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• Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction

  - 2005-02-01

  Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction. Harry Sidebottom. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]6.99. xxii + 165 pages. ISBN 0-19-280470-7. As study of Greek and Latin declines, it seems that interest in the history of the Ancient World increases. In this well written and equally well organised survey Dr Sidebottom gives...

  Tags: ideology, MARKETING, Strategy, University of Oxford

• 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

• Chance and inspiration.

  - 2002-05-31

  May 31, 2002 Time Australia ABIX via COMTEX -- Australian neurologist, Dan Milder, has made an important medical discovery. He found that a combination of drugs, azathioprine and interferon beta-lb, can have a dramatic impact on victims of multiple sclerosis. George Ebers, head of...

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• Active Agents, Passive Principals: The Role of the Chief Executive in Corporate Strategy Formulation and Implementation

  BNET - 2000-10-11

  This paper uses agency theory to study the active role of the chief executive in the formulation of corporate strategy. Unlike traditional applications of agency theory, it allows the agent CEO to play a role in defining the parameters of the agency problem. It argues that CEOs will have an...

  Tags: Strategy, Agency, Agent, University Of Oxford, CEO, Real Estate, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing

• Open sore of a continent: a personal account of the Nigerian crisis

  - 1997-01-01

  The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Account of the Nigerian Crisis by Wole Soyinka (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-510557-5) ON 12 JUNE 1993 the Nigerian people elected Moshood Abiola as their leader. Even as the elections were being internationally lauded, a despotic clique of power-crazed politicians, unsettled...

  Tags: continent, dictator, Leadership, MARKETING, Nigeria, Strategy, University of Oxford, villain