Stories Collection

  1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Articles and books written about Activity-Based Costing (ABC) syste...
  2. "The past two years have been exceptionally good years for bankers around the world. ...
  3. The war for consulting talent has begun in some markets, and business schools are goi...
  4. SAP AG continues to win work in China and thereby strengthen its presence there. The ...
  5. The merger of CGI and AMS has provided a presence in the Nordic countries that CGI is...
  6. Another technology challenge is resulting from recent increases in consolidation of f...
  7. France's Valtech, a global business and IT consultancy group specialising in collabor...
  8. Abstract * This study examines antecedent factors that influence organizationa...
  9. Abstract * Knowledge transfer and learning within non-equity strategic allianc...
  10. Abstract * Middle managers of contemporary organizations play an important rol...
  11. Abstract * Based on a large-scale survey of international joint venture manage...
  12. Abstract * The issue of the universality of leadership attributes across diffe...
  13. Marina Ricciardelli, Sabine Urban, and Kostas Nanopoulos (eds): Globalization and Mu...
  14. Introduction Our health care system has changed considerably during the past 20 ye...
  15. Operating an efficient business is a priority for every business. For electric utilit...
  16. If you heard the story once, you've heard it at least a dozen times that approximatel...
  17. Every time I start thinking that I understand the power business and all of its nuanc...
  18. The issue of a "digital divide' between urban and rural America is growing more acute...
  19. After twenty-five years in the utility business, I admit that I often exhibit the men...
  20. 1. Introduction In the two decades since the first "test tube" baby was born, in vit...
  21. Introduction How do decision makers decide among a large number of alternatives? W...
  22. 1. Introduction Offshore software development has seen tremendous growth in the last...
  23. 1. Introduction In a recent paper, Stiving (2000) presents an interesting model to p...
  24. Introduction Firms erect governance structures to preserve their outcomes and intere...
  25. 1. Introduction The complexity of single-objective combinatorial problems increasing...
  26. 00-00-0000 As we approach winter and its accompanying flu season, computer users h...
  27. 00-00-0000 When it comes to the year 2000 problem, the old adage, "If it a...
  28. 00-00-0000 Team projects, team goals, team meetings. Working together as a means t...
  29. 00-00-0000 Management Strategy Allows Businesses To Focus On Core Competencies ...
  30. 00-00-0000 Not so long ago you would have considered someone talking to a PC a bit...
  31. 00-00-0000 If Tribal Voice[TM] founder John McAfee's dreams come true, employees w...
  32. Raymond Blake and Andrew Nurse (eds.) The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspective...
  33. Kazimierz Patalas (ed.) Providence Watching: Journeys from Wartorn Poland to the Cana...
  34. Helen Mulligan & Wanda Ryder, Ghost Towns of Manitoba: A Record of Pioneer Life. ...
  35. J.M. Bumsted, Reporting the Resistance: Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red...
  36. Patrick Douaud & Bruce Dawson (eds.), Plain Speaking: Essays on Aboriginal People...
  37. A short time ago it was learned that Dalnavert's restoration architect John Chivers p...
  38. CADopia LLC (San Diego, CA, 877-565-0270)(www.cadopia.com) and SolidWorks Corporation...
  39. Elettronica (ELT), a key manufacturer of electronic defense equipment headquarted in ...
  40. RFID material flow tracking & analytics, a new component of Factory Logic's (Aust...
  41. The PowerMill CAM software from Delcam plc (Birmingham, England, ++44-121-766-5544; W...
  42. In October, ProSoft Technology, Inc. (Bakersfield, CA, 661-716-5100)(www.prosoft-tech...
  43. Manufacturing Automation encourages manufacturers to focus on building very strong, c...
  44. At its inaugural Discover Series user conference in New Orleans, automation vendor G...
  45. Last year, enterprise vendor SAP--admitting that manufacturers could not operate in ...
  46. Manufacturers operate in an environment that requires information exchange across ev...
  47. Document Control Systems, which sells the MasterControl quality management system (Q...
  48. Internet-based sourcing solutions theoretically allow manufacturers to constantly se...
  49. Web services technology could make it easier for semiconductor manufacturers to moni...
  50. How does a business that creates products and services to help companies control thei...
  51. When I was a small boy, one of the first airplanes I ever saw was a yellow Piper Cub....
  52. A banker once described the 2006 SME Honorary Member Ronald D. Sugar, chairman, CEO, ...
  53. Six years ago, in his groundbreaking book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of...
  54. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) exists not only for its members, but bec...
