White papers Pages Index on 2001-03

12g-3 Mergers
2001 A Technology Odyssey
2001 GLOBAL e.fr@ud survey
2001 International Housewares Show Review
90 Days To A Better Brand
A Case For Conglomerates
A Comparison of Induction-Detection NMR and Force- Detection NMR on Micro-NMR Device Design
A Federal Role for Terrorism Risk
A Methodology for Optimum Deepwater Safety System Selection
A Model for Assessing the Impact of Electronic Procurement Forms
A Model of Credit Risk, Optimal Policies, and Asset Prices
A New Approach to Takeover Law and Regulatory Competition
A New Desiccant Evaporative Cooling Cycle for Solar Air Conditioning and Hot Water Heating
A Positive Customer Experience Will Build A Solid Brand
A Review of Biomass Integrated-Gasifier/Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Technology and Its Application in Sugarcane Industries, With an Analysis for Cuba
A Study of Failure Criteria of Fibrous Composite Materials
A Taxonomy Of Brand Linkages: The Brand-Relationship-Interaction (BRI) Matrix
A Technology to Selectively Core and Drill With Real-time Wireline-Retrievable MWD Applied in Deepwater
Accounting/Actuarial Bias Enables Equity Investment
Accounting: Subtle Issues in Revenue Recognition
Adverse Events in British Hospitals: Preliminary Retrospective Record Review
Air Traffic Control (ATC) Related Accidents and Incidents: A Human Factors Analysis
Aligning Images Incrementally Backwards
Aligning Your Organization And Your Brand For Performance
Allocating The Sale
An Insurance Industry View
An Overview of Current Issues for Non-life Insurers
Analysis of Oil Spill Trends in the United States and Worldwide
Antecedents and Consequences of Independence Risk: Framework for Analysis
Applying the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) to the Analysis of Commercial Aviation Accident Data
Are You Drilling Optimized or Spinning Your Wheels
Article for Copyright World: Current Affairs Send-Up Allowed to Use TV Footage
Assumed Rates of Discount for Valuations of
Avoiding Channel Conflict
Banking Competition, Risk, and Regulation
Battling Burnout: Without Support From Top Management, Bad Things Can Happen To Good Knowledge Managers
Been Hacked? Call Your Insurance Agent
Behavior Scoring
Benefits of Commodity Investment
Big Pharma Can Still Find Big Value in E-Health
Brand Value Management - The Achilles Heel Of Many Risk Management
Branding Together With Smart Ads
Building External Corporate Venturing Capability: Initial Conditions, Learning Processes and Knowledge Management
Business Case For Outsourcing : A New Value Model
Business Ethics: Making the World a Better Place
Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce Statistics
Can Effective Synthetic Vision System Displays Be Implemented on Limited Size Display Spaces?
Canada's New Tax Rules Raise Stock Of Employee Options
Capital Markets Research in Accounting
Casing Drilling Technology Moves to More Challenging Applications
CEE.s Commercial HVAC Guidelines Define Efficient Installation: Proper Sizing, Installation Can Save Up to 50 Percent of Energy Consumption
CFOs May Question The Value of Health Benefits
Challenges in the Development and Use of Ecological Indicators
Challenges in Using an Economic Cost Model for Software Engineering Simulation
Collaborative Environment
Collective Bargaining in the Face of Instability: A Resource for Workers and Employers in the U.S. Aerospace Industry
Comparative Methodologies for Estimating On-Water Response Costs for Marine Oil Spills
Comparison of Correlated Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves Derived From Repeated Diagnostic Test Data
Competitive Advantage & Quality Of Human Resources
Complex Venture Capital Deals Require More Than A Little Knowledge
Contractual Savings, Capital Markets and Firms Financing Choices
Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitals: Infection Control and Use of Antibiotics
Corruption and Trade Tariffs, or a Case of Uniform Tariffs
CRA Clad Downhole Tubing - An Economical Enabling Technology
Creating a Robust Selling & Performance Management System
Creating And Living Your Association's Brand
Creating Schools That Work: Promoting Excellence and Equity for a Democratic Society
Credit Where It’s Due
CRM: Can We Get There From Here
Cross-Enterprise Trade: A Breakthrough Opportunity For Managing The Supply Chain
Currencies and Inflation Targeting
Current Issues Report: Approaches to Depression Care
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Beyond the "Buzz"
Customer-Driven Supply Chains Begin With Real-Time Visibility
Data Warehousing Helps Enterprise Improve Quality Management
Dealing with the Achilles Heel Of Six Sigma Initiatives:Project selection is key to success
Decision Making and Knowledge Management in Inquiring Organizations: Toward a New Decision-Making Paradigm for DSS
Dedicated OA Systems
Deepwater Landing String Design
Define what Types of Disasters need to be Planned for.
