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Economics top
- Behavioural economics - Kinder, Gentler Paternalism (PDF)
- N. Gregory Mankiw - Fundamentals
- Complementary currencies
- Financial crisis
- Understanding the bad bank (McK)
- Keynes vs Hayek Link
Financial issues top
- project and company valuation
- Mathematical issues for various methods
- investment appraisal
- cost of finance
- NPV - net present value and DCF - discounted cash flow
- Company valuation
- Problems applying NPV in developing countries
- Critique on resource allocation models - other motives than NPV
- In project management
- IRR - Internal Rate of Return
- APV - Adjusted Present value
- As alternative to shortcomings of NPV
- TPV - total present value - including abandon value
- Payback
- In projects
- details in projects
- Cost effectiveness
- Importance of cash flow in projects - alternative views on performance - also in NPF ogs.
- Project appraisal - CAPEX (B821)
- EVA - economic value added
- Image/graphic how EVA is calculated
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Using it as a management control system
- Real options
- lso context with BCG matrix
- article about real options
- How to value an MNC - international context of valuation - problem of remittability
- evaluation in general and in a wider context
- Planning a way out of financial crisis
- Pricing
- Transfer pricing
- Pricing strategies in relation to marketing and strategy
- Target costing and lifcycle finance
- Life cycle costing and life cycle finance in context of target costing - also contrast to cost plus pricing method
- Costing
- cost of finance
- generally
- valuation of bonds
- valuation of options
- WACC
- estimating cost of capital in context of FDI - considerations of tax and foreign exchange
- Contribution costing
- Variance analysis
- Different cost from different methods
- Activity based costing
- Target costing and lifcycle finance
- life cycle costing and life cycle finance in context of target costing - also contrast to cost plus pricing method
- Risk
- various articles
- Six Ways Companies Mismanage Risk (HBR)
- HBR (the-sis-mistakes-executives-make-risk-management)
- Risk assessment and interest rate risk - incl. duration
- Techniques for exposure management
- Hedging
- Swaps
- Futures
- FX risk
- Options
- Gap charts
- VAR ????????? Value at Risk
- Netting, pooling and other methods to reduce transaction cost and FX risk
- Credit risk, credit lines, credit risk management
- Liquidity risk
- Operational risk
- Financial risk - templates and policies for practice
- Managing maturity profile of debt portfolio
- Monte Carlo simulation
- scenario analysis
- Securisation - asset backed securities - special purpose entities, SPE, SPV
- Country risk
- Euromoney and Coface
- country risk and WACC problems
- Risk in FDI - PPP (purchasing power parity), spot rates, types of risk
- Foreign Exchange and Contingent Risk incl. hedging
- Risk form international activities
- Government actions and counter party risk
- Risk in project management
- Risk in large projects (MNCs, project finance etc.)
- Reporting, statements and ratios
- Interpretation of financial statements - ROI, ROCE, NFP, public sector, cash flow, ratios, working capital, financial structure
- construction of financial statements
- balance sheet
- income statement
- cash-flow statement
- cash flow incl. forecasting, ratios, assessing tading partners, company valuation etc.
- accounting and accountability in the light of change projects
- IFRS
- how regulation evolves
- differences between countries and its economic context
- harmonisation and convergences - pro and con and institutions involved
- IASCF and other institutions - due process, framework, conflicts, agenda
- agency theory and the regulation of financial markets, EMH
- earnings management
- issues in financial statement analysis
- creative accounting
- GAAP differences and effect they may have
- reporting electronically
- consolidation and SPE, SPV
- Goodwill and impairment
- segmental reporting
- FX and inflation
- accounting for stock options
- assets held for sale and discontinued operations
- intangible assets
- revenue recognition
- comprehensive income
- boundaries of financial reporting
- fair value
- HBR (2009-11-21-is-it-fair-to-blame-fair-value-accounting-for-the-financial-crisis.pdf)
- financialinstruments
- pension accounting
- Tax
- corporate taxation in comparative national context
- types of tax
- key concepts in international taxation
- double tax agreements
- tax planning
- in context of FDI - also branch vs. subsidiary decisions
- limitations to tax planning - transfrer pricing and thin capitalisation
- Financial markets
- types of securities, sizes and market participants - see
- pension funds - types and problems
- regulation of financial markets and institutions
- financialisation
- coupon pool capitalism
- dividend policy (B821)
- See also CFA material - here overview page (link)
- Capital structure
- country risk and WACC problems (B854 - Unit 1)
- managing the debt portfoolio (see here)
- thin capitalisation in international context
- optimal capital structure
- CAPM revised
- Economics
- balance of payments
- PPP - purchasing power parity
- Fisher effect
- bodies and organisations governing international trade
- various institutions
- monetary unions
- EU and Latin America, pro and contra UK using Euro
- See also book Mankiw (link) and ppt files in subfolders
Performance measurement top
- Articles
- HBR (2009-11-21-the-five-traps-of-performance-measurement.pdf)
- OKRs Vs. KPIs: Breaking Down The Difference Read...
