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NEW YORK (CNN) -- I like it when I'm right, especially about naked men. Especially about naked cowboys.
A federal judge's opinion includes side-by-side photos of the key players in The Naked Cowboy case.
When I wrote in April that the lawsuit filed by Robert Burck "may be the end of the era of the "naked" cowboy and predicted he would be able to afford some "very nice duds," my fellow lawyers laughed at me.
One close friend -- let's call him Larry -- said as he snickered, "I read your article. You can't be serious. You really think that the Naked Cowboy is going to cash in? Well, I predict he is going to get thrown out of court. If he doesn't, maybe I will start walking around my office in my tighty whities."
Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin didn't throw the cowboy from his steed. In fact, in a lengthy decision, Judge Chin ruled against the makers of M&Ms, rejecting Mars, Inc.'s attempt to dismiss the Cowboy's lawsuit. And it seems that Judge Chin has a sense of humor.
On the first page of his decision, the judge pasted photos of the litigating parties side by side and wrote, "This is the case of The Naked Cowboy versus The Blue M&M."
And what a case it is. Burck sued Mars in April for $6 million in federal court in New York. The central allegation: trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, arising from a video billboard for M&Ms.
Most people, and maybe Mars, thought the Cowboy was just a kooky street entertainer dressed in his underwear. However, I've spoken to Mr. Cowboy, I mean, Mr. Burke, and he didn't seem kooky to me at all. In fact, he seemed kinda smart.
Even Judge Chin recognized that The Naked Cowboy is no ordinary street entertainer. Although he performs in New York City's Times Square in little more than underwear and a smile, he has registered trademarks to "The Naked Cowboy" name and likeness.
And he doesn't just sing in Times Square. He has a Web site http://www.nakedcowboy.com/ with his modeling photos and has a link to nakedcowboy.tv. You can download his music on iTunes. You can buy his tighty whities from his online store for $15. He even has a podcast.
Judge Chin observed that "Burck has appeared as The Naked Cowboy in various television shows, movies, and video games. He has also licensed his name and likeness to companies for endorsements and advertisements. He even appeared in a Chevrolet commercial that aired during Super Bowl XLI.
Judge Chin then explained that "beginning in April 2007, Mars began running an animated cartoon advertisement on two oversized video billboards in Times Square, featuring a blue M&M dressed "exactly like The Naked Cowboy," wearing only a white cowboy hat, cowboy boots, and underpants, and carrying a guitar." And get this -- the video "played on a continuous loop every few minutes over a nine-month period."
Mars tried to defend itself by arguing that the Blue M&M was just a parody of the Cowboy and was protected under the First Amendment.
Although imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery, Judge Chin didn't agree with M&M's parody argument. Rather, Judge Chin thought it was a question for a jury to decide and wrote that the complaint "plausibly argues that consumers would believe that the M&M Cowboy characters were promoting a product rather than merely parodying The Naked Cowboy, and that viewers would believe that The Naked Cowboy had endorsed M&Ms."
Then Judge Chin ordered the lawyers to appear in his courtroom for a pretrial conference on July 11 at noon. High Noon.
That Judge Chin makes me laugh. Round One to the Cowboy. Larry, maybe you should start walking around the office in your tighty whities.
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Coalition releases savings, but voters have to wait for full bottom line
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The Coalition has said that it will save $31.6 billion from the budget bottom line over four years, less than half the amount Labor has claimed the opposition would cut from the budget.
After coming under sustained pressure to tell voters how it would pay for its big-ticket policy items, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey released a seven-page document that promised the Coalition would ''more than fully fund its overall package of policy commitments by announcing more than sufficient savings measures to pay for them''.
But the figures released on Wednesday represent only the savings the Coalition would make to the budget, and not the budget bottom line.
The Coalition claims its "signature policy" of a paid parental leave scheme, due to start in July 2015, will actually add $1.1 billion to the budget during its first two years, by the time all the associated savings are counted.
The savings include about $5 billion for scrapping the existing commonwealth and state parental leave schemes. A 1.5 per cent tax on large companies, which the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates will raise $4.4 billion over the first two years of the scheme, will also help cover the costs of the scheme.
