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- Malcolm Gladwell: Meaningful Work through Passion, not Genius
- At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink" and the upcoming "Outliers," gives two examples of hard work that later looked like genius. Bill Gates got up at 2am to program as a teenager, while the Beatles played together 1200 times, far more than most bands,...
- Videos 2008-11-06
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- Saving lives through risk management; Number crunching helps show the way to safer medicine.(Risk Manager of the Year)
- Byline: DAVE LENCKUS Outliers. In data analyses, they are observations that fall outside of the norm. But in health care claims data, they can mean so much more. Sometimes they point to an aggressive plaintiffs' bar or a friendly...
- Research articles 2005-04-18
- Vote for BNET's Best Business Books -- Final Call
- We're about to close voting on BNET's Best Business Books of 2008. We'll run the polls through Monday Thursday and then we'll close voting. So far, these are the top vote getters: "One Hen," Katie Smith Milway "Predictably Irrational," Dan Ariely ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- BNET's Best Business Books of 2008
- These ten business books, from across the spectrum, received the most "yes" votes from BNET readers, with links to relevant BNET content on books or authors: One Hen, Katie Smith Milway Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus Back of...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Best of BNET 2008: BNET's Best Business Books
- Here are synopses of BNET's Best Books of 2008, listed in order of votes received, with links to their Web sites, reviews, and author interviews where available. One Hen, by Katie Milway Smith 32 pages $18.95 Theme: Microfinance explained, in vivid color. Who...
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- Debunking the Myth of Labor Market Deregulation
- If you believe labor market deregulation is a good for business, you may want to check out the Bank for International Settlements working paper, "The Global Upward Trend in the Profit Share." Researchers found that profit share has been increasing all over the world, and that at least 14 of the 19 countries examined...
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Medicare Outlier Payments
- This paper discloses that the Medicare outlier payment system contains recognized weaknesses. Although HCFA/CMS as been put on notice of these regulatory flaws since it promulgated the outlier regulations in 1988, it has not taken any action to revise outlier payment policies. Hospitals should exercise caution, however, before following the...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Robust Nonparametric Estimation Of Efficiency And Technical Change In U.S. Commercial Banking
- This paper examines the performance of the U.S. commercial banking industry over 1984 C2002. Rather than measuring performance relative to the unknown (and difficult-to-estimate) boundary of the production set, performance for a given bank is measured relative to expected maximum output among m banks using no more of each input...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- An Independent Process For Compensation Committees Post-Sarbanes
- From the executive summary: ‘Many examples of excessive compensation, and cases involving bad conduct, are concerning executives as outliers and involve extreme facts. Nevertheless, the examples do provide important lessons to boards and compensation committees about good governance and protective processes. Although the suggestions may be more relevant to publicly...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Non-Linear Mapping for Exploratory Data Analysis in Functional Genomics
- This study indicates such a system that may represent a user-friendly and robust approach to exploratory data analysis. It may allow users to gain better insights into the underlying data structure, detect potential outliers and assess assumptions about the cluster composition of the data. This research assesses a relaxation method...
- White papers 2005-01-20
- Tensor Field Regularization Using Normalized Convolution
- This paper presents a filtering technique for regularizing tensor fields. It uses a nonlinear filtering technique termed normalized convolution, a general method for filtering missing and uncertain data. In the present work we extend the signal certainty function to depend on locally derived certainty information in addition to the priory...
- White papers 2004-04-13
- Standardisation of Data From Real-Time Quantitative PCR Methods - Evaluation of Outliers and Comparison of Calibration Curves
- As real-time quantitative PCR (RT-QPCR) is increasingly being relied upon for the enforcement of legislation and regulations dependent upon the trace detection of DNA, focus has increased on the quality issues related to the technique. The past work has focused on the identification of factors that contribute towards significant measurement...
- White papers 2005-12-07
- Foreign Investment And Growth: Central And Eastern Europe In Transition
- An empirical neoclassical growth model of the transition in Central and Eastern Europe reveals that foreign investment has incrementally contributed to economic growth. The model departs from the theoretical and applied growth literature with a partial adjustment model of foreign investment, estimating its phase equation with pooled data. Estimation reveals...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Exchange Rate Volatility And Productivity Growth: The Role Of Financial Development
- This paper offers empirical evidence that real exchange rate volatility can have a significant impact on long-term rate of productivity growth, but the effect depends critically on a country's level of financial development. For countries with relatively low levels of financial development, exchange rate volatility generally reduces growth, whereas for...
- White papers 2006-03-06
- Productivity, Efficiency And Economic Growth: East Asia And The Rest Of The World
- This paper compares the sources of growth in East Asia with the rest of the world, using a methodology that allows one to decompose Total Factor Productivity TFP growth into technical efficiency changes catching up and technological progress. It applies a varying coefficients frontier production function model to aggregate data...
- White papers 2003-03-05
- Late advantage.(Outliers)(Carnegie Mellon University )(Brief Article)
- Contrary to the popular aphorism, what the early bird gets is often the boot. Contrary to the popular aphorism, what the early bird gets is often the boot.
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- How Not to Do An Acquisition: AstraZeneca-MedImmune
- When AstraZeneca ponied up more than $15 billion for the biotech MedImmune just over a year ago, the deal suggested that desperate Big Pharmas were willing to open their wallets wide for biotechs without looking too closely into the question of whether they were really worth the money. As I...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- AvalonBay Communities Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Your first question comes from Jonathan Litt - Citigroup. Jonathan Litt - Citigroup On the dispositions you are planning for ?08, is it more a focus on specific markets or quality of assets? How are you looking at that going and picking out which...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-07
- Tidewater Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr End 9/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call Excerpt Tidewater Inc. TDW F2Q08 Earnings Call October 26, 2007, 9:00 AM CT Executives Dean E. Taylor - Chairman, President and CEO J. Keith Lousteau - CFO, EVP and Treasurer Joseph M. Bennett - Sr. VP, Principal Accounting Officer and Chief IR Officer Stephen W....
- Earnings calls 2007-10-28
- AT&T Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. We’ll now begin the question and answer session. Operator Instructions The first question comes from Jason Armstrong from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Jason Armstrong – Goldman Sachs Thanks. Good morning. Richard Dietz Good morning, Jason. Jason Armstrong – Goldman Sachs A couple questions....
- Earnings calls 2007-10-23
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