  55. With enthusiasm, high energy, and a focus on results that have helped advance The Boe...
  56. In the small village of Mt Wilson, a rather isolated community in the northern part o...
  57. Readers of Margin may recall that the first three chapters of my biography of John La...
  58. A pall hung over our Christmas and New Year holiday season this year with news of the...
  59. sagittarius (November 22-December 21) HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAGITTARIUS! This year, y...
  60. HEAR IT 1 Lenny Kravitz * (Virgin) Digging deep into his psychedelic soul for more ...
  61. Dare to be different! The Nike Air Max Craze in Black/Silver -- ONLY at Lady Foot L...
  62. There is more than one way to get Lucky this holiday season. The Lucky You For Women ...
  63. Introducing the Biolage Fortifying Systeme, the professional's choice for strengtheni...
  64. Though the September 11 attacks on America were meant to undermine our sense of secur...
  65. Introduction People have gathered Rangia and marsh clams along the eastern Mexico c...
  66. Introduction Minimizing bycatch has become an increasingly important priority for t...
  67. Introduction Four billfish species (Family Istiophoridae) range the Atlantic Ocean ...
  68. Introduction The California drift gillnet fishery for broadbill swordfish, Xiphias ...
  69. Introduction Bycatch of Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepis, in nontarget fish...
  70. Introduction and Background Recent years have seen a substantial increase in concer...
  71. Contracts worth some $80 million to supply Azipod propulsion, electrical power, distr...
  72. While every care has been taken to present the most accurate information, our survey ...
  73. Faced with daunting challenges to U.S. freight mobility, the trilogy of water, rail a...
  74. Houston Ship Channel can be a hectic place. More than 6,300 vessels and 150,000 barge...
  75. Q: It's now been two years since you took over at VT Halter Marine, can you give us a...
  76. Even after 100 years of development, the diesel has not reached an evolutionary dead ...
  77. Brigadier General Richard C. Zilmer Commanding General, Marine Air Ground Task Fo...
  78. Senior Executive Service Bryan H. Wood Deputy Counsel for the Commandant Mr. Br...
  79. Major General (Select) Cornell A. Wilson Jr. Commanding General, II Marine Expedi...
  80. Major General Frances C. Wilson Commandant, Industrial College of the Armed Force...
  81. Major General USMC Reserve Leo V. Williams III Deputy Commanding General for Mobi...
  82. Brigadier General Willie J. Williams Assistant Deputy Commandant, Installations a...
  83. Take three trailers, three trucks and three humvees, cram them with communications eq...
  84. "All that she knows is that daddy is fighting the bad guys. She wants to go and ...
  85. "I just did all I could do to help," said Lance Cpl. David A. Zeak. A local...
