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- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
have been impossible to create only a few years before. However, in 2014, both Apple and Google announced features in their new mobile operating systems that collected and displayed output from various health-wearables (like heart-rate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
consistent with the aversion seen in some EU 15 countries. Alfaro: Overall, other countries can look to Slovakia as a model of what might happen when a flat tax is adopted, as this example illustrates several aspects. The overall economic performance has improved: Real...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches the outputs of these two production systems. The company has also built extensive expertise in accessing the many mortgage and funding...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
power plants were financed with long-term fixed price contracts for both inputs (gas supply) and outputs (and electricity purchase). More recently, "merchant plants" were financed without the benefit of long-term contracts,...
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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
addresses this gap and develops a theoretical background for further theoretical and empirical work on interorganizational cooperation between not-for-profits. We emphasize that for not-for-profits, unlike for-profits, neither inputs nor View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
shop seems to be hitting the sweet spot for those who like something creamy in their little cake. By April 2017, Viana will oversee production in a new, larger factory that will increase Jeannette’s output sixfold (including organic...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
the financial capital of the world was fully functional and that terrorism would not stop the American economy. Secondly, the city's economy needed to have the exchange back in business." (The city's financial sector generates 26 percent of the city's economic View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
less predictable than the clockwork tides that drive Verdant’s turbines, but it is still far more predictable than sunshine and wind. While offshore winds produce the waves that power Oscilla’s buoys, the ocean buffers them, leveling out some of the variation in energy...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
model choices aimed at increasing volume such as building new stores, increasing product variety, everyday low prices (EDLP), and high-powered incentives for store managers. Input and output prices played a smaller role under David Glass...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and hospitals yields change more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than non-integration but imposes a cost on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
unit to the next. One dimension along which a unit of output can vary-a dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer to whom it is delivered. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an impact, what will it take and how...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
something completely new. Managers, for example, were concerned about decreases in productivity, despite longstanding research showing that output increases in remote work environments. With this realization, however, many just continued...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
children attending school by 25 percent, and boosted agricultural output by two to four times, depending on the area. Now we’re talking to the UN, the World Bank, USAID, and others about scaling the village program to a countrywide level....
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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
one-year coaching engagement and the outputs from it, including her pre-coaching self-reflection, agreed-upon purpose and outcomes, 360 feedback, the coach’s advice to her, an in-depth coach’s final report, and Lane’s one-pager of lessons...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
the phone, watch the news, and look after my children at the same time, then I'm not doing enough." From an employer's point of view, she adds, "you want to get the maximum amount of output from a minimum number of hours. Who better to do...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
preferred ways. The price of output is a crucial determinant of this choice, since it affects the size of the pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs increase domestic product prices, this effect...
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Sean Silverthorne