ADOPT YOUR OWN RETIREMENT PLAN

Configurable Process Models: How to Adopt Standard Practices in Your Own Way?

Configurable process models enable a systematic documentation and reuse of standardized “best” practices, while allowing process analysts to understand possible variations contemplated by these standards, and how to link these variations to business decisions. This article discusses the potential benefits of configurable process models and introduces a method and a toolset for process design ba...

Retirement Plan Selection

We study the effect of incorporating heterogeneity into default rules by examining the choice between retirement plans at a firm which transitioned from a defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (DC) plan. The default plan for existing employees varied discontinuously depending on their age. Employing regression discontinuity techniques, we find that the default increased the probability...

Paint Your Own Pictures

In these days when everyone seems interested in "art therapy" this book is very timely and it is of special interest to our readers that the author has had considerable experience with psychiatric patients. He has dedicated it to Dr.

Grow-your-own synapses

cientists have discovered a new function for amyloid precursor protein (APP), a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The finding may reveal how APP gets mixed up with the enzymes that make it go bad. APP has an evil reputation. The and secretases transform it into amyloidpeptide, a component of the plaques that riddle the brain in Alzheimer’s disease. Previous work by Larry Goldstein (Univesi...

Doing Your Own Benchmark