BACKGROUND This case study of donor human milk banking and the ethics that govern interested parties is the first time the ethics of donor milk banking has been explored. METHODS AND RESULTS Two different models of ethics and their direct impact on donor milk banking are examined: biomedical ethics and public health ethics. How these models and principles affect different aspects of donor hum...

Supplier selection has significant impact on life cycle cost of complex product system (CoPS). In this paper, a new variant of supplier selection problem named life cycle supplier selection of CoPS (LSS&CoPS) problem is addressed. There are three kinds of choices for a manufacturer to complete a CoPS: self-made, purchasing the finished component and outsourcing. Different selection not only res...

The tremendous advances and the aggressive infusion of information technology had brought in a paradigm shift in banking operations. With the rapid proliferation of Internet Technology banking sector now takes a different approaches often termed as E-banking. The adoption of Ebanking becomes a necessity for the banking which wishes to maintain its share of market and retain its customers. In on...

A procurement decision about a CRM system is heavily influenced by the initial purchase cost rather than the effect of the operating cost and utilization over the lifetime. In this paper, we propose a Cost of Ownership (COO) model for a CRM system which takes into account not only the initial cost, but also the operation cost, and the opportunity cost due to customer mismanagement over a life-c...

Today, one of the biggest problems that gripped the banking sphere, the high cost of implementing advanced technologies and the efficient use of the hardware. Cloud computing is the use of shared services on the Internet provides a large role in developing the banking system, without the need for operating expenses including staffing, equipment, hardware and software Reducing the cost of implem...

In contrast to the U.S. where universal banking has been legally prohibited, the Second Banking Directive allows European banks both to form financial conglomerates and hold equity stakes in non-financial companies. This paper analyzes the cost and profit efficiency of European financial conglomerates and universal banks. We find that conglomerates are more revenue efficient than their speciali...

Today, one of the biggest problems that gripped the banking sphere, the high cost of implementing advanced technologies and the efficient use of the hardware. Cloud computing is the use of shared services on the Internet provides a large role in developing the banking system, without the need for operating expenses including staffing, equipment, hardware and software Reducing the cost of implem...

We use highway procurement auction data to analyze the California Small Business program that awards a contract to a qualified small bidder provided its bid is within five percent of the overall low bid. We study the effect of this rule on bidders’ incentives to participate in procurement auctions and compute its implied efficiency and distributional costs. Small bidder can use the discount to ...