Cost Stickiness: Value Creating or Value Destroying (The Iranian Experience)

Destructive Games: Creating Value by Destroying Valuable Physical ObjectsDestructive Games: Creating Value by Destroying Valuable Physical ObjectsDestructive Games: Creating Value by Destroying Valuable Physical Objects

While personal fabrication tools, such as laser cutters and milling machines, are intended for construction, we are exploring their use for destruction. We present a series of games that result in valuable physical objects being destroyed—objects owned by the players. Interestingly, we found that we can design these games to be desirable to play, despite the loss of the object, by instead produ...

Creating or Destroying Objects Plan in the Graphplan Framework

At present, intelligent planning in the Graphplan framework is a focus of artificial intelligence. While the Creating or Destroying Objects Planning (CDOP) is one unsolved problem of this field, one of the difficulties, too. In this paper, we study this planning problem and bring forward the idea of transforming objects to propositions, based on which we offer an algorithm, Creating or Destroyi...

Creating sustainable value

Executive Overview Just as the creation of shareholder value requires performance on multiple dimensions, the global challenges associated with sustainable development are also multifaceted, involving economic, social, and environmental concerns. Indeed, these challenges have implications for virtually every aspect of a firm’s strategy and business model. Yet, most managers frame sustainable de...

Creating Shared Value

Creating and Destroying Processes

Creating Value in Financial Services

Financial services firms everywhere have undergone major changes over the last several decades. These firms include retail commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, mutual fund companies, securities brokers, and credit card companies. The decade of the nineties has witnessed a significant number of mergers among these firms worldwide. Some mergers were intended to achieve economi...