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Medical Tourism : A Serious Business, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Significant changes in the globalisation of healthcare creates market with huge potential for growth

As the medical tourism movement grew in popularity over the past decade, Vishal Bali has had a front row seat watching the industry flourish in his role as the Group CEO of Fortis Healthcare Limited, a healthcare provider in the Asia Pacific region. From his vantage point, Bali notes, "There have been significant changes in the forces of globalisation of healthcare patients. The trend is maturing and geographies are shifting. Healthcare providers in different countries are taking strategic positions to compete for the global healthcare consumer …

Price And Store Image As Mitigating Factors In The Perception And Evaluation Of Retailers' Customer-Based Brand Equity, Hagai Gringarten

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Developing, improving, and achieving sustainable advantage is becoming more challenging than ever before. This is due in part to the complexity and the rapidly changing marketing environment. No matter how strong brands are, it is getting harder to achieve and sustain brand equity. Increasingly, firms realize that branding is one of the most valuable intangible assets that firms have. This study aims to provide a better understanding of customer-based brand equity (CBBE) in the era of super brands.

Consumers often base their buying decisions on impressions of price and store image. The objective of the study was to acquire an …

Wisdom From Executive Female Leaders: What Can Organizations, Executive Education Programs, And Graduate Students Learn?, Deborah B. Roebuck, Deborah N. Smith

Journal of Executive Education

This qualitative study focused on the perceptions and experiences of senior executive female leaders and sought answers to the following questions: “What can others learn from executive female leaders, What can organizations do to retain and advance female leaders, and How can executive education programs and institutions of higher learning better develop female graduate students for leadership positions?” Twelve senior leaders were interviewed who shared the opportunities and challenges they faced as they made their climbs to executive leadership positions.

2013-July-30-Indian Medical Clinics, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Advisory Councils In Executive Education: Insights From Practice, Kevin J. Rose, Théres W. Stiefer

Journal of Executive Education

Various units within higher education rely on an advisory council to help guide policy, practice, and strategy. These boards usually consist of external business contacts or subject matter experts. In this article, we present a review of the use of advisory councils in higher education, with particular attention given to business education. We then provide advice and information based on our own experience with developing and maintaining an advisory council for an executive education unit. While there is no single best way to engage an advisory board for productive academic benefit, we provide several ideas for consideration in the hopes …

Design Of The Management System Of Port In China Based On The Internet Of Things Technology, Chongwen Li

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Analysis On Strategies Of Competition And Cooperation Between Shanghai And Ningbo Port, Yuan Lu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Emerging Economy Context: Smes And Social Capital In Brazil, Ruth Clarke, Ramdas Chandra, Marcilio Machado

HCBE Faculty Presentations

This exploratory, empirical study reports on social capital in a commodity-based industry in an emerging market context. We examine whether Brazilian entrepreneurs and SMEs in the Stone industry experience contextual normative pressure sufficient to retard or promote the growth of social capital. Further we link social capital development to internationalization and performance. We find that there is a lack of social capital development and propose that this is related to the country context of Brazil and the stage of development along the industry value chain. We begin to answer the question, essentially, are the benefits of social capital universally implementable …

July 2013, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

News and Features

Who Gets Dad’s Office? 5 Tips for Family

Business Succession Planning When it comes

to business succession planning, one thing is

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it, they don’t do it well, or they wait to do it until

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leadership, keep the points in mind as outlined

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Lost Sales Leads: 4 Common …

A New Approach To Charitable Giving, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Move over social entrepreneurship: hello venture philanthropy

Geography, Informal Information, And Mutual Fund Portfolios, Jinyi (Richard) Fu, Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper explores how informal information channels impact the investment performance of mutual funds. We measure the strengths of two specific information channels linked to the geographical location of fund managers: information transfers among managers (fund-fund links), and between fund managers and the companies in which they invest (fund-company links). We analyze the marginal impact of these information channels on abnormal returns generated from stock holdings. We find that each channel increases investment performance in the absence of the other. Investment performance is reduced when the two information channels act in combination, an effect that appears to be driven by …

The New Orleans Ballet Association, Brooke Alicia Barrios

Arts Administration Master's Reports (1984-2016)

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the central issues and management structure of the New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA), apply them to industry best practices, and make recommendations for improvement. The initial investigation occurred during a 480-hour internship in the Education Department from January-April 2013, under NOBA’s Executive Director and Education Coordinators. The thesis is enhanced through a prior 240-hour practicum in the Development department and position as Site Monitor for the Pre-Professional Program, which provided hands-on experience. The thesis will show a working knowledge of the organization, reflection on its practices, and a look towards the future.

