Finance & Investing

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1.	A Billion Here, A Trillion There: Calculating the Cost of Wall Street's Rescue By Knowledge@Wharton Dec 30, 2008 How will the U.S. pay for its plans to prop up the financial sector?
2.	An Ideal Marketplace: For-profit Businesses Helping, Not Exploiting, the Poor By Knowledge@Wharton Jul 8, 2008 Can a company make money from the work of impoverished people in the developing world without taking advantage of them?
3.	Arbitrage, Hedging, and the Law of One Price By Randall Billingsley Nov 4, 2005 Arbitrage is the process of buying assets in one market and selling them in another to profit from unjustifiable price differences. This violates the expectation that the same product should sell for the same price. Arbitrage offers guaranteed profit with no risk, and therefore undermines the stability and functionality of markets. This chapter explains how these expectations and forces interact, and why arbitrage is such a dangerous thing.
4.	Banking Reform Proposals: Why They Miss the Mark By Knowledge@Wharton Mar 15, 2010 The Obama administration has proposed several reforms aimed at restricting the activities of big banks, but will these proposals lead to a healthier banking system and help prevent future crises?
5.	Business View: Can We Map the Universe Pixel by Pixel and Make Money Doing It? By Laurie Rowell Apr 15, 2005 You're already familiar with the online services that let you use your laptop, cell phone, or other online access to get easy and almost instantaneous free directions. But why are services like this free, anyway? What's the business model? And who's trying to horn in on the action?
6.	CEOs and Market Woes: Is Poor Corporate Governance to Blame? By Knowledge@Wharton Feb 9, 2009 Are the wrong people in charge of top corporations?
7.	Competing in a Flat World: The Orchestration Imperative By Victor K. Fung, William K. Fung, Yoram (Jerry) Wind Nov 9, 2007 Learn how to succeed in this flat world--not just how to build better supply chains, but how to build competencies in network orchestration and change the shape of your thinking, strategies, and organizations to embrace this flatter world.
8.	Economic Outlook for Week of January 24, 2007: Is Iran in Trouble? Revisions to U.S. Economic Growth By Bernard Baumohl Jan 24, 2007 Iran President Ahmadinejad's days may be numbered. Indeed, we could see a new, more moderate and less inflammatory conservative government emerge within the next six months. Such a change, which we have now upgraded to a 70% probability, could bring a tectonic shift in politics for the Persian Gulf region, if not the entire Middle East. What’s behind this assessment? Read on to find out.
9.	ETFs Evolve -- For Better or Worse? By Knowledge@Wharton Apr 28, 2008 Knowledge@Wharton looks at the recent action, and angst, surrounding ETFs.
10.	Finance Shared Services and Outsourcing: Magical, Mythical or Mundane? By IBM Business Consulting Services Aug 26, 2005 Within finance organizations, cost reduction has been a constant focus – inherent in the very nature of the function. But many companies are recasting the role of Finance. They are attempting to transform Finance from a backward-looking, number-crunching organization to one that is future-oriented and focused on providing value through deeper analysis and insight. View entire article in PDF format.
11.	Financing the Future: The Evolution of Finance By Franklin Allen, Glenn Yago Apr 8, 2010 Learn to move beyond the noise and reclaim the concept of financial innovation. Throughout history, advances in financing have expanded opportunities and democratized societies, and their potential is still ready to be grasped today.
12.	Finding Opportunities amid the Wreckage By Knowledge@Wharton Jan 16, 2009 How will the continuing financial turmoil affect one fledgling investment bank's business?
13.	Finding Opportunity in a Bear Market By Knowledge@Wharton Dec 1, 2008 Here are some reasons to be optimistic.
14.	For New Fed Head Bernanke, Inflation Is Key By Knowledge@Wharton Nov 23, 2005 Ben S. Bernanke is a superb choice to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve, but he will have to demonstrate to financial markets that he is as much an anti-inflation hawk as his predecessor, according to Wharton finance professors and private-sector economists. These observers also say that Bernanke will speak more plainly in explaining Fed actions than Greenspan, whose cryptic, oracular comments became his trademark. Finally, Bernanke is likely to establish and publicly disclose the Fed's specific target, or target range, for the inflation rate -- a policy that Greenspan eschewed but one that is becoming more common among central bankers worldwide.
15.	From Great to Lasting—Redefining Success By Stewart Emery, Jerry Porras, Mark Thompson Aug 31, 2007
16.	Gold May Glitter, but It Doesn't Stack up as a Long-term Investment By Knowledge@Wharton Jun 27, 2008 What does gold tell us about the economy's future? Should ordinary investors buy it?
17.	Good Timing: Realizing Value from Investments in Short-Term Labor Scheduling By IBM Business Consulting Services May 26, 2006 In a host of people-intensive industries, such as retail, banking, transportation, government, healthcare and customer service, organizations are looking toward improved workforce management tools and techniques to lower labor costs, increase the productivity of their existing labor assets, and deliver improved customer service. Moreover, the growing complexity of coordinating work activities on a global scale, coupled with the need to tap into changing workforce demographics, has created a greater focus on how organizations allocate their internal resources. At the same time, changes in information technology have enabled organizations to more effectively forecast and schedule their labor force to meet the demand for a company's products and services. These new technologies are helping firms transform what was once considered an art form into a more scientific discipline.
18.	Home Truths About the Housing Market By Knowledge@Wharton Sep 28, 2007 How serious is the subprime mortgage crisis and is there light at the end of the tunnel?
19.	How We Got into the Subprime Lending Mess By Knowledge@Wharton Oct 12, 2007 A look at the evolution of the home-financing market over the past decades.
20.	Improving Our Financial IQs: Why Managing Money Should Be a Lifetime Skill By Knowledge@Wharton Jun 21, 2010 Annamaria Lusardi, an economics professor at Dartmouth, and Michelle Greene, deputy assistant secretary for financial education and financial access at the U.S. Treasury Department, talk about the Financial Literacy Center recently established by Wharton, Dartmouth and the Rand Corporation, including the Center's goals and why individuals need to be more proactive about their financial health.

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