在"新兴经济体"如何领先——领先企业如何把握五大全球化潮流

在全球化被列入几乎所有世界大公司CEO的议事日程之今日,作为领先企业如何把握全球优势? 近来,一批发展迅速的新兴经济体(Rapidly Developing Economies-RDEs,简称RDE)为开展商业活动 提供了崭新的舞台,这为全球经济带来了巨变,让管理者们不得不重新思考他们的战略规划、运作方式和 组织架构。在这一全球化的新浪潮之下,包含着五个主要活动潮流,它们以空前的力量相互结合。理僻这 些潮流,并且明智地加以驾驭,将是获取全球优势的关键。 这五大潮流对于今后各行各业的公司都有重大意义。通过衡量每一潮流各自--以及它们总体--将 如何影响公司,就能正确领导本公司的管理团队制定全面而有效的全球战略。波士顿管理咨询公司的专家 提供的这份研究报告逐一分析了五大潮流以及它们可能对全球商务产生的影响。     

Prices,infrastructure, household characteristics and child height

A Brazilian household survey, ENDEF, in 1974-75 and the 1974 Informacoes Basicas Municipais (IBM) provided data for the analysis of the impact of community services and infrastructure and household characteristics on the logarithm of child height, standardized for age and gender. The sample was comprised of 36,974 children stratified by residential location, the child's age, and the educational level of the mother. Variance and covariance matrices were estimated with the jackknife developed by Efron (1982). Household characteristics included the logarithm of per capita expenditure as a measure of household resource availability, income, and parental education. Community characteristics were local market price indices for 6 food groups (dairy products, beans, cereals, meat, fish, and sugar), level of urbanization, buildings with sewage, water, and electricity connections per capita, per capita number of buildings, and population density. Health services were measured as per capita number of hospitals and clinics and doctors and nurses, and the number of beds are hospital. Educational services include a measure of student teacher ratios, elementary school class size, and per capita number of teachers living in the community. the results show that expenditure had a positive, significant effect on the height of children 2 years and older. Expenditure was a significant determinant for literate and illiterate mothers, and not well educated mothers. The impact of maternal education was largest on the length of babies and declined with the age of the child. Father's education had not impact of length of babies. The effect of parents' education was complementary. The effect of father's education was largest when mothers had some education. Better educated parents had healthier children. Maternal rather than paternal height had an impact of the length of a baby. In the community models, prices had a significant effect on child height, in both urban and rural areas, in all age groups, and for all levels of maternal education. Higher prices were associated with shorter children. Joint price and expenditure interactions were significant. Children at the top of the expenditure distribution were more affected by some prices than by others. Capital building improvements alone and with expenditures were all positively associated with child height. Only nurses per capita impacted on child height.     

工业投资的反差及反思

近年来，国家和各地在工业战线投入了相当多的资金，然而普遍感到效益不理想。究其原因来自多方面，但投资取向失衡甚至失准，则是一个重要方面。     

企业诚信经营的成本——收益分析及时问模型构建

在企业诚信成本——收益理论分析的基础上构建企业诚信经营的时间模型，论证了企业诚信经营的投入期、发展期和品牌期三个阶段．说明企业诚信经营是由被动诚信到主动诚信、诚信经营到经营诚信的转变过程。     

安全港、《格朗-利奇金融服务现代化法案》及金融服务的隐私问题

《欧盟数据隐私保护指令》(亦可简称《数据隐私保护指令》)于1998年生效。金融服务现代化法案的第三条原则是营销披露原则,即:禁止金融机构向非关联第三方披露个人信息用于营销活动。对金融机构的宽泛定义促进了金融业的合并,也带来了更多联营的机遇。美国联邦制度理事会(FRB)条例确立了其对保险公司在隐私保护事务中的管辖权,从事美国各州法律规制下的各项保险活动的金融控股公司的关联子公司则不适用于此项条例。……这样的解决方案比起完全实行选进制度要容易得多——只需发布新的联邦条例,而无需国会制定新的隐私保护法……最后一条原则,即数据品质原则,它和参与原则一样,均在金融服务现代化法案中没有对应条款……科瓦塞维奇建议除非客户要求选进,否则禁止银行与第三方分享客户数据……这个计划将允许银行与其关联机构无碍地分享信息,除非客户选退,禁止这种行为……     

Bollinger造船厂找到新动力

在新的企业软件系统的帮助下,路易斯安娜州的一家船舶制造公司正在学着怎样把船舶造得更快——而且更好！     

点燃希望的灯饰——Abracadabra Signs公司制作的电标识

我的公司叫作Abracadabra Signs（位于加拿大安大略省的Ayr）,在公司的市场定位方面,是由我自己亲自负责的。曾经有几年时间,我作为一名标识画家,到不同地方参与了各种的标识工程,直到1999年,我才回到安大略省,定居下来。我公司的业务主要是制作定制的立体标识。我自己本身是画漫画的,所以喜欢接一些看上去有点古怪的工程，对我来说是既有挑战性又有趣。     

如何？网站提供的热情服务

如果你曾经在夏威夷度过假，你可能经历了这个岛国的独特的热情服务。从热带的阳光到奇花异草的芬芳，从习惯性的迎宾花环到最终热情洋溢的告别，夏威夷的一草一木都针对了欢迎、舒适以及取悦宾客而设计。对于那些到访的人来讲，夏威夷的体验是令人难以忘怀的。     

肉桂的五种枝梢害虫

报道１９９０～１９９４年在肉桂枝梢上发现的５种害虫的危害情况。这５种害虫危害肉桂的枝,梢,干,严重影响肉桂的生长,具有很大的经济重要性,其中肉桂种子小蜂Ｂｒｕｃｈｏｐｈａｇｕｓｓｐ．肉桂瘿蚊Ａｓｐｈｏｎｄｙｌｉａｓｐ．系首次发现危害肉桂。