May 2012 ARTICLE PREVIEW To read the full article: Sign in or Register for free. HBR Subscribers activate your free archive access » http://hbr.org/2012/05/global-business-speaks-english/ar/1 Global Business Speaks English by Tsedal Neeley Ready or not‚ English is now the global language of business. More and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language—Airbus‚ Daimler-Chrysler‚ Fast Retailing‚ Nokia‚ Renault‚ Samsung‚ SAP‚ Technicolor‚ and Microsoft in
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PUERTO PRINSESA UNDERGROUND RIVER Introduction Puerto Princesa’s pride is easily the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River (or Underground River)‚ a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature. The 8.2-kilometer river‚ said to be the longest navigable underground river in the world‚ winds its way underneath a mountain range‚ through the St. Paul Underground River Cave‚ and then goes out into the South China Sea. The journey through the cave system
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How important is ambition to successes? Thomas Jefferson‚ the third president of the United States‚ once said‚”Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” Thomas Jefferson then became one of the most influential leaders of all time and envisioned the United States to be one of the most powerful countries in the world‚ something no one at the time could imagine. It turned out to be true. Why was
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What is artistic patronage and how important is the patron ’s input Patrons exerted a strong influence on the creation and execution of art in Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Art served specific functions so that artists were paid to produce exactly what the patron wanted. The artist could be creative to the extent of his natural and acquired capacity but always within the conditions imposed by the patron. The system of patronage was a commercial process and artwork therefore
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Table of Contents Assignment Topic Look at various corporate and organizational websites and notice how important employee are to the organization. Questions Are there indicators that employees are a key concern? Or are the employees merely a means to helping the company succeed? What are some methods of building relationships with employees? What communications can help with that relationship-building? Methodology To answer the above question‚ I am collecting data regarding
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embrace the idea that behaving within the legal confines is in the public’s interest‚ and that if they are to be law-abiding‚ then various routines‚ such as remaining content with earning one’s own keep and not committing fraud‚ have to be kept to. How can "discipline" be defined? Some would reserve the word for the following of rules because the rules are seen appropriate to the task in hand‚ and would apply the adjective "disciplined" to the abovementioned society but not to another one which has
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Is Eddie a Tragic hero for our times? A tragic hero‚ referring to the real definition‚ is “a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that‚ combined with fate and external forces‚ brings on a tragedy.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tragic+hero) The play‚ A View from the Bridge written by Arthur Miller defines the character Eddie‚ the protagonist‚ as occupying most of the qualities for a tragic hero. Eddie in A View from the Bridge came from a noble family
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The Establishment and Defence of a Gendered Honour in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing is a timeless dramatic comedy that establishes a number of Victorian gender norms as well as their relation to honour through the two main romances in the play‚ that of Claudio and Hero and Beatrice and Benedict. The relationship between Beatrice and Benedick is completely different to the more traditional relationship between Hero and Claudio‚ who’s relationship
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Tola Oworu Edwards AP Lang & Comp January 20 2011 Dear Everyone Who Questions My Antics‚ I am well aware that I‚ Edward Regan Murphy‚ have made some mistakes in my life. I am also aware of the information that some of you people are thoroughly displeased with the decisions I’ve made. First off‚ I would like to acknowledge that I am not a child and I do not have to answer to anyone but since the community might stop going to see my movies…wait‚ it seems as though they have already stopped
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SUMMARY Eddie Antar (Crazy Eddie) dominated the retail consumer electronics market in the New York City metropolitan area. By 1987‚Antar’s firm‚ Crazy Eddie ‚ Inc.‚ had 43 retail outlets‚ sales exceeding $350 million‚ and outstanding stock with a collective market value of $600 million. During his term as the company’s chief executive. Antar had personal gain of more than $70 million. The first step Crazy Eddie done in order to gain success was to expand his little store into many big consumer
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