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Who's Your City: Top 10 MegaRegions: These ten megaregions generate the bulk of America's economic output and stand to be the biggest areas for job and economic growth, according to Richard Florida, author of Who's Your City? ...; Tags: Richard Florida, Chicago, Boston, biotechnology, talent, America, finance, commercial real estate, New York, job, supply chain, venture capital, logistics, transportation, banking, brand, manufacturing, performance, computer, network; Articles 2008-03-19
Wine Types: What They Are and Where They're From: Don’t know your pinot from your merlot? This basic menu of wine types from around the world will help you decipher any wine list. Beaujolais (boh-zhoh-lay): A light, fruity red wine from...; Tags: Region, Burgundy, Chablis, Merlot, Michael Mattis, wine, business dinner; Articles 2007-12-19
A Regional Tourism Marketing Strategy for Yorkshire: The Regional Tourism Marketing Strategy is intended to guide all tourism stakeholders within the region; private, public and voluntary sectors. Yorkshire Tourist Board (YTB) has been identified by Yorkshire Forward as the lead tourism delivery agency for the region, however the nature of the tourism product necessitates a strong partnership...; Tags: Marketing Strategy, Agency, Region, Yorkshire Tourist Board, Regional Tourism Marketing Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Business Structures, Marketing Research, Marketing, Finance; White papers 2005-08-01
The Only Game in Town: Stock-Price Consequences of Local Bias: Theory suggests that, in the presence of local bias, the price of a stock should be decreasing in the ratio of the aggregate book value of firms in its region to the aggregate risk tolerance of investors in its region. It tests this proposition using data on U.S. Census regions...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, National Bureau of Economic Research, stock, stock price, theory, game; White papers 2005-06-01
Informational Externalities Of Bank Initial Public Offerings: This paper examines IPO (Initial Public Offerings) announcements by banks covering a period from 1983 to 2000 to see which of the two views holds. It was found that, in general, such announcements produce statistically significant wealth effects for rival banks in the same state or region. However, regional differences...; Tags: Financial Planning, IPO, bank; White papers 2004-12-22

The Russia and EEMEA SMB Landscape: An updated AMI Partners Global SMB Model shows that a growing number of small and medium businesses in the region of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) are well on track to increased adoption and spending on information technology over the next five years. Among the countries in...; Tags: AMI-Partner, small and medium business, information technology; White papers 2004-08-01
A New Energy Cluster Takes Shape in the Stavanger Region: The Stavanger region on the western coast of Norway has hosted the major oil and gas cluster in Europe for decades. This article reports that now, a new energy cluster is developing, based on natural gas. A new era for the oil and gas cluster is now emerging. Several smaller...; Tags: Business Briefings, oil, natural gas; White papers 2004-07-20
Increasing Returns, Input-Output Linkages, and Technological Leapfrogging: Firms agglomerate in one region due to increasing returns, input-output linkages and transportation costs. In the de-industrialized region factor prices are lower and a new technology may be profitable to adopt in that region instead, inducing a change in the technological leadership. This paper shows that the risk of locking...; Tags: Strategy, Lund University, linkage, risk, transportation, leadership, manufacturing, benefit; White papers 2004-06-24
The State of the Managed Care Industry: This report focuses on financial performance, valuation, merger and acquisition activity, and industry highlights primarily among the publicly traded managed care companies for the year 2004. The report divides the universe of publicly traded managed care companies into two distinct groups: the National HMOs, which have operations in multiple regions...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Mergers & Acquisitions, HMO, valuation, M&A, merger, financial, industry; White papers 2004-06-07
Hope in the Storm: Experience of Arpli in Conflict Resolution of the Northern Uganda Armed Conflict: The conflict in the Acholi sub-region of the northern Uganda (NU) has lasted for about 18 years, with tremendous negative impact in terms of human costs and development in the whole region. A study by civil societies carried in 2003 estimates that 3% of the annual GDP of Uganda is...; Tags: conflict resolution; White papers 2004-04-15
