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PricewaterhouseCoopers: New Revenue Recognition Rules Delayed, but Start Planning Now

A new, comprehensive accounting standard is set to change the way many companies recognize revenue in their financial statements, and that could reverberate through myriad systems and processes in significant ways. Many companies do not yet realize the degree of change the new standard will usher in, nor how it could affect many industries in unexpected ways, according to experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Wharton, who discuss the implications in this white paper.

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EY: Private Equity Steps Up in Africa – Part II

This second part of a two-part podcast on the new face of private equity (PE) in Africa looks at  the areas of the economy most ripe for growth, and also at some business models that PE firms are pursuing. With GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa at 4.4% in 2012 (and a third of the countries there growing at more than 6% annually), the amount of foreign direct investment in Africa has been gaining significant momentum, and interest has spread beyond natural resources to consumers, thanks to an expanding middle class.

Knowledge@Wharton spoke with three experts to learn about the PE landscape in Africa:

Michelle Kathryn Essomé, chief executive of the African Venture Capital Association;

Michael Rogers, global deputy sector leader for private equity at EY; and

Stephen M. Sammut, senior fellow and lecturer at Wharton.

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Wipro Technologies: Why Companies are Increasingly Moving Towards Standardization

More and more companies are standardizing functions across people, processes and technology. Such “standardization at the core” positions them to achieve cost savings, increased customer satisfaction and improved competitiveness, says Anand Sankaran, senior vice president and business head at Wipro Infotech and global business head — infrastructure and services for Wipro Limited. Companies that share components and processes across product platforms can develop differentiated products efficiently and be more responsive to market changes, says Karl Ulrich, vice dean of innovation at Wharton. According to Morris A. Cohen, Wharton professor of operations and information management, standardization has made way for “servicization,” wherein products are sold and delivered as services. They share their insights on the subject in this white paper produced by Knowledge@Wharton and sponsored by Wipro Technologies.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP: Currency Hedging -- the Risks and Benefits Aren’t Limited to Financial Issues

Answering the question “to hedge or not to hedge?” currency exposure is more than a straightforward mathematical effort. While the aim of currency hedging is to manage risk, the ability to achieve the goal needs ongoing consideration. Companies need to look at several factors, from transaction costs to global funding flows and the timing of revenue collections. And increasingly, there is another big factor that companies must weigh: Some analysts can have a knee-jerk, negative reaction to complexity in general, and hedging strikes them as being too complex. To delve into this issue, Knowledge@Wharton interviewed experts from Wharton and PwC for this white paper. 

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GE Capital: Hallmarks of Successful Growth Companies

Being an entrepreneur is difficult. Yet some start-up and growth-stage companies do more than survive -- they thrive. Experts from Wharton and GE Capital reveal that business success often doesn’t depend on stunning innovations but instead on common-sense business practices such as embracing change and choosing the right partners and board members.

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Wipro Technologies: In a Tough Business Environment, Technology Opens New Doors of Growth for Financial Institutions

Worldwide, companies in the financial services industry face tighter regulations and customers are more wary in the aftermath of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 and the resulting economic downturn across the U.S. and Europe. However, they could use smart technology tools to conform to stringent regulatory requirements, win back consumer trust and deepen those relationships using business analytics, social and mobility platforms. In this white paper, which is part of a “Future of the Industry” series covering several industry groups, Knowledge@Wharton and Wipro Technologies explore how technology could help financial institutions.

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Wipro Technologies: Unleashing the Power of Advanced Technologies

Cloud computing, mobility, data analytics, social, and sensors are disrupting established business models and reshaping customer experience across industries. Working in concert, these advanced technologies are eroding barriers to entry, lowering costs of transactions, and increasing speed-to-market. Fragmented user experiences are becoming more intuitive and seamless, with fewer hand-offs and greater continuity across customer touch-points and channels. Shawndra Hill, professor of operations and information management at Wharton, and Shaji Farooq, senior vice president for advanced technologies at Wipro, weigh the opportunities and challenges that advanced technologies bring in this white paper produced by Knowledge@Wharton and sponsored by Wipro Technologies.

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Wipro Technologies: Clients and Vendors Find Big Gains in Linking Rewards to Risks, Revenues and Outcomes

A tougher economy, increased competition and constrained budgets are forcing businesses to gravitate towards innovative contracting models. Across industry groups, companies and their third party vendors are showing increasing preference for risk-reward contracts over traditional time-and-materials contracts. Trust and maturity on both sides are the key prerequisites for risk-reward models to be mutually beneficial, say Malay Verma, vice president and global head of the Cisco business unit at Wipro Technologies and Ravi Aron, senior fellow at Wharton’s Mack Center for Technological Innovation. Verma and Aron share insights on how these models are evolving in this white paper produced by Knowledge@Wharton and sponsored by Wipro Technologies.

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Wipro Technologies: Energy, Utility and Natural Resources Companies Meet Uncertainty with Technology

Oil and gas companies today want faster returns on their investments and reduced risks. To get there, they are heading to new geographies, and advanced exploration and drilling technologies. Utilities, meanwhile, are layering value-added services onto their offerings and aligning themselves closer to the customers, and natural resources companies, like mine operators, want more engagement with local governments and communities. They all also are responding to challenges around price volatility, regulations, the environment, health and safety measures, and more demanding customers. In this Future of Industry series white paper, Wharton management professor Witold Henisz and Wipro Technologies’ senior vice president, Anand Padmanabhan, explore the opportunities and challenges ahead.

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Wipro Technologies: Power Growth by Using Technology Smartly, Says YES BANK CIO Amit Sethi

India’s nine-year-old YES BANK has used technology smartly to avoid getting overshadowed by bigger and older banks. It has pursued flexibility and speed, and avoided large up-front technology investments through outsourcing modular, off-the-shelf technology solutions to pace spending in line with growth. Large doses of creativity also are helping the bank to find novel ways to reach India’s unbanked population and to bypass the limits of its branch network. Amit Sethi, the bank’s chief information officer, shares his strategies with Knowledge@Wharton in this white paper.

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