- Objectives & Key Results (OKRs): The Strategist?????????s Guide Read...
- Balanced scorecard (B700 - B1 - U7)
- Benchmarking see here (link)
- Evaluation (B700 - B1 - U17)
- evaluation of project in project management (B700-B3-U6)
- B830 - evaluation and measurement (link)
- internal and external perspectives including corporate governance (B821)
Operational issues top
- Operations, transformation model, feedback, problems (B700 - Block 1 - Unit 3)
- contribution of operations to organisational competitiveness
- sources of competittive advantage, quality gaps, lean management andother (B700 -B1-U4)
- Operational planning - planning, control, strategy, capacity (B700 - B1 - U16)
- limitations of strategic planning and business plans (PDF, PDF)
- limits of standardisation etc
- whan process should be art, not science - HBR article (link)
- Benchmarking (B700 - B1 - U17)
- New product development - approaches and process (B700 B2 - U8), (B700 - B2- U9)
- inovation (B700 - B2 - U10)
- process types and service process types (B700 - B2- U9)
- production layouts (B700 - B2- U9)
- choosing technology for production (B700 - B2- U9)
- Service operations (B700 - B2 - U13)
- Supply chain management (B700 - B2 - U16)
- Improving operations including service - TIJ, TQM, trade-offs, continuous and radical (B700-B2-U17)
- fads fashion and failure of management approaches (B700-B3-U14)
- HBR (2009-11-21-a-practical-guide-to-combining-products-and-services.pdf)
Human and cultural issues, motivation, teams, empowerment top
- various articles
- who can help the CEO (HBR)
- Talent Management (HBR)
- motivation
- problems applying real options (B854 - Unit 5)
- commitment (B700 - B1 - U12)
- career planning and people development
- making mobility matter - career paths within an organisation (HBR)
- all about empowerment (B700 - B2 - U11)
- limits of payment as incentive - ?????????when economic incentives backfire - HBR?????????
- job design (B700 - B2- U9)
- innovation - knowledge brokers, barriers, requirements for cerativity (B700 - B2 - U10)
- managing innovation (B830-link)
- iconoclasts - from perception to imagination (HBR)
- human elements of operations design - taylorism, socio-technical systems approach (B700 - B2- U9)
- new patterns of working (B700-B3-U10)
- Teams
- work groups, teams, committees - reasons, composition, problems (B700 - B2 - U12)
- team structure when implementing target costing (B854 - Unit 8)
- managing innovation - approaches including Japanese approaches (B700 B2 - U8)
- The innovator's DNA (HBR)
- Open innovation approach (HBR)
- gap analysis (B700 B2 - U8)
- new product development (B700 - B2- U9)
- cultural differences
- in context of decision which approch to plan FDI (B854 - Unit 5)
- in FDI and MNCs
- Hofstede, Lachman, Snodegass, williamson (B854 - Unit 7)
- national vs. organisational culture (B820)
- international cultural issues (B820)
- culutral issues in change management (B700-B3-U14)
- changing culture and commitment planning (B700-B3-U14)
- changing culture - link to own research (Link)
- The employment contract
- the psychological contract (B700 - B1 - U12)
- HR management
- framework (B700 - B1 - U5)
- evaluation (B700 - B1 - U5)
- evaluation of projects in project management (B700-B3-U6)
- HRM and organisational goals (B700 - B1 - U5)
- HRM and environment (B700 - B1 - U5)
- performance management and evaluation, SMART objective, performance appraisal... (B700 - B1 - U12) and (B700 - B1 - U13)
