The Failure Of NAFTA
.... the White House, and Newt Gingrich were all wrong. Let’s look at the facts.
President Clinton promised 200,000 additional jobs because of NAFTA by 1995 alone. In fact though over 200,000 jobs were lost because of NAFTA (Morris 22). There is a group called the Public Citizen who sponsored a project called The Global Trade Watch. They reviewed the job creation promises of dozens of corporations. One year after the passing of the NAFTA agreement, the project found that every one of those companies .....
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Maximizing One's Profits
.... having baby. To buy a house, I also need a down payment from the bank. For this time, I decide to make a payment schedule to see how much I have to pay back each month. For marriage and babies, I withdraw all of my money in tern deposit. For retirement, I make some profit to lend money to some companies to help. I also try to travel around the world until money run out.
Start up
I graduate from UBC at this time and I tries to found a computer company called "Oikawa soft LTD". So, I borrow some mo .....
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Current State Of The U.S. Economy
.... Last year inflation was set at 1.7 percent and most economists don’t expect this to rise above two for this year. Some are even Considering deflation to be the next step. In 1949 and 1955 were the only two other times that the CPI has declined. Despite this obstacle some believe it is a remote possibility. Jane Bryant Quinn reported the pluses of the deflation. “When labor productivity rises-up 2.4 percent by most recent count-prices can fall by the same amount, with benevolent effec .....
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Ford, The Company And The Man
.... years Ford repaired steam engines found occasional work in factories and over hauling his father farm equipment. Upon his marriage to Carla Bryant in 1888 he supported himself by running a sawmill, but Ford was looking for better opportunities, and in 1891 he began work as an engineer in the Edison Illuminating Co., this signified a conscious decision an Ford’s part to dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. his promotion to chief engineer in 1893 gave him enough time and money to devote attention to .....
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Developing An Effective Sales Training Program
.... these skills every day. The best trainer has excellent presentation and communication skills, but also the sales background and practical knowledge that only real-world experience can provide.
When deciding how to educate your sales force, you don’t have to pick just one type of training, or just one trainer. Many different methods have evolved over the past years. One way is to set up a mentoring program, also known as the “buddy system” (Anderson, Hair, and Bush, pg7-4). This procedure involves ass .....
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Asian Financial Crisis
.... time period.
The Asian crisis of recent falls into this category of inefficient balance of payments facilitated by depreciation of its currency. By competitively depreciating its currencies, Asia is exporting its deflation, its overcapacity and its lack of growth to the West, particularly to the US. History The past ten or fifteen years have seen an unprecedented expansion in the extent to which the countries of the world are tied together, both by instant communication and by international trade, .....
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Capitalism In America
.... Labor" thinking of the Republican Party before the Civil War was basically a form of the capitalist work ethic. It meant that if 1) you were free yourself; 2) your country was "free"; and, 3) there was no slave labor to take your livelihood, you could "make something of yourself," and become a capitalist or, at least, an independent producer, professional or artist. Americans in the North at that time were influenced by this capitalist "work-ethic" to under-estimate the energy of the South. They thought ( .....
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Business Leadership
.... yet attainable goal; articulate this goal and the actions required to achieve it; and inspire others to share and commit their energies to attain the vision.
Keys to successful leadership in business are (Gardner):
Aiming High
Involving Others
Challenge the Status Quo
Lead by Example
Aim High:
A vision, by definition, is an ideal. In developing a vision, consider all the strengths of the company: the people, products, services, technologies, reputation, strategies and resources that con .....
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Monopolies - A Case Study
.... war and the industrialization of the African colonies (imperialism).
This being the case, though imperialism is primarily considered a political phenomenon by bourgeoises economists, socialists have cooked deeper into the matter and "unveiled" the economic character of imperialism and it's apparent contradictions (this will be dealt with later, as well as an overview of the historic contradictions, economic intricacies and ethical realities of imperialism. It should also be stated, that the te .....
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Site Based Management
.... accountability system with consequences tied to student performance, or it may not be.” According to Priscilla Wohlstetter and Susan Albers Mohrman, “school leaders across the nation are exploring ways to better educate students and improve school performance. School-based management (SBM) offers a way to promote improvement by decentralizing control from central district offices to individual school sites. It attempts to give school constituents--administrators, teachers, parents and other community memb .....
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The Economic Growth Of Asia
.... modern economy. While here continued to exist substantially economic inequalities, distribution of wealth was probably a bit more equal than in most Western countries. ( Moise 171 ) While there were great variations in income between different villages, and between different jobs in the urban sector, the overall averages showed a clear pattern: the cities were much richer than the countryside. Most capital investments were going into urban industries. The urban workers, using considerable amount .....
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The European Monetary Union
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In the ensuing paragraphs we intend to show the progression of events leading up to the construction of the EMU; the emergence, objectives and tasks of the new system of central banking (formally known as the European System of Central Banks); the various qualifications for joining the Union; the differing opinions about the currency integration; and to top it all off, included is an outline of the draft designs for the new Euro banknotes.
To begin our journey on the road to the EMU, we begi .....
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MBTI Summary Report
.... that was on judging. My lowest score was 9 on the intuition, which goes back to me not knowing how to answer the questions with regard to intuition. I knew outright that I was an extravert, and I thing that shows in getting a 41 on that section. The rest of the areas were a little shady, and it seems as if they could have gone either way. So I am not too sure about the rest of my characteristics, except for the extraversion.
Being a marketing major I think that my personality traits will suit me ver .....
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Employee Empowerment
.... to acquire more knowledge and skills, accept increasing responsibility and be committed to the success of the organization. Empowerment requires a high level of commitment and it is reached through this process of growing trust.
Informing
Effective communication is an essential condition for managing change and supporting an empowered culture. People who are 'in the know' tend to feel more strongly committed to the organization's goals. In almost any company or pubic body you will find that .....
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Milton Friedman
.... The following are some of the arguments he has put forth:
1. Interacting with the community will help the firm in the long run by attracting desirable employees.
2. Corporate charitable contributions can be deducted for income tax purposes.
3. Corporations are spending the money of their stockholders without their permission.
4. A manager is responsible only to his employers and not the community.
All of the above may sound bad, but the intentions behind them are not entirely falsified.
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