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Jeremy Siegel's Advice to Banks: Lend That Money Now
At a time when many bulge bracket investment banks are drowning as a result of the financial crisis, Moelis & Co. is swimming against the tide. Founded in July 2007 by Kenneth D. Moelis, a Wall Street veteran, the Los Angeles-based firm has been busy hiring. In just about 15 months, it has recruited …
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Finding Opportunities amid the Wreckage
At a time when many bulge bracket investment banks are drowning as a result of the financial crisis, Moelis & Co. is swimming against the tide. Founded in July 2007 by Kenneth D. Moelis, a Wall Street veteran, the Los Angeles-based firm has been busy hiring. In just about 15 months, it has recruited …
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Digital Network Group's Innovative IT Approach to Mentoring Both Students and Non-profits
Jim Smith and Vikrant Kothari each had ambitions to start a company whose focus would be on using information technology as a way to help solve social problems. But it wasn't until they met in Wharton's MBA Program for Executives that their idea came together in the form of the Digital Network Group …
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Job Survival Advice: Don't Fear the Whitewater
Change is the new status-quo, and success at work will require agility, talent and the ability to learn from -- rather than fear -- failure, according to Gregory Shea, adjunct professor of management at Wharton, and business writer Robert Gunther. The two recently co-authored a book titled, Your Job …
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High-leverage Innovation, Part Three: Lessons from the Auto Industry
In this final part of a three-part interview, Wharton professor of operations and information management Karl Ulrich and Kevin Dehoff, a partner at Booz & Company, talk about innovation in the auto industry -- what constitutes it, why some manufacturers, like Toyota, are more innovative than others, …
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High-leverage Innovation, Part Two: Models of Collaboration
In this second part of a three-part interview, Wharton professor of operations and information management Karl Ulrich and Kevin Dehoff, a partner at Booz & Company, discuss the competitive advantages of global innovation networks, the challenges companies face in cross-border R&D collaboration, and …
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High-leverage Innovation, Part One: Spending and Performance
Money isn't the key to successful innovation. In fact, many companies spend far less than their competitors on R&D to achieve far better performance. To learn why that's the case, Knowledge@Wharton and strategy+business spoke with Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor of operations and information managem …
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Opportunities -- and Obstacles -- for the B2B Market in Tough Economic Times
While discussion at the recent Erin Anderson B2B Research Conference at Wharton focused on cutting-edge research in the field of business-to-business relationships, participants also acknowledged the impact on marketers of the ongoing financial meltdown. Along those lines, three university professor …
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Feeling the Pain: How the Financial Crisis Is Affecting Brazil, Russia, India and China
As the financial crisis continues to roil credit and stock markets around the globe, it seems that no country or continent is being spared the consequences. Brazil, Russia, India and China -- the BRIC countries -- are no exception. In this Knowledge@Wharton podcast, Shiv Khemka, vice chairman of Sun …
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Richard Marston and Jeremy Siegel: Will the Bank Plan Revive Global Markets?
With stock markets in freefall, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced on Tuesday that the government's effort to unlock credit markets would include direct investments of $250 billion in bank equities. He also warned bankers not to hoard the money, but to use it to make the loans that lubr …
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BCG's Hal Sirkin on 'Globality' and the New Two-way Street of Global Business
According to Hal Sirkin, senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, The age of globalization is over. In its place is a new reality that Sirkin and BCG colleagues Jim Hemerling and Arindam Bhattacharya define in their recently published book, GLOBALITY: Competing with Every …
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AIG Rescued but Crisis Continues
After refusing to bail out Lehman Brothers, the government agreed to an $85 billion loan to insurance giant AIG, effectively taking over the company. Knowledge@Wharton talked to Wharton insurance professors Olivia Mitchell and Kent Smetters to find out how the world's largest insurer got into this s …
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Jeremy Siegel on the Market: Rough Going for Now, but Stocks Still a Good Bet
The government's rescue of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG demonstrated clearly that the financial turmoil continues on Wall Street. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel says there are some positive signals in stocks and corporate earnings, but it's too soo …
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Will its 'Chrome' Web Browser Put a Shine on Google's Long-term Strategy?
Casual observers may have concluded that Google's introduction this week of its Chrome web browser was a direct assault on the dominance of Microsoft's Explorer. But Wharton professors David Hsu and Kevin Werbach see a longer-term strategy at work. They say Google wants the new browser to influence …
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Emerging Technologies, Part 3: New Tools for a Collaborative Environment
Part 3 of 3 -- Dr. Guido Jouret, chief technology officer of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, spoke with Wharton management professor Saikat Chaudhuri about about emerging enterprise equivalents of web 2.0 technologies.
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Emerging Technologies, Part 2: Communicating Across Boundries
Part 2 of 3 -- Dr. Guido Jouret, chief technology officer of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, spoke with Wharton management professor Saikat Chaudhuri about how TelePresence evolved from a need for high-resolution interaction in today's distributed workplace.
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Emerging Technologies, Part 1: Incubating the Future
Part 1 of 3 -- Dr. Guido Jouret, chief technology officer of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, spoke with Wharton management professor Saikat Chaudhuri about internal venturing at Cisco, and how his group balances entrepreneurial innovation with corporate processes and controls.
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Doha Debacle: What's Next for Global Commerce
Progress toward unfettered international commerce stumbled last week with the collapse of the World Trade Organization's Doha talks, a seven-year effort to establish new global trade rules. The lengthy talks were complicated by the rapid emergence of China and India as major economic powers with com …
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BCG-K@W Procurement Report: Part 8: Peformance-based Logistics
These days, when the U.S. Department of Defense buys a fighter jet from Lockheed Martin, it doesn't simply pay Lockheed for the physical product. Instead, the government has a "performance-based contract" with the defense supplier, according to Serguei Netessine, professor of operations and informat …
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Jeremy Siegel on the Bear Market, Sky-high Oil Prices and other Bad News
The stock market's June swoon has carried into July, with key indicators pointing to a bear market weighed down by rising oil prices, the credit crisis and more bad news from Detroit, as the Big Three auto manufacturers reported substantial losses. Meanwhile, the G-8 gathered in Japan to discuss glo …
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