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100 Day Success Plan for Crisis Recovery and New CEOs
16 Steps To Improvement
2001 Natural Products Expo East Show Review
2001: Year-End Roundup
24/7 Innovation: Moving Beyond Cost Cutting And Best Practices To Sustained Value
A Binary Entropy Measure to Assess Nonrigid Registration Algorithms
A Conceptual Framework for Multi-Modal Interactive Virtual Workspace
A First Look at the Accuracy of the CRSP Mutual Fund Database and a Comparison of the CRSP and Morningstar Mutual Fund Databases
A Guide For Establishing Service Level Specifications For Outsourcing Relationships
A Micromechanical Model for Blended Yarns With Fragmented Low-Elongation Fibers
A Model of Bankruptcy Prediction
A Multi-Objective Approach to Simultaneous Strategic and Operational Planning in Supply Chain Design
A National Action Plan For Safety And Security In America’s Cities
A New Technique for Simulation of Tunnel Excavation in a Centrifuge
A Note on the Pricing and Hedging of Volatility Derivatives
A Segmentation Analysis of U.S. Grocery Store Shoppers
A Sense Of Urgency
A Simple Model For Valuing Default Swaps When Both Market And Credit Risk Are Correlated
AAFA, CPSC Offer Tips to Make Kids Sleepwear Safe for Holiday
Accounting for Derivatives and Corporate Risk Management Policies
Achieving Measurable Performance Improvement in a Changing World: The Search for New Insights
Adopting Six Sigma
Adopting Six-Sigma
Advertising Effectiveness Audits
Aftermath: Coping With And Implementing Urgent, Radical Change
Ageing and Transport: Mobility Needs and Safety Issues
Airbus Versus Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft Market
Algorithms and Software for Development of Modular Vehicle Architectures
Allocating Bank Regulatory Powers:Lender Of Last Resort, Deposit Insurance And Supervision
America’s Bittersweet Sugar Policy
An Economic Survey of the Wine and Winegrape Industry in the United States and Canada
An Evaluation of Three Types of Gas Station Canopy Lighting
An Introduction Into the World of Public Relations
An Introduction to Biological Agent Detection Equipment for Emergency First Responders
An Object Tracking Computational Sensor
Analytic Applications And The Intelligent Supply Chain
Analyzing and Explaining Default Recovery Rates
Are Property-Casualty Insurance Reserves Biased?
Automakers Put Wheels On Supply Chain
Bank Runs Without Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Bank Runs, Welfare and Policy Implications
Banking Competition, Risk and Regulation
Bankruptcy & Insolvency News: December 2001
Base Case Forecast of California Transportation Energy Demand
Behavioral Intention Model for the Exchange Mode: Internet Music Piracy
Benchmarking Business Processes in Software Production: A Case Study
Benefits and Costs of Research: A Case Study of Construction Systems Integration and Automation Technologies in Commercial Buildings
Best of HBR on Leadership: Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Best Practices for mySAP Pharmaceuticals
Brand Matters
Building A Balanced Scorecard For Entrepreneurs
Building Business Profitability: The Value Connection-III
Building Entrepreneurial Networks
Building On Bedrock
Building Truss Roofs the Safe Way
Business Process Management: An Emerging Trend
Business Process Reengineering Analysis and Recommendations
Business Srategies for Sustainable Development
Buying Holiday Gifts
California Supreme Court Issues Ruling With Broad Implications For Property Insurers
Capital Markets Accounting Developments
CEO Survival: The First 100 Days (Plus 800 More)
Civic Environmentalism: A New Approach to Policy
Collaborating for Value:The New Supply Chain Solutions
Common Determinants of Bond and Stock Market Liquidity : The Impact of Financial Crises, Monetary Policy, and Mutual Fund Flows
Comparison of the CRSP and Morningstar Mutual Fund Databases
Competition and Innovation in the Consumer E-Payments Market: Considering the Demand, Supply, and Public Policy Issues
Competitive Affairs: The Next Step in the Continuing Evolution of Business Productivity
Comprehensive Modeling of the Apache With CAMRAD II
Conservation Tips: Advice for Framing Textiles
Consumer Decision-Making at an Internet Shopbot: Brand Still Matters
Context of Human Error in Commercial Aviation
Contractual Savings Institutions and Banks ' Stability and Efficiency
Conversion of Group Life Insurance
Copycat Funds: Information Disclosure Regulation and the Returns to Active Management in the Mutual Fund Industry
Corporate Paperwork
Costs Of A Borderless World.
