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- Time Crunched? Tim Ferris Says 'Psychological Interference' May Be to Blame
- The Find: If you feel perpetually crunched for time, a Wharton School professor suggests the culprit isn't your overstuffed calendar but your leadership skills. The Source: The blog of Tim Ferris, author of "The Four-Hour Workweek" discussing "Total Leadership" by Wharton School professor Dr....
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- No Collusion With Pay Consultants: Wharton Study
- Boards of directors can understandably be blind-sided by executive compensation issues. The media is filled with tales of hubris and excess while regulators require more details and explanations of how pay packages are drawn up and what CEOs must do to earn them. Pay consultants have a...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- How to Handle Screw-Ups
- Today the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee held a hearing on toy safety. (A minute by minute blog of the event, for anyone interested, is available here.) The Senate held a similar hearing one week ago. Both events serve as a reminder, in case we needed one, of the recent...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Layoffs Without Broader Strategic Planning = Bad News
- Vonage is in serious trouble. First it lost a patent suit to Verizon, and it was ordered to pay up $58 million. Then a district court issued an injunction forcing Vonage to stop signing up new customers. And today the company announced that it would slash an undisclosed amount of...
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- The Path to Strategic Manufacturing Flexibility
- Making strategic decisions such as choosing between R&D projects, in and out licensing drug development efforts, and significant investments in CAPEX requires a rigorous process. Biopharmaceutical executives face significant technical and market uncertainties when developing product that is years away from commercialization. Making multimillion dollar investments in this type of...
- White papers 2005-07-21
- Dealing With Extreme Events: New Challenges for Terrorism Risk Coverage in the U.S.
- The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11) against the United States raises the fundamental question as to what are the responsibilities of the public and private sectors in reducing the risks of terrorist attacks and who should pay for future losses should the terrorists be successful? Prior to September...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Interdependent Disaster Risks: The Need for Public-Private Partnerships
- This paper focuses on interdependent disaster risks which raises questions as to what types of strategies should be pursued for reducing contamination problems. Given the negative externalities associated with these risks, there is a need for creative public-private partnerships to manage them. These are some risk management strategies. These policy...
- White papers 2003-11-13
- Integrating Mitigation With Risk-Transfer Instruments
- This paper is motivated by this question: what are the financial benefits to national governments by encouraging or requiring property owners to invest in cost-effective mitigation measures? Financial benefits mean the reduction in expenditures incurred by the government to protect itself against the catastrophic losses following a future natural disaster....
- White papers 2003-11-12
- Operations Risk & Supply Chain Design: An Event Study
- This empirical study provides evidence linking supply chain strategy and company risk structure. An event study on the stock performance of four major PC producers is performed focusing on the 1999 earthquake in Taiwan and the computer memory price increases that ensued. It is shown that investors associate pull-type supply...
- White papers 2002-10-18
- A Firm Can Only Go Bankrupt Once: Risk Management Strategies In An Uncertain World
- From the executive summary: 'The recent spurt in crisis have stimulated people to think about the challenges organizations face in dealing with low-probability events that have catastrophic consequences. More specifically, there are certain bad events that can only occur once. Death is the clearest example: an individual's death is irreversible...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- The Global Market for Reinsurance: Consolidation, Capacity, and Efficiency
- This paper analyzes the economic impact of the wave of mergers and acquisitions currently underway in the global reinsurance market. The theory of diversification explains the demand for global reinsurance as attributable to co variability of risk in local markets that can be reduced or eliminated through global diversification. Another...
- White papers 2002-04-02
- Insurability and Environmental Risks
- This paper makes the case for utilizing insurance rather than the liability system to provide protection against some chronic or sudden environmental risks. Feasibility of Insurance Relying on the regulatory framework, insurance firms began offering insurance coverage for contractors involved in asbestos removal work. These policies assumed the liabilities of...
- White papers 2001-10-22
- Allocation of Capital in the Insurance Industry
- The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the various techniques that have been suggested for allocating equity capital. Capital allocation in this context refers to the determination of the amount of a firm's equity capital that is assigned to each project or line of business undertaken...
- White papers 2001-04-02
- Industrial Ecology and Risk Analysis
- A great deal of work in corporate finance and insurance has gone into the design of efficient risk management instruments for risks that can be monetized, and to the extent that the consequences of these risks are borne by the owners of an enterprise, there are strong incentives for managers...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- A Theory of Takeover Bidding
- In this paper, a model of takeover bidding is presented. Grossman and Hart (1980a) argue that small shareholders in a diffusely held firm would hold on to their shares rather than tendering and earn the higher post-takeover return. This "free rider" problem precludes profitable takeovers from ever occurring. ...
- White papers 2000-05-16
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- Groundbreaking Knowledge@Wharton Report on Credit Crisis Offers Range of Interactive Tools and Wharton Faculty Interviews to Provide Answers on Economic Implosion
- Award Winning Wharton School Business Journal Provides Users Videos, Glossaries, Timelines and In-depth Articles on the Origins of U.S. Economic Quagmire PHILADELPHIA -- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced that its award winning business analysis journal, Knowledge@Wharton, has published "A Knowledge@Wharton Special Report: The Credit...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- William L. West | Lawyer, 81
- William L. West, 81, a real estate, trusts and estates lawyer from Huntingdon Valley, died of a stroke Wednesday at Abington Memorial Hospital. Born in Akron, Ohio, Mr. West moved to Philadelphia with his family in 1941. He attended Overbrook High School, and in 1947 graduated summa cum laude from...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- Inqlings: There'll be doctors in the house
- Mayor Nutter is a man of degrees. Two weeks after getting an honorary doctor of laws degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, the 1979 Wharton grad will get an honorary doctor of public service from Drexel U. at Saturday's commencement, where he'll address the College of Engineering and School...
- Articles 2008-06-12
- ETFs Changing the Way Advisors Do Business, According to State Street and Wharton Study
- BOSTON -- State Street Global Advisors SSgA, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) and Knowledge@Wharton, the online business journal of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, today announced the results of a joint survey exploring the impact of exchange traded products on the financial...
- Articles 2008-06-10
- INTOUCH : How's your peripheral vision?
- It isn't curiosity but the lack of it that can kill companies, according to visiting business author George Day. And as consultant to such corporations as GE, IBM, Marriott, Unilever and Boeing, the Professor of Marketing at Wharton Business School in Pennsylvania has the war stories to prove it. ...
- Articles 2008-06-01
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