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Pebble In A Pond, Stephen R. Barley Apr 2007

Pebble In A Pond, Stephen R. Barley

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

Paul C. Godfrey, associate academic director of BYU’s Economic Self-Reliance Center, sat down with Stephen R. Barley, the Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, to discuss problems and needs associated with implementing technology in developing countries. Barley is co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at Stanford’s School of Engineering, and the co-director of the Stanford/General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory. He has written extensively on the impact of new technologies on work, the organization of technical work, and organizational culture. Barley was a member of the Board of Senior Scholars of the …

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Double Bottom Line Growth, Patrick Crompton Apr 2007

Double Bottom Line Growth, Patrick Crompton

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.

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End Matter, Esr Review Apr 2007

End Matter, Esr Review

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.

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Vol. 09 No. 1 Esr Review, Esr Review Apr 2007

Vol. 09 No. 1 Esr Review, Esr Review

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.

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Center News, Esr Review Apr 2007

Center News, Esr Review

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.

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Ua23 Western Kentucky University Regional Assessment & Strategic Plan, Paul N. Markham Apr 2007

Ua23 Western Kentucky University Regional Assessment & Strategic Plan, Paul N. Markham

ALIVE Center Publications

The Regional Stewardship Program is a new initiative that seeks to promote regional and statewide economic development, livable communities, social inclusion, creative governance, and civic participation through public engagement activities initiated by comprehensive university faculty and staff. Its purpose is to link the resources and knowledge of our universities to the needs and challenges of their respective regions. Kentucky is the first state in the nation to launch a statewide stewardship program.

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E-Business And Economic Self-Reliance, Stephen W. Liddle Apr 2007

E-Business And Economic Self-Reliance, Stephen W. Liddle

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

I am often asked to speak on the subject of e-business—its ramifications for modern organizations and its impact on our students who will soon be entering the workforce. E-business is the use of information technology and electronic communication networks to exchange business information and conduct transactions in electronic, paperless form. From online retail operations to Web-enabled self-service technical support, organizations around the world are transforming in significant and far-reaching ways.

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Montana Nonresident Traveler Quarterly Travel Comparison: 2006, Melissa Dubois, Kara Grau Apr 2007

Montana Nonresident Traveler Quarterly Travel Comparison: 2006, Melissa Dubois, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report shows the 2006 quarterly visitation and length of stay data for nonresident travelers to Montana. It also displays average daily spending for various expenditure categories, as well as total expenditures for those categories.

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Banking The Unbanked, Janine Firpo Apr 2007

Banking The Unbanked, Janine Firpo

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.

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Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Trends: 1996-2006, Kara Grau Apr 2007

Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Trends: 1996-2006, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report shows the nonresident traveler expenditure trends for visitors of Montana from 1996-2006. It also displays the total actual expenditures and the total inflation-adjusted expenditures.

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Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Profiles: 2006, Kara Grau Apr 2007

Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Profiles: 2006, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report examines spending profiles of nonresident travelers to Montana. It displays the average daily expenditures by purpose of trip for different spending categories during 2006.

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Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditures And Economic Contribution: 2006, Kara Grau Apr 2007

Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditures And Economic Contribution: 2006, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report shows the economic contributions, expenditures, and average daily spending of nonresident visitors to Montana during 2006.

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Pay And Performance: Among 100 Best U.S. Companies To Work For, Omair Mahmood Faisal Apr 2007

Pay And Performance: Among 100 Best U.S. Companies To Work For, Omair Mahmood Faisal

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

In the 21st century, world is becoming a global village and with increased competition businesses are always looking for regions with the lowest possible production costs. Appropriate compensation of U.S. employees working for major U.S. corporations is a hotly debated topic in political circles. This research focuses on the top 100 companies designated as “the best companies to work for” by Fortune Magazine for the year 2006. Performance of these companies, as measured by their return on equity, return on assets, revenue growth and earnings growth along with their profit margin is used to determine the impact on them as …

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Broad-Based Strategy For Overseas Pakistanis In The Development Of Pakistan, Ishrat Husain Dr. Mar 2007

