[Investment banks play an intermediary role in the financial system that is integral to its efficient operation. A core, and highly visible, aspect of their work is providing financial advisory services to institutional clients on transactions that have strategic importance, such as mergers and acquisitions. As these services are but one aspect of the broad and diverse range of financial servic...

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Drs Krumholz and Ross receive support fromMedtronic to developmethods of clinical trial data sharing, from the Centers of Medicare &Medicaid Services to develop and maintain performancemeasures that are used for public reporting, and from the Food and Drug...

The need for companies' interconnection and advantages of mutual business cooperation led to the development supply chain management in 1980s. Along with intensified market globalization process, companies have become aware develop efficient chains. A includes a series activities from planning organizing controlling flow material services suppliers final customer. effectiveness depends large ex...

371 2013 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A Julian M. Allwood, Michael F. Ashby, Timothy G. Gutowski and Ernst Worrell with less material production Material efficiency: providing material services References html#related-urls http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1986/20120496.full. Article cited in: 96.full.html#ref-list-1 http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1986/201204 This a...

Material efficiency, as discussed in this Meeting Issue, entails the pursuit of the technical strategies, business models, consumer preferences and policy instruments that would lead to a substantial reduction in the production of high-volume energy-intensive materials required to deliver human well-being. This paper, which introduces a Discussion Meeting Issue on the topic of material efficien...

In today’s global services outsourcing arena, increasing numbers of companies adopt “multisourcing,” that is, they select and combine information technology (IT) and business services from multiple providers. The literature on IT outsourcing and supply chain management has identified critical tradeoffs involved in increasing the number of suppliers and has strongly recommended focusing on a han...

Within many industrial segments worldwide, a clear trend can be seen where companies outsource functional areas to specialised outside suppliers to support their internal core business areas. Typically, the companies begin by outsourcing functions of low strategic importance, e.g. cleaning, canteen working and administration. After having learnt from this experience they gradually move towards ...