Defining Effective Leadership in the Canadian Forces: A Content and Process Framework
Demand Chain Excellence: A Tale of Two Retailers
Designing an LCM Program for Drilling Depleted Zones
Developing A Sales Compensation Plan That Motivates Behavior And Meets Your Business Goals
Developing Sales Strategies With the Front Line Team
Development & Application of Versatile and Economical 3D Rotary Steering Technology
Dialog: A Never-Ending Process
Diesel Engines for Fast Transport
Digital Business Designs in Financial Services: Think Business Issues First, Technology Second
Direct Marketing Technology Overview
Directors Who Shy Away From Acquisitions May Cost Shareholders Dearly In Lost Opportunities
Disclosing Discounts on Closed-End Loans
Disease Management Organization
Disorganization Due to Forbearance of Debt Restructuring
Dividend Policy and Firm Performance: Hotel REITs Vs. Non-REIT Hotel Companies
Do You Work For A Bully Boss?
Domestic Hot Water System Combining Solar and Waste Heat From Thermoelectric Air-Conditioner
Downsizing? Be Aware Of Immigration Regs Impact
Drilling Efficiencies Provided by Hydraulic Thrusting Devices
Due Diligence for B-to-B Media Mergers & Acquisitions
Dying to Save Taxes: Evidence From Estate Tax Returns on the Death Elasticity
Dynamic Pricing Reaches Most Industries
E-Business, Though Battered, Can Recapture Its Edge
E-Commerce Legal and Business Issues for Insurers in the European Union
Economic Fundamentals Sound: Deal-Making Within the Biotechnology Industry
Economic Modeling of HDR Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Ecotricity Wind Turbine at Swaffham: A Connection Case Study
ECRM: Connecting With Customers
Effect of Fuel Cost on the Price of Desalination Water: A Case for Renewables
Effect Of Market Volatility On Stock Compensation Plans
Electricity From the Sun
Eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance
Emission-Free Sampling and Well Testing System
Energy Conservation in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Energy Simulation of Traditional Versus Adaptive Thermal Comfort for Two Moderate Climate Regions
Engineering Clean Air: The Continuous Improvement of Diesel Engine Emission Performance
Environmental Management Systems and International Environmental Standards in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
Equilibrium Price Communication and Unadvertised Specials by Competing Supermarkets
Evaluation of Test/Analysis Correlation Methods for Crash Applications
Evaluation of the Feasibility of Using Fuel Cells in Passenger Cars
Executive Forum: Make The Most of Every Channel
Expanding Your Biotech Business
Expectation Puzzles, Time-varying Risk Premia, and Dynamic Models of the Term Structure
Exploration Operations Logistics
Facing A Famine
Federal Register
FIA 2001 Electronic Trading Survey
Finance’s E-Value Proposition
Financial Innovations and the Dynamics of Emerging Capital Markets
Finding Your Passion
Finite Element Model Development for Aircraft Fuselage Structures
Five Myths About Entrepreneurs: Understanding How Businesses Start and Grow
Five Reasons to Co-Brand Your Web Site
Five-Year Investment Plan, 2002 Through 2006 for the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program
Flowmeter Shootout Part III: How Users Choose
Focus Groups vs. User Studies
Focus on Health March 2001
Follow-Up: A Valuable Tool in Leadership Development
Frequent Employee Feedback Is Worth The Cost And Time
Generalised Style Analysis of Hedge Funds
Gentlemen Prefer Bonds
Getting A Move On
Gmax White Paper
Good & Plenty
Growing A Knowledge Management Solution
Guidelines for Formation, Composition and Function of Board Committees
Guidelines For Formative And Evaluative Research In Public Affairs
Health, Longevity, and Life-Cycle Savings
Healthy Outlook
Heat Generation by a Wind Turbine
Hedge Funds With Style
Hedge Funds: Omniscient or Just Plain Wrong
Historical Overview of Oil Spills From All Sources
Home Bias in Portfolios and Taxation of Asset Income
How Do You Raise Money for a New Business in Tough Times?
