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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-09-08
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