A Life Of Industry
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Author | : Daniel Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781849173094 |
John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of late-industrial and post-industrial Scotland. His collection is a remarkable portrait of a way of life that has now all but vanished. His drive to act as a witness to Scotland's industrial empire, and its steady disintegration, took him to every corner of the country.John's photography produces an exhaustive and objective record. Yet it also reveals remarkable and poignant glimpses of domestic life - children playing in factory ruins, high-rises emerging on the city skylines, working men and women dwarfed by the incredible scale of an already crumbling industrial infrastructure.In A Life of Industry, author Daniel Gray tells John's story, and the story of what has been lost - and preserved.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Insurance companies |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2176 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Insurance, Life |
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Author | : J. David Cummins |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1999-12-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780792385356 |
Ten chapters explore the determinants of firm performance in the life insurance industry by identifying the best practices employed by leading insurers to succeed in the changing business environment. Particular attention is devoted to strategic choices in distribution systems, information technology, mergers and acquisitions, human resources, and financial strategies. Generic strategies such as cost leadership, customer focus, and product differentiation are analyzed as well as strategic practices specific to the insurance industry. The book concludes with an analysis of the future opportunities and challenges facing managers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Fumiko Hayashi |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2015-08-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1513587765 |
This paper examines innovation, deregulation, and firm dynamics over the life cycle of the U.S. ATM and debit card industry. In doing so, we construct a dynamic equilibrium model to study how a major product innovation (introducing the new debit card function) interacted with banking deregulation drove the industry shakeout. Calibrating the model to a novel dataset on ATM network entry, exit, size, and product offerings shows that our theory fits the quantitative pattern of the industry well. The model also allows us to conduct counterfactual analyses to evaluate the respective roles that innovation and deregulation played in the industry evolution.
Author | : Klaus Schwab |
Publisher | : Currency |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1524758876 |
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
Author | : Leo Beranek |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2010-02-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0262250659 |
The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, busisess leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author. Leo Beranek, an Iowa farm boy who became a Renaissance man—scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author—has lived life in constant motion. His seventy-year career, through the most tumultuous and transformative years of the last century, has always been propelled by the sheer exhilaration of trying something new. In Riding The Waves, Leo Beranek tells his story. Beranek's life changed direction on a summer day in 1935 when he stopped to help a motorist with a flat tire. The driver just happened to be a former Harvard professor of engineering, who guided the young Beranek toward a full scholarship at Harvard's graduate school of engineering. Beranek went on to be one of the world's leading experts on acoustics. He became Director of Harvard's Electro-Acoustic Laboratory, where he invented the Hush-A-Phone—a telephone accessory that began the chain of regulatory challenges and lawsuits that led ultimately to the breakup of the Bell Telephone monopoly in the 1980s. Beranek moved to MIT to be a professor and Technical Director of its Acoustics Laboratory, then left academia to found the acoustical consulting firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Known for his work in noise control and concert acoustics, Beranek devised the world's largest muffler to quiet jet noise and served as acoustical consultant for concert halls around the world (including the Tanglewood Music Shed, the storied summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). As president of BBN, he assembled the software group that invented both the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, and e-mail. In the 1970s, Beranek risked his life savings to secure the license to operate a television station; he turned Channel 5 in Boston into one of the country's best, then sold it to Metromedia in 1982 for the highest price ever paid up to that time for a broadcast station. “One central lesson I've learned is the value of risk-taking and of moving on when risks turn into busts or odds look better elsewhere,” Beranek writes. Riding The Waves is a testament to the boldness, diligence, and intelligence behind Beranek's lifetime of extraordinary achievement. Leo Beranek is a pioneer in acoustical research, known for his work in noise control and the acoustics of concert halls, and the author of twelve books on these topics. The many awards he has received include the Presidential National Medal of Science, presented in 2003.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Antitrust law |
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