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September 27, 2011

The Curious Case of Asset Valuation

September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27SEP2011 from http://riskmanagementinsight.com/riskanalysis/?p=641 The whole concept of asset valuation (as it exists for information security) is predicated on the assumption that acquisition cost is a good constituent factor of securi...

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Finance, Globalization
September 27, 2011

IFC's Private Equity Gamble Pays Off

September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27SEP2011 from http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Article/2904773/International-Finance-Co... In the 1990s, IFC, a unit of the World Bank, decided to create and seed private equity funds in developing markets to increase the flow of gr...

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September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Globalization
September 27, 2011

OECD on International Investment

September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27SEP2011 from www.oecd.org/daf/investment OECD aims to enhance the contribution of international investment to growth and sustainable development worldwide by advancing investment policy reform and international co-operation. Access wor...

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September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Globalization
September 27, 2011

OECD on Insurance

September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27SEP2011 from www.oecd.org/daf/insurance OECD work on insurance focuses on the liberalisation of insurance markets, private pensions, private health insurance, governance, financial education, financial management of catastrophes includ...

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September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Favorites in Security and Risk, Security
September 27, 2011

International Gateway for Financial Education

September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27SEP2011 from www.financial-education.org The Gateway serves as global clearinghouse on financial education, providing access to a comprehensive range of information, data, resources, research and news on financial education issues and ...

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September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Globalization
September 27, 2011

Financial Market Trends - OECD Journal

September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27SEP2011 from www.oecd.org/daf/fmt The articles in Financial Market Trends focus on trends and prospects in the international and major domestic financial markets and structural issues and developments in financial markets and the finan...

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September 27, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Globalization
September 26, 2011

M&A Role Reversal

September 26, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 26SEP2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/21528982?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/rolereversal

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September 26, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Globalization
September 26, 2011

Covering Supply Chain Vulnerability

September 26, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 26SEP2011 by Bill MDonough from http://www.lloyds.com/News-and-Insight/News-and-Features/Business-Risk/Busine... An increasing demand for goods, together with 'just in time' production has made supply chains more important than ever... W...

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September 26, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Favorites in Logistics-Transportation, Logistics-Transportation, Security
September 23, 2011

Capital Impact 2011

September 23, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 23SEP2011 fromhttp://www.ftbusiness.com/capitalimpact2011/overview.asp Financial Times Business and the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) present ‘Capital Impact 2011’. Capital – what performance and returns can be expe...

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September 23, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
September 19, 2011

Toward a Measurement Agenda for Innovation

September 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 20SEP2011 from www.oecd.org/innovation/strategy/measuring Forward Towards a Measurement Agenda for Innovation builds on the OECD’s half-century of indicator development and the challenge presented by the broad horizontal focus of the OEC...

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September 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Analytics, Favorites in Analytics, Socio-Technical
September 19, 2011

Measuring Patent Quality and Innovation

September 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 20SEP2011 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiXj02bpL1g&feature=youtu.be The quality of patent filings has fallen dramatically over the past two decades. This reduces the potential for breakthrough inventions, according to the OECD's S...

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September 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Best of 2012, Favorites in Socio-Technical, Socio-Technical
September 19, 2011

CargoWise training for its IT customers

September 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 20SEP2011 from http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=16927&u... CargoWise has launched a role-based classroom training program for its ediEnterprise operating system, to teach users the tandard operating proce...

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September 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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September 20, 2011

America's Innovation Shortfall

September 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 20SEP2011 from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/americas_innovation_shortfall.html When viewed through the lens of the U.S. economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of th...

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September 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Socio-Technical
September 19, 2011

Anti-Corruptions Laws

September 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 19SEP2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/21529103?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/ataleoftwolaws BRIBING foreign officials is wrong, but not everything governments do to prevent it is wise or proportional. Firms are increasingly fed up with the wa...

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September 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Security
September 15, 2011

More PE and VC Money Flows to Brazil

September 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15SEP2011 from http://tinyurl.com/658ojja Fundraising for Latin American private equity and venture capital investment rose to $4.9 billion in the first half of this year, up 59% from the same period last year, according to a report rele...

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September 15, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
September 14, 2011

Market Capitalization

September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14SEP2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization Categorization of companies by capitalization Traditionally, companies were divided into large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap. The terms mega-cap and micro-cap have also sinc...

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September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
September 14, 2011

Mid-Cap Growth Investing

September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Downloaded 14SEP2011 from www.mtbia.com/communications/CMO_V45.pdf The capitalization of the U.S. equity investment universe, as represented by the Russell 3000 Index, is approximately: 9% small-cap companies with capitalizations under $2 billio...

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September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
September 14, 2011

Mid-Cap vs Large-Cap Equities

September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Downloaded 14SEP2011 from www.choate.com/media/pnc/7/media.2897.pdf Choate Investment Advisors divides equities into large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap based on the Standard & Poor’s classification criteria. The S&P 500 represents the largest 500 co...

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September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
September 14, 2011

Here Comes Social Business

September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14SEP2011 from http://www.fastcompany.com/1779375/move-over-social-media-here-comes-social-b... Post by Drew Neisser Ethan McCarty, Senior Manager of Digital and Social Strategy at IBM, spent the better part of an hour with me [Drew Neis...

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September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Socio-Technical
September 14, 2011

Over 1 Billion People Use Social Networks Today

September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 12SEP2011 from http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/over-1-billion-people-use-social-networks-to... Survey data from InSites Consulting on social media around the world (facts and figures about social media in 30+ countries). Here are a few ...

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September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Best of 2012, Favorites in Socio-Technical, Socio-Technical
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