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The Marketing curriculum prepares students for positions in public relations, retail, wholesale, social media, media sales, and manufacturing organizations. Success can be achieved with strong communication skills, computer skills, and creativity. The program is designed around practical experience with the understanding of marketing principles.
At the University of Northwestern Ohio, we've been graduating successful business owners for years. Our programs offer an innovative interactive approach towards Marketing education. Every degree offered at the University of Northwestern Ohio sets new standards for educational excellence, collaboration with faculty, workplace experience and real-life projects.
The conception of this program was due to the community needs for a stand-alone Marketing degree. The program is designed around practical experience with the understanding of marketing principles. Students are given the chance to apply marketing knowledge to organizational situations in order to fulfill customer needs in a changing, global environment. The focus of the marketing program is to provide students with an in-depth practical approach to analyzing, planning, and implementing marketing strategies.
Our program is unique because every student gets an opportunity to take their major courses within their first quarter, unlike other institutions, who offer you general education courses your first two years of the program. While with us, by taking those major courses on your first day as you enter the University you get that real life experience, which engages the student in real life understanding in that field of study.
The Marketing degree program at UNOH provides a curriculum that educates the student in all these areas.
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Professor Robert P Hopkins has been a driving force for the technical development of our campus, and a guiding hand in the development of our academic program. Initially appointed to The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1972 as Manager of the Computer Center, Hopkins was the college's IT professional. He is now a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science as well as the Chief Technology Officer.
Professor Hopkins was instrumental in developing fundamental courses in computer engineering/computer science at The Cooper Union he continues to work in innovative curriculum development and delivery. His early work with the UNIX operating system, and his introduction of UNIX into an educational environment, have provided students with the opportunity to learn about operating system design and programming, and they have helped make The Cooper Union a leader in computer engineering, computer science, and information technology. He has also been instrumental in integrating computers into the college's engineering, art, and architecture programs.
In his administrative role, Professor Hopkins supervises twelve full-time employees and many student employees across the institution. He and his team are charged with the development and implementation of all information technology for the college; this includes computing, connectivity (voice and data), and institution-wide multimedia support. During his time at Cooper Union, Professor Hopkins supervised the construction of three computer facilities, oversaw the design and implementation of the campus-wide network backbone, and led the design team for the telecommunications system in the dormitory. He has played the pivotal role in the design and implementation of the IT infrastructure for the Cooper Union's New Academic Building.
Professor Hopkins is a long-time leader in a variety of activities that provide engineering and technology to a wide range of audiences. In 1996-97, Professor Hopkins served as a local coordinator for the NASA SAREX program. Using amateur radio as a basis for study, the third grade class of public school #9 in New York City examined the science of space travel and methods of communication; they successfully contacted the Space Shuttle Columbia, and they interviewed crew members about life and science in space. His work with amateur radio and education has been featured on ABC News and National Public Radio, and he served as technical advisor to the authors of the book Hello World, A Life in Ham Radio. He is an advocate for science education in primary and secondary schools, and he has spoken at the National Child Care Coalition Convention on the topic of after-school science enrichment programs. As a Boy Scout Leader and volunteer, Prof. Hopkins has participated in a variety of educational outreach programs. Prof Hopkins is a regular contributor to CQ Amateur Radio.
Professor Hopkins' professional interests include programming languages, computer graphics, operating system design, database system design, telecommunications, and the ethics of technology. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Tau Beta Pi. He has been an amateur radio operator for over forty years, and he holds an Extra Class license.
Prior to joining Cooper Union, Professor Hopkins was the Manager of the Computer Laboratory at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus where he was responsible for the implementation, support, and operation of all of Fordham's Lincoln Center computer operations. Professor Hopkins holds a BS (Mathematics/Computer Science) from St. Joseph's College (Indiana) and an MBA from Fordham University.

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MINNEAPOLIS—Target Corp. said Thursday that its May revenue at stores open at least a year climbed 2.8 percent, but shoppers remained cautious and the figure fell short of Wall Street's forecast.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters anticipated a 3.5 percent increase in the figure, on average. The metric rose 1.3 percent in May 2010.
