https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/rss en-us Three years ago, a team of financial scholars at Stanford Graduate School of Business and at Germany's Max Planck Institute provocatively argued that banks become "addicted" to steadily more dangerous levels of debt. Disputing the standard models of finance,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3343 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:12:57 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3343-why-corporations-get-hooked-on-debt Targeted promotions increase revenue and profits for companies that send them out. Anyone who shops online knows what it is like to be pestered with email messages offering discounts and deals urging the recipient to "buy now!" The good news for advertisers is that those promotions actually work, according to new research by Navdeep Sahni, a marketing professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Such targeted discounts increase revenue and profit for the companies that send them out. But they are effective in a different way than you might expect. While consumers may not jump on the specific offer emailed to them,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2053 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 05:18:14 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2053-navdeep-sahni-email-promotions-to-prospective-customers-really-do-work Photo Amazon Delivery Cooler Blackstone Group CEO shares eight lessons about entrepreneurship, hiring, and management. Steve Schwarzman's climb to the pinnacle of the financial services world began with a startup - and a realization. "The most important thing about a new business is figuring out what you're doing before you're doing it," the co-founder and CEO of Blackstone recently told a group of Stanford Graduate School of Business students. "In other words, why does anyone need you?" Clearly, Schwarzman figured it out. When he and Peter Peterson left Lehman Brothers in 1985,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2044 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 06:03:30 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/2044-steve-schwarzman-you-can-t-give-praise-unless-it-s-deserved Photo Steve Schwarzman