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Benefiting from the Balanced Scorecard
Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn't enough to guide long-term...
Tags: investment decision, business process, technique, BPR, standards, financial analysis, Total Quality Management, Strategic Planning, motivation, decision-making, vision, supplier, monitor, financial, strategy, to, Balanced Scorecard, BNET Editorial, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Performance Management, Quality, Marketing Research, Marketing, Performance, Team
Articles 2007-10-03
The Role of Uncertainity in Investment: An Examination of Competing Investment Model Using Commercial Real Estate Data
Neo-classical investment decision criteria suggest that only the systematic component of the total risk affect the rate of investment, as channeled through the built-asset price. Alternatively, option-base investment model suggests a direct role for total uncertainty in investment decision marketing. To sort out uncertainty role in the investment, they estimate...
Tags: Investment Decision, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Economics, Investment, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Apache Corp. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Brian Singer – Goldman Sachs. Brian Singer – Goldman Sachs I wanted to follow up on your point on acquisitions. I just wanted to see where you stand in terms of the importance to Apache, how bid-asks...
Tags: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Apache Corp., Investment Decision, Call Transcript, Earnings, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-07-30
Chevron Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Mark Gilman with Benchmark. Mark Gilman - The Benchmark Company Pat and Jim good morning to you. I wanted to talk a little bit about the timing on the ramp-up on Frade and Tombua Landana. Any particular reason that the...
Tags: Writeoff, Investment Decision, Call Transcript, Earnings, Chevron Corp., Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-05-01
Chart Industries Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Jeff Spittel from Natixis Bleichroeder. Your line is now open. Jeff Spittel - Natixis Bleichroeder First question regarding large scale LNG. I appreciate the color, talking about project delays. As you look out there, are you expecting...
Tags: Investment Decision, Call Transcript, Earnings, Sales Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Seeking Alpha, Chart Industries Inc.
Earnings calls 2009-02-25
Collective Investment Decision Making With Heterogeneous Time Preferences
This paper examines the investment decision problem of a group whose members have heterogeneous time preferences. In particular, they have different discount factors for utility, possibly not exponential. It characterizes the properties of efficient allocations of resources and of shadow prices that would decentralize such allocations. The paper shows in...
Tags: National Bureau Of Economic Research, Preference, Investment, Investment Decision, Decision-making, Allocation, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2003-04-01
Pitfalls In The Modeling Of Forward-Looking Price Setting And Investment Decisions
The author discusses some difficulties in a dynamic New-Keynesian model with staggered price setting a la Calvo and a convex capital adjustment cost at the firm level, as considered by Woodford. It is shown that the implied simultaneous price setting and investment decision has not been analyzed properly. Our work...
Tags: Investment Decision, Price, Modeling, Inflation, Norges Bank, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Research & Development, Finance, Business Operations
White papers 2004-02-11
Portfolio Construction and the True Nature of Cash, Fixed Income and Equities
A clear understanding about how cash, fixed income and equities behave is essential to successfully managing your investment portfolio. Related to this, a significant factor in preserving and growing your wealth is the creation and management of a sound asset mix strategy. As any experienced investor knows, emotion and investment...
Tags: Asset, Fixed Income, Investment Decision, Equity, Investment, Financial Services, Asset Management, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2004-04-29
Earnings Manipulation and Managerial Investment Decisions: Evidence From Sponsored Pension Plans
Managers appear to manipulate firm earnings when they characterize pension assets to capital markets and alter investment decisions to justify, and capitalize on, these manipulations. This report constructs a measure of the sensitivity of reported earnings to the assumed long-term rate of return on pension assets. Managers are more aggressive...
Tags: National Bureau Of Economic Research, Investment Decision, Pension Plan, Stock Options, Benefits, Investment, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Payroll Solutions, Financial Services, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2004-06-01
A Patent Race in a Real Options Setting: Investment Strategy, Valuation, and Return Volatility
This paper uses a continuous-time real-options methodology to develop a dynamic patent-race model with endogenous hazard rate, in which firms, controlled by venture capitalists, make sequential investment decisions in an environment with three types of uncertainty: market demand uncertainty containing systematic risk, technological uncertainty representing idiosyncratic technological risk, and competitive...