The State of the HMO Industry: This report focuses on financial performance, valuation, merger and acquisition activity, and industry highlights primarily among the publicly traded managed care companies for the year 2003. The report divides the universe of publicly traded managed care companies into two distinct groups: the National HMOs, which have operations in multiple regions...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Mergers & Acquisitions, HMO, valuation, M&A, merger, financial, industry; White papers 2003-12-10
Differences and Similarities in Insular and Temporal Pole MRI Gray Matter Volume Abnormalities in First-Episode Schizophrenia and Affective Psychosis: The objective of this paper is to simultaneously evaluate multiple olfactocentric paralimbic regions, which play crucial roles in human emotion and motivation, in first-episode patients with schizophrenia and affective psychosis. Whether psychoses associated with schizophrenia and affective disorder represent manifestations of different disorders or the same disorder is an important...; Tags: American Medical Association, manifestation, motivation, patient; White papers 2003-11-01
Detailed Map of a Cis-Regulatory Input Function: This white paper reveals about cis-regulatory regions that perform a computation: the rate of transcription is a function of the active concentrations of each of the input transcription factors. This paper uses gene expression measurements from living cell cultures, bearing GFP reporters, to map in detail the input function of...; Tags: Princeton University, transcription; White papers 2003-04-24
Integrated Coastal and Marine Management in Northern Regions: Reconciling Economic Development and Conservation: There will be increasing pressure on northern coastal and offshore regions for resource extraction as resources become scarce in more accessible regions. Marine navigation and transportation is likely to increase in response to economic development, and as ice cover reduces and the ice free season extends as a result of...; Tags: University of Calgary, conservation, ice, transportation; White papers 2002-11-14
Sub-Saharan Africa: Potential Production Source for Textiles and Apparel?: As globalization continues, textile and apparel firms have many opportunities to source from areas located throughout the globe. Recently, the Trade Development Act of 2000 has brought light to two regions of the world, the Caribbean Basin and Sub-Saharan Africa. This report concentrates on the sub-Saharan region and examine if...; Tags: North Carolina State University, globalization; White papers 2002-10-03
CBI response to the White Paper Your Region, Your Choice; Revitalising the English Regions: The White Paper rightly builds on useful Government work to explore the longstanding problem of variable economic performance between and within the English regions. But the analysis needs to drill much deeper and the solutions need to be much more effective than those offered in the White Paper. There is...; Tags: Performance management, performance, analysis; White papers 2002-09-19
The Integration of Retail Space Markets: This study estimates optimized portfolios on an efficient frontier of real estate investment in the retail sector of fifty-eight metropolitan markets (MSAs), using quarterly sample data covering 1987- 2000. The efficient opportunity sets and associated percentage allocations are determined for the entire sample of fifty-eight MSAs, as well as for...; Tags: Performance management, University of North Carolina, allocation, real estate, performance; White papers 2002-07-30
Trade Union Responses to Globalization: Spain: Spain has 17 regions with broad administrative and legislative powers, including regional parliaments. In relation to employment contracts legislative competence is granted exclusively to the State. In other areas, however, the regions show ever-increasing differences in terms of the social services and assistance they provide, as reflected in the social...; Tags: Spain, Region, Trade Union, Globalization, Strategy, Management; White papers 2002-06-21
Regional Development Platform Analysis as a Tool for Regional Innovation Policy: European regions have to direct their innovation and technology policies in the world of ever increasing competition. Right kinds of policy decisions aiming towards sustainable futures are essential in achieving competitive advantage for a region. The strategic choices are especially important because of the often very scarce resources in a...; Tags: Strategy, competitive advantage, theory, analysis, tool; White papers 2002-05-31
Digging Into Department Of Energy (DOE): This article is about Selecting the right central composite design for response surface methodology applications. Research and development are the heart and soul of improvement efforts in manufacturing, and it's fast becoming standard practice to employ design of experiments methods in industrial R&D. To successfully carry out any designed experiment,...; Tags: Research & Development, QCI International, R&D, manufacturing; White papers 2001-12-14