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Supply Of Mexican Workers Will Dry Up, Consul Says
Aug 2008
Mexican workers leaving the United States in response to heightened immigration enforcement will be missed in the coming decades as millions of baby boomers retire, a Mexican consul said Aug. 7 at...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
A World Of Philanthropic Opportunity
Aug 2008
Americans have always been generous. But for the most part, their philanthropy has focused on issues within the United States. This changed with the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Americans...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Philanthropy Adviser Helps Donors Give Wisely
Oct 2008
Effective philanthropy requires more than writing checks. Donors need a plan for finding nongovernmental organizations aligned with their goals and interests, and they need tools for measuring...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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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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Afghan Businesswomen Still Battle Effects Of Taliban
Oct 2008
Restrictions against Afghan women ended in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban - at least on paper. But an Afghan businesswoman who runs an embroidery company in a southern province said Oct. 13 at...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Professor Offers Perspective Amid Banking 'Bailout'
Oct 2008
At of the end of August 2008 the world's biggest banks and security firms had taken write-downs or written off $506.1 billion (net of hedges and offsets) in sub-prime mortgage related assets. The...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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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
Chile Sets Sights On Developed Nation Status
Dec 2008
Chile has arrived on the doorstep of developed nation status following years of economic reform, and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz., has assisted in the transformation....
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Note To IT Professionals: Get An MBA!
Apr 2008
An IT professional with an MBA degree earns 37 percent more on average than one with any other master's degree, according to a study by M.S. Krishnan, professor of business information technology...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
In Search Of MBA Theories That Inspire, Not Corrupt
Dec 2008
Business schools teach pessimistic theories based on ugly values that condone selfish behavior, but Thunderbird President Angel Cabrera, Ph.D., told students that MBA programs committed to...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Better Management Through Better HR
Jun 2009
As the economic downturn rides roughshod over the nation's workforce, human resources professionals face a wide range of new challenges. Whether protecting a collective culture or protecting one's...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Let Global Liquidity Be Your Guide For Next Crisis
Apr 2009
Financial shocks have become an increasingly pervasive feature of the global economic landscape. Perhaps the most devastating aspect of these events is something economists call "contagion."...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Whitepapers
Battle Of The Brands: Brand Manager Mistakes Boosting Store Brand Market Share
Apr 2010
Consumers opting for less expensive store brand products over their name brand competition may seem like a given in a recession. But new research has found that even when the economy is flush,...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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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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Whitepapers
Harvard's Michael Porter On Strategic Thinking
Mar 2009
Many business leaders think that their job is to be the best at what their company does - to be the best toothpaste company or the best bank. But this focus on operational effectiveness is not the...
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
Code-Sharing, Price Discrimination And Welfare Losses
Mar 2008
Airlines frequently use code-share agreements allowing each other to market seats on flights operated by partner airlines. Regulation may allow code-share agreements with antitrust immunity...
Provided by Kellogg / WHU-Otto Beisheim School
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White Papers
Firm Boundaries In The New Economy: Theory And Evidence
Sep 2008
This paper develops a theory of firm boundaries in knowledge intensive industries by examining the incentive effects of knowledge sharing together with those stemming from transfer of control in...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
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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
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
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
Geography And The Market For CEOs
Aug 2009
The paper examines the role of geography in the labor market for CEOs. Beginning with investigating the joint distribution of CEO state of origin and firm headquarters location and find that the...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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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
The Services Shift: Seizing The Ultimate Offshore Opportunity
Feb 2009
In their new book, The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity (FT Press), authors Robert Kennedy and Ajay Sharma explore ways that outsourcing and offshoring are now impacting...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
The Role Of Culture On Technology Adoption
Jan 2008
In today's world of global commerce, it is generally agreed that countries that possess more advanced technologies will invariably emerge as the economic powerhouses of the future. It is no...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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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
Knowledge And Competitive Advantage: What CEOs Say And What Firms Do
Jan 2008
Knowledge can be a source of competitive advantage: what firms know is sometimes more valuable than what they have. In their paper, "Firm-Specific Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: Evidence and...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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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
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
Services Market Is Key To Open Source Software
Jan 2010
Open source software has become a major and fast-growing presence in the computer industry in recent years. Professor Tunay Tunca of Stanford Graduate School of Business and his co-authors argue...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Privatization Laboratory
Oct 2009
Physicists often wish they could go back and observe the Big Bang, since it would help resolve some of the most confounding mysteries about the universe. Economists studying transition economies...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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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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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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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
Getting Back To Why We Work
Jan 2008
The European Union aims to be a mobile and flexible workplace. Whether working in France, Germany or Poland, a teacher, carpenter or doctor should be recognized for his or her qualifications and...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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A New Measurement For International Fragmentation Of The Production Process: An International Input-Output Approach
Oct 2008
The paper investigates the possibility of constructing a new measurement for analysing international fragmentation of the production process. It asserts that the current usage of relevant data,...
