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- Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance
- This study analyzes the role of human resource policies in the performance of employee ownership companies, using employee survey data from 14 companies and a national sample of employee-owners. The paper concludes that an understanding of how and when employee ownership works successfully requires a three-pronged analysis of the incentives...
- Tags: Human Resources, Performance, National Bureau Of Economic Research, ESOP, Sales Force Management, Sales
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Recovery Planning - An Overview
- Writing about a topic is just one way of demonstrating expertise on a subject. Making public presentations is another. Please review our white papers and presentations in order to become familiar with us. "Google" us to see what others think, and to see some of our other work.Once you are...
- Tags: National Bureau of Economic Research
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Consumption and Risk Sharing Over the Life Cycle
- A striking feature of U.S. data on income and consumption is that inequality increases with age. Using both panel data and an equilibrium life cycle model, we argue that this is informative for understanding the importance and the characteristics of idiosyncratic labor market risk. We find that uncertainty distributed throughout...
- Tags: National Bureau of Economic Research, inequality, income, U.S., theory
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Estimation Risk, Market Efficiency, and the Predictability of Returns
- n asset pricing, estimation risk refers to investor uncertainty about the parameters of the return or cashflow process. We show that with estimation risk the observable properties of prices and returns can differ significantly from the properties perceived by rational investors. In particular, parameter uncertainty will tend to induce return...
- Tags: Asset management, estimation, National Bureau of Economic Research, predictability, investor, asset pricing, volatility, dividend, asset
- White papers 2000-05-01
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- U.S. Census Bureau Counts on MySQL
- Most Americans are aware that every 10 years, the United States Census Bureau conducts a massive Census of the 105 million U.S. households to collect updated national demographic information. What many people don't know is that the U.S. Census Bureau also creates and manages web sites that serve as highly...
- Tags: MySQL, Census Bureau, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Sun Case Study: Zhejiang Financial Bureau
- Zhejiang Financial Bureau, a Chinese government economic adjustment organization in charge of financial audits, finance and tax policy regulation, also assists in the macro-control of the Chinese national economy. Zhejiang Financial Bureau needed to centralize its IT management, web-enable legacy applications, and provide secure access to many different and widespread...
- Tags: Financial, Sun Microsystems Inc., Adjustment, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Government, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies
- The Economy: Where Are We & What's Next?
- The Associate Research Director of BusinessWeek Research Services will use his recent research data to clarify where people are with the economy and where they are likely to be in the months ahead. The presenter explores what the current economic conditions mean for the business and provides insights as to...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Economy
- Webcasts 2008-05-08
- Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Harnesses the Power of SAS for Economic, Technological, Social, Political and Ecological Research
- With the primary objective of promoting and conducting research, the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research IGIDR has been focusing on providing the platform that can further economic, technological, social, political and ecological research in the country. With these underlying objectives, it was imperative for IGIDR to deploy a software...
- Tags: SAS Institute
- Case studies
- The Belgium Refugee Bureau Deployment: Motorola Biometrics Bolsters Belgium Refugee Bureau Capabilities
- The Belgium Refugee Bureau is a centralised service working with numerous government agencies - including the Ministry of the Interior, the Office of Illegals, the Asylum Agency, and federal and local police services. The increasing flow of foreign visitors seeking asylum in the European Union is elevating the need for...
- Tags: Motorola Inc., Belgium Refugee Bureau, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security
- Case studies 2006-08-08
- Oracle Case Study: Huizhou City Telecommunications Bureau
- A subsidiary of Guangdong Province Telecommunications Company Limited, Huizhou City Telecommunications Bureau governs subordinate telecom bureaus in the city, surrounding counties, and the Daya Bay Economic and Technological Zone. The bureau wanted to establish a unified information platform to enhance network management and avoid incomplete data sets and use information...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Bureau, Network, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
- Intel Active Management Technology Helps Lanzhou Railway Bureau Reduce IT Maintenance Costs by Up to 50 Percent
- Lanzhou Railway Bureau, one of eighteen railway Bureaus in China, manages 9,800 computers along 2,793 kilometers of railway, operating critical systems such as goods delivery and ticket sales. Lanzhou Railway Bureau needed to improve PC operations by reducing downtime as much as possible. The Bureau had no effective means to...