- HBR (2009-11-21-the-five-traps-of-performance-measurement.pdf)
- B830 - evaluation and measurement (link)
- HR management in context of change (B700-B3-U10)
- see also kindle books about HR
- Coaching (link to own research)
- knowledge, creativity and learning
- see Nonaka & Takeuchi knowledge sharing - B830 - (pdf) and here (pdf) and here (pdf)
- see also my book of Kreativit?????????tstechniken
- see also creativity course (B822 block1, block2, block3, techniques)
- organisational structure, knowledge flows and innovation (B854 - Unit 7)
- McK article: PDF 2015-08-12-Organizational-learning-MCK
- control (see also here)
- Management control - structures and processes (B700 - B1 - U7)
- phases of mangement control and classification of control activities (B700 - B1 - U10)
- balanced scorecard (B700 - B1 - U7)
- pro and con (B854 - Unit 7)
- French tableau du bord (B854 - Unit 7)
- types of control (B700 - B2 - U4)
- behavioural dimension (B700 - B2 - U4)
- design of control systems (B700 - B2 - U4)
- European quality award (B700 - B2 - U1)
- work mesurement (B700 - B2- U9)
- strategy and management control (B854 - Unit 7)
- management control in developing countries (B854 - Unit 7)
- management control processes - double loop, western vs. Japanese approach (B700 - B2 - U1)
- EFQM business excellence model (B700 - B2 - U1)
- Articles
- OKRs Vs. KPIs: Breaking Down The Difference Read...
- Objectives & Key Results (OKRs): The Strategist?????????s Guide Read...
- roles and responsibilities
- the CFO
- see (B854 - Unit 4)
- the role of the CFO in strategy (B854 - Unit 7)
- the role of the CFO in the different stages of the orgnisation life cycle and in selection of appropriate control systems (B854 - Unit 8)
- the group financial controller
- the treasurer
- the CEO
- Various articles
- What makes a CEO exceptional? Link
Making decisions (link)
Corporate Governance - see here (link)
- Ethics and CSR (link)
Leadership (B700-B2-U19) - dealing with senior management (B700-B3-U4)
- tipping point leadership (B820)
- B830 (link)
- What makes a leader? (HBR)
the Project manager and his tasks, skills, roles (B700-B3-U4) - self development and lessons learned from a project (B700-B3-U6)
Stakeholders and politics in project management (B700-B3-U4) - power and politics (link)
project management - teams (B700-B3-U4)
playing the political game - and resistance to change (B700-B3-U16)
power and politics (link)
Cross boundary management (link)
Historical issues / time effects top
- life cycle of product
- life cycle costing and life cycle finance in context of target costing (B854 - Unit 8)
- life cycle of company
- source of finance and cost of capital (B854 - Uni 2)
- the life-cycle of the organisation as a whole and control systems used in different stages of the life cycle (B854 - Unit 8)
International issues top
- cultural (B820)
- international strategy (B820)
- comparative advantages and government actions
- (B854 - Unit 1)
- Foreign direct investments and the multinational. Uppsala model and other.
- (B854 - Unit 1)
- WACC (B854 - Unit 5)
- see also in marketing course(B825)
- Transfer pricing
- (B854 - Unit 1)
- (B700 - B1 - U11)
- globalisation
- as reason for change management (B700-B3-U9)
Marketing issues top
- various articles
- what do customers really want - Maximum difference scaling - MaxDiff (HBR)
- customer feedback loop (HBR)
- how to market in a downturn - new emerging market segments in the crisis (HBR)
- HBR: Should you launch a fighter brand?
