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		<title><![CDATA[American Public Education, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Sure. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Jeff Lee - Signal Hill. Jeff Lee - Signal Hill  Instructional costs were down pretty strongly in the quarter. Did the trends from last quarter where you said that your normal full time faculty spent time teaching...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:38:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Two-Wholesale-Price Contracts: Push, Pull, And Advance-Purchase Discount Contracts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=321707]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The allocation of inventory ownership affects the inventory availability in a supply chain, which in turn determines the supply chain performance. In this paper, the publisher consider a supplier-retailer supply chain in which the supplier starts production well in advance of the selling season, and the retailer is offered two...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AWD Case Study: Sisters of Mercy Health System - St. John's Mercy Health Care]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=164570]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[St. Louis-based Mercy is a large integrated delivery network, supporting seven-state area. Mercy decentralizes its operations with regional Strategic Service Units, which benefit from local management and system strength. One of these units is St. John's Mercy Health Care in St. Louis. In St. John's quest to provide top quality...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An Overview of Strategy Development Models and the Ward-Rivani Model]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=163869]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With publications in the field of strategy now in the thousands it is difficult to get an overall picture of how to classify and appreciate strategy tools and models. Mintzberg et al. have developed schools of thought to help alleviate and categorise this problem but this approach lacks a comparison...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Optimal Choice Models for Executing Time to American Options]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=119964]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Based on the structure models of options pricing on non-dividend-paying stock, this paper presents the choosing models and methods of optimal time of executing an American options for the first time. By using the models and methods, paper finds the choosing criterion and optimal time to exercise the American options,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Boca Resorts Inc. Valuation Report]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=117774]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper presents the valuation of Boca Resorts Inc. a luxury recreational lodging business based in the United States. The McKinsey model was implemented in order to conduct this valuation. The final equity value obtained in this valuation is lower than the market value of the firm and this discrepancy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sales force Compensation: Revisiting and Extending the Agency-Theoretic Approach]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the papers of Basu et. al. and Lal and Srinivasan, marketing academics have been interested in the design and implementation of optimal compensation plans. The literature has focused on agency theory as a foundation to help describe and understand this process. Although there has been much theoretical work on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Handling Saturation in Demand: Estimates From Theatrical-Run Motion Pictures]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=125082]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper considers theory and evidence from the domestic theatrical movie industry regarding biases in estimation that arise when saturation in demand is ignored or approximated with a product's age. The underlying structural model and resulting partial reduced form model can both be readily generalized for other applications. Results indicate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Symposium Foreword - After The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: The Future Of The Mandatory Disclosure System]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=93113]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has proved to be the most important Federal corporate governance and securities legislation. The U.S. Government however, is focusing on specific aspects of corporate governance and the Federal mandatory disclosure system. The paper discusses the future aspects of mandatory disclosure system.   ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Power Of Negative Thinking: Government Regulation And Economic Performance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=287240]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The author start off with a proposition duly overstated - which should fit comfortably with the remarks of other contributors to this conference on supply-side economics: it is futile to focus so heavily on tax incentives to encourage economic activity at a time when the governmental regulatory apparatus is imposing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[From Enron To WorldCom And Beyond: Life And Crime After Sarbanes-Oxley]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=93101]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the corporate meltdown began, Federal and State regulators have initiated criminal fraud investigations against dozens of corporations. The process resulted in the implementation of corporate governance reforms and enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX. The paper examines the aftermath of the SOX Act on various organizations.   ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A New Empirical Study of Grandstanding in the Venture Capital Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=120273]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Grandstanding is the act by a venture capitalist of taking a firm public prematurely in order to obtain a reputation. This paper examines the grandstanding hypothesis with data from a more current period, 1992-2001, and for another industry, the communications industry. The firm age at the time of its IPO...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest: A SVAR Approach]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=122286]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article estimates the historical time series of the natural rate of interest using a structural vector autoregressive model. This method returns plausible results and thus seems to be well designed for the estimation of the natural rate of interest. It shows that the natural rate exhibits quite substantial variability...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Innovation In Organizations]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=83073]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Organizational Structure OS defines the roles and the activities of different organizational positions within the organization. The degree of OS effectiveness is directly proportional to the degree of innovation in work processes and solutions effected by the organization. The paper examines the dynamics of OS towards developing an atmosphere of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BPR: An Overview]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=91134]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Intense competition and high levels of quality and service characterize the modern business era. In such scenario, it is imperative for organizations to look at new ways of implementing organizational systems and processes. Business Process Reengineering BPR is the radical redesign and transformation of strategic organizational systems to enhance the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pricing of Short Life-Cycle Products Through Active Learning]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revenue management techniques, practiced for many years in the airline and hotel industries, have gained popularity with retailers. One such technique - dynamic pricing - refers to the intelligent process of controlling prices over a course of a sales season in a way that maximizes expected revenues. In this paper,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Time-Series Framework for Supply-Chain Inventory Management]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This report considers a supply chain in which the underlying demand process can be described in a linear state space form. Inventory is managed at various points of the chain members, based on local information that each member observes and continuously updates. The key feature of the model is that...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inventory and Sourcing Strategies for Non-Commodities: The Role and the Extent of Use of Speculative Markets and Supply Contracts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of this research is to better understand the role of speculators and their impact on the supplier manufacturer relationships. Speculators, using Business to Business exchanges (B2B), have attempted over the last several years to provide supply for the non commodity goods. Through this report it is hoped to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Optimal And Actual Use Of Economic Value Added In Incentive Compensation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=82458]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From the executive summary: ‘Executive compensation is increasingly sensitive to stock returns. However, even abnormal stock returns are highly volatile, and an optimal contract shields the agent from as much variability as possible. It is not surprising then that non-stock performance measures, such as earnings and other accounting measures are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Introducing a Benchmark Control Problem for a Cable-Stayed Bridge Subjected to Seismic Excitation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=124074]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper defines the first-generation benchmark structural control problem for cable-stayed bridges. The goal of this study is to provide a test bed for the development of strategies for the control of cable stayed-bridges. A three-dimensional finite element evaluation model has been developed to represent the complex behavior of the...]]></description>
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