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Payday Loans, Another Alternative Form of Personal Loans Many check cashing businesses offer small sum, short-term, high-rate, unsecured personal loans. These type of loans go by the name of: payday personal loans. In a payday loan transaction, the borrower will provide to the lender items such as a paycheck stub, photo identification and a recent [...]

Work processes are how the strategies will be implemented. They are the actions that fulfill the strategy and meet the specific needs of the customer. The most successful organizations use process management—a business science that documents, measures, analyzes, and improves its processes. The sandwich chain, for instance, has an order-taking process, a sandwich-making process, a [...]

Levy (1992) points out that lower partial moments of first order are consistent with second-order stochastic dominance. The concept of stochastic dominance has several important advantages. It requires no distributional assumptions, takes all the moments of the return distributions into account and requires only very mild assumptions about investor behavior. With respect to the comparison [...]

For decades, leading Japanese companies have directed much of their cost-management efforts towards muda or waste elimination. This involves techniques such as process analysis, mapping and re-engineering, which are important parts of operational decision-making. The value of process analysis is that it enables waste to be identified and eliminated and costs to be reduced by [...]

I had a close friend whose situation is a fairly common story for many Americans. Bobby was in between jobs when he first began to feel some pains in his abdomen and lower back. Within another couple weeks, Bobby called me doubled over in pain. I rushed him to the hospital, where after a few [...]

Medical care is a double-edged sword for many Americans. We have easy, instantaneous access to both necessary and elective care. Sadly, we often don’t realize the true cost until after procedures are completed. In your journey to eliminate debt, you’ve got to be incredibly cautious about adding tens of thousands of dollars in debt overnight. [...]