Provided by Japan External Trade Organization
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White Papers
Australia's Foreign Economic Policy: A "State-Society Coalition" Approach And A Historical Overview
Jul 2011
This paper aims to explain the historical development of Australia's foreign economic policy by using an analytical framework called a 'State-society coalition' approach. This approach focuses on...
Provided by Japan External Trade Organization
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White Papers
Did Export Diversification Soften The Impact Of The Global Financial Crisis?
May 2011
This paper considers the role of export diversification in determining trade outcomes during the global financial crisis. The impact of export diversification (or concentration) is measured by...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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The Impact Of Free Trade Agreements On Business Activity: A Survey Of Firms In The People's Republic Of China
Oct 2010
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) an important part of its global trading strategy. The PRC's...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
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Asia In Global Governance: A Case For Decentralized Institutions
Oct 2009
The global economic crisis refocused attention on the governance of International Economic Institutions (IEIs). This paper uses the analytical framework of club theory to highlight structural...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
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Changing Features Of The Automobile Industry In Asia: Comparison Of Production, Trade And Market Structure In Selected Countries
Jul 2007
The global automotive industry, increasingly characterized by global mergers and relocation of production centers to emerging developing economies, is in the grips of a global price-war. The...
Provided by ESCAP
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Financial Services Integration In East Asia: Lessons From The European Union
Mar 2008
Economic integration in the European Union1 has, arguably, been one of the most significant developments in the global economy in the last half-century. How could countries that just a few decades...
Provided by ESCAP
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Integration Of Landlocked Countries Into The Global Economy And Domestic Economic Reforms: The Case Of Lao People's Democratic Republic
Aug 2008
The special needs and difficulties of landlocked countries as they seek to achieve integration into the global economy have been increasingly recognized by the international community as requiring...
Provided by ESCAP
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White Papers
Global Economic And Financial Crisis: India's Trade Potential And Future Prospects
May 2009
This paper estimates the trade potential for India using the augmented gravity model and then attempts to determine the importance of trade remedies. Based on panel data, this gravity model is the...
Provided by ESCAP
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White Papers
Trade Facilitation In India: An Analysis Of Trade Processes And Procedures
Feb 2011
Moving goods across borders requires meeting a vast number of commercial, transport and regulatory requirements. Inefficiencies in complying with these requirements often create unnecessary delays...
Provided by ESCAP
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Rationalizable Strategic Behavior And The Problem Of Perfection
Dec 2010
This paper explores the fundamental problem of what can be inferred about the outcome of a noncooperative game, from the rationality of the players and from the information they possess. The...
Provided by JSTOR
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White Papers
Strategic Information Transmission
Dec 2010
This paper develops a model of strategic communication, in which a better-informed Sender (S) sends a possibly noisy signal to a Receiver (R), who then takes an action that determines the welfare...
Provided by JSTOR
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White Papers
Rationalizability, Learning, And Equilibrium In Games With Strategic Complementarities
Dec 2010
The authors study a rich class of noncooperative games that includes models of oligopoly competition, macroeconomic coordination failures, arms races, bank runs, technology adoption and diffusion,...
Provided by JSTOR
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Secret Contracts For Efficient Partnerships
Jun 2008
By allocating different information to team members, secret contracts can provide better incentives to perform with an intuitive organizational design. For instance, they may help to monitor...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
International Trade, Factor Mobility And The Persistence Of Cultural-institutional Diversity
Apr 2011
The authors present a model in which specialization and trade occur not as a result of exogenous differences in factor endowments or technologies, but because of endogenous differences in culture...
Provided by University of Siena
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Performance And Turnover In A Stochastic Partnership
Jul 2010
This paper characterizes the social-welfare maximizing equilibrium of a "Stochastic partnership matching market", in which players paired to play a stochastic game may quit to be costlessly and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Rationalizable Strategic Behavior
Jul 2010
This paper examines the nature of rational choice in strategic games. Although there are many reasons why an agent might select a Nash equilibrium strategy in a particular game, rationality alone...
Provided by JSTOR
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White Papers
Price Competition Under Limited Comparability
Dec 2010
This paper studies market competition when firms can influence consumers' ability to compare market alternatives, through their choice of price "Formats". The authors introduce random graphs as a...
