Although knowledge creation is viewed as fundamental for securing a firm’s competitive advantage by scholars of strategic management and organizational learning (Nonaka, 1994; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995; Prahalad and Hamel, 1990; Nelson 1990; Leonard-Barton, 1992; Teece, 2005), few studies have systematically investigated the specific knowledge creation processes put in place by small hi-tech fi...

Andrew D. Auerbach, MD, MPH,* Mary Beth Hamel, MD, MPH,† Robert M. Califf, MD, FACC,‡ Roger B. Davis, ScD,† Neil S. Wenger, MD,§ Norman Desbiens, MD,\ Lee Goldman, MD, MPH, FACC,* Humberto Vidaillet, MD, FACC,¶ Alfred F. Connors MD,# Joanne Lynn, MD,** Neal V. Dawson, MD,†† Russell S. Phillips, MD,† for the SUPPORT Investigators San Francisco, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Durham, North Ca...

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing to perform activities differently or to perform different activities than rivals to deliver a unique mix of value. -Michael E. Porter Winners in business play rough and don't apologize for it. The nicest part of playing hardball is watching your competitors squirm. -George Stalk Jr. and Rob Lachenauer The essence of s...

In Vitro and In Vivo Bactericidal Activities of Vancomycin Dispersed in Porous Biodegradable Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Microparticles Anne-Marie Le Ray, Hélène Gautier, Marie-Katel Laty, Guy Daculsi, Christian Merle, Cédric Jacqueline, Antoine Hamel, and Jocelyne Caillon* Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux d’Intérêt Biologique, Equipe INSERM 99-03, UFR Odontologie, Laboratoire de Pharmacie Galéni...

n the September-October 2010 issue of Health Progress, my colleague Ron Hamel, who alternates writing this column with me, discussed the unfinished business of health care reform.1 Among the items he mentioned was that a concern for the common good has been lacking in the debate. He ended his essay by suggesting that Catholic social teaching can be a resource for resolving the unfinished busine...

We discuss linear algebra of infinite-dimensional vector spaces in terms algebraic (Hamel) bases. As an application we prove the surjectivity a large class partial differential operators with smooth ($\mathcal C^\infty$-coefficients) coefficients, called article \emph{regular}, acting on dual $\mathcal D^*(\Omega)$ space test-functions D(\Omega)$. The guarantees solvability corresponding equati...

Recently Okada defined algebraically ninth variation skew Q-functions, in parallel to Macdonald’s Schur functions. Here we introduce a shifted tableaux definition of these and prove by means non-intersecting lattice path model Pfaffian outside decomposition result the form version Hamel’s identity. As corollaries this derive identities generalising those Józefiak–Pragacz, Nimmo, most recently O...

BY RON HAMEL, PhD Dr. Hamel is senior director, ethics, Catholic Health Association, St. Louis Pressures continue to mount to expand embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). On July 18, 2006, the U.S. Senate passed a bill (subsequently vetoed by the president) that would have allowed federal funding of ESCR employing stem cells derived from "left over" frozen embryos from in vitro fertilization. Th...