At a press conference in Canberra on Wednesday morning, Mr Hockey confirmed the Coalition would make no cuts to health or education, nor would it increase the GST, as Labor has been warning.
"There are no great shocks here," Mr Hockey said. "The great shock is that Kevin Rudd is being proven to have made hysterical and unsubstantiated claims about the Coalition".
The document also said that it would keep the ''savings initiatives'' announced by Labor in the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook earlier this month, except for the changes on fringe benefits tax for motor vehicles.
''We don't like a number of them, but we have to do it to be prudent,'' Mr Hockey said.
Earlier, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said that the Coalition's document exposed the ''big lies'' at the heart of Labor's campaign.
''We can fund the major initiatives that we've announced in this campaign without cutting health, without cutting education, without touching pensions, without changing the GST – in other words, everything that is at the basis of Mr Rudd's campaign, the series of big lies that are the basis of Mr Rudd's campaign, are exposed as simple falsehoods,'' Mr Abbott said.
These savings are in addition to the $17 billion in savings already announced, bringing the total savings to $31.6 billion over the forward estimates from a range of measures including scrapping Labor's carbon tax and mining tax packages.
The Coalition says the biggest saving will come from reducing the public service by 12,000 people, saving $5.2 billion over the budget forward estimates.
It would also save 1.3 billion over four years by cutting Australia's humanitarian migrant intake by 6250 people each year and $3.7 billion by dropping Labor's superannuation guarantee for low-income Australians.
Mr Hockey said the savings he had identified made up the ''great bulk'' of those the Coalition needed to find.
''The Coalition is absolutely committed to living within its means,'' he said.
During their debate on Wednesday at the National Press Club in Canberra, Mr Hockey and Mr Bowen disagreed most notably on the question of when they could commit to returning the budget to surplus.
Mr Bowen insisted Labor would deliver a surplus in 2016-17, as stated in the budget.
Mr Hockey said he was not going to make the same mistake as the former treasurer, Wayne Swan, who gave "big heroic promises" about when he would deliver a surplus. "We will get to surplus when it is reasonable, responsible to do so," Mr Hockey said.
Mr Bowen retorted that Mr Hockey was showing "a lot of huff, a lot of puff, a lot of bluster, a lot of blowing ... [but] no date".
Mr Hockey was asked to clarify his promise on Wednesday that an Abbott government, if elected, would make no cuts to health or education funding.
"You said today that there'd be no cuts to education or health," a journalist asked. "Does that apply to the full three-year term, for example after the commission of audit?"
Mr Hockey dodged the question.
Earlier, Mr Hockey defended his decision not to release any of the assumptions or calculations behind any of the PBO estimates. The shadow treasurer said he would do so if Labor released the workings behind the Treasury estimates that inform its policies.
The Coalition established a panel to look at its costings, comprising Access Economics co-founder Geoff Carmody, former Queensland Auditor-General Len Scanlon and former department of prime minister and cabinet secretary Peter Shergold.
Mr Hockey said the policies were costed by the PBO, before being assessed by the Coalition's panel of ''three wise men'', but he declined to release the PBO costings.
He said he would release the PBO's costings only when Labor releases all of Treasury's working papers.
Despite Mr Hockey's claim that ''no other opposition has done this'' in releasing detailed costings, the Coalition's tax policy, released in 1987, ran to 67 pages, and included graphs and breakdowns of costing assumptions. It was released on June 13, 1987, almost a month before the July 11 election.
Fightback! – among the most comprehensive policy documents ever released in Australia – was released in 1991, more than a year before the election.
Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd dismissed the figures, comparing the Coalition's paid parental leave scheme with former Liberal leader John Hewson's ''dog'' of a GST policy in the 1993 election, which the Coalition lost.
Mr Rudd, who was campaigning in his Brisbane seat of Griffith, said the Coalition's costings were ''not worth the paper it's written on''.
