Business school deans have been rushing to the defense of their graduate degree programs ever since Jeffrey Pfeffer and Christina Fong published their 2002 article questioning the value of an MBA. Not only did those authors debate the worth of the MBA in general, they suggested that the degree was...
What is the impact of Foreign Direct Investment FDI in manufacturing and assembly on host countries in the developing world? When do the operations of foreign manufacturing and assembly firms have the most positive impact on the growth and welfare of the host economy? When do they have the least...
Firms entering an industry de novo (start-up) and firms entering de alio diversification away from another industry differ in the initial entry conditions. This paper proposes that the differences in resource endowment, previous experience, and structural flexibility between de novo and de alio firms at the time of entry have...
Interest rate rules have been associated with price indeterminacy when they do not respond aggressively enough to inflation. Price indeterminacy is typically associated with indeterminacy of real bond balances, suggesting that the missing element is a meaningful role for government bonds. The paper assumes that government bonds provide arbitrarily small...
Public administration finds itself in an era of government by performance management, reflected in the widespread assumption that management is a key determinant of performance, and that it is reasonable to expect managers to measurably improve organizational effectiveness. This paper seeks to conceptualize and empirically test how external environmental influences...
Hypotheses concerning patterns of journalistic reporting of consumer debt are tested by conducting a detailed content analysis of all relevant articles in the New York Times 1950-95. Examination of this body of articles indicates that reporting is skewed toward the negative, it is cyclical in character, it follows the macroeconomic...
The no-surcharge rule NSR prohibits merchants from charging different prices to consumers that use credit cards instead of cash. The paper shows that, while an NSR raises card company profits, it may reduce both cash and card transactions. If the card company can offer rebates to its cardholders, it will...
This paper develops a model that assesses the welfare effects of alternative market structures resulting in an industry characterized by an essential facility market. Considering an industry with potential entry and both vertical and horizontal strategic alliances, it analyzes the relative advantages of a market designed as a one of...
Electro Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: EEEID), a leadingprovider of advanced battery technologies and associated systems, announcedtoday that it has been selected to supply a customized battery packutilizing its patented Bipolar Wafer Cell Nickel Metal Hydride technologyto the Georgetown University Methanol Fuel Cell Transit Bus Integration andTest Project. EEI will partner with...
We have always been particularly proud of the illustrations that appear on AFP covers, within its articles, and in patient handouts. We rarely, however, have opportunity to recognize the group of professional medical illustrators who are responsible for this art. This group of artists, listed below, is led by Dave...
Electro Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: EEEID), a leadingprovider of advanced battery technologies and associated systems, announcedtoday that it has been selected to supply a customized battery packutilizing its patented Bipolar Wafer Cell Nickel Metal Hydride technologyto the Georgetown University Methanol Fuel Cell Transit Bus Integration andTest Project. EEI will partner with...
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 20 years of...
120 Universities including MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford and Georgetown already signed up to exhibit latest cleantech innovations to more than 4,000 industry executives COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The tables have turned for several universities as they find themselves on the waiting list for an opportunity...
Partnership Features Smart Video Content from Renowned World Leaders and Global Thought Organizations PLACENTIA, Calif. -- Vidshadow, Inc. (Pink Sheets:VSHD) (www.Vidshadow.com), an online video platform that partners with content providers, third party websites and advertisers, today announced an agreement with FORA.tv (www.fora.tv), the brilliant ideas network for intelligent...
The former American senator Jesse Helms, a legendary isolationist who campaigned vigorously for sanctions against Iran, died yesterday, aged 86. Universally known as "Senator No", he was deeply sceptical of international co-operation and intervention. His refusal to ratifyinternational accords, notably the Kyoto protocol on global warming, made...
"THE U.S. ECONOMY IS BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY SMALLER PORTION OF the global business environment," says Christopher Catlin, an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology management consulting firm based in McLean, Virginia. In light of the expansion of foreign trade and the explosion of emerging markets, Catlin felt...
Pinnacle Bank has hired Elsa Ballard as an accounting clerk, Linda Omar as an accountant and Rupali Sodhani as an operations assistant and project manager. Ballard recently finished her freshman year at Georgetown University where she is studying accounting and finance. Omar has...
Most general anesthetics -- used to put patients to sleep during surgery -- can increase the discomfort patients feel when they wake up, according to Georgetown University Medical Center researchers. This finding, the first to scientifically explain anecdotal observations, may lead to increased use of general anesthetics that do not...
WASHINGTON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgetown University, Gentag, Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC, NYSE: SAI), have combined forces to develop a non-invasive method for glucose measurement. The three technology leaders agreed to combine their respective intellectual property IP and expertise to create a new method to monitor...
Used As A Regular Part Of Georgetown University Hospital Arsenal Against Chronic Wounds PRINCETON, N.J., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Derma Sciences (BULLETIN BOARD: DSCI) , a provider of advanced wound care products, announced today that its key product, MEDIHONEYTM Wound & Burn Dressing with Active Leptospermum...
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