Creating A "Sinking Fund" In An ESOP To Fund Repurchase Obligations
Creating Your Advertising Plan
Customer Satisfaction: The Elusive Quarry
Cut Loose From Old Business Processes
De-Stress For Success Maintaining A Watchful Eye For The Signs Of Job Burnout
Deactivation and Durability of the Catalyst for Hotspot Natural Gas Processing
Dealing With Difficult Behavior
Dear Prudence
Dear Prudence: Offering Company Stock in Employee 401(k)s May Not Always Be Wise, Just Ask Lucent
Decision Support Systems: Using Technology for Successful Management
Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Choices, and the Path of Least Resistance
Demystifying Advertising Investments
Derivatives Of Derivatives
Design and Quality Control of Concrete Overlays
Designing Effective Incentive-Oriented Outsourcing Contracts for ERP Systems
Development of Modular Electrical Systems
Digging Into Department Of Energy (DOE)
Director's & Officer's Liability: Risks for Enterprises With Exposure in the United States
Disability - Global Trends and International Perspectives
Distributed Energy Resources: Responding to Energy Needs in the Central and Near West States
Distributed Engineering in Construction: Findings From the IMS GLOBEMEN Project
Do Your Customers Trust Your Brand?
Does Acquisition By Non-U.S. Shareholders Cause U.S. Firms To Pay Less Tax?
Does Reinsurers Need Reinsurance
Don't Waste Time And Money
Dueling Lawsuits in Enron – The Complaints in the Northern Natural Gas Dispute
Dynamic Performance of the Eagle Pass Back-To-Back HVDC Light Tie
E-Learning As A Strategic Corporate Asset
eCommerce in the Fixed-Income Markets
Editorial: The Role of CRM in Changing and Facilitating Competitive Advantage
Effects of Remote, Retroactive Intercessory Prayer on Outcomes in Patients With Bloodstream Infection: Randomised Controlled Trial
Enabling the Construction Virtual Enterprise: The OSMOS Approach
Enemies Within
Enron Corp. and Related Entities Legal and Strategic Issues Affecting Creditors of Enron
Enron Denies 401(k) Charges: Workers Claim Company Prevented Investment Changes While the Stock Price Disintegrated
Enron Litigation -- The Shape of Things to Come
Enron’s Unsecured Creditors and the Road Ahead
Enterprise Performance Management - Strategies for Surviving in the Web-Speed Economy
Entrepreneurship by Alliance
Entrepreneurship in Rural America
Environmental Justice: The U.S. Experience
Equilibrium Analysis, Banking and Financial Instability
Equity Portfolio Diversification
Estimating Dynamic Models of Children's Health Insurance Coverage
Evaluating the Adequacy of the Deposit Insurance Fund: A Credit-Risk Modeling Approach
Evaluating the Feasibility of Digital Watermarking to Enforce Music Copyright
Everest Best Practices
Explaining Stock Returns: A Literature Survey
Exploring the Capital Markets and Securitization for Renewable Energy Projects
Export Controls: Reengineering Business Processes Can Improve Efficiency of State Department License Reviews
Extending the Gas Network - Cost Benefit Analysis
External Corporate Venturing - Exploration and Exploitation
External reporting – Breaking The Paradigm Could Bring Improved Capital Allocation
Fast-food Culture Serves up Super-Size Americans
Firms Can Take Steps To Limit Chances For Workplace Violence
Foreign Currency Credit Ratings For Emerging Market Economies
From Physical Marketing to Web Marketing: The Web-Marketing Mix
Fuel Cell Powered Light Commercial Vehicle Design Study
Fuel Leak Simulation
Gait Sequence Analysis using Frieze Patterns
Getting Hitched
Getting Windows Right
Global Sourcing in the U.S. Apparel Industry
GSEs, Mortgage Rates, And The Long-Run Effects of Mortgage Securitization
H.263 Video Transcoding for Spatial Resolution Downscaling
Hand in Hand with Contractors
Health Insurance and Diabetes
Hedge Fund Performance 1990-2000: Do The ‘Money Machines’ Really Add Value?
Hedge Funds Returns and Their Drivers
Heterogeneous Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization
High Tech’s Inventory Overhang
Hot or Cold?
How Sharp Is Your Sales Structure?
How Siebel Systems Found Its Groove
How The September 11 Attacks Changed Offshore Outsourcing
How to Conquer Organizational Change
How to Get Out of Mounting Debt
How To Maximize The Alliance Factor In Outsourcing
How To Sell Change
How Will Your Company Adapt?
