Can We All Get Along? The Arc of Paula D. McClain’s Career Shows That We Can

Stealing cycles: Can we get along?

The exploitation of networked workstations as a set of under-util ized computational resources is an attractive idea for cost effective parallel computing. The use of these resources, however, raises a number of interesting policy and performance questions (e.g, what impact will a parallel application have on the normal workstation user, what performance levels can be expected when many users a...

Neurorehabilitation: are we doing all that we can?

Occupational therapists have many intervention tools available for working with clients having a neurological injury; however, some of the most innovative and effective methods have not gained acceptance by many clinicians. Emerging research and new technologies provide occupational therapists with a multitude of treatment strategies and novel devices, but incorporation of those tools into clin...

Can We All Get Along? Incentive Contracts to Bridge the Marketing and Operations Divide

The marketing and operations management arms in a firm must work in coordination – marketing efforts to create demand go to waste if supply is suboptimal, and vice versa. However, achieving this coordination has remained a long-standing problem, because in most firms these units are managed in a decentralized manner. A major source of conflict is that marketing compensation is usually heavily w...

"Can't we all just get along?

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...