Broad-Based Strategy For Overseas Pakistanis In The Development Of Pakistan, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

This Conference is targeted mainly at exploring how the overseas Pakistanis can participate in the growing investment opportunities being offered by Pakistan. My paper this evening is aimed at a broad-based strategy in which Overseas Pakistanis can play an important role – investment being one of the many components of this strategy. Pakistan has been able to turn around its economy during the last six years from a situation of imminent default in the late 1990s to the current status of a dynamic, vibrant emerging economy - one of the fastest growing in Asia. Pakistan has successfully re-established its access …

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Technium Pan-Wales: Impact Assessment, Gareth Davies, James Abbey Mar 2007

Technium Pan-Wales: Impact Assessment, Gareth Davies, James Abbey

IPED Technical Reports

The purpose of this document is to present the findings of an investigation into the impacts and returns provided to Wales by the investment made in the Technium Centres established across the country.

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The Impact Of Human Capital On The Cost Of Air Force Acquisition Programs, Jeffrey C. Feuring Mar 2007

The Impact Of Human Capital On The Cost Of Air Force Acquisition Programs, Jeffrey C. Feuring

Theses and Dissertations

Previous studies have established a link between Human Capital and performance both at the firm and the individual level. These studies have shown that performance can be improved with additional personnel and/or higher education levels. This study attempts to build on this relationship by using the Cobb-Douglas Production function to relate inputs to outputs. The inputs to the function are the number of cost analysts positions, military and civilian, and an education variable for the number of master’s degrees in the field. The measure of output is the average cost overrun of Air Force contracts. A time series regression was …

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Montana's Outfitting Industry: Economic Impact And Industry-Client Analysis, Norma P. Nickerson, Christine Oschell, Lee Rademaker, Robert Dvorak Mar 2007

Montana's Outfitting Industry: Economic Impact And Industry-Client Analysis, Norma P. Nickerson, Christine Oschell, Lee Rademaker, Robert Dvorak

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

The purpose of this study was to assess the current status and future of the outfitting and guiding industry in Montana through an analysis of the economic contribution, a supply side inventory, and the client-guide experiences.

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Comparison Of Math Skills Between Mexican And U. S. Nationals, Sergio Pena , Dennis L. Soden Feb 2007

Comparison Of Math Skills Between Mexican And U. S. Nationals, Sergio Pena , Dennis L. Soden

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Reflections On A Seminal Force In International Accounting, Karen Cascini Feb 2007

Reflections On A Seminal Force In International Accounting, Karen Cascini

WCBT Faculty Publications

Accounting is a manifestation of several important environmental factors within a country, including economic, educational and political, and, as such, is evolutionary in accordance with those changing social structures. In today‟s ever expanding global economy, the understanding of international aspects of accounting is critical to understanding world events and the way in which they affect our lives. As new nations and new economic powers emerge, continually updated information, including accounting information, is an essential resource for linking an internal accounting system with worldwide systems. Because of the major impact that international accounting has had on countries‟ internal accounting systems, it …

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Business Output And Business Experience: Evidence From China's Nongovernmental Businesses, Liangjun Su Feb 2007

Business Output And Business Experience: Evidence From China's Nongovernmental Businesses, Liangjun Su

Research Collection School Of Economics

We study the application of the Solow growth model in China's non-governmental businesses and propose a reasonable modification for it. Our analysis indicates that business experience is closely tied to the output of China's non-governmental businesses. Our major findings include: (1) the business experience has little overall impact on the elasticity of output with respect to labour; (2) the business experience has a large impact on the elasticity of output with respect to capital and the elasticity increases as the business experience increases; (3) the adjusted Solow residual that reflects technological progress exhibits a negative relationship with the business experience, …

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Prospects For Japanese Investors In Pakistan, Ishrat Husain Dr. Jan 2007

Prospects For Japanese Investors In Pakistan, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

As a young Civil Service office of Pakistan I had the distinct privilege of receiving my training in the Ministry of Finance National Tax Administration Bureau of Japan in 1973. Having observed first hand the strong work ethic, discipline, teamwork and decision making by Consensus. I came back convinced that Pakistan and Pakistanis have a lot to learn from Japan. I have become an active proponent of the policy for Pakistan to look towards East for the simple reason that East Asian Countries and China have benefited a lot by forging close economic collaboration with Japan. The record of this …

