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- Two-Wholesale-Price Contracts: Push, Pull, And Advance-Purchase Discount Contracts
- The allocation of inventory ownership affects the inventory availability in a supply chain, which in turn determines the supply chain performance. In this paper, the publisher consider a supplier-retailer supply chain in which the supplier starts production well in advance of the selling season, and the retailer is offered two...
- White papers 2006-12-22
- AWD Case Study: Sisters of Mercy Health System - St. John's Mercy Health Care
- St. Louis-based Mercy is a large integrated delivery network, supporting seven-state area. Mercy decentralizes its operations with regional Strategic Service Units, which benefit from local management and system strength. One of these units is St. John's Mercy Health Care in St. Louis. In St. John's quest to provide top quality...
- Case studies 2005-10-26
- An Overview of Strategy Development Models and the Ward-Rivani Model
- With publications in the field of strategy now in the thousands it is difficult to get an overall picture of how to classify and appreciate strategy tools and models. Mintzberg et al. have developed schools of thought to help alleviate and categorise this problem but this approach lacks a comparison...
- White papers 2005-06-07
- Optimal Choice Models for Executing Time to American Options
- Based on the structure models of options pricing on non-dividend-paying stock, this paper presents the choosing models and methods of optimal time of executing an American options for the first time. By using the models and methods, paper finds the choosing criterion and optimal time to exercise the American options,...
- White papers 2004-12-11
- Boca Resorts Inc. Valuation Report
- This paper presents the valuation of Boca Resorts Inc. a luxury recreational lodging business based in the United States. The McKinsey model was implemented in order to conduct this valuation. The final equity value obtained in this valuation is lower than the market value of the firm and this discrepancy...
- White papers 2004-12-02
- Sales force Compensation: Revisiting and Extending the Agency-Theoretic Approach
- Since the papers of Basu et. al. and Lal and Srinivasan, marketing academics have been interested in the design and implementation of optimal compensation plans. The literature has focused on agency theory as a foundation to help describe and understand this process. Although there has been much theoretical work on...
- White papers 2004-11-16
- Handling Saturation in Demand: Estimates From Theatrical-Run Motion Pictures
- This paper considers theory and evidence from the domestic theatrical movie industry regarding biases in estimation that arise when saturation in demand is ignored or approximated with a product's age. The underlying structural model and resulting partial reduced form model can both be readily generalized for other applications. Results indicate...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Symposium Foreword - After The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: The Future Of The Mandatory Disclosure System
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has proved to be the most important Federal corporate governance and securities legislation. The U.S. Government however, is focusing on specific aspects of corporate governance and the Federal mandatory disclosure system. The paper discusses the future aspects of mandatory disclosure system.
- White papers 2003-10-21
- The Power Of Negative Thinking: Government Regulation And Economic Performance
- The author start off with a proposition duly overstated - which should fit comfortably with the remarks of other contributors to this conference on supply-side economics: it is futile to focus so heavily on tax incentives to encourage economic activity at a time when the governmental regulatory apparatus is imposing...
- White papers 2003-08-19
- From Enron To WorldCom And Beyond: Life And Crime After Sarbanes-Oxley
- Ever since the corporate meltdown began, Federal and State regulators have initiated criminal fraud investigations against dozens of corporations. The process resulted in the implementation of corporate governance reforms and enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX. The paper examines the aftermath of the SOX Act on various organizations.
- White papers 2003-06-01
- A New Empirical Study of Grandstanding in the Venture Capital Industry
- Grandstanding is the act by a venture capitalist of taking a firm public prematurely in order to obtain a reputation. This paper examines the grandstanding hypothesis with data from a more current period, 1992-2001, and for another industry, the communications industry. The firm age at the time of its IPO...
- White papers 2003-01-30
- Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest: A SVAR Approach
- This article estimates the historical time series of the natural rate of interest using a structural vector autoregressive model. This method returns plausible results and thus seems to be well designed for the estimation of the natural rate of interest. It shows that the natural rate exhibits quite substantial variability...
- White papers 2003-01-10
- BPR: An Overview
- Intense competition and high levels of quality and service characterize the modern business era. In such scenario, it is imperative for organizations to look at new ways of implementing organizational systems and processes. Business Process Reengineering BPR is the radical redesign and transformation of strategic organizational systems to enhance the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Innovation In Organizations
- Organizational Structure OS defines the roles and the activities of different organizational positions within the organization. The degree of OS effectiveness is directly proportional to the degree of innovation in work processes and solutions effected by the organization. The paper examines the dynamics of OS towards developing an atmosphere of...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Pricing of Short Life-Cycle Products Through Active Learning
- Revenue management techniques, practiced for many years in the airline and hotel industries, have gained popularity with retailers. One such technique - dynamic pricing - refers to the intelligent process of controlling prices over a course of a sales season in a way that maximizes expected revenues. In this paper,...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Inventory and Sourcing Strategies for Non-Commodities: The Role and the Extent of Use of Speculative Markets and Supply Contracts
- The focus of this research is to better understand the role of speculators and their impact on the supplier manufacturer relationships. Speculators, using Business to Business exchanges (B2B), have attempted over the last several years to provide supply for the non commodity goods. Through this report it is hoped to...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- A Time-Series Framework for Supply-Chain Inventory Management
- This report considers a supply chain in which the underlying demand process can be described in a linear state space form. Inventory is managed at various points of the chain members, based on local information that each member observes and continuously updates. The key feature of the model is that...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- The Optimal And Actual Use Of Economic Value Added In Incentive Compensation
- From the executive summary: ‘Executive compensation is increasingly sensitive to stock returns. However, even abnormal stock returns are highly volatile, and an optimal contract shields the agent from as much variability as possible. It is not surprising then that non-stock performance measures, such as earnings and other accounting measures are...
- White papers 2001-06-11
- Introducing a Benchmark Control Problem for a Cable-Stayed Bridge Subjected to Seismic Excitation
- This paper defines the first-generation benchmark structural control problem for cable-stayed bridges. The goal of this study is to provide a test bed for the development of strategies for the control of cable stayed-bridges. A three-dimensional finite element evaluation model has been developed to represent the complex behavior of the...
- White papers 2001-05-16
- EVA Versus Earnings: Does It Matter Which Is More Highly Correlated With Stock Returns?
- From the executive summary: ‘Dissatisfaction with traditional accounting-based performance measures has spawned a number of alternatives, of which Economic Value Added EVA is currently the most prominent. There is currently a heated debate among practitioners as to whether the new performance measures have a higher correlation with stock values and...
- White papers 2000-09-15
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