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London Business School: Re-org is its Own Reward: The Find: One professor thinks you don't need a good reason to reorganize your departments -- a reshuffle is an end unto itself. The Source: The "Random Rantings" blog of Freek Vermeulen, Associate Professor of Strategic & International Management at the London Business School. ...; Tags: Blogging, Jessica Stillman, London Business School; Blog posts 2008-06-11
London Business School: Re-org is its Own Reward: London Business School: Re-org is its Own RewardNeither NorI don't think it's lunacy, if it's done in an educated, planned manner. Unhappy workers is the biggest reason for lack of productivity. It'd be a good idea to at least let them know THEY are not the reason, that it is,...; Tags: Team management, Re-org, London Business School, team; Discussion threads 2008-06-12
The Excess Burden Of Government Indecision: Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions relative to what would arise with early policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle...; Tags: London Business School; White papers 2006-08-10
Offsetting The Incentives: Benefits Of Benchmarking In Money Management: Money managers are rewarded for increasing the value of assets under management. This gives a manager an implicit incentive to exploit the well-documented positive fund-flows to relative-performance relationship by manipulating her risk exposure. The misaligned incentives create potentially significant deviations of the manager's policy from that desired by fund investors....; Tags: Sales force management, London Business School, benchmarking, incentive, investor, risk management, benefit; White papers 2006-07-31
Anti-Competitive Effects of Legislation: The Ban of Below Cost Pricing for Retailers: This paper explores the indirect inflationary mechanism allowed by loss leaders banning laws. In a double duopoly model where producers compete to sell differentiated products through differentiated retailers, the authors show that the ban paradoxically allows the use of floor prices, a per se banned vertical restraint. When they face...; Tags: Retail, London Business School, retail company, pricing strategy; White papers 2006-05-01

Corporate Venturing: The purpose of this paper is to comment on the challenges that Corporations find when deciding to setup an equity investment arm: Corporate Ventures CVs. This paper will focus on three different challenges, covering the reasons why Corporations decide initiate CVs, the main structural differences between CVs and Venture Capital...; Tags: Investment, Benefits, London Business School, corporate venturing, compensation, equity investment, equity, venture capital, industry; White papers 2006-01-07
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...; Tags: London Business School, business strategy, strategy; White papers 2005-11-03
Seven Deadly Superstitions in Business Process Outsourcing: "Outsourcing" is the process of transferring responsibility for the execution of any of a company's recurring internal activities or processes to another company. The outsourcing company ceases to use its own employees to undertake certain activities while continuing to use the results of those activities. This paper explains seven common...; Tags: London Business School, outsourcing, BPO, business service, business process; White papers 2005-07-29
Competitive Advantage, Strategy and Problem Structuring: Revealing the Role of Managerial Cognitive Asymmetries: The Resource-Based View of strategy RBV seeks to explain why some firms consistently outperform rivals in the same industry by acquiring a unique set of strategic assets or resources. The authors' suggest firms achieve competitive advantage through 'cognitive asymmetries' differences between dominant managerial mental models that lead rival management teams...; Tags: London Business School, competitive advantage, strategy, asset, industry; White papers 2005-07-21
Reinventing the Rings: Working off ideas from his forthcoming book, Michael Payne paints a dramatic picture of the business turnaround of the Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee IOC. Payne explores the IOC's use of corporate brand management as well as 8 key lessons involving leadership, fiscal discipline and, what he terms,...; Tags: Branding, Business Strategy Review - London Business School, International Olympic Committee, brand management, leadership, brand; Case studies 2005-04-25
On The Capital-Structure Implications Of Bankruptcy Codes: We develop a theoretical model that relates a firm's capital-structure choice to the bankruptcy code under which it operates. We show that optimal capital-structure choices depend on not only the bankruptcy code but also the firm's asset-specificity: firms with high asset-specificity will use a higher degree of leverage under an...; Tags: Litigation, London Business School, bankruptcy, equity; White papers 2004-06-02