- Tags: Bureau, Information Technology, Intel Corp., Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- A Weed of National Significance (exe)
- The free screensaver A Weed of National Significance contains 15 high resolution images of the Lantana flowering plant. Lantana is a Weed of National Significance. It is regarded as one of the worst weeds in Australia because of its invasiveness, potential for spread, and economic and environmental impacts.
- Tags: Weed, Lantana
- Software downloads 2007-08-17
- KUKA Roboter Builds a Secure Future
- Lanzhou Railway Bureau, one of eighteen railway Bureaus in China, manages 9,800 computers along 2,793 kilometers of railway, operating critical systems such as goods delivery and ticket sales. Lanzhou Railway Bureau needed to improve PC operations by reducing downtime as much as possible. The Bureau had no effective means to...
- Tags: Bureau, Information Technology, Intel Corp., KUKA Roboter, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- The federal government: Your privates 'n its breaches
- I don't think there are many people, in the United States or elsewhere, who trust the federal government when it comes to privacy and the handling of personal information. This News.com article discusses the results of a 2006 Privacy Trust Study of the United States Government by Ponemon Institute, which...
- Tags: Agency, Privacy, Survey, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Marketing, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- Jinan Local Taxation Bureau Improves Data Sharing
- Founded in August 1994, the Jinan Local Taxation Bureau is responsible for collecting and managing levies for the city of Jinan. The challenges faced were to collect and store taxation information in a single, integrated data repository and implement reporting tools to enable detailed data analysis from multiple perspectives. The...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Bureau, Data Sharing, Business Intelligence, Taxes, Free Trade, Storage, Databases, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware
- Case studies
- Learning to Count on Perl at the Census Bureau
- Like many government agencies, the U.S. Census Bureau leaves the selection of programming tools up to their techies, and more than a few in the back rooms of bureaucracy cut their teeth on Perl and a whole line of open source solutions. The Senior Internet Technology Architect who oversees system...
- Tags: Perl, Bureau, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- Borland Software Case Study: Tubitak-Uekae
- The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey-National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK-UEKAE) is a government-owned research institute and one of Turkey's leading national defense contractors. The Council wanted to establish best practices for software Development and meet requirements on schedule and within budget. The challenge was to...
- Tags: Borland Software Corp., Government, Software Development, Aerospace & Defense, Quality, Training And Certification, Software/Web Development, Manufacturing, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-06-28
- Xinjiang Taxation Bureau to Implement Cisco Unified Communications System
- The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Taxation Bureau has adopted the Cisco Unified Communications solution. To date, this upgrade represents the largest Unified Communications project based on Internet Protocol IP telephony within China's taxation system. More than 2,600 Cisco Unified IP phones are deployed at the Xinjiang tax bureau, including 15...
- Tags: Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Systems Inc., Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Taxation Bureau
- Case studies
- Inside the Mind of the Retail CEO
- The combination of a nervous consumer, a shaky economy and a historic presidential campaign means that there has never been more at stake for the retail industry. So, what's on the minds of retails CEOs? The presenter, President and CEO of the National Retail Federation NRF, looks at how economic...
- Tags: SAS Institute, CEO
- Webcasts 2008-04-22
- The Economic Impact of Microsoft Windows Vista in Massachusetts
- This paper quantifies the forecasted economic impact the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system will have in Massachusetts in its first year of shipment. The impact is seen in IT employment and revenues to local firms. It also addresses the impact of IT in general, software, and the Microsoft ecosystem on...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Impact, Microsoft Corp., International Data Group, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-12-01
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