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Electric cars - no one will buy without Government backing
in Sox First, on September 6, 2009
...ountry desperate for oil independence. As one of its entrepreneurs Shai Agassi told the Knowledge@Wharton series , the industry will grow and the technology will get better, pretty much in the same ...
Fiscal attraction
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
Money and relationships can produce strange results. A University of Pennsylvania study Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction: Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Marriage has found that big spenders tend to marry tightwads. Opposite attract. Which might be a worry. "We found that the more people were di...
More stormy weather
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...e impact of global warming. Expect more droughts, floods and cyclones. Specialists interviewed by Wharton here say this is very much the future. We all better get used to it and that includes gover...
More Wall Street greed
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...taxes. The piece says: ""No offense to Middle America, but if someone went to Columbia or Wharton, [even if] their company is a fumbling, mismanaged bank, why should they all of a sudden be ...
Hope, greed, fear and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
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Interesting piece from Wharton on the psychology behind the financial crisis. It makes the point that the crisis was underpinned by a mix of optimism and delusion, which created the bubble i...
How popular performance based supply chain contracts are?
in Supplychainer, on April 9, 2009
...actory everyday. I tried to enjoy having a lot of time in the train and used my iPod to listen to a Wharton podcast series on logistics.
One of them which I liked the most was an interview with Ser...
Internet Advertising Crash: Could It Take Down Your Business Model?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 4, 2009
...Is Failing On The Internet .
Clemons is Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He seems to think that advertising in general is...
Is the Internet shattering advertising?
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
... It definitely is, says Professor Eric Clemons from The Wharton School. In this TechCrunch piece , Clemons argues that the drop in Internet advertising was not unpredictable and was always goin...
Talisman Unlimited Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on February 16, 2009
...ld, and 14k and 18k white gold, and 18k red gold.
$2640
After earning a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and an M.F.A. from Brandeis University, Michael Pitkow co-founded a theater company i...
Hedging the bets
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
...far because Obama's economic team is very much to the center and that's not just symbolic. Wharton professor Thomas Donaldson claims that too much regulation wouldn't work anyway becaus...
Older IT Workers Bearing the Brunt
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 3, 2008
...cussed the disproportionate effect of outsourcing on IT workers, citing a recent study by Stern and Wharton business schools which found that as many as 8% of all tech workers were displaced by offsho...
Supply chain video: Interview with president of Wal Mart India
in Supplychainer, on August 31, 2008
...sident, calls a business-to-business wholesale cash-and-carry operation.
In an interview with Wharton School of Management, Jain spoke about Wal-Mart's operations and strategy in India. I ha...
SEC comes up short
in Sox First, on July 24, 2008
...t, they will keep doing it regardless. Some of the difficulties in this area are examined in this Wharton Business School discussion . As the experts say here, it's just a minor change in the r...
Shrinking car makers
in Sox First, on July 10, 2008
... report , former GM and Ford finance chief John Devine claims GM and Ford will be fine but as this Wharton discussion paper points out, the car makers simply found themselves behind the curve and un...
Does gold stack up?
in Sox First, on May 3, 2008
...entals. What's been driving the price up of late is fear and greed but not much else. As this Wharton discussion paper makes clear, gold is not a good long term investment. According to these a...
Beijing Olympic sponsorship: pros and cons
in Sox First, on April 28, 2008
...ethics and strategic issues surrounding the Olympics sponsorships, we turn to this discussion from Wharton . "Human-rights activists, celebrities, political leaders and average citizens accuse ...
Final NFL Mock Draft
in End Zone Buzz, on April 22, 2008
...llows the Panthers to further increase the talent on what should be a good offensive line, joining Wharton and Gross.
14. Chicago Bears : Devin Thomas, WR, Michigan State
- The team desperately need...
When statistics lie
in Sox First, on April 8, 2008
...whether it's in sport, business or economics. Which is what interested me in this piece out of Wharton, The Use - and Misuse - of Statistics: How and Why Numbers Are So Easily Manipulated Acco...
Accounting tools and biased expectations
in Sox First, on March 24, 2008
...ing tools like budgeting and sales projections can be dangerous. According to new research out of Wharton , they can lead people astray because they do nothing in themselves to dispel biases, and ca...
