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Accounting
Author(s): Gilad Livne, Cass Business School
We use a unique setting of the UK football industry as a laboratory to examine howfirms invest in employee training programmes to increase their human capital and firM productivity. Specifically, we ask: does investment in purchasing football player contracts pay off?
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 421
Actuarial Science
Author(s): David Blake and John Pickles, Cass Business School
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.
Updated: 04/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 346
Business Ethics
Author(s): Roger Steare, Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, Cass Business School
Roger Steare is Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics at Cass. In this multimedia presentation he introduces the ethicability® framework.
Updated: 04/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 3/5 | Total ratings: 2 | Views: 641
Corporate Governance
Author(s): Alistair Milne, Cass Business School, Perry Mehrling, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, supported by ACCA
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.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 1114
Finance
Author(s): Alistair Milne, Cass Business School, Perry Mehrling, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, supported by ACCA
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.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 1114
Human Resource Management
Author(s): Chris Rowley, Cass Business School, Hyuckseung Yang, School of Business Yonsei University, Korea
Performance management systems (PMS) in Asia, and especially South Korea (‘Korea' from now on), can be best understood in the context of the transformation companies have gone through in the nature of their relationship with their human resources (HR) and HR management (HRM) as a whole within institutional and cultural contexts (Rowley and Paik, 2009).
Updated: 05/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 140
Information and Knowledge Management
Author(s): Professor Joe Lampel is interviewed by Dr Ajay Bhalla
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.
Updated: 05/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 4/5 | Total ratings: 5 | Views: 1137 | 
Investment and Risk Management
Author(s): Wayne Holland, Cass Business School, Alzira Salama, Cavendish College
The case study describes and explains the successful integration strategy designed and implemented by a German bank's top executives when an American Bank was acquired in 1999.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 444
Marketing and Customer Strategy
Author(s): Professor Vince Mitchell is interviewed by Dr Caroline Wiertz
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.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 769 |
Operations
Author(s): Wayne Holland, Cass Business School, Alzira Salama, Cavendish College
The case study describes and explains the successful integration strategy designed and implemented by a German bank's top executives when an American Bank was acquired in 1999.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 444
Organisation and Leadership
Author(s): Wayne Holland, Cass Business School, Alzira Salama, Cavendish College
The case study describes and explains the successful integration strategy designed and implemented by a German bank's top executives when an American Bank was acquired in 1999.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 444
R&D, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Author(s): Roger Steare, Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, Cass Business School
Roger Steare is Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics at Cass. In this multimedia presentation he introduces the ethicability® framework.
Updated: 04/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 3/5 | Total ratings: 2 | Views: 641
Strategy
Author(s): Professor Joe Lampel is interviewed by Dr Ajay Bhalla
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.
Updated: 05/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 4/5 | Total ratings: 5 | Views: 1137 |
