation In The U.S.: Strengths And Weaknesses
Oct 2010
The GEDI compared the contextual features of entrepreneurship in 71 countries over a decade, including both quantitative measurements (such as the number of existing firms and startups) and...
Provided by American Express
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Taking The Next Big Step For Your Business
Oct 2010
While many businesses do grow in spurts, some women-owned businesses seem to get stuck in the periods between growth spurts. According to the Center for Women's Business Research, women-owned...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
People Advantage
Mar 2010
The turbulence of today's business environment - volatility in market positions, unpredictability of competitive outcomes, and a widening gap in performance between winners and losers - makes...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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)
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White Papers
Cooperation Among Strangers: An Experiment With Indefinite Interaction
Jun 2007
The authors study the emergence of norms of cooperation in experimental economies populated by strangers interacting indefinitely and lacking formal enforcement institutions. In all treatments the...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Strong Valid Inequalities For Orthogonal Disjunctions And Polynomial Covering Sets
Sep 2008
In this paper, the authors develop a convexification tool that enables construction of convex hulls for orthogonal disjunctive sets using convex extensions and disjunctive programming techniques....
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Existance Of Perfect Equilibria: A Direct Proof
Oct 2009
The authors formulate and prove a modification of Eilenberg-Montgomery fixed-point theorem, which is a generalization of Kakutani's theorem. It enables them to provide a direct proof of the...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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A Refinement Of Perfect Equilibria Based On Substitute Sequences
Aug 2009
The authors propose an equilibrium refinement of strict perfect equilibrium for the finite normal form games, which is not known in the literature. Okada came up with the idea of strict perfect...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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Continuity And Equilibrium Stability
Aug 2009
This paper discusses the problem of stability of equilibrium points in normal form games in the tremling-hand framework. An equilibrium point is called perfect if it is stable against at least one...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Business Intelligence:A Guide for Midsize Companies: Improving Your Company's Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size
Jul 2010
Your company's focus has been on streamlining operations, acquiring customers, increasing revenues and profitability, and outpacing the competition. And while your company has continued to improve...
Provided by SAP
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Modeling Co-Existing Business Scenarios With Time Series Panel Data
Sep 2007
Due to customer segmentation, multiple types of dynamic business scenarios (business-as-usual, escalation, hysteresis, and evolving business practice; Dekimpe and Hanssens 1999) may coexist within...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
It Can Be Done! Seven Insights To Give Your Strategic Initiatives A Winning Chance
Feb 2008
In the observation, when a strategic initiative fails, at least one of these seven insights was violated. These insights are common sense. Why are they so often ignored? Execution is a different...
Provided by IMD
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How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? Theory and A Field Experiment
Jan 2009
Popularity information is usually thought to reinforce existing sales trends by encouraging customers to flock to mainstream products. A theoretical model was developed which predicts the...
Provided by MIT
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Rent Shifting, Exclusion And Market-Share Contracts
Oct 2008
The authors study rent-shifting in a sequential contracting environment in which two sellers negotiate with a common buyer. They find that the ability of the buyer and the first seller to extract...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
To Bundle Or Not To Bundle: On The Profitability Of Multi-Item Auctions
Feb 2009
Bundling, a strategy of selling two or more distinct products as a package for a single price, is widely practiced in today's marketplace. The paper investigates under what conditions it is more...
Provided by University of Alberta
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White Papers
Transformational Leadership In Project Management
Mar 2010
Poor Communication and Strategic Alignment within Projects Result in Lost Opportunity and Poor Performance. Develop stronger systems for linking strategy to project investments by connecting...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
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White Papers
The Impact Of Hedging On Firm Value: Evidence From Brazil
Feb 2008
This paper examines the impact of company's hedging activities on firm value for a sample of non-financial Brazilian companies from 1996 to 2005. The results show that hedging activities do...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
A Positive Theory Of Social Enterpreneurship
May 2009
i propose a theory aimed at scholarly research in social entrepreneurship. by highlighting the key off trade-off between value creation and value appropriation and explaining when situations of...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
When Worlds Collide: The Internal Dynamics Of Organizational Responses To Conflicting Institutional Demands
Jan 2010
Institutional theory suggests that organizations are strongly influenced by the pressures for the compliance exerted by their institutional referents. Yet, organizations are increasingly subject...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Sound Long-Term Strategy Is Key, Particularly In A Crisis: Harvard's Michael Porter
Aug 2009
With the current global economic downturn, there's been plenty of talk of doom and gloom. But Professor Michael Porter of Harvard University, a leading authority on competitive strategy, begs to...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Strategic Loan Defaults And Coordination: An Experimental Analysis
Jun 2010
The authors used experimental methods to study whether the uncertainty about bank and about borrower fundamentals affect borrowers repayment behavior. They find that solvent borrowers are more...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Integrating China Into Your Global Business Strategy
Jun 2010
A new program, Global Business Strategy: China, will be offered by Columbia Business School Executive Education August 5-6, 2010. Presented in partnership with Cheung Kong Graduate School of...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Mastering Strategy: What The Experts Say
Oct 2009
"Most participants come to a strategy program because they recognize that it is an essential part of leading effectively," says Willie Pietersen, Professor of The Practice of Management, Columbia...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Aligning Technology With Business Strategy
Oct 2009
"Injecting technology into a company without process and organizational change creates waste and chaos," George Colony, founder and CEO of Forrester Research, has famously said. It's true. Despite...
