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Boonhee Soong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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power management of intelligent buildings facilitated by smart grid a Market Approach
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016Co-Authors: Yiu Wing Edwin Chan, Boonhee SoongAbstract:The emergence of smart grid technology is offering a unique opportunity to improve power management in intelligent buildings through the integration and optimization of distributed energy resources and loads. In this paper, the interactions of multiple intelligent buildings in the context of energy Market, as well as distributed energy generation and storage facilities, is considered. Within a time horizon divided into multiple periods in which generations and loads are forecasted, each building in a certain period may experience power surplus or deficit. While any deficit can be obtained from the Market, buildings may consider selling their unused power back to the Market. A dynamic pricing model based on differential game theory is set up in order to study the interactions of these players and how they maximize their profit. We also propose algorithms to implement and operate the system over the time horizon considered. Furthermore, numerical studies are performed to validate the model and algorithms.
Richard A Guzzo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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workforce diversity internal labor Market Approach to
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2015Co-Authors: Haig R Nalbantian, Richard A GuzzoAbstract:For several reasons, securing an ethnically, nationally, and gender-diverse workforce and maintaining an inclusive environment for it are increasingly important objectives for many organizations. This entry offers an internal labor Market view of organizational workforce diversity. The article begins by reviewing the core concept of an internal labor Market and applies it to workforce diversity. The internal labor Market Approach is a data-rich Approach that both describes organizational “talent flows” (such as hires, promotions, and attrition) and analyzes them through statistical modeling to identify the factors that most influence those flows and ultimate representation outcomes. Applied to workforce diversity, the Approach enables organizations to better understand their internal workforce dynamics and provides the basis for prioritizing and aligning interventions to better achieve diversity objectives. A case example is presented to illustrate the Approach. Keywords: diversity; gender; labor; Market; quantitative methods
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The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism - Workforce Diversity, Internal Labor Market Approach to
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2015Co-Authors: Haig R Nalbantian, Richard A GuzzoAbstract:For several reasons, securing an ethnically, nationally, and gender-diverse workforce and maintaining an inclusive environment for it are increasingly important objectives for many organizations. This entry offers an internal labor Market view of organizational workforce diversity. The article begins by reviewing the core concept of an internal labor Market and applies it to workforce diversity. The internal labor Market Approach is a data-rich Approach that both describes organizational “talent flows” (such as hires, promotions, and attrition) and analyzes them through statistical modeling to identify the factors that most influence those flows and ultimate representation outcomes. Applied to workforce diversity, the Approach enables organizations to better understand their internal workforce dynamics and provides the basis for prioritizing and aligning interventions to better achieve diversity objectives. A case example is presented to illustrate the Approach. Keywords: diversity; gender; labor; Market; quantitative methods
Guillermo Cardoza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Market Approach to Scaling Impact
Scaling Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs, 2020Co-Authors: Urs Jager, Felipe Symmes, Guillermo CardozaAbstract:A Market Approach to scaling argues that social entrepreneurs scale the impact of their enterprise by exchanging impact for resources . In this chapter, we explain how this Approach expands the current understanding of contextual Approaches to scaling social enterprises. We further explain how it contributes to the current literature on impact investment, particularly focusing on the relation between impact investors and social enterprises. Finally, we explain the three-phased Approach to Market-based scaling, how this differs from the popular concept of a business canvas, and how our three phased-Approach can help teachers and practitioners create successful scaling strategies.
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Scaling Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs: A Market Approach
2020Co-Authors: Urs Jager, Felipe Symmes, Guillermo CardozaAbstract:Social entrepreneurs often experience difficulties when attempting to scale. The reason for this is that scaling isn’t just about an entrepreneur’s willingness to grow, but also—and, perhaps, even more importantly—his or her capacity to develop a scaling strategy that reflects an understanding of the various components that must be adjusted to accomplish scaling goals. Once entrepreneurs decided to scale the impact of their enterprise, they must develop new capabilities in order to access new resources and skills. This book will help social entrepreneurs create effective scaling strategies by providing a detailed, three-phased Market Approach to scaling. Cases based on social entrepreneurs who have successfully worked in low-income Markets in Latin America then illustrate three main strategies for scaling impact: co-creating in low income contexts, collective impact, and replicating business models. The Market Approach to scaling described in this book is based on the theory of negotiating impact for resources, as introduced in this book, and a corresponding study of more than 100 entrepreneurs in the Latin American region. By offering a conceptual three phased Approach as a guide for reflecting on practical case studies, this book appeals to business academics, leaders of incubators and those working with social entrepreneurs as well as current and aspiring social entrepreneurs themselves seeking to improve their management practices in order to scale their impact.
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Guidelines for Teaching the Market Approach to Scaling Impact
Scaling Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs, 2019Co-Authors: Urs Jager, Felipe Symmes, Guillermo CardozaAbstract:In this chapter, we discuss some of the challenges that instructors may face when working with the materials provided in Chapters 1–6, and introduce the didactical concept of experiential learning as a promising entry point through which to help social entrepreneurs learn new ways to scale the impact of their enterprises through a Market Approach. While this final chapter focuses on pedagogical tools for teaching the Market Approach to scaling impact, its content can be useful to both entrepreneurs and instructors. The chapter is organized as follows: first, we explore potential settings in which to teach the Market Approach to scaling social enterprises; second, we propose experiential learning as the pedagogical framework through which to teach the content presented in this book; third, we argue that learning the Market Approach to scaling via an experiential Approach prepares entrepreneurs to devise innovative solutions for their most pressing challenges. We conclude by defining the various roles that an instructor adopts when teaching the Market Approach to scaling impact.
A Padilhafeltrin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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distributed generators as providers of reactive power support a Market Approach
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2013Co-Authors: Augusto C Ruedamedina, A PadilhafeltrinAbstract:Traditionally, ancillary services are supplied by large conventional generators. However, with the huge penetration of distributed generators (DGs) as a result of the growing interest in satisfying energy requirements, and considering the benefits that they can bring along to the electrical system and to the environment, it appears reasonable to assume that ancillary services could also be provided by DGs in an economical and efficient way. In this paper, a settlement procedure for a reactive power Market for DGs in distribution systems is proposed. Attention is directed to wind turbines connected to the network through synchronous generators with permanent magnets and doubly-fed induction generators. The generation uncertainty of this kind of DG is reduced by running a multi-objective optimization algorithm in multiple probabilistic scenarios through the Monte Carlo method and by representing the active power generated by the DGs through Markov models. The objectives to be minimized are the payments of the distribution system operator to the DGs for reactive power, the curtailment of transactions committed in an active power Market previously settled, the losses in the lines of the network, and a voltage profile index. The proposed methodology was tested using a modified IEEE 37-bus distribution test system.
Yiu Wing Edwin Chan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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power management of intelligent buildings facilitated by smart grid a Market Approach
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016Co-Authors: Yiu Wing Edwin Chan, Boonhee SoongAbstract:The emergence of smart grid technology is offering a unique opportunity to improve power management in intelligent buildings through the integration and optimization of distributed energy resources and loads. In this paper, the interactions of multiple intelligent buildings in the context of energy Market, as well as distributed energy generation and storage facilities, is considered. Within a time horizon divided into multiple periods in which generations and loads are forecasted, each building in a certain period may experience power surplus or deficit. While any deficit can be obtained from the Market, buildings may consider selling their unused power back to the Market. A dynamic pricing model based on differential game theory is set up in order to study the interactions of these players and how they maximize their profit. We also propose algorithms to implement and operate the system over the time horizon considered. Furthermore, numerical studies are performed to validate the model and algorithms.