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- China's Cao lauds Perelman as 'hero' over maths findings
- MADRID AFP — A leading Chinese scholar lauded Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman for his work in solving the Poincare conjecture, a long-standing puzzle which last week earned him the math world's equivalent of a nobel. Cao Huai Dong said Perelman and Colombia professor Richard Hamilton, whose work on the Conjecture...
- Research articles 2006-08-28
- Reclusive prizewinner has cracked Poincare code: expert
- MADRID AFP — Russian recluse Grigory Perelman, awarded the mathematics world's version of a Nobel prize, the Fields Medal, has indeed solved the "Poincare conjecture" regarding properties of multi-dimensional space, experts said. The riddle had perplexed mathematicians since it was coined by Frenchman Henri Poincare in 1904 but Perelman...
- Research articles 2006-08-23
- Consolidated Royal Mines acquires Conjecture Silver Mine
- SPOKANE, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 13, 1995--Consolidated Royal Mines Inc. (NASDAQ BB:CRYM) Wednesday announced that it has acquired full ownership of the Conjecture Silver Mine about 30 miles north of the historic Coeur d'Alene Mining District in North Idaho.The mine property is on privately owned lands with adjacent unpatented mining claims. ...
- Research articles 1995-09-13
- Efficiency and the Bear: Short Sales and Markets around the World
- We analyze cross-sectional and time series information from forty-seven equity markets around the world, to consider whether short-sales restrictions affect the efficiency of the market, and the distributional characteristics of returns to individual stocks and market indices. Using the approach developed in Moerck et al. (2000) we find significantly more...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What Are Some Common Job Interview Mistakes To Avoid?
- Job interviews are stressful situations for most of us. We want to make a good impression and convince the interviewer of our suitability for the job. But, the stress of trying to have a perfect interview may actually cause us to make mistakes. We can often avoid many common job...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- What Is A Second Interview?
- A second interview is an important stage in the job application process. It indicates that a company has enough interest in an applicant to call him or her back to talk with other decision-making staff in the company. Depending on the organization, an offer of employment may be extended after...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- What Should I Wear For A Job Interview?
- Most people make snap judgments about other people based on their appearance. When you're applying for a job, it's smart to bear in mind that you may only get to make a first impression, and that most people hiring you will not spend enough time with you to see past...
- White papers 2009-01-01
Additional Resources
- The Unintended Consequences of Stock Options
- Stock options are designed to encourage executives to focus on the needs of the shareholder. Giving the CEO a stake in the company's market performance sounds like an elegant and effective way to make sure his or her attention is in the right place. But a study from management professors...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Need to Cancel a Vacation for Work? No Problem
- It's becoming increasingly difficult to justify taking time to yourself (despite abundant research on the benefits of work/life balance, which should release us from feeling the need to find justification). Research shows that 19 percent of workers have cancelled a vacation for work at least once -- and vacation insurers are counting on this. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Escapism is a Booming Business
- Two pieces of news hit the wires recently. The most surprising of the two is the fact that gaming outpaced the U.S. economy by a ratio of 4 to 1 from 2003-2006. The second is the merger of two large game producers, Activision and Blizzard, in a reported $18.1...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Taxation
- This paper confirms the conjecture that the evaluation of tax policy leads to very different conclusions once the role of entrepreneurs is considered. Contrary to previous literature, the author finds that switching from a progressive to a proportional income tax system has a negligible effect on wealth inequality in the...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Future Shock: An industry Focus
- "The turn of the millennium especially one free of apocalyptic disasters has given rise to much speculation about the future. Nowhere is this conjecture more apt than in the insurance industry, the very survival of which has been called into question. Indeed, a health check on the commercial lines insurance...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Believing in What You Sell
- A CEO who builds a sense of mission with their prospects, customers and key team members has presented this article. This article can change people's convictions about sales and leadership. It mainly consists of Opinions who fall short of having the need for positive knowledge, Beliefs which are based on...
- White papers 2002-04-29
- The Perception Of Time, Risk And Return During Periods Of Speculation
- This paper has derived the consequences of two hypotheses for the relationship between risk and return. The first hypothesis states that assets with the same risk must have the same expected return. From this, one derives the well-known invariance of the Sharpe ratio for uncorrelated stocks, as well as the...
- White papers 2002-01-10
- Competitive Reactions And Modes Of Competitive Reasoning: Down Playing The Unpredictable?
- Literature in management and marketing, beginning with the work of Zajac and Bazerman (1991), has made a strong conceptual case that decision-makers often do not effectively conjecture about competitors'future behavior, particularly rivals' reactions to the decisionmaker's own moves. The literature in marketing suggests that firms know far less about competitor...
- White papers 2001-09-05
- Paid Search Killed the Banner
- The article states that Pay-for-placement, paid inclusion, and other new ad formats appear to be sucking the life out of revenue generated by the banner. The would-be fate of banners has been the subject of much conjecture from industry soothsayers. Internet advertising had begun to travel down the birth canal...
- White papers 2003-05-12
- Issue Spotlight - Oil & Gas Reserves
- Shell's big reserves write-down on January 9th 2004 touched off a flurry of "who's next?" conjecture among energy investors. Although there are unique circumstances associated with this case, it is either an indirect result of increased SEC focus on the issue or interestingly coincidental. The long-term implications associated with recent...
- White papers 2004-02-25
- The Conditional CAPM Does Not Explain Asset-Pricing Anamolies
- Recent studies suggest that the conditional CAPM might hold, period-by-period, and that time-varying betas can explain the failures of the simple, unconditional CAPM. The paper argues, however, that significant departures from the unconditional CAPM would require implausibly large time-variation in betas and expected returns. Thus, the conditional CAPM is unlikely...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- The Information Content of the 1999 Announcement of Funds From Operations (FFO) Changes for Real Estate Investment Trusts
- This paper examines the market response to the 1999 announcement of a change in accounting for Funds from Operations FFO for Real Estate Investment Trusts REITs. This change provides an increase in transparency in the accounting statements of REITs regarding the calculation of FFO. An analysis of this announcement finds...
- White papers 2005-04-04
- Economic Benfits of Adopting IFRS or US-GAAP- Have the Expected Costs of Equity Capital Really Decreased?
- The question whether the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS results in measurable economic benefits is of special policy relevance in particular given the European Union's decision to require the application of IFRS by listed companies from 2005/2007. This paper investigates the common conjecture that internationally recognized high quality...
- White papers 2004-10-01
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