Three of the nation’s leading universities have joined with 15 US companies to launch a first-of-its-kind collaborative research center whose holistic approach to energy efficiency development could mean savings of millions of dollars and a much ‘greener’ electronics industry. Headed up by researchers at Binghamton University and its partners, Villanova University and the University of […]
How to Keep Rogue Trades Out of Your Investment Portfolio
The parallels to 2008 keep piling up. Early that year, French bank Société Générale revealed $7.2 billion in losses (that’s billion with a "b") at the hands of a single rogue trader. The culprit: A 31-year-old trader named Jerome Kerviel. The Société Générale losses came on a massive $73 billion worth of positions, which […]
It’s time to let them go! Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have played by the Italian rules.
In November of 2007 the 21 year old English student Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered and sexually assaulted in her apartment room in Perugia, Italy by a young, inexperienced burglar, Rudy Guede, whom the cops had already begun to know, but for unknown reasons had never arrested. A shocking crime to her family, her friends, […]
Practice Management Case Study: Coaching & Consulting Work!
Securities America’s programs satisfy former-CPA Ken Buzek’s “show me” demands. Excerpted from Securities America’s Daily Star National Conference Paper. As a former CPA, Ken Buzek has a strong analytical side that often requires proof of results to satisfy his “show me” instinct. In undertaking two major conversions in their business since joining Securities America in […]
How Satisfying Customer Demands Can Lead to Trouble
Is the customer always right? Phin Upham discusses a seminal work which argues that sometimes serving customers can lead to failure Recent corporate rhetoric has emphasized how “satisfying the customer” is of core importance to corporate missions. C. M. Clayton and J. L. Bower’s essay Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms” shows how this […]
Fire your CEO? Variables in CEO longevity.
Three of the longest serving CEO’s of major corporations in history are Warren Buffett, Sandy Weill, and Maurice Greenberg. Phin Upham compare and contrast their tenure with the theory and evidence presented in organizational theory. CEOs Warren Buffett, Sandy Weill, and Maurice Greenberg accumulated power during their long tenures as CEO. For each the market was or […]
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