Over the past decade the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the Basel Committee) has released a number of consultative documents discussing the management and supervision of the interest rate risk inherent in a bank’s balance sheet1. The Committee’s most recent release on this topic forms part of the proposed New Basel Capital Accord (the New Accord), which comes into effect in 200…
This study integrated concepts from upper echelons, group process and social cognition theories to investigate how demographic diversity and group processes influence strategic consensus within the top management team (TMT), where strategic consensus is defined as the degree to which individual mental models of strategy overlap. Data from 76 high-technology firms in the United States and Ir…
This paper builds upon prior work conducted by Joint Forum working groups in the area of risk integration and aggregation 1 and aims to explore the progress that financial conglomerates have made in identifying, m easuring, and managing risk concentrations on a firm-wide basis and across the major risks to which the firm is exposed. In December 1999, the Joint Forum published its …
Over the past decade, a large (and continually increasing) number of efforts (both research and development) have sought to investigate and exploit the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts and techniques in production management applications. In some cases, Al-based concepts have provided frameworks for making traditional Operations Research (OR) techniques more accessible and usable…
The United States has the opportunity to transform its health care system to provide seamless, affordable, quality care that is accessible to all, patient centered, and evidence based and leads to improved health outcomes. Achieving this transformation will require remodeling many aspects of the health care system. This is especially true for the nurs- ing profession, the largest segment of the…
The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) in North Chicago, Illinois, is an effort by the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DoD) to create a national model for joint delivery of health care that is more accessible and less expensive than operating two federal medical centers serving overlapping beneficiaries in the same area. The creation of the Lovell FHCC a…
Shortage of teaching materials for primary cadres of health is the major problem in Ethiopia. Currently textbook for Health Extension Package Workers is not available. To meet this unmet need, this lecture note was prepared. Therefore, the production of this teaching material is very important and has immense contribution in teaching of Health Planning and Management for Health Extension Packag…