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Ben Woitena is one of the few serious sculptors in Houston (a painting town, for some reason) and one of the few of that few who work really large, in metal…. he's the central-casting model of a big-scale welding sculptor: muscled, intent, full of energy and purpose…. He draws and makes small sculpture, but the juice for him is obviously in the big stuff,…His way with steel in space is lyrical and potent,…
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Woitena's shapes swell and lift in taut axial successions that are lyrical and erotic at the same time. Admittedly, the sculptures suggest the bends and folds of the body and pull of gravity. More often than not, they rise from the ground as monumental presences, confronting the viewer as tantalyzingly elusive beings. The sculpture is so direct in its address to one's body and one's imagination that the physical intuitions behind it seem more clairvoyant than analytical.…What results are bodies that have been given souls in addition to physical space. What we perceive are sculptures both strong and vulnerable, tentative and expansive. Woitena's sculptures are engaging, even gripping for the range of contradictions they set in motion. *
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Born 1942, San Antonio, Texas
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, B.F.A., 1964
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, M.F.A., 1970
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
1975 Sol Del Rio Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1982 The Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas
1983 Century Development-Allen Center Rotating Sculpture Program, Houston, Texas
1988 Sharon Arts Center, A Sense of Site Specific Sculpture, Sharon, New Hampshire
1994 The Omni Houston, Afterimages, Houston, Texas
1994 Amarillo Museum of Art, Ben Woitena:Related Works, Solo Exhibition Concurrent With Dedication of Archway, Amarillo, Texas
1994 The Omni Mandalay, Afterimages II, Las Colinas, Irving, Texas
1995 Dakota Galleries, Ben Woitena: Image of the Object, Houston, Texas
1998 Altered States, The Art Center of Waco, Waco, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions
1976 Monumental Sculpture: Houston
1975 Invitational, Houston, Texas
1977 Amarillo Art Center, Young Texas Artist Series, Amarillo, Texas
1978 Archer M. Huntington Art Museum, Made in Texas, Austin, Texas
1979 Art from Houston in Norway, Stavanger Denstforening
1989 Archer M. Huntington Art Museum, A Century of Sculpture in Texas, 1889-1990, Austin, Texas
1992 Jefferson Plaza, 64 Beds, Washington, Texas
1992 Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Politics As Usual, Houston, Texas
1994 The Art Center of Waco, Dana Campbell/Paul McCoy/Ben Woitena,Waco, Texas
1995 J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, Texas A&M University, Healthy Communities:Artists Taking the Pulse of the People, College Station, Texas
Holmes, Ann, Fine Arts Editor, "Houston Second City for Art?," Art News, December, 1975.
Smith, Roberta, "Twelve Days of Texas," Art in America, pp.42-48 July/August, 1976.
Livesay, Tom, "Young Texas Artist Series," Artspace, Fall, 1977.
Schjedahl, Peter, "Art and Money in the City of Future-Think," Houston City Magazine, pp.46 & 56, February, 1980.
Johnson, Patricia C., "Artist Ben Woitena: The Educator as practitioner," Houston Chronicle, pp. 18-20 August 8, 1982
Staff Writer, The Talk of the Town, "Kerouac," The New Yorker, pp. 18, 19, July 18, 1988.
Chase, stacey, "Redefining Kerouac in Granite," Pearl Street Press,Vol. 1, Number 16, pp. 8-10, Denver, Colorado, August 1, 1988
Pivano, Fernanda, "Reduci Bear a Passeggio fra Le Parole de Kerouac," Rorriere Del Sera, Italy, November 20, 1988.
Johnson, Joyce, "Cashing in on Kerouac," FAME, pp. 80-91, January, 1989.
-Reese, Becky Duval, Curator, Made in Texas, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, August, 1979.
-Gleason, Ron, Curator/Kirector, Tyler Museum of Art, Collection '81-The Road Show, March/April, 1981.
-Brauer, David, Kunst Fra Houston I Norge: Art From Houston in Norway, June 1982.
-Swanner, Lin, Curator, 1984 Show: An Exhibition of Contemporary Houston Art, March, 1984. Sween, Trudy, Curator, Midtown Art Center: The New Nude, January 5-February 8, 1985.
Reese, Becky Duval, Abilene Fourth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Spring, 1985.
