that bridge the physical and the virtual worlds. But in forging such strategies‚ executives face a decision that is as difficult as it is crucial: should we integrate our Internet business with our tradiTHE BRIGHT HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW May-Tune 2000 A N D Clicks J A S O N G A R I N O tional husiness or should we keep the two separate? Despite the obvious benefits that integration offers - cross-promotion‚ shared information‚ purchasing leverage‚ distribution economies‚ and the like - many
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Robot Domination Humans rely too much on robots. Robots should not act or think the same way humans do. Brian W. Aldiss‚ the author who wrote the story “Who Can Replace a Man?” demonstrates that without humans‚ the robots could take over the world. This short story takes place in a futuristic and inhumane setting where robots have full control over themselves‚ can walk‚ talk and work. The robots face the consequence of trying to overcome a problem on their own by achieving to fix o build some
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The Republic of the Fiji Islands is currently plagued by political and social unrest. Since the hostile May 2000 coup the status of the Fijian government has been extremely unclear. Although George Speight‚ the coup leader‚ and remaining government officials agreed to an interim government‚ it has not yet gained stability nor received recognition from the international community. The interim government has initiated the process of drafting a new constitution to replace Fiji’s multi-ethnic constitution
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1. List the ideal role of each financial intermediary Here the answers are not including the information intermediaries since we can differentiate intermediaries into two types in the capital market‚ one is financial intermediaries such as venture capital firms‚ banks‚ mutual funds‚ and insurance companies‚ and the other is information intermediaries such as auditors‚ financial analysts‚ bond-rating agencies‚ and the financial press. a) Venture Capitalists (VCs) There are several types of
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One Polity‚ Many Countries: Economic Growth in India‚ 1873-2000 Gregory Clark‚ University of California‚ Davis Susan Wolcott‚ University of Mississippi We argue‚ based on Indian experience‚ that the major determinants of economic growth are not political and economic institutions. Through the laissez faire Colonial regime‚ and the interventionist economy of Independent India income per capita declined relative to advanced economies until the 1980s. And though economic growth has been impressive since
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Introduction This paper will compare and contrast five different database management systems on six criteria. The database management systems (DBMS) that will be discussed are SQL Server 2000‚ Access‚ MySQL‚ DB2‚ and Oracle. The criteria that will be compared are the systems ’ functionality‚ the requirements that must be met to run the DBMS‚ the expansion capabilities if it is able to expand to handle more data over time‚ the types of companies that typically use each one‚ the normal usage of
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-1- Book Review Person- Centred Counselling in Action by Dave Mearns & Brian Thorne‚ 1988 Person-centred counselling originated in 1930’s and 40’s from the work of the American psychologist Carl Rogers. Rogers came to believe that as it is the client who is hurting‚ then ultimately it is the client themselves who holds the answers about how best to move forward. At the time‚ this approach was a departure from others forms of counselling which relied on clients being advised‚ guided or somehow
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Written by Dr. Brian Weiss‚ Many Lives‚ Many Masters is a book that follows the true story of Dr. Weiss’s journey through past life regression therapy when treating a seemingly hopeless parent by the name of Catherine. Weiss does so through exercises involving hypnosis. Catherine had long been struggling with troubles involving the fear of airplanes‚ water‚ dying‚ and chocking which leads her to not want to swallow pills. Along with the previously stated troubles Catherine had gone through‚ she also
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Namsrai Bayar‚ CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY‚ Course: Political behavior- public opinion- empirical democratic process Prof.R.Markowski Fall semester 2000/2001 Course work Process of political change in Mongolia during transitional period (1990-2000) The establishment of formal institutes of democracy and political freedom were swift and bloodless‚ following the start of democratic protest and reform in 1990. The ruling Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) showed enough
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1. Intended role of each institution/intermediary: Venture Capitalists – They screen companies with good business ideas from bad ones and provide capital to the start-ups with good business ideas. The required return on capital for VCs is very high to compensate the shareholders for the higher risk in investing in new businesses‚ and this is achieved when VCs sell their stake in the business through IPOs or trade sale. Thus‚ VCs will work to ensure the business is sound so that it will fetch the
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