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- More Women Charge bloomberg lp With Discrimination
- By Leslie Gevirtz NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Financial news and data firm Bloomberg LP, founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is facing a lawsuit involving 58 women who say they had their pay cut, were demoted or denied opportunities because they had become...
- News items 2008-05-01
- More Women Charge bloomberg lp With Discrimination
- By Leslie Gevirtz NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of pregnant women at news and financial data company Bloomberg LP who claim to have suffered sex discrimination has grown to 58 from three, an attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ...
- News items 2008-05-01
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- Texas Petrochemicals LP (TPC) Ecast System
- The article describes about Texas Petrochemicals. Texas Petrochemicals LP (TPC), headquartered in Houston, Texas, specializes in C4 hydrocarbons. The company's integrated manufacturing facility focuses on production within four main business units: C4 Olefins, Specialty Chemicals, Fuel Products and Polyisobutylene. TPC maintains its leadership in the industry with an innovative ability...
- Case studies
- Immigrants to the Rescue?
- Is one answer to our economic problems more immigrants? PriceWaterhouseCoopers reveals this week that CEO confidence in the year ahead is down for the first time since 2003. What's stressing out chief executives? Obviously, the economy, but a survey from consulting firm Accenture released this week suggests that C-suite executives...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- The Role Of Effort Advantage In Consumer Response To Loyalty Programs: The Idiosyncratic Fit Heuristic
- Over the past few years, customer relationship management and loyalty programs (LPs) have been widely adopted by companies and have received a great deal of attention from marketers, consultants, and, to a lesser degree, academics. The article examines the effect of the level of effort required to obtain a LP’s...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- New York Times is Not For Sale: Sulzberger Jr
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Times Co (NYT) Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr told shareholders on Tuesday the company is not for sale, disputing media reports. "This company is not for sale," he said, calling recent media reports suggesting otherwise "ill informed." Speculation...
- News items 2008-04-22
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Thomson, Amazon.com, HP, and Icahn
- Thomson Corp. is planning to acquire Reuters in a $17.5 billion deal that would create the world's largest financial news and information company. Analysts say the deal makes sense and would produce synergies and provide more room for cost-cutting. The resulting company would present a serious threat to Bloomberg LP,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Comparative Analysis of Linear Portfolio Rebalancing Strategies: An Application to Hedge Funds
- This paper applies formal risk management methodologies to optimization of a portfolio of hedge funds (fund of funds). It compare recently developed risk management methodologies: Conditional Value-at-Risk and Conditional Drawdown-at-Risk with more established Mean-Absolute Deviation, Maximum Loss, and Market Neutrality approaches. The common property of considered risk management techniques is...
- White papers 2001-11-01
- More Trouble Ahead for The Times, The Journal and McClatchy
- More Trouble Ahead for The Times, The Journal and McClatchyAll The Times Doesn't NeedThank goodness Bloomberg isn't interested. One more non-newspaper man is just what they don't need.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Citi's Liquidity Plans Draw Poor Reviews
- "He who has capital in a period of illiquidity is sitting pretty." So says a writer at the Daily Deal. I cite it here because it makes a very good point. Citigroup, in its quest to raise cash, reportedly agreed to sell $12 billion...
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- Sub-Structuring Based Rotordynamic Analysis of Gas Turbine Engine
- In this paper, a sub-structure model of a typical twin spool aero engine is presented. The low pressure (LP) rotor along with its bearings forms one sub-structure while the high pressure (HP) rotor with its bearings forms another sub-system. The casing or stator forms the third sub-structure. An inter-shaft bearing...
- White papers 2003-03-27
- Investment Benchmark Reports
- Investment Benchmark Reports are the most comprehensive, insightful and authoritative reports in the industry, with aggregate statistics from over a thousand private equity funds, analyzed by Venture Economics' leading researchers and analysts. These easy-to-use reports will enable you to analyze the performance of the entire spectrum of the private equity...
- White papers
- Lucent Sued Over Pension Plan
- A former employee of Lucent Technologies Inc. filed a class action lawsuit, alleging that the phone equipment maker harmed its pension and benefits plans by investing in Lucent stock as the shares plunged in value, according to Bloomberg. The suit claims that Lucent breached its fiduciary obligations under the Employee...
- White papers 2001-09-06
- Numerical Comparison of CVaR and CDaR Approaches: Application to Hedge Funds
- This paper applies risk management methodologies to optimization of a portfolio of hedge funds (fund of funds). The paper compares two risk management methodologies: Conditional Value-at-Risk and Conditional Drawdown-at-Risk. The common property of the risk management techniques is that they admit the formulation of a portfolio optimization model as a...
- White papers 2003-06-04
- Where the Cable TV Is Always on
- Cox Communications has been providing cable television service throughout the San Diego metropolitan area. To keep this massive system operational 24 / 7, Cox relies upon over 1,000 Generac standby gensets - approximately 800 of which are rated at 7.5 kilowatts, with the remainder being smaller 3 kilowatt units. Most...
- Case studies
- More Trouble Ahead for The Times, The Journal and McClatchy
- Trust me, I don't relish bringing you bad news about the media industry every day, but there's not much else in the current wave of earnings reports, resignations, and rumors of sales to work with. The McClatchy Co.'s CEO, Gary Pruitt, admitted this morning that the big...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Employment Figures Tell a Tale of Growth
- Although U.S. employment grew more slowly than expected in December, jobs-related data just issued by the U.S. Department of Labor reveal a solid growth story, according to some economists. December nonfarm payrolls rose by 108,000, with professional and business services, food services, health care, and manufacturing among the sectors that...
- White papers 2006-01-06
- Terrorism Worries Pushing Insurance Premiums Higher
- CSC Associates LP, the partnership between Cousins Properties Inc. and C&S Premises that owns Midtown's Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta, paid $834,000 in 2003 for insurance coverage of the Southeast's tallest edifice, according to Cousins' annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That is up from $653,000 in...
- White papers 2004-12-10
- Asymptotic Approximations for the Transportation LP
- The transportation problem of linear programming (TLP) with randomly distributed points and random demands, the earthwork minimization problem of highway design, and the distribution of currents in an electric grid are examples of scalable network problems. This paper investigates whether the optimal solution of the TLP exhibits a local structure,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Northern's Remote Hybrid TelePower System and GSP Company Provide Power for USAF Seismic Sites in Antarctica
- In support of the U.S. government's monitoring of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Northern was commissioned to provide power to two seismic monitoring sites in Antarctica. These two TelePower systems are arguably the most sophisticated remote power systems ever built and were each deployed to an environment that is among...
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