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- When Will We Ever Learn? A Postscript
- Last November Jeffery Pfeffer was in Sydney at the invitation of Australian Institute of Management presenting on his current topic, Evidence Based Management for Business based on his latest book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management jointly written with Robert Sutton. I attended the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- The Attitude of Wisdom
- I have been on holidays for the past three weeks in the USA attending among other things the Masters in Augusta. I will write a blog next week about golf and emotional intelligence but I need to wrap up Mr Pfeffer. In the previous blog I...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
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- Decomposing Changes in Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities to Isolate Earnings Management Activities
- This paper provides evidence on the types of accounts that reveal earnings management activities. We build on Burgstahler and Dichev's (1997) evidence of earnings management to avoid an earnings decline and Phillips et al.'s (2003) findings that deferred tax expense can be used to detect such earnings management. In particular,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Impact of Total Quality Management (TQM) on Financial Performance: Evidence from Quality Award Winners
- Total Quality Management is periodically lambasted by management gurus and the business media for its supposedly lack luster impact on financial performance. This paper presents objective evidence on whether this criticism is indeed justified. Three critical issues are addressed in this paper. First, we discuss the ongoing debate on TQM's...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- Fund Returns and Trading Expenses: Evidence on the Value of Active Fund Management
- The relation between mutual fund returns and trading expenses provides a powerful test of the value of active management, however, the empirical evidence on this relation is mixed. It is argue that the inconsistent evidence stems from the use of turnover as a proxy for trading expenses. Turnover captures the...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- Resolving Information Asymmetries In Markets: The Role Of Certified Management Programs
- Firms and regulators are increasingly relying on voluntary mechanisms to signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately distinguish adopters as having superior management practices or performance. In...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Earnings Management in Belgium: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
- This paper first discusses the empirical evidence on earnings management practices by Belgian companies. This review indicates that Belgian companies manage earnings to avoid declines in earnings or losses, to influence relations with external financiers and to reduce taxes. Belgian companies quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange also report significantly...
- White papers 2006-01-04
- PMI's rebuttal: Criticism is narrowly focused. (Viewpoint).(a discussion of performance management)(Brief Article)
- The critic of performance management reports narrowly on a dead process from the '50s and '60s, not on the world-class practices used by the most effective companies in America. There is ample evidence that performance-management practices directl The critic of performance management reports...
- Research articles 2003-03-10
- Fund Returns and Trading Expenses: Evidence on the Value of Active Fund Management
- The relation between mutual fund returns and trading expenses provides a powerful test of the value of active management, however, the empirical evidence on this relation is mixed. It argues that the inconsistent evidence stems from the use of turnover as a proxy for trading expenses. Turnover captures the frequency...
- White papers 2001-10-15
- Earnings Management And The Market Performance Of Acquiring Firms
- From the executive summary: ‘There is evidence of a post-merger reversal of the stock price effects of the pre-merger earnings management. The results suggest that the existing evidence of post-merger under-performance by acquiring firms is attributed to reversal of the price effects of earnings management.' The paper examines the market's...
- White papers 2002-10-28
- Should Inventory Policy Be Lean or Responsive?: Evidence for US Public Companies
- In this paper the authors are interested in investigating the association between inventory management policies and the financial performance of a firm. Consulting companies provide some limited evidence that firms that excel in supply chain management/lean techniques also enjoy above-average financial returns. Although several prominent companies have created business value...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Management Characteristics, Collaboration And Innovative Efficiency: Evidence From UK Survey Data
- This paper explores the impact of management characteristics and patterns of collaboration on a firm's innovation performance in transforming innovation resources into commercially successful outputs. These questions are investigated using a firm level survey database for 465 innovative British Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs over the years 1998-2001. Both Data...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Can product life-cycle management boast direct tie to lean?(Product Data On Plant Floors)
- Product life-cycle management PLM vendors such as Aras Corp. don't just want to be known for helping enterprises manage what they make, but also how those products get made. Evidence of this, says Paul Gilmartin, an Aras VP, is found in the vendo Product...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Evidence Suggests Britain's Asset Management Firm Knew Funds Were Speculative.
- By Stephen Womack, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--New evidence has emerged that Aberdeen Asset Management knew that funds it sold as low-risk to investors were highly speculative. Aberdeen, where chief investment officer Katherine Garrett-Cox...
- Research articles 2002-11-03
- Fios Early Evidence Assessment Service Lets Corporations Take Control; New Service Helps Today's Highly Litigious Companies Better Predict Electronic Discovery Costs and Understand the Universe of Potentially Responsive Evidence
- PORTLAND, Ore. -- Fios Inc., a leading electronic discovery ED services provider, today announced the availability of its Early Evidence Assessment service. This new service addresses the growing market demand for earlier and better insight into potentially discoverable data. It's designed to help corporations bring predictability and management controls to...
- Research articles 2005-11-29
- What are America's Stupidest Management Practices?
- Management guru Bob Sutton is off to conference in Singapore this week and on his consistently thought-provoking blog Work Matters he's preparing for the event with a little thought experiment. Namely, he's attempting to brainstorm the stupidest management practices of U.S. companies that remain inexplicably popular despite plenty of evidence...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Sparring Over Evidence at Wall Streeters Trial
- By Grant McCoolNEW YORK (Reuters) - In closing arguments in the trial of the first high-profile Wall Streeters on fraud charges stemming from the financial crisis, a U.S. prosecutor said two hedge fund managers told "black and white lies," but a defense lawyer attacked the government for "misleading" the jury.U.S....
- News items 2009-11-05
- The Costs and Benefits of Moral Suasion : Evidence from the Rescue of Long-Term Capital Management
- "This study examines the level of unsecured borrowing done by the firms that would ultimately rescue Long-Term Capital Management in the days leading up to the hedge fund's rescue. Although there is some evidence that these banks borrowed less at the height of the crisis, further examination reveals that this...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Costs and Benefits of Moral Suasion: Evidence From the Rescue of Long-Term Capital Management
- This study examines the level of unsecured borrowing done by the firms that would ultimately rescue Long-Term Capital Management in the days leading up to the hedge fund's rescue. Although there is some evidence that these banks borrowed less at the height of the crisis, further examination reveals that this...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Evidence From Tax-Exempt Firms on Motives for Participating in Sale-Leaseback Agreements
- Previous research finds evidence that tax factors motivate the participants in leasing transactions. Tax-arbitrage arguments predict that leasing participants gain when the lessor's tax rate exceeds that of the lessee. This paper presents a research that employs a sample of effectively tax-exempt REIT lessors to explore alternative leasing motives. Changes...
- White papers 2005-02-01
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