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- Got A New Strategy? Now Make It Happen
- From the executive summary: ‘Despite widespread rhetoric about the need for organizational agility, an astonishing number of businesses stay stuck in neutral when they need to implement a new strategy'. The paper outlines a procedure to overcome hindrances encountered while implementing new strategies in an organization.
- White papers 2004-02-09
- The Digital Trade Agenda Of The U.S.: Parallel Tracks Of Bilateral, Regional And Multilateral Liberalization
- This article discusses the digital trade agenda of the U.S. In August of last year, U.S. Congress enacted the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002. Thereby it has ended an eight-year period in which the United States lacked the fast-track authority to conclude trade agreements with a simplified congressional...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Outsourcing
- model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alias on the thickness of the domestic and foreign market for input suppliers, the relative cost of searching in each market, the relative...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Thy Neighbor's Portfolio: Word-of-Mouth Effects in the Holdings And Trades of Money Managers
- A mutual-fund manager is more likely to hold a particular stock in any quarter if other managers in the same city are holding that same stock. This pattern shows up even when controlling for the distance between the fund manager and the stock in question, so it is distinct from...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Asset Pricing At The Millennium
- This paper surveys the field of asset pricing. The emphasis is on the interplay between theory and empirical work, and on the trade off between risk and return. Modern research seeks to understand the behavior of the stochastic discount factor SDF that prices all assets in the economy. The behavior...
- White papers 2000-02-01
- 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...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Thy Neighbor's Portfolio : Word-Of-Mouth Effects In The Holdings And Trades Of Money Managers
- This paper explores the hypothesis that investors spread information and ideas about stocks to one another directly, through word-of-mouth communication. This hypothesis comes up frequently in informal accounts of the behavior of the stock market. The stockholdings of any given fund manager respond more sensitively to the holdings of other...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Do the Right Thing
- A question, which often arises, is what does it mean to run a company with strong values? How does a commitment to "do the right thing" as it is applied to employees, customers, and other stakeholders affect an organization's daily decision making? Developing and living with a set of principles,...
- White papers 2003-09-29
- The Strategy-Focused Organization
- The article takes an example of Mobil North America Marketing and Refining (NAM&R), a multibillion-dollar division of ExxonMobil, for putting the five principles of a Strategy-Focused Organization into practice. The five principles are : translate the strategy to operational terms; align the organization to the strategy; make strategy everyone's everyday...
- White papers 2000-10-23
- Success Factors For Building Profitable Indirect Sales Channels
- This article discusses success factors for building profitable indirect sales channels. Some of the ways of doing it are expanding market reach, increasing mind share with customers and cost effective sales channel. In addition, building a channel can be done through following ways: identifying corporate goals, best positioned for target...
- Presentations 2003-05-12
- Implementing The Balanced Scorecard In State Government
- For effective management of a work process, it is imperative to measure it. Measurement provides an insight into the dynamics of the process and, therefore, facilitates the management of the same. The Balanced Scorecard BS is a comprehensive framework that translates the organizational vision and strategy into a coherent set...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Best Practices For Benchmarking
- Benchmarking is a popular management tool. It can be defined as a structured approach for identifying the best practices from industry and comparing and adapting them to the organizational operations. Such an approach is aimed at identifying more efficient and effective processes for achieving intended results. The paper provides an...
- White papers 2003-10-27
- Supply Chain Management In A Wal-Mart World
- The compulsions of a dynamic and intensely competitive business environment has made organizations focus on innovative processes and systems to overhaul their supply chains and make them more efficient. Increasingly, top managers are integrating their supply chains with major customers. The paper examines the dynamics of the aforesaid strategy using...
- White papers 2003-08-04
- Action-Training For Effective Change
- From the executive summary: ‘Change management presents a major obstacle to many executives seeking to unlock the large latent profits inherent in their companies. Profitability management, the theme of the paper, is all about greatly improving a company's performance without the need for capital expenditures. However, profitability improvement requires effective...
- White papers 2004-02-02
- Retooling 360s For Better Performance
- From the executive summary: ‘The 360-degree feedback tool combines input from supervisors, peers, and direct reports to provide a broad perspective on an employee's strengths and developmental needs. It has insinuated itself into the performance appraisal processes at an increasing number of companies. But as some firms are discovering, the...
- White papers 2004-02-23
- A Clear Eye For Innovation
- From the executive summary: ‘Today's dynamic business scenario requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to exploit existing capabilities. However, few companies do it well. Most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products...
- White papers 2004-04-26
- Outsmarting With Outsourcing
- Outsourcing is a process wherein an organization leases out a non-core business activity to a third party for implementation. Such strategy helps in cost saving and enables the organization to fully concentrate on its core business areas. However, there are certain issues to be examined before choosing the outsourcing partner...
- White papers 2003-12-08
- What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
- Innovation refers to the application of creative ideas to organizational processes and products and come up with cutting-edge products and efficient processes. Innovation is an effective tool to gain sustainable competitive advantage. The paper argues that innovation is not only the domain of developed-world companies and many developing-world companies are...
- White papers 2004-01-26
- Four Ways To Innovate In Operations
- From the executive summary: ‘Operational innovation should not be confused with operational improvement or operational excellence. Those terms refer to achieving high performance via existing modes of operation: ensuring that work is done as it ought to be to reduce errors, costs, and delays but without fundamentally changing how that...
- White papers 2004-05-10
- Strategy and the Internet
- If average profitability is under pressure in many industries influenced by the Internet, it becomes all the more important for individual companies to set themselves apart from the pack—to be more profitable than the average performer. The only way to do so is by achieving a sustainable competitive advantage—by operating...
- White papers 2001-04-16
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