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- The Alchemy Of Leadership
- Leadership involves getting work done through others. A leader inspires and motivates others to bring out the 'best' in them. The desire to have an impact and the desire to make a difference is the driving force to leadership. The paper examines the various qualities, which are essential to inherit...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Brawns vs. Brains vs. Indexes
- Millions of investors are under the spell of a fantasy known as beating the market. This fantasy is just as compelling as alchemy once was, because some investments do indeed beat the market some of the time. A few investments seem to do so over protracted periods. This article shows...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Web Alchemy: 5 Pure Gold Tactics for Turning Visitors Into Customers
- If a person has been involved in generating leads or sales on the web for any period of time, the person will have probably reached the same conclusion that many of his web colleagues have, namely increasing the amount of traffic that his site receives is easier than turning more...
- White papers 2005-09-06
- Innovation Alchemy
- While it's true that virtually all organizations of size have their own little innovation process pockets and microclimates, the truth is that CIOs have a special responsibility to strategically rethink how best to blend process-defined and environment-shaped innovation enterprisewide. Precisely because IT organizations enable innovation throughout the enterprise, the supply...
- White papers 2005-11-15
- The Alchemy of LBOs
- Over the past two years, big chemicals corporations seeking to improve shareholder returns by running more focused businesses have sold assets worth almost $20 billion to leveraged-buyout LBO firms and similar private companies.1 Indeed, in 1999 and 2000 the value of public-to-private chemicals deals ran at about twice the total...
- White papers
- How Technology Is Transforming The Business Of Commercial Lending
- With the years of experience required to master its arcane jargon and comprehend its unwieldy documents, the practice of commercial lending has sometimes been likened to alchemy. But the intelligent application of technology is at last beginning to transform commercial lending from a mystical art into an efficient science. This...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Stock Options: No Ifs, Calls, Or Puts
- From the executive summary: ‘With stock option grants increasingly seen as a magic elixir for motivating employees, keeping the cost from hurting shareholders has required more and more financial alchemy. As they buy shares in the open market to soak up the dilution from option grants, more and more companies...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- The Alchemy Of Enterprise Risk Management: Examples From The Investment World
- Over the years, the numerous risks faced by organizations have forced them to resort to Enterprise Risk Management ERM tools. The ERM tools enable organizations in identifying the ensuing risk and devising steps to control it. ERM strategy suggests that organizations manage risks one at a time. The process not...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- "Financial Alchemy" or a Zero Sum Game - Real Estate Finance, Securitisation and the UK Property Market
- The paper reports preliminary findings from a project funded by the Corporation of London and the RICS Research Foundation examining a number of innovative schemes to identify, within a formal finance framework, sources of added value and hidden costs. The analysis indicates that many of the gains claimed conceal costs...
- White papers 2001-09-13
- The Role of Microcredit in Conflict and Displacement Mitigation: A Case Study in Cameroon
- The research project presented in this paper explored current and future trends in displacement in a conflict-prone region of northwest Cameroon. More specifically, research focused on the impact of the Caisse Villagoise d'Epargne et Credit CVEC, a savings and credit union located in the village of Foyet, on the mitigation...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- George Soros Goes Bubblicious
- The exact term George Soros uses is "superbubble," as he tells a skeptical Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal in an interview, Soros, the Man Who Cries Wolf, Now Is Warning of a "Superbubble". Bubblicious is a kind of gum favored by callow teenagers (I loved...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Cisco's New Era of Internal Venturing
- The average consumer doesn't pay much attention to the fact that people actually have to build the Internet. But that's all Cisco thinks about, and it takes a constant stream of new ideas and technologies to keep the Internet moving forward. How does the $30 billion company keep ideas streaming...
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Cisco's Analytical Alchemy: Turning Trash into Treasure
- Thrice yearly, a group of analytical business leaders from preeminent Global 500 companies get together for the INFORMS Roundtable meeting. (INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, is a professional society with the aim of improving business through analytics.) In one of the most recent meetings, the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Ignite your Company's Innovation
- A Hot Spot is a moment when people are working together in exceptionally creative and collaborative ways. Hot spots occur when the energy within and between people flares. Ideas become contagious and new possibilities appear. Hot spots flare through the spontaneous combustion of three elements and the multiplier effect...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
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