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Hester Pharmaceuticals (B): Securing Supply
by Dante Roscini John MaskoIn 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and a rise in "reshoring" sentiment in the U.S., Hester Pharmaceuticals had to decide whether to build a new plant for its new oncology drug Akrozumab in Germany or in the U.S., or whether it should hire a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) to produce the drug.
Het lichamelijk functioneren.
by C. A. Bastiaanssen A.A.F. Jochems J.A.M. Baar De Jong Consulting B.V.De vele vermogens van het lichamelijk functioneren worden in dit boek zodanig behandeld, dat de leerling stap voor stap de beschikking krijgt over gedetailleerde kennis van en inzicht in het complexe geheel van het functioneren van het menselijk lichaam. Het boek is rijk geïllustreerd (full color) waarbij ondermeer gebruik is gemaakt van de fraaie afbeeldingen uit de Sobotta-atlassen. Foto's uit het dagelijkse leven verluchtigen het geheel en maken het boek bij uitstek geschikt voor de opleiding tot verzorgende (met name de IG-variant).
Heterodox Challenges in Economics: Theoretical Issues and the Crisis of the Eurozone
by Sergio CesarattoThis book discloses the economic foundations of European fiscal and monetary policies by introducing readers to an array of alternative approaches in economics. It presents various heterodox theories put forward by classical economists, Marx, Sraffa and Keynes, as a coherent challenge to neo-classical theory. The book underscores and critically assesses the analytical inconsistencies of European economic policy and the conservative nature of the current European governance. In this light, it examines the political obstacles to proposals to reform the European monetary union, as well as those originating in the neo-mercantilist German model. Given its scope and format, the book offers a valuable asset for researchers and members of the general public alike.
Heterodox Economics and Global Emergencies: Voices from Around the World (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
by Eurydice Fotopoulou Ariane Agunsoye Thoralf Dassler Jon MulbergFrom the financial crash to the climate emergency and Covid, this book demonstrates that recent crises have had unequal impacts, that they require a heterodox approach to economics for their understanding, and new ways of thinking are needed to address them. Drawing on a variety of heterodox and radical perspectives and global voices, including those from India, Africa, and South America, this collection explores the causes and impacts of global emergencies from a wide array of viewpoints. The first section outlines how the pandemic has shown up the biases of orthodox thought and policy, particularly its Eurocentric and patriarchal focus on the urban, formal economy. It outlines how adding an international dimension to institutional analysis uncovers systematic inequalities in the responses to emergencies, and how new paradigms can provide better alternatives. The massive interventionism worldwide has led to renewed interest in the global financial system, and also in Marxian approaches to money. The second section of the book therefore considers a range of alternative approaches to the study of finance – from Marx to Minsky – which are currently being revisited. The collection concludes with a suggestion for heterodox economics pedagogy, since changing economics education is vital for future dissemination of real-world ideas. The book will be of interest to a variety of researchers and postgraduate students, and lecturers, especially in the fields of development, health, labour and feminist economics, also international political economy and heterodox economics.
Heterodox Economics of Military Spending (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
by Adem Yavuz ElverenCovering Institutionalist, Post-Keynesian, Marxist, and Feminist perspectives, Heterodox Economics of Military Spending provides a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy.The impact of military spending on economic growth has always been a crucial issue for policymakers and academics. There exists an extensive body of literature on how military spending affects macroeconomic variables, including but not limited to economic growth, profit rates, income inequality, gender inequality, and employment. Different schools of economic thought have proposed various theoretical approaches to investigate the role of military production in a capitalist economy. While some of these approaches are competitive, others complement each other. Heterodox Economics of Military Spending is the first book to analyze the effects of military spending on various macroeconomic perspectives by considering all major alternative economic schools. This book also contributes to the literature by introducing new theoretical models and empirical evidence, with a special focus on its impact on economic growth.This book will be of great interest to readers in defense and peace economics, the history of economic thought, Marxist economic theory, feminist economics, and pluralist approaches to economics.
Heterodox Economics: Alternatives to Mainstream Economics (essentials)
by Arne HeiseThe state of economics is poor: it has narrowed its focus to a viewpoint whose explanatory power was heavily questioned not only during the global financial crisis after 2007, but whose policy recommendations even enabled the crisis and exacerbated its consequences. Moreover, it seems unable to contribute much to solving the major environmental problems of our time. However, outside of mainstream economics, a critical perspective – heterodox economics – has developed, which rejects the basic assumptions of mainstream economics and, in various schools – including Post-Keynesianism, complexity economics, and ecological economics – develops questions and provides alternatives that challenge mainstream economics and suggest a paradigm shift.