How Many Hedge Funds Are Needed To Create A Diversified Fund Of Funds?
How Much do Firms Hedge With Derivatives?
How Not To Cut Health Costs
How the Internet Can Boost Your Brand
How To Lead Without Fumbling The Ball
How to Make Your Supply Chain Lean
Hurdles on the Way to Growth Commercializing Novel Technologies: The Case of Nanotechnology
Imaging: The Vision Of Change
Impact of Film Production on United States
Importing Jobs and Exporting Firms? On the Wage and Employment Implications of Italy's Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Flows
Improving Stroke Patients Care: A Patient Held Record Is Not Enough
Improving Total Well Construction Efficiency by Addressing Well Bore Quality
In Through the Out Door
In-Flight Characterization of the Electromagnetic Environment Inside an Airliner
Increase Sales with Color, Sound, Taste, Smell & Touch
Increase Sales With Color, Sound, Taste, Smell And Touch
Independent Audits Promise An End To Questionable Statistics From Show Management
Innovative Technology for Today's Land Rigs- FlexRig
Instrumentation and Manufacture of a Smart Composite Bridge for Short-Span Applications
Integrating Financial and Strategic Reporting
Intelligent Software Agents for Control and Scheduling of Distributed Generation
Interbrand Insights, Aligning Your Organization And Your Brand For Performance
Investing in Spill Prevention: Has It Reduced Vessel Spills and Accidents in Washington State?
Investment and Market Dominance
Investor Alert: Stock Market Fraud "Survivor" Checklist
Is Bigger Better? A Re-examination of the Scale Economies of REITs
Is ISO9000 Bad for Business?
Is Your Online Marketing Working?
ISO 9000
Issues of CBD Product Quality and Process Quality
Keep Key Executives with Effective Compensation Strategies
Keep key executives with effective compensation strategies II
Keeping The Cornerstone Of Your Organization: Employer Branding Is A Necessity In An Economic Slowdown
Keeping Your Money Yours
Key Trends In The Logistics Outsourcing Marketplace
Knowing Your Options When Attempting to Sidetrack in Open Hole
Labour Standards and Poverty Reduction: International Strategies
Landing Tubulars Design, Manufacture, Inspection and Use Issues
Layoff: A Four-Letter Word in Any Economy
Leadership Is Confusing As Hell
Lease Trouble Shooting: Fixing Deals Missing One or More Wheels
Legal Risk as a Determinant of Syndicate Structure in the Project Finance Loan Market
Less Is More in the Race for a Viable Fuel Cell Enterprise
Lessons From Everest: The Role Of Collaborative Leadership In Crisis
Leveraging The Customer Base: Creating Competitive Advantage Through Knowledge Management
Look Before You e-Leap
Looking at Layoffs? Watch out for WARN Responsibilities
Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence From the Housing Market
Macroeconomic Impacts of Clean Diesel Engines - Phase 2 Report: U.S.- Produced Clean Diesel Engines and SIDI Gasoline Engines for Selected Light Trucks
Make The Most Of Every Channel
Making Mergers Work
Making Sure Employees Measure Up
Making The Transition
Making the TRIP: A Domicile Selection Primer
Management Skills for Small Business
Managing Catastrophic Risk: Lessons From Canada
Managing Foreign Debt and Liquidity Risks in Emerging Economies: An Overview
Measuring Default Accurately
Michael Porter's Big Ideas
Milling the Window and Drilling the Lateral in One Trip: Case Histories and Developments
Model Regulation to Implement the Small Employer Health Insurance Availability Model Act
Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings
More Leeway for Workers, More Work for HR
Moving The Focus From Customers To Relationships
Multichannel Challenges: Caswell-Massey
Multiple Channels One System
Multiple-Sensor-Extension of a Generic Robot Control and Its Application on an MR-Compatible Robot
Multivariate Methods for Process Knowledge Discovery: The Power to Know Your Process
NASA/Army/Bell XV-15 Tiltrotor Low-Noise Terminal Area Operations Flight Research Program
Natural Catastrophes and Man-Made Disasters in 1999: Storms and Earthquakes Lead to the Second-Highest Losses in Insurance History
