Pay Now or Pay Later?: The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership

Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow: Pay Now or Pay Later

Local recurrence or cardiovascular disease: pay now or later.

© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]. Radiation therapy is an essential component of the local management of breast cancer. The overview from the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group ( 1 ) indicates that adjuvant radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery results...

System Performance Engineering: "Pay Me Now or Pay Me More Later"

Institutionalizing innovation is hard work. The status quo is known, the new world is not. Managers whose primary goal is immediate risk reduction are rightfully cautious about new techniques and strategies, but change is inevitable. I want to consider an example involving software architecture definition in this issue of Strategic Software Engineering and attempt to illustrate both the new tec...

Is the Business Model Broken? A Model of the Difference Between Pay-Now and Pay-Later Contracts in IT Outsourcing

This chapter seeks to evaluate the dominant IT outsourcing contracts model (pay-later) as compared to an alternative model (pay-now) in light of changing economic conditions. We integrate practitioner observations in the spirit of mathematical transaction cost problems to develop a conceptual economic model to compare these two types of contracts. We uncover three very important facts which sug...

Left Atrial Appendage Closure to Reduce the Risk of Thromboembolic Complications in Atrial Fibrillation: Pay Now and Possibly Pay Later?

A trial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia and currently afflicts 5 million Americans (1). The treatment of AF and its complications costs the United States healthcare system $26 billion annually (2). Due to aging of the population and an increasing incidence of AF risk factors, by the year 2050, >12 million Americans will have this arrhythmia (2). Thromboembolism and its...