The Gap in GAAP: The Relevance of Customer Relationship Information: Standard setters generally oppose capitalization of the cost of acquiring customers and enhancing their satisfaction due to uncertainty of future benefits. This paper studies the value relevance of customer relationship information. Using a comprehensive database of the wireless industry, a metrics of key performance indicators is compiled to measure customer...; Tags: Wi-Fi, London Business School, non-GAAP, KPI, GAAP, sustainability, customer satisfaction, accounting, database, wireless, industry, performance; White papers 2004-06-01
Investment Strategies in Emerging Markets: An Introduction to the Research Project: This article investigates the foreign investment strategies in four emerging markets, their determinants, and their implications for the local economy and for public policy. The outcomes of FDI in terms of both corporate and social performance are highly dependent on how the operation is initially set-up. Entry strategies concern the...; Tags: Investment, London Business School, investment strategy, emerging market, foreign direct investment, strategy, performance; White papers 2004-03-16
Corporate Venturing Performance: An Investigation Into the Applicability of Venture Capital Models: This paper reports a study that examined this assertion more directly through surveying 95 corporate venture units across 3 continents (Europe, South East Asia and North America) and examining the association between their organizational structures, management practices and investment practices, and multiple measures of venture unit performance. Regression analyses found...; Tags: Performance, London Business School, Regression, Corporate Venturing, Venture Capital, Performance Management, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2003-01-02
Multi Period Performance Persistence Analysis of Hedge Funds: Hedge funds specify significant lockup periods; this paper investigates persistence in the performance of hedge funds using a multi-period framework in which the likelihood of observing persistence by chance is lower than that in the traditional two-period framework. Under the null hypothesis of no manager skill no persistence, the theoretical...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, London Business School, hedge fund, hypothesis, performance, analysis; White papers 2002-11-06
Western Methods: The New Technology for Polish Business?: Poland is regarded as the country which has made the greatest progress following the economic liberalisation of Eastern Europe. This paper examines the strength of the relationship between the new Western context and the understanding of the methods which Polish enterprises need to address their current difficulties. The study was...; Tags: Method, London Business School; White papers 2002-05-06
Risk Management With Derivatives by Dealers and Market Quality in Government Bond Markets: This paper investigates how bond dealers manage their core business risk with interest-rate futures and the extent to which market quality is affected by their selective risk taking. The paper observes that dealers use futures to take directional bets and to hedge the changes in their spot exposure. However, this...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Strategy, SECURITY, London Business School, bond, derivatives, risk management; White papers 2002-05-02
Accounting for Derivatives and Corporate Risk Management Policies: This paper discusses the issue of how non-financial corporations should report the results of their use of derivative financial instruments. Using the recently issued SFAS 133 a framework, it introduces three possible accounting regimes (mark to market, mark to market hedge and deferral hedge) and characterizes the information provided to...; Tags: Financial services, Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, London Business School, accounting, financial instrument, derivatives, financial statement, risk management, financial; White papers 2001-12-01
The Risk in Hedge Fund Strategies : Theory & Evidence: Hedge fund strategies typically generate option-like returns. Linear-factor models using benchmark asset indices have difficulty explaining them. This article shows how to model hedge fund returns by focusing on the popular "trend-following" strategy. It uses look back straddles to model trend-following strategies, and show that they can explain trend-following funds'...; Tags: Financial services, Investment, Asset management, London Business School, hedge fund, asset, strategy, theory, performance; White papers 2001-03-15
Changes in the Factor Exposures of Hedge Funds (dupe): This paper seeks to shed light on the factor exposure of hedge funds by examining the loading of the returns of a sample of hedge funds on a number of explanatory factors. The paper examines fund's average exposure to different factors and it examines how the exposure varies across time.; Tags: Investment, Financial services, London Business School, hedge fund; White papers 2001-01-01