Provided by Tel Aviv University
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White Papers
Strategic Thinking
Dec 2010
Most applications of game theory assume equilibrium, justified by presuming that learning will have converged to one; or in settings where that is implausible, that equilibrium approximates...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down: International Evidence And Implications For China
Mar 2011
Using international data starting in 1957, the authors construct a sample of cases where fast-growing economies slow down. The evidence suggests that rapidly growing economies slow down...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
U.S. Intervention During The Bretton Woods Era: 1962-1973
Apr 2011
By the early 1960s, outstanding U.S. dollar liabilities began to exceed the U.S. gold stock, suggesting that the United States could not completely maintain its pledge to convert dollars into gold...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Exporting Christianity: Governance And Doctrine In The Globalization Of US Denominations
Apr 2011
In this paper, the authors build a model of market competition among religious denominations, using a framework that involves incomplete contracts and the production of club goods. They treat...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Funding Scientific Knowledge: Selection, Disclosure And The Public-Private Portfolio
Apr 2011
This paper examines argues that while two distinct perspectives characterize the foundations of the public funding of research - filling a selection gap and solving a disclosure problem - in fact...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Value Of Secure Property Rights: Evidence From Global Fisheries
May 2011
Property rights are commonly touted as a solution to common pool resource problems. But in practice the security of these property rights varies substantially owing to differences in design. In...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
A Simple Global Perspective On The US Slowdown, Boom-bust Cycles And The Rise Of Protectionism
Oct 2009
The global economy has experienced several significant developments during the recent years: the rising role of giant Asian economies in international trade; the 2008 financial crisis and the...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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White Papers
Competition And Stability In Banking
May 2010
The author reviews the state of the art of the academic theoretical and empirical literature on the potential trade-off between competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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White Papers
~Heading Off A Cliff~
Feb 2011
From coal-fueled electricity powering homes on the solar-energy-bathed equator to grocery stores in orchard-rich Massachusetts selling apples grown in New Zealand, "We run the most wasteful system...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Finalists Selected For Inaugural Nanotechnology New Ventures Competition
Mar 2011
Five teams have been selected as finalists for Friday's (March 25) Nanotechnology New Ventures Competition, an inaugural business plan competition led by Purdue University and the University of...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Semifinalists Selected For The 2010-2011 Mccloskey Business Plan Competition
Mar 2011
Twelve entrepreneurial teams will have a shot at more than $100,000 in prize money as they advance to the semifinals of the University of Notre Dame's McCloskey Business Plan Competition. These...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Quick Reflexes A Necessity For CSR Directors, Speaker Says
Apr 2011
If you want to become a vice president of corporate social responsibility and sustainability, you'd better prepare for "Radical transparency," David Stangis, Campbell Soup's vice president of...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Notre Dame Teams Take First And Second Place In Nanotech Competition
Apr 2011
A University of Notre Dame entrepreneurial team developing a nanocomposite bone substitute claimed the $30,000 top prize March 25 in the inaugural Nanotechnology New Ventures Competition,...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Journalist Says Religious Groups Could Fight Global Warming As They Did Slavery
Apr 2011
A movement to solve what business writer Marc Gunther calls the "Most difficult problem the world has ever had to solve" is not likely to come from government or business, Gunther said today at...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Phone App, Wind Technology Ventures Take Top Prizes In Notre Dame Business Plan Competition
Apr 2011
College alumni sitting in a sports stadium or visiting a new city might wonder if any of their classmates are located nearby. If only they had a way to connect easily. How does alum find, network...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Notre Dame EMBA Retools Curriculum To Focus On Strategic Thinking
May 2011
It used to be that only top executives made strategic decisions about the company's operations. With the increasing impact and complexity of global business, that's no longer the case. On a daily...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
MicroHoo: Lesson From A Takeover Attempt
Jul 2010
On February 1, 2008, Microsoft offered $43.7 billion for Yahoo. This was a milestone in the Microsoft versus Google battle to control the internet search industry and the related online...
Provided by UC Regents
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Webcasts
Afghanistans Karzai; U.S.-Russian Nukes; Supreme Court Nominee
May 2009
In this webcast, Afghan President talks on the role his country plays vis-à-vis the U.S. and Iran; Brookings experts, discuss renewed nuclear arms control talks with Russia under the Obama...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
The Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings; Two Housing Secretaries On Urban Revitalization
Jul 2009
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is likely to be confirmed, but may have set a troubling precedent for future Obama nominees, says Brookings expert; and Housing Secretary joins former...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Previewing President Obamas Trip To China; Climate Change Legislation In Congress.
Nov 2009
One of the presenters came to Brookings to preview President Obama's upcoming trip to China and the issues he will face; while the other presenter, an expert on climate change and related global...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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White Papers
If Entry Strategy And Money Go Together, What Is The Right Side Of The Coin?
Apr 2011
The goal of this paper is to determine which strategic model, either IO or RBV, allows firms to generate the highest performance on a competitive market. Contrasting with classical studies that...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Statistical Mechanics Of The International Trade Network
Apr 2011
Analyzing real data on international trade covering the time interval 1950-2000, the authors show that in each year over the analyzed period the network is a typical representative of the ensemble...
