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- Revenue Sharing and Vertical Control in the Video Rental Industry
- Revenue sharing contracts, in which retailers pay a royalty on sales to their suppliers, are now widely used in the video rental industry. It can be seen that revenue sharing is valuable in vertically separated industries in which demand is either unpredictable or variable (e.g., systematically declining), downstream inventory is...
- White papers 2001-04-09
- Risk Measurement for Hedge Fund Portfolios
- The purpose of this paper is to explore methods to better quantify the risks associated with investing in hedge fund portfolios (a "fund of hedge funds"). More specifically, the paper measures the systematic and idiosyncratic risk of a sample hedge fund portfolio using eight different managers who invest across eight...
- White papers 2003-07-28
- Hedge Funds: Approaches to Diversification
- This paper has two goals: to determine if hedge funds are a separate asset class and if so, if any of the correlations between hedge fund strategies are low enough to enable fund of fund managers to strategically diversify within the hedge fund arena. The findings indicate that hedge funds...
- White papers 2002-06-17
- Risk Management in Asset Management
- Investors are natural risk bearers, in part due to the vast array of risk management tools available to them. These tools allow a risk budgeting process that de-couples the asset allocation and active bets taken in the portfolio. The risk of non-traded assets in the portfolio can be reduced by...
- White papers 2003-01-17
- Empirical Determinants of Product Obsolescence and the Product Cycle: An Application to the Commercial Mainframe Computer Market
- One investigates the determinants of product obsolescence and the product cycle in the computer mainframe market. One uses hazard models with time-varying covariates to estimate how long a product remains for sale and the rate at which a product's installed base declines to a low level after sales cease. One...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- To Offshore Or Not To Offshore
- Moving production facilities to low-wage countries provides an opportunity for cost reduction, but comes with disadvantages of increased logistic costs and foreign trade barriers. This paper examines the offshoring decision from a network capacity investment perspective. We analyze a firm that manufactures two products to serve two geographically separated markets...
- White papers 2005-10-10
- Missing Millions: Unlocking Strategic IT Value
- As executives explore opportunities to innovate and maximize business value through technology, most are missing out on their greatest opportunity for value creation: understanding, leveraging, extending and rationalizing their existing applications portfolio through a structured and ongoing business applications planning process. In this paper, the Kellogg School of Management and...
- White papers 2005-06-01
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- Kellogg puts CME Trust grant in action; new business school program.(Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University)(Chicago Mercantile Exchange Trust)(Brief article)
- Byline: Christine Williamson The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. - one of 20 Chicago-area organizations to benefit from the largesse of The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Trust - is using the influx to promote Byline: Christine Williamson ...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Supply-chain best practices. (survey by KPMG Peat Marwick LLP and Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg School of Management will evaluate supply-chain methods)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 Looking to optimize supply-chain operations? KPMG Peal Marwick LLP will work with Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg School of Management on a worldwide survey to benchmark best practices in supply-chain management. The consulting fir 00-00-0000 Looking to optimize supply-chain operations? KPMG Peal Marwick...
- Research articles 1997-10-06
- New IT Application Investment Framework to Help Firms Unlock Millions in Lost Savings: Sapient and Kellogg School of Management Publish Report on Lowering IT Applications Costs to Uncover New Opportunities for Value Creation
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Most organizations are missing out on their greatest opportunity to create tangible business value through technology, according to a new white paper published by Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE), a business innovator, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. With the average Global 2000 company allocating 75%...
- Research articles 2005-09-07
- Former President Bill Clinton to speak at the Perspectives in Healthcare Forum hosted by Huron Consulting Group and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
- CHICAGO -- Former President Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the Perspectives in Healthcare Forum hosted by Huron Consulting Group and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management on Friday, May 19, 2006.
- Research articles 2006-04-24
- New Study by Kellogg School of Management and Sapient Reveals How Marketing and IT Partnerships Improve Results and Speed Innovation; Offers Best Practices
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & EVANSTON, Ill. -- A new study by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE) titled, "The New Marketing - IT Power Partnership," explains why it's more important than ever for company growth that marketing and IT partner in their strategies. The report offers opportunities,...
- Research articles 2007-04-03
- Northwestern offers global SCM course. (Professional Development Opportunities).(Northwestern University. J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management)(supply chain management seminar)(Brief Article)
- As part of its Manufacturing Management Week, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is offering a seminar on "Global Supply Chain Management," This three-day course will examine how new developments in information an As part of its Manufacturing Management Week, the Kellogg...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Newsmaker - Rajat Gupta ; The Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB), which he co- founded in 2001, has been ranked #20 in the FT-Global B-School rankings.
- Rajat Gupta is a man with the midas touch. The Hyderabad- based Indian School of Business ISB, which he co-founded in 2001, has been ranked #20 in the FT-Global B-School rankings, ahead of such formidable names as Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (#21) and Anderson School of Business, UCLA...
- Research articles 2008-02-24
- In the Spotlight: Kellogg Center for Biotechnology Management
- When the market speaks, Kellogg School of Management listens. Recruiters began clamoring for a program addressing the commercialization of life sciences -- pharmaceutical, biotech, medical devices and agriculture -- back in 2000, so Kellogg went to work creating the Center for Biotechnology to study innovations in this area and to...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Kellogg Teaches Management Skills for Rabbis
- With today’s shifting economic landscape, rabbis across the country have come under increasing pressure to raise funds to keep their synagogues healthy and oversee budgets that are being squeezed as members lose their jobs, the Jewish Daily Forward reports. Trouble is, many rabbis lack crucial business skills to run their...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- B-School Buzz: Job Hunting in Dubai, Millennials Flood Programs, Spike Lee Speaks, and More
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Business school students at Oxford University plan to spend at least one of their breaks in Dubai, not just to swap gray skies for sunny ones but to secure something more lasting: a job. With job opportunities dwindling in London...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- B-School Buzz: Cheap Gifts are Good, Half-Price Tuition at St. John's, the Value of Global Social Responsibility
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Two investigators from the Stanford Graduate School of Business have found that when it comes to putting out money for gifts, less may well be more. In several studies, they discovered that although most gift givers assume that a more...
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- B-School Buzz: Paul Krugman Speaks, Untraditional MBA Influences, and EMBA Relationships Bloom
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence In Paul Krugman's first public appearance since winning the Nobel Prize on Oct. 13, the Princeton economist and New York Times columnist spoke before an overflow audience at the Kellogg School of Management in the first of the Kellogg Distinguished...
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- IT poses stumbling block for supply chain management.(information technology)
- The study was conducted by Steven Gold, partner in KPMG'S Manufacturing, Retailing, and Distribution practice, David Dranove, professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Mark Shanley, associate professor at the Kellogg S The study was conducted by Steven Gold, partner in KPMG'S...
- Research articles 1998-04-23
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