-Hickey, Dave, Free-lance writer/art critic, "Outdoor Sculpture Looking at Art in Public Places 'Ben Woitena-Dos Equis,'" Abilene Fifth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition and Retrospective, June, 1986.
Morris-Little, Carol, A Comprehensive Guide To Outdoor Sculpture In Texas, pp. 25, 29- 30, 43, 54, 117, 278-279, 302, 402, 447, Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1996.
-Thirty-minute documentary awarded by National Educational Television Station (Channel 8, KUHT, Houston, Texas) entitled, Actual Yardage Gained, 1976.
-Twenty-minute film in conjunction with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, exhibition entitled Studio, 1977.
-Sixty-minute documentary by Professor Jay McHale, Associate Professor of English, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, entitled Kerouac Commemorative Dedication, 1988.
-Eleven-minute documentary by National Television Station (Channel 8, KUHT, Houston, Texas) Entitled Sculpture on the Green, 1994.
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I love Lucie's hand drawn designs. The words 'clever' and 'whimsical' come to mind. I mean, there's even a cute little fabric shop right there in Summersville. Who wouldn't want to live there?
If I had to pick, I think that this print is my favorite. I need to get a bunch more of this one – it would be so much fun to fussy cut for blocks or to use for a whole quilt back. Love it. Especially in red.
I've been itching to play with these fabrics ever since they arrived and now that spring break is done, this is what I've created so far. I love using the Bella solids for some colorful contrast. It's still a growing work-in-progress. Stay tuned for further developments…
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Abstract: The IBOR transition is affecting financial reporting. US GAAP and IFRS are influenced more by the transition from IBOR to RFR compared to SWISS GAAP FER. Most directly affected is hedge accounting, which aims to avoid artificial earnings volatility. This might occur if value changes in the hedging instrument and hedged item are recognized in different reporting periods. A transition from IBOR to RFR without an amendment to existing accounting rules might lead to an increase in earnings volatility due to de-designation of hedge accounting relations. Related to IFRS: In May 2019, the IASB issued an exposure draft that reliefs these earnings volatility concerns. Entities can assume existing IBOR-based contractual terms for assessing the hedge accounting requirements. Related to US GAAP: A change in a contract's reference rate as a result of the IBOR transition would not create a new contract but would be accounted for as a continuation of that contract. Specifics on hedge accounting will be addressed in a future board meeting. Cash flow hedge accounting allows some flexibility in payment dates of the hedging instrument and the hedged item. This will be an important feature with alternative RFRs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9743
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Abstract: The paper investigates the question of screening ideas in the 'fuzzy front end' of engineering design, examining the validity of employee voting schemes and related biases. After an employee-driven innovation project at {Company Name removed for review}, 99 ideas were to be screened for further development. Based on the concept of 'wisdom of the crowds', all ideas were individually rated by a broad selection of employees, and their choices of ideas and idea categories compared to those of a small team of senior marketers. The study also tested for two biases: visual complexity and endowment effect/ownership of ideas. The study shows that the crowd wisdom of employees significantly correlates with the preferences of the marketing team: overall, in top 12 selected ideas and in choice of idea categories. This match increases when including only the ratings of the most experienced employees. The experienced employees also proved to be less affected by visual complexity in the ideas presented. The endowment effect was potent in that every employee proved to be more likely to select their own ideas over others, but this effect disappeared when aggregating across the crowd of employees. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8255
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Holck, Jesper; Holm Larsen, Michael; Kühn Pedersen, Mogens (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The main research interest in Open Source Software (OSS) has been in answering the questions of why individuals and organizations without economic compensation contribute to OSS projects and how these projects are organized. In this paper we instead focus on managerial decisions for acquisition of OSS and discuss potential barriers for widespread use of OSS. Based on existing literature and a small case study, we develop and discuss the hypothesis that a major barrier may be the "customer" organizations' uncertainty and unfamiliarity with the relationships with OSS "vendors". To develop viable models for these relationships is an important challenge, which we will deal with in a research project, of which this paper should be seen as a first step. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6511
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Lean Management in the Construction IndustryBrinch Jensen, Kenneth (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ledelsesteknologier såsom Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma og Activity Based Costing må fremtræde som konkrete, stabile, funktionelle og homogene løsninger, hvis de skal kunne fange både interesse og finansiering i forretningsverdenen. Studier af disse ledelsesteknologiers møde med organisationspraksis viser imidlertid, at disse teknologier er præget af stor ustabilitet og heterogenitet på tværs af implementeringer. Benders & Van Veen (2001) argumenterer for at ledelsesidéer besidder en kvalitet, der kan kaldes for 'fortolkningsmæssig levedygtighed'. Med dette skal forstås, at ledelsesidéerne har en evne til at tilpasse sig lokale forhold og interesser. Argumentet er endvidere, at denne kvalitet er mere afgørende for idéens overlevelse end idéens indhold..... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8163
