BOSTON -- Fidelity Investments today announced the launch of myPlanSM, a new guidance program designed to help individual investors and employees break through the inertia associated with retirement planning and savings and take actionable steps towards achieving their financial goals.
Timely acquisition and divestment of resources is essential for sustaining the competitive advantage and longevity of family firms. A combination of past successes, emotional attachments, and path dependencies can lead to extensive inertia toward divestment in these firms. This paper develops a framework to understand the influence of community culture...
This paper explores the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to Greenfield investment financed with an SEO. The paper develops a...
This paper proposes a markedly different transmission mechanism from monetary policy to the macro economy, focusing on how policy changes nominal inertia in the Phillips curve. Using recent theoretical developments, the paper examines the properties of a small, estimated monetary model distinguishing four monetary regimes employed since the late 1950s....
The study explores aligning people, incentives, and knowledge to overcome organizational inertia. Senior executives continually lament the amount of time they spend wrestling with organizational problems rather than building their business. From the CEO on down, business leaders routinely express variations on the same fundamental themes that are discussed in...
Building on a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change, this paper focuses on structural inertia. It defines inertia as a persistent organizational resistance to changing architectural features. It examines the evolutionary consequences of architectural inertia. The main theorem holds that selection favors architectural inertia in the sense...
LOS ANGELES - Cable operators were cautiously pleased by the initial results of their digital-tier rollouts, saying that penetration has reached 5 percent to 13 percent in less than a year. Operators presented their findings here last week at the LOS ANGELES...
INTRODUCTION Establishing the most favorable vibration operation conditions for swinging screens is the essential problem when devising such equipment. The amplitude and the frequency of vibrations are the decisive factors that influence the vibrating conditions. The sieves operate best in over-critical angular resonant regime, at high frequencies coupled...
New Tool Focuses on Inertia in ERP Systems and Offers Path to Agility, Cost Savings VICTORIA, B.C. -- Agresso (www.agresso.com/USA), the ERP market's definition of agility, unveiled an ERP Healthcheck for Businesses Living in Change[TM]. This online tool assesses the negative impact that systems lacking agility can have...
OTTAWA, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Mashline.com released the official soundtrack entitled, Mashline Girl - "I've Got a Crush on Harper," just over a week ago. The official music video, Mashline Girl - "I've Got a Crush on Harper is set to rocket skyward with all the added inertia of...
Wachovia Wins Greatest Number of Gold Signature Awards for 2008 Cycle CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wachovia Retirement Services has received five Gold Signature Awards from the Profit Sharing/401k Council of America. The firm was recognized for the communication and education programs that it produced in...
The near-unanimous opinion of those interviewed: action on the state level is helpful in building momentum towards national data security legislation, but much more work must be done before Congress shakes off inertia. But as consumers seemingly cannot open a newspaper or watch TV news without viewing a report on...
THE GOD THEORY: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All by Bernard Haisch. San Francisco, CA: Weiser Books, 2006. 157 pages. Hardcover; $21.95. ISBN: 1578633745. Bernard Haisch has spent most of his career in astrophysics working at Lockheed-Martin in the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto,...
Based on results from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) 2008 Servicing Operations Study and Forum SOSF, the shoe dropped for subprime servicers in 2007. Perhaps never were times more challenging--especially in the second half of the year, when liquidity vanished, housing values in certain geographic areas declined and delinquencies and...
IT IS NICE to have friends. It is even better when those friends support you financially when you cannot afford something or you have certain needs but budget and other considerations keep you from acquiring a badly needed item. We have a wonderful library system in Livermore. Now in its...
The determinants of consumer demand have been the core of a robust research area at the macro and micro levels (Deaton and Muellbauer 1980; Campbell and Deaton 1989). Understanding demand at the aggregate level is key to economic growth, while that at the consumer or micro level has been of...
The Elite 112 bar feeder will operate on a Star CNC lathe. It can feed bars of 0.8mm to 12.7mm on lathes with high rotation and headstock acceleration speeds without limiting performance. It has a minimum inertia---40 percent--mechanical synchronization system to follow headstocks, even those actuated by linear motors, regardless...
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NAPA, Calif. -- Benjamin Gordon, an expert in global supply chain and logistics, will headline an impressive list of speakers at the fourth annual Wine Industry Technology Symposium WITS[TM], slated for July 15, 2008 at the Marriot Napa Valley. Gordon, Managing Director of BG Strategic...
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