OBJECTIVE The technical evolution of endografts for the interventional management of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) has allowed a continuous expansion of indications. This study compares the established Talent endograft with its successor, the Endurant endograft, taking individual aortoiliac anatomy into account. METHODS From June 2007 to December 2010, 35 patients with AAA were ...

Artists, musicians and writers have always been great travellers. Today, their talent circulates in new ways, and takes new forms, as the creative industries expand globally in a marriage of media technology and the traditional arts. The growing international market for cultural talent can do much to help countries diversify their economies, and improve the quality of life more broadly. The cre...

In current organizations, the importance of knowledge and competence is unquestionable. In Information Technology (IT) companies, which are, by definition, knowledge intensive, this importance is critical. In such organizations, the models of knowledge exploitation include specific processes and elements that drive the production of knowledge aimed at satisfying organizational objectives. Howev...

Managerial talent is neither observable nor divisible. Thus, performance measures that evaluate a manager’s human capital are significant not only for compensating a manager through accurate appraisal, but also for inferring managerial talent. In practice, however, talent measures are often imperfect, thereby hindering firms from control of a manager’s behaviors. As such, exploring the nature o...

The primary objective of this study was to expound the strategic significance of talent management with the help of a review of relevant literature. Virtual organization is one of the most flexible organizational forms that emerged as a direct result of advancements in information and communication technologies. In this form of organization, independent parties collaborate with each other to br...

This paper o¤ers direct evidence of the role of managerial talent in the market for CEOs. We construct two empirical measures of CEO talent based on perceptions of a CEO’s reputation and prior career outcomes. Using a newly hand-collected sample of 2,195 CEO successions between 1993 and 2005, we document that: 1) …rst-year total pay is an increasing and convex function of CEO talent, and increa...

This study aimed to translate the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire into Spanish and provide an initial validation. A recommended methodology for translation and cultural adaptation of questionnaires was applied. Once this had been completed, three hundred and thirty-two young athletes completed the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire. The results revealed that the five fact...