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'If the bridge ain't broke, don't fix it'. The Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education InternationalizationThoughts from DenmarkBlasco, Maribel; Tackney, Charles T. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denmark is among the world's most competitive nations. At the same time it has a strong tradition of citizenship‐oriented tertiary education. Nevertheless, we are currently witnessing the erosion of this tradition, arguably as a result of neoliberal ideologies ushered in by globalization and internationalization processes. These processes have stirred domestic fears, evident in government reports, about the need to improve Danish higher education to 'meet the challenges of globalisation'. Concrete instances of possible erosion include recent directives to examine and grade group work on an individual basis, the abolition of the '13' grade for individual or group performance, and the introduction of measurable skills via "learning objectives," for all tertiary education courses. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7921
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Images of Users and Products Shown During New Product Design Increase Users' Willingness-To-Use the InnovationChristensen, Bo T. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Two studies tested whether introducing images to designers during the design process lead to more useful design solutions as evaluated by the end-users willingness-to-use the final design. It was hypothesized based on theories in cognitive science and design that there were at least two paths from images to usefulness. One path concerns analogically transferring within-domain properties to the design solution. The other path concerns mentally simulating end-user characteristics and preferences and inclusion of the user in the resulting design. Study 1 supported that random images led to increased outcome usefulness, and supported both hypothesized paths, by using withindomain products and end-user images as input. Study 2 showed that the image categories competed for attention, and that the within-domain product stimuli attracted the most attention and was considered the most inspirational to the designers. The practical use of the technique may lead to only marginally original products perhaps limiting its applicability to incremental innovation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7941
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Key note présentation at the ESU Conference, 2009, Benevento, Italy, September 8th – 13thHjorth, Daniel (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
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from visual communication to visual interactionNielsen, Janni (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Viborg Andersen, Kim; Zinner Henriksen, Helle (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Bhutan is in economic terms highly dependent of tourism. E-tourism is in this report assessed as a mean to maintain the current positive development in tourism and as a driver for extending tourism to new markets. Effective use of information, communication, distribution and transactions through the new media, such as the Internet, can lead to an increased level of economic activity in the tourism sector in Bhutan. Also, the indirect economic impacts on transportation, accommodation and the retail/ handicraft industry can be substantial. The macro-economic impacts of e-tourism in terms GDP growth, improvement of the foreign exchange balance, and increased employment are in this report described in three scenarios based on a forecasted annual increase in tourism by 15%. In the event driven scenario where the Bhutanese tourism industry manages to increase the number of bed nights per tourist and their consumption by 15% and to increase the number of international arrivals by 5%, there is a short term increase in the GDP output from the tourism sector and the dependent sectors by 22.4%, an improvement of the foreign exchange balance by 1.2 million USD, and an increase in the employment in the tourism sector and the dependent sectors by 5.1%. In the transition driven scenario the Bhutanese tourism sector manages to use the internet and other technologies to increase the number of international arrivals by 15% but the number of bed nights increases by only 5% and the consumption by 5%. In this scenario, the GDP output increases by 8.7% and employment by only 2.3%, whereas the foreign exchange balance increases by 623,000 USD. In the tourism consumption spending driven scenario, there is an increase in the number of international arrivals and bed nights by 5% only, but the consumption by tourists increases by 15%. Thus, the GDP contribution from the tourism sector and the dependent sectors increases by 15.5% and employment by 6.7%, whereas the foreign exchange balance increases by 873,000 USD. There are several challenges to be met in order for the full scale benefits of e-tourism to materialize. Effective online visa procedures and marketing training of tour operators are being implemented as part of the E-Bhutis project. Economic incentives for the tour operators and the scale of economics benefits are less visible in the current business structure. The relative limited international orientation of the tour market and the lack of international players at the Bhutan market are other inhibiting factors for e-tourism to materialize in the Bhutanese economy. This report also highlights several facilitating factors for e-tourism to flourish: the commitment by the Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators (ABTO) and the willingness of the various institutional players to facilitate a smoother visa application process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6439