Updated NFL Mock Draft
in End Zone Buzz, on March 14, 2008
...the O-Line.
13. Carolina Panthers - OT Chris Williams, Vanderbilt
- Carolina re-signed Trevelle Wharton and Jordan Gross, but may move Wharton inside to guard. If that is the case, Williams makes ...
Confidence tricks
in Sox First, on March 11, 2008
...nk between fraud and overconfidence? Certainly seems to be the case, according to research out of Wharton . The interesting part about this research is the way it points to the Slippery slope, ...
Goldman Sachs and Third World women
in Sox First, on March 7, 2008
... of knowledge. The initiative also involves business schools from all over the world, from Harvard, Wharton and Stanford to the Indian School of Business. The project will see Goldman Sachs supportin...
The Siemens clean up
in Sox First, on March 6, 2008
...rrupt business practices are simply not sustainable, he says in this interview from the Knowledge@Wharton series . Maybe, but only time will tell. On one hand, the the US Justice Department and the ...
NFC South Team Needs
in End Zone Buzz, on February 27, 2008
...rate on offense as well. Their offensive line remains intact with the re-signing of tackle Travelle Wharton while placing the franchise tag on tackle Jordan Gross. Still, Carolina remains thin at the ...
People Supply Chain: The new paradigm fro thinking from Wharton
in Supplychainer, on February 27, 2008
... Peter Cappelli, the professor from Wharton School of Business has created a new paradigm for thinking about Human capital which is called "Talent Supply Chain Management".
He believes...
Overworked, overweight
in Sox First, on January 25, 2008
Governments and businesses are now looking at various incentives and penalties for employees to lose weight. but all of these are problematic and simplistic. There is no quick fix to this complex problem. The latest is the British Government's plan to offer fat people cash incentives to lo...
Sovereign wealth funds: threat or opportunity?
in Sox First, on January 10, 2008
...tment to exert pressure on other governments? Like the US government. It's a point taken up by Wharton finance professors Franklin Allen, Richard Marston and Richard J Herring in their Knowledge...
The future of futurology
in Sox First, on January 2, 2008
Will Osama Bin Laden be caught in 2008? Will George Bush pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby? The prediction markets are already taking bets. But predicting the future is not what it used to be. Just think of the performance of hedge funds which claim they have had strategies for for beating t...
Stakeholder vs shareholder capitalism
in Sox First, on October 23, 2007
...ployees, customers and suppliers? The answers are by no means clear if a new paper co-authored by Wharton finance professor Franklin Allen is anything to go by. Using a mathematical model, the pap...
Six strategies for risky innovations
in Sox First, on October 16, 2007
...o deal with it is to understand the nature of the financial instruments, says Christopher C. Geczy, Wharton assistant professor of management. As reported in the Wharton@Work series , investors need ...
Do apologies work? 10 questions to consider
in Sox First, on September 29, 2007
...; These new crisis management rules are spelled out in more detail by the management experts from Wharton . They say it has to be done quickly, preferably online and maybe even posting something on...
The media and corporate governance: how much of a watchdog?
in Sox First, on June 29, 2007
...important function. Professor Alexander Dyck from the University of Toronto presented a paper at a Wharton conference examining the role the media played in Russia when they exposed executives at oi...
Soaring executive pay: seven solutions
in Sox First, on May 5, 2007
...ted in more dialogue with shareholders but pay levels have continued to ratchet up. Academics from Wharton have come up with solutions to the problem. 1. A ban on compensation consultants doing ...
Unwinding Sarbanes-Oxley's red tape
in Sox First, on April 19, 2007
...xamined in this piece Will the SEC Embrace a Softer Sarbanes-Oxley . The piece from the Knowledge@Wharton series doesn't actually come up with definitive answers but that's to be expected, n...
German corporate governance and the Siemens saga
in Sox First, on April 12, 2007
... Earthquake: How Scandals have Led to a Crisis in German Corporate Governance out of the Knowledge@Wharton series. But the role of unions is only part of the problem. As the piece shows, there are a...