Provided by Columbia University
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Spotlight: Strategy Is Action - Not Just A Word
Mar 2008
Strategy. The word itself conjures excitement, even intrigue. But strategy is not just a word: it is an action. "Most participants come to a strategy program because they recognize that it is an...
Provided by Columbia University
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Political Regimes, Business Cycles, Seasonalities, And Returns
Dec 2008
This paper provides a method for testing for regime differences when regimes are long-lasting. Standard testing procedures are generally inappropriate because regime persistence causes a spurious...
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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Predicted Asymmetric Timeliness And The Persistence Of Special Items
Nov 2007
The paper hypothesize that firms with greater expected asymmetric timeliness of earnings will report more negative special items that are transitory, because their special items are likelier to...
Provided by Washington University Olin
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How Top-Down And Bottom-Up Strategy Processes Are Combined In Manufacturing Organizations
Nov 2009
The authors study strategy processes at six German manufacturing organizations in mature businesses. The authors use an organizational search perspective to interpret simultaneous top-down and...
Provided by INSEAD
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Customer Relationship Management And Firm Performance
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors examine the impact of customer relationship management (CRM) on firm performance using a hierarchical construct model. Using the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Global Newton Method For Stochastic Games
Feb 2008
The Global Newton Method for games in normal form and in extensive form is shown to have a natural extension to computing Markov-perfect equilibria of stochastic games. This paper features four...
Provided by Stanford University
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Cass Business School Workshop On The Proposed New UK Regime For Resolution Of Banking Problems
Apr 2008
This is a record of the discussion that took place on 7th April at a workshop organized by Cass Business School, on current proposals for a new UK regime for the resolution of banking problems....
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Decision-Theoretic Forward Induction
Jan 2008
A player's pure strategy is called relevant for an outcome of a game in ex tensive form with perfect recall if there exists a weakly sequential equilibrium with that outcome for which the strategy...
Provided by Stanford University
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Computing Equilibria Of N-Player Games With Arbitrary Accuracy
Feb 2008
From a variant of Kuhn's triangulation the authors derive a discrete version of the Global Newton Method that yields an epsilon-equilibrium of an N-player game and then sequentially reduces...
Provided by Stanford University
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Managing Business Schools To Weather Economic Change
Jun 2009
Many business schools are heavily dependent on revenues from executive education: they are feeling the impact of the current economic turmoil. Schools such as Wharton, INSEAD and Kellogg to name a...
Provided by INSEAD
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Bias In The Boardroom: A Field Study Of Failures In Governance Of A Not-for-Profit Organization
Jun 2010
This paper is a case study based investigation on limits to the monitoring and control function of boards of directors. The paper describes a 2-year study of a housing association in the United...
Provided by Coventry University
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What Makes A Test Score? The Respective Contributions Of Pupils, Schools, And Peers In Achievement In English Primary Education
Sep 2008
This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. The authors implement this...
Provided by INSEAD
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Corporate Responsibility And Operations Management
Sep 2008
The world has changed since the "Limits to Growth" book of the Club of Rome in the 70s, and so has the discipline of Operations Management. The 80s and 90s brought dramatic innovations like Total...
Provided by INSEAD
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Long-Term Impact Of Investments In Early Schooling - Empirical Evidence From Rural Ethiopia
Nov 2009
This paper identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in a developing country context using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as...
Provided by Fordham University
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Productivity Matters For Trade Policy: Theory And Evidence
May 2009
In the growth literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity, nearly all studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is...
Provided by Fordham University
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Oil Market No Mystery: Look To Fundamentals
Sep 2009
From their "breathtaking ascent that reached $145 per barrel by July 2008," oil prices then dipped below $40 per barrel again before the end of 2008. Previously, oil prices were stabilized around...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