A Report On An Internship With The Wall Street Zhongwen, Jiayin Guo

Arts Administration Master's Reports (1984-2016)

The following internship report is based on my experience as administrative assistant to the Principal of Wall Street Zhongwen (hereinafter referred to as “WSZ”) during the spring semester of 2013. Wall Street Zhongwen is a Chinese-language school with a multifaceted mission and staff. It is based in the Financial District of New York City in the heart of Wall Street culture.

I will focus on a critical, descriptive analysis of the organization with a S.W.O.T analysis, best practices of educational institutions comparisons, and recommendations for the development of Wall Street Zhongwen.

Mobile Phones And Growth Of Microenterprises: A Case Study Of Safaricom’S “Zidisha Biashara” Customers, Geoffrey Wandeto Mwangi, Freddie R. Acosta

DLSU Business & Economics Review

The study aimed at establishing the impacts of mobile phones usage on the growth of microenterprises. The study focused on mobile phones (and not telephony or telecommunications in general) because of the speedy adoption and widespread usage of mobile phones witnessed in Kenya over the last 10 years. The objectives of the study were based on three indicators of business growth, that is, income, profitability (cost management), and customer base. The study adopted a descriptive design method since it aimed at discovering and describing if a relationship exists between the variables. The study purposively sampled 100 microenterprises from Safaricom’s Zidisha …

Relevance And Key Factors Of “Demand-Side Oriented Market” Analysis To Define Indonesia’S Retail Industry, Sih Yuliana Wahyuningtyas S.H. M.Hum, A.Y. Agung Nugroho, Mm

Business Review

The remarkable development of the Indonesia’s retail industry draws attention due to its complexities with regard to the business characteristics and the relation between retailers as well as between retailers and suppliers. This brings competition law into relevance, which one of the fundamental elements for the analysis is the definition of relevant market, in terms of both product and geographical market. The study focuses on the relevance of “demand-side oriented market” analysis with the application of cross shopping approach to define Indonesia’s retail industry taking both the development and formats of retail into consideration. The focal point of this study …

Three Essays On Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Kaveh Moghaddam

Theses and Dissertations in Business Administration

Despite the saliency of immigrant entrepreneurship, our understanding of the unique challenges of start-up processes confronting immigrant entrepreneurs is quite limited. While entrepreneurship as a field of study is growing rapidly, it is criticized for the lack of commonly accepted and well developed research paradigms. To address this theoretical gap in the entrepreneurship literature in general and in the immigrant entrepreneurship research in particular this dissertation addresses the following overarching question in a three essay format: What are the start-up processes and outcomes associated with immigrant entrepreneurship? The first essay suggests a theoretical framework which exhibits how the social embeddedness …

When A Subsidiary Loses Its Status: Towards An Identification-Based Model Of Host Country Nationals' Willingness To Share Knowledge With Expatriates, Sachiko Yamao, Toru Yoshikawa

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We theorize how a foreign subsidiary’s loss of its status relative to other units of the same multinational corporation (MNC) will influence host country national (HCN) managers’ dual organizational identification and their willingness to share knowledge with expatriate managers. In particular, we examine the two contingent scenarios of subsidiary status loss (i.e., the parent-driven and subsidiary-engaged) that may lead HCN managers to develop different organizational identification (i.e., MNC-oriented and subsidiary-oriented). We then propose that different organizational identification of HCN managers will lead them to develop varying levels of willingness to share knowledge with expatriates. We further propose that HCN managers’ …

Corporate Elite Networks And Their Effects On Board Performance, Daniel Braun, Jana Oehmichen, Michael Wolff, Toru Yoshikawa

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

The Intellectual And Curricular Spaces Of Knowledge Studies, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

The words “knowledge” and “information” are sometimes used interchangeably, but the connection between them is complex and problematic. Knowledge is a mental product gained from engaging with information. All educational subjects, scholarly disciplines, occupations, and activities produce knowledge as well as information. Because libraries encompass potentially all subjects, professional vision in librarianship would benefit from an examination of knowledge that transcends the methods and topical concerns of individual disciplines. An interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) framework in which to view knowledge was pioneered in the post-Sputnik age by Fritz Machlup and Michael Polanyi. Their insights have stimulated scholars to develop research, publications, …

2013-06-06, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents meeting of June 6, 2013 which includes the meeting minutes of March 14, 2013.