The comparison is important because it excludes stores that recently opened or closed.
Chairman, President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel said in a statement that customer traffic slowed during the second half of the month. He said higher gas prices and other inflationary pressures crimped customer spending and slowed growth more than Target expected.
The chain also said last month that gas and food price hikes made shoppers more cautious during the first quarter.
Target's total revenue for the four weeks that ended May 28 rose 3.8 percent to $4.8 billion.
The company said in a prerecorded message Thursday that grocery and clothing sales rose, but revenue from home goods and items like electronics, toys and health and beauty products fell.
For the year so far, Target's revenue at stores open at least a year has increased 2.2 percent and total revenue has risen 3 percent to $20.38 billion.
Target anticipates June revenue at stores open at least a year will rise by a low- to mid-single-digit percentage.
Last month Target said its first-quarter net income climbed 2.7 percent, compared with a year earlier, as expenses fell in its credit card business.
Target has 1,755 stores in 49 states.
The Minneapolis-based company's stock added 4 cents to $48.60 in premarket trading Thursday.


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Topic: Miller College of Business
February 10, 2014
Many of Indiana's small, mostly rural public school corporations are shrinking but are adjacent to similar-sized districts, making consolidation a viable option to cut costs, says a Ball State University study.
"School Corporation Size and the Cost of Education," a policy brief from Ball State's Center for Business and Educational Research (CBER), argues that the long-term viability of Indiana's smallest K-12 school corporations depends on mergers and consolidation as a tool to reduce overhead and management expenses. The white paper does not address of consolidation of individual schools, which involves various complexities, including transportation of students.
"Many of Indiana's school districts are facing dwindling enrollment at a time when costs of providing a quality education are increasing," said Michael Hicks, CBER director, who co-authored the paper with Dagney Faulk, CBER's research director. "At some point we are going to have to look at ways to reduce the school districts' overhead while maintaining the ability to provide quality education in each community, a key to developing the state's economy.
"A consolidated school corporation can provide an equivalent level of educational services at a lower cost per student by avoiding redundant expenditures. This would call for fewer administrators or specialized instructors than is required for the same number of students when educated in separate corporations. The consolidation of school corporations primarily involves the merging of administrative or central office functions."
Hicks points out that CBER found in 2010 that consolidating Indiana's school corporations to about 2,000 students—the point referred to as the minimum efficient corporation size—would lower the cost of providing public education.
The study found:
• Very small school corporations (fewer than 1,000 students) are less efficient in educating students than larger corporations.
• Of the 291 school corporations in Indiana in 2012, 154 (52.9 percent) had enrollment of fewer than 2,000 students. Of these school corporations, 121 (78.6 percent) had an enrollment decline of 100 or more students between 2006 and 2012, indicating that many of these corporations are becoming even smaller.
• Of the 44 school corporations with between 2,000 and 3,000 students, 24 (54 percent) experienced a decline in enrollment between 2006 and 2012, with six school corporations experiencing an enrollment decline of more than 200 students, indicating that many of these corporations are becoming smaller, approaching the level where mergers would boost efficiency.
• The majority of Indiana's counties have three or more school corporations with Marion and Lake counties containing 11 and 16 respectively.
Faulk points out that a detailed examination of the geography of school corporations revealed many small school corporations (fewer than 2,000 students) were adjacent to similar districts.
"In fact, fewer than 10 percent of very small school corporations are not contiguous to another very small corporation," she said. "Moreover, only one of our very small school corporations shares a border with a corporation larger than 2,000 students."
The authors recommend the Indiana General Assembly review recent recommendations offered by previous research conducted by Ball State and Indiana University's Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.
The recommendations include a continued focus on cost savings, not performance-related findings, to motivate consolidation; feasibility studies and an implementation grant program for the smallest school corporations; and the creation of financial incentives for realized efficiency gains in district operations.
"Indiana has experienced consolidations of schools and school corporations for more than a century," Hicks said. "The changing population distribution across the state and the advent of cost-reducing information technologies to expand managerial control of schools argue that a significant period of district consolidations are at hand. The goal of these consolidations should be to improve and more effectively fund student instruction."
