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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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...
Should Inventory Policy Be Lean or Responsive?: Evidence for US Public Companies
BNET
- 2005-12-01
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...
Regulating Single Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans: A Modern Approach
BNET
- 2005-08-17
Recent financial market and plan termination experiences have exposed the shortcomings of existing funding, disclosure, and premium rules governing private single-employer defined benefit pension plans in the United States. These rules were designed to provide predictability for plan sponsors and administrators, by insulating pension plans from the realities of economic...
Financial and Management Practice in a Voluntary Medical Insurance Company in the Developed World
BNET
- 2005-03-15
The paper provides a summative evaluation of the financial and management practice of voluntary health insurance in UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland from the practitioner's view point. From a statistical perspective, the paper concentrates on Australia, as one of the few environments where there is a wealth of publicly...
Thinking About Tax
BNET
- 2005-02-21
This paper reports the findings of original experiments about perceptions of various aspects of tax-law design. In evaluating public finance systems, people are vulnerable to a wide range of heuristics and biases, leading to inconsistent judgment and evaluation. These errors in judgment are specific instances of a more general isolation...
Why Pension Fund Management Needs a Paradigm Shift
BNET
- 2004-11-19
This paper asserts that the management of the assets of defined benefit DB plans has been guided by a simple three-part paradigm. This paper shows that within this 'old' paradigm framework, the average US DB pension fund performed reasonably well over the 10-year period ending 2002. But it also shows...
Educating Pension Plan Participants
BNET
- 2004-11-19
Educational programs are often used by large employers to help employees make informed decisions in connection with their retirement programs. This paper evaluates the range of programs offered, their scope, and objectives. It also explores the evidence that these programs increase the efficacy of retirement savings. The paper argues that...
Efficiency and Value Creation in Acquisitions and Divestitures: Evidence From the US Property-Liability Insurance Industry
BNET
- 2004-09-21
This paper studies acquisitions and divestitures in the United States Property-Liability insurance industry. It estimates the valuation effects of firms' structural changes using an event study methodology; in particular, it examines the effects of diversification versus focus over the dimensions of both geographical areas and business sectors. The paper also...
Adult Learning Principles and Pension Participant Behavior
BNET
- 2003-12-05
Most efforts to influence participants in workplace-based retirement plans to take full advantage of investment benefits available to them have limited impact. Despite years of educational initiatives, retirement saving for most Americans remains inadequate. This paper suggests that participants who receive information about their retirement savings in accord with research-based...
Lessons From Behavioral Finance for Retirement Plan Design
BNET
- 2003-12-03
This paper evaluates some of the key lessons of behavioral economics and finance research over the last decade for pension plan design. The discussion is divided into the natural phases of the retirement saving life cycle: accumulation, investment, and decumulation. After reviewing the lessons of behavioral finance, the paper concludes...
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