Got Self Imposed Barriers? Rigor Mortis of the Personality?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 10, 2007
...Kline, Plains Capital Corporation, U.S. Department of Labor's Job Corps, Harvard University and Wharton Business School.
None of us are defined by our circumstances, nor are we defined by how oth...
Grameen Bank Brings to Life Fishes and Loaves Story
in Bizinformer, on April 6, 2007
...will inspire and humble you.
For more information about Micro loans, check out this article from Wharton .
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Going dark: public companies and public interest
in Sox First, on January 22, 2007
I have talked about the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley forcing companies to delist themselves and go dark . The disturbing part about that trend is that it undermines one of the great strengths of the markets in the US, Canada, Europe and Great Britain and Australia with the rise of the citizen invest...
Entrepreneurial lessons from Wharton
in TJ's Weblog, on December 14, 2006
... Knowledge@Wharton presents some (not necessarily brand new) lessons :
According to Sam Hamadeh, founder and chief executive of Vault.com, a New York publisher of job information, being an outsid...
Japan's style of corporate governance: shareholders take a back seat
in Sox First, on December 12, 2006
...world's second biggest economy after the United States. A discussion paper from the Knowledge@Wharton series makes it clear that Japan will never have a system where shareholders are in charge....
Shiv Nadar on the current state of IT Services firms - K@W
in The CIO Weblog, on November 19, 2006
Here is an interesting note that i found in the interview of HCL's Shiv Nadar on the IT Services industry
" Consider the mental baggage that IT companies have today. Each quarter, Indian IT firms publish their results, and these are broadcast on CNBC. From the comfort of their boardr...
Mirofinance, revisited ...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 11, 2006
...again ... see this piece on 'Microcredit at the Crossroads' at Law and Public Policy from Wharton College....
World Bank healthcare sector reforms under fire
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 24, 2006
From Eldis :
This article, in the journal Human Resources for Health, argues that the two most important World Bank health reform policies in Latin America - decentralisation and privatisation - have had a negative impact on workers' conditions of employment, and have prompted opposition f...
Stock options backdating: six degrees of separation
in Sox First, on October 21, 2006
With at least 140 companies including UnitedHealth and Apple saying they are being examined by federal authorities or are reviewing the way they timed their stock -option grants, the role of company directors is coming under scrutiny. The Securities and Exchange Commission is now exam...
SAP TechEd Amstredam
in The CIO Weblog, on October 17, 2006
... the series of posts, with this one summarizing an interview with Henning Kaggerman by Knowledge @Wharton.
Here is a mind map of the same:
For those who prefer PDF you can access it here .
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Greenspan's SOX reversal
in Sox First, on September 29, 2006
Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has made the headlines again, coming out this week attacking Sarbanes-Oxley and saying it should be scrapped . According to the former Fed chief, Sarbanes-Oxley regulations hamper business, discourage risk-taking and drive foreign companies to shun t...
FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS ANNOUNCES FINALISTS IN FOURTH ANNUAL BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
in Bizinformer, on September 7, 2006
... laparoscopes during minimally invasive surgery.
MuscleMorph [Philadelphia, PA] a team from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has designed a muscle-like, lightweight device that...
Risks in Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 20, 2006
...is inform and educate yourself regarding the different outsourcing risks in outsourcing. Ravi Aron, Wharton Professor of Operations and Information Management has identified three different kinds of r...
Money Quotes
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 17, 2006
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2. "The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it." Edith Wharton
1. "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." ...
Promises, Lies, Apologies and Trust
in Sox First, on July 27, 2006
...take? Would a public apology help? These are the sorts of questions examined in a new paper out of Wharton Promises and Lies: Restoring Violated Trust The study found that being screwed over by so...
Youtube as seen by Wharton
in TJ's Weblog, on July 13, 2006
... Knowledge@Wharton analyzes the Youtube Revolution:
Video streams viewed rose 50% in 2005 and are forecasted to rise 32% to more than 23 billion served in 2006, according to AccuStream. Comscore...
Tech Leaders Gather in San Francisco for Supernova2006
in The Dating Weblog, on June 29, 2006
...CLE -- June 28 -- Supernova2006 was produced in concert with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of business. It brings together such luminaries as Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun and ...
