they will have strong effects. By Maureen Glabman Contributing Editor In 1995‚ Harvard business school professors Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower put “disruptive technologies” in the business lexicon by introducing the term in a seminal article in the school’s journal. The phrase described what happened in 1960‚ for example‚ when an unknown company‚ Sony‚ began selling an affordable transistor television that eventually replaced RCA’s vacuum tube. Soon it became apparent the transistor
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have been clearly formulated from the cases of Pacifica Shipping Co Ltd v Andersen[1](where Andersen [the director of Pacifica Shipping Company Limited] took a deferred opportunity of the company for himself) and Canadian Aero Service Ltd v O’Malley[2]. They were restated in Kawhia Offshore Services Limited v Rutherford[3] where Rutherford (the director of Kawhia Offshore Services Limited) took a maturing business opportunity for himself. Although Kawhia was unlikely to succeed in the opportunity
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IMPORTANCE AND CURRENT ISSUES OF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM Cynthia P. C. Lee Decision support system (DSS) has been used Abstract This paper emphasized on the Decision Support System (DSS) defined in various ways depending upon the author’s point of view by Turban (1995)‚ Little (1970)‚ Moore and Chang (1980)‚ Keen (1980)‚ and Power (1997); history of DSS during late 1950s and early 1960s until millennium approached of Web-based analytical applications; the importance of DSS to assist in high-level
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executives and employees‚ stock analysts‚ reporters and the former Governor of California Gray Davis. The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006.[2] Synopsis The film begins with a profile of Kenneth Lay‚ who founded Enron in 1985. Two years after its founding‚ the company becomes embroiled in scandal after two traders begin betting on the oil markets‚ resulting in suspiciously consistent profits
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Awarding of the 10 Most Inspiring Technopreneurs in the Philippines: 1. Diosdado Banatao (Computer Chips- Mostron and S3) 2. Nonoy & Ben Colayco (Online Gaming- Level Up) 3.Joey Gurango (Software Development- Webworks OS) 4. Danilo Manayaga (Biotechnology- Servac Philippines) 5.Dennis Mendiola (Wireless Technology- Chikka Asia) 6. Manny Pangilinan (Telecommunications- First Pacific‚ PLDT‚) 7. Dr. William Torres (RP Internet Pioneer- Mozcom) 8. Peter Valdes (software development- Vinta
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SUMMARY OF TOP 08 RESEARCHERS S# Research Topic & Researcher Research Qs: Objectives Literature review content Findings 1 Job Satisfaction and Employees’ Turnover Intentions in total Nigeria plc. in Lagos State‚ Samuel Emeka Mbah C. O . Ikemefuna Employee job satisfaction has influence on employee turnover in organizations. Poor management of employee turnover adversely affects the organization in terms of personnel costs and in the long run affects liquidity position. No significant
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activities and its application at a sample company Derya Sevim Korkut1*‚ Nevzat Cakıcıer1‚ E.Seda Erdinler2‚ Göksel Ulay3 and Ahmet Muhlis Do an4 1 Duzce University‚ Faculty of Forestry‚ Department of Forest Industrial Engineering‚ Duzce‚ 81620‚ Turkey. 2 Istanbul University‚ Faculty of Forestry‚ Department of Forest Industrial Engineering‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey. 3 CAD Engineer‚ Numarine Yacht Company‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey. 4 Forest Industry Engineer‚ Duzce‚ Turkey. Accepted 27 February‚ 2009 Total Productive
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Title: Today’s Human Malady: the Nuke plant’s radiation Japan’s nuclear plant in Fukushima‚ northeast of Tokyo‚ had been the latest scare for the past few weeks. It seems that the nuke’s condition is worsening. First‚ it there was just a leak‚ then it turned into a hydrogen explosion and now it is a partial meltdown. People fear the dangers of radiation especially now that it is reported that there are considerably high radiation to Japan’s water and vegetables. It is important that the public
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Q # 1: Describe three different roles of a manager; what skills are essential to perform these roles? Answer: Before the studying the roles of the manager we must know that what is manger? “Manager is the one who achieve the goals of the organization through other people”. ROLES OF A MANAGER: There are the three important and essentials roles‚ which manger performs within the organization for achieving the organizational goals‚ in which the first one is; o INTERPERSONAL ROLE: Interpersonal
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and some non-Jewish adolescents (13-18 years old) were greater‚ as they could be deployed at forced labor. The fate of Jewish and non-Jewish children can be categorized in the following way: 1) children killed when they arrived in killing centers; 2) children killed immediately after birth or in institutions; 3) children born in ghettos and camps who survived because prisoners hid them; 4) children‚ usually over age 12‚ who were used as laborers and as subjects of medical experiments; and 5) those
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