Motivated by the different development stages of both, the venture capital (VC) as well as the life science industry in the USA and Europe, we investigate portfolio strategies of US-American and European VC firms active in this sector. We analyse portfolios of 88 VCs financing a total of 1050...

Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement bedeutet persönliche Gesundheitswerte mit Unternehmenszielen zu verknüpfen und in Einklang zu bringen (win-win). In diesem Artikel erklärt Herr Möller die wichtigsten Instrumente aus der Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung die zur Gesundheitsförderung...

We analyse, in a probabilistic setting, Newcombe's (1981) life table method of estimating rates of onset of high-penetrance single-gene disorders, and extend this to a counting process model for individual life histories...

This paper uses evidence from the US to examine the impact ofadolescent illegal consumption and violent behaviour on later lifechances. Specifically, we look at the effect of such behaviour by youngmen in late adolescence on productivity and household formation tenyears on. We find that alcohol...