PHILADELPHIA -- ARAMARK Corporation, a world leader in providing professional services, announced today that ARAMARK Higher Education has been awarded a 12-year contract to provide dining services at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. ARAMARK, the dining provider since 1998, will build upon a partnership that has seen the...
Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced that University of Minnesota has selected the company's Secure SafeWord® formerly known as SafeWord as a two-factor authentication solution for 8,000 staff and faculty members.
We study the impact of regulation on productivity and welfare in the U.S. sugar manufacturing industry. While this U.S. industry has been protected from foreign competition for nearly 150 years, it was regulated only during the Sugar Act period, 1934-74. We show that regulation significantly reduced productivity, with these productivity...
Skire, Inc. (http://www.skire.com), the leading provider of capital program lifecycle management solutions, today announced an enterprise agreement with the University of Minnesota. One of the largest and most comprehensive public universities in the United States, the University of Minnesota selected Skire's solutions as its standard technology platform for managing...
Public and private sector procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications of the procured goods or services are changed and refined after the contract is awarded to the winning bidder. As a result, final costs differ from the winning bid and may include significant adaptation and...
In this paper we examine empirically the association between organization type on the one hand and organization structure, organizational behavior, and organizational performance on the other hand, focusing on different types of organization that coexist in the same industry. We consider for-profit, nonprofit and government nursing homes (of the skilled...
Public and private sector procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications of the procured goods or services are changed and refined after the contract is awarded to the winning bidder. As a result, final costs differ from the winning bid and may include significant adaptation and...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- University of Minnesota scientists recently reported research results indicating that biofuels derived from grassland plants yield up to twice as much energy, per unit of land, as corn-based ethanol does. Are grasslands the key to the future of alternative energy production?
Working within a Markov Decision Process MDP framework, the authors have studied revenue management policies that combine aspects of mathematical programming approaches and pure MDP methods by decomposing the problem by time, state, or both. The "Time decomposition" policies employ heuristics early in the booking horizon, and switch to a...
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