Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellows Program FINAL REPORT FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION LtCol Arthur H. Sass, USMC June 2000 Acknowledgments This has been an interesting, exciting, and educational year. The first hand, on-the-job knowledge I received regarding how Corporate America thinks and what private industry companies are doing to posture themselves for the future is simply priceless. The environment is fast-paced, unforgiving, and wide open. Though the Department
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Para os meus pais, porque "o valor das coisas não está no tempo que elas duram, mas na intensidade com que acontecem. Por isso existem momentos inesquecíveis, coisas inexplicáveis e pessoas incomparáveis" como vocês! Obrigado por tudo, Filipe Abstract The Retail Banking Industry has been severely affected by fraud over the past few years. Indeed, despite all the research and systems available, fraudsters have been able to outsmart and deceive the banks and their customers. With this in mind
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ATSB TRANSPORT SAFETY REPORT Aviation Research and Analysis Report – AR-2008-055 An Overview of Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance Alan Hobbs Ph.D. December 2008 ATSB TRANSPORT SAFETY REPORT Aviation Research and Analysis Report AR-2008-055 Final An Overview of Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance Alan Hobbs Ph.D. - iii - Published by: Postal address: Office location: Telephone: Facsimile: E-mail: Internet: Australian Transport Safety Bureau PO Box 967, Civic Square
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Case studies Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: ‘Getting to know you’ (Acreman, S. and Pegram, B.), originally published in Research Magazine, November 1999, pp. 36–41. In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material, and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so. Case 1 Nike sprints ahead of the competition? Nike was founded by Bill Bowerman, the legendary University
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Case studies Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: ‘Getting to know you’ (Acreman, S. and Pegram, B.), originally published in Research Magazine, November 1999, pp. 36–41. In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material, and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so. Case 1 Nike sprints ahead of the competition? Nike was founded by Bill Bowerman, the legendary University
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Para os meus pais, porque "o valor das coisas não está no tempo que elas duram, mas na intensidade com que acontecem. Por isso existem momentos inesquecíveis, coisas inexplicáveis e pessoas incomparáveis" como vocês! Obrigado por tudo, Filipe Abstract The Retail Banking Industry has been severely affected by fraud over the past few years. Indeed, despite all the research and systems available, fraudsters have been able to outsmart and deceive the banks and their customers. With this in mind
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Introduction to CreditMetrics™ The benchmark for understanding credit risk New York April 2, 1997 • • • A value-at-risk (VaR) framework applicable to all institutions worldwide that carry credit risk in the course of their business. A full portfolio view addressing credit event correlations which can identify the costs of over concentration and benefits of diversification in a mark-to-market framework. Results that drive: investment decisions, risk-mitigating actions, consistent risk-based
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policymaking process by developing science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic as well as a scientific/technological dimension. European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Contact information Address: Edificio Expo. c/ Inca Garcilaso, 3. E-41092 Seville (Spain) E-mail: jrc-ipts-secretariat@ec.europa.eu Tel.: +34 954488318 Fax: +34 954488300 http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu Legal Notice Neither
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An Overview of Advertising Chapter 1 1.1 Introduction If we look up the word ‘advertise' in the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1990) we find the following definition: ‘Make an announcement in a public place; describe or present goods publicly with a view to promoting sales.'; Right after that we find advertisement defined as: ‘A public announcement (formerly by the town-crier, now usually in newspapers, on posters, by television, etc)' It was Daniel Starch (1926), one of the early
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Auditing Cases instructor resource Manual f our th e d itio n Mark S. Beasley Frank A. Buckless Steven M. Glover Douglas F. Prawitt do not coPy or redistribute Prentice hall Upper Saddle River, New Jersey ta b l e s e ct ion o f co n t e n t s 1 2 client acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S o l u tionS inc lu de d in t h iS Section 1.1 Ocean Manufacturing, Inc. 3 The New Client Acceptance Decision s e ct ion Understanding
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