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- Labor unrest And The Quality Of Production: Evidence From The Construction Equipment Resale Market
- This paper examines the construction equipment resale market to assess whether equipment produced by the world's largest manufacturer of construction machinery, Caterpillar, experienced lower product quality in facilities that underwent contract disputes during the 1990's. Analysis of auction data reveals that resale market participants significantly discounted machines produced in these...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Strategies for Difficult Markets - We've Been Here Before
- This is a tough time for investors when a presidential election is in question, unrest going on in Middle East, a nasty business downturn is on, and there’s a loss of faith in America’s institutions. But this phase had struck the market of 1973-74 and investors survived then, too.
- White papers 2002-01-09
- Dealing With The Stress Of unrest
- Stress related problems have become omnipresent. Be it the manufacturing, business, or defense services, stress related woes have left no stones unturned in capturing the aforesaid arenas. The military people encounter stress related woes when they are away from their family members, fighting the enemies at the border. It is...
- White papers 2003-03-28
- Managing In Times Of unrest, Uncertainity And Change
- September 11th has forced all of us to rethink what we are doing. We have been urged to get back to business as usual. But business is not as it was. It has been dramatically changed. Classic management words like vision, growth, and expansion have been replaced by new management...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- New Challenges in Critical Infrastructures: A US Perspective
- The emergence of a larger threat spectrum - terrorism, sabotage, local conflicts, political unrest, and natural disasters - combined with the growing globalization of economic activities, makes networks highly vulnerable. Rethinking national vulnerabilities requires the creation and the improvement of long-term public-private partnerships. The paper discusses the US Presidential initiative...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Health Care Reform: Why? What? When?
- Dissatisfaction with the U.S. health care system is widespread, but no consensus has emerged as to how to reform it. The principal methods of finance, employer-based insurance, means-tested insurance, and Medicare, are deeply and irreparably flawed. Policymakers confront two fundamental questions: Should reform be incremental or comprehensive? And should priority...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Political Risk Insurance (PRI) Market Update
- Introducing ethnic, political, religious and social unrest into an already volatile mix exposes business to potentially catastrophic unanticipated losses that could not have reasonably been predicted in any business plan. Political, economic, financial and military instability in many areas of the world can give rise to political risk losses that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Rethinking Corporate Governance Policies and Procedures
- As a response to the various accounting and corporate governance frauds, scandals and improprieties dominating the news, various legislation and regulations have been passed or proposed and are being debated with a goal to better protect investors. While it may be weeks or months before all of these laws and...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- FDI Confidence Index
- Top corporate decision-makers around the world remained skeptical about the revival of the U.S. economy in 2002. Despite the fitful signs of a nascent economic recovery in the United States, the excesses of the economic boom of the 1990s continue to unravel and dampen corporate investors’ outlook. In this article...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Planning for Physical Disaster
- The tragic disasters on September 11, 2001, were a horrible reminder of how precarious and precious life is. It gave us a lesson to be prepared for the risks that may be ahead. One tool for the preparation is disaster planning. This article is a discussion of three basic steps...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- What Is a "Megaregion"?
- What Is a "Megaregion"?Megaregions and PovertyIt is true that a megaregion is concept useful for analyzing future needs, supply and demand, provide ideas for the changing patterns of urbanization and suburban developments. However, many of these megaregions have important clusters of poverty, New York, Los Angeles or Chicago have millions...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Chicago Rice Hits New Record High Above $25
- By Miho Yoshikawa and Sybille de La Hamaide TOKYO/PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. rice futures struck a new lifetime peak above $25 in Asian trading on Thursday, as worries about possible supply shortages continued to plague the world's second-biggest food grain crop. Other grains...
- News items 2008-04-24
- World Bank Calls For Food Crisis Action
- The World Bank has called for the international community to beef up its response to soaring food prices that have led to starvation and are threatening political stability in the developing world.Many ministers gathered for the World Bank's annual spring meeting also raised concerns over the increased use of...
- News items 2008-04-14
- U.S. Rice Jumps to Record High on Supply Fears
- By Miho Yoshikawa and Nigel Hunt TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. rice futures rose to a fresh all-time high on Wednesday on worries about supply shortages which have triggered political unrest and export restrictions designed to protect dwindling domestic stocks. Chicago Board of Trade...
- News items 2008-04-23
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