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- Efficiency
- the achievement of goals in an economic way. Efficiency involves seeking a good balance between economy in terms of resources such as time, money, space,...
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- Innovation Or Efficiency: How To Balance Creativity And Execution
- All organizations have two objectives: to be profitable and to create the future. The challenge is to be both innovative and efficient. In a complex world, excellence in management is hard enough without managers being pulled in opposing directions. But they are faced with two organizational objectives that are not...
- White papers 2007-11-21
- Time Management Tips: It's Not About Doing More
- Are you trying to cram more into your day? If you are you're probably stressed out, exhausted, and irritable because you're working too hard. If this sounds like you take a time out. You've got to stop focusing on the wrong things before you burn out. You probably think you...
- White papers 2007-11-05
- Ruben Aronin: Greening Your Business
- Can doing good be good business? Founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, Global Green USA has become a leader in fostering responsible use of resources and good corporate citizenship through partnerships with corporations such as Home Depot and through awareness campaigns with celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. Here, Global...
- Videos 2007-09-13
- Greening Your Business
- Can doing good be good business? Founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, Global Green USA has become a leader in fostering responsible use of resources and good corporate citizenship through partnerships with corporations such as Home Depot and through awareness campaigns with celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. Here, Global...
- Videos 2007-09-12
- Industry Restructuring, Mergers, And Efficiency: Evidence From Electric Power
- This paper analyses the performance impact of the merger wave which took place in the US electricity industry during the period 1994-2003. It does so by analyzing the impact on operating and total cost in electricity distribution. While there are past studies of efficiency and productivity effects, as well as...
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Three Cheap Tricks To Increase Efficiency
- A key element of the time management puzzle is efficiency. When one can find faster, more efficient ways of getting the job done, they are able to free up more time to concentrate on other projects or even, in some cases, recreation. Increasing one's efficiency can come from studying time...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- The Stability Of Efficiency Rankings When Risk-Preferences And Objectives Are Different
- This paper analyzes the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. Firstly the traditional efficiency scores are estimated with stochastic cost and alternative profit frontier analysis. Then, it is explicitly allowed for different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility...
- White papers 2006-11-06
- Supply Chain Responsiveness And Efficiency
- Balancing responsiveness to market requirements with overall efficiency is an important issue in supply chain design and management. The objective of the system dynamics model introduced in this paper is to capture generic structures and the intrinsic dynamic behaviour modes of supply chains considering aspects of responsiveness and efficiency. The...
- White papers 2006-07-23
- Eco-Efficient Logistic Networks Within Product Life Cycles
- Logistics serves for the planning, control, and monitoring of material flows in the supply, the production, and the distribution of commodities as well as in the disposal of waste. It is an essential element of any product's life cycle. Always being focused on is the increase of efficiency with regard...
- White papers 2006-07-04
- Finding Your Efficiency Zone
- Everyone person has an efficiency zone. That is the mental state in which people find themselves accomplishing a great deal at a rapid clip, although it feels natural and comfortably paced. It is a state in which people's true productivity potential is released. Everyone has been in the efficiency zone...
- White papers 2006-06-15
- The Measurement And Determinants Of Efficiency And Productivity In The FE Sector In England
- This paper uses data for more than 500 Further Education providers in England to investigate the level of efficiency and change in productivity over the period 1999-2003. Using Data Envelopment Analysis we find that the mean provider efficiency varies between 82% and 86% over the period. Productivity change over the...
- White papers 2006-05-17
- The Role Of Inefficiency In Regional Productivity Growth
- In this paper we show that the common practice of adding a separable efficiency term to the production function with the purpose of obtaining a measure of efficiency change results in biased productivity growth estimates. This is illustrated using a panel data set of 17 Spanish regions covering the years...
- White papers 2006-05-03
- Gains From Trade And Efficiency Under Monopolistic Competition: A Variable Elasticity Case
- This paper presents a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition with variable demand elasticities and investigates the impact of free trade on welfare and efficiency. First, contrary to the constant elasticity case, in which all gains from trade are due to increasing product diversity, our model features gains from pro-competitive...
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Philosophy Of Successful Time Management Or How To Start Working With Leader task?
- Do you think time management tips are ideas to help you cram more into your day? Are you stressed out, exhausted, and irritable because you're working so hard? It's time for a time out. Efficiency places the focus on doing things in the least amount of time. Efficiency is certainly...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Returns In The Post-IPO Market: How Quickly Do They Become Efficient?
- This paper explores the efficiency of the post-IPO Initial public offering market through the analysis of post-event abnormal returns. The unique setting of the immediate aftermarket allows us to assess market efficiency after the trading has just begun, and no pre-existing history of return behavior exists. Properties of returns right...
- White papers 2005-09-06
- Efficiency And Scale Economies In The US Property-Liability Insurance Industry
- The paper examines efficiency and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry. Pure technical, scale, cost, and revenue efficiency are estimated over the period 1993-2002 using Data Envelopment Analysis DEA. Panel data regressions are utilized to explore the relationships between firm characteristics, efficiency, and scale economies. The results indicate...
- White papers 2005-08-20
- Does Scale Efficiency Tell Us Anything About Optimal Scale?
- In DEA, scale efficiency is routinely calculated. This measure may, however, tell us very little about whether a production unit is over- or undersized. An empirical case is used to illustrate that, under some circumstances, scale inefficiency may simply reflect that a production unit is producing too little, given its...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Smart Moves: Building a Winning Strategy to Achieve Growth
- Consumer products companies need to maintain their relentless efficiency drive. That agenda is being forced by retailer power, over-capacity, and consumers who expect prices to keep on falling. But now - with expanding global markets and a realisation that enormous scale is required to achieve cost efficiency - manufacturers need...
- White papers 2005-02-09
- Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, And Development
- Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. This paper examines the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies, often referred to as the Washington Consensus, that...
- White papers 2005-01-20
- Are Firms In Emerging Markets Catching Up To The World Standard?
- Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. The authors examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies, often referred to as the Washington Consensus, that...
- White papers 2005-01-01
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