BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.0B
- Private
- US
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At the University of Pennsylvania, you'll find a historic, Ivy League school with highly selective admissions and a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship. You'll also find a picturesque campus amidst a dynamic city and a world-class research institution. Today Penn is home to a diverse undergraduate student body of nearly 10,000, hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe. Admissions are among the most selective in the country and Penn consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Another 10,000 students are enrolled in Penn's 12 graduate and professional schools, which are national leaders in their fields. The Wharton School is consistently one of the nation's top three business schools. The School of Nursing is one of the two best in the U.S. The School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and Annenberg School for Communication all rank among the top 10 schools in their fields.
Number of Employees 20,000
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Deliberation And Security Design In Bankruptcy
BNET
- 2006-11-01
We consider a bargaining game among the claimants of a bankrupt firm in which claimants have private information about various operational restructuring alternatives, and can communicate prior to an offer. The setup differs from typical bargaining games with incomplete information in two ways. First, the proposals can be made using...
Corporate Bankruptcy Reorganizations
BNET
- 2006-09-12
When a firm files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S., negotiations take place among its claimants to decide what to do with the firm and who gets what. If an agreement cannot be reached, then the firm is likely to be liquidated. Consequently, the liquidation value of the firm...
Rules Rather Than Discretion: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina
BNET
- 2006-08-01
This paper explores options for programs to be put in place prior to a disaster to avoid large and often poorly-managed expenditures following a catastrophe and to provide appropriate protection against the risk of those large losses which do occur. The lack of interest in insurance protection and mitigation by...
Valuing R&D Projects In A Portfolio: Evidence From The Pharmaceutical Industry
BNET
- 2006-07-01
Understanding the value of a product development project is central to a firm's choice of project portfolio. This is due to interactions with other projects in the portfolio that address the same consumer need and with other projects that require the same development resources. This paper empirically investigates the structure...
How Do Resource Attributes Affect Firm Boundaries?
BNET
- 2006-04-10
The authors have developed a theory of firm boundaries that considers: The asset specificity of the resources that enable an activity; Their firm specificity; and the firm's endowment with these resources. The theoretical framework, which synthesizes and bridges transaction-cost and resource-based perspectives, leads to new predictions about activities that should...
Has the Time Come for Comprehensive Natural Disaster Insurance?
BNET
- 2005-12-14
This paper examines the role that insurance coupled with mitigation can play in reducing losses from future natural disasters while at the same time providing funds for recovery. After examining the decision processes of three interested parties who will be at the centerpiece of such a program, residents in hazard-prone...
Credit Risk Transfer and Contagion
BNET
- 2005-11-24
Some have argued that recent increases in credit risk transfer are desirable because they improve the diversification of risk. Others have suggested that they may be undesirable if they increase the risk of financial crises. Using a model with banking and insurance sectors, this paper shows that credit risk transfer...
Life Insurance and the Value of Spouses: Labor Supply Vs. Household Production
BNET
- 2005-11-01
To understand women's decision on labor market participation, it is crucial to correctly measure the value of household production as well as earning ability. Researchers have attempted to measure home production and other nonmarket activity by looking at the amount of time devoted to nonmarket production or the amount of...
Call-Routing Schemes for Call-Center Outsourcing
BNET
- 2005-10-19
Companies may choose to outsource parts, but not all, of their call-center operations. In some cases, they classify customers as high or low-value, serving the former with their "in house" operations and routing the latter to an outsourcer. Typically, they impose service-level constraints on the time each type of customer...
The Challenge of Protecting Critical Infrastructure
BNET
- 2005-10-01
In protecting critical infrastructure, the responsibility for setting goals rests primarily with the government, but the implementation of steps to reduce the vulnerability of privately owned and corporate assets depends primarily on private-sector knowledge and action. Although private firms uniquely understand their operations and the hazards they entail, it is...
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