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- P&G's Secret Weapon: "OR Inside"
- Operations research isn't just geek science at P&G. It's how the $76 billion giant makes every crucial decision, from marketing to inventory management. For decades, Procter & Gamble mostly trusted its executives and brand managers' gut instincts to make critical decisions — when to launch a new product, say, or...
- Articles 2008-02-14
- Key Terms and Players of Operations Research
- More and more companies are turning to data analysts and mathematical engineers to solve key business problems. Here's a guide to the key players and the basic lexicon of their craft — operations research. Key Players Oracle: Oracle is one...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- How Operations Research Drives Success at P&G
- Operations research isn't just geek science at P&G. It's an integral part of the company's marketing, sales and supply chain. ...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- The Future of Operations Research
- How one prominent academic, UC Berkeley's Lee W. Schruben, sees the evolution of operations research in the business world. BNET: What are the big unsolved problems for OR in practice today? Schruben: We have to realize that what we’re actually doing...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- An Introduction to the Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon Interface
- Articles 2007-02-05
- Conference Call Today With Prudential Securities' Chief Economist and Director of Quantitative Analysis to Discuss 2000 Forecasts
- Business Editors
- Research articles 1999-12-22
- American Express Acquires Assets of Dynamic Ideas, LLC; New Team Will Expand American Express' Quantitative Analysis Capabilities
- Business Editors
- Research articles 2002-08-12
- The Vital Role of Web Conferencing in Small & Medium Enterprises: A Wainhouse Research Quantitative Analysis
- Web conferencing as a general-purpose business tool has undergone tremendous growth in adoption and usage over the past few years. While many think of Web conferencing as a large enterprise application, it has in fact shown remarkable attractiveness to small and medium enterprise SME users as well. ...
- Webcasts 2006-08-29
- How Frequent Is Organizational Political Behavior?
- This paper explains the extent to which Swedish managers have reported that political behavior existed at their companies during change activities. Several scientific case studies lend support to the change management writers who argue that political behavior is an important factor in organizational change. There is, however, a lack of...
- White papers 2004-01-06
- From Individual to Aggregate Labor Supply: A Quantitative Analysis Based on a Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomy
- This paper investigates the mapping from individual to aggregate labor supply using a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model with an incomplete market. The nature of heterogeneity among workers is calibrated using wage data from the PSID. The gross worker flows between employment and nonemployment and the cross-sectional earnings and wealth distributions...
- White papers 2003-07-08
- Quantitative Analysis of Hedge Fund and Managed Futures Return and Risk Characteristics
- Hedge funds and commodity trading advisors have different trading styles and trading opportunities than traditional stock and bond mutual fund managers. As a result, factors that incorporate the possibility of returns to trending prices, short sales, and volatility may better capture their relative return movement. Previous studies have focused on...
- White papers 2003-06-13
- Why Do General Practices Integrate?: A Quantitative Analysis of the Factors Affecting Integration in Primary Care
- Although many different types of integration in primary care are currently occurring, this paper focuses on Local Health Care Co-operatives LHCCs. These are new types of integrated primary care organisations. Given that LHCC membership is voluntary, general practices can choose whether or not to join an LHCC. This raises the...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Textual and Quantitative Analysis: Towards a New, e-Mediated Social Science
- This paper describes a method for automatically extracting sentiment from texts: the frequency of use of positive and negative sentiment words that may reflect a community's sentiment. The method is applied to a corpus of financial news text to automatically extract frequent key terms and symbols; and automatically disambiguate key...
- White papers
- Incorporating Gender Into the Quantitative Analysis of Macro-Poverty Links
- This paper examines how gender issues are addressed in current analyses of macro-poverty links. Among CGE models, if gender-based issues are modeled at all, they tend to be secondary in importance and often added as a special device to a standard model. However, new studies are emerging that specify more...
- White papers 2003-10-14
- PRYM Philosophy, Methodology & Benchmarking (Extract)
- Making better decisions requires better information. Yet as information and data become cheaper and more plentiful, it becomes harder to make sense of it and put it to good use. That's where robust quantitative analysis and information technology play a role by helping sort, cleanse and analyze data to produce...
- White papers 2005-05-02
- A Quantitative Analysis of Tax Competition V. Tax Coordination Under Perfect Capital Mobility
- Theory predicts that strategically-determined tax rates induce negative externalities across countries in relative prices, the wealth distribution and tax revenue. This paper studies the interaction of these externalities in a dynamic, general equilibrium environment and its effects on quantitative outcomes of tax competition in one-shot games over capital income taxes...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Quantitative Analysis of MRI Signal Abnormalities of Brain White Matter With High Reproducibility and Accuracy
- The purpose of this paper is to assess the reproducibility and accuracy compared to radiologists of three automated segmentation pipelines for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging MRI measurement of brain white matter signal abnormalities WMSA. The addition of TDS to the EM segmentation and PVEC algorithms significantly improved the accuracy of...
- White papers 2002-01-23
- Quantitative Analysis Of Hedge Fund Return/Risk Characteristics
- The research indicates that, over recent years, the performance of hedge funds has strongly exceeded that of mutual funds and broad market indicators in these areas: in net returns; in reward-risk ratio; and, for some time periods, in absolute risk of a loss. A recent growth rate of over 20%...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Quantitative Analysis of Net Servicos de Comunicaco - First Quarter 2005
- DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c24489) has announced the addition of Quantitative analysis of Net Servicos de Comunicaco - First Quarter 2005 to their offering. This report provides independent quantitative research on Net Servicos de Comunicaco in the first quarter 2005, including an up to date profile of...
- Research articles 2005-09-20
- Dow Jones Changes the Financial News Game by Delivering News Optimized for Algorithmic Trading and Quantitative Analysis; New Format Permits Trading Models and Computers to Interpret Headlines and Trade on News within Milliseconds.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 March 2007-DOW JONES: Dow Jones Changes the Financial News Game by Delivering News Optimized for Algorithmic Trading and Quantitative Analysis; New Format Permits Trading Models and Computers to Interpret Headlines and Trade on News within MillisecondsC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06032007 ...
- Research articles 2007-03-06
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