In: Work, Aging and Retirement, 2016, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 73-85
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDEE 406.
Compensation and Benefits (C&B) plays an important role in today’s competitive world whilst aspects relating to employee wellness are also being given increasing consideration by employers. Given the importance of this matter, this thesis explores the elements that need to be considered by Executive and Human Resources Management when designing an effective C&B policy. When well designed, a...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 81.
The research objective of this report is to show the impact of reputation risk linked to Glencore’s activities in the DRC. In order to measure the impact of reputational risk, a focus is made on Glencore’s share price. In the first part of this report, the introduction helps the reader to get important contextual information about Glencore’s background and activities in the DRC. An emphasis...
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Mémoire de master : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; MASID 91.
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In: Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2018, vol. 121, p. 59–69
The increasingly growing data traffic has posed great challenges for mobile operators to increase their data processing capacity, which incurs a significant energy consumption and deployment cost. With the emergence of the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture, the data processing units can now be centralized in data centers and shared among base stations. By mapping a cluster of...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2018 ; TDIBM 46.
Digital transformation has been a popular topic in Swiss banks for many years due to the benefits that it provides to financial institutions, such as improving internal processes and achieving tasks efficiently. Nevertheless, this trend is considerably transforming jobs and the role of the workforce. Switzerland is well-known for its expertise in financial services and its banking industry...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO003.
In my thesis I investigate the conflicts of interests between underwriters, issuers, and investors in initial public offerings (IPOs). I provide empirical evidence that conflicts of interest exist, affect the IPO process, and have real monetary costs for IPO issuers. The novel data, methodologies, and identification strategies used in this thesis allow answering questions so far unexplored by...
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In: Corporate communications : an international journal, 2008, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 182-196
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a picture of the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication among the top 300 companies in Switzerland and to investigate how favorable the cultural context is for this kind of communication. Design/methodology/approach – The investigation of the top 300 companies in Switzerland was conducted using a written survey that...
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An investor with quadratic utility invests amounts changing with his perceptions of risk and expected return in a market with changing risk. Optimal investment policies are derived under several hypotheses for expected returns. These policies are combined in a Bayesian framework to yield a policy that performs better than the ‘buy and hold’ policy in our tests, except in the case of the FTSE...
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In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2004, vol. 28, p. 195-228
We analyze the risk level chosen by agents who have private information regarding their quality. We show that even risk-neutral agents will choose risk strategically to enhance their reputation in the market, and that such choices will be influenced by the mix of other agents’ types. Assuming that the market has no strong prior about whether the agents are good or bad, good agents will choose...
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