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This paper reviews Paul Kleindorfer's contributions to Operations Management (OM), with a special focus on his research on risk management. An annotated bibliography of selected other contributions reviews the breadth of topics that have occupied Kleindorfer's research attention over his now 45+ years of research. These include optimal control theory, scheduling theory, decision sciences, investment planning and peak load pricing, plus a number of important applications in network industries and insurance. In the area of operations risk management, we review recent work that Kleindorfer and his colleagues in the Wharton Risk Center have undertaken on environmental management and operations, focusing on process safety and environmental risks in the chemical industry. This work is directl...
... policies and the management of postal services. In this paper we will pay tribute to Kleindorfer'...
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A federal judge in Kansas City has upheld a roughly $7 million arbitration award resulting from a global dispute between medical transcription corporations in Hong Kong, India and the Virgin Islands.
The China-based Integrated Sales Services, which has a Kansas City office, went after DMC Management Consultants when its chairman from India reportedly used an alter ego to create new entities to avoid paying the plaintiff certain commissions.
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... by placing a world of products and services at the users' fingertips. mysmart.com's first prod...
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... and marketing, freight and delivery services, and inventory maintenance and warehousing for U.S...
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... for the WWRE and president of financial services and new business at Target Corporation, said, "The...
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CINCINNATI -- After pleading guilty to federal crimes in the collapse of the audiovisual sales and services company MCSi Inc. that he headed, Michael E. Pep-pel had nothing to say to the victims of the massive accounting fraud that federal authorities said he led.
Peppel, 43, of Washington Twp., pleaded guilty Wednesday, Aug. 11, in U.S. District Court to three felony charges: willful false certification of a financial report by a corporate officer; money laundering; and conspiracy to commit securities, mail and wire fraud during a period between January 2000 and April 2003.
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Compiled from tri-state area obituaries appearing previously in the Telegraph Herald.
Eleanore Cody, Madison, Wis. formerly of Ossian, Iowa - Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, Ossian. Visitation: After 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church.
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A day after Gov. Martin O'Malley said he wants to repeal imposing a sales tax on computer services, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., D-Calvert, warned that rescinding it could mean education funding cuts.
The movement to repeal the "tech tax" is growing in the Senate as public opposition continues at high pitch. The General Assembly passed the tax last fall during the special legislative session, as part of a plan to close the state's $1.5 billion deficit.