This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based on this unique natural experiment, the existence of emphasis framing effects is tested...
BASEL, Switzerland, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Synosia Therapeutics today announced the appointment of Philippe Lutz MA Finance, as the company's first chief financial officer, effective immediately. He will be based at Synosia's new headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Lutz...
EUGENE, Ore. -- A professor and a former graduate student from the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business have won the prestigious international 2007 oikos Sustainability Case Writing Competition sponsored by the oikos Foundation at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Professor Mike Russo, the Charles H....
PARIS, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcan has been recognized by the University of St. Gallen's Technology Management Transfer Center TECTEM in Switzerland as one of five companies to demonstrate its status as a "successful enterprise for practicing innovation control". The benchmarking survey...
Global A-List Investors Led by Klaus Hommels and Investment Group Atomico, Co-Founded by Niklas Zennstrom LUXEMBOURG -- wunderLOOP, the European market leader in integrated behavioral advertising and content targeting, today announced that it has secured funding from top-tier global investors including: * Klaus Hommels - "European...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Michael Chmura, Babson PR, +1-781-239-4549, ormchmura@babson.edu WELLESLEY, Mass., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BabsonCollege hasreceived a $120,000 development grant from the GEBERT RUEFFOUNDATION,Switzerland, in preparation of its August 2007 launch ofthe Babson Symposiafor Entrepreneurship Educators SEE in Europe. Babson SEE will launch its highly successful program at...
ST GALLEN, Austria, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, today accepted the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Prize in person. At a formal ceremony at the University of St. Gallen attended by several hundred guests...
Byline: Pia Krix Automobilwoche Audi has teamed with the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland to research how consumers decide which car to buy. Audi hopes the research will help the company better understand consumer needs and provide the...
Evolution and Economic Complexity, edited by J. Stanley Metcalfe and John Foster. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar. 2004. Cloth, ISBN 1843765268, $100.00. 227 pages. The book, edited by J. Stanley Metcalfe and John Foster, focuses on the connection between economic evolution and economic complexity. It includes an overview essay...
LINDAU, Germany -- German President Horst Koehler opened the 2nd Lindau Meeting of the Winners of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Countess Sonja Bernadotte on Thursday. 291 young economists from 40 countries will meet the world's top researchers in economics at Lake Constance until Saturday...
UZWIL, SWITZERLAND -- Ulrich Baur, head of Buhler AG's Engineered Products division and CFO of the company, is retiring. Taking over the helm of the manufacturing function, which includes the company's line of chocolate, snack and other production systems, is Erwin A. Frei, who joins Buhler...
A good inventory system is crucial for retailers, says retail historian Robert Spector. If they don’t have one, they won’t be able to forecast demand or replenish merchandise with any accuracy, and that will result in stockouts. Daniel Corsten, vice director of the Kuehne-Institute for Logistics at the...
Byline: Colin Gibbs There's little doubt that spam slowly is creeping into wireless. But how much of a threat the unwanted marketing messages pose depends on whom you ask. Wireless spam is difficult to define, and...
Retirees are on the move and tourists are coming back to Switzerland. But a study shows the Swiss are staying home more. Only two-thirds of the Swiss population went away for four or more nights last year, continuing a decline from 80 per cent in 1992. Results show...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, IMD's MBA program ranked first among all business schools in Europe by business publication Junge Karriere, a subsidiary of German business newspaper Handelsblatt. The ranking was based ...
NOTKER DER DEUTSCHE VON ST. GALLEN, Lateinischer Text und althochdeutsche Ubersetzung der Trostung der Philosophie ('De consolatione Philosophiae') von Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Diplomatische Textausgabe, Konkordanzen and Wortlisten nach den Codices Sangallenses 825 and 844, Codex Turicensis C121 and Codex Vindobonensis 242. Ed. by EVELYN SCHERABON FIRCHOW, with the assistance...
ZURICH, Switzerland, March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Globalization is making itself felt not only worldwide but also at the regional level. The growing diversity of modern society is radically altering conditions on consumer markets. This issue was addressed at the first ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Roaming MessengerTM (OTCBB:RMSG): --A Mobile Messaging Solution Without the Problems of SPAM --Capability is Critical for Public Agencies and Enterprises That Use Mobile Devices for Mission Critical Communications Roaming MessengerTM (OTCBB:RMSG) today provided insight into the results of several recent...
If you haven't received mobile spam yet, you either don't have a mobile phone or you're in the vast minority of mobile users, according to an international survey. The study, released last month by the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Intrado, reported...
A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results and Stop Wasting Time is based on a 10-year international study of managerial behavior in the fields of banking, air travel and consulting. It carries relevancy for school leaders. But readers would do well to focus on the...
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