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Bennedsen, Morten; Nielsen, Kasper (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7514
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Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; Wihlborg, Clas (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7162
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Do homogeneous brand associations benefit the brand?Koll, Oliver; von Wallpach, Sylvia; Platzgummer, Sophia (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Brand associations have been linked to brand response in numerous ways. Much research has focused on the number, valence and uniqueness of brand associations. This paper focuses on another association facet which managerially-oriented brand literature frequently highlights as a sign of brand strength: Brand consensus, that is, the degree to which people elicit the same associations when confronted with a brand. We introduce two meaningful operationalizations of consensus (group- and individual-level) and discuss and test the link between consensus and brand response. Our results, which are based on a large-scale study for an international luxury brand, show that for individual consumers high levels of brand consensus tend to foster positive brand response whereas for a group as a whole too much brand consensus tends to be detrimental. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8682
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Rocha, Robson S. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present article investigates co-decision making with focus on the development of partnerships arrangements (PAs) between managers and trade-union representatives in a Danish multinational company which has grown through cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The findings show the difficulties which trade-union representatives and management face in combining different forms of corporate governance and supporting PAs. The article argues that hybrid forms of PAs are unlikely to develop, due to historically embedded governance institutions, which create distinct expectations about how a firm must be controlled and who has the rights to exert this control. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7343
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Abstract: The present article investigates changes over time in the patterns of co-decisionmaking in a Danish multinational company which has grown through cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The findings show the difficulties that trade union representatives face when firms try to introduce a governance regime based on shareholder value ideology. The article argues that hybrid forms of governance are unlikely to develop due to historically embedded governance institutions, which create distinct expectations about how a firm must be governed and who has the right to participate in this governance. The spread of the Anglo-Saxon model of governance in Europe is likely to have negative effects on co-decision-making processes and established patterns of organizational cooperation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7358
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education and Project-based Education on Students' Personal Development and Entrepreneurial Intentions at the Lower Levels of the Educational System:Too Much of Two Good Things?Moberg, Kåre (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I present an analysis of a survey in which the effect of entrepreneurship education and project-based education on students at lower secondary level is investigated. The results are based on a random sample of 2000 Danish students. The analysis indicates that entrepreneurship education has a positive effect on students' personal development, and that its effect on entrepreneurial intentions is fully mediated by its effect on students' self-conception. A finding with important policy implications is that there is a negative interaction effect between entrepreneurship education and project-based education regarding impact on students' self-conception. The implication of the results is that we should replace project-based education with entrepreneurship education rather than having them run in parallel. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8515
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Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an in ux of foreign workers reduces the need for firms to relocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish quasi-natural experiment in which immigrants were randomly allocated to municipalities using a refugee dispersal policy and we use the Danish employer-employee matched data set covering the universe of workers and firms over the period 1995-2011. Our findings show that an exogenous in ux of immigrants into a municipality reduces firm-level offshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage the other. While the multilateral relationship is negative, a subsequent bilateral analysis shows that immigrants have connections in their country of origin that increase the likelihood that firms offshore to that particular foreign country. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9656
