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Teams in engineering projects face complex decisions on a daily basis. In order to meet or exceed stakeholders' needs and expectations project teams must plan and re-plan their project to keep it on track. Their decisions are made in an uncertain, dynamic and constrained environment spanning a large variety of areas such as outsourcing decisions, design decisions, risk management decisions, resource related decisions, budgets and schedule related decisions etc.. Their purpose is to lower cost, reduce rework minimize paperwork, and eliminate duplicate efforts. Teamwork is essential in this challenging environment and a shared understanding of the project goals and constraints is the foundation of teamwork. This paper describes our experience in using Simulation Based Training (SBT) and in particular, its contribution to the implementation of Lean Management Practices ("Lean Enablers") among project team members and stakeholders in two different industries in order to lead to better project outcomes in terms of time, performance, cost, and stakeholders' approval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study attempts to assess the relative importance of different drivers of happiness and their impact in the subjective well being of individuals. It tries to measures factors and conditions that make people report a higher level of happiness. Also, the paper tries to identify how cultural and contextual elements can influence perception of happiness. In order to do this we use conjoint analysis considering as independent variables; level of income, labor stability, security, social networks and level of education for Chile and Canada. The finding suggest that for the case of Chile, Income and job stability are both factor almost equally important to explain a given level of happiness. In the case of Canada income is the most important factor followed by job stability with about half the importance of income. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the major tradeoffs between a transparent antitrust policy and a policy providing less information and more discretion on the part of the authority. A growing phenomenon is the strategic use or misuse of antitrust by firms, and this misuse creates challenges for antitrust enforcement and transparency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of expansion of many franchisors requires them to select franchisees in a correct form. By means of Conjoint Analysis methodology we can to obtain the profile of franchisee preferred by the franchisors. This information can be used by the franchisors for selecting franchisees. Simulation through Conjoint Analysis permits to determine how many and which franchisees must be selected. In this paper we present an application in the retail, hotel and restaurant and services sectors of the Spanish franchise market. We conclude that the selection of a set of candidates by the franchisors depends on the activity sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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