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If your company's reward and recognition program does not boost corporate performance as much as you would like, it may be your own fault. Try focusing on the behaviors you [...]

Estimating value of an income-generating asset or group of assets such as a business requires considering concepts such as the time value of money, risk and required rate of return. [...]

The CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) credential is about to turn 40, and it's more in demand than ever. It was created as a professional certification that would give practicing management [...]

It's 60° under clear blue skies as Al Pearson drives through his pecan orchard. 'I feel really blessed to have this as my office in the harvest season,' Pearson says. [...]

Sam Ewen's firm is called Interference, and that's a pretty good way to describe what he does. In a digital age, Ewen's form of guerrilla marketing manages to break through [...]

Allocating resources to continuation of operations (COOP)--or business continuity--is like paying insurance premiums, devoting resources to cover a rare or never occurring emergency. Obviously, we prefer that such emergencies are [...]

Stable returns for violins have been reported by the Centre for Economic Policy Research to be between 3.5% and 3.97% based on auction sales. Some of the highest-priced violins are from Antonio Stravidari and Giuseppe (del Gesu) Guarneri. Details on investing in top-end violins are discussed.

Store shelves bloated with brands and consumers too busy to consider them make a strong case for structural packaging innovation. But there are many obstacles that may restrict your success. [...]

Purpose--Aims to explain the rationale for producing an issue on the topic of real estate investing and how these articles fit together. Design/methodology/approach--Essay format. Findings--Real estate is probably the largest category of assets for investors and the works in this issue will assist in the decision making processes of real estate investors. Research limitations/implications--Each of these papers covers only a limited topic and more research in the area is needed. Practical implications--These papers could change how assets allocation studies are conducted; allow investors to make superior returns around the turn of the month on real estate investment trusts (REITs); alter the capital structure of REITs; seek out real estate mutual funds with higher management fees (because they were associated with higher returns); invest directly in real estate properties. Keywords Real estate, Assets management, Investment Paper type Viewpoint

The results arrived by CSFB HOLT's cash flow return on investment (CFROI) computation were used to identify top publicly traded airlines. A second test that measured five performance attributes was conducted to confirm the results that found that the top performers of 2005 were the best managed in the industry, spanning a period of fifteen years.

The Uniform Bank Performance Report, which is released quarterly by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, includes information related to a bank's performance compared to its peers, by size. Many [...]

It has been all too easy for CRM pundits and promoters to trumpet the present as an age of true return on investment for CRM, dismissing large investments made in […]

Three model portfolios are presented. The first portfolio consists of stocks with above-average year-ahead price potential. The second portfolio consists of stocks with income and price appreciation potential. The third portfolio consists of stocks that have a long-term price growth potential.

As the global economy has expanded, so have the supply chains employed by companies to source, make and deliver goods at the lowest price in the least amount of time. […]

WITH TECHNOLOGY costs representing more than half of all capital expenditures at many companies, CxOs are pressuring IT managers to more closely measure returns on technology investments. 'For the average […]

Australian companies can achieve higher returns on shareholders' funds through spinning off high-performing business units or divisions. Most of the spin-off companies have outperformed or matched the performance of their parent firms in terms of share price, thus benefiting the parent companies and investors.

Generalized Sharpe Ratio: A Defense Against Sharpened Sharpe Ratios H. Kazemi, M. Mahdavi, and T. Schneeweis Working paper, CISDM, January 2003 The Sharpe ratio originally proposed in an article evaluating [...]

OUR SECURITY information and event management (SIEM) tool has been on the job for nearly four months, and the bill has come due. Not the literal bill; we already paid [...]

Declining interest rates have made a positive impact on the stock market. The potentially higher returns offered by stock and bond mutual funds have shifted funds away from other financial institution deposits. Depositors, however, should realize the merits of deposit products despite the lower returns. Investors in the stock and bond markets are vulnerable to a sudden reversal in the markets, which is possible after several bullish years., The fall in interest rates over the past 18 months has helped to fuel a rally in the stock market. With interest rates at 25-year lows, the allure of prospective [...]

Isn't it time that marketers stop shooting for the average and start maximizing their ROI? To do 50 that would mean no longer targeting segments of customers with the 'winning' [...]

I'M WRITING THIS COLUMN TWO DAYS FOLLOWING the completion of the 2010 NACS annual convention in Atlanta. I'd like to share an observation. There were lots of great educational workshops [...]

The Publishers Association and Booksellers Association remain 'very keen' on a trade-wide marketing campaign despite putting the initiative on 'pause' due to concerns over the costs and effectiveness of the [...]

THIS MAGAZINE'S FEATURE STORY in the June 8 Superbrands issue--'The Evolving CMO'--pointed out the undeniable fact that the chief marketing officer of today is not what he had been just [...]