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- 411: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... who produce similar products. These reviewers would pass judgement without taking any personal risk, and those judged favorably would win regardless of how useful their product turned out to be. I much prefer our current business system, with all of its problems, where investors must take a personal risk when they endorse a product. Institutions like the stock market are comparatively egalitarian and flexible, allowing most anyone to participate in the ongoing debate about the profit potential of any public business or the relative potential of various industries, management styles, etc. Why can't we have academic research institutions more like this? ACADEMIC REFORMS Most efforts to improve academic institutions focus on incremental reform within the ... share, and the other to yours; ... we shall see how many Funerals both of us shall have: But let the reward of the contention or wager, be 300 Florens, deposited on both sides: Here your business is decided. [De] They proposed to bet on their medical therapies, apparently believing bets to be a useful augmentation of the existing academic incentives! Bets are a long-established and robust reputation mechanism, widely ...
- 412: Econimics-Merger Between AOL A
- ... to the discipline of the market. Since AOL will not be the only customer that Netscape deals with, Netscape has to produce efficiently and innovate to remain competitive in the marketplace, and not lose its business. Certain internal divisions that have a captive internal market are highly inefficient and fail to innovate. "The absence of market competition coupled with difficulties in measuring divisional performance, make it hard for top management to ... a stronger level with Microsoft. With Netscape, AOL will become the biggest conduit of email and electronic commerce on the Internet, the largest network of online content, and the principal meeting place of consumers and business users. If the acquisition goes through Microsoft will suddenly become the underdog. The market seems to be positive regarding the proposed merger between AOL and Netscape. The integration of the two companies will create synergies that will expand the new company's audience, build its revenue streams, and drive electronic-commerce to a whole new level that will benefit both business partners and internet consumers. Certain factors may prevent the vertical merger from becoming a reality. There is always a risk that the Netscape business will not be integrated successfully into AOL's business. The ...
- 413: The Involvement of Computers in Future Jobs
- ... you will not be able to cope with new technological events. Computer consulting is a job, I have chosen long before the advances of technology. And now it has paid off. I now have a business of my own, working as a computer consultant. I assist others in learning about computers to be able to operate more efficently in their everyday jobs. Computers will fall into careers and our everyday life ... only in their technology but also the amount of job fields they create, earnings is yet another difficult aspect of computers to predict. As of now, because computer knowledge is so valuable in today's business world, salaries are quite favorable. This along with the job conditions mentioned earlier in this report contribute greatly to a desire of possessing computer knowledge. To give you an idea of a few of the ... A computer programmer, one who designs programs (the directions for a computer to follow), usually will work for a company or a large cooperation in designing a program that will be specifically made for that business's applications. This would not only make the business more efficent, but also save losts of money for the business. The computer programmer is usually an independant contractor who chooses jobs he might enjoy ...
- 414: Being Good
- ... British style B Post family 1 original 2 extended C how rules have changed from old style / new ones not used III Kinds of Etiquette A common sense aspect B formal aspects 1 social 2 business IV How and when it is used A when the right time is B what situations require a change 1 indicators 2 parallel good V Personal view A what things are really important B why ... to be followed, most guests would expect some degree of respect from their host. Because entertaining means something different to everyone, one single set of rules cannot govern all parties. Similar to a social occasion, business engagements have a set of laws to be governed by. These rules are more closely followed, though, because meetings involving business relationships are more formal. For instance, when meeting a potential or new business partner, a business card should be given (Kenedy, 34). These should never be given otherwise, unless asked for. “Your friends know ...
- 415: The Kondratieff Wave
- ... for a very long time and has affected mankind through out history. It’s cycles have been so long that we had failed to observe them. With the understanding of long wave cycles, not only business men, but mankind itself could have taken advantage of the fact that el Niño was coming. Populations could be warned ahead so floods and damages could have been prevented. Business men could have moved their stocks if invested in companies that could have been affected, etc. Goal Wedge Learning Curve The learning curves are an important factor in the understanding of the later use of ... seem a little logical, why race if your best isn’t even our competitors normal rate?! Planed Cost per Unit Your unitary cost reduction rate should be based on this curve. If you want the business to succeed this reduction rate should be implemented in the business plan. In order to come up with the proper curve, planing and budgeting has to be made through the Isis strategy results process ...
