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Haute école de gestion de Genève

Compensation and benefits policy design and implementation : a company’s key to success

Mir, Déborah Isabelle ; Butty, Philippe (Dir.)

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...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Can reputation risk related to Glencore's activities in the DRC be an impediment to making an investment or indeed to sell one's shareholding stake in Glencore ? : Can this reputation risk undermine Glencore's share price and if so to what extent ?

Grosjean, Julien ; Piller, Robert (Dir.)

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...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Carpoolers classification while preserving users privacy

Gülen, Lucas ; Teodoro, Douglas (Dir.)

Mémoire de master : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; MASID 91.

Université de Fribourg

Deep mobile traffic forecast and complementary base station clustering for C-RAN optimization

Chen, Longbiao ; Yang, Dingqi ; Zhang, Daqing ; Wang, Cheng ; Li, Jonathan ; Nguyen, Thi Mai Trang

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...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Disruptive Technology in business innovation : how is the digitalization going to transform jobs in the banking industry in Switzerland?

Stajic, Maja ; Ruiz, Frédéric (Dir.)

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...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Conflicts of interest in initial public offerings

Pratobevera, Giuseppe ; Degeorge, François (Dir.)

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...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Communicating CSR : practices among Switzerland's top 300 companies

Birth, Gregory ; Illia, Laura ; Lurati, Fransceso ; Zamparini, Alessandra

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...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Does volatility pay?

Barone-Adesi, Giovanni

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...

Università della Svizzera italiana

The ecology of risk taking

Degeorge, François ; Moselle, Boaz ; Zeckhauser, Richard

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...