HR as Product: Be the Brand of Choice!
Human Resource Requirements of the Financial Sector Under a Liberalized Regime
Human Resources Management Framework - A Reference Tool for Managers
IBM CRM Management Services
If It Looks Like a Claim and Sounds Like a Claim, Is It a Claim for Reinsurance Purposes
Impacts of Telecommuting on Vehicle Miles Traveled: A Nationwide Time Series Analysis
Implementation Of ISO 9001:2000 In The Food And Drink Industry
Implementing ERP Systems in China
Import-Reducing Effect of Trade Barriers: A Cross-Country Investigation
In The Driver's Seat: Want To Learn To Negotiate? Consider The World Of Automobile Sales, Leasing
Independent Producers: Meeting America's Needs
Industrial Distributed Generation Program
Inflation Vs. Deflation: The Evidence So Far
Innovation Compass: A Self-audit Tool for the New Product Development Process
Innovations in Corporate Philanthropy: Adopting Balanced Scorecard Methodologies to Build Strategy and Evaluation Systems
Integrating Independent Power Producers Into Emerging Wholesale Power Markets
Interest Rate Risk: An Evaluation of Duration Matching as a Risk-Minimizing Strategy for Property/Casualty Insurers
Internal Quality Auditing: Meeting The Challenge Of ISO 9000:2000
Investment Research: Are We Heading for Disaster?
Investors Tiptoe Through Maze of Mortgage REITs
Is Regulation Right Around The Corner
Is That a Light at the End of That Tunnel?
Is the Opportunity Cost of Idle Capacity Zero? Coase (1938) Versus Managerial Accounting Circa 2000
Is There Life After Downsizing?
Is Your Investment In Strategy Being Wasted In Execution?
ISO 9000 Guidelines For Health Care Sector
ISO 9000 the New Skoda
ISO Develops Unique Standard For Auditing ISO 9000 And ISO 14000 Systems
It's Better to Hang Together Than to Hang Separately: Producing Physician-Hospital Collaboration in Troubled Times
Iterative Reengineering of Legacy Functions
Keep It Simple, Sonny
Keep Your Employees Today for Higher Profits Tomorrow
Key Technical and Non-Technical Challenges for Mass Deployment of Photovoltaic Solar Energy (PV)
Knowledge Management Key to Fighting Money Laundering, Terrorist Funding
Knowledge Management Metrics Via a Balanced Scorecard Methodology
Knowledge Managers: Who They Are and What They Do
Leadership on 9/11: Morgan Stanley's Challenge
Learning To Lead, Part II
Leveraging Customer-level Information for Product-level Decisions
Liquidity Black Holes
Loan Loss Provisioning and Economic Slowdowns: Too Much, Too Late?
Loss Reduction and Implicit Deductibles in Medical Insurance
M-Commerce: Analysis of Impact on Marketing Orientation
Make It Simple and Light: Some Thoughts on Real Estate Related Taxation in China
Making The Connection Leadership Skills And Emotional Intelligence
Management By Objectives
Management Of Risk in Fixed Income Asset Management
Managing A Termination
Marine Biotechnology
Marketing Strategies for Small Farms: Missouri Goats First on Internet Auction
Maximizing Return
Mix Vol9 - December 2001
Model Uncertainty and Liquidity
Modeling of Smart Composite Shell Structures
Modelling Mortgage Rate Changes with a Smooth Transition Error-Correction Model
Modelling Operational Risk
Modelling the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Countries Using Prior Information
Models of Eukaryotic Gradient Sensing: Application to Chemotaxis of Amoebae and Neutrophils
Money, Monetary Policy, and Transmission Mechanisms
Moving a Slow-Clockspeed Business Into the Fast Lane: Strategic Sourcing Lessons From Value Chain Redesign in the Automotive Industry
NASA Employee Performance Communication System
Natural Foods: Growth Should Remain Strong
Natural Gas Production: Where Price Controls Failed, the Market Succeeded
Natural Gas: Can We Produce Enough?
Natural Gas: It Can Meet Future Demand, But National Policies Must Change
New Retirement Plan Dollar Limits for 2002
Norwegian Patients in EU Hospitals: The Medical Treatment Abroad Project
NYSERDA's Approach to the Promotion of Distributed Generation and Combined Heat & Power
On Inflation and the Persistence of Shocks to Output
On The Security of Today's On-Line Electronic Banking Systems?
