OBJECTIVE To identify parental leave policies and availability of support systems for new parents employed by children's hospitals and compare these benefits with those offered by Fortune 500 companies. DESIGN Telephone or facsimile survey of all (n=118) children's hospitals and pediatric medical centers in the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions 1995 Directo...

Law on Enterprises 2020 has appropriately modified provisions the organization and operation of multi-member limited companies. However, shortly after implementation, some new regulations continuously lead to impediments whose legal loopholes would contribute risks harmfulness corporations, investors, even economic activities in general. Different from previous versions; overlooks rights duties...

the premier forum for members of the electronic design industry to exchange information on products, methodologies, and processes. Its attendees include more than 15,000 developers, designers, researchers, managers, and engineers from leading electronics companies and universities around the world. With more than 250 exhibitors, DAC offers a robust technical program covering the electronics ind...

Conflicts of interests: Drs Freemantle and Cleland were members of the CARE-HF trial Steering Committee funded by Medtronic. All authors received funding to attend meetings and undertake work relating to the trial and authored the cost-effectiveness analyses. All authors have received honoraria for speaking at meetings and research funding from companies in the pharmaceutical and device industr...

The major profit of portal companies in Taiwan is generated by online advertising and e-commerce. Effective advertising requires predicting how a user responds to an advertisement and then targeting (presenting the advertisements) to reflect users’ favor. As customers’ preferences may change over time, we take the different types of past behavior patterns of the registered members to capture co...

This paper explores the role o f the interlock ties of the board of directors and the external auditors in facilitating cross-firm diffusion of voluntary disclosure practices. Using data from 149 companies listed on the Dutch stock exchange, we investigated the relationship between a firm ’s voluntary disclosure of financial and non-financial performance measures in its annual report and the in...

Studying the equity holdings of 31 U.S. state pension funds, we find evidence that the political leaning of their members and political pressures by state politicians impact funds’ investment decisions. State pension funds from states with Democratic leaning members tend to tilt their portfolios more strongly towards companies that perform well on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issu...

In conventional wisdom on crowdsourcing, the number of people define the crowd and maximizing this number is often assumed to be the goal of any crowdsourcing exercise. However, we propose that there are structural characteristics of the crowd that might be more important than the sheer number of participants. These characteristics include (1) growth rate and its attractiveness to the members, ...

The development of IC industry in Taiwan began with a technology transfer from the U.S. based RCA Company, which was conducted by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). ITRI’s Technology Transfer Team (TTT) members were first incubated in the National Laboratories at ITRI, and then dispatched to spin-off companies in the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park (HSIP). Many of these TTT me...

In 2008 security forces in Colombia found that one of the companies hired to repair electric transmission towers from guerrilla attacks had hired guerrilla members to demolish towers in their contracted area of service. As a result, their business boomed as they were called often to repair electric towers. We model this problem as a game between contractors and the power transmission company, w...