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It only took minutes for the hundreds of amateur and professional skateboarders who attended the opening Saturday of the Vans Off the Wall Skatepark to seemingly cover every available surface.
Each rail, ledge and pool coping was grinded. Each stair set, kicker and hip was ollied on — or over. The air was filled with the sound of skateboard trucks — the axles that secure the wheels to the boards — sliding on rails. Also audible: spinning wheels on lubricated bearings and the occasional applause after a skater landed a hard-practiced trick.
The 42,500-square-foot facility wedged between Golden West College and Old World Village on Center Avenue in Huntington Beach is a welcome sight for aficionados of the sport. And the icing on the cake is that it is free to the public.
"It's pretty tight," said Kevin Scott, a 15-year-old amateur skater from Lancaster. "... All the rails are grindable, and you don't even need wax. Everything is all good."
Scott took a quick breather to retie his laces before going back to the skate plaza and landing a 360 flip without breaking a sweat.
Mayor Matthew Harper stood on his 1980s skate deck, sporting a pair of checkered slip-on Vans.
"Thank you so much, Vans," he said during a ribbon cutting . "You have done a great service for our community, and this isn't just for Huntington Beach. This is for Orange County and the region."
Weaving his way through the complex was professional street skater Geoff Rowley, a legend to millennials who grew up playing "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" video game.
"We need more of these places where kids can come and do positive stuff, be safe and progress skateboarding," he said.
On the other side of the park were vert — or ramp — skateboarding legends Steve Caballero and Christian Hosoi, who were busy carving the walls of the 10-foot clover bowl.
"People always ask me what the best era in skateboarding was for me, and I always tell them, 'Right now,'" Caballero said. "This is a dream come true for anybody, and even for me.... I've been in the sport since 1976, [and] I would have never dreamed of a free skate park being built like this."
While Huntington Beach is known as Surf City, skateboarding has been nipping at the heels of the city's namesake sport, Hosoi said.
"We want to let everyone know that skateboarding has a huge following as well, and it's also a culture that needs a place like this to express itself," he said.
It took VF Outdoor Inc., a subsidiary of Vans' parent company VF Corp., about two years to complete the estimated $2.5 million project, which was funded solely by the company.
"The first time coming down here and seeing dirt back when we first stuck the shovels in and then coming here and seeing it finished is just beyond expectations," said Vans President Kevin Bailey. "It's super exciting to see everything from an area where beginners can start to an area that's more technical for the advanced kids. It's really a place for local kids to build their skate skills."
If You Go
What: Vans Off the Wall Skatepark
Where: 7471 Center Ave., Huntington Beach
Free to the public; open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.


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Tuesday, 11 December 2012
More New TARDIS Interior revealed by Doctor Who Magazine
Tom Spilsbury, Editor of Doctor Who Magazine, has tweeted a new image from the new TARDIS Interior that will debut in the Christmas Special, The Snowmen.
The Image above shows the top of the new Time Rotor, the part of the set just below the last image that was revealed a few days ago:
By Ellis at 17:58
Labels: 2012 , christmas special , Doctor Who , doctor who magazine , image , pictures , Tardis
2 comments :
Here is a closer composite
- 11 December 2012 at 18:18
- The Code Crimson said...
So awesome! I love the blue color scheme.
