BACKGROUND Changes in the school food environment are a logical target to prevent childhood overweight. We describe the food service component of a 2-year research intervention to prevent excess weight gain in children. CONTEXT The goals of the food service component were to improve the presentation and nutrient quality of school meals and to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into studen...

OBJECTIVES (1) To describe promotional activities, particularly student-led, targeting lower-fat à la carte foods that were conducted in secondary schools; and (2) to describe the relationships between the number and duration of total promotional activities for lower-fat à la carte foods and cafeteria sales of such foods over two years. DESIGN Promotional activities were implemented in school...

Bell Atlantic Service Representatives are the primary interface between the company and its many customers. They are responsible for negotiating orders to establish, transfer or disconnect telephone service as well as answer questions and process changes to a customer’s service or billing account. To support this wide variety of tasks, the Service Reps use a number of computer applications, mos...

UNLABELLED Most Internet vendors offer tax-free cigarettes making them cheaper than those sold at stores. This undermines the impact that higher prices have upon reducing consumption. Most Internet tobacco sales have violated taxation and youth access laws, which led to landmark voluntary agreements in 2005 with the major credit card companies and major private shippers to ban payment transacti...

Medion is not a product manufacturer. Rather, it is a service provider offering retail partners the right product at the right time at an attractive price so they can pass good value for money on to their customers. Medion supervises and manages the entire value chain, from the initial product idea right through to after-sales services.

CONTEXT In the last decade, several epidemiological studies have shown the increased risk of venous thromboembolism associated with third- and fourth-generation oral contraceptives (C3Gs and C4Gs) versus older combined first- and second-generation oral contraceptives (C1Gs and C2Gs). In France, in December 2012, a lawsuit filed against the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health ...

I this research, we show that the interaction between territory allocation and sales force compensation—two key drivers of sales productivity—strongly affects the firm’s profitability. We analyze an agency-theoretic model that jointly considers the degree of negative or positive correlation across territory outcomes, differences in territories’ sales potentials, the agency problem with risk-ave...

The SIGNAL insurance companies have developed an expert system for the support of its customer sales service. It was introduced at the end of 1993 and is currently used by approximately 500 customer service representatives. It involves a counseling system, which enables customer sales personnel to produce high-quality benefit analyses at the point of sale. It is not only an information system f...