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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Customer Efficiency, Channel Usage And Firm Performance In Retail Banking
BNET
- 2007-04-19
Innovations in technology and service design have increasingly enabled firms to incorporate self-service technology to augment or substitute for "Traditional" employee-provided service channels. Although it is clear that self-service can reduce cost, less is known about how customers utilize self-service channels in a multi-channel service delivery system and the resulting...
Exploring The Fit Between Business Strategy And Business Model: Implications For Firm Performance
BNET
- 2006-05-15
In this paper, we explore the fit between a firm's product market strategy, and its business model. We develop a formal model in order to analyze and develop theoretical hypotheses on the contingent effects of product market strategy and business model choices on firm performance. By investigating a unique, manually...
The Inattentive Participant: Portfolio Trading Behavior in 401(k) Plans
BNET
- 2006-02-01
Most workers in defined contribution retirement plans are inattentive portfolio managers: only a few engage in any trading at all, and only a tiny minority trades actively. Using a rich new dataset on 1.2 million workers in over 1,500 plans, the authors find that most 401k plan participants are characterized...
Dimensions of 401(k) Plan Design
BNET
- 2005-11-11
This paper explores why plan sponsors design their 401k plans the way they do. Employing a unique, rich dataset of over five hundred 401k plans, the authors' find that these plans are principally a form of tax-motivated compensation under the restriction of federal non-discrimination rules. In other words, to appeal...
Life Insurance and the Value of Spouses: Labor Supply Vs. Household Production
BNET
- 2005-11-01
To understand women's decision on labor market participation, it is crucial to correctly measure the value of household production as well as earning ability. Researchers have attempted to measure home production and other nonmarket activity by looking at the amount of time devoted to nonmarket production or the amount of...
Resurrecting the Defined Benefit Pension Plan: A New Perspective
BNET
- 2005-08-28
Under the traditional approach to defined benefit plans, well-intended disciplinary and regulatory regimes have sought to restrict discretion, reduce uncertainty and risk, and protect workers and employers. Nevertheless the discouraging state of US defined benefit plans indicates that past efforts have gone awry. This paper suggests that a new approach...
Changing Risks Confronting Pension Participants
BNET
- 2005-08-24
The past decade has seen a shift from traditional employer-sponsored defined benefit pensions toward individual account defined contribution plans. This has profound implications for participants' retirement security, as it involves a reallocation of risks and rewards from the plan sponsor to the employee. These include the effect of job changes...
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...
Who Bears What Risk?: An Intergenerational Perspective
BNET
- 2005-08-08
Governments in most developed countries promise pension and medical benefits to their elderly citizens. As the number of retirees is growing rapidly, the burden of retiree benefits has become painfully obvious. Uncertainty about the future complicates the planning for retiree benefits. If the future is brighter than expected, who will...
The Evolution of Risk and Reward Sharing in Retirement
BNET
- 2005-05-01
Many have focused on the transition from a defined benefit DB system to one based on defined contribution DC plans, but the new topics receiving attention include regarding pension accounting and regulatory problems, asset allocation issues, and the need to consider health benefits along with retirement income security. In particular,...