- Marketing malpractice - cause and cure (HBR)
- Marketing myopia - what business are you in? (railroad business vs. transport, oil industry..) (HBR)
- how to become market leader
- Drucker 5 questions
- Treacy and Wiersema
- value driven operations model
- Managing a market-led organisation
- how to react in a crisis
- new market segments in crisis - HBR (link) - In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers
- All about Relationship marketing including performance measurement
- HBR (2009-11-21-the-five-traps-of-performance-measurement.pdf)
- Marketing communication - types, consumer decision process, communication mix (B700 - B2 - U15)
- Market choices
- strategic pathway
- basic customer buying ehaviour
- segmentation
- targeting
- Complexity
- Scenarios
- Marketing and market research
- Relationships
- Branding
- Marketing communication
- International issues
- Service marketing
- HBR (2009-11-21-a-practical-guide-to-combining-products-and-services.pdf)
- e-marketing
- Building a value proposition - mission, differentiation, assets, brands, channels, relationships
- Marketing and strategy, pricing and distribution
Strategic issues top
- various articles
- are great companies just lucky? (HBR)
- what do customers really want - Maximum difference scaling - MaxDiff (HBR)
- Aldi (HBR)
- how to market in a downturn - new emerging market segments in the crisis (HBR)
- value for money strategies - Lessons Western businesses must learn from emerging-market companies to succeed?????????at home and abroad (HBR link)
- HBR (2009-11-21-how-ge-is-disrupting-itself.pdf)
- Blue Ocean Strategy (PDF)
- Contribution revolution - Letting Volunteers Build Your Business (pdf)
- Leading through uncertainty (McK)
- Hidden flaws in strategy - insights form behavioural economics (McK)
- Making the most of uncertainty - shape or adapt... (McK)
- what is strategy?
- overview of strategy - two approaches - external, internal, capabilities
- External environment
- porter 5 forces in relation to accounting data
- Capabilities
- Stakeholders, Purpose and Responsibility
- stakeholders and greening - HBR article about Petrobras - HBR Link
- Competitive and corporate strategy (strategic planning process, porter generic strategies, Ansoff matrix, diversification, horizontal and vertical integration, M&A)
- testing and evaluating strategic options
- co-operative strategies
- M&A - mergers and acquisitions
- merger waves
- merger - partnering approach by emerging markets (HBR)
- motivation for merger and other available options, critics
- ethical problems and issues in context of corporate governance
- transaction cost theory
- in context of corporate governance
- Strategy implementation
- organisational structure
- structure follows strategy?
- control systems
- strategy and management control
- culture
- change process
- International and cross-cultural strategy
- globalisation
- regionalisation
- why internationalize
- types of international strategy
- see also in marketing course
- network organisations
- International issues - strategic and marketing
- The dynamics of strategy
- why strategy matters
- how strategies go wrong
- the paradoxes
- control and chaos
- stability and innovation
- Innovation, position drift, basic strategic approaches
- gap analysis
- New product development - approaches and process
- innovation
- articles on innovation
- (HBR - innovator's DNA)
- (HBR - open innovation approach)
- Outsourcing - Variance analysis, trasfer pricing, outsourcing
- competitive advantage
- FDI and multinationals see here (link)
- Strategy and marketing, distribution and pricing (link)
- the role of the CFO in strategy
- comparative advantages (see here link)
- critique on resource allocation models - other motives than NPV
Structural issues top
- Various articles:
- HBR (2009-11-21-how-ge-is-disrupting-itself.pdf)
- organisational structure
- organisational structures and 9 design tests (B854 - Unit 7)
- knowledge flows and innovation (B854 - Unit 7)
- innovation
- approaches to innovation (B700 - B2 - U10)
- knowledge brokering (B700 - B2 - U10)
- requirements for creativity (B700 - B2 - U10)
- structure and control systems of R&D (B854 - Unit 8)
- Service operations - back and front office issues (B700 - B2 - U13)
- HBR (2009-11-21-a-practical-guide-to-combining-products-and-services.pdf)
- control systems (see also here)
- different organisations need different control systems - how to decide which control system is best (B854 - Unit 7)
- different control systems in different stages of the life cycle of the organisation (B854 - Unit 8)
