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Your Customers: Use Them Or Lose Them: Most people judge an organization by services it provides them. Customer service is an important aspect of a business, which should not be ignored at any cost. It has been observed that organizations, which provide its customers maximum value for their money, are the ones that truly succeed in the...; Tags: Product marketing, Harvard Knowledgebase, customer service, bank; White papers 2004-07-19
Moving Beyond The Core Business: From the executive summary: ‘Leadership businesses have the most to lose in adjacency expansions. Their valuable core franchises would be put at risk by major forays into the wrong adjacency or by premature abandonment of the core as an investment vehicle. And this risk is compounded by the abundance of...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, risk, leadership; White papers 2004-01-12
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance: Is business malfeasance always the board's fault? Everyone has a stake in ethical behavior and moral reasoning. There is a need for the corporate world to take a clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the...; Tags: Financial services, Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, equity, corporate governance, ethics, board; White papers 2003-05-05
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster: Experienced negotiators are generally comfortable working out the terms of an economic contract: They bargain for the best price, haggle over equity splits, and iron out detailed exit clauses. However, these same seasoned professionals often spend so much time hammering out the letter of the deal that they pay little...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, equity, negotiation, agreement; White papers 2003-03-03
Business Interruption Exposures: The provisions and costs of Employee Benefit programs should be clearly and frequently communicated to employees. Multinational organizations should step up to their international risk management responsibilities. Insurance policy provisions should be uniform as to named insured, notice and cancellation clauses, territory, etc. All communication providing or requesting information should...; Tags: Financial Planning, Harvard Knowledgebase, employee benefit, risk management, insurance; White papers 2003-01-01

Most Accountants Aren't Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed into law last July, is the government's response to a series of financial reporting scandals that rocked investors. Among other measures the law offers up stiff criminal penalties for accounting fraud. But in this, it suggest most accounting errors which, aren't the result of...; Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Harvard Knowledgebase, bias, accountant, auditing, accounting, financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial; White papers 2002-12-09
Strategic Asset Allocation In A Continuous-Time VAR Model: This article derives an approximate solution to a continuous-time intertemporal portfolio and consumption choice problem. It presents a continuous-time version of the model of optimal intertemporal portfolio choice and consumption with time-varying equity premium of Campbell and Viceira (1999). It shows that this model has an exact analytical solution when...; Tags: Asset management, Financial services, Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, interest rate, equity, investor, asset allocation, asset, stock; White papers 2002-09-01
Sizing Operational Risk And The Effect Of Insurance: Implications For The Basel II Capital Accord: This paper addresses the issue of regulatory capital for Operational Risk, focusing on the BIS proposals for banking organizations. It is organized into four parts followed by a conclusion. Part A looks at how a financial firm should determine how much Operational Risk to hold. Part B examines how the...; Tags: Financial Planning, Harvard Knowledgebase, insurance, Basel II, C, banking, financial; White papers 2002-06-18
Operational Risk Insurance - Treatment under the New Basel Accord: Although operational risks are as old as banking itself, it was not until recently that they came into the focus of regulators and bank management. There are in fact reasons to believe that operational risks in banks may be increasing due to developments in the financial industry. Deregulation of financial...; Tags: Strategy, Financial services, Regulations, Financial Planning, Harvard Knowledgebase, bank management, risk, regulator, electronic banking, bank, M&A, globalization, risk management, financial, outsourcing, banking, insurance, security, Internet; White papers 2002-04-01
Is Your Company Nudging the Numbers?: Pressure to meet the numbers is greater than ever. But don't let own company issue a misleading earnings report. The nightmare of risky accounting is on the increase. In the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure—and personal financial incentive for managers—to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue expectations....; Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Financial accounting, Harvard Knowledgebase, accounting, derivatives, benchmarking, earnings report, shareholder, asset, board, financial, performance, sales; White papers 2001-11-19
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed: Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and inflating results, and it penalizes them for telling the truth and it...; Tags: Financial services, Harvard Knowledgebase, budgeting, negotiation, incentive; White papers 2001-11-01