Operational Experience of HVDC Light
Opportunity Rings: Branding Through SMS
Optimal Investment Problems and Volatility Homogenization Approximations
Organizing For Product Development
Outsource Your HR Headaches
Overstatement of Goodwill In Audited Financial Statements Does Not Bar Suit Against Valuation Advisor
Overview of Renewable Energy Technologies
Ownership Concentration, Private Benefits of Control and Debt Financing
Partners In Change: How To Achieve Business Transformation Through Outsourcing
Payback Time For Supply Chains
Payor's Prescription for Painless Migration to Electronic Healthcare Payments and Remittance Advices
Perceived Fairness of Demand-Based Pricing for Restaurants
Phone Banking: Your Personal Banking Access
Photovoltaics in Buildings: Domestic Field Trial
Pipe Dreams No More
Price Ceilings as Focal Points for Tacit Collusion: Evidence From Credit Cards
Privacy Matters: The Right to Privacy and the Financial Services Industry
Production and Consumption of Meat: Implications for the Global Environment and Human Health
Property/Casualty Fixed Income Investments...2000
Protecting Confidential Litigation Documents Requires Increasing Vigilance
Public Interest Energy Research Program: 2000 Annual Report
Public Policies to Stimulate the Development of Vaccines and Drugs for the Neglected Diseases
Punxsutawney Leadership
Put the Right People in the Right Jobs
Putting The Strategy Back In Your Sourcing
Puzzles Over International Taxation of Cross Border Flows of Capital Income
Real Estate Auction: Whose Sale Is This, Anyway?
Real-Time Registration of Volumetric Brain MRI by Biomechanical Simulation of Deformation During Image Guided Neurosurgery
Recent Development in the Robotic Stitching Technology for Textile Structural Composites
Reforming Lives? Progressivism, Leadership and Educational Change
Regulation on Setting, Calculating and Observing Overall Open Foreign Exchange Position
Regulator Use of Market Data to Improve the Identification of Bank Financial Distress
Relational Quality and Interpersonal Trust in Strategic Alliances
Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits and Mortality
Remote Possibilities
Report of the Working Group on Extending the Gas Network
Responding to Emergencies and Crises
Rethinking ERP-Outsourcing Decisions for Leveraging Technological and Preserving Business Knowledge
Revenue Recognition : More Stringent Rules on the Horizon
Risk Analysis And Risk Management In An Uncertain World
Risk Taking, Limited Liability and the Competition of Bank Regulators
Risk Transfer between Banks, Insurance Companies and Capital Markets: An Overview
Risk, Mispricing, and Asset Allocation: Conditioning on Dividend Yield
Rosen Products LLC Implements ISO 14001
Same Price, Cash or Card: Vertical Control by Payment Networks
Search Engine Marketing: Can You Afford Not To?
Seven Strategies For Successful Alliances
Sexual Harassment at Work - Sri Lanka Study With Focus on the Plantation Sector
Siting of Active Solar Collectors and Photovoltaic Modules
Six Sigma and technical communication
Smart shopping
Sources Of Inflation In Developing Countries
Strategic Alliances: The Role of Civil Society in Health
Strategic Chronicle - Issue No. 1
Strategy for the Recession
Strong Finish to a Topsy-Turvy Year
Studies on Probability-Based Design for Residential Construction
Successful CRM and Organisational Change: Is Your Organisation Fit to Drive?
Supply Chain Interrupted
Surefire Wood Fuel Harvester Development Project
Synchronize Your Demand Chain
Takeover Bids Vs. Proxy Fights In Contests For Corporate Control
Tax Incentives for Long Term Care Insurance: A Microsimulation Analysis
Taxes and Health Insurance
Taxes on Buildings and Land in a Dynamic Model of Real Estate Markets
The Amazing Disintegrating Firm: The Tragedy Of One Company's Rise And Fall
The Balanced Scorecard
The Benefits Of Long/Short Investment Strategies In A Low-Return Stock Market Environment
The Continuing Impact Of September 11 On Workers Compensation
The Continuing Relevance of Investor Expectations
The Diversification Debate
The Effect of Background Noise on P300 to Suprathreshold Stimuli
The Effects Of The Selective Consideration Of Alternatives On Consumer Choice And Attitude-Decision Consistency
The eLEGAL Project: Specifying Legal Terms of Contract in ICT Environment
The Error Term
The Evolution of ERP Systems: A Historical Perspective
The Evolution of the U.S. Automobile Industry and Detroit as Its Capital
The Future of Retail Electronic Payments Systems: Industry Interviews and Analysis
The Global Markets for Telecom and Datacom Test Equipment
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Actual 100-Day Transition Plan
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Building Rapport With Your New Team
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: Business Fundamentals Don't Change!
