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- Near-Miss Incident Management in the Chemical Industry
- This paper provides a systematic framework for the analysis and improvement of near-miss programs in the chemical process industries. Near-miss programs improve corporate Environmental, Health, and Safety EHS performance through the identification and management of near misses. Based on more than 100 interviews at 20 chemical and pharmaceutical facilities, a...
- White papers 2003-05-22
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- Determining the Right Price for a Product or Service
- Setting the price of a product or service is both a financial and marketing issue. Clearly, the price has to cover all the costs you have incurred. It also has to generate a profit—the business won't survive otherwise. Then again, you should never gouge your customers or you will lose...
- Articles 2007-05-03
- So Much for Comparative Effectiveness
- The Obama administration's commitment to cost control in health care can now be summed up in four words: Not on our watch. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told American women yesterday that they have nothing to learn from the science that led to the U.S....
- News items 2009-11-19
- Flow, Branding and Media Saturation: Towards a Critical Analysis of Promotional Marketing in Children's Television
- Over the last fifty-five years children and youth have been empowered in the market society gaining more money for making discretionary purchases, greater say in what they and their families consume and acquiring more leisure time for both recreation and shopping. But because fair market exchange assumes informed rational decision-makers,...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Social-networking ban for sex offenders: Bad call?
- The just-signed Illinois law banning sex offenders from social-networking sites might seem like a good idea to protect children, but it will have virtually no impact on their safety and could wind up making things worse.The law, which was signed Thursday by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, would prevent registered sex...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Net threat to minors less than feared
- A long awaited report from the Internet Safety Technical Task Force concludes that children and teens are less vulnerable to sexual predation than many have feared. The report also questions the efficacy and necessity of some commonly prescribed remedies designed to protect young people.The Task Force was formed as a...
- News items 2009-08-07
- JUST HOW STRONG IS THE U.S. ECONOMY?
- David Rosenberg is a 20 year veteran of the Street, David most recently was Merrill Lynch's chief North American Economist, where he correctly warned about the Housing and Credit Collapse and Recession in advance. He is the Chief Economist of Canada's Gluskin Sheff > > What made things so interesting...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Planning to Enter a Foreign Market
- Foreign markets can be very attractive to a business looking for new customers, especially when its home market is becoming saturated. Such an expansion, however, needs to be thoroughly researched and carefully planned to ensure that the timing is right. To begin with, a business needs to have successful products...
- Articles 2007-10-19
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Blame the Bystanders to the Meltdown
- Taxpayers, retirees, "perhaps even capitalism and free society" has been mugged. What's happened in the financial markets is a crime, and it's made worse by the fact there were plenty of bystanders who stood by and watched daylight robbery, say authors Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who wrote "The Black Swan", and Pablo Triana, whose...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- "Witch Hunts" of New Designs Can Minimize Potential Catastrophes
- DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - "What if?" sessions can lead to safer airplane designs. After a series of technical discussions at the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE aviation safety conference here covering fault-tree analysis, acceptable probabilities, hazardous risk matrices and other tools and techniques for producing safe airplane designs, Capt....
- Research articles 1999-04-19
- Visa, Mastercard and the Debit Card Revolution
- Trader Mark submits: We spoke of this trend of debit vs credit in the analysis of the Visa V report last week [Apr 30, 2009: Visa V Beats the Street] and it was part of the reason I hedged away from Mastercard MA going into earnings (although the valuation gulf...
- External links 2009-05-04
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