  86. Ryley R. McLaughlin looks like any typical 2-year-old girl. he s outgoing, animated a...
  87. Marines of 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division test fired an upda...
  88. Staff Sgt. Roger W. King won't let anything slow down his future. Even with a hectic ...
  89. Increased promotional activity among banks directed toward new credit card customers ...
  90. Tunisia's macroeconomic indicators are fine - better than fine if the country's many ...
  91. Consumer expenditures and upward trending consumer confidence are leading a strong re...
  92. Zimbabwe holds the dubious distinction as the fastest collapsing economy in the world...
  93. Consumers who want to buy home entertainment media in Nigeria - DVDs, CDs, cassettes ...
  94. South African new vehicle sales gained upward momentum during the first quarter of th...
  95. A study released in mid-October by PPG Industries, Inc. (USA) adds weight to the idea...
  96. When the automotive market in Asia grows, growth statistics can be misleading for mar...
  97. What would make a population of perceived tea drinkers suddenly (if you think of a co...
  98. A recent BBC story about China opened with a makeup salesman from a very well-known F...
  99. While the rest of the world's 28 "advanced economies" (a term popularized by the Inte...
  100. In general terms, the marked improvement in Pakistan's GDP over the last four years h...
  101. The French Government has taken an aggressive approach toward dealing with inflation...
  102. Perhaps it was the intense competition that arrived after the formation of the Europe...
  103. Consumers aged 45 and older account for only 43 percent of the population in Germany....
  104. Low cost airlines have been around for some time, but not in the international market...
  105. According to a recent Euromonitor report, retailing in Switzerland is constricted by ...
  106. There is growing evidence that the desire for a healthier lifestyle is reshaping cons...
  107. Two Websites that we couldn't do without are, of course, part of our Ziff Davis Media...
  108. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the importance of the marketing function skyro...
  109. While reviewing the results of the just-released ZDME 2003 Storage Buying study, I no...
  110. Although much has been written about Storage Area Networks (SANs) over the past few ...
  111. Let's face it – the majority of the marketing departments in technology compani...
  112. I didn’t think I was that old, but actually, I can remember a world before Mic...
  113. An average household budget in Guatemala lists food as the highest percentage item. G...
  114. The exchange rate has stabilized, signs of economic recovery are all around, and Arge...
  115. Markets where broadband usage is growing at extraordinary rates normally claim usage ...
  116. A Peruvian who wants to work in Japan needs to demonstrate Japanese ancestry to Japan...
  117. At a recent forum sponsored by the Venezuelan-Spanish Chamber of Commerce, the head o...
  118. Unemployment fears in Chile have put downward pressure on consumer confidence in rece...
  119. A new study by researchers from three of America's top universities suggests U.S. wom...
  120. People often need to trade off between the probability and magnitude of the rewards t...
  121. In this study we compare consumer brand loyalty in online and traditional shopping en...
  122. This research examines the methods, viability, and benefits of pooling scanner panel ...
  123. Rankings of MBA programs by journalists have had a dramatic impact on business school...
  124. In this paper, we develop an analytical approach to modeling consumer response to ban...
  125. We study sequential search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" in which a s...
  126. 00-00-0000 Association of National Advertisers, Inc. Seminars Ongoing. For dates an...
  127. 00-00-0000 BOOKS AND REPORTS Ian Gordon is the author of Relationship Marketing, a ...
  128. 00-00-0000 Your latest marketing effort was a big hit. Customers are clamoring at ...
  129. 00-00-0000 You are about to launch a new product. You want to get it rapidly out i...
  130. 00-00-0000 Americans are an opinionated lot, and they like nothing better than to ...
  131. 00-00-0000 Imagine a country where the envelope you put in a customer's mailbox is...
  132. Many who start out in the marketing world decide it isn't the environment for them. ...
  133. Masterfoods has appointed Joshua to handle the #3.3m UK direct marketing business fo...
  134. As it becomes easier to skip breaks, advertisers and owners need to find new routes ...
  135. Christmas is here again, costing the economy and the NHS billions - and Santa will n...
  136. This week, vendors have begun handing out 50,000 copies a day of Standard Lite. So d...
  137. McCann Erickson Birmingham has been appointed to handle an advertising push to clear...
  138. Published between 1704 and 1717, the first European translation of the collection of ...
  139. The Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra are both works of Asian origin, and both have...
  140. Setting out to investigate the frame-story of the Nights and its impact on Eastern an...
  141. "I'll tell you what I'll do," said the smith. "I'll fix your sword for you tomorrow, ...
