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• Books received

  - 2005-09-01

  ADNETT, NICK, and STEPHEN HARDY. The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Chelten-2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $95.00. AGELL, JONAS, MICHAEL KEEN, and ALFONS J. WEICHENREIDER, eds. Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 228. Cloth $35.00. AGLIETTA, MICHEL, and ANTOINE REBERIOUX. Corporate Governance Adrift:...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, Innovation, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2005-03-01

  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Africa in the Global Trading System: African Development Report 2004. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. Paper $29.95. ALESINA, ALBERTO, and EDWARD L. GLAESER. Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 264. Cloth...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard, Strategy, U.K., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2005-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Government, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Turning university IP into growth companies

  - 2005-01-01

  Universities in the United Kingdom are delivering a steady stream of technology spin-off companies thanks to the novel business model of a local venture-capital company. If the model is successful, it could form a template for other venture capitalists and suggest a new way for large companies to access and...

  Tags: FINANCE, IP, NETWORKING, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2004-09-01

  31NETWORK. India Infrastructure Report 2004: Ensuring Value for Money. New York: Oxford University press, 2004. Pp. 347. Paper $35.00. ADAMS, WALTER, and JAMES W. BROCK. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. 2d ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. Paper $24.95....

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Sarbanes-Oxley, Corporate Governance And Operational Risk

  BNET - 2004-07-22

  The paper presents general discussion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its wider implications, with particular reference to operational risk management. The discussion concentrates upon conceptual issues: how one should define operational risk, how it can be measured, and some standard statements about operational risks which strike me as ill-conceived. In...

  Tags: Risk, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Corporate Governance, University Of Oxford, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Strategy, Security, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Management

• Cruise lines signing up notable entertainment

  - 2004-07-02

  Looks as if the cruise industry is no longer clowning around when it comes to entertainment. Celebrity Cruises' announcement last week that it signed the celebrated circus company Cirque du Soleil to perform is just the latest move to improve on-board offerings by bringing in big-name outsiders. Other...

  Tags: Cirque du Soleil, entertainment, FINANCE, MARKETING, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2003-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony.(Review) (book review)

  - 2000-12-01

  Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony. By Sonya Stephens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 181. [pound]35.00. The first chapter of this relatively short but richly suggestive and multifarious assault on Baudelaire's prose poems is devoted to...

  Tags: FINANCE, poem, Strategy, University of Oxford

• The British Empire Revisited. - Review - book review

  - 2000-04-01

  The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Nineteenth Century. Andrew Porter, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds]30.00. 774 pages. ISBN 0-19-820565-1. The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Twentieth Century. Judith M. Brown and Win. Roger Louis, editors. Oxford University Press. [pounds]30.00. 773 pages. ISBN 0-19-820564-3. The Oxford History...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Louis, Strategy, University of Oxford