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A look at "Deluxe": Knowledge@Wharton's latest Off the Shelf, posted today, reviews Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (published in August 2007).Â In a review titled Illusion, Not Quality: The Transformation of the Luxury Niche into a Global Mass Market, Off the Shelf gives an extensive recap of the rise of luxury goods makers,...; Tags: Retail, Branding, Michael Fitzgerald, Deluxe, Off-the-Shelf; Blog posts 2008-01-18
Does Success In Tech Ventures Follow From Better R&D? Think Again: The contemporary business era is extremely technology-centric. It is imperative for organizations to focus on perennial improvement of their technology tools, systems, and processes. Today, just pumping money into R&D initiatives is no longer enough for success. Intense competition has fuelled the necessity of empowering technology managers to establish a...; Tags: Research & Development, Knowledge@Wharton, R&D; White papers 2004-07-14
Getting Close To The Customer: Quantitative Vs. Qualitative Approaches: From the executive summary: ‘After adapting information technology to develop ever-more sophisticated quantitative research methods, marketers are taking a second look at more human, qualitative approaches to tapping into the hearts and minds of consumers. New ways to gauge customer feelings and attitudes are increasingly complementing numbers-oriented methods, although companies...; Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, information technology; White papers 2004-05-05
Why Some Start-ups Choose Cooperation Over Competition: Most start-up organizations face the tough challenge of establishing themselves. The main emphasis is on collaboration with big companies in order to create a base for the start-up company. The competition factor usually comes in when the company has firmly established a foothold. The paper deals with the question of...; Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, collaboration; White papers 2004-04-07
When The CEO Is The Brand, But Falls From Grace, What's Next: A brand is the name, logo, symbol, or design that is the unique identity of a particular product or service. It differentiates that particular product or service from other products or services in the market. Similarly, celebrity professionals also become a brand with time. The personification of the brand can...; Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, brand, branding, strategy; White papers 2004-04-07

It's Time To Talk Sense About Outsourcing: Outsourcing has become a strategic necessity for the new-age corporations. The outsourcing strategy provides them the opportunity to leverage skilled global resources in cost-effective manner. The outsourcing of services has raised the fears of a job crunch in the U.S. market. Experts, however, feel that such strategy is beneficial in...; Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, outsourcing, strategy, job; White papers 2004-03-10
CEO Overconfidence And The Urge To Merge: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) take place to achieve economies of scale and maximize shareholders’ returns. In recent years, CEOs have shown an urge for M&As. The paper argues that this urge is mainly to benefit themselves rather than the shareholders. M&As mean ‘big’ money for the CEOs since the same...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Knowledge@Wharton, M&A, urge, shareholder, CEO, asset, benefit; White papers 2004-02-25
M&A Activity: Back With A Whimper: Merger and Acquisition (M&A) is an effective strategy to consolidate industry structures and achieve economies of scale. It is an effective offshoot of the globalization era. In recent years, a slew of M&As in the banking domain have given strength to the M&A activity in the U.S. The paper examines...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Knowledge@Wharton, M&A, globalization, banking, merger, strategy, industry; White papers 2003-12-17
How Foreign Firms Can Attract U.S. Investors: Overcoming 'Home Bias': Accounting is a primary source of information about companies. The accounting methods vary in different countries. Based on the research on the relationship between foreign investment and accounting method choice, this write up analyzes whether foreign firms that use accounting methods consistent with US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) attract...; Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Knowledge@Wharton, accounting, GAAP, investor; White papers 2003-12-03
It’s Time to Curb Abuses in Mutual Funds: This article discusses some scattered incidents of improper practices that undercut shareholder returns. But the stories were easy to shrug off, appearing to affect only some investors in a handful of funds – and not causing very significant losses even for them. The $7 trillion fund industry is in the...; Tags: Mutual funds, Retirement plans, Investment, Financial accounting, Knowledge@Wharton, mutual fund, shareholder, industry; White papers 2003-11-19
