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Source: CFO Magazine / Edward Teach
Read this article: http://www.cfo.com/articl…5309,13999||M|926,00.html
Cognitive biases and mental shortcuts can lead managers into costly errors of judgment.
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Source: Various
Read this article: http://www.google.com
WDFM did a special focus issue on Google tools and tips for marketers which highlighted the following useful sites:
- TouchGraph GoogleBrowser
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
- GoogleDuel
http://www.googleduel.com/original.php
- GooFresh
http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001405.shtml
- Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Sandbox
https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox
- AdSense Charts
http://www.adsensecharts.com
- AdSense Ad Predictor
http://www.about-adsense.com/adsense-web-tool.html
- Poodle Predictor
http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go
- Google Link Tools
http://www.monstersmallbusiness.com/website_promotion_tool4.asp
- GoogleRankings
http://www.googlerankings.com
- Google Back Link Tracker Tool
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/
- Page Rank Calculator
http://www.markhorrell.com/seo/pagerank.asp
- Google Zeitgeist
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
- Copyscape
http://www.copyscape.com/
- Google Rankings Ultimate SEO Tool
http://www.googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php
- Google Sponsored Links
http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks
- McDar Keyword Analysis Tool
http://www.mcdar.net/KeywordTool/keywordtool.asp
- SEO Tools Future PageRank
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank/
- Google Alerts
http://www.google.com/alerts
- Google Link Popularity Analysis Tool
http://www.rustybrick.com/link_analysis.php
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Source: Bain / Handbook of Business Strategy / Alan Bird, Robin Buchanan, Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko
Read this article: http://www.bain.com/bainw…ting_your_leaders_HBS.pdf
Companies that systematically and continuously put the right leaders in the right jobs outperform companies that don’t - by a wide margin. In this article, the authors argue that chief executives must recognize and act on the consequences of how they deploy their best managers.
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Source: CIO / AMR Research / Kevin O’Marah
Read this article: http://www2.cio.com/analyst/report2429.html
The Issue: If innovation is the key to growth, jobs, and shareholder value, why do so many companies manage their product information systems so badly? Our research shows that fragmented ownership, budgets, and objectives perpetuate costly, error-prone Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems. It may be time for systems that support innovation to get an overhaul.
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Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Read this article: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/976.cfm
A software services company looking for an early-stage round of investment from venture capital funds gets four offers. Two of them value the company at $10 million, one at $12.5 million and one at $20 million. Any of the offers would net the software company approximately $8 million in cash inflows. It would seem to be a no-brainer. Accept the investment at the highest so-called “pre-money” valuation. So why did the company pick the $12.5 million offer? It’s a question that Wharton management professor David Hsu explores in a recent paper measuring the impact of “intangibles” - such as reputation and access to networks - on VC relationships with entrepreneurs.
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Source: Business Finance / Carol Orsag Madigan
Read this article: http://www.businessfinanc…l?articleID=13727&Print=Y
Few would argue with the claim that when it comes to criticism, ’tis better to give than to receive. Why then is criticizing employee performance so hard? Here are 10 ways to elevate criticism to a constructive level.
Editor’s Note: see also, “Raising the Executive Performance Bar - Delivering the Message”
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Source: SSRN / Thomas Philippon
Read this article: http://papers.ssrn.com/so…rs.cfm?abstract_id=503863
Philippon examines firms’ capital structure empirically and theoretically. He finds that firm value does not exactly fit the static trade-off model. Specifically he finds that low levels of debt are not accompanied by as low of firm values as would be expected. However, in other areas, what we have been teaching seems exactly right: more growth options means less debt, highly profitable firms do have higher target debt ratios (even though they may not all be at the targets), and expected future financing deficits makes financial slack more valuable. Interestingly, he also finds some evidence that managerial power (as proxied by CEO tenure) is associated with lower levels of debt. READ IT!!! [FinanceProfessor.com Annotation]
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Source: STERNbusiness / Gregory B. Fairchild and Jeffrey A. Robinson
Read this article: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/…2004/goingforbrokers.html
This article examines the phenomenon of white entrepreneurs and business owners operating in central city locations. The authors’ suggestion: social brokers – institutions and individuals that can bridge the gaps between minority neighborhoods and non-minority business people – can help facilitate growth, profits, and development.
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Source: CEO Refresher / Jamie S. Walters
Read this article: http://www.refresher.com/!jswhabits.html
The Big Seven worst habits of communication are bad enough when they happen occasionally. They become “big and bad” when they’re practiced habitually. And they do, ultimately, exact a cost.
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Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com / Bill McBeath
Read this article: http://www.technologyeval…_TN_SC_XBM_04_23_04_2.asp
The past two decades have witnessed dramatic improvements to supply chain performance through lean manufacturing, just-in-time (JIT) inventory, ever-increasing velocity, extreme outsourcing, and related transformations. In the ten years from 1992 to 2002, the ratio of inventories to shipments in the US fell from 1.65 to 1.35. These are enormous numbers in the context of our multi-trillion dollar economy. At the same time, the complexity and length of supply chains have increased due to ever-greater out-sourcing and globalization. Today the material is acquired and integral processes are performed by a network of many dozens of “virtually integrated” firms, each master of its own specialty. We are getting more spread out, not just geographically, but also organizationally.
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