State-of-the-art product configuration enables companies to deliver customized products by selecting and assembling predefined configuration elements based on known relationships. This paper introduces an innovative concept, open configuration, in order to assist companies in configuring products that correspond exactly to what customers want. Superior to product configuration, open configurati...

Fiduciary law is highly instructive about the limits of what may be agreed to by physician-researchers and sponsor drug companies when their agreements implicate the interests of patients who volunteer as subjects in clinical trials. On October 26, 2001, the Report of the Committee of Inquiry on the Case Involving Dr. Nancy Olivieri, the Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto and...

This study tests the hypothesis that market value added (MVA) is more highly associated with stock return (SR) than traditional performance measures. The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the relative and incremental information content of MVA and traditional performance measures, namely, net income (NI), net operational profit after tax (NOPAT), and earning per shares (...

CONTEXT While exposure to and attitudes about drug company interactions among residents have been studied extensively, relatively little is known about relationships between drug companies and medical students. OBJECTIVE To measure third-year medical students' exposure to and attitudes about drug company interactions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS In 2003, we distributed a 64-item anony...

With respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measure, this study tries to design an integrated PM model for pharmaceutical companies. For generating this model; we first identified the key performance indicators (KPIs) and the key result indicators (KRIs) of a typical pharmaceutical company. Then, based on experts᾽ opinions, the identified ...

BACKGROUND Increasing life expectancy and decreasing fertility have led to a shift in the workforce age structure towards older age groups. Deteriorating health and reduced work capacity are among the challenges to retaining older workers in the labour force. AIMS To examine whether workplace interventions to facilitate work among employees with health problems or reduced work capacity affect...

The article is devoted to the issue of using financial multipliers to estimate the value of a company. In our research we identified the industries that account for more than 50% of Gross Domestic Product. We took the companies with publicly available information. Then we used multicriteria Muchnik's model to identify promising companies and receive the required sample. At the final stage, we u...

The financial ties between doctors and drug companies have come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Some commentators--such as Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine--argue that the mission of doctors is fundamentally different to the mission of drug companies and that the ties between them should be completely cut. "Drug companies are investor owned bu...

In Z the risk of liability would be determined by the statute, code or common law of the country. The treatment of personal injury and particularly malpractice liability varies widely among nations particularly in civil law jurisdictions. Jurisdiction over the investigator who has returned to the US may not be readily established. The University and the drug company may be even further removed....

Mike Beyerlein, Major Professor Bert Hayslip Jr., Committee Professor Rodger Ballentine, Committee Member Linda Marshall, Chair of the Department of Psychology Sandra L. Terrell, Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEE-SUPERIOR CONFLICT AND VOLUNTARY TURNOVER IN THE WORKPLACE: A COMPARISON OF COMPANIES ACROSS INDUSTRIES Lindsey Strak...