VIEW MORE FROM THE August 2002 Issue EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE How much of innovation is inspiration, and how much is hard work? If it’s mainly the former, then management’s role is limited: Hire the right people, and get out of their way. If it’s largely the latter, management must play a more vigorous role: Establish the right roles and processes, set clear goals and relevant measures, and review progress at every step. Peter Drucker, with the masterly subtlety that is his trademark, comes down
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look for in a fraudster…………………………………………9 Past Cases of Fraud……………………………………………………….10 a. WorldCom…………………………………………………………….11 b. Tyco International Ltd………………………………………………..15 c. Adelphia Communications Corporation…………………………....…17 Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002………………………………………...…....20 a. Analysis of SOX: Costs vs. Benefits…………………………………34 i. Interview of
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INTRODUCTION GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise across the cardiology care area helps our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with health care leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable health care systems. The “healthymagination” vision for the future invites
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3 Industry Analysis: The Fundamentals When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. —Warren Buffett, Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway The reinsurance business has the defect of being too attractive-looking to new entrants for its own good and will therefore always tend to be the opposite of, say, the old business of gathering and rendering dead horses that always tended
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The Psychopath Understanding and Treatment Abstract Mental health disorders are among the most complex disorders to understand. Persons with these types of disorders are not commonly accepted into society. Psychopaths are among some of the most difficult disorders to treat. These persons most often come from a background lacking structure and continuity. Proper treatment is heavily debated. Report It is a popular belief that psychopaths are considered to be individuals that are as brilliantly
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lighting. 1.1. HISTORY OF LED: In 1907, British scientist Henry J. Round discovered the physical effect of electroluminescence, an optical and electrical phenomenon in which a material emits light in response to an electric current passed through it or to a strong electric field. The light produced was very dim and not bright enough to stimulate further research. In the early 1960s, groups at RCA, IBM, GE and MIT were working actively on LEDs. Among the first commercially available LEDs was
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Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 16, Number 3—Summer 2002—Pages 67– 88 Economic Reforms in India Since 1991: Has Gradualism Worked? Montek S. Ahluwalia I ndia was a latecomer to economic reforms, embarking on the process in earnest only in 1991, in the wake of an exceptionally severe balance of payments crisis. The need for a policy shift had become evident much earlier, as many countries in east Asia achieved high growth and poverty reduction through policies that emphasized greater
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Maintenance Utilities Systems Management Plan UTILITIES SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT PLAN _______________________________________________________ ______________ I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. IXV. XV. Preface Policy Objective Responsibility Process Scope Criteria For Critical Components Utilities Systems Problem Reports Training Communication; Risk Management Control Committee Annual Review Utility Subcommittee Utility Systems Policy and Procedures Utility Systems Emergency Protocol
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3 Industry Analysis: The Fundamentals When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. —Warren Buffett, Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway The reinsurance business has the defect of being too attractive-looking to new entrants for its own good and will therefore always tend to be the opposite of, say, the old business of gathering and rendering dead horses that always tended
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CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA City Planning and Development Office Comprehensive Development Plan, 2011-20 RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE CDP Resolution No. 2011-___ “ADOPTING THE 10-YEAR COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF THE CITY OF NAGA” Whereas, the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) sets the city government’s strategic directions for the next 10 year action and details its priority sectoral and cross-sectoral programs and projects consistent with the vision for “Maogmang Naga”; Whereas, the formulation
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