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- Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.
- Diamond Offshore Drilling is a global offshore oil and gas drilling contractor with a fleet of 44 offshore rigs. At Dec 31 2007, Co.'s fleet...
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- Tiffany Diamonds Shine for Offshore Shoppers
- Every year, Tiffany & Co. makes best friends with a lot of diamond-loving girls. Last year, many of those girls were either European or Asian, as foreign tourists accounted for 14 percent of sales at Tiffany's 70 stateside stores. The legendary jeweler saw sales rise to $2.94 billion in fiscal...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Corporate Acquisitions: Using Due Diligence to Distinguish Diamonds from Cubic Zirconia
- Many business people get romanced by the deal and view diligence as a formality. In fact, effective due diigence helps determine the true value of a deal and whether or not your company will end up with a diamond or a cubic zirconium.
- White papers 2003-05-07
- Characterizations of Metal - Diamond - Silicon Associations for Active Power Electronics Applications
- This paper presents different grades of CVD diamond substrates and the comparison between them, especially between the natural and other kind of CVD diamond. Dielectric strength investigation and surface conductivity with or without chemical treatment are presented, then the influence of the metal to diamond interface on the electronic properties...
- White papers 2003-01-16
- Porter's Diamond of National Advantage
- Classical theories of international trade propose that comparative advantage resides in the factor endowments that a country may be fortunate enough to inherit. Factor endowments include land, natural resources, labor, and the size of the local population. Michael E. Porter argued that a nation could create new advanced factor...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Army Leadership Framework
- Just as the diamond requires three properties for its formation—carbon, heat, and pressure—successful leaders require the interaction of three properties—character, knowledge, and application. Like carbon to the diamond, character is the basic quality of the leader. But as carbon alone does not create a diamond, neither can character alone create...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Diamond Cutters: Changing the Face of the Drilling Industry
- The paper points out that over the past decade, polycrystalline diamond compact cutters have transformed the drilling industry by prolonging bit life, improving drilling economics and making it possible to drill more demanding formations. Over the past several years, PDC technology has made significant contributions to the success of many...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Sidetracking and Drilling in One Trip- Case Histories and Economical Analysis
- The evolution of sidetracking dates back to the early 1900Æs, where the equipment to perform this work was crude and used simply as an alternative to going around a fish in the well-bore or to correct the direction of a hole. Advances in metallurgy and cutting structures for sidetracking progressed...
- White papers 2001-03-06
- A Test of Time: Plywood Harvest Bins Span Three Decades in Use
- The co-op of apple, cherry and pear growers known as Diamond Fruit is located in the scenic Hood River Valley. Every summer and fall, the region bustles as cherries, then early pears, apples and finally late pears are thinned, picked, harvested and transported to the packing house where they're polished,...
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- Does Porter's Diamond Hold in the Global Automotive Industry?
- Michael Porter's Theory of the Competitive Advantage of Nations is commonly referred to as Porter's Diamond, as it comprises 4 key elements that lead to national competitiveness. This paper empirically tests Porter's theory. 50 automotive companies in the automotive industry headquartered in 8 different nations comprise the sample. The results...
- White papers
- Nambia and De Beers Close to Finalising Unit Talks
- By John Grobler WINDHOEK (Reuters UK) - Namibia and De Beers are close to concluding talks to increase to 50 percent the southern African country's holding in the local marine unit of the world's largest diamond producer, a De Beers spokesman said. "The parties have concluded...
- News items 2008-04-17
- Activating Influence: Who vs. Where
- Ted Smith, a research fellow at CNET Networks, explains how the structure of influence has changed from a pyramid to a diamond shape, as information flows within vast social networks.
- Videos 2008-02-01
- Baseball and Management
- Business may not be a game, but then, just watch some of the things that happen - and don't happen - during a baseball game. One might see a striking similarity between what happens on the ball diamond and in the boardroom. As this author says, there's a reason why...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Take It Outside!
- Outdoor advertising is effective and priced just right for a growing business. Conventional vehicles, including billboards, taxi tops and more, are part of a marketing category called "Out-of-home," which includes many new place-based opportunities-from ads in health clubs and airports to naming rights for a local baseball diamond. There's bound...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Video: Activating Influence -- Who vs. Where
- Ted Smith, a research fellow at CNET Networks (BNET's parent company), explains how the structure of influence has changed from a pyramid to a diamond shape, as information flows within vast social networks. Length: 00:03:13 Other videos in the series: Motivations...
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Virtual Mentor
- Communicating with patients who have life-threatening illnesses is a core medical skill. Often after watching an experienced attending physician guide a patient through the transition from disease-modifying treatment to end-of-life care, students assume that this expertise comes naturally. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, end-of-life communication skills...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Flag Important Project Events With Milestones
- For project managers and project team members, milestones mark points in a project, but project milestones don't measure distance. Instead, they highlight important events, such as the completion of a phase, a delivery of materials, or a payment for work performed. The familiar diamond shape of milestones in a Microsoft...
- White papers
- How To Manage Your Service Parts Logistics
- From the executive summary: ‘Senior logistics executives at manufacturing companies are starting to pay more attention to service parts because its profit potential is already proven and its downstream revenue potential is under-appreciated and under-developed. They also recognize how service parts performance can be a point of differentiation for a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Video: Activating Influence -- Who vs. Where
- Video: Activating Influence -- Who vs. WhereMultiple Sources of TrustTed's presentation supports the theoretical (Trust Enablement) premise that multiple (even semi-trusted) sources of trust can help establish higher levels of trust and confidence than one highly "authoritative" source. In other words, the "authoritative" sources of trust at the top...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
- How To Effectively Cold Call Leads
- Network and direct marketers do a major part of their business by calling leads. For a person just starting out this can be rather intimidating and too often, a person does not know how to "open" up a call, gets a lot of rejection, and then decides this is not...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Diamond In The Rough: The Four C's of Implementing a Procurement Outsourcing Strategy - II
- Procurement outsourcing is one of the fastest growing areas of business process outsourcing (BPO). The article outlines some practical steps to prepare an organization's procurement outsourcing strategy. A critical step in the formulation of a procurement outsourcing strategy is to segment ones spend categories into core and non-core based on...
- White papers 2003-10-01
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