Analyzing Brand-Name And Generic Drug Costs In The U.S. And Eight Other Countries: This study shows that the price differences are generally consistent with income differences among countries. The higher drug prices in the U.S. reflect the country’s higher per capita income. The exceptions are Mexico and Chile, where prices are higher compared to average per capita income and usage is far less...; Tags: Operational accounting, Knowledge@Wharton, income, Medicare, U.S.; White papers 2003-11-19
The Price Is Right, Or Is It? Determining The Impact Of Price On Sales: Price of a product is the amount of money that is charged from a buyer by the seller in exchange for that particular product. Setting the final price of the product entails the consideration of several important factors. An organization varies the price of its products depending on a number...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Knowledge@Wharton, sales, environment; White papers 2003-11-05
Macroeconomic Dynamics And Credit Risk: A Global Perspective: This paper develops a framework for modeling conditional loss distributions through the introduction of risk factor dynamics. Asset value changes of a credit portfolio are linked to a dynamic global macro econometric model, allowing macro effects to be isolated from idiosyncratic shocks from the perspective of default (and hence loss)....; Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Knowledge@Wharton, Risk Manager, innovation, modeling, equity, asset; White papers 2003-11-01
You Only Die Once: Managing Interdependent Risks: From the executive summary: ‘The paper extends the analysis of interdependent security issues to a general class of problems involving discrete interdependent risks with heterogeneous agents. There is a threat of an event that can only happen once, and any agent’s incentive to invest in managing the risk depends on...; Tags: Strategy, Real estate, Knowledge@Wharton, risk, agent, security, incentive, analysis, network, computer; White papers 2003-10-27
Suing Your Customers: A Winning Business Strategy?: The recording industry has a pricing problem. People do not want to pay $15-20 for a compact disc when they can download the same music for free over the Internet. The industry’s solution appears as novel as the technology that is giving it such headaches: launch hundreds of lawsuits against...; Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, business strategy, music, disc, industry, pricing strategy, CD, strategy, Internet; White papers 2003-10-22
Can BPO Work For Small Business?: Outsourcing a part of the business to an overseas company has become the order of the day. The question remain unanswered is will this work for small organizations as well. Seems far from being true. Actually speaking, to outsource the customer care center for a 20-staff company, makes no sense...; Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, outsourcing, BPO, outsource, small business; White papers 2003-09-24
Mutual Fund Scandals: Once Again, Individual Investors Are the Losers: This article focuses on recent revelations about late trading and market timing in mutual funds at Bank of America and other fund complexes come on the heels of earlier incidents involving sales incentives for brokers to push in-house funds and some companies’ failure to credit investors with volume discounts on...; Tags: Mutual funds, Retirement plans, Investment, Financial accounting, Knowledge@Wharton, mutual fund, investor, shareholder, sales; White papers 2003-09-24
BPO Providers Are Moving Up The Value Chain: The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) providers seem to have the best of all worlds today. Moving beyond regular call centers and data-crunching tasks, today there is a host of services that BPO service providers have to offer. This article talks about the various services that one can look for from...; Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, Knowledge@Wharton, BPO, outsourcing company, business process, voice service, value chain, environment; White papers 2003-09-24
CEOs of Aramark, AIG Lament Today’s Risk-averse Climate: Too much time is being spent on corporate governance and accounting issues and not enough on strategies to build the business, which is definitely not in the best interest of shareholders. This article renders that employee-managers own half the company stock. Employee trust and integrity is crucial in a company...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Knowledge@Wharton, terrorism insurance, insurance, line of business, entrepreneurial, corporate governance, terrorism, CEO, shareholder, accounting, financial, strategy; White papers 2003-09-10
Do High Regulatory Costs Force Public Firms to Go Private?: The article is about the privatization of the public firms due to high regulatory cost. It explains about the processes that are high in cost. People are moving towards private firms instead of registering for public firms. At a time when tougher corporate-disclosure laws are making life more and more...; Tags: Financial accounting, Knowledge@Wharton, U.S. company, financial, financial statement, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, shareholder, database; White papers 2003-09-10