Facebook: Data Mining the World’s Largest Focus Group
With the amount of data at Facebook’s disposal, can it accurately predict outcomes within the volatile financial markets? If so, can aalso manipulate or influence such predicted events? The post...
View ArticlePrivate Businesses Predict Limited Growth for 2013
Near-term prospects for robust economic growth are restricted. The implied policy recommendation is to enhance loan guarantee programs for private firms with revenues of less than $5M. The post Private...
View ArticleHysteresis in Financial Statements
Hysteresis is applied to corporate financial statements contrasting the path of growth leading up to the recession to the path of contraction that follows. The post Hysteresis in Financial Statements...
View ArticleThe American Debt Crisis
If the Federal debt causes investors to lose confidence in America’s ability to pay back loans, investors will demand higher rates of return making it harder for the U.S. to borrow money. The post The...
View ArticleWhy Credit Rating Agencies are Being “B” Rated
Banks have developed various credit derivatives to deal with the credit risk of loans. In addition, banks can use credit derivatives to transfer risk to a third party. The post Why Credit Rating...
View ArticleSkill vs. Luck in Wall Street
Investors are largely powerless in determining the degree to which an analyst’s results are a function of skill—and how much they are attributable to plain luck. The post Skill vs. Luck in Wall Street...
View ArticleA Generic Problem: Should FDA Approval of Drugs Stop Consumers’ Suits for...
The Supreme Court has ruled federal law blocks consumers from suing for injuries from generic drugs, yet brand name drugs do not have the same protection. The post A Generic Problem: Should FDA...
View ArticleWho Received TARP Bail-Outs?
Financial institutions require a degree of regulation and accurate information in regulatory filings for good regulatory oversight and efficient financial markets. The post Who Received TARP Bail-Outs?...
View ArticleHigh Performance Work Systems
While foolish for companies to spend money unwisely in managing human capital, growing research confirms that “high performance work systems” are worth the investment. The post High Performance Work...
View ArticleIs Warren Buffett Unpatriotic?
A tax inversion happens when a firm relocates its headquarters to another country and declares that country as its domicile for the foreign country’s lower tax rate. The post Is Warren Buffett...
View ArticleTrends in Employee Turnover and Retention
After decades of globalization and intensifying competition, the market for talent has replaced loyalty as the factor shaping the relationship of employers/employees. The post Trends in Employee...
View ArticleIs “Go Away in May” a Good Portfolio Play?
The Halloween effect seems particularly compelling because of its seemingly large potential payoffs and the endless attention it receives in the media. The post Is “Go Away in May” a Good Portfolio...
View ArticleA Values Approach to Advancing Women in Leadership
Women make up half the workforce in nearly every country, still, labor shortages call for increased participation of women workers at all levels of the organization. The post A Values Approach to...
View ArticleCertificate in Private Capital Markets
Attendees learn in-depth critical analysis and evaluation skills for transacting successful financing deals and valuation methods used by capital providers. The post Certificate in Private Capital...
View ArticleArrow Electronics: Surviving and Thriving After Tragedy
John C. Waddell shepherded Arrow Electronics through a major crisis after the tragic loss of the company’s top executives...lessons in leadership, strategy, and HR. The post Arrow Electronics:...
View ArticleSustaining an Organization in the Midst of Chaos
Using the 2008 recession, we will look at how leaders have handled economic, environmental, and organizational responsibility and sustainability during chaos. The post Sustaining an Organization in the...
View ArticleThe Commercial Global Drone Market
The civilian or commercial drone market in the United States is just beginning to emerge, which puts U.S. businesses behind businesses in other countries. The post The Commercial Global Drone Market...
View ArticleA Whale of a Legal Tale
SOX includes a broad prohibition on obstruction of justice. Should that criminal statute apply to a commercial fisherman improperly disposing of undersized fish? The post A Whale of a Legal Tale...
View ArticleIs Cyprus the Warning Bell
After the crisis in Cyprus, even smaller depositors lost money in Cyprus banks. This raises a troubling question: will bank bail-ins—by depositors, creditors and bondholders—become the norm in other...
View ArticleSummaries of the 2015 “The Future of Healthcare Symposium”
Read the summaries of the Keynote Speakers: Steve Collis and Susan Dentzer as well as the summaries of the three panels for the 2015 Healthcare Symposium. The post Summaries of the 2015 “The Future of...
View ArticleHiring Disabled Workers
Too often the ability of the community of disabled persons to constructively contribute to society and the recognition of their need to do so is overlooked. The post Hiring Disabled Workers appeared...
View ArticleDoing Business with the Untrustworthy
Empirical observations, laboratory experiments, and game theory offer guidance for a prudent person doing repeat business with potentially untrustworthy partners. The post Doing Business with the...
View ArticleIs There a Free Lunch in Commission Free ETFs?
This study investigates how holding and transaction costs can affect the cost calculus of commission-free ETFs and provides a recommendation on how to minimize costs. The post Is There a Free Lunch in...
View ArticleUsing Small Baskets of Financial Assets to Estimate Exchange Rates
Companies operating in managed exchange rate environments may be able to use a similar proxy to establish suitable prices and to profit from currency speculation. The post Using Small Baskets of...
