BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.0B
- Private
- US
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At the University of Pennsylvania, you'll find a historic, Ivy League school with highly selective admissions and a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship. You'll also find a picturesque campus amidst a dynamic city and a world-class research institution. Today Penn is home to a diverse undergraduate student body of nearly 10,000, hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe. Admissions are among the most selective in the country and Penn consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Another 10,000 students are enrolled in Penn's 12 graduate and professional schools, which are national leaders in their fields. The Wharton School is consistently one of the nation's top three business schools. The School of Nursing is one of the two best in the U.S. The School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and Annenberg School for Communication all rank among the top 10 schools in their fields.
Number of Employees 20,000
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Purchasing Card Best Practices For University Procurement
BNET
- 2007-03-01
According to Hanover Research's paper on Purchasing Practices in Higher Education, institutions are continually seeking ways to better manage purchasing and incorporate more efficient, cost-effective purchasing systems in order to save on both purchases and back-end support costs. Many institutions have found that a standardized, controlled purchasing system based on...
Effective Leadership: Building A Successful Corporate Culture
BNET
- 2006-10-25
The information revolution has taken some old-time sources of competitive advantage - technology, manufacturing processes, and others - out of the equation. So more than ever, leadership, strategy and culture are important to a company's success. Executives who seek input from all levels of their organization can build a knowledge...
Valuing R&D Projects In A Portfolio: Evidence From The Pharmaceutical Industry
BNET
- 2006-07-01
Understanding the value of a product development project is central to a firm's choice of project portfolio. This is due to interactions with other projects in the portfolio that address the same consumer need and with other projects that require the same development resources. This paper empirically investigates the structure...
Exploring The Fit Between Business Strategy And Business Model: Implications For Firm Performance
BNET
- 2006-05-15
In this paper, we explore the fit between a firm's product market strategy, and its business model. We develop a formal model in order to analyze and develop theoretical hypotheses on the contingent effects of product market strategy and business model choices on firm performance. By investigating a unique, manually...
Tradeoffs in Staying Close: Corporate Decision-Making and Geographic Dispersion
BNET
- 2006-03-01
This paper documents the role of geographic dispersion on corporate decision-making. First, it is found that geographically dispersed firms are less employee-friendly. Second, using division-level data, employee dismissals are less common in divisions located close to corporate headquarters. Third, firms are reluctant to divest in-state divisions. To explain these findings...
Lessons From Hurricane Katrina for American Life - Rebuilding the Gulf: Case Study for the Future
BNET
- 2005-12-01
While there have been and will be much-needed investigations about specific failures in preparation and responses at local, state and national levels, the disaster raises a set of much deeper questions about how one addresses risk in the society. Could the current policies and infrastructure be as vulnerable in the...
Credit Risk Transfer and Contagion
BNET
- 2005-11-24
Some have argued that recent increases in credit risk transfer are desirable because they improve the diversification of risk. Others have suggested that they may be undesirable if they increase the risk of financial crises. Using a model with banking and insurance sectors, this paper shows that credit risk transfer...
Strategic Activism and Nonmarket Strategy
BNET
- 2005-08-01
Activist NGOs have increasingly foregone public politics and turned to private politics to change the practices of firms and industries. This paper focuses on private politics, activist strategies, and nonmarket strategies of targets. A formal theory of an encounter between an activist organization and a target is presented to examine...
You Can Only Die Once: Public-Private Partnerships for Managing Interdependent Risks
BNET
- 2005-01-15
There are certain bad events that can only occur once. Death is the obvious example: an individual's death is irreversible and unrepeatable. More mundane examples are bankruptcy, being struck off a professional register, and other discrete events. In addition there are other events that can in principle occur twice but...
Business Strategy And Business Model: Extending The Strategy-Structure-Performance Paradigm
BNET
- 2004-08-06
We extend the strategy-structure-performance paradigm to highlight the interdependencies among a firm's product market strategy, the structure of transactions it enables with external stakeholders its business model, and its performance. By developing a formal model, we are able to examine theoretically the contingent effects of product market strategy and business...
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