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Abstract: Our paper reports research from the emerging institutional field of venture capitalists in Europe. In Europe venture capitalism began to emerge about ten years ago, and thus, in Europe the phenomenon has the characteristics of emergence and novelty, as a local in-dustry venture capitalists have yet to develop distinctive characteristics. The European countries do not constitute a homogeneous institutional environment, but must be per-ceived as different local settings, and thus, venture capitalism may evolve into different forms in the various parts of Europe. The objective is to understand if and how differen-ces in local institutional settings affect learning and adaptation by European venture ca-pitalists and start-ups, and thus, affect the processes of field formation. For example, it has been observed that institutional settings can facilitate or discourage learning from direct experience (Herriot et al., 1985). Thus, depending on the institutional settings venture capitalists and start-ups may rely on diffusion of experience in various degrees. Experiences can diffuse from the US, where venture capitalism as an entrepreneurial form evolved in Silicon Valley in the 1970s. In the US venture capitalists represent an institutionalized type of organization with formalized rules and standards, codified be-havior and roles (Suchman, 1995; Suchman et al., 2001). European venture capitalists and start-ups may imitate behavior and rules developed in Silicon Valley, and thus, a second research objective is to understand if and how US venture capitalism affect the evolvement of venture capitalism in Europe. We study the emergence of a venture capitalist industry in Denmark and Italy, and thus, by selecting two countries with distinctive differences in cultures and institutions, we study learning and adaptation by venture capitalists and start-ups in different institutio-nal settings. We suggest that venture capitalists and start-ups perceiving institutional settings as non venture-friendly are more likely to rely on learning by imitation than on trial-and-error learning. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6515
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presentations on share prices, insider trading and securities regulationRose, Caspar (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7182
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Impact Of It In The Danish Banking Industry, With Specific Illustrations From The Nordea Group And Lån & Spar BankBjørn-Andersen, Niels; Viborg Andersen, Kim; Holm Larsen, Michael; Schou, Peter (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Danish banks have traditionally been in the absolute forefront globally as regards the automation and introduction of IT since the mid 60'ies. But when the e-commerce opportunities emerged in the late 90'ies, the majority of the Danish banks resisted the development. They saw no reason to be the prime movers in cannibalising their own key competitive advantage, the 2.500+ retail-outlets (branches) placed on all the best locations on corners of the shopping streets1. However, once pure Internet banks were introduced in 1998 - 2000, all major banks (and the computing centres servicing the smaller banks) launched massive initiatives to bring the brick-and-mortar banks back into the driver seat using Internet banking. At the end of 2003 more than 30% of all Danish bank customers are using Internet. This development in the banking industry is illustrated using two cases. The first is one of the most ambitious attempts at creating a Nordic based large international financial service company, capable of spearheading the transition to the digital economy - the case of Nordea. This bank is in the midst of various transformation processes across the organisation due to several years of multiple cross boarder mergers and acquisitions, new composition of the group executive management, increasing thrives towards automation of business processes to reduce costs, and different innovations involving a change of the roles of value network partners. The other case is Lån & Spar Bank, which is one of the smaller Danish banks, who have its basic IT services done at a joint computing centre owned with many other smaller banks, but have its own IT development for strategic purposed done in-house in close collaboration with the business units. This bank has been in the forefornt in adopting new IT-solutions. This report consists of an analysis of the background for the development of the Danish banking sectors, the key processes in the Danish banking industry, the environmental and policy actors influencing the development, the e-commerce readiness in the Danish banking sector, the diffusion of e-commerce, and finally the impact on efficiency, industry structure and competition. The main results are that there are more Danish financial institutions having Internet technologies and Internet applications than in the other nine countries in the GEC survey. Furthermore, we suspect that they have had it for a longer period on average than found elsewhere in the sample. However, when we compare the figures in the GEC-survey on the ' Use of Internet for the different business processes', and 'On-line support', the number of Danish financial institutions having Internet applications is not higher than in the other countries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6483
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Student or Learner
This paragraph contains too many errors, I think.
How should I make this more readable?
Last edited by pk2005; 27-Nov-2012 at 17:42.
Hi pk,
I too welcome you to the forums.
The writing and editing area is a bit of a problem for us. We can't help people with school work (at any education leve), because it's important that your teachers see what you can do on your own. Once you write your assignment and hand it in, if you get responses from your teacher that you don't understand, you can ask us.
Having said that, I see problems in your use of the indefinite article. Look at your first sentence again.
