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- What Were They Thinking? by Jeffrey Pfeffer |Book Brief
- The book "What Were They Thinking?" argues that most managers fail because they diligently follow common management practices that are sometimes flawed to the core. Author Jeffrey Pfeffer challenges managers to throw out conventional wisdom and to think harder and more strategically about what's right for their companies.
- Videos 2007-12-06
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- SK Telecom Launches Seven New VibeTonz™-Enabled Games on GXG Mobile Gaming Portal in Korea; Developers Using Touch Feedback Sensations to Provide Fun and Exciting Console-Like Gaming Experience
- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Immersion Corporation (Nasdaq:IMMR), a leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, today announced that seven new VibeTonz-enabled games have been added to SK Telecom's new GXG mobile gaming Web site (www.gxg.com). When players download the games to the Samsung VibeTonz-enabled SCH-G100 mobile phone, they can...
- Research articles 2005-10-10
- The Impact Of Market Feedback On Post-IPO Capital Expenditures
- Initial Public Offerings IPO are suitable events to test the importance of market sentiment on managerial decision making. Using a sample of 185 initial public offerings of equity in the UK, a trading environment dominated by financial institutions, this paper empirically show that the market reaction at the issue date...
- White papers 2005-06-19
- Five Reasons WellPoint's $10M Healthcare Competition Won't Work
- So now the health-insurance provider WellPoint has put up $10 million for a new X Prize -- one that promises the money to anyone who can figure out a new way to fix the healthcare system. The X Prize Foundation is the same organization that created similar prize competitions in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- 'The Pie's Getting Larger' - What Warren Buffett Means
- Diane Lim Rogers submits: Having combed through Warren Buffett’s post-I.O.U.S.A.-movie words on how the growing “economic pie” means we don’t really have to worry about our economy’s inability to handle the fiscal challenges ahead of us, I promised I’d try to quantify his point. So today’s first attempt comes...
- External links 2008-08-31
- Stress-Testing Financial Systems: An Overview of Current Methodologies
- This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of macro stress-testing methodologies for financial systems. Substantial progress has been made both in the econometric analysis of financial soundness indicators and in the simulation of value-at-risk measures to assess system-wide vulnerabilities. However, a number of methodological challenges remain concerning the correlation of market and...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Implications Of Intellectual Property Rights For Dynamic Gains From Trade
- A simple Intellectual Property Rights IPRs framework is introduced into a dynamic quality ladder model of technological diffusion between innovating firms in one country and imitating firms in another country. The presence of technological spillovers and feedback effects between firms in the two countries demonstrates that, even when steady state...
- White papers 2005-07-11
- Tackling Low Employee Morale
- Low morale can gradually destroy employees' commitment, hurt the product or service they offer, and alienate the clients and customers they serve. It has many sources—poor economic conditions, a clash of cultures following a merger or acquisition, bad management, or any number of other factors.Poor morale is contagious. It may...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Mentoring Employees for Business Results
- Mentoring is crucial to developing and retaining employees. Mentors give advice on a spectrum of topics, ranging from specific skills to broader issues of career direction. Protégés gain sound guidance, access to established networks, and enhanced personal and professional perspectives.Though mentoring happens naturally to some degree, it can be promoted...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- Motivating Team Members
- Organizational success has always depended on delivering results through teamwork. However, with the increasing prevalence of flat, networked, and matrix structures, effective teamwork is becoming even more criticalIn these types of organizational structures, individuals come together—forming teams—for the duration of a project or for the amount of time it takes...
- Articles 2007-10-24
- Raising The Executive Performance Bar Why We Shoot The Messenger
- Product life cycles are growing shorter, customer expectations are growing higher, and technological innovation pushes the rate of change to higher and higher levels. The competitive bar for companies rises constantly, which means that the performance bar for executives rises with it. Just as companies that thrive will...
- White papers 1999-01-01
- Sciele Pharma Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions And we will go first to Annabel Samimy - UBS. Annabel Samimy - UBS On the Sular, have you started drawing down inventories before January? It seems like the cardiovascular was a little bit lighter than we would have expected....
- Earnings calls 2008-03-07
- Managing Your Image
- Most of us think image management is for PR consultants and celebrities. The truth is that by managing your own image well, you can enhance your reputation as a competent and dependable worker and effective communicator, and thereby, open the door to new career opportunities.Image management starts with first impressions:...
- Articles 2007-02-15
- Dealing with Bullying or Harassment in the Workplace
- Anyone who has ever been bullied knows how demoralizing and difficult it is. When it occurs in the workplace it can be a seemingly inescapable nightmare, the effects of which are certain to take their toll on the physical and mental well-being of the victim and create an atmosphere of...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- Creating Web-Based Presentations
- Remote presentations—those delivered to customers online—are very different from presentations made in person. Their purpose is the same—to convey information in a way that has an impact—but they require important adaptations.Web-based presentations serve some important purposes. First, they can add a rich dynamic to your company's web site; new customers...
- Articles 2007-05-01
- Does Intra-Firm Bargaining Matter For Business Cycle Dynamics?
- The authors have analysed the implications of intra-firm bargaining for business cycle dynamics in models with large firms and search frictions. Intra-firm bargaining implies a feedback effect from the marginal revenue product to wage setting which leads firms to over-hire in order to reduce workers' bargaining position within the firm....
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Introducing a Productivity Initiative
- In a company where good, solid, and effective managerial processes exist already, many of the techniques for improving productivity should be easy to incorporate. Though technical capabilities are crucial, implementing new systems can be expensive and often lead to drastic reductions in productivity. Employing innovative managerial techniques is a cheaper...
- Articles 2008-01-30
- March Madness Lesson: Lose a Little Now, Win More Later
- The Find: Data from NCAA basketball matches shows that teams losing by a little at halftime are more likely to win the game than teams that are up a little, proving what your grandmother already knew: a little adversity keeps you hungry. The Source: A post by...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Live blog: Macworld 2009 keynote
- digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Live_blog_Macworld_2009_keynote'; We're posting live updates from Macworld 2009 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, where Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller, is delivering the keynote speech.Schiller takes the stage.(Credit: James Martin/CNET Networks)8:55 a.m. PST: We're live inside the Moscone Center for Macworld 2009, having braved...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Coping with Stress
- You may lead a generally balanced life, but nearly everyone has stressful times. Learning to cope with stress is important to your health and your relationships, so identifying its sources and putting them in perspective will help you to eliminate or deal with the stress and enable you to lead...
- Articles 2007-02-28
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