This paper addresses the issues of authority and communication in the management of innovation within an organization. In particular, the paper shows that when the principal can fund only one of two competing research or investment ideas, it can be optimal for the principal to listen to only one of...
Globalization and the growth of outsourcing and off shoring are challenging international trade regulations. This paper asserts that current GATS framework suffers from several weaknesses including an inadequate classification method, difficulties in determining rules of origin and an opening for protectionist approaches through an inconclusive interpretation to footnote 9 to...
What is a trade theorist to make of the outsourcing of skilled labor services by a presumably skill-abundant country like the United States? Outsourcing makes perfect sense in any economic model when it takes advantage of international wage differentials. Within the context of the Heckscher-Ohlin HO model, however, as the...
Marketing and engineering design decisions are typically treated as separate tasks both in the academic literature and in industrial practice, and their interdisciplinary interactions are not well-defined. In this paper, Analytical Target Cascading ATC, a hierarchical optimization methodology, is used to frame a formal optimization model that links marketing and...
Five national surveys offer similar accounts of employment-based health insurance and the subset of the uninsured who have declined employment-based health insurance. While offering similar stories, the surveys are far from identical in the number of people they place at each turn in the story, with the relative size of...
Many Six Sigma groups looking for ways to extend their practices have concluded that Human Performance Technology HPT offers a way to improve results. Similarly, HPT practitioners are incorporating more Six Sigma practices in their work. This paper describes how the two approaches can be used, effectively, together. It highlights...
This paper employs analysts' expected rates of return and provides evidence on the relation between these expectations and firm attributes. The assumption that these expectations are unbiased estimates of market-wide expected rates of return allows circumventing the use of realized rates of return and providing evidence on the predictions emanating...
In a market-based scheduling mechanism, the allocation of time-specific resources to tasks is governed by a competitive bidding process. Agents bidding for multiple, separately allocated time slots face the risk that they will succeed in obtaining only part of their requirement, incurring expenses for potentially worthless slots. We investigate the...
In this paper, the first cut information about an exploratory agent-based modeling project is presented where the aim is to develop a tool for intelligence analysts to employ in studying decision-making processes in closed political regimes such as Iraq, North Korea and Syria. The hybrid of the landscape metaphor (Kollman,...
From the executive summary: ‘The importance of quality to successfully compete in the marketplace is axiomatic. The question facing organizations is not whether to seek ever-higher quality, but how to most efficiently achieve it. Unfortunately, the answer rarely lies in a specific set of techniques or management practices. Organizations, in...
In the modern-day business environment, Business Process Reengineering BPR has emerged as an important business paradigm. It involves fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve enhanced organizational efficiency and productivity. The paper examines BPR.
Research in the strategy and international business literatures shows that firms often undertake acquisitions in order to exchange resources. The core arguments arise from theories of market failures, where market failures can stem from potential opportunism or from coordination difficulties. However, empirical research on cross-border and domestic acquisitions has not...
BOSTON -- CRA International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAI), a worldwide leader in providing management, economics, and financial consulting services, today announced the expansion of its Insurance Economics Practice. Mark Meyer has joined the practice as a vice president and co-practice leader. Dr. Meyer has more than...
The American Society of Composers, Authors andPublishers ASCAP has selected 12 aspiring composers to participate in the20th Annual ASCAP Television and Film Scoring Workshop with legendarycomposer, arranger and mentor Richard Bellis. The Workshop begins today inLos Angeles and runs through July. For twenty years, the ASCAP Television and...
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Octillion Corp. (OTCBB: OCTL), a next-generation alternative and renewable energy technology incubator, today announced immediate expansion of the Company's product development pipeline to include the development of safe, economically-viable technologies capable of producing clean electricity from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles, including...
OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB: ISCO) announced today a new collaboration with leading stem cell researcher Jose Cibelli at Michigan State University as part of ISCO's ongoing strategy to work with scientific leaders across the world to expand the scientific data relating to parthenogenetic...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- It was announced today that J. Michael Shepherd has joined the boards of Pacific Mutual Holding Company and Pacific LifeCorp, the parent companies of Pacific Life Insurance Company. Mr. Shepherd became president and CEO of Bank of the West on January...
PHOENIX -- Mark El-Tawil has been appointed market president of Humana Inc's (NYSE:HUM) Arizona's operations, in an announcement made by Paul P. Moore, chief executive officer of Humana's West Region. El-Tawil will be responsible for the overall management and strategic planning for Humana's commercial, consumer-driven...
Pipex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: PP), aspecialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative late-stage drugcandidates for the treatment of central nervous system and autoimmunediseases, announced today that Nicholas Stergis, co-founder of the Companyand Vice Chairman of the board of directors, has joined the executivemanagement team of Pipex as Chief Executive Officer,...
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Software industry is available in its catalogue. World Library Automation Systems and Services Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p090573/World-Library-Automation-Systems-and-Services-Market.html This report analyzes the North American market for Library Automation Systems and Services in US$ Million. The major...
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