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- Dyadic Provides Strategic and Business Update
- JUPITER, Fla. -- Dyadic International, Inc. (AMEX:DIL) announced today that it has made progress in the Gordian Group-assisted value maximization process and has taken steps to ensure that the Company is not disrupted during this process. As previously announced, on October 23, 2007, the Company engaged Gordian Group, LLC,...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Do Japanese automakers maximize profits? A systems analysis of the pricing of automobile inventories
- IntroductionThis paper investigates the pricing practices of Japanese automakers on the U.S. market of the 1980s. Japanese companies are often pictured as seeking market share rather than profitability, and using pricing to achieve that goal. If such behavior is to be confirmed, it is necessary to compare prices set by...
- Research articles 1996-09-22
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Partners Author ``TO THE MAX - Revenue Maximization: Capturing the Opportunities Within''
- Business Editors
- Research articles 2003-03-03
- Maximization In Financial Management
- This article focuses on decision making strategies for capital budgeting. This risk-adjusted cost of equity is derived in such a way that it is consistent with the goal of value maximization in financial management.
- White papers 2000-01-01
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- INSEAD: Shareholder Value Maximization Misunderstood
- The Find: Many blame an excessive focus on maximizing shareholder value for the implosion on Wall Street, but one INSEAD professor argues that the real problem is the failure to fully understand exactly what shareholder value maximization means in the first place. The Source: Comments by Theo...
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Anatomical Guided Segmentation With Non-Stationary Tissue Class Distributions in an Expectation-Maximization Framework
- High quality segmentation of brain MR images is a challenging task. To deal with this problem many automatic segmentation methods rely on atlas information of anatomical structures. We further investigate this line of research by introducing hierarchical representations of anatomical structures in an Expectation-Maximization framework. This new approach enables us...
- White papers
- Incorporating Non-Rigid Registration Into Expectation Maximization Algorithm to Segment MR Images
- The paper introduces an algorithm which allows the automatic segmentation of multi channel magnetic resonance images MRI. They extended the Expectation Maximization-Mean Field Approximation (EM-MF) Segmenter, to include Local Prior Probability Maps. Thereby their algorithm estimates the bias field in the image while simultaneously assigning voxels to different tissue classes...
- White papers 2002-03-05
- Enterprise Risk Management - 2
- This article is second part review of Enterprise Risk Management ERM, which focuses on helping companies develop broader risk management strategies that support the maximization of shareholder wealth. ERM is a comprehensive process and perspective for helping companies develop risk management strategies that support the maximization of shareholder wealth. It...
- White papers 1999-01-01
- Yahoo Shareholder Pushes for Microsoft Search Deal
- Updated: Ivory Investment Management, a hedge fund that owns about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, is pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft, but the sticking point is valuation. Analysts say that Ivory’s assumptions sound optimistic. In a letter reported earlier by CNBC, Ivory urges...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Valassis Communications, Inc Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you sir. At this time we will begin the question and answer section Operator Instructions. And our first question comes from the line of Alexia Quadrani, with J.P. Morgan. Go ahead Alexia Quadrani - J.P. Morgan Hi, thank you a couple of...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-30
- eBay Goes Head-to-Head with Craigslist
- Last Friday, eBay launched the U.S. version of their Kijiji.com online classified site, which will directly compete with Craigslist.org. On the surface, that's not such a surprise. Online classifieds seems a natural extension of eBay's core online auction business and e-commerce brand. Some have already heaped praise on Kijiji's interface,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- The Business of Environmental Sustainability
- Is your business successful? Traditionally the answer has come in the form of a question: Do you make more money than you spend operating the business? Increasingly, however, shareholders demand their companies create a social payoff as well as a financial one -- everything from providing financial support for a...
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Implementing Shareholder Value Analysis
- Shareholder value analysis SVA is one of several nontraditional metrics being used in business today. SVA determines the financial value of a company by looking at the returns it gives its stockholders and is based on the view that the objective of company directors is to maximize the wealth of...
- Articles 2007-11-16
- Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy
- "This paper propose an integrated treatment of the problems of optimal monetary and fiscal policy, for an economy in which prices are sticky and the only available sources of government revenue are distorting taxes. The linear-quadratic approach allows us to nest both conventional analyses of optimal monetary stabilization...
- White papers 2003-08-13
- 8 Critical Success Factors For Credit and Collections
- Credit and collection departments are often judged by their ability to minimize risk. Taken to the extreme, the complete elimination of all forms of payment risk would have the adverse effect of reducing sales and profits. Profit maximization should be the goal of credit and collections. This requires aligning organization's...
- White papers 1997-01-01
- The GAAP Gap
- Profits calculated according to GAAP should not be confused with the myth of value maximization. The current practice of "big bath" accounting has considerably diminished the credibility of annual numbers. A sort of "ooops!" by the accountants, this is a practice increasingly resorted to across the board in American industry....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Acknowledging The System Needs
- The operational risk is very diverse, ranging from reputation risk to fraud to errors and omissions. No single tool or measurement is going to be able to capture the wide range of exposures under operational risk. The article brings out the concept of how to manage the risk for the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Global Supply Chain Networks And Risk Management
- The paper develops a global supply chain network model in which both physical and electronic transactions are allowed and in which supply-side risk as well as demand side risk are included in the formulation. The model consists of three tiers of decision- makers: the manufacturers, the distributors, and the retailers...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Investigating Enterprise Risk Management
- In general, the Enterprise Risk Management ERM process focuses on assisting companies in developing broader, organization-wide risk management strategies that support the maximization of shareholder value. For risk managers accustomed to managing hazard risks, the ERM movement represents opportunities to enhance their roles. As their organizations evolve toward a risk...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Optimal Capital Allocation Using RAROC and EVA
- This paper analyzes firms' capital allocation decisions when optimal capital structure is linked to the risk of underlying assets and when equity capital is costly and cannot be raised instantaneously. In the model, division managers receive private information and authority is delegated to them over risky project choices. The optimal...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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