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Replicating organizational knowledge: principles or templates?
Author(s): Charles Baden-Fuller, Cass Business School, Sidney Winter, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Topic: Information and Knowledge Management Industry: Any Industry Type: Research Papers

We address the challenges of providing operational measures for successful replication, and for comparing the efficacy of principles and templates.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 211

Asset Management

Accounting valuation and the credit crisis
Author(s): Alistair Milne, Cass Business School, Perry Mehrling, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, supported by ACCA
Topic: Finance Industry: Banking Type: Commentary/Analysis

Alistair Milne and Perry Mehrling, together with Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, propose using government credit insurance guarantees to combat the credit crisis. Their idea is to use these guarantees to put a floor under the prices of the better quality tranches of structured credit securities, hence restoring liquidity to credit markets and arresting the global credit contraction.

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Updated: 09/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 1121

Banking

Accounting valuation and the credit crisis
Author(s): Alistair Milne, Cass Business School, Perry Mehrling, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, supported by ACCA
Topic: Finance Industry: Banking Type: Commentary/Analysis

Alistair Milne and Perry Mehrling, together with Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University, propose using government credit insurance guarantees to combat the credit crisis. Their idea is to use these guarantees to put a floor under the prices of the better quality tranches of structured credit securities, hence restoring liquidity to credit markets and arresting the global credit contraction.

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Updated: 09/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 1121

Charity and Non-Governmental Sector

Staying ethical in a downturn
Author(s): Roger Steare, Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, Cass Business School
Topic: Business Ethics Industry: Charity and Non-Governmental Sector Type: Commentary/Analysis

Roger Steare is Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics at Cass. In this multimedia presentation he introduces the ethicability® framework.

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Updated: 04/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 3/5 | Total ratings: 2 | Views: 641

Communications and High Tech

Strategy process in the creative industries
Author(s): Professor Joe Lampel is interviewed by Dr Ajay Bhalla
Topic: Strategy Industry: Creative Industries Type: Video and Podcast

Joseph Lampel, is Professor of Strategy at, and one of the "leading stars" of, Cass Business School. Senior Lecturer in Information and Knowledge Management. This is a video Q and A with Professor Joe Lampel conducted by Dr Ajay Bhalla. Both are Cass Experts. Inculded is the transcript and a summary of the key points.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 4/5 | Total ratings: 5 | Views: 1152 | Embedded playable media content

Consumer and Retail

Confused about your brand? You might not be but your consumers certainly are...
Author(s): Professor Vince Mitchell is interviewed by Dr Caroline Wiertz
Topic: Marketing and Customer Strategy Industry: Consumer and Retail Type: Video and Podcast

Consumer confusion is a strange phenomenon within the business world, and Vincent-Wayne Mitchell, Professor of Consumer Marketing at Cass Business School, is the "absolute authority" on the subject. This is a video Q and A with Vince Mitchell conducted by Caroline Wiertz. Both are Cass Experts. Inculded is the transcript and a summary of the key points.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 775 | Embedded playable media content

Creative Industries

Confused about your brand? You might not be but your consumers certainly are...
Author(s): Professor Vince Mitchell is interviewed by Dr Caroline Wiertz
Topic: Marketing and Customer Strategy Industry: Consumer and Retail Type: Video and Podcast

Consumer confusion is a strange phenomenon within the business world, and Vincent-Wayne Mitchell, Professor of Consumer Marketing at Cass Business School, is the "absolute authority" on the subject. This is a video Q and A with Vince Mitchell conducted by Caroline Wiertz. Both are Cass Experts. Inculded is the transcript and a summary of the key points.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 775 | Embedded playable media content

Insurance and Pensions

Apocalyptic demography? Putting longevity risk in perspective
Author(s): David Blake and John Pickles, Cass Business School
Topic: Actuarial Science Industry: Insurance and Pensions Type: Reports

Current life expectancy depends very much on demographic factors, particularly lifestyle, and varies from scheme to scheme, i.e. it is scheme specific. It is therefore very important that companies understand where their scheme sits in the population of pension schemes as far as life expectancy is concerned.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 349

Professional Services

Partnership under pressure
Author(s): Laura Empson, Cass Business School
Topic: Organisation and Leadership Industry: Professional Services Type: Commentary/Analysis

As recently as twenty years ago, partnership was the pre-eminent form of governance in most major professional sectors. But in the 1980s the incidence of partnership began to decline in areas such as accounting, management consulting, actuarial consulting, and investment banking, to the extent that most major consulting firms and almost all investment banks are now organised as privately-held or publicly-quoted corporations.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 193

Public Policy

The market potential for privately financed long term care products in the UK
Author(s): Les Mayhew, Cass Business School
Topic: Actuarial Science Industry: Public Policy Type: Research Papers

This paper considers the market potential for privately financed long term care products in the UK. It finds that since the present market is undeveloped there is scope to increase the range of products available to suit people with different means and circumstances.

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Updated: 07/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 303

Real Estate

Current fields of research in real estate
Author(s): Professor Simon Stevenson interviewed by Ben Sawtell
Topic: Finance Industry: Real Estate Type: Video and Podcast

Simon Stevenson, Professor of Finance and head of real estate courses at the Cass Business School, is heavily engaged in real estate research. Professor Simon Stevenson a Cass Expert, is interviewed by Ben Sawtell from Cass Press Office. Inculded is the transcript and a summary of the key points.

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Updated: 07/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 4/5 | Total ratings: 1 | Views: 381 | Embedded playable media content

Shipping and Transport

Factors affecting the dynamics of yield premia on shipping seasoned high yield bonds
Author(s): Costas Grammenos, Amir Alizadeh , Nikos Papapostolou, Cass Business School
Topic: Finance Industry: Shipping and Transport Type: Research Papers

This paper investigates factors that can explain the dynamics of yield premia on seasoned high yield bonds of shipping companies.

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Updated: 09/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 429