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- Determinants Of Preference For Contingent Employment
- This paper explores the determinants of preference for contingent employment using a national probability sample of temporary workers and independent contractors. A multi-level model of preference and multivariate analyses indicate that the opportunity cost of contract work, number of job opportunities, prior experience, human and financial capital, access to health...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Segments In Time
- The trouble with most market segmentation programs is that they capture customers' preferences only at one point in time. Instead of snapshots, what is needed are moving pictures, by detecting unfolding trends, companies can gain a much better understanding of what customer preferences are likely to be tomorrow, and why.
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Collective Investment Decision Making With Heterogeneous Time Preferences
- This paper examines the investment decision problem of a group whose members have heterogeneous time preferences. In particular, they have different discount factors for utility, possibly not exponential. It characterizes the properties of efficient allocations of resources and of shadow prices that would decentralize such allocations. The paper shows in...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- A Survey-Based Procedure For Measuring Uncertainty Or Heterogeneous Preferences In Markets
- This paper shows how surveys can be used to generate a measure of the amount of information and/or heterogeneity of preferences within a market. This measure can be employed as a regressor in empirical work where variance in the dependent variable (e.g., auction prices, retail price dispersion, or investment choices...
- White papers 2005-04-22
- Your Whole Brain Negotiation Team
- The brain is the fount of the preferences - and a person's preferences cause to develop and act differently from each other. These preferences dominate the behaviour, the effectiveness and efficiency at work and influence literally every area of the person's activity. Understanding how the preferences shape the decisions one...
- White papers
- The Role of Intranets and Other e-Channels in Employee Communication Preferences
- Analysis of survey results from 21 large organizations in the last seven years shows employees' preferred use of electronic channels may vary from commonly believed assumptions. As additional electronic choices become available, preference for electronic channels overall increases; the new electronic options do not replace other existing electronic channels in...
- White papers 2005-01-15
- Interests, Information, and the Domestic Politics of International Agreements
- This paper examines how citizens form preferences about compliance with international agreements. The paper argues that compliance creates domestic winners and losers through two channels, adjustment and reputation. It then shows that the preferences of citizens vary systematically with their exposure to the adjustment costs and reputation benefits of compliance....
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Elicitation and Elucidation of Risk Preferences
- The developments have created an increased interest among companies in developing formalized Enterprise Risk Management ERM policies. Implicit in such an ERM policy is some statement of acceptable and unacceptable tradeoffs, or risk preferences. Since risk preferences will be a central part of the ERM policy, they should be explicitly...
- White papers 2005-08-02
- Generation Y Automotive Preferences and the Internet - Winning the Youth Market
- Generation Y consumers want vehicles that stand out and reflect their individuality. This was among the findings of a new study documented in this paper that examines the automotive preferences of young adults - the car buyers of today and tomorrow - as well as the factors that influence their...
- White papers 2003-11-05
- Some Structural Attributes of Institutional Office Investments
- This study explores some of the less cyclical characteristics of the office investment market. Offices comprise more than one-third of investable commercial real estate by value among the major property types. Private institutional investors allocate about this proportion of offices to their real estate portfolios, but REITs own a somewhat...
- White papers 2003-06-20
- Consumer Purchase Data as a Strategic Product Development Tool
- As the apparel market becomes progressively more competitive and market driven, manufacturing firms must cultivate the ability to design and develop products responsive to the changing wants and needs of their customers. Product attribute analysis of consumer purchases provides insight into product preferences and changing preferences over time. This study...
- White papers 2001-05-04
- Weighting Waiting: Evaluating the Perception of In-Vehicle Travel Time Under Moving and Stopped Conditions
- This paper describes experiments comparing traditional computer administered stated preference with virtual experience stated preference to ascertain how people value stopped delay compared with stop-and-go or free-flow traffic. The virtual experience stated preference experiments were conducted using a wrap around driving simulator. The two methods produced two different results, with...
- White papers 2003-11-15
- Preferences
- A preference or preferential transfer under Section 547b of the federal bankruptcy code is: A payment or transfer of an interest in property received by a creditor within a defined period prior to the payor debtor filing bankruptcy. The purpose of the law is to discourage disparate treatment of creditors...
- White papers 2003-08-21
- Maximizing Online & Offline Technologies To Deliver Results
- "There has been a great deal of interest in recent months among direct marketers to incorporate online technology into their marketing programs--particularly for fulfillment purposes. Effective direct marketers pay close attention to their customers' communications preferences and develop a plan accordingly. Marketers that use both an offline and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Individual Risk And Return Preferences: A Preliminary Survey
- Many models of capital market equilibrium are derived from assumptions about the preferences of a so-called representative investor. In essence, security prices are assumed to be set in a manner that would lead to the equality of demand and supply if every investor had such preferences. Some approaches simply assume...
- White papers 2001-09-30
- Bad Decision Making: Q&A with Ascendant Consulting's David Fields
- Ascendant Consulting works with such clients as Kodak and ITT Industries on better focusing business efforts. Managing Director David Fields is currently working on a book about how top CEOs have turned major problems into winning situations. We chatted about what companies can do to fortify their positions and decision-making....
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
Additional Resources
- Readers Comment on CEO Preference for McCain
- Readers Comment on CEO Preference for McCainRE: Readers Comment on CEO Preference for McCainWhat the heck is wrong with large corporations? Do you all prefer working on a friggin farm or something? How about company sponsored health care? Don't like that either? You prefer county health?...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Hollinger Inc. - Series I Preference Shares Tendered to Conversion Offer and Redemption of the Remaining Series I Preference Shares
- TORONTO--BUSINESS WIRE--April 30, 1998--Hollinger Inc. (TSE:HLG.UN) (ME:HLG.UN) (VSE:HLG.UN) (NASDAQ:HLGUF) (NYSE:HLR) -- Hollinger Inc. ("Hollinger") announces that at the expiry of its offer to convert each Series I Preference Share (TSE, ME, VSE - HLG.PR.A) into 0.4 of a Series II Preference Share (TSE, ME, VSE - HLG.PR.B) approximately 10,142,000 Preference...
- Research articles 1998-04-30
- Hollinger Inc. Announces Termination Of Offer To Exchange Series III Preference Shares For Series IV Preference Shares.
- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 9, 2003 CCNMatthews via COMTEX Hollinger Inc. ("Hollinger") (TSX: HLG.C; HLG.PR.B; HLG.PR.C) announced today that its offer to exchange its Series III Preference Shares for Series IV Preference Shares on a share-for-share basis has expired. One of the conditions of the...
- Research articles 2003-06-09
- Lowe's Challenging Home Depot for Improvement Sector Preference
- Home Depot is losing its edge in home improvement retailing according to a BIGresearch report that detailed consumer preference for the top chains in the sector. According to the research firm’s June Retail Ratings report, Wal-Mart led gainers when adults were asked where they shop most often...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
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