Tags: Volatility, Risk, Valuation, Uncertainty, Patent, Investment Strategy, Investment Decision, Duke University, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management
White papers 2003-09-04
Managing Venture Capital Investment Decisions: A Knowledge-Based Approach
In the last decade, the venture capital VC industry has grown rapidly by most measures. This paper builds a causal map of the investment decision using causal mapping techniques by interviewing venture capitalists VCs. This map is converted into a causal Bayes net using techniques. Causal Bayes nets are especially...
Tags: Knowledge, Investment Decision, Modeling, University Of Kansas, Venture Capital, Research & Development, Investment, Productivity, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations
White papers 2001-05-21
Harrah's Survey 2003: Profile of the American Casino Gambler
Profile of the American Casino Gambler: Harrah's Survey 2003 is based on three nationwide studies: the Roper Reports, conducted by Roper ASW, and the U.S. Gaming Panel and A Night in the Life of a Casino Gambler, both conducted by NFO WorldGroup. Some conclusions are, Casino gamblers are more likely...
Tags: American Gaming Association, Investment Decision, Survey, Harrah, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2004-03-02
Emissions Trading and Its Possible Impacts on Investment Decisions in the Power Sector
The purpose of this study is to explore how investment decisions in the power generation sector may be modified with the introduction of CO2 emission allowances. To do so, it considers, through a simplified quantitative analysis, power plant costs, and operation and investment changes in the electricity generation over both...
Tags: Emission, Investment Decision, Power Generation, IEA, Investment, Finance
White papers 2004-04-27
Institutions Shift Towards Europe
There is no doubt that the experience of the last few years has affected and informed the investment decisions of European and US investors. This article records some of the results of a new AltAssets survey that highlights a shift away from the US and from venture capital and towards...
Tags: Investment Decision, AltAssets, Venture Capital, Investment, Marketing Research, Financial Accounting, Finance, Financing Startups, Marketing
White papers 2003-10-01
Take Timing Out Of Your Investments With A Well-Managed Fund Of Funds
Timing is the difference between making and losing money on the exact same investment. Having the money in a money market account is a perfect example of how to preserve capital and take timing out of the investment decision. This is why this article advise to "take timing out" of...
Tags: Investment Decision, Money, Hedgeco, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
The Aussie Super Gamble | BTalk Australia
(Episode 292; 10 minutes 06) Almost all Australians have to make investment decisions that will determine the lifestyle they’ll enjoy after retirement. We normally choose options through our superannuation providers who, this year, had only bad news to impart on those about to reach retirement age. So...
Tags: Investment Decision, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2009-07-22

Additional Resources

ExxonMobil to Make Final U.S. LNG Investment Decision by October
Now that ExxonMobil has received late-June approval from the U.S. Federal Regulatory Commission FERC on two planned LNG regasification plants to be built in Texas, it anticipates making the final investment decision by the end of the current quarter, coNow that ExxonMobil has received late-June approval from the U.S. Federal...
Tags: Exxon Mobil Corp.
Research articles 2005-07-01
Investment Decision Making Information: From Wall Street To The Web
From the executive summary: ‘Making investment decisions requires all types of information. Before a particular security is evaluated, the investor has to have a general view of market conditions and the overall business environment. One should not only know where the yield curve is at a particular point in time...
Tags: Web, Investment, Decision-making, Patterson & Associates, Tools & Techniques, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Small Value Gap No Basis For Making Long Term Investment Decision
Based on the closing share prices on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday January 4, AngloGold's (NYSE: AU) and Newmont's offers for Normandy were just 5 Australian cents (or 2.8%) apart. Mr. Bobby Godsell, Chairman and CEO of AngloGold said in Australia on Tuesday: "The gap between AngloGold's...
Tags: acquisition, dividend, FINANCE, Investment, SEC, shareholder
Research articles 1970-01-01
INPEX Holdings Nears Final Investment Decision for Proposed $6 Billion Ichthys LNG Project in Australia, an Industrial Info News Alert
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- INPEX Holdings Incorporated (TYO:1605) (Tokyo, Japan), through its 76%-owned Australian subsidiary INPEX Browse Limited (Perth, Australia), is expecting to make a final investment decision regarding the proposed Ichthys liquefied natural gas LNG project in late 2008 after completion of a prefeasibility...
Tags: INPEX Holdings Inc.
Research articles 2008-09-08
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