Swedish Economic Development - Lecture 7 The 1920s United States shifted from being an IMPORTER of capital to an EXPORTER First half of the 1920s was wanting to make Germany pay. Germany’s resistance resulted in hyper inflation in Deutschland. USA’s solution The Dawes plan(1924) loans to finance the german reparations; transmitted thru int finance networks (kreuger) In Sweden‚ Kreuger borrowed money directly from wall street European govts deeply indebt. ** first half of the
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There is little doubt that the tactics used by the English fleet against the Armada were an important contributor to the Armada’s defeat‚ but was it English ingenuity that saved England from Spain‚ or was the rest downplayed to make England seem superior to Spain/the Habsburg Empire? In order to effectively analyse the comparative importance of English tactics‚ one must analyse the other causes for defeat. First of all‚ how important were English tactics? When the English first engaged the Armada
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and making a business case for innovation‚ let’s consider the implications of stakeholder buy-in. Share an experience from your own career in which a Anewly implemented project failed due to lack of stakeholder buy-in. If you have not been involved in such a project‚ locate a practical example from your industry and share with the class. In which a newly implemented project failed due to lack of stakeholder buy-in. A project that was implemented and failed due to lack of stakeholder buy-in
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Why Prohibition Failed Prohibition: Help or Harm? Prohibition damaged America Imagine this"¦ It’s 12:30 am in a dark New York City street during the 1920s. Everything is silent. Then a man walks around to the back of an old saloon‚ closed due to Prohibition. He knocks three times on the back door then mutters the words " Joe sent me". The door opens to the sound of ragtime music and people singing. The door shuts and it is silent again"¦ That was an example of just on of the 100‚000 "speak-easies"
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Open Innovation Innovation and entrepreneurship are at the heart of "creative destruction". In his book‚ Open Innovation‚ Henry Chesbrough describes a new paradigm of open innovation that is in contrast to the traditional closed model. To understand open innovation‚ it is worthwhile to review the older model of closed innovation. The Closed Innovation Model Under the concept of innovation that prevailed during most of the 20th century‚ companies attained competitive advantage by funding large
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The change adoption process outlined in the Mechanisms of Diffusion of Innovations theory applies to the movie through Joy accepting Sadness as a valid and useful member of the organization. Joy appears to go through the process twice. The process has five stages of Knowledge‚ Persuasion‚ Decision‚ Implementation‚ and Confirmation. The opening scene of the movie introduced all the emotions or the members of the organization that made up Riley. Immediately‚ Joy processes Knowledge‚ Persuasion and
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Spain‚ A failed industrial revolution? By the 1850s‚ Spain’s population was near 12‚500‚000 people; of which more than two thirds still worked and lived in the countryside. Meanwhile‚ the most powerful European countries like England or Germany were undergoing a series of political‚ economic and social changes known as the Industrial Revolution. This was propelled by their liberal ideas‚ engaged investors and ever-growing market. It created a new era in history‚ urban areas started to develop and
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LECTURE 1: INTRODUCTION AND EXPECTATIONS ENGN 3230: Engineering Innovation 24 July 2013 TODAY’S AGENDA Introduction • The ENGN3230 team • Content & assessment • Code of conduct Getting started • What do we mean by innovation? • Generating ideas • Next steps We recognise and respect the special place‚ culture and contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY “We acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians
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In the early 20th century‚ a cartel of Dutch and English rubber barons had a stranglehold on the vast majority of the world’s supply of rubber. At that time the sole source of rubber was the South American tree Hevea brasiliensis‚ whose sap is natural latex. In the 1870s a gaggle of entrepreneurial smugglers had secreted a stash of wild rubber tree seeds out of the Amazon rain forest‚ which they used to establish sprawling plantations in East Asia. These smothered the output of Brazil‚ causing their
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Slavery in the United States: Attempts at and Failure of Compromise The Path to Civil War Ms. Wallace • Sobrato High School Thursday‚ November 3‚ 2011 It all started at the Constitutional Convention The Three-Fifths Compromise Allowed southern states to count 3/5 of their slave populations for purposes of determining how many representatives they would receive in Congress. Since the number of electors a state receives in the electoral college is based on the number of members of Congress it has
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