  142. Jacques Cazotte (1719-92) was an eighteenth-century French writer who deserves to be ...
  143. The text of reference in which the tale of Ali Baba appears for the first time goes b...
  144. Eleven Champion mortar mixers are available, including a hydraulic dump model, in siz...
  145. The Kentuckiana Masonry Institute (KMI) has announced the winners in its 26th annual ...
  146. The 12-cubic-foot capacity Whiteman plaster/mortar mixer does not have the axle inter...
  147. The Block and Wall acrylic plastic coating for interior and exterior surfaces has a t...
  148. Featuring four-wheel drive and 35 hp, the TLB-6235 compact tractor loader backhoe han...
  149. An 18-V cordless gun uses 10.1-ounce or 30-ounce tubes of caulk, construction adhesiv...
  150. The hydrogen age of the fuel cell as an alternative source of power for public transp...
  151. Through a billow of smoke and confetti, the Robert N. Broadbent Las Vegas Monorail fi...
  152. Coincidence or CEO? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Connex, the transport business divisio...
  153. As a result of 9/11 (and more recently of 3/11 in Madrid), police are encouraging cit...
  154. So you've got your Transit Watch Toolkit and your list of initiatives from the FTA. Y...
  155. Manager's Forum goes to the front lines of the transit industry to get feedback on di...
  156. I still have not yet seen The Red Green Show. As members who read NCEWs valuable e-m...
  157. The global village needs newspapers that think globally The story was tucked away ...
  158. Put the corn down where the cows can get to it On the streets of Dothan, a city of...
  159. Editor's Note: On January 20, three days before the Canadian national elections, NCEW...
  160. Editorial page space is precious, so let's write about what we know Don't you just...
  161. Remembrances, milestones, awards It's nice when your colleagues do well. It is espec...
  162. Moore, Bert Material Handling Engineering 06-01-2005 An Ounce of Prevention Bylin...
  163. Kempfer, Lisa M Material Handling Engineering 06-01-2005 Music, Put-to-Light Keeps...
  164. Anonymous Material Handling Engineering 06-01-2005 Robots That "Feel"? ...
  165. Witt, Clyde E Material Handling Engineering 06-01-2005 Keep Things Moving Byline:...
  166. Witt, Clyde E Material Handling Engineering 06-01-2005 Pallets and Bugs: Back to t...
  167. Kempfer, Lisa M Material Handling Engineering 06-01-2005 Today's Picking Systems ...
  168. Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio) signed a memorandum of understanding to bui...
  169. Lauyans & Company, Inc. (Louisville, Ky.) purchased the complete line of automat...
  170. CorStone Industries (North Attleboro, Mass.), which makes 450,000 acrylic sinks per ...
  171. Renault-Nissan opened a European distribution center in the western Hungarian city o...
  172. Blockbuster Online crossed a milestone, opening its 30th distribution center near Pi...
  173. Costco Wholesale Corp. (Issaquah, Wash.) will build a new 300,000 sq.-ft, $40 millio...
  174. INTRODUCTION If larger and larger samples are successively drawn from a population an...
  175. ABSTRACT Teaching is a scholarly activity and a life-long learning process with no si...
  176. SIGNS OF THE INKA KHIPU: BINARY CODING IN THE ANDEAN KNOTTED-STRING RECORDS By Gary U...
  177. ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of using ALEKS (A...
  178. RETHINKING MATHEMATICS: TEACHING SOCIAL JUSTICE BY THE NUMBERS Edited by Eric Gutstei...
  179. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NUMBERS By Thomas Crump Cambridge University Press, 1990, 197 pp....
  180. We study the asymptotic behavior of the interior-point bounds arising from the work o...
  181. We use perturbation analysis to obtain explicit approximations of the equilibrium bid...
  182. We consider the problem of risk-sensitive control of a stochastic network. In control...
  183. Condition numbers based on the "distance to ill-posedness" [rho](d) have been shown t...
  184. We give short elementary proofs of two results by N. E. Aguilera, M. S. Escalante, an...
  185. In this paper, we deal with single facility location problems in a general normed spa...
  186. Virtual Ink Corp., Microsoft and Compaq have teamed up to offer Faculty Teaching Bund...
  187. PDAs have typically been used as tools for scheduling appointments and accessing data...
  188. Institutions are faced with the challenges that surround the growing demand for data ...
  189. When Drury University decided to relaunch its Web site, it turned to DynaPortal, port...
  190. Students at North Lake Community College in Irving, Texas, have waited a long time fo...
  191. Faculty interested in the types of assignments students receive in an online course e...