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Capital Gains, Dividends, And Taxes: Market Reactions To Tax Changes, Mark Foster, Larry White, Michael T. Young Jan 2007

Capital Gains, Dividends, And Taxes: Market Reactions To Tax Changes, Mark Foster, Larry White, Michael T. Young

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Business

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of a capital gains tax reduction on the stock price of firms that have not historically paid a dividend. If markets are semi-strong-form efficient, one would expect that the market price would have already adjusted prior to the day the announcement was made, assuming no new information was included in the announcement. If markets have not already incorporated the information, there would be a possibility for abnormal returns from investing in the stocks on the date of the announcement. This paper studies the returns from companies prior to, and subsequent …

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[Link Foundation Fellowship Final Report], Merrill Jones Barradale Jan 2007

[Link Foundation Fellowship Final Report], Merrill Jones Barradale

Link Foundation Energy Fellowship Reports

My research seeks to understand investment decision making in the electric power sector as it relates to wind energy and, ultimately, other forms of renewable energy, by investigating investor attitudes, preferences, and behavior. One strand of my research focuses on industry response to political uncertainty. One piece of this research addresses current policy incentives for wind energy. The primary source of current support for renewable energy, the federal production tax credit (PTC), typically gets renewed on a short-term basis (one to two years at a time), creating regular intervals of uncertainty about future policy. My research investigates the relationship between …

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The Economic Impact Of Project Arriba On El Paso, Texas, David A. Schauer, Mathew Mcelroy Jan 2007

The Economic Impact Of Project Arriba On El Paso, Texas, David A. Schauer, Mathew Mcelroy

IPED Technical Reports

Project ARRIBA is an El Paso-based economic and workforce development program. As of the end of 2006, Project ARRIBA has assisted over 1000 individuals in building their stock of human capital with the intent of increasing their work-life earning capacity. The purpose of this report is to identify the extent to which this has occurred and to assess the economic impact of the Project’s activities and the program graduates on the regional economic system.

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2006 Economic Impact Of The University Of Texas At El Paso, David A. Schauer, Mathew Mcelroy Jan 2007

2006 Economic Impact Of The University Of Texas At El Paso, David A. Schauer, Mathew Mcelroy

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Oxytocin Increases Generosity In Humans, Paul J. Zak, Angela Stanton, Sheila Ahmadi Jan 2007

Oxytocin Increases Generosity In Humans, Paul J. Zak, Angela Stanton, Sheila Ahmadi

Business Faculty Articles and Research

Human beings routinely help strangers at costs to themselves. Sometimes the help offered is generous-offering more than the other expects. The proximate mechanisms supporting generosity are not well-understood, but several lines of research suggest a role for empathy. In this study, participants were infused with 40 IU oxytocin (OT) or placebo and engaged in a blinded, one-shot decision on how to split a sum of money with a stranger that could be rejected. Those on OT were 80% more generous than those given a placebo. OT had no effect on a unilateral monetary transfer task dissociating generosity from altruism. OT …

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Indiana State University Financial Report 2007, Indiana State University Jan 2007

Indiana State University Financial Report 2007, Indiana State University

Financial Reports

No abstract provided.

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Selected Lid Projects In New England, New England Environmental Finance Center Jan 2007

Selected Lid Projects In New England, New England Environmental Finance Center

Planning

Examples of low impact development (LID) projects in each state in New England.

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Housing Silicon Valley: A 20 Year Plan To End The Affordable Housing Crisis, Shishir Mathur, Alicia Parker Jan 2007

Housing Silicon Valley: A 20 Year Plan To End The Affordable Housing Crisis, Shishir Mathur, Alicia Parker

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

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High-Speed Rail Projects In The United States: Identifying The Elements Of Success Part 2, Allison Decerreno, Shishir Mathur Jan 2007

High-Speed Rail Projects In The United States: Identifying The Elements Of Success Part 2, Allison Decerreno, Shishir Mathur

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

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