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- Myer Shares Bounce Back After Shock Fall
- Shares in Myer Holdings Ltd bounced back on Tuesday after falling 8.5 per cent after listing on Monday, with institutions and long-term investors expected to provide further short-term support.By 11.35am AEDT, Myer's shares were trading nine cents, or 2.4 per cent higher at $3.84 on turnover of over 10.7...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Diffusion of Ideas and Policies in a Multi-Level Regulatory Regime: Arctic Institutions and Global Climate Change
- This paper introduces institutions as the independent variable in global climate change research. The questions it asks are how human institutions negotiate the uncertainties represented by global climate change, and specifically how regulatory institutions are influenced both vertically and horizontally. Indeed, it is institutions of government which will determine how...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- Institutions and Business Strategies in Emerging Economies: A Study of Entry Mode Choice
- Economic institutions set a framework within which businesses develop their strategies. Variations in institutions thus explain differences in the organizational forms. This applies in particular in emerging economies with institutional frameworks differ not only fundamentally from industrialized economies, but also vary greatly amongst each other. This paper investigate the impact...
- White papers 2005-11-03
- Meeting the Needs of Dual-Career Couples in Academia
- This paper discusses dual-career programs implemented at academic institutions within the Unites States and Canada. Various institutions across the United States and Canada were surveyed regarding their policies and practices pertaining to dual-career couples. A comparative analysis of the survey results provides comprehensive benchmarks of existing practices. A critical issue...
- White papers 2003-04-25
- Strengthening IMF-World Bank Collaboration on Country Programs and Conditionality
- The Bank and the Fund have worked together since their creation in the 1940s. Over the years, as their missions converged in some areas, it became important to define the rules of engagement and the division of labor between the two institutions. These have been articulated in a series of...
- White papers 2001-08-23
- Ready or Not?: Determining the Readiness of Your Institution for an ERP Implementation
- Current trends indicate that higher education institutions are spending more than $20 million to complete single Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system implementations. These trends also point out that the success rate estimate of those implementations is as low as 30%. An ERP implementation project warrants and requires a high level...
- White papers 2006-10-31
- Do Institutions Affect Foreign Direct Investment?
- This paper argues that countries whose governments are highly ranked according to various indices of the quality of institutions tend to do better in attracting foreign direct investment. In an empirical analysis of cross-section data, the paper finds that different aspects of the quality of institutions from a country (corruption,...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Self-Regulatory Institutions For Solving Environmental Problems
- Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental problems, however, because environmental problems often transcend firm boundaries. As a result, management scholars have...
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Purchasing Card Best Practices For University Procurement
- According to Hanover Research's paper on Purchasing Practices in Higher Education, institutions are continually seeking ways to better manage purchasing and incorporate more efficient, cost-effective purchasing systems in order to save on both purchases and back-end support costs. Many institutions have found that a standardized, controlled purchasing system based on...
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Borrowing Power Calculator
- This calculator is designed to help you work out your borrowing power based on your current financial position. The calculation uses your Debt Servicing Ratio which is found by dividing your total monthly repayments by your total monthly income. Most lending institutions will lend to a maximum ratio of 32%,...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Consolidate Purchasing To Reduce Costs
- Higher educational institutions of all sizes are being asked to do more with less. With enrollments skyrocketing, state schools are fighting the impact of state budget gaps, while private institutions face shrinking endowments. The result is staff reductions and hiring freezes that must be offset with increased efficiency. As boards...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Outsourcing Transcription To Save Costs
- Looking for ways to cut costs has become a way of life in most medical offices and institutions. One very efficient way to reduce expenditures has been found to be the outsourcing of medical transcription services. In the past medical and business transcription was performed by in house based employees....
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Metavante Technologies Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions And your first question comes from the line of Tim Willi with Avondale Partners. Please proceed. Timothy Willi - Avondale Partners I was wondering when you talk about FSG and the spending outlook and appreciating maybe you are trying to be a little bit conservative...
- Earnings calls 2008-05-19
- KBW, Inc. F3Q08 (Qtr End 9/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. And your first question comes from the line of Steve Stelmach. Please proceed. Steve Stelmach Hi Good morning. John Duffy Good morning, Steve Stelmach Just real quick on the PreTSL business those marks were taken as of September 30th the...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-22
- Measuring Microfinance's Effectiveness
- A major issue for microcredit, one of the main efforts to fill the holes in market economics, is the lack of a consistent way to measure its impact. For instance, how many of the people who get microcredit are lifted out of poverty, for instance. Does it work as well...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- The Mother of All Disruptions
- The corporation is tumbling through a period of uncertainty it has never seen before, one that will change the nature of business forever. We've been reading sentiments like this since the start of the decade, and a lot more of them over the last six months. But...
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Why Are Some Nations Rich While Others Are Poor?
- If countries create sound institutions and improve their governments, then their citizens can expect that their hard work will be protected by the rule of law and poverty can be fixed, says an MIT professor. But why do some nations develop sound, transparent institutions while others settle for warlords...
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Of Course International Institutions Matter: But When and How?
- International environmental institutions can influence the behaviour of states and the quality of the environment that their behaviours, in turn, influence. Of course, not surprisingly, not all international environmental institutions realise their potential to wield influence. At times this reflects poor institutional design, while at other times it reflects the...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- Banking: Mixed Outlook for a Healthy Industry
- The paper outlines that the financial health of the banking industry is very sound, while the challenges facing banks tend to be related primarily to reputational and regulatory issues that have been in the news. But even these challenges haven't manifested themselves in either problem institutions, where the fundamental health...
- White papers 2005-01-05
- New Tool of the Bank Trade - The Value Lever Benchmark Points the Way to High Performance
- The focus of excellence, which differs from institution to institution, is a function of a strategic decision based on the individual bank's business model. It is important to note that in the decision to concentrate resources and investment on one area is not at the expense of the other performance...
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