- balanced scorecard
- pro and con (B854 - Unit 7)
- (B700 - B1 - U7)
- French tableau du bord
- characteristics (B854 - Unit 7)
- value based control systems
- corporate governance
- all about corporate governance including historical context (B854 - Unit 9)
- all about corporate governance (B853)
- corporate governance and performance measurement (B821)
- HBR (2009-11-21-the-five-traps-of-performance-measurement.pdf)
- Business process re-engineering (B700-B3-U10)
Industries top
- the car industry
- all about car industry, financialisation, coupon pool capitalism and historical aspects (B854 - Unit 10)
Information top
- Information management (B700 - B1 - U8)
- Information requirements, types and assessment of information (B700 - B1 - U9)
- knowledge management (B700-B3-U10)
Project management top
- what is a project (B700-B3-U1)
- boundaries (B700-B3-U1)
- will it work - feasibility, benefit, risk, contingency (B700-B3-U1)
- project brief (B700-B3-U1)
- project life-cycle (B700-B3-U2)
- classic 6-stage model (B700-B3-U2)
- planning (B700-B3-U2)
- limitations of strategic planning and business plans (PDF, PDF)
- cost and revenues (B700-B3-U2)
- financial performance and risk (B700-B3-U3)
- HBR (the-sis-mistakes-executives-make-risk-management)
- the project manager and its skills, tasks and roles (B700-B3-U4)
- stakeholders
- (B700-B3-U4)
- (B820-Strategy)
- politics (B700-B3-U4)
- making it happen - communication, meetings, conflict and problem solving (B700-B3-U5)
- hand over of project (B700-B3-U6)
- evaluation of project (B700-B3-U6)
- B830 - evaluation and measurement (link)
- The PMI book
- overview as a figure (PDF, PNG, HTML)
- pdf all (link)
- pdf table of contents (link)
- pdf tables and figures (link)
- html all (link)
- html extract (link)
- Chapters of book
- 1 (Chapter 1)
- 2 (Chapter 2)
- 3 (Chapter 3)
- 4 (Chapter 4)
- 5 (Chapter 5)
- 6 (Chapter 6)
- 7 (Chapter 7)
- 8 (Chapter 8)
- 9 (Chapter 9)
- 10 (Chapter 10)
- 11 (Chapter 11)
- 12 (Chapter 12)
Change management top
- Conflicts (HBR - when to pick up a fight)
- why change needed (B700-B3-U9)
- managing strategic change (B820)
- tipping point leadership (B820)
- globalisation (B700-B3-U9)
- new technology as reason for change (B700-B3-U9)
- approaches to change (organisation, people, process) (B700-B3-U10)
- Business process re-engineering (B700-B3-U10)
- Metaphors and frames (B700-B3-U11)
- the change kaleidoscope- context, design choices, strategies to approach change (B700-B3-U12)
- assumptions and the six-step model of change (B700-B3-U13)
- why change projects fail (B700-B3-U13)
- fads fashion and failure of management approaches (B700-B3-U14)
- managing the transition (B700-B3-U14)
- accounting for change (B700-B3-U15)
- playing the political game - and resistance to change (B700-B3-U16)
- making decisions (link)
Famous scientists top
- Peter Drucker
- HBR (what would peter say)
- HBR (why read peter drucker)
- HBR (what business can learn form nonprofits)
- Michael Porter
- Grant
- Mintzberg
- Prahaldas (HBR Jan/Feb 2010)
- Niclas Berggruen (pdf)
- General issues - (The managers good study guide (PDF 14 MB))
- Bad bank (McK)
- Auctions vs. negotiating (HBR - A Deal Maker?????????s Guide)
- Increasing true urgency - not lengthy reports... aim for the heart instead (HBR)
- Financial Modelling - book (PDF)
Mathematics top
- sampling (pdf vital statistics)
- correlation and other relationships (pdf vital statistics)
- options pricing (pdf vital statistics)
- Practical modern statistics - M249
- Into (pdf)
- Book 1 (pdf) Medical Statistics
- Book 2 (pdf) Time series
- Book 3 (pdf) Multivariate analysis
- Book 4 (pdf) Bayesian statistics
- Review (pdf) Statistical perspectives on climate change
- Applications of probability - M343
- See also CFA material - here overview page (link)
Management and Learning - Theory, Practice, Evidence top
- B830 - resource overview (html)
- Self-management
- how to get the work done (HBR)
Digital Transformation top
- Building data-driven culture: An interview with ShopRunner CEO Sam Yagan (McKinsey Quarterly) link
- Why data culture matters (McKinsey Quarterly) link
- Digital transformation: Improving the odds of success (McKinsey Quarterly) link
- How top companies excel with digital and analytics (McKinsey Quarterly) link
- AI adoption advances, but foundational barriers remain (McKinsey Quarterly) link
- Getting to scale with artificial intelligence link
Controlling Tools top
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