View ArticleCorporate Earnings
When does earnings management become earnings manipulation, and when does earnings manipulation become outright misrepresentation? This is an important question. The post Corporate Earnings appeared...
View ArticleThe Great Escape from Global Poverty
Managing well matters in fighting against poverty; research finds the processes of everyday business has potential to improve the well-being of the global poor. The post The Great Escape from Global...
View ArticleWhat Can Managers Learn from Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists?
This article reviews the primary roles of venture capitalists and relays key management advice from Silicon Valley VCs normally reserved for their portfolio firms. The post What Can Managers Learn from...
View ArticleBuilding Positive Organizational Communities
Fostering a sense of high-involvement community strengthened by high-quality connections may be the recipe for competitive advantage in today’s marketplace. The post Building Positive Organizational...
View ArticlePaths to Improved Business Growth When the Federal Reserve’s Policies are...
Practitioners of all sized companies are reassessing their expectations that the Federal Reserve can effectively stimulate growth and planning accordingly. The post Paths to Improved Business Growth...
View ArticleHow Sound are the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Recoveries?
In this article, the authors report findings on changes in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s mortgage loan quality by analyzing over 15 million loans from 2001-2015. The post How Sound are the Fannie Mae...
View ArticleHow Religious Beliefs Influence Financial Decision-Making
A review of the interaction of finance and religion shows not only has there been a long historical relationship between them, but religion continues to influence financial decision-making. The post...
View ArticleBringing the Human Spirit to Business Leadership
Major shifts are required in leadership awareness and in how organizations are run and managed in order to solve the complex issues facing today’s business. The post Bringing the Human Spirit to...
View ArticleGBR Special Issue: Spiritual Leadership
Living in a complex world and moving into the smart machine age, the need for good leadership is even greater; spiritual leadership provides a compass to navigate through difficult decisions. The post...
View ArticleSpiritual Leadership
Often, a company’s competitive advantage depends on how intelligent the firm is at observing and interpreting the dynamic world context in which it operates. The post Spiritual Leadership appeared...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Will the Real Driver Please Step Out of the Car!
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has defined five distinct levels for self-driving AVs, which range from controlling specific tasks such as parking and braking (level 1) to where the...
View ArticleStrategic Challenges of Today’s Businesses
The once highly successful airline industry's challenges and problems typify the difficulties being faced by many other industries as well. The post Strategic Challenges of Today’s Businesses appeared...
View ArticleBusiness Ecosystems and Innovation
The potential for anti-competitive behavior and collusion not only exists within ecosystems, but also across ecosystems and Keystone leaders, and has the potential to not only negatively impact...
View ArticleEquity Investment by Startup Board Members Can Attract New Capital
A frequent question from potential investors is, “How much of your own money have you invested?” A question that kills many an entrepreneur who does not understand how to answer it. The post Equity...
View ArticleTurning to Neuroscience to Tap into Emotions
Researchers, in striving to understand rational decision making, have often attempted to capture algorithmic calculations of how decisions are made. The post Turning to Neuroscience to Tap into...
View ArticleCapital Raises, Initial Coin Offerings, and Token Sales
To support startups and new ventures in the digital space, ICOs and STOs have the potential to streamline, decentralize, and disintermediate the capital raising process, creating advantages for both...
View ArticleAuditing in the Smart Machine Age
Rapid technological development in AI has led to speculation of a catastrophic demise of the auditing profession. The primary weakness in this use of AI for auditing is that machines initially learn...
View ArticleModernizing Capitalism: Saving the American Dream
The Digital Age has the potential to be as disruptive and transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors; that disruption could threaten our capitalist system and our...
View ArticleHow Audit Materiality is Material to You
One of the critical components of financial statements is the audit report. While audited financial statements are not perfect they should be “good enough” that the informed investor, having read the...
View ArticleDisney vs. Comcast
A look at how a large company strategically handles competitive rivalry in order to provide practitioners with important lessons of how to strategically thrive in a competitive environment. The post...
View ArticleThe SECURE Act
This article summarizes how prescriptive analytics techniques are used in practice by retirees to maximize retirement portfolio longevity. The authors then contribute to this applied research by...
View ArticleAfter the Covid-19 Economic Crisis
Introduction Value for Money (VfM) analysis helps governments decide whether it is more cost-effective to do a project through traditional procurement, or through PPPs. State government financial...
View ArticleB2B Opportunities for Smart Device Manufacturers
Although smart device manufacturers have positioned themselves strongly in the Business to Consumer (B2C) segment, this might well be the right time for these businesses to invest in the vastly...
View ArticleDeveloping a KPI-driven Data Strategy
With the vast ecosystem of information technology systems available to management along with the wide-ranging analytical techniques that can be applied to data, knowing where to start the journey...
View ArticleBoba, Milk, and Toilet Paper
Although it appears that the pandemic caused the disruption, when examining each disrupted supply chain carefully, it instead exposed the excessive risk of each supply chain. The post Boba, Milk, and...
View ArticleEditorial: How AI Can Help Developing Countries Post COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis is one event that has intensified the need for urgent action by developing countries to utilize technologies like AI to drive economic growth. The post Editorial: How AI Can Help...
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