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1

The Age of Turbulence

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Written by Catherine Tan

alan-greenspanThe Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Alan Greenspan

Location: Business Library

Call no.: HB119.G74A265

Economists cannot avoid being students of human nature, particularly of exuberance and fear. Exuberance is a celebration of life. We have to preceive life as enjoyable to seek to sustain it. Regrettably, a surge of exuberance sometimes also causes people to reach beyond the possible; when reality strikes home, exuberance turns to fear. Fear is an automatic response in all of us to threats to our deepest of all inbred propensities, our will to live. It is also the basis of many of our economic responses, the risk aversion that limits our willingness to invest and to trade, especially far from home, and that, in the extreme, induces us to disengage from markets, precipitating a severe falloff of economic activity.

– excerpt from  The Age of Turbulence.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Jun

29

Online Legal Research

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Written by Han Lee Yen

lexisweb

LexisNexis has introduced a free legal search engine – LexisWeb, available at www.lexisweb.com. Currently in Beta form, LexisWeb allows users to search for legal resources on the Web with content validated by the LexisNexis editorial staff. Content coverage includes:

• Governmental agency information (federal, state, local)
• Informal commentary on legal issues (e.g., blogs specifically for lawyers and legal professionals)
• General Web information about legal topics

Search results will return documents from LexisNexis selected sources available on the Web, as well as LexisNexis Recommended Sources available through Lexis.com. These are categorised automatically and allows users to narrow their search by filtering by Legal Topics, Citations, Legal Terms, Jurisdiction, Practice Area, Content Type, Source or File format.

Those who are interested in doing more in-depth legal research can access Lexis.com or LexisNexis Academic through the library’s subscription to retrieve law reviews, case law, as well as Shepard’s® Citations.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Jun

26

Transparency : How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

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Written by Catherine Tan

transparencyTransparency : how leaders create a culture of candor

Bennis, Warren G.

Location: Business Library

Call no.: HD2741.B472

In this book the first essay explores an urgent dilemma for every contemporary leader: how to create a culture of candor. The second essay - with the provocative title “Speaking Truth to Power” - discusses a prerequisite for transparency and a responsibility we too often fail to fulfill. The final essay explores how digital technology is making the entire world more transparent.

– excerpt from Transparency.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Jun

26

The Clinton charisma : a legacy of leadership

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Written by Catherine Tan

the-clinton-charismaThe Clinton charisma : a legacy of leadership

Phillips, Donald T. (Donald Thomas), 1952-

Location: Business Library

Call no.: E886.2.P558

“We have to learn to talk to each other and to listen to each other, not to talk past each other and to scream to one another.”

-Clinton, speaking at UCLA

May 20, 1994

Listening is important in leadership for three primary reasons:

1. It allows leaders to understand what people in the organization think, feel, and expect.

2. It is an important means of gathering specific information with which to make strategic decisions.

3. It shows interest and caring; it is a way to build trust, relationships, and to connect with people.

Bill Clinton clearly understood the value of listening in leadership, and said as much on several occasions.

– excerpt from The Clinton charisma : a legacy of leadership.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Jun

1

Open Access Repository for Finance

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Written by Balbindar Dhaliwal

The Library at Cornell University opened the Quantitative Finance archive on 8 December 2008.

The seven categories are:

  • Computational Finance with reference to financial markets
  • General Finance with reference to Economics too
  • Portfolio Management
  • Securities Pricing
  • Risk Management
  • Statistical Finance
  • Trading and Market Microstructure

Papers are available from 1997 onwards.

Popularity: 21% [?]

May

13

Corporate Governance in SSRN

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Written by Balbindar Dhaliwal

The Social Science Research Network has a new Corporate Governance Network.

At the moment, the research papers series are the Oxford Internet Institute Research Paper Series and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper Series.  The Subject Matter eJournals provide access to 25 journals (including archives) that can be accessed by an SSRN subscriber.

Subscription is free.  You can search the database by keywords such as Corporate Governance Finance, Corporate Governance Accounting, etc. and by author names.

Popularity: 27% [?]

May

12

Impact of the Financial Crisis on Emerging Countries

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Written by Balbindar Dhaliwal

The Commission on Growth and Develpment conducted a confererence in Harvard University, the USA, on 20 to 21 April on the Financial Crisis and its Impact on Developing Countries’ Growth Strategies and Prospects.  The papers presented and transcripts of the speeches have been put up on the website.

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Popularity: 45% [?]

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