In a recent poll conducted by research firm Vistage, confidence levels about the future of the economy among chief executives of small and medium companies have hit an all-time low. Conversely most chief executives of large corporations remain confident despite increasing signs of an economic downturn, citing increased exports and a weak dollar as primary reasons. My final paper in Modeling & Forecasting seeks to identify whether these differences in confidence are really justified or in other words: Will large companies in fact do better over the next months than small or medium companies and – if so - due to what factors?
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Posted by Ulf
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:38:52 GMT
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This is the final paper for my MBA course "Management Control Systems". Everyone developed a Balanced Scorecard (a popular tool for measuring success in reaching strategic objectives) for a company of his/her choice - based solely on publicly available information (e.g. annual report, investor presentations). I picked Adobe Systems. Inc.
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Posted by Ulf
Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:06:55 GMT
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Yet another quick study guide I wrote in my undergraduate. This one is on monetary policy and only available in German at the time. As you can guess from the title I had a lot less time for this than for the statistics guide ;-)
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Posted by Ulf
Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:35:19 GMT
Posted in Guides | Tags Banking, Economics, Finance, Monetary, Policy | no comments
A paper written by my classmate Björn Grünberg and me on topics in international finance, namely financing of large multi-national projects (Björn) and country risks (me). As everything from my undergraduate it is available in German only.
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Posted by Ulf
Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:31:10 GMT
Posted in Papers | Tags Finance, International, Management, Risk | no comments