Americans are following the sun
in TJ's Weblog, on June 29, 2006
... Knowledge@Wharton cites research (PDF) from Peter Linneman and Albert Saiz about how population growth will happen in the US until 2020.
"The greatest future growth in the United States ...
Untangling SOX: the post-Enron debate
in Sox First, on May 31, 2006
Now that Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are set to spend the rest of their lives in the slammer, questions are being asked (again) whether it's time to unwind Sarbanes-Oxley. Apparently the system has been shown to work so well that we don't need it.
What have we learned from Enron?
in Sox First, on May 26, 2006
That's the Question that's been asked since the jurors brought down the guilty verdict for Lay and Skilling.
Sense the Pulse of RFID: An Interview with Dr. Hau Lee
in The RFID Weblog, on April 21, 2006
... London School of Economics in 1975, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983....
The state of the newspaper industry
in TJ's Weblog, on March 23, 2006
... Knowledge@Wharton takes a deeper look at the recent KnighRidder sale:
"In itself, the sale on March 12 of San Jose, Calif.-based knight Ridder for $4.5 billion in cash and stock and...
Angela Merkel's handling of the German economy
in TJ's Weblog, on March 10, 2006
... Knowledge@Wharton analyzes the first months of angela Merkels work:
"During her first few months in office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has attained the kind of approval rating ...
Adobe: Neues zur Engagement Plattform
in Das CIO Weblog, on 23.02.06
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Die Jungs von der "Wharton School of Business" haben ein sehr interessantes Interview mit dem Adobe-Chef Bruce Chizen gemacht. Im Mittelpunkt steht die "Engagement Plattform&quo...
Enron: a daily guide
in Sox First, on February 11, 2006
...aily trial cheat guide, there's the day-by-day briefing from SmartPros. The knowledge @Wharton series has released an overview into the strategies we can expect in the trial over the ne...
Cambridge Gets Funding (again)
in The VoIP Weblog, on January 17, 2006
...unding, the founders are still leading the company. Prior to this venture, co-founder and CEO Peter Wharton led Adaptive Broadband, a spinoff from an Olivetti and Oracle Research Lab in Cambridge, UK ...
Increasing Yield of Cord Blood-Derived Stem Cells
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 19, 2005
...ke connective tissue surrounding the blood vessels of the human umbilical cord, the so-called "Wharton's Jelly" , which is rich in stem cells that may be used to treat leukemia and other...
Entrepreneurship in India
in TJ's Weblog, on August 23, 2005
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Knowledge@Wharton has a special report about India developing as R&D hub. One of the contributions has been an interview with Vivek Paul - ex-CEO of Wipro . He has some good insights in...
Understanding the law in China is always a good mantra
in China Venture News, on July 27, 2005
...in a comprehensive article authored by John E. Lange in the Hong Kong office of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton and Garrison explains how and why Chinese companies are investing overseas and continuing to...
The Realities of Online Gambling in the US
in The Gambling Weblog, on July 5, 2005
...the online gambling market in the US, by the 'public policy and management' department at Wharton college.
The article summarises each issue that is currently holding back - or perhaps driv...
alibaba.com analyzed
in TJ's Weblog, on June 17, 2005
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Knowledge@Wharton analyzes Chinese "Ueber- ecommerce " company alibaba.com :
"But the company knows it must continue to innovate. "Currently, Alibaba's manage...
The Future of the Digital Living Room
in The Wired Home Weblog, on June 2, 2005
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We all know that sooner or later everything in our home is going to be run by a microchip. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has a nice article that discusses the future and the ...
taking in angel money
in TJ's Weblog, on June 2, 2005
... Knowledge@Wharton has an opinionated piece about the pro and cons of angel money:
"Yet it remains difficult to round these Angel investors up. "The process of getting angel mon...
the bigger ego...
in TJ's Weblog, on February 6, 2005
... "Just how much appetite for risk do entrepreneurs really have? That's the question Wharton doctoral student Brian Wu began asking himself while examining their behavioral patterns. He...
what happens after outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on December 22, 2004
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Knowledge@Wharton sheds light on an aspect of outsourcing that rarely gets enough visibility - what happens after you signed the outsourcing deal?
"More and more executives are like...