Heterodox Investment Theory
by Thomas PistoriusThis book combines the study of rhetoric, history, philosophy, philosophy of statistics and the culture of investing to discuss the foundations of stochastical predictability in investment theory. Besides discussing the problem of stochastical prediction, the book also covers alternative investment theories. Ideas from uncertainty economics, expressed by the likes of Keynes, Knight, von Mises, Taleb and McCloskey are also discussed. This book will be of interest to researchers and academics in the field of investment theory, as well as investment practitioners.
Heterodox Islamic Economics: The emergence of an ethico-economic theory (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
by Masudul Alam Choudhury Ishaq BhattiThe fields of morality and ethics have been left out significantly from socio-scientific study in general and in economics and finance in particular. Yet this book argues that in this age of post-modernist analytical inquiry, the study of morality and ethics is an epistemological requirement. This book illustrates the delimiting nature of mainstream economic reasoning in treating morality and ethics and highlights the potential contribution of analytical monotheism, as typified by the Islamic concept of Tahwid. The principal purpose of this book is to undertake an introductory exploration of the critical area of comparative economic thought in order to place the nature and emergence of ethico-economic theory in its proper context. It is ultimately argued that such a post-orthodoxy revolutionary methodological worldview can be presented by Islamic political economy, Islamic economics and finance.
Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and globalization (Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics)
by Jonathan P. Goldstein Michael G. HillardHeterodox Macroeconomics offers a detailed understanding of the foundations of the recent global financial crisis. The chapters, from a selection of leading academics in the field of heterodox macroeconomics, carry out a synthesis of heterodox ideas that place financial instability, macroeconomic crisis, rising global inequality and a grasp of the perverse and pernicious qualities of global and domestic macroeconomic policy making since 1980 into a coherent perspective. It familiarizes the reader with the emerging unified theory of heterodox macroeconomics and its applications. The book is divided into four key sections: I) Heterodox Macroeconomics and the Keynes-Marx synthesis; II) Accumulation, Crisis and Instability; III) The Macrodynamics of the Neoliberal Regime; and IV) Heterodox Macroeconomic Policy. The essays include theoretical, international, historical, and country perspectives on financial fragility and macroeconomic instability.
Heterodox Views of Finance and Cycles in the Spanish Economy (Routledge Revivals)
by Manuel RomanThis title was first published in 2002: Why do endogenous cycles persist in Spain? Manuel Roman demonstrates a highly novel approach to the study of finance and the persistence of endogenous growth cycles, providing a balanced account of the Post Keynesian, Classical and Neo-classical political economy approaches. Finding key propositions from a representative set of heterodox cycles' models, he rigorously tests their chief claims, grounding his research in empirical data. The endogenous forces behind persistent fluctuations in the Spanish economy are also identified and explored in this theoretically rich text, the first of its kind to examine the Spanish economy in such great detail.
Heterodoxe Ökonomik: Alternativen zum ökonomischen Mainstream (essentials)
by Arne HeiseUm die Wirtschaftswissenschaft ist es schlecht bestellt: Sie hat sich auf einen Blickwinkel verengt, dessen Erklärungskraft nicht erst in der Weltfinanzkrise nach 2007 heftig in Frage gestellt wurde, sondern deren Politikempfehlungen sogar die Krise erst ermöglichten und deren Folgen verschärften. Und auch zur Lösung der großen Umweltprobleme unserer Zeit scheint sie nicht viel beitragen zu können. Abseits der Standardökonomik hat sich allerdings eine kritische Perspektive – die heterodoxe Ökonomik – entwickelt, die die Grundannahmen der Standardökonomik zurückweist und in verschiedenen Schulen – u.a. dem Postkeynesianismus, der Komplexitätsökonomik und der Ökologischen Ökonomik – Fragestellungen entwickelt und Alternativen bereitstellt, die die Standardökonomik herausfordert und einen Paradigmenwechsel nahelegt.
Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism (Acting with Technology)
by Bonnie A. Nardi Hamid R. EkbiaAn exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a “user” of digital technology. Through our clicks and swipes, logins and profiles, emails and posts, we are, more or less willingly, participating in digital activities that yield economic value to others but little or no return to us. Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie Nardi call this kind of participation—the extraction of economic value from low-cost or free labor in computer-mediated networks—“heteromation.” In this book, they explore the social and technological processes through which economic value is extracted from digitally mediated work, the nature of the value created, and what prompts people to participate in the process.Arguing that heteromation is a new logic of capital accumulation, Ekbia and Nardi consider different kinds of heteromated labor: communicative labor, seen in user-generated content on social media; cognitive labor, including microwork and self-service; creative labor, from gaming environments to literary productions; emotional labor, often hidden within paid jobs; and organizing labor, made up of collaborative groups such as citizen scientists. Ekbia and Nardi then offer a utopian vision: heteromation refigured to bring end users more fully into the prosperity of capitalism.
Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
by Charles SlackThis acclaimed biography of the Gilded Age&’s Queen of Wall Street is &“a must-read for all aspiring moguls&” (Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School). When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron—who parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a fortune that was worth about 1.6 billion in today's dollars—was frugal to a fault. But in an age when women weren't even allowed to vote, never mind concern themselves with interest rates, she lived by her own rules. In Hetty, Charles Slack reexamines her life and legacy, giving us, at long last, a splendidly &“nuanced portrait&” (Newsweek) of one of the greatest—and most eccentric—financiers in American history. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. &“[Hetty&’s] wry wit and colorful personality bring humor and pathos to this story. . . . [R]eaders cannot help from cheering for her at every turn.&” —Booklist &“An exemplary retelling for a new generation.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“Entertaining. . . . Slack . . . concentrates on telling a good story and telling it well.&” —Publishers Weekly &“Wonderfully detailed.&” —Forbes &“Page-turning.&” —Richmond Times-Dispatch &“Fascinating.&” —New York Post
Heuristics in Analytics
by Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro Fiona McneillEmploy heuristic adjustments for truly accurate analysis Heuristics in Analytics presents an approach to analysis that accounts for the randomness of business and the competitive marketplace, creating a model that more accurately reflects the scenario at hand. With an emphasis on the importance of proper analytical tools, the book describes the analytical process from exploratory analysis through model developments, to deployments and possible outcomes. Beginning with an introduction to heuristic concepts, readers will find heuristics applied to statistics and probability, mathematics, stochastic, and artificial intelligence models, ending with the knowledge applications that solve business problems. Case studies illustrate the everyday application and implication of the techniques presented, while the heuristic approach is integrated into analytical modeling, graph analysis, text analytics, and more. Robust analytics has become crucial in the corporate environment, and randomness plays an enormous role in business and the competitive marketplace. Failing to account for randomness can steer a model in an entirely wrong direction, negatively affecting the final outcome and potentially devastating the bottom line. Heuristics in Analytics describes how the heuristic characteristics of analysis can be overcome with problem design, math and statistics, helping readers to: Realize just how random the world is, and how unplanned events can affect analysis Integrate heuristic and analytical approaches to modeling and problem solving Discover how graph analysis is applied in real-world scenarios around the globe Apply analytical knowledge to customer behavior, insolvency prevention, fraud detection, and more Understand how text analytics can be applied to increase the business knowledge Every single factor, no matter how large or how small, must be taken into account when modeling a scenario or event-even the unknowns. The presence or absence of even a single detail can dramatically alter eventual outcomes. From raw data to final report, Heuristics in Analytics contains the information analysts need to improve accuracy, and ultimately, predictive, and descriptive power.
Heuristics, Metaheuristics and Approximate Methods in Planning and Scheduling
by Ghaith RabadiThe scope of this book is limited to heuristics, metaheuristics, and approximate methods and algorithms as applied to planning and scheduling problems. While it is not possible to give a comprehensive treatment of this topic in one book, the aim of this work is to provide the reader with a diverse set of planning and scheduling problems and different heuristic approaches to solve them. The problems range from traditional single stage and parallel machine problems to more modern settings such as robotic cells and flexible job shop networks. Furthermore, some chapters deal with deterministic problems while some others treat stochastic versions of the problems. Unlike most of the literature that deals with planning and scheduling problems in the manufacturing and production environments, in this book the environments were extended to nontraditional applications such as spatial scheduling (optimizing space over time), runway scheduling, and surgical scheduling. The solution methods used in the different chapters of the book also spread from well-established heuristics and metaheuristics such as Genetic Algorithms and Ant Colony Optimization to more recent ones such as Meta-RaPS.