And although I can't rewrite this for you, I can tell you that this part doesn't make sense: Although its principle looks much old and simple for huge aircraft,
You need to think about that.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
Thank you for your replying.


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Bloomberg news on Tesla's viability
Bloomberg news on Tesla's viability
they show $22500 to replace the battery that they claim it has 100k miles warranty.
that does not look right to me... is it true?
according the tesla, the only battery with 100k warranty is the 40k
does it cost $22500 to replace the 40k battery?
Conformists always are skeptics. Thank about the change with steam power...
Out of date interview, not very good, or fact based. Notice at bottom of screen tesla stock is at $31 a share. Last time that happened was in November 2012. Looks like this is recycled from 5 months ago.
Wow, that's a frustrating video. If you watch the 'stock performance graph' it's last May/June. This would have been the very first Model S's, and Roadsters were the dominant car.
They really focus on the 22k replacement cost that a third party estimated, and some out of context quote from a random driver.
"when will this company be profitable?"
It was planned to be profitable at the end of this year, and now they're thinking this quarter.
I think Tesla's position has solidified a little bit since then.
Inaccurate video. Center piece is that claim that Tesla owners try not to drive much. LOL!
This appears to be your first post here.
I think your topic is more appropriate under the General category.
Ooops I guess that is where it is... I got lost.
Mildly interesting (only because it's Tesla), but a lot of conjecture about battery price and degradation. Need more facts and less emotion re. battery replacement costs, etc.
The media creates doubt.
I have know people with Sig85P who have been driving their cars >1,000 miles/mo for 4 months including long distance, SC use, etc. I was expecting the max range to start degrading, but so far no sign of that.
The 85P got a huge battery and most of the time it is used moderately by most people. Regular driving at 35 miles/day at moderate speed. Driving to work, kids to school, etc. The charge barely budges and then car is plugged in at night. Yes, it is going to last a long time.
ICE cars also looser power and range with time. Start burning oil, etc. Mercedes? You can spend a fortune after the warranty runs out. Automatic transmission goes bad? That is a lot of $$$. Water pump? $$$. Timing belt goes bad? $$$. Water pump? $$$. Leaky engine gasket? $$$
Unless Tesla made some gross engineering mistake, the electric car will last a long time if not abused. Look at the refrigerator, Whirlpool washing machine, or HVAC and see how long it lasts with continuous use. Decades+ with minimal maintenance.
So far our range has increased by a few miles. I think that the batteries got conditioned and balanced out. We are at 4 months and 4k+ miles behind us.
Battery are going to come down over time and the density is going to improve because government and private companies are spending a lot on R&D to improve batteries. In five year in my uneducated guess, batteries prices will drop in half for the same quality battery. Electric cars are the future and Tesla Motors will be the Apple of the car industry.
The link goes to a McKinsey Consulting report that predicts the cost of lithium-ion batteries will drop 60% by 2020. that means that when you need to replace the battery, the battery should cost around $10,000. By my estimates, you will have saved over $16,000 in gas cost by using an electric vs gas car, so you will have saved money vs an ICE even considering the cost of a new battery.
Actually I find that the opposite is often true: think Big Bang theory, seems to be a generally accepted fact according to scientific community, despite very shaky foundation.
I wonder what effect the speed of charging may have on the battery (using SC vs 220 V vs 110 V). Is there a difference, and if so, which voltage is gentler on the battery pack?
but the cost of the battery is known, Tesla announced in one of their blogs the battery repacement cost back in November to be $12000 for the 85kwh, $10000 for the 60kwh and $8000 for 40kwh.
see post here by GB
That's pre-paid 8 yrs. Costs by then should be about half. So double those numbers for immediate present-time costs.
I get asked everyday about my car and I tell everyone the simple facts about range, power and all the rest.. let them sit in the car and check everything out.. inaccurate Bloomberg videos don't stand a chance with people touching the car.
Fight FUD with the real world facts I say.
I remember the feeling of joy in 1985 all over again while I gently explained why this completely different looking Mac computer is the way to go..That GUI interfaces and a mouse will be the standard.
It was a war of ideas then and it is now.