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- The Language of longevity
- Whether you're in the business of selling your expertise for money or selling products, it's likely you'll prefer an ongoing client or customer relationship, to one that's more a "love 'em and leave 'em" encounter. Alas, the love 'em and leave 'em strategy is often more a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- An Empirical Study of Factors Relating to the Success of Broadway Shows
- This article uses the Cox proportional hazards model to analyze recent Broadway show data to investigate the factors that relate to the longevity of shows. The type of show, whether a show is a revival, and first-week attendance for the show are predictive for longevity. Favorable critic reviews in the...
- White papers
- Municipal Health Expectancy in Japan: Decreased Healthy longevity of Older People in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Areas
- Little is known about small-area variation in healthy longevity of older people and its socioeconomic correlates. This study aimed to estimate health expectancy at 65 years (HE65) at the municipal level in Japan, and to examine its relation to area socio-demographic conditions. A decrease in healthy longevity of older people...
- White papers 2005-06-14
- longevity in Services: The Case of the Dutch Warehousing Companies 1600-2000
- This paper explores the factors that determine the longevity of firms. Five central factors were distilled from the literature: position in the supply chain, the nature of the technology used, structure, culture, and financial policy. It makes an extensive case-study of the Dutch storage company Royal Pakhoed and its predecessors...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- CD/DVD Media and Data longevity
- The dramatic increase in CD and DVD media demand - 500 percent this year and similar forecasts for next year - plus aggressive competitive pressures from second-tier and no-name media manufacturers have only increased the consumer's media selection confusion and their concern over media quality and data storage longevity. Grass...
- White papers 2004-07-20
- Predictors of longevity in Small Family Firms: An Exploratory Study
- The purpose of this paper is to identify and test a set of variables that were related to the longevity of small family firms. The paper identifies a number of potentially relevant variables for inclusion in the predictive model. The final model included a total of 13 variables. These ranged...
- White papers 2004-04-22
- Health, longevity, and Life-Cycle Savings
- The paper investigates the effects of longevity on saving empirically and finds that, holding the age structure constant, savings do rise significantly with longevity. The results explain the boom in savings in East Asian as a combination of rising life expectancy and falling youth dependency, though they predict that savings...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Organizational longevity And Technological Change
- This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on organizational longevity published in the organizational change management. The issues of researching and writing about organizational longevity are described and the content of the special issue is related to a theoretical perspective that focuses on the nature of technological,...
- White papers 2000-01-27
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- Merging Asset Allocation And longevity Insurance: An Optimal Perspective On Payout Annuities
- This paper revisits the importance of longevity insurance—while discussing the concerns with a strategy consisting purely of fixed payout annuities—and then addresses the proper asset allocation between conventional financial assets and payout annuity products. Its focus is on maximizing a suitably defined objective function in an intuitive, comprehensible and practical...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Conservation Tips: Advice for Framing Textiles
- The method used in framing a textile can have a significant effect on its preservation. Several important choices can be made that will affect the textile's longevity. These include the type and quality of materials used, the technique used, and the glazing used. This conservation tip sheet offers information to...
- White papers 2001-12-12
- Funding Fun House
- From the executive summary: ‘The news that many corporate pension plans are in trouble, at least on paper, comes as no surprise. In recent years of declining stock markets, many large plans cannot help but find themselves under-funded. That such shortfalls have appeared for the first time since the early...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Three Ways to Put Fresh Spins on Old Marketing Concepts
- Having to come up with new ideas for a long-term client (or even one's own business) can be overwhelming. As much as a person loves those long-term clients or established products, because of their longevity, it gets harder and harder to come up with the next brilliant product. But never...
- White papers 2004-09-17
- Basic managemnt
- A formal compensation administration program is the basic management tool for ensuring that employees are satisfied, that both internal and external equity are maintained, and that control is maintained over compensation costs. Such a program will help attract top talent, retain core employees, and encourage longevity while efficiently using financial...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Amoeba Corporation
- Adaptability is the key to corporate longevity, but many companies are too rigidly organized to adapt to constant change and seize new opportunities. This article describes how companies are lengthening their life span by reshaping internal systems for flexibility, modernizing their cultures and monitoring the ever-changing environments in which they...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Pipeline Integrity Management
- The paper mentions that like reservoir management practices, pipeline management requires a delicate balance of many factors, including technical and managerial skills, financial resources, and environmental compliance. Within the constraints imposed by this balance, the commercial success of the pipeline must be maximized. As pipeline infrastructures age, inspection and maintenance...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Business Renewal:Building A Sustainable Growth Model
- "Business renewal is the identification, development and implementation of new business opportunities and is the life blood of business growth, longevity and value creation. These include strategy formulation, innovation, business development, strategic marketing, competitor and business intelligence, business network development and management and learning and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- U.S. Air Force Long-Range Strike Aircraft White Paper
- This report, on November 2001 describes the long-range bombers' significance in protecting US national security interests. It addresses the history of post Cold War bomber requirement, the current status of bombers, future conops and bomber longevity. The publisher responsible for it is the Department of the Air Force (United States...
- White papers 2001-11-01
- Onboarding for Employee Retention
- To retain the most desirable workers, employers must first recruit them. The actual hiring process is an important, but small step in the process of building relationships that encourage long-term employment relationships. To gain the highest productivity and the greatest longevity, wise employers will engage their people through an extensive,...
- White papers 2004-07-15
- Marketers, Heal Thyselves: Rx to Help Extend CMO Lifespan
- Marketers aiming to better position themselves and the marketing function to add real value to the organization have their work cut out for them. The paper depicts that the lack of longevity is due to the prevailing tendency to focus narrowly on traditional marketing-communications activities such as advertising rather than...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Containing Total Spend
- The article discusses that creating a perfect balance of organization, corporate rules, information technology, and sophisticated sourcing skill sets to capture, influence for the best, monitor, and thereby control every spend decision made in the corporation. However, a retrospective look by purchasing finds a series of refinements in approach as...
- White papers 2003-11-06
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