For centuries, most international trade involved an exchange of complete goods. But, with recent improvements in transportation and communications technology, it increasingly entails different countries adding value to global supply chains, or what might be called ?trade in tasks.? A new conceptualization of the global production process is proposed that...
An important challenge in designing policy initiatives to address the problem of uninsured children is that the objectives implicit in the programs can conflict. These conflicts necessitate prioritizing multiple objectives and identifying acceptable tradeoffs in order to achieve effective policy design that reflects the nation's social priorities. This article provides...
This article describes some American states' creative strategies to increase children's enrollment in health insurance by connecting Medicaid and SCHIP with other public programs for low-income children and families. These strategies, referred to as "express lane eligibility" ELE, have the potential to significantly increase the number of low-income children with...
This article focuses on efforts to provide publicly funded health insurance to low-income children in the United States through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. Public health insurance coverage for children has evolved into a national policy priority. Together, these programs have made substantial progress in reducing...
This article frames some of the issues and draws on the most current research to point to solutions to persistent problems. The article begins by discussing the importance of health insurance for children's access to health care and describes the progress that has been made in providing coverage for children....
As the examples discussed in this article suggest, premium assistance toward employer-based family coverage could provide a sensible coverage source for many low-income children, while helping assure that State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP coverage complements the employer coverage system for most non-poor children. Nonetheless, this approach presents challenges. Early...
This article focuses on efforts to provide publicly funded health insurance to low-income children in the United States through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. The article summarizes current knowledge and research about which children are uninsured and why, and describe the innovative strategies states have used...
This article describes the particular health care needs of adolescents and explores the extent to which public health insurance programs are meeting those needs. It includes an overview of the coverage available to adolescents through Medicaid and SCHIP, how that coverage has evolved, the importance of providing comprehensive benefits to...
ITHACA - A local startup won $250,000 this month in a business-plan competition run by venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and its partner fund DFJ Gotham Ventures. Widetronix, Inc., a Cornell University spin-off company, competed against eight other teams from some of the top universities in the nation. Other...
SYRACUSE - Last February, Mike Haynie had an idea. He knew tens of thousands of Americans have been wounded in U.S. military operations around the world in recent years. He also knew the national reputation of Syracuse University's Martin I Whitman School of Management. Entrepreneur magazine and The...
Center for Predictive Medicine Registered to Receive LEED[R] Silver Certification PRINCETON, N.J. -- Two representatives from CUH2A--Jeff Dayton, AIA, principal and chief operating officer and Hamza Davis, director of business development--attended the April groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Louisville Regional Biocontainment Laboratory RBL. Designed by CUH2A, the...
Greystone & Co., Inc., announced that Mark R. Jarrell has rejoined the company as director of Capital Markets. Prior to returning to Greystone, Jarrell was president and CEO of CRIIMI MAE, INC. (NYSE: CMM) where he led all aspects of the company's business, and directed the day-to day-operations...
Kirusa, the leading developer ofvalue-added mobile services, today announced the appointment of AnthonyGarcia Tony as the Vice President Finance. Tony brings to Kirusa over 25 years of experience in financial andoperational management. He holds a BA in Economics from PrincetonUniversity, an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, and is a...
HITTING THE BOOKS: B.A., Princeton University; M.B.A., Rutgers University FIRST JOB IN A SUIT: Prudential Insurance in Newark, N.J. FAVORITE JOB: Vice president of finance planning and trade marketing at Nabisco Inc. (2 years). "I saw how the business operates from a different perspective. Knowing how...
24 March 2006 - Christian Mounis, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Vie, has been appointed to the SCOR Executive Committee. Christian Mounis, 52, a graduate of France's ESSEC business school, joined SCOR in 1977 as a treaty underwriter. He opened the SCOR Tokyo office in 1983, before running SCOR's...
Close to midnight on New Year's Eve, the sidewalks in the center of Princeton, N.J., were mostly deserted of the well-heeled residents and students at the town's Ivy League university who usually pack them. Drivers found a slew of parking spaces, which can be hard to come by during shopping...
PRINCETON - Jim Holland, general manager of the Princeton Devil Rays professional baseball team, has won the 2005 Appalachian League Promotional Award. The eight-team, rookie/instructional Appy League's executives honored him for his efforts to best promote and publicize his team while also having an attractive promotional schedule for the team's...
Accounting Kevin McCollum has been hired as an accountant with the Princeton-based firm The Mercadlen Group. In his new position, McCollum will manage Mercadien Consulting. McCollum specializes in preparing operational analyses, financial forecasts and financial feasibility studies. He graduated from Temple University's School of Business. Robert Richmond has...
PRINCETON, N.J. -- ETS today appointed William N. McCambley Jr. director of the company's Scholarship Recognition Program SRP. The SRP serves a client list representing more than 90 corporations, foundations, and philanthropic and fraternal organizations. It processes 30,000 new applications and renewable scholarships and distributes more than $18 million in...
CHRISTINA L. DAVIS PRESIDENT/EDUCATOR GOLDEN WELLNESS CENTER INC. GLENSIDE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY Education: BA, MA, MSS in theology of world religions, Eugene Moor School, N.J.; BS, maximum healing, Rolling Thunder, Shamanism, School of Shamanism, N.J.; business economics, Philadelphia Business School; busines law, School for Operating Merchants; para...
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