To Whose Advantage is Work Advantage?

Work Advantage, New York City's rental subsidy program for homeless families, requires parents to work and save in order to receive assistance. The program is designed to encourage economic self-sufficiency and good financial habits; however, it likely will not help most homeless families, who lack both the education and experience to maintain gainful employment

Advantage, Incumbent

Highlights findings on the advantage incumbents and those with fundraising success had in the 2002, 2004, and 2006 state legislative races, as well as the correlation between the two advantages. Considers the effects of term limits and public funding

Comparative Advantage, Competitive Advantage, and U.S. Agricultural Trade

International Relations/Trade,

Taking Advantage of Internships

Working in the fast-paced, intense environment that is Amazon.com may not be for everyone, but it was a perfect fit for Achmat Jappie ’16. Jappie, a finance major with a minor in computer science, completed a six-month internship as a financial analyst for the mobile traffic team at Amazon.com

Jurisdictional Advantage

Our objective in this paper is to define jurisdictional advantage, the recognition that location is critical to firms' innovative success and that every location has unique assets that are not easily replicated. The purpose is to be normative and policy oriented. Drawing from the well-developed literature on corporate strategy, we consider analogies to cities in their search for competitive advantage. In contrast to the more passive term locational advantage, our use of the term jurisdiction denotes geographically-defined legal and political decision-making authority and coordination. Thus, jurisdictions may be constructed and managed to promote a coherent activity set. We review recent advances in our understanding of patterns of urban specialization and the composition of activities within cities, which suggest strategies that may generate economic growth as well as those strategies to avoid. This paper then considers the role of firms and their responsibility to jurisdictions in light of the net benefits received from place-specific externalities, and concludes by considering the challenges to implementing jurisdictional advantage.

Contextual advantage for state discrimination

Finding quantitative aspects of quantum phenomena which cannot be explained by any classical model has foundational importance for understanding the boundary between classical and quantum theory. It also has practical significance for identifying information processing tasks for which those phenomena provide a quantum advantage. Using the framework of generalized noncontextuality as our notion of classicality, we find one such nonclassical feature within the phenomenology of quantum minimum error state discrimination. Namely, we identify quantitative limits on the success probability for minimum error state discrimination in any experiment described by a noncontextual ontological model. These constraints constitute noncontextuality inequalities that are violated by quantum theory, and this violation implies a quantum advantage for state discrimination relative to noncontextual models. Furthermore, our noncontextuality inequalities are robust to noise and are operationally formulated, so that any experimental violation of the inequalities is a witness of contextuality, independently of the validity of quantum theory. Along the way, we introduce new methods for analyzing noncontextuality scenarios, and demonstrate a tight connection between our minimum error state discrimination scenario and a Bell scenario.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figure