... is the other side ofthe story ofthe postindustrial transformations of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan The off-shoring of industrial production from these once “miraculous” economies to China and ... come together to mobilize in pursuit of or to resist this demand The chapters of this volume cannot offer a prognostication ofthe future, but they make important contributions to our understanding ... search of national sovereignty The ability to cohere together as a “strong nation” had become thenew imperative to stave off the colonial ambitions of other nations This pursuit of wealth and power...
... AUDITING STANDARDS Tothe Auditor Office ofthe Auditor State of Hawaii: We have audited the financial statements ofthe governmental activities and each major fund ofthe Department of Business, Economic ... (including torts) Claims under $10,000 are handled by the risk management office ofthe Department of Accounting and General Services All other claims are handled by the Department ofthe Attorney ... multiplier of 2% for each year of credited service in the hybrid plan All members ofthe noncontributory plan and certain members ofthe contributory plan are eligible to join the hybrid plan Most new...
... consider to be material weaknesses, as defined above This report is intended solely for the information and use ofthe Office ofthe Auditor, the management of DBEDT, federal awarding agencies and ... the Auditor State of Hawaii: Compliance We have audited the compliance ofthe Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism State of Hawaii (DBEDT) with the types of compliance requirements ... identified in the summary of auditors' results section ofthe accompanying schedule of findings and questioned costs Compliance with the requirements of laws, regulations, contracts, and grants...
... performance ofthe stock? Delves: That goes back tothe larger point that we focus way too much on stock and stock prices Some studies show that 75 percent ofthe movement ofthe stock has very little to ... All the while 10 to 15 percent or more ofthe increase in value ofthe entire stock market is being “transferred” from the pockets of shareholders into the pockets of employees and mostly into the ... than other countries The second is the uniquely American cult ofthe deified CEO and his entourage, making them worthy of vast sums of money to attract and retain them That brings us tothe next...
... rationalism It’s the eye in the skull looking through fad and fashion, andthe mist of spin and PC, 21 22 Women andtheNewBusiness Leadership tothe realities of modern life The fact that, in ... Brenninkmeijer and Anne Watts CBE, kindly contribute their strategic overview ofthe direction and focus ofthe UK Programme andthe growth and expansion ofthe international programs Together with ... Accountant of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Richard Keys, kindly took the time to outline the impact upon the accountancy profession ofthe failures of Enron and Worldcom (among others) andthe increasing...
... 2007 to December 2007 Therefore, the income data span the months from January 2006 to November 2007 The average ofthe CPI-U-RS for 2006 and 2007 was utilized to deflate the 2007 ACS incomes and ... Couples of “Husband earns more” include cases where the husband is the sole earner in the family, and couples of “wife earns more” include cases where the wife is the sole earner in the family ... than they were four decades ago, in contrast tothe stability of this measure for the population overall In 1970, 58% of black wives and 57% of black husbands were married to someone with the...
... (FERPA) andthe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, andto address apparent confusion on the part of school administrators, health care professionals, and ... Education and Health and Human Services are committed to a continuing dialogue with school officials and other professionals on these important matters affecting the safety and security of our nation’s ... Overview of HIPAA Congress enacted HIPAA in 1996 to, among other things, improve the efficiency and effectiveness ofthe health care system through the establishment of national standards and requirements...
... pensions to changes in the gross pay of active workers The main aim ofthe government’s pension policy was to adjust the revenues ofthe pension insurance funds tothe expenditure required to serve the ... weakening ofthe tripartite structure ofthe Bundesagentur to a rather vague appeal tothe ‘elites ofthe nation’ to assist in creating employment opportunities for the unemployed The commission’s ... for visits to doctors’ of ces, andthe total exclusion of dentures from the list of standard services While cutting the health insurance contribution rate to 13.6 per cent in 2004, the Act also...
