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Extreme Observations and Diversification in Latin American Emerging Equity Markets: This paper focuses on the tails of the unconditional distribution of Latin American emerging markets stock returns. The paper explores their implications for portfolio diversification according to the safety first principle. The paper also finds that the Latin American emerging markets have significantly fatter tails than industrial markets, especially, the...; Tags: Asset management, Financial services, Marketing research, Investment, University of Houston, tail, emerging market, asset allocation, equity, asset, stock; White papers
Sales And Customer Facing Skills: This is a template for sales and customer facing skills.; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, University of Houston, sales; Tools & templates 2006-01-31
Business Strategy And Operations: This is a template for business strategy and operations.; Tags: University of Houston, business strategy; Tools & templates 2006-01-31
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth?: Exploring The Effects Of Financial Markets on Linkages: The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling Foreign Direct Investment FDI to promote growth through backward linkages, shedding light on...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial accounting, Investment, University of Houston, foreign direct investment, linkage, financial market, financial; White papers 2006-06-01
Plant Survival, Market Fundamentals And Trade Liberalization: Plant turnover increases aggregate productivity when efficient producers are more likely to survive. Given high entry and exit rates and the potential importance of net entry in accounting for aggregate productivity, in this paper we examine the determinants of plant exits and then examine how exits and other forms of...; Tags: Free trade, University of Houston, liberalization, accounting; White papers 2005-06-01

Factors in Reuse and Reengineering of Legacy Software: The Reengineering and reuse of large legacy software systems can be an expensive, error-prone endeavor. This paper relates experience in a collaborative research project supporting a NASA contractor team attempting just such a project. Risks both potential and realized are discussed, as well as how such collaboration can be used...; Tags: Organizational structure, University of Houston, re-engineering, collaboration, software; White papers 2005-02-05
Assessing the Role of Supply Chain Attributes in the Customer Value Proposition: Companies continue to rank customer satisfaction as a high priority. In an attempt to obtain customer satisfaction, companies often develop and identify customer requirements and then attempt to provide service levels that beat those requirements. This paper examines the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in the supply chain....; Tags: Product marketing, Supply chain management (SCM), University of Houston, customer satisfaction, supply chain, analysis; White papers 2004-05-19
What Would Hotelling Say About E-Commerce?: Hotelling's classic model of horizontal differentiation is modified by e-commerce, but in ways he partly anticipated. He would certainly see the improved physical store location incentives that online competition can foster as stores respond to the online alternative by trying to lower consumers' transportation costs. With his emphasis on differences...; Tags: Web technology, E-business/E-commerce, University of Houston, transportation, e-business, incentive; White papers 2004-05-01
The CRM Process: Its Measurement And Impact On Performance: Customer Relationship Management CRM is a strategy of perennially interacting with existing customers to assess the changes in their likes and dislikes. In today?s era of intense competition in the business realm, CRM forms an effective strategy to deliver some additional value to the customer. This ensures customer loyalty and...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), CRM, strategy, performance; White papers 2004-01-01
Long-Term Incentives And Wealth Building: An effective incentive framework is imperative to maintain high motivation levels in the employees of an organization. Social security, retirement plans, and long-term compensation strategies are some of the avenues through which the employees’ long-term security needs are addressed. The paper examines this issue.; Tags: Social Security, motivation, incentive, compensation, security; Presentations 2003-01-01
Measuring And Paying For Performance: ‘Pay for performance’ PP is a strategic tool within the framework of compensation management that envisages the concept of incentives and pay driven by actual performance. It is a mechanism to motivate employees and define specific goals for them. There are, however, some obstacles on the way to formulating an...; Tags: Performance management, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, pay-for-performance, performance, compensation, incentive, theory, job, tool; Presentations 2003-01-01
Managing Stability And Managing Change: Change is inevitable in today’s dynamic business environment. Organizations have to successfully manage change in order to stay afloat amidst intense competition. In doing so, the organizations, in fact, are managing stability because the more effective an organization is in managing change, the more stable it is. The paper examines...; Tags: Leadership, change management; Presentations 2003-01-01
Short-Term Incentives: Short-term incentives refer to the benefits provided to the employees of the organization, in addition to their base pay. In granting these incentives, employees are analyzed from four different perspective viz. individual contributors, team members, work units, and organization members. Scanlon plan envisages the envisioning of ideas and concepts by...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Sales force management, University of Houston, incentive, tool, team, benefit; Presentations 2003-01-01
Fundamentals Of Planning: This presentation discusses the concept of Management By Objectives MBO, which plays a very critical role in the foundation of planning. Management By Objectives is process of joint objective setting between a supervisor and subordinate. It involves a formal agreement between a supervisor and subordinate concerning: Key performance objectives, specific...; Tags: Organizational structure, Workforce management, Management By Objective, supervisor, agreement; Presentations 2003-01-01
Fundamentals Of Leading: Leading is the art of influencing the behavior of others in the organization towards smooth functioning of organizational systems and processes. A leader has skills required to motivate, influence, and direct others towards attainment of certain long term goals. A good leader uses power to willingly make others work towards...; Tags: University of Houston, leadership, leader; Presentations 2003-01-01
Strategic Management And Entrepreneurship: The characteristics of a good entrepreneur will reflect if he/she is able to manage the business strategically. A few slides explicitly talk about formulating and implementing the strategies in a business house. It intrigues the five important tasks management tasks. Any strategic management is incomplete if the process is not...; Tags: Leadership, strategic management, entrepreneur, SWOT analysis, entrepreneurship, strategy, analysis, environment; Presentations 2003-01-01
Market Segmentation And Product Positioning: Different individuals have different needs, wants and preferences. An organization cannot fulfill the needs and wants of all sections of the society. It has to focus on a definite group of individuals in order to market its product. Market segmentation is the process of dividing the market into various sub-groups...; Tags: Branding, Marketing research, University of Houston, market-segmentation, positioning, marketing strategy, marketing; Presentations 2003-01-01
Leading Through Motivation: Leading is the art of influencing the work behavior of others in the organization towards smooth functioning of organizational systems and processes. A leader motivates the subordinates to excel in their work. Employee motivation is the psychological feature that arouses an employee to behave in a certain manner for accomplishing...; Tags: Leadership, employee motivation, motivation, compensation, theory, leader; Presentations 2003-01-01
Managing With Ethics And Social Responsibility: Ethics, essentially, consist of a set of moral guidelines towards conductance of an appropriate behavior. Such behavior conforms to professional standards of conduct. The corporate code of ethics consists of a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of the organization with respect to what is right...; Tags: Business ethics, Corporate law, Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility, ethics, code of ethics; Presentations 2003-01-01
Providing Effective Leadership: Leadership is the ability to influence a group of individuals towards the achievement of goals. Effective leadership is the basis of a successful organization. It inspires and motivates others to take on mighty challenges. This way, effective leadership helps in enhancing the productivity of the organization. The paper examines leadership...; Tags: leadership, theory; Presentations 2003-01-01