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Two-Phased Marketing Strategy for Successful Product Launches

Innovators take note: If you're about to launch a revolutionary new product, plan a two-phased marketing strategy that first emphasizes its benefits and…

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Offshoring Services: Benefits and Risks Explained

That’s not surprising as it promises to lower the costs by 50 percent. But a successful offshoring of services is truly no surefire success. Backshoring of the…

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Economic Impact of 2008 Iowa Floods: Insights from Economists

We know the 2008 floods devastated Iowa, with 83 of the state's 99 counties being declared disaster areas by Gov. Chet Culver. But what we won't know for some…

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Shareholder Insights: Annual Reports Enhance Transparency

The annual report is the only document that has been put in the public domain from which members of the public can know whether their firms have indeed been…

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Understanding Rural Poverty in Cambodia: Key Factors Explained

This paper analyzes rural poverty in Cambodia to identify the factors that explain its occurrence and persistence. Spring/Summer 2008, Vol. 7, No. 2, Pages…

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Taiwan and China: Shifting Export Dynamics to the U.S.

Therefore, more products from advanced countries will be replaced by China in the near future. Spring/Summer 2008, Vol. 7, No. 2, Pages 1-31Posted Online June…

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China’s Inflation and External Imbalances: New Challenges Ahead

To maintain a sustainable growth rate, China must walk a tightrope. Spring/Summer 2008, Vol. 7, No. 2, Pages 34-50Posted Online June 19, 2008.(doi:10.1162/asep.2008.7.2.34)…

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Investing in Innovation: Do Innovations Truly Pay Off?

Management has often been criticized for an earnings-focused short term orientation that reduces or delays investments in risky, long term innovation projects…

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KfW Reopens 3-Year USD Global Market with 3.75% Coupon

The USD 3 bn issue with a settlement on June 26th 2008 matures on June 27th 2011. With a coupon of 3.75% and a reoffer price of 99.755% it yields 3.837% s.a. This corresponds to a yield pick-up of 92.5 basis points over the current 2-year US Treasury maturing in May 2010. The bond will have an AAA/Aaa/AAA rating from Fitch Ratings, Moody's and Standard & Poor's. The transaction was lead managed by Credit Suisse, HSBC and RBC Capital Markets. Co-Lead Managers were Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Citi, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Mitsubishi UFJ, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, and RBS….

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New Research: Fridays Are No Longer Best for Bad News

That is one of the conclusions drawn by economist Leon Zolotoy in his research, for which he will be awarded a PhD at Tilburg University in the Netherlands on…

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Private Equity-Backed IPOs Outperform Market, New Cass Research

Research published by Cass Business School provides new evidence on the strong performance of private equity-backed IPOs.The report was commissioned jointly by…

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Transforming Leadership: The Coaching Manager Approach

The profile of the “new” manager is distinguished by thinking and acting like a coach, maintains Morten Emil Berg, Assistant Professor at BI Norwegian School…

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Banking Stability Conference at Centre for Banking Studies

The newly created Centre for Banking Studies at Cass Business School, funded by the British Academy, Cass Business School Research Fund, and the Money, Macro…

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Do leaks imperil M&A deals? IntraLinks and Cass study indicates leaked deals cost time and money

In what is thought to be the world’s first research focused on pre-announcement market leaks in M&A, Cass established a universe of over 350,000 M&A deals…

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Research shows 2008 may be the best year for M&A

Results from the latest stage the of ongoing Towers Perrin / Cass Business School research looking at the value created in the last three global M&A cycles…

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Digital Innovation: Insights from Dr. Gianvito Lanzolla

Dr Gianvito Lanzolla, Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Cass, suggests that because the revolutionary conceptual shifts from analogue to digital technology took…

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