Professor Joe Peppard, from the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin, suggests there are five things newly appointed CIOs must do in…
KfW Development Bank has signed a USD 340 million agreement with the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic…
In the newly established Center of Business Model Engineering (CBME), Fraunhofer IAO and audit firm KPMG AG lend their advice and expertise to companies that…
The DAX-listed companies Bayer, BMW and BASF are among the best in Europe concerning the disciplines „Human Resources Management“, „Social Commitment“,…
The trend of parameters such as gearing ratio, debt maturities, and financing volumes suggest that banks do currently prefer to extend their loans than to…
The KfW Sustainability Indicator 2013 is weaker than in the previous year and only just above the average value of the preceding ten years. While the “economy”…
The sharing economy has arrived, but what has it brought with it? It is too early to tell what impact changing consumer patterns will have on mainstream…
Europe remained a leader in newly installed capacities accounting for 51.7% (16.8 GW) of the 30 GW installed worldwide.Abundant solar resources in combination…
More than 460 banking experts took part in Fraunhofer IAO’s Banks & Future 2013 trend survey. According to the respondents, the biggest challenge stems from…
Since this week the project financing for the Viger-Denonville wind farm in the Canadian province of Québec is in place: KfW IPEX-Bank is providing a long-term…
In his paper, “The Myth of America's 'Culture of Consumerism': Policy May Help Drive American Household's Fraying Finances,” which Cohen will present at the…
The analysis by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research looked at California data on the uninsured between 2007 and 2009 and found that of the approximately…
The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have conducted the first large-sample…
“Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency,” (published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, April-May 2013) establishes that the transparency of a…
Relative status is important to Chinese farmers. For women, spending money on clothes, restaurants and mobile phones signals status; mobile phones serve the…
Lending Circles, a program managed by the nonprofit Mission Asset Fund, dramatically improved credit scores for low-income residents of San Francisco, the…
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