- 416: Secondhand Smoking
- ... right to smoke if they want to; but there is no way that a non-smoker should be forced to inhale smoke that isn’t theirs. Although, won’t a restaurant lose a lot of business if they cut out the smoking sections? The Institute for Social Research at York University for the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit at the University of Toronto performed a study on smoking attitudes and behaviors. First ... all enclosed places of employment. Also, bars must limit their smoking section to only 20% of the whole bar (OCAT). Limiting smoking in areas like bars and restaurants would lead to the assumption that the business will also be limited. On the contrary though, “researchers at Cornell University found that a smokefree policy for restaurants attracts more business—and revenue—that it drives away” (Cornell). Contrary to belief, cutting out the smoking completely in some public places had a more economically beneficial effect rather than a harmful one. Smokers seem to be ...
- 417: Vpn
- ... a single solution to accomplish many things. The basic idea behind VPN-based extranets is to use the access-control and authentication services with a VPN implementation to deny or grant customers, trading partners and business associates access to specific information or applications needed to conduct business. With a VPN-based extranet application, the outside party would get to the corporate firewall by tunneling across the Internet or a service provider's network. The ability to get behind the firewall will be ... is difficult, if not impossible to attach a dollar figure to the savings incurred using VPN technology for the implementation of extranets. For many companies, VPN-based solutions open up a whole new area of business that was previously not cost effective. On the other hand, a cost analysis might be possible if the VPN extranet replaces dedicated circuits to trading partners. For example, some companies that do business with ...
- 418: America and the Computer Industry
- ... aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been ... of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool in tabulating the totals. These advantages were noted by commercial industries and soon led to the development of improved punch-card business-machine systems by International Business Machines (IBM), Remington-Rand, Burroughs, and other corporations. By modern standards the punched-card machines were slow, typically processing from 50 to 250 cards per minute, with each card holding up to 80 digits. ...
- 419: Mark Twain’s Greatest Downfall
- ... a lot of money. He rarely received some of the money that his friends were taking in. Mark Twain lacked the dare-devil risking-taking attitude of a man who builds a fortune on a business acumen alone, but he was a sucker for anyone needing financial backing. Consequently, he took greater risks than many gamblers do. Once he was convinced something was a good thing, he stayed with it, hoping ... could help with the publishing. Twain comments on his dealing with his nephew: I had imported my nephew-in-law, Webster, from the village of Dunkirk, New York, to conduct that original first patent-right business for me, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars. That enterprise had lost forty-two thousand dollars for me, so I thought this is a favorable time to close it up. I proposed to be ... be. I said, a hundred thousand dollars in six months. He was dealing with a literary person. He was aware, by authority of all the traditions, that literary persons are flighty, romantic, unpractical, and in business matters do not know enough to come in when it rains or at any other time. He did not say that he attached no value to these flights of my imagination, for he was ...
- 420: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... through. I had ceased to be a weak-kneed cosmopolitan and become an anti-Semite." But at this point Hitler's anti-Semitism was not apparent in his personal relationships with Jews. He still did business with Jewish shop owners in selling his paintings and maintained the friendship with Josef Neumann. However, the seeds of hate were planted and would be nurtured by events soon to come, laying the foundation for ... the people wound up a wide eyed, screaming, frenzied mass that surrendered to his will and looked on him with pseudo-religious adoration. Hitler offered something to everyone; work to the unemployed, prosperity to failed business people, profits to industry, expansion to the Army, social harmony and an end of class distinctions to idealistic young students, and restoration of German glory to those in despair. He promised to bring order amid ... of a presidential cabinet. Hindenburg said no, and only repeated his own previous requests. The Government of Germany had ground to a halt. Meanwhile, a group of the country's most influential industrialists, bankers, and business leaders sent a petition to Hindenburg asking him to appoint Hitler as chancellor. They believed Hitler would be good for business. Hindenburg was in a terrible bind. He called in Papen and Schleicher and ...
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