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The Influence of Women in Business: Is a Higher Percentage of Women on a Company’s Board of Directors Associated with the Absence of Internal Control Weaknesses?

Goyette, Jamie - 2010

weaknesses. Such an association signifies the importance of board diversity because diversification strengthens corporate …

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The Shapley Value of Phylogenetic Trees

Haake, Claus-Jochen; Kashiwada, Akemi; Su, Francis Edward - 2005

leaves are species and this assignment captures the diversity present in the coalition of species considered. We consider the … characterize the Shapley value on tree games by five axioms, a counterpart to Shapley's original theorem on the larger class of …

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Universal Design: Is it accessible?

Jane Bringolf - 2008

Designing products and environments to be useable by the majority of people is the underpinning concept of universal design. In some aspects, however, universal design fails to meet some of its own principles. This has resulted in a lack of understanding of the concept, which in turn, has...

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Diversity leader: Case study of a selected organization's transformation

Zaballero, Aileen Guerrero - 2009

Diversity initiatives have evolved from a focus on compliance-oriented training to a systematic approach which … integrates the many dimensions of diversity in all aspects of business to enhance performance through the practice of … address the demographic changes in the workforce, but have had minimal results. When diversity interventions are conceptually …

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Improving Business Performance through Effectively Managing Employees

Poquette, Ross E.L. - 2011

tasks. Development decreases costs by reducing the price associated with recruiting. Encouraging diversity to flourish …

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Welcoming remarks

Delgado Tejero, Margarita

visibility to issues related to gender diversity, are key to finding solutions to the waste of talent that involves not taking … this diversity into account, consequently putting economic growth at risk and depriving economies of opportunities to …

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SUCCESSFUL PRIVATIZATION OF HANFORD SITE FABRICATION SERVICES

KELLY, D.S. - 2008

This paper describes the elements of Fluor Hanford's successful privatization of a major support services function. The privatization has accelerated the closure of the Department of Energy's Hanford Site by streamlining operations and using the realized cost savings to maintain the accelerated...

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The importance of trade in services and environmental amenities to the location of producer service activities in the western United States

Allison, T. - 2008

The use of business services has had an increasingly important effect on economic performance in many industries, with the ability of firms in a given location to respond to changes in external markets, production techniques and material supplies often determined by the local provision of...

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Fire Protection Program fiscal year 1996, site support program plan Hanford Fire Department. Revision 2

Good, D.E. - 2009

The mission of the Hanford Fire Department (HFD) is to support the safe and timely cleanup of the Hanford site by providing fire suppression, fire prevention, emergency rescue, emergency medical service, and hazardous materials response; and to be capable of dealing with and terminating emergency...

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ESCO market and industry trends: Updated results from the NAESCO database project

Osborn, Julie G.; Goldman, Charles A.; Hopper, Nicole C. - 2009

Today's U.S. energy efficiency services industry is one of the most successful examples of private sector energy efficiency services in the world, yet little empirical information is available on the actual market activity of this industry. LBNL, together with the National Association of Energy...

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