Neural Networks for Target Selection in Direct Marketing
New Economy Or Old Economy, A Shakeout Is A Shakeout
New PDC Designs Double ROP on Kingfisher Project Well, Central N. Sea
New Techniques for Continuous Chemical Analysis in the Pulp & Paper Industry
On Further Reflection
Ongoing Continuous Hydraulic Optimization (OCHO)
Open Yet Guarded: Protecting The Knowledge Enterprise
Operation Newsstand
Oracle HRMS and External Payrolls: The Missing Link
Outdoor Wood Furnaces
Outsourcing Background Checks
Overcoming 'Mental Roadblocks' Can Increase Sales
Overcoming Executional Challenges in Global Brand Management
Passive Damping in Repulsive-Force-Based Maglev Systems
Patent Practitioners Beware: The Federal Circuit Releases a ManiFesto
Pay Up
Personnel records: What to keep
Phase-Driven Finite Element Model for Spatio-Temporal Tracking in Tagged Cardiac MRI
Pillar to Post
Planes, Trains, Unfocused Brains
Planning and Field Validation of Annular Pressure Predictions
Planning for an Outsourcing Evaluation
Planning For An Outsourcing Evaluation-The First Phase
Poverty and Health
Predictable Changes in NAV: The Wildcard Option in Transacting Mutual-fund Shares
Prediction of Aircraft Transonic Aeroelasticity by the Linearised Euler Equations
Predictive Modeling in the Insurance Industry Using SAS Software
Prefrontal Gray Matter Volume Reduction in First Episode Schizophrenia
Preparing for the Seattle Round: U.S. Dairy Industry Negotiating Priorities
Price Smarter on the Net
Process Improvement / Reengineering Integrated in an Organisation's Management Systems
Project Due Diligence: Independent Verification And Validation
Promote Yourself By Promoting Your Leader
Prospects for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
Protecting the Copyright of Digital Audio and Video Content
Protection of Minority Shareholder Interests, Cross-Listings in the United States, and Subsequent Equity Offerings
Providing Integrated Service Access: Part 2 - Management
Re-engineering Legacy Applications
Real-Time Character Animation for Computer Games
Redemption Activity of Mutual Fund Owners
Rediscovering The Customer: Turning Customer Satisfaction Into Shareholder Value
Reduce Inventory With Collaborative Forecasting
Reducing Well Costs by Increasing Drilling Efficiency
Reform of Deposit Insurance - A Report to the FDIC
Regional MRI Lesion Burden and Cognitive Function in MS: A Longitudinal Study
Regulating Onshore Special Purpose Reinsurance Vehicles
Reinsurance Market Review: March 2001
Removing Obstacles to Increased Electric Generation and Natural Gas Supply in the Western United States
Renewable Energy and Sustainability
Renewable Energy for the Home
Renewable Energy Resources for Texas
Retirement Investing: A New Approach
Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions
Revenue Management Games
Roles Played by Relational Trust in Strategic Alliances
Rotary Steerable Systems in the Gulf of Mexico - A Step Change in Drilling Performance
Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell
Sales Force Assessment and Strategy
Sales Force Productivity
SCE Report on 220 kWe Solid Oxide Fuel Cell / Microturbine Generator Hybrid Proof of Concept Demonstration
SECOR Consulting: Delivering the Benefits
Self Suffiency in Field Sales Force Development
Service Level Agreements
Share Buy-Backs: An Empirical Investigation
Shareholder-Optimal Design of Cash Balance Pension Plans
Sidetracking and Drilling in One Trip- Case Histories and Economical Analysis
Six Sigma Going Beyond Manufacturing
Smart Pricing Strategies
Solar-Hybrid Gas Turbine-Based Power Tower Systems (REFOS)
Standards Shake-Up
State of the Art Positive Displacement Motors Enhance Vertical Drilling Performance
Strategic Alliances and Mergers of Financial Exchanges: The Case of the SADC
Strategic Flexibility in the Communications Industry: Coping With Uncertainty in a World of Billion-Dollar Bets
Strategic Plan for System-Wide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Shared Information Technology Services
Strategy and the Internet
Strategy Formulation and Competence Building in New Organizational Arrangements
Strengthening Judicial Integrity Against Corruption
