Welcome to Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007, the new suite of Microsoft server software and tools for deploying, managing, and integrating Office Groove 2007 software in your enterprise. The purpose of this guide is to familiarize you with the tools and functionality of Office Groove Server 2007. In addition, this guide provides some best practice guidelines for managing and deploying Office Groove 2007 in your organization.
The work environment is not what it was 10, or even 5, years ago. With more powerful software and computing systems, wireless connectivity, and a proliferation of mobile devices from laptop computers to Smartphones, the nature of work has changed. The workplace is no longer simply an office or a building; it can be any place we create, share, and store information and collaborate with employees, partners, and customers on projects and business processes.
International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) have emerged as important actors in two important, interconnected realms. First, at the national level, INGO's have taken on significant roles in promoting the social, economic, and political development of the particular countries in which they are operating. Their enlarged efforts provide disaster relief, deliver on-going social services, build local capacities for self-help, promote self-governance, and enhance the political and policy influence of marginalized populations (Fisher, 1993; Clark, 1991; Edwards and Hulme, 1996). Second, at the international level, INGOs have been increasingly important in creating a kind of international civil society, animating informal but powerful normative egimes, and influencing the practices and policies of international institutions (Boli, 1999; Fox and Brown, 1998; Khagram, Riker and Sikkink, 2000; Florini, 2000).
Increased prominence and greater influence expose INGOs to closer scrutiny and sharper demands for accountability. Donors demand that the INGOs be ccountable for the integrity, efficiency, and impact of programs that they have funded. Beneficiaries press INGOs to live up to their rhetoric about fostering locally-determined development rather than impose their own priorities. Staffs expect INGOs to ive up to the high purposes that drew their commitment to the enterprise. Partners whom INGO's have recruited in their efforts to achieve their national and international goals (such as other NGOs, community-based organizations, government agencies, usinesses) expect the INGOs to live up to promises they made in forging their partnerships. Even those who are the targets of INGOs demand a kind of accountability from them; they want to know to whom the INGOs are accountable and for whom the INGOs speak so that they can gauge the force and legitimacy of the claims that these organizations are making against them. In short, many different stakeholders call INGOs to account for their activities (e.g., Edwards, 2000).
How long do investors typically hold stock positions? In an investor has held a stock for three months, is she equally likely to sell the stock next Monday as she is to sell the stock two Mondays from now? How can financial econometricians incorporate holding times into studies of investor decision making and investor behavior?
To answer the three questions posed above, we use survival time (hazard rate) analysis. Not only does this econometric technique allow us to account for the time dimension inherent in an individual’s stock trades, it allows us to carry out cross-sectional comparisons that are not possible with previously used techniques. Our analysis shows that the conditional probability of a sale is not constant over time. Thus, most studies of investors’ decisions to buy, hold, and then sell financial assets need to account for holding times.
