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Does Detroit Matter?
I'm in Detroit this week, so let me pose the question to my readers, who appear to be very sharp and technology-oriented: does the survival of an American-owned auto industry matter to the American economy and its technology sector? I think many of you will answer "no."...
Tags: Daimler AG, Detroit, Honda Motor Co., Management, Strategy, Survival, Toyota Motor Corp., William J. Holstein
Blog posts 2008-02-12
New Directions In Compensation Research : Synergies, Risk, And Survival
The article describes the use of two theoretical frameworks, the resource-based view of the firm and institutional theory, as lenses for examining three promising areas of compensation research. Firstly, it examines the nature of the relationship between pay and effectiveness. Secondly, it discusses a relatively neglected issue in pay research,...
Tags: Compensation, Survival, Cornell University, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2003-01-01
GM, Chrysler Slash Brands
General Motors and Chrysler are cutting deeper than ever as the automakers fight for last minute survival. The automaker is phasing out the brand in order to survive. Alexis Christoforous reports.
Tags: Brand, Automobile Company, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., MoneyWatch, Manufacturing, Branding, Marketing, end, of, the, road, for, gm, alexis, christoforus, automaker, chrysler, survival, bankrupt
Videos 2009-04-26
Well Isn't That Special: Overall Survival Still Oncology Gold Standard
There’s a world of difference between thinking your kid is the smartest in class and selling the principal on the idea, as cancer drug makers are learning when trying to sell the FDA on progression-free survival as a primary endpoint. by Trista Morrison
Tags: Survival, Federal Government, Government, Trista Morrison
Blog posts 2009-10-12
Smart Business for Tough Times
Businesses need to play both offense and defense to survive a serious downturn. Here are 12 tactical moves to consider now.As the recession deepens, businesses are scrambling to adapt. Some are in serious trouble and looking for a lifeline. Others in better shape are searching for smart ways to take...
Tags: Workforce Management, Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Human Resources, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Management, BNET Feature Package, Recession, Crisis, Survival
Articles 2008-11-21
A Nonprofit Management Perspective on Chiesa, Coughlan and Voss
The world of nonprofit organisations is a complex one. Where as for-profit entities see their survival as depending on how much profit is made, nonprofits must find their strength for survival in the motivations behind the shareholders supporting their organisation and the reasons for their contributions or volunteer work. This...
Tags: Survival, Nonprofit, Product Development, Product Marketing, Leadership, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
White papers 2004-04-19
The Survival Of Small Business Enterprise
This paper considers three themes central to the survival of small business enterprise. Firstly, the incentive for entrepreneurship, which is discussed within a theoretical framework that draws on cooperative market games analysis, and finds a rationale for entrepreneurship in facilitating coalition formation. Secondly, the determinants of survival of a small...
Tags: Survival, Small Business, Analysis, University Of St Andrews, Entrepreneurship, Management
White papers 2006-10-09
How to Create a Crisis Communications Plan
A Crisis Plan Can Prevent a Bad Situation from Getting Worse: A crisis may be impossible to avoid, but proper preparation can help prevent a bad situation from getting worse. Unattended or improperly handled, a crisis can threaten the organization's credibility, reputation, and in its most extreme form - its...
Tags: Survival, Crisis, Crisis Communication, Pukelis & Lehrer Communications, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Marketing, Management
White papers
Effects of Lime on Salmonella Enteritidis Survival in Vitro
The presence of Salmonella or Campylobacter in poultry litter may contribute to contaminated processed carcasses by increasing the bacterial load of skin and feathers or by providing a source for upper gastrointestinal contamination during pre-harvest feed withdrawal. This paper evaluates the effect of added lime on survival of Salmonella enteritidis...
Tags: Poultry, Survival
White papers 2003-03-07
A Structural Empirical Model Of Firm Growth, Learning, And Survival
This paper presents a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and considers its identification and estimation. In the model, entrepreneurs have private and possibly error-ridden observations of persistent and transitory shocks to profit. It demonstrates that the model's parameters can be recovered from public observations of sales and...
