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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make a decision. Depending on different people with different personalities and habits‚ some people like to make a decision quickly on her/her own‚ while other people always like to ask for opinions from his/her friends. Although sometimes we need to follow our hearts when we face some hard-to-decide questions such as deciding to date girlfriend or boyfriend‚ many other times we should get other people’s suggestions and think them over. In my opinion‚ a person should never make an important decision
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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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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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Date: January 2001 Chapter Title: How Large are Human-Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory-Schooling Laws Chapter Author: Daron Acemoglu‚ Joshua Angrist Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11054 Chapter pages in book: (p. 9 - 74) and DaronAcemoglu Joshua Angrist MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY How Human-Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws Large Are 1. Introduction The effect of human capital on aggregate income is of central importance
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According to AAM (1988)‚ the rationale for a program of health care rationing based on age rests on the assumption that society should allocate its resources efficiently‚ and that age-based rationing represents the most efficient method of resource allocation. Within this context‚ it has been argued that since most of the elderly are not in the work force they do not directly benefit society. Although the elderly‚ it is argued‚ should be provided with basic necessities and comfort‚ the greatest portion
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How Prison Overcrowding Affects State Budgets By: Clarissa Taylor JUST 6510/ JPS Planning & Budgeting April 18‚ 2015 This paper will discuss how state and federal budgets are affected by the overcrowding of prisons. I chose this topic mainly because I use to work for the Alabama Department of Corrections from 2002 to 2005 as a Correctional Officer I. During the time I was employed for the department‚ I witness a lot of overcrowding in Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Things had gotten
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How English is important to us According to what government said that the English language is the most important language in the world and it has been listed as the international language. We can use English language to communicate with different people in other counties even though we do not know communicate by using the local languages. English is important to me when we’re being a student in college‚ in building and even in our normal life too. Being a student in College‚ English is the
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CHAPTER 9 MAKING CAPITAL INVESTMENT DECISIONS Solutions to Questions and Problems 1. The $7 million acquisition cost of the land six years ago is a sunk cost. The $9.8 million current aftertax value of the land is an opportunity cost if the land is used rather than sold off. The $21 million cash outlay and $850‚000 grading expenses are the initial fixed asset investments needed to get the project going. Therefore‚ the proper year zero cash flow to use in evaluating this project is
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How Important Are Friends and Family? Do you know what really matters in life? It is a question that many have asked‚ and many have answered. The answers offered to this question have been varied and variegated‚ but there are a few that consistently bubble to the surface. Two of those are “friends” and “family.” With so many people offering those two answers time and again‚ it would be unwise to discount them outright. However‚ what most people mean when they say “friends” or “family” may not be
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