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When: February 13-15, 2015
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When: June 6-9, 2015
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Where: Dubai, UAE
Deadline: February 10, 2015
Deadline: March 1, 2015
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When: April 14-17, 2015
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Deadline: March 8th, 2015
Deadline: March 15, 2015
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When: March 25-27, 2015
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When: July 27-28, 2015
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When: April 26-28, 2015
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Where: Tampa, FL, USA Deadline: March 15, 2015
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What: Volume 4, Number 1
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When: March 25-27, 2015
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Deadline: February 6, 2015
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Where: Washington DC
Where: New Orleans, LA
Deadline: March 15, 2015
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When: April 8-10, 2015
What: Spring 2015 International Conference in New Orleans
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana Deadline: February 26, 2015
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When: January 31, 2015
What: Volume 3, Issue 1
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The 12th Finance, Business & Banking Symposium has been scheduled on February 24-26, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. The submission deadline for papers is January 30th, 2015. The registration deadline is February 10, 2015.
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The European Scientific Institute and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, is having its 2nd Global Academic Meeting from April 1-4, 2015. The deadline for papers is March 1, 2015.
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“A mall location is no guarantee of business success...” Choosing the Right Location and Layout When evaluating a mall or shopping center location, an entrepreneur should consider the following questions:
Is there a good fit with other products and brands sold in the mall or center?
Who are the other tenants? Which stores are the anchors that will bring people into the mall or center?
Demographically, is the center a good fit for your products or services? What are its customer demographics?
How much foot traffic does the mall or center generate? How much traffic passes the specific site you are considering?
What is the mall’s average sales per square foot (a common metric for measuring a mall’s attractiveness)? The average for all malls is $350 per square foot, but one-third of malls generate less than $300 per square foot in sales. Only about 15 percent of malls generate sales per square foot of $400 or more.
How much vehicle traffic does the mall or center generate? Check its proximity to major population centers, the volume of tourists it draws, and the volume of driveby freeway traffic. A mall or center that scores well on all three is more likely to be a winner.
What is the mall’s vacancy rate? What is the turnover rate of its tenants?
How much is the rent, and how is it calculated? Most mall tenants pay a base
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amount of rent plus a small percentage of their sales above a specified level. A mall location is no guarantee of business success, however. Malls have been under pressure lately, especially from online retailers and fastgrowing discount stores, and mall vacancy rates have been slow to recover from the Great Recession. Many weaker malls (known as “gray fields”0 have closed or have been redeveloped. The basic problem is an oversupply of mall space; there is about 20 square feet of mall retail space for every person in the United States. The last new indoor shopping mall opened in 2006. Another problem is that many malls are showing their age; in face, 85 percent of the malls in the United States are more than 20 years old. In addition, the demographic makeup of an area’s shoppers often changes over time, creating a new socioeconomic customer base that may not be compatible with a small company’s target customer profile. As a result, many malls have undergone extensive renovations to transform themselves into “entertailing” destinations, adding entertainment features to their existing retail space in an attempt to generate more traffic. For instance, in addition to its 520 retail shops and 60 restaurants, Minneapolis’s Mall of America, the second –largest mall in the United States (located only a few miles from Southdale, the nation’s first mall), includes a Nickelodeon Universe amusement park at its center, a 1.2-million-gallon aquarium, and a 14screen movie complex in its 4.2 million square feet of space.
Initial and Long Performance of Emerging and Nonemerging Industry Initial Public Offerings This paper was written by Abena A. Arkorful and Dr. Frank W. Bacon from Longwood University.
The purpose of this study is to test the initial and long run aftermarket performance of emerging and nonemerging industry initial public offerings. According to research, on average most IPOs are underpriced due to investor uncertainty about its performance. The underpricing of IPOs is subsequently followed by underperformance in the long run aftermarket. Using the S&P 500 to adjust for risk this study used a 40 firm sample (20 emerging and 20 nonemerging) to test evidence of underpricing as well as the long run after market performance of emerging and nonemerging IPOs from 1996-2012. This study found that initial market adjusted return for emerging firms showed no evidence of underpricing. Emerging firms overperformanced in the long run aftermarket compared to the nonemerging firms. (pg. 1) Read Entire Paper Here
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The Small Business Advancement National has recently made immense changes to the layout of its website, SBAER.UCA.EDU, as well as its Newsletter. We welcome constructive criticism, comments, and of course, all questions throughout this transition.
Email: SBANC@UCA.EDU Phone: 1 (501) 450-5300 Allied Academies 2014 Proceedings Abena A. Arkorful and Dr. Frank W.
Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Norman M. Scarborough
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