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Case Study: Improving Product Management
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Case Study: Large-Scale, Web-Based Business
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: CEO and Entrepreneur's Field Guide
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: CEO Logic.. Ideas From Leading Business Executives
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: CEO Survival Guide
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Creating a Sales System That Works
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Establishing Performance Standards
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: Goal Tracking Template
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: How to Build a Winning Business
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: How to Interview, Hire and Fire
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Leaders Are Responsible for Growth
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Leadership Method of Ancient Warriors
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Merger Success Workshop
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: Nine Vital Steps for New CEOs
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Proven Merger Integration Strategies
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Sales Growth Workshop
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Sales Plan Template
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Special Report: Advice for New CEOs
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: Strategic Planning Outline: Short Version
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Success Plan for Building Coalitions of Support
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Supercharge Your Business Performance
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: The 15-Step Action Plan for New CEOs
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The 20 Vital Questions a New CEO Must Ask
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Laws of Leadership
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Building Loyalty and Trust
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Check Your Ego
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Common Leadership Mistakes
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Communication
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Courage and Risk Taking
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Creating a Compelling Vision
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Dealing With Performance Issues
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Developing Your Team
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Hiring an All-Star Team
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Making Decisions
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: People Skills
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Performance Standards
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Leadership Series: Responsibility for Results
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: The Methods of Business Champions
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: The Pareto Principle & the 80-20 Rule
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Time Management and Sealing the Cracks
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: Top Reasons CEOs and Entrepreneurs Fail
The Ideabridge White Paper Series: Unacceptable Business Conduct
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Vision and Mission Statement Workshop
The IdeaBridge White Paper Series: Winning on the Playing Field of Business Adaptation From "The Packer Way"
The impact of ISO 14001
The Impact of the Growth of Large, Multistate Banking Organizations on Community Bank Profitability
The Influence of Quotas, Tariffs and Bilateral Trade Agreement on Post 2005 Apparel Trade
The Influence of Trade Issues on the World Cotton Demand
The Leadership Series: Building Momentum
The Leadership Series: Staying Cool When the Heat Is On!
The Migration of Feature Film Production From the U.S. to Canada: Year 2000 Production Report
The New Agricultural Trade Negotiations: Background and Issues for the U.S. Beef Sector
The New Business Significance of Branding
The New Consumer
The Next Generation of Balanced Scorecards
The Partnership of Electricity Storage and Distributed Generation
The Performance of Lodging Properties in an Investment Portfolio
The Quest for Customer Centricity - II
The Role of Industrial Country Policies in Emerging Market Crises
The State of Industry
The Talent Edge
The Transmission Mechanism and the Role of Asset Prices in Monetary Policy
The Treatment of Non-Performing Loans in Macroeconomic Statistics.
Time To Focus
To Lend And Lend Not
Toward a Dialogic Theory of Public Relations
Training Plumbers to Design and Install Solar Water Heating Systems for Households ("Shine 21")
Trends in Cesarean Birth and Vaginal Birth After Previous Cesarean, 1991-99
U.S. Department of Energy's Combined Heat and Power Program
Understanding the World Petroleum Market
Use of Electrically Powered Medical Equipment on Aircraft
Using A Risk Model To Build Development Team Consensus
Valuation Of Brands And Intellectual Capital
Value-Chain Report -- Optimizing Supply-Chain Networks
Venture Capital Climate for Bioscience in Maryland
Vital Success Plan for New CEOs and Entrepreneurs: Vital Success Plan for New CEOs and Entrepreneurs
Welcome to the Dark Side: Hedge Fund Attrition and Survivorship Bias Over the Period 1994-2001
What Determines Inflation in Emerging Market Economies?
What Do We Really Know About Whether Health Insurance Affects Health?
What You Need To Know About Six Sigma
What You Should Know About Globalization and the World Trade Organization
What's Your Plan?
What’s Life Like for Would-be Entrepreneurs These Days? Two Pros Lay It Out
When The Boss Says Work, Work, Work
Who Influences Debates in Business Ethics? An Investigation into the Development of Corporate Governance in the UK Since 1990
Why International Equity Inflows to Emerging Markets are Inefficient and Small Relative to International Debt Flows
Why International Equity Inflows to Emerging Markets are Inefficient and Small Relative to International Debt Inflows
Why Your ERP Integration Efforts End Up Looking Like This
WorldFinancial Center: New Horizon in Insurance and Banking
WORM: Web-Based Communication and Project Management