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Companies Using Marketing Analytics Increase Return on Assets by Avg 8%, Says Study Analyzing Fortune 1000 Co’s

The research was conducted by Penn State University Management Science Professor Gary L. Lilien, former president of an INFORMS predecessor society; Arvind…

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Job Autonomy and Trust Fuel Innovation in Workplaces

According to a soon-to-be-published study by Gopesh Anand and Dilip Chhajed, professors of business administration at Illinois, a flexible work environment…

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Siemens Shifts Water Business Focus to Automation Solutions

Siemens has decided to reorganize its activities in the water business. The company intends to focus in the future on automation and drive solutions for the…

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The Role of Arbitration in Consumer Lending

On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law convenes a panel of experts to discuss the issues raised by the prevalence of…

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Shifting from Size to Numbers: Innovations in Industry Growth

Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that carried 2,000 tons of cargo have been replaced by modern…

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Business Plan Competitions: Unlocking Job Growth Insights

The study by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship spans the 11-year life of the RBPC, the world's richest and largest business plan…

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Study shows wildfires' positive and negative economic impacts

Despite the disruptions they cause, large wildfires are a mixed economic bag for nearby communities, according to findings from a research project by the…

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Study Reveals Flaws in U.S. Poverty Measurement Methods

That method of calculating who is poor and who is not has been under fire by researchers for years because it doesn't calculate the benefits of anti-poverty…

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Study to Address Potential Retail Losses Associated with Mobile Point-of-Sale Technology

The Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has partnered with the leading retail trade association on a research initiative to address risks…

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Know When to Rein In the Stock Market: Key Findings Revealed

The study, in the Journal of Financial Economics, is one of the first to suggest when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should get involved in the…

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KfW Funding Success Amid Market Volatility in 2023

In a strongly shifting market environment in the first half of2012 KfW held its own in its funding activities. As of 30 June 2012 already about EUR 50.4…

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Unique on STN – Numeric Property Search Feature in the Derwent World Patents Index®

FIZ Karlsruhe has developed an innovative search function that adds significant value to Thomson Reuters’s renowned patent database Derwent World Patents…

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Hedging Against Weather Impacts Boosts Firm Value, Study Finds

Hedging refers to insuring against extreme fluctuations in the prices or quantities of commodities/securities.In “Risk Management and Firm Value: Evidence from…

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Home-State Stock Bias Raises Mutual Fund Portfolio Risks

Inexperienced mutual-fund managers and those working for funds with limited resources tend to invest too heavily in companies from their home states without…

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UNU-IHDP and UNEP launch sustainability index that looks beyond GDP

The world's fixation on economic growth ignores a rapid and largely irreversible depletion of natural resources that will seriously harm future generations,…

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The King of Retail: New Study Shows Symbiotic Relationship Between Major Retailers and Suppliers

A new study by supply-chain researchers at the University of Arkansas shows that the relationship between major retailers such as Walmart and Target and their…

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