Heuristiken für die gewinnorientierte Planung ressourcenbeschränkter Projekte mit erweiterbaren Kapazitäten (Produktion und Logistik)
by André SchnabelAndré Schnabel ergänzt das ressourcenbeschränkte Projektplanungsproblem um die Möglichkeit, kostenpflichtige Zusatzkapazität einzusetzen, um die Projektdauer zu reduzieren und damit den erzielten Erlös zu erhöhen. Der Deckungsbeitrag wird maximiert, indem gezielt in bestimmen Perioden im Planungshorizont die Kapazität erweitert wird. Die neuartige Problemstellung wird als mathematisches Modell formalisiert und es werden mehrere heuristische Methoden zur effizienten Lösung des Problems vorgestellt und im Rahmen einer umfangreichen numerischen Studie evaluiert.
Hewlett-Packard Company: CEO Succession in 2010
by Jay W. Lorsch Krishna G. Palepu Melissa BartonMark Hurd resigned as the CEO of Hewlett Packard in 2010 after the board discovered that he had misfiled expense reports and paid an H.P. contractor for unsubstantiated work. After Hurd left H.P., he joined Oracle, an H.P. competitor. Soon thereafter, the H.P. board appointed a new CEO following an eight-week search.
Hewlett-Packard Imaging Systems Division: Sonos 100 C/F Introduction
by Frank V. Cespedes Marie BellThe marketing manager for the Imaging Systems business unit (ISY) at Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group is considering channel strategy and channel management issues raised by the upcoming introduction of a new cardiac imaging product. Product marketing's plans call for the use of indirect distribution channels to enter a new segment; important managers in ISY's direct sales force disagree.
Hewlett-Packard's Home Products Division in Europe--1996-2000
by Carin-Isabel Knoop David J. ArnoldBy November 2000, Hewlett-Packard's Home Products Division (HPD) had been selling its Pavilion line of personal computers in Europe for almost five years. During that time, HPD had entered and exited Germany, struggled in France and the United Kingdom, and significantly reorganized its European operations twice. Some at HP felt that the European operation had become what HP should be. Others wondered why it had been so hard and whether the model of "operational excellence" adopted by HPD to compete in Europe was adequate for a very fast-changing market.
Hewlett-Packard's Merced Decision
by Clayton M. Christensen Matthew C. VerlindenDescribes managing the threat of disruptive technology at the high end of the computer industry. Many aspects of the innovator's dilemma can be explored.
Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A): The Trials and Tribulations of a Legacy
by Michael Beer Gregory C. RogersDescribes the process of transforming a recently formed division of Hewlett-Packard.
Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A): The Trials and Tribulations of a Legacy
by Michael Beer Gregory C. RogersDescribes the process of transforming a recently formed division of Hewlett-Packard.
Hewlett-Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers
by Das Narayandas Robert C. DudleyIn late 1996, Manuel Diaz, head of Worldwide Sales for Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Computer Systems Organization (CSO), is reviewing the results of an audit of HP's enterprise customer management approach with the objective of identifying market and organizational opportunities that might provide HP the next wave of growth while further reducing sales and support costs. HP's current customer management approach, although successful, had involved structural changes that had forced a deep-rooted overhaul of HP's traditional regional sales approach. The new recommendations would necessitate another round of drastic changes in the way HP manages relationships with its large enterprise customers. Diaz does not want to put the sales organization through another round of changes unless he is sure they are necessary. He has to figure out if the organization is ready for more change, and whether the benefits outweigh the costs of implementation. The case provides a detailed review of the audit process and the findings.
Hewlett-Packard-Compaq: The Merger Decision
by Krishna G. Palepu Jonathan BarnettHewlett-Packard's proposed $24 billion acquisition of rival Compaq marked the largest merger in the history of the computer industry. The merger was Hewlett-Packard's response to sweeping changes impacting the technology industry. The severity of the stock market's reaction to the deal's announcement, coupled with a "slim but sufficient" 51.4% shareholder approval margin, left many wondering whether the deal was beneficial for shareholders.
Hewlett-Packard: Creating, Running, and Growing an Enduring Company
by H. Kent Bowen Courtney PurringtonTraces the development of Hewlett-Packard Co. from a small start-up company in 1938 to a world-class manufacturer of electronic instruments and computer products. Examines the challenges of starting and running a small company, including financing, human resources management, product strategy, human relations, and management succession. The creation of a unique and enduring set of values and a philosophy of running and growing a company, known as the "HP Way," is emphasized.