Stress Relief Strategies
Structural Analysis of Competitive Behavior: New Empirical Industrial Organization Methods in Marketing
Structural and Regulatory Developments
Structural Performance of a FRP Bridge Deck
Structure and Behavior of a Textile Industrial District
Subsidence Remediation - Extending Well Life Through the Use of Solid Expandable Casing Systems
Subsidence Remediation - Extending Well Life Through the Use of Solid Expandable Casing Systems
Subtle Issues in Revenue Recognition
Successful Horizontal Drilling and Gravel Packing in Deep and Ultra Deepwater
Successful Implementation of Next Generation Rotary Steerable Technology
Successfully Planning and Drilling the Reactive Shales in the Central N. Sea With a Water-Based Drilling Fluid
Supply and Demand for Software Developers in India
Synthetic Leases: "Bankruptcy Proofing" the Lessee's Option to Purchase
Systematic Review of Studies of Quality of Clinical Care in General Practice in the UK, Australia and New Zealand
Tailed Primer Base Excision Sequence Scanning (TP-BESS) for Detection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)
Takeovers, Freezouts, and Risk Arbitrage
Taxation and Corporate Financial Policy
Teleological Reasoning and Knowledge Generation in Marketing Theory: Observations and Recommendations
Terrain Concentration: A Hypothesis for Multiple Power Levels
The 20 "Rules" for Great Recruiting
The Advantages of Renewable Energy
The Art of Employee Procrastination
The B2B Exchange Myth
The Buyback Catch
The Case For Open Global Capital Markets
The Cell Phone As Marketing Tool: Will Consumers Answer The Call?
The Changing Profile of Nursing Home Residents: 1985-1997
The Conditional Distribution of Real Estate Returns: Relating Time Variation in Higher Moments to Downside Risk Measurement
The CPA in Industry
The Critical Parameters
The Dangers of Free-Riding
The Declining U.S. Equity Premium
The Determinants of Appraisal-Based Capitalization Rates
The Economics of Prescription Drug Pricing
The Effectiveness of Different Mechanisms for Integrating Marketing and R & D
The Effects of Pensions, Health, and Health Insurance on Retirement: A Comparative Analysis of California and the Nation
The Effects of Psychosocial Risk Factors and Prenatal Intervention on Birth Outcomes of Women in New Jersey's Healthstart Program
The Electronic Catalog: Allocating The Sale
The Emotional Intelligence of Managers: Assessing the Construct Validity of a Nonverbal Measure of "People Skills"
The Equity Risk Measurement Handbook
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
The Explanatory Power of Political Risk in Emerging Markets
The Finance Acts 1998 and 2000: Can the Owners of Agricultural Land Continue to Gain From Their Capital Disposals
The Future for REITs
The Global Markets for Rugged Mobile Computers: The Notebook, On-Board/Fixed Vehicle, Tablet, Luggable/Lunchbox, Sub-Notebook, Hand Held, PDA, and Wearable Form Factor Perspective
The Hope And Hype Of Online Exchanges
The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms
The Integrated Activity-Based Costing And Economic Value Added System For The Service Sector
The Legal Risks of Monitoring Employee Conduct
The Missing Sweet Spot
The New Basel Capital Accord
The next chaper in business to customer E-commerce
The Oral Health of Older Americans
The Project Management Warehouse: Information Integration for a Purpose
The Real Cost of Undervaluing the Cash Management Function
The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure
The Risk in Hedge Fund Strategies : Theory & Evidence
The Role of Trust and Relationship Structure in Improving Supply Chain Responsiveness
The Sales Manager's Coaching Role
The Selective Use of Speed in Mergers & Acquisitions
The State Of Quality Auditing
The State of Quality Auditing: It's Being Integrated Into Internal Auditing
The Strategic Impact Of Nanotechnology On The Future Of Business And Economics
The Training Game
The Value of Integrative Risk Management for Insurance Products With Guarantees
Three-Dimensional Modeling and Volume Assessment of the Fetal and Neonatal Intracranial Ventricles
Thrill Ride!