Provided by Warsaw University of Technology
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White Papers
Chile Sets Sights On Developed Nation Status
Dec 2008
Chile has arrived on the doorstep of developed nation status following years of economic reform, and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz., has assisted in the transformation....
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Note To IT Professionals: Get An MBA!
Apr 2008
An IT professional with an MBA degree earns 37 percent more on average than one with any other master's degree, according to a study by M.S. Krishnan, professor of business information technology...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
In Search Of MBA Theories That Inspire, Not Corrupt
Dec 2008
Business schools teach pessimistic theories based on ugly values that condone selfish behavior, but Thunderbird President Angel Cabrera, Ph.D., told students that MBA programs committed to...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Better Management Through Better HR
Jun 2009
As the economic downturn rides roughshod over the nation's workforce, human resources professionals face a wide range of new challenges. Whether protecting a collective culture or protecting one's...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
-
White Papers
Let Global Liquidity Be Your Guide For Next Crisis
Apr 2009
Financial shocks have become an increasingly pervasive feature of the global economic landscape. Perhaps the most devastating aspect of these events is something economists call "contagion."...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Whitepapers
Battle Of The Brands: Brand Manager Mistakes Boosting Store Brand Market Share
Apr 2010
Consumers opting for less expensive store brand products over their name brand competition may seem like a given in a recession. But new research has found that even when the economy is flush,...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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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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Whitepapers
Harvard's Michael Porter On Strategic Thinking
Mar 2009
Many business leaders think that their job is to be the best at what their company does - to be the best toothpaste company or the best bank. But this focus on operational effectiveness is not the...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
-
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)
-
White Papers
Code-Sharing, Price Discrimination And Welfare Losses
Mar 2008
Airlines frequently use code-share agreements allowing each other to market seats on flights operated by partner airlines. Regulation may allow code-share agreements with antitrust immunity...
Provided by Kellogg / WHU-Otto Beisheim School
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White Papers
Firm Boundaries In The New Economy: Theory And Evidence
Sep 2008
This paper develops a theory of firm boundaries in knowledge intensive industries by examining the incentive effects of knowledge sharing together with those stemming from transfer of control in...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
-
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)
-
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
-
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
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
Geography And The Market For CEOs
Aug 2009
The paper examines the role of geography in the labor market for CEOs. Beginning with investigating the joint distribution of CEO state of origin and firm headquarters location and find that the...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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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)
-
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
The Services Shift: Seizing The Ultimate Offshore Opportunity
Feb 2009
In their new book, The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity (FT Press), authors Robert Kennedy and Ajay Sharma explore ways that outsourcing and offshoring are now impacting...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
-
White Papers
The Role Of Culture On Technology Adoption
Jan 2008
In today's world of global commerce, it is generally agreed that countries that possess more advanced technologies will invariably emerge as the economic powerhouses of the future. It is no...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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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
Knowledge And Competitive Advantage: What CEOs Say And What Firms Do
Jan 2008
Knowledge can be a source of competitive advantage: what firms know is sometimes more valuable than what they have. In their paper, "Firm-Specific Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: Evidence and...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
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
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
-
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
Services Market Is Key To Open Source Software
Jan 2010
Open source software has become a major and fast-growing presence in the computer industry in recent years. Professor Tunay Tunca of Stanford Graduate School of Business and his co-authors argue...
Provided by Stanford University
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Privatization Laboratory
Oct 2009
Physicists often wish they could go back and observe the Big Bang, since it would help resolve some of the most confounding mysteries about the universe. Economists studying transition economies...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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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...
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Getting Back To Why We Work
Jan 2008
The European Union aims to be a mobile and flexible workplace. Whether working in France, Germany or Poland, a teacher, carpenter or doctor should be recognized for his or her qualifications and...
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Encyclopedia Of Data Warehousing And Mining
Nov 2008
When a space shuttle takes off, tiny sensors measure thousands of data points every fraction of a second, pertaining to a variety of attributes like temperature, acceleration, pressure and...
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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...
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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...
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On The Relationship Of Information Technology With Other Inputs
Oct 2008
The ability to take advantage of the economic opportunities that are created by the price adjusted performance improvement in IT depends in part on the ability of IT capital to substitute for...
Provided by Kuwait University
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The Dynamics Of Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management
Nov 2007
In the current knowledge driven business environment, sustainable competitive advantage is enabled through efficient management of intellectual resources (Ashworth et al. 2004; Kogut and Zander...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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Bringing New Knowledge Home - And Away
Jan 2009
The work international assignees perform on site at their host unit is valuable for the business as a whole. But these employees hold the potential to add much more value to the organization via...
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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...
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