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Transforming Wealth Management Through Technology, Vineet Malhotra Nov 2014

Transforming Wealth Management Through Technology, Vineet Malhotra

Asian Management Insights

Wealth managers can see the potential benefits of rapidly evolving mobile technology and are taking steps to significantly enhance interaction with their clients and transform the way information is presented and shared.


Leveraging Market-Based Assets To De-Risk The Firm's Operations, Rajendra Kumar Srivastava Nov 2014

Leveraging Market-Based Assets To De-Risk The Firm's Operations, Rajendra Kumar Srivastava

Asian Management Insights

In times of uncertainty and volatility,the active management of marketbasedassets, such as brands andchannel relationships, take on a newsignificance in managing risk.


Geography Of Firms And Propagation Of Local Economic Shocks, Gennaro Bernile, George Korniotis, Alok Kumar Nov 2014

Geography Of Firms And Propagation Of Local Economic Shocks, Gennaro Bernile, George Korniotis, Alok Kumar

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study shows that the geographical distribution of publicly-traded firms generates an economic network that links the economic environments of all U.S. states. Using a novel measure of economic linkages among publicly-traded firms, we build a state-level network of economic connections and show that local economic shocks propagate through this geographical network. Specifically, for each state, we identify U.S. states that are economically relevant for firms headquartered in that state and show that economic conditions in economically relevant states predict the economic environment in the headquarter state. These results do not merely reflect the impact of omitted common national shocks. …


Moving Forward With Echoes From The Past, Singapore Management University Sep 2014

Moving Forward With Echoes From The Past, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

A company’s history can build a corporate identity and branding, as well as overcome a crisis


Duopolistic Competition Under Risk Aversion And Uncertainty, Michail Chronopoulos, Bert De Reyck, Afzal Siddiqui Jul 2014

Duopolistic Competition Under Risk Aversion And Uncertainty, Michail Chronopoulos, Bert De Reyck, Afzal Siddiqui

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

A monopolist typically defers entry into an industry as both price uncertainty and the level of risk aversion increase. By contrast, the presence of a rival typically hastens entry under risk neutrality. Here, we examine these two opposing effects in a duopoly setting. We demonstrate that the value of a firm and its entry decision behave differently with risk aversion and uncertainty depending on the type of competition. Interestingly, if the leader’s role is defined endogenously, then higher uncertainty makes her relatively better off, whereas with the roles exogenously defined, the impact of uncertainty is ambiguous.


Surviving Beyond A Third Generation, Andreas Raharso May 2014

Surviving Beyond A Third Generation, Andreas Raharso

Asian Management Insights

Family-owned businesses’ continued survival is unsure. Research indicates the most likely cause is their pursuit of professionalisation.


Sourcing Hub, Anupam Agrawal, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Arnoud De Meyer May 2014

Sourcing Hub, Anupam Agrawal, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Arnoud De Meyer

Asian Management Insights

Managing the suppliers of your suppliers may be a lot of work, but there is plenty of value in unlocking the supply chain.


Protecting Minority Shareowners’ Interests, Singapore Management University Apr 2014

Protecting Minority Shareowners’ Interests, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Understand what rights you are giving away when approving a general mandate request.


A Matter Of Trust, Singapore Management University Apr 2014

A Matter Of Trust, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Business is trusted more than government, but both need the other to become more trustworthy.


Making Money From Mobile Phone Service At Sea, Singapore Management University Apr 2014

Making Money From Mobile Phone Service At Sea, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

It takes expertise and talent to build a new business; it takes capital and speed to maximise returns.


Strategic Use Of Analytics Can Boost Business, Singapore Management University Mar 2014

Strategic Use Of Analytics Can Boost Business, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

The key lies not in the quantity of data used but in using the right data and doing a trial run.


Big Pharma Is Hurt, Singapore Management University Mar 2014

Big Pharma Is Hurt, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Cutting down R&D inefficiency and restoring the trust of investors and consumers are key to curing the industry’s ills.


Leading With Character, Singapore Management University Mar 2014

Leading With Character, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Procter & Gamble’s former CEO speaks about taking responsibility and acting quickly to succeed.


An Indian Healthcare Company’S Foray Onto The World Stage, Singapore Management University Feb 2014

An Indian Healthcare Company’S Foray Onto The World Stage, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Fortis Healthcare expanded from one hospital to over 70 in a dozen years. It is now consolidating to focus on what it does best: saving lives.


Managers Need To Be Less Controlling, Singapore Management University Feb 2014

Managers Need To Be Less Controlling, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Being so can motivate employees better than material incentives.


Wired And Ready For Action, Singapore Management University Jan 2014

Wired And Ready For Action, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Digital connectivity has changed the business model and will allow current vertical industries to hitch their value propositions and revenue streams to other firms' offerings.


Tracking-Error Models For Multiple Benchmarks: Theory And Empirical Performance, Yunchao Xu, Zhichao Zheng, Karthik Natarajan, Chung-Piaw Teo Jan 2014

Tracking-Error Models For Multiple Benchmarks: Theory And Empirical Performance, Yunchao Xu, Zhichao Zheng, Karthik Natarajan, Chung-Piaw Teo

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We propose a new multiple-benchmark tracking-error model for portfolio selection problem. The tracking error of a portfolio from a set of benchmark portfolios is defined as the difference between its return and the highest return from the set of benchmarks. We derive closedform solution of our portfolio strategy, whose main component is the sum of the benchmark portfolios weighted by their respective probabilities of attaining the highest return among the portfolios in the benchmark. These probabilities, also known as the persistency values, are less sensitive to estimation errors in the means and covariances. These features help to stabilize the computational …