Trade Execution: What Every Investor Should Know
Trade Wars on the Horizon
Transforming The Balanced Scorecard From Performance Measurement To Strategic Management
Treatment and Reuse of Textile Effluents Based on New Ultra Filtration and Other Membrane Technologies
Trends in Causes of Death Among the Elderly
Trends in Internet-Based Business-to-Business Marketing
Trends in Vision and Hearing Among Older Americans
Tune In Tomorrow
Ukraine - An Important Energy Supply Corridor to Europe
Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance, and the Theory of the Consumer
Understanding The Income Valuation Approach – A Primer For Judges Who Must Hear Valuation Cases
Understanding Your Complete Blood Count
Uniform Audit & Accounting Guide for Audits of Transportation Consultants' Indirect Cost Rates
Update on Insurance Holding Company Regulation: Greater Scrutiny of the Holding Company and Non-Insurance Businesses
Use Bid Process, Not 'Pricing War,' To Get Best Value
Using a System Cost Analysis to Quantify Drilling Fluids and Solids Control Costs
Using Expandable Solid Tubulars to Solve Well Construction Challenges in Deep Waters and Maturing Properties
Using True Real-Time Data Interpretation to Facilitate Deepwater Drilling
Validation: Lessons From The Past
Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century
Variety and Fun in Field Coaching
VC Funding in Bad Times: Five Steps to Better Odds
Venture Investing: The Eight-Point Checklist
Vintage Organization Capital
Waste Oil Recycling
Web Site Promotion Strategy
Weighing Up the ODDs Options, Development and Diversification
Well Design With Expandable Tubulars Reduces Costs and Increases Success in Deepwater Applications
What Can the Take-Up of Other Programs Teach Us About How to Improve Take-Up of Health Insurance Programs?
What Do You Know?
What's The ROI For Your Benefits?
What's Your Practice Worth?
When 'On-Call' Time Should Be Paid
When Is U.S. Bank Lending to Emerging Markets Volatile?
When Shareholder Groups Complain, Management Would Do Well to Listen
When To Pull The Trigger: Individual Performance On The Executive Team
Which Way To Turn?
White Paper on Mental Health Services for Children and Youth in Illinois
Why Biotech Hot Spots Are Getting Hotter
Why CFOs Should Get Risk Management, HR To Play Nice
Why I Hate Flying, And Other Tales Of Management
Why Ownership Matters? Entrepreneurship and the Restructuring of Enterprises in Central Europe
Why You Can't Use Yesterday's Direct Sales Tools & Rules to Hire Key Account Reps : Key Variables in Hiring and Training the Strategic Sales Rep
Wind Energy Today and in the 21st Century
Winning Outsourcing Plays
Winning the War for Talent: Becoming a Leader of Choice
Writing a Business Plan
Wrong Number
You Can't Be Good At Everything