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		<title><![CDATA[A Knowledge Solution To Drive Revenues And Competitive Advantage]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1090647]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In tighter times, clients scrutinize their bills more closely - and this scrutiny is fiercest at the associate level. Partners are forced to write off more time and some clients are flatly refusing to have junior associate time appear on their bills at all. Finally, capped fee arrangements are more...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can Market Inefficiencies Be Exploited?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/blog/wise-investing/can-market-inefficiencies-be-exploited/498/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent New York Times article questioned the validity of the efficient market hypothesis. The real question is if you can exploit market inefficiencies for additional returns. It looks like the answer is no. by Larry Swedroe]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:45:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Organizing Your Desk And Self Conserves Valuable Time]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=389374]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Even if your personal area is organized, you are directly affected by the disorganization of colleagues. When they do not have appropriate systems, they end up interrupting you to ask for a report or to question a date. They might show up late for meetings or not follow through on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Little progress so far on UN reform: US Congress study]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200610/ai_n16930936]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; Internal political wrangling and bureaucratic inefficiency have hampered efforts to reform the United Nations, according to a US congressional report. "Despite various reform efforts, significant inefficiencies in United Nations management operations persist," the report by the Government Accountability Office, GAO concluded. In September 2005, UN member states...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKING FOR TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL TOURIST HOTELS]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3661/is_200608/ai_n17173207]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT This study proposes an alternative data envelopment analysis DEA method to explore the managerial performance, the input congestion, and the benchmarks of international tourist hotels ITHs for a small open economy, Taiwan. Several empirical results are shown: (1) most ITHs operate at decreasing returns to scale, indicating that ITHs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Messing up centrally.(Going Local)(economic policy)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb326/is_200601/ai_n18832827]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SOME general elections ago, the former Times Editor Simon Jenkins  had the temerity to mention one of those things which, he argued, we all  know about but don't articulate: the BBC's economic policy.    It isn't generally acknowledged that they have one, he  said--as far...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial intermediary versus production approach to efficiency of marketing distribution systems and organizational structure of insurance companies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6645/is_3_72/ai_n29205909]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  An examination of the efficiency of the marketing distribution channel and organizational structure for insurance companies is presented from a framework that views the insurer as a financial intermediary rather than as a "production entity" which produces "value added" through loss payments. Within this financial intermediary approach, solvency...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Supply Chain Collaboration Checkup]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=176465]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Collaboration can eliminate inefficiencies for all parties, but collaborative planning and execution among trading partners is daunting. Short-term projects can be a realistic route to prepare for more strategic collaboration efforts. Through collaboration, buyers and sellers can simultaneously eliminate inefficiencies from their supply chains. But given the growing complexities of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Parochialism rules.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200506/ai_n17781358]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Jun 03, 2005 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX)     The state-based nature of many of Australia's biggest  charities and community organisations is under threat. Although the  Australian not- for-profit sector is worth $A70 billion, employs 600,000  people and accounts for 10 per cent of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Recursive Thick Frontier Approach To Estimating Production Efficiency]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=315502]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We introduce a new panel data estimation technique for cost and production functions: the Recursive Thick Frontier Approach RTFA. RTFA has two advantages over existing thick frontier methods. First, technical inefficiency is allowed to be dependent on the explanatory variables of the frontier model. Secondly, no distributional assumptions are imposed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Using DEA to measure efficiency in forest and paper companies.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6497/is_200501/ai_n25839023]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract    This paper introduces the non-parametric method, data envelopment  analysis DEA, to measure the relative efficiency of 97 global forest  and paper companies in 2001. One variable output total sales and two  variable inputs (operating costs and expenses, and interest expenses)  obtained from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Default Swap Faults]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=117289]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From the executive summary: ‘It is no secret that banks' use of credit default swaps relies on inefficiency in markets. The inefficiency is defined as asymmetric information, which arises whenever a buyer or seller has more information about a product or service than his counterpart does, which can provide the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thai Buses Back in Black by 2006.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200406/ai_n22180376]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Jun. 3--The loss-ridden Bangkok Mass Transit Authority hopes to cut  its  operating losses to the break-even point by 2006 and turn a profit  in later  years under a new restructuring plan. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Modeling Of Supplier-Customer Relations In Supply Chains]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=277050]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the paper we analyze supplier-customer relations in supply chains. Information asymmetry is one of the most powerful sources of inefficiency. Information technology has lead to communication, coordination and cooperation among units in supply chains. Building of different types of strategic partnerships and different type of contracts among participants can...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global competitiveness and Canadian sectoral/regional labour productivity differences]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3249/is_2_6/ai_n29058450]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract  This paper evaluates the extent to which the decrease in total factor productivity growth that is alleged to have occurred in the last Jew years is also reflected in corresponding decreases in labour productivity growth, among key provinces and sectors of the Canadian economy. The analysis is based...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global Warming Policy - Bad Economics?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0QNZ/is_2003_August_28/ai_n6179597]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a newly released report published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (in its Economic & Financial Policy Review, V. 2, No. 1, August 20, 2003), inefficiencies in post- Kyoto global warming policy could result in worldwide increases in the cost of emission reductions while benefitting individual nations...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Stanford University study highlights the dangers of neglecting identity management; Survey shows serious security vulnerabilities and operational inefficiencies at Global 2000 companies.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_200305/ai_n19630217]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-20 May 2003-NOVELL: New Stanford University study  highlights the dangers of neglecting identity management; Survey shows  serious security vulnerabilities and operational inefficiencies at  Global 2000 companiesC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:05202003    PROVO, Utah -- Many Global 2000 companies are suffering from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inefficiency Delays Funds of 100 Billion Baht in Thailand.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200304/ai_n22034341]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Apr. 30--More than 100 billion baht worth of funds slated for  spending in  the current budget remains delayed due to bureaucratic  inefficiencies.    Somchai Sujjapongse, director of the fiscal policy and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Warning sign for brand ads.(Viewpoint)(Package-goods marketers have railed for more than a decade against the inefficiency of trade promotion and proselytized about the need to swing the balance more toward brand-building advertising)(Brief Art]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6398/is_200303/ai_n25568355]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Package-goods marketers have railed for more than a decade against  the inefficiency of trade promotion and proselytized about the need to  swing the balance more toward brand-building advertising. But new survey  data point the finger at advertising as  Package-goods marketers have railed for more than a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tracking Efficiency]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=75265]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The progress of manufacturers in achieving supply chain inefficiencies is similar, in some respects, to evolution as it occurs in the animal kingdom. Some crawl along and get eaten alive by their competitors. With the proper investments, process improvements and technology, it's possible to remove inefficiencies from the manufacturing supply...]]></description>
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