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- 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, or materials, and the achievement...
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- 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
- 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
- Top-Down Efficiency Analysis
- As part of its work to determine appropriate OPerating EXpenditure OPEX allowances for NATS, the CAA has considered productivity trends and efficiency improvements in other industries in order to inform its understanding of the likely scope for NATS to improve its own efficiency. This paper explains, however, the CAA recognises...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- 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
- BNET Ranking Shows Agency Network Efficiency in Decline Despite Layoffs
- The efficiency with which the major ad agency holding companies generate their revenues continues to decline, despite massive cuts to their operating expenses, mostly in the form of layoffs. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Technical Efficiency And Technologically Independent Sub-Markets
- This paper aims to provide a consistent empirical methodology for investigating the level of Minimum Efficient Scale MES in a single product industry, through the assessment of the relative productive performance of French soft cheese firms. Two deterministic approaches are used to evaluate firm-level technical efficiency: a parametric method, Corrected...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Improving Efficiency And Effectiveness In Natural Gas Regulation
- Natural gas regulation can have a significant impact on the efficiency and competitiveness of the industry and can affect customers and other stakeholders. This discussion paper on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of natural gas regulation in Canada begins by defining regulatory efficiency. While we will focus primarily on the...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- 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
- Implementing Mass Customisation Strategy To Enhance Customer Value
- Nowadays business environment is characterized with extremely tight competition. Companies are forced to constantly reduce costs and outperform when pursuing efficiency. At the same time, companies are struggling to reach effectiveness to retain customer loyalty. Combining these two aspects is difficult at best and requires reasonable trade-off between variety, functionality,...
- White papers 2004-04-08
- Konarka Finds Its Strategy With Building-Integrated Solar
- A year or two ago, prospects for Konarka looked grim, at least to outside observers. The Massachusetts manufacturer of organic thin film, a cheap type of solar panel with rock-bottom efficiency rates, seemed to be floundering for a strategy. Attempts by researchers to layer together pieces that captured light from...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Wal-Mart Drives Efficiency with Project Impact
- Driving efficiencies in Project Impact is a merchandise evaluation and designation concept Wal-Mart dubs “win, play, show.†by Mike Duff
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Talk to the Machine Not the Hand | BTalk Australia
- (17min 25) Click on "Play" to hear the podcast or click "Get It" to download. Asking customers to work their way through IVR systems before they get to talk to a call agent can be frustrating and damaging for your brand. Speech recognition software can help the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Worthington Industries F1Q10 (Qtr End 8/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Mr. Richard Arch at Torino. Your line is open. Richard Arch - Torino A couple of questions -- number one, just looking at the steel business, it looks like there was a good improvement on costs there, which...
- Earnings calls 2009-09-30
- Brightpoint, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. We will go first to Ittai Kidron with Oppenheimer. Ittai Kidron - Oppenheimer Thanks. And congratulations on good results. Tony, wanted to focus a little bit on the SG&A. You've done a great job and big step-downs over there. I guess the question is, how...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-08
- 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
- 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
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