... methods on the existence of certain types of solutions tothe planar three-body problem with various choices of masses There is a natural way of classifying orbits by their topological types in the ... orbits in the lunar theory Detailed descriptions are left to Section and Our main theorem (Theorem 1) shows the existence of many periodic and quasi-periodic retrograde solutions tothe three-body ... homotopy class ofthe ˜ ˜ projection αφ of αφ in V \ Δ over t ∈ [0, 1] is one ofthe two generators for ˜ \ Δ) The left side of Figure depicts the path α over t ∈ [0, 1] ˜ ˜φ π1 (S A solution x of...
... able to turn the sickly into the healthy, the weak into the strong, the small into the tall, the ugly into the beautiful and perhaps even the stupid into the clever? James Watson, who shared the ... was the essential prelude tothe birth of modern Western civilization In England, Newton ruled Newton’s Principia and Halley’s calculations ofthe orbits ofthe comets were widely circulated and ... their personal principles to stay loyal to their party are on the whole regarded as virtuous They have done the right thing On the other hand, those who abandon their party to stay loyal to their...
... scientific contributions— tothe mathematics of quantum physics, to game theory and economics, tothe implosion device for triggering the first atomic bomb, andtothe architecture ofthe first all-purpose ... number of Ps in a gridlike array, such that the output of one is connected tothe input of two others, and Cybernetics andtheNew Complexity of Machines 33 so on throughout the array Of course, the ... biology—as the most contemporary form ofthe science of life andthe history of technical objects And I have begun to suggest that a new, nonstandard theory of computation provides the conceptual...
... predatory pricing and buying, late payment of suppliers’ invoices and other abuses of market power, and threaten the solvency of other companies, and thus the livelihoods of their employees In other ... nothing of their own characters, abilities and attitudes to risk, and nothing about the world of work they’re about to enter, apart from knowing that work they must, to provide for themselves and their ... fail to live up to their own t sense of worth, they feel shame, and when they are evaluated correctly … they feel pride The desire for recognition andthe … emo ions of t anger, shame and pride...
... retained these medieval qualities, which impel ambitious people to devote most of their energies and talent to fighting their way tothe top (or as close tothe top as they can get) of company ... began to compete The companies merged in 1821 and their combined territories were extended tothe Arctic in the north andthe Pacific in the west The enlarged HBC acquired the sole rights tothe ... as much in the interests of competitors to sabotage the candidacies of their rivals, as to promote their own This is one reason why there is so much ofthe back-stabbing, turf wars and politics...
... Proposition As Chandler’s MuBEs grew and came to dominate major sectors ofthe economy, “they altered the basic structure of these sectors andoftheeconomy as a whole.” They did not replace the market, ... when the top percent owned 45 percent ofthe national wealth and then began to fall to civil-war levels from World War II tothe 1970s But the end ofthe Kuznets curve is not the end ofthe story ... assure the continuing use of, andthe flow of material to, their production facilities, they protected sources of supply and outlets, took on new products and services to make better use of existing...
... list of candidates for the CEO job are: the current position ofthe candidate, andthe performance and stature ofthe candidate’s company These automatically exclude from the candidates’ pool the ... position tothe next The allegiance of these people is tothe CEO, rather than tothe shareholders who pay their fees They cultivate relationships with individuals, rather than organizations Their ... were then asked to rate each other on their influence on the team and their competence Kilduff and Anderson, and a group of independent observers did the same All three sets of judges reached the...
... links and, because they used different gauges and equipment, the cars of one road could not be transferred tothe track of another In 1865 the Boston Board of Trade put the cost of unloading and ... the importance of this difference andto introduce a set of ideas, the sciences of complexity, that I believe are vital to any understanding of how new businesses will emerge and develop in the ... than luck and balance? 130 Business at a Crossroads Part ofthe answer is that the fitness landscape of each firm is a creature ofthe fitness landscapes of other firms In the past, there were...
... partners to write their own stories The story of a CEO-led company belongs to its CEO Its story is the CEO’s story The organization’s size and shape require the work of other employees to be broken ... Given the complexity ofthe modern business landscape, the erosion of economic andtechnological frontiers andthe endless battle for competitive advantage, the inability of CEO-led companies to ... but in the power it denies to others The weakness ofthe CEO-system is not so much the power it gives to CEOs, which is excessive, but in the recognition and stories it denies to others The argument...