Building Co-Operation Between Tourism And Culture In The West Of Ireland, Bernadette Quinn, Ziene Mottiar, Theresa Ryan

Conference papers

Redressing regional imbalance is now a key challenge in Ireland. Dublin is the destination of choice for more than two fifths of the market and the number of visitors holidaying outside of the Dublin region has declined significantly between 2003 and 2009. One way of redressing regional imbalance is to harness the tourism potential of the cultural sector. Spread throughout the regions is a wealth of cultural activity and a well developed infrastructure of venues staging vibrant arts activity of international calibre, be it in visual arts, film, literature or the performing arts. This activity engages 2.3 million Irish citizens …

The Applicability Of Institutional Dynamics Framework For A Model For Enterprise Growth In Grenada And The Dominican Republic: A Preliminary Exploration, Reccia N. Charles, Nazly N. Nardi, Ruth Clarke

HCBE Faculty Presentations

Generally governments in developing economies work towards encouraging enterprise growth as the engine to increase national wealth and higher standards of living. In terms of the form of enterprise, some countries favor public or public-private partnerships, while others favor private enterprise primarily. The smaller the economy the more likely it is that the government will be involved in promoting the growth of enterprises.This paper examines the role of institutional dynamics in supporting or limiting enterprise growth in Grenada and the Dominican Republic. The interplay of the three parts of the institutional profile, regulatory, cognitive and normative, will be influenced in …

Inferring Reporting-Related Biases In Hedge Fund Databases From Hedge Fund Equity Holdings, Vikas Agarwal, Vyacheslav Fos, Wei Jiang

Research Collection BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre

This paper formally analyzes the biases related to self-reporting in hedge fund databases by matching the quarterly equity holdings of a complete list of 13F-filing hedge fund companies to the union of five major commercial databases of self-reporting hedge funds between 1980 and 2008. We find that funds initiate self-reporting after positive abnormal returns that do not persist into the reporting period. Termination of self-reporting is followed by both return deterioration and outflows from the funds. The propensity to self-report is consistent with the trade-offs between the benefits (e.g., access to prospective investors) and costs (e.g., partial loss of trading …

Perceptions And Motivations For Travel To California's Central Coast, Lisa Baird

Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration

California and its Central Coast is an extremely popular destination for international and non-Californian U.S. travelers. The purpose of this study was to determine the motivations and perceptions of international and non-Californian residents who may travel to the Central Coast of California. Data were collected through an online questionnaire. One hundred and seventeen subjects participated in this study. Non-Californian and international tourists are motivated to travel to the Central Coast to visit friends and family, and to discover and learn about an unknown destination. Perceived destination is a large reason why people choose to travel to California and the Central …

Simulations: Collaborative Experiential Learning, Jay Finkelstein, Karl Okomoto

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Tips For The Pracitioner Seeking To Return To The Academy, Kevin P. Conboy

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

Recently, I made the work status change from practicing corporate attorney (thirty years’ worth) to full-time law professor. This article offers a series of tips for practitioners considering such a transition based on my experiences, in the hope that the lessons I learned (some of them painfully) can ease your pain, or dissuade you from such foolishness. While my target audience is the “seasoned” practitioner (older, that is, not to put too fine a point on it), these tips should be useful or of interest to more junior practicing lawyers looking to make a move to teaching. And I hope …

Responsiveness In The Supply Chain: A Possible Decision-Driver For Location Of New Subsidiaries?, Ronald Tavares, Cristiane Biazzin Villar, Jane Siegler

Scholarship and Professional Work - Business

This study explores possible new drivers that may be integrated into the decision-making models for establishing the location of subsidiaries. More precisely, it seeks to answer the following research question: "Does the degree of responsiveness in the supply chain influence decisions regarding decisions the location of multinational subsidiaries?" Based on the theoretical approaches of the Uppsala School, the Eclectic and RBV, this research in the case of a large multinational agribusiness sector, aiming to explore the recent decision-drivers for the location of new subsidiaries and the influence of the current competitive market in this context.

2013 June, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for June of 2013.

Cameo: A Middleware For Mobile Advertisement Delivery, Azeem J. Khan, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Dongsu Han, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Srinivasan Seshan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Advertisements are the de-facto currency of the Internet with many popular applications (e.g. Angry Birds) and online services (e.g., YouTube) relying on advertisement generated revenue. However, the current economic models and mechanisms for mobile advertising are fundamentally not sustainable and far from ideal. In particular, as we show, applications which use mobile advertising are capable of using significant amounts of a mobile users' critical resources without being controlled or held accountable. This paper seeks to redress this situation by enabling advertisement supported applications to become significantly more "user-friendly". To this end, we present the design and implementation of CAMEO, a …

Designing Trustworthy Organizations, Robert F. Hurley, Nicole Gillespie, Donald L. Ferrin, Graham Dietz

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Companies often blame trust violations on ‘rogue employees', but these violations are predictable in organizations that allow dysfunctional, conflicting or incongruent activities to take root.