THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LVII, NO. 5 • OCTOBER 2002 Information Production and Capital Allocation: Decentralized versus Hierarchical Firms JEREMY C. STEIN* ABSTRACT This paper asks how well different organizational structures perform in terms of generating information about investment projects and allocating capital to these projects. A decentralized approach—with small, single-manager firms—is most likely to be attractive when information about projects is “soft” and cannot be credibly
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| 0 | 0 | Editor/Review: 6Other:13 | UG, GR, RES, SER and ADM | Intellectual Contributions (12) Hopwood, W., Bhattacharya, S., Premuroso, R. (2011). Tasteless Tea Company: A Comprehensive Revenue Transaction Cycle Case Study. Issues in Accounting Education, 26(1), 163-179. Cao, J., Nicolaou, A., Bhattacharya, S. (2010). A Longitudinal Study of market and Firm Level Factors Influencing ERP Systems’ Adoption and Post-Implementation System Enhancement Options. 7th Annual International Conference
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Video Case Paper Management/521 February 11, 2012 Video Case Paper Entrepreneurship is rampant around the world; it takes an idea to start with the thought of a dream. That can flood the market and make a profit within a year’s time of hope. In the case of the “College Entrepreneurs do Good and Make Money” there is a true understanding of the global market and what people need to make their business work well. In this paper the team will examine what
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Statistical Methods in Credit Risk Modeling by Aijun Zhang A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Statistics) in The University of Michigan 2009 Doctoral Committee: Professor Vijayan N. Nair, Co-Chair Agus Sudjianto, Co-Chair, Bank of America Professor Tailen Hsing Associate Professor Jionghua Jin Associate Professor Ji Zhu c Aijun Zhang 2009 All Rights Reserved To my elementary school, high school and university
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the distinctive needs of the culture. This cultural competence encompasses integration and interaction of beliefs, behaviors, disease prevalence and incidence and treatment outcomes for diverse patient populations (Betancourt et al., 2003). In the case study: Diversity Conflicts in the NICU the manager has identified practices in the NICU that are not representative of a culturally competent organization. While reflecting on the diverse population that her staff comprises of the manager debates
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Case 1: Office Romance: Groping for Answers The Meeting R: Morning B: Good morning R: I don’t know if you read your email yet B: I’m just about to R: I got an email from Abby and I know that she sent one to you, and since you haven’t read your email I want to try to nip this in the bud and explain what this email is about. She’s accusing me of sexual harassment. What had happened, let me just give you some back history first. First of all, my wife and I are having marital problems and during
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Case Study – Procter & Gamble ® / Case # 24 Student Name BUS 4333.50 Dr. Derek Crews July 26, 2009 Table of Contents Topic Page 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Introduction 3 3. Problem Statement 3 - 5 4. Environmental Scanning 5 5.1. SWOT Analysis 5 - 10 5.2. Financial Ratios 11 - 14 5.3. Porter Five Forces Analysis 14 - 16 5. Strategic Formulation 16 - 17 6.4
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Practice Homework Case Study made by César Muñoz Implementing a Quality Assurance Office (QAO) The project team in “Systems Technology” is implementing the Quality Assurance Office for their Software Factory. In order to execute the first phase of the project the PM and his team has defined 10 activities that allow them to achieve the goal. In the following table you can see the activities Actvity Start A B C D E F G H I J End Precedence Start Start Start C A B,E A G H, F I, D J Duration
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PIProceedings of the American Control Conference Anchorage, AK May 8-3 0,2002 PID Tuning Revisited: Guaranteed Stability and Non-Fragility Guillermo J. Silva IBM Server Group 11400 Burnet Road Austin, TX 78758 U.S.A. guilsilv@us.ibm.com Aniruddha Datta and S.P. Bhattacharyya Department of Electrical Engineering Texas A & M University College Station, TX 77843-3128 U.S.A. datta@ee.tamu.edu bhatt@ee.tamu.edu Abstract In this paper we present a study of some PID tuning techniques that are
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MGMT 326: Spring 2013 Chpt 10 (Stocks): Data Case Solution A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Financial Management Spring 2013 Chapter 10 Data Case Data COC, Debt Debt / Capitalization Equity / Capitalization Tax rate COC, Equity WACC, AT Growth rate ROI, new invest B C D E F G H I J rD rE rWACC g ROI 3.48% 77.90% 22.10% 17.93% 39.70% for AA bonds from BS from BS average of
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