Better Practices for Retaining Organizational Knowledge: Lessons from the Leading Edge David W. De Long and Thomas Davenport n 1998, after significantly downsizing for ten years, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) realized that the median age of its 13,000 remaining employees was 48. Because most of its workers retired well before age 60, this meant that over the next ten years the TVA, the largest electrical utility in the United States, was bound to lose many of those it depended
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Commodities Trading: Nick Leeson, Internal Controls and the Collapse of Barings Bank __________________________________________________________________________________________ Commodities Trading: Nick Leeson, Internal Controls and the Collapse of Barings Bank By Sam Bhugaloo Page 1 of 21 Commodities Trading: Nick Leeson, Internal Controls and the Collapse of Barings Bank __________________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Content
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U.S. History and Constitution HIS120 Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) At the end of the course, students will be able to: SLO1. Describe the cultural, geographic and climatic influences on Native American societies. SLO2. Compare and contrast religious, social and cultural differences among the major European settlers. SLO3. Describe the events that helped create American nationalism and lead to the American Revolution. SLO4. Explain the Constitutional Convention, the
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Men in Double Marginality--Chinese Diaspora “at home” . . . ! ! ! Ping Lin ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (2007 *! Men in Double Marginality--- Chinese Diaspora “at home” Ping Lin Abstract This paper uses data gathered from research project partially sponsored by Oriel College in Oxford and Academia Sinica in Taiwan to explore the adaptation of Mainlander Taiwanese in China. They moved from China to Taiwan in 1949 and back “home” with their descendents in 1990s. By examine the life of seventeen respondents
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WORD ASSOCIATION TEST Experiment No. 2 NAME: CRISELLE M. MACASPAC SCORE: DAY/TIME: W 7:30-4:30 DATE: TITLE: Word Association Test ABSTRACT: The formation of word association and perceptual defense aim to measure signs of emotional complexes and to be able to identify the degree of threshold for each selected stimulus. The apparatus needed were paper, pencil and ninety-nine (99) stimulus words. For the procedure, the experiment has 1 phase: determination of association
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EXCEL MODELING AND ESTIMATION IN CORPORATE FINANCE Third Edition CRAIG W. HOLDEN Max Barney Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor Kelley School of Business Indiana University Copyright © 2008 by Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 To Kathryn, Diana, and Jimmy. Contents iii CONTENTS Preface ..................................................................................... vii Third Edition Changes .............................................
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prediction that laser interferometry will first detect these waves within the next few years. In 1905 Albert Einstein presented his Theory of Special Relativity with two postulates that led to a new realm of reasoning and observing the universe. Eleven years later Einstein extended these postulates to form the General Theory of Relativity. This theory predicts the existence of gravitational waves and describes properties these waves must have. If such gravitational waves could be detected, they
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price index (CPI) rose 0.8 percent in the March 2011 quarter. This follows rises of 2.3 percent in the December 2010 quarter (when goods and services tax (GST) rose from 12.5 to 15 percent) and 1.1 percent in the September 2010 quarter, respectively. Seven groups rose in the March 2011 quarter, with transport (up 2.5 percent), alcoholic beverages and tobacco (up 3.5 percent), food (up 1.2 percent), education (up 5.7 percent), and housing and household utilities (up 0.4 percent), being the most significant
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ISSN 1940-204X COORS BALANCED SCORECARD: A DECADE OF EXPERIENCE Hugh Grove University of Denver Tom Cook University of Denver Ken Richter Coors Brewing Company IntroductIon By the end of 1997, Coors had finished the implementation of a three-year Computer Integrated Logistics (CIL) project to improve its supply chain management. Coors defined its supply chain as every activity involved in moving production from the supplier’s supplier to the customer’s customer. (Since by Federal law, Coors
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currently not a comprehensive systematic method for designing warehouses. In this paper, the current literature on the overall methodology of warehouse design is explored, together with the literature on tools and techniques used for specific areas of analysis. The general results from the literature have then been validated and refined with reference to warehouse design companies. The output is a general framework of steps, with specific tools and techniques that can be used for each step. This is intended
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