Tags: Survival, Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago, Model, Entrepreneurship, Management
White papers 2003-04-01
Survival Of The Fittest
When a historic auto plant faced extinction in the late 1980s, its union and management employees realized survival required working together. Today, as a DaimlerChrysler engine plant, which philosophy blended with continuous improvement, powers a new era of ingenuity and prosperity. The case study discloses that Progress came with PQI...
Tags: Survival
Case studies 2002-07-01
Predicting Performance Of Initial Public Offering (IPO) Firms: Should Human Resource Management (HRM) Be In The Equation?
This research has expanded the field of SHRM by providing an analysis based on population ecology and by studying a sample and a dependent variable that have been neglected in the past. It has also augmented the population ecology literature by contributing toward a more developed understanding of the role...
Tags: Human Resources, Performance, Survival, HRM, Cornell University, IPO, Financial Services
White papers 2003-01-01
Holocaust Survivor On Madoff
CBS News Exclusive: An acclaimed author and Noble Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel tells Jeff Greenfield about how he has lost almost everything to the Bernie Madoff scandal.
Tags: Bernard Madoff, MoneyWatch, CBS, News, Exclusive, Evening, Madoff, Wiesel, Ponzi, Scheme, Scam, Recession, Invest, Millions, Money, Writer, Night, Book, 2009, Interview, Jewish, Holocaust, Survival
Videos 2009-05-16

Additional Resources

The Impact Of Business Scale And Scope On Long-Term Business Survival, While Controlling For Profitability
Empirical research shows that larger businesses tend to survive longer than smaller companies. Little research, though, shows whether size confers survival advantages in addition to the survival benefits of baseline profitability. Moreover, no prior research attempts to disentangle the benefits of scale from those of greater business scope. Thus, one...
Tags: Business, Duke University, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2004-06-04
Instructor a nature master Randolph man enhances soldiers' survival
SURVIVAL SKILLS READING LIST "Primitive Semi-permanent Shelters," by John and Geri McPherson, Indian-style survival skills experts. Other available titles by the McPhersons: "Naked into the Wilderness: Primitive Living and Survival Skills," 1993, and "Naked into the Wilderness 2: Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied and Advanced,"...
Tags: drill, Kansas, PRODUCTIVITY, training, U.S. Army, Wolf
Research articles 2004-11-23
A Note on Survival Measures and the Pricing of Options on Credit Default Swaps
In this note the pricing of options on credit default swaps using the survival-measure-pricing technique is discussed. In particular, a modification of the famous Black (1976) futures pricing formula which applies to options on CDS, and shows how other pricing formulae can be easily derived if the dynamics of the...
Tags: Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-05-01
Millennium Announces VELCADE (Bortezomib) for Injection has Significantly Extended Survival in Phase III (APEX) Trial of Patients With Relapsed Multiple Myeloma
In this article Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discuses their final survival endpoint analysis in the phase III confirmatory APEX study comparing patients receiving VELCADE to those receiving high-dose dexamethasone, VELCADE produced a statistically significant survival benefit. The study was designed to include survival as a secondary endpoint and allowed crossover for...
Tags: Patient, VELCADE, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc.
White papers
Study Shows Managers Aren't Ensuring Their Companies' Long-Term Survival
Study Shows Managers Aren't Ensuring Their Companies' Long-Term SurvivalSurvival term is defined far too broadlyThe question should be whether the capital markets are concerned with the independent viability their investments and decisions beyond the tenure of their ownership? I hold that managers haven't been tasked with the long-term survival...
Tags: Long-Term Survival, Study Shows
Discussion threads 2007-11-22
Bankruptcy survival guide. (ABA publishes 'Bankruptcy: A Survival Guide for Lenders')(American Bankers Association Newsletter)
"Bankruptcy: A Survival Guide for Lenders" has been published by ABA in conjunction with the American Bankruptcy Institute. The timely publication was developed to help lenders and credit counselors understand business and ..."Bankruptcy: A Survival Guide for Lenders" has been published by ABA in conjunction with...
Tags: American Bankers Association, bankruptcy, newsletter
Research articles 1997-10-01
Preparation critical to survival
Byline: Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard When it comes to survival tools, Gene Ward is a big believer in duct tape and plastic. And Ward was recommending those items to outdoor recreationists long before there was a war on terrorism, an Office of Homeland Security, or...
Tags: Air Force, Cable, Government, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Research articles 2003-02-20
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