- 18 December 2012 at 16:45
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Author Notes: Don't let the idea of garlic wrapped in anchovies scare you. By soaking the fish in milk, then cooking the garlic in milk until meltingly tender, it mellows both of these potent ingredients bringing together a sweet harmony and balance of flavors that belong together. Honestly, I am not a big fan of raw garlic because it many times keeps me from being able to enjoy the rest of my dinner. - thirschfeld —thirschfeld
Food52 Review: Making and eating this salad affords a number of unique pleasures. Creaming the softened garlic as thirschfeld says a barber might sharpen "an old time straight razor on a leather strap" was immensely satisfying. The cheesy, buttery breadcrumbs that you sprinkle on top of the salad are a delight, and an unexpected twist on the traditional crouton. The dressing is creamy and bright with lemon. And what of the anchovy-wrapped garlic? True to the description, they're much more mild than they might appear at first blush, and the salty hit you get from the anchovy is nice when mingled with bites of salad (though the garlic is so mild that I'm not sure I really noticed its flavor). I do have one note: I was bringing water to a boil to heat the sabayon in a double-boiler fashion when I reread the instructions and saw that thirschfeld indicates you should place the mixing bowl directly on the stove. This sounded risky to me (won't the egg yolks cook too fast?), but I followed the directions verbatim, and it worked swimmingly. I'm not sure if this is in fact what thirschfeld intended, but it worked out, and the dressing came together quite nicely! All in all, a fun, fancy spin on the classic Caesar! - arielleclementine
—The Editors
Serves: 4
romaine hearts, outer leaves removed until you have a 5 to 6 inch romaine head
garlic cloves, peeled
anchovy filets, packed in oil
egg yolks
tablespoon fresh lemon juice
teaspoon lemon zest
teaspoons oil from the can of anchovies
cup safflower or other neutral flavored oil
cup bread crumbs, browned in 1 tablespoon of butter
cup parmesan, finely grated
kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
- Place the anchovies in a shallow tray and add some milk to cover them.
- Place a small sauce pan over medium heat and add the garlic cloves and milk to cover. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to a simmer and cook until the cloves are very tender but not mushy, about 10 to 12 minutes.
- Line a plate with a paper towel and place the anchovies, in a single layer, on the towel and let them drain. Remove the garlic from the pan and if there is a milk film on them rinse them under water to clean them. Place them on the paper towel with the anchovies.
- Take one of the garlic cloves and place it on a cutting board. Using the flat side of your chefs knife smash it and then cream it using the knife like you were sharpening an old time straight razor on a leather strap. In a medium sized mixing bowl combine the creamed garlic, egg yolks, anchovy oil, lemon juice, zest and mix with a whisk adding a pinch of salt and white pepper. Add a teaspoon of warm water.
- Place the mixing bowl over low heat and whisk. Do not stop whisking until the yolks start to leave ribbons as you whisk. Be careful not to make scrambled eggs. Remove from the heat immediately and place the bowl on a wet towel that is set on the counter, the towel will keep you from chasing your bowl around the counter as you whisk. Slowly drizzle a drop or two of the safflower oil into the yolk mixture while continuing to whisk. Keep adding the oil a drop at a time until you have an emulsion. Once you have an emulsion you can add the oil in a thin slow stream while whisking.
- If the dressing is to thick add warm water by the teaspoon until you reach the desired thickness. It should be the consistency of maple syrup.
- Combine the parmesan and bread crumbs and season them with salt and pepper.
- Cut each romaine head in half. Place them attractively on a plate. Wrap each garlic clove with an anchovy. Some cloves may only use half an anchovy. Place 3 of these on each plate around the romaine.
- Drizzle a healthy portion of dressing over the romaine keeping in mind you have four salads, so divide it equally. Sprinkle with parmesan breadcrumbs and serve.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Caesar Salad
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Kiss the sun...
It's time for a review preview of the newest CC Designs stamps over on the ATS blog today. I'm joining in the fun with a card featuring the sweet new Butterfly Lucy. I have to admit that there is something about the look of the Swiss Pixies from the last few releases that has me reaching for slightly more vintage/retro type colors and patterns to pair up with them. I'm not sure why exactly, but I just think the pretty, homespun looking papers suit them to a 'T'. Thus, my decision to pull out this Cosmo Cricket Togetherness paper from awhile back. All of the prints on this card are actually from the cover sheet that came with the collection kit and since I can never seem to bring myself to throw those away, I was glad to finally use it! Throw in a bit of twine and some lovely crochet flowers that my sis made for me, and this card came together rather quickly.
Now don't forget to check out what the rest of my fellow ATS teamies have created to share and inspire using the March Swiss Pixies. You can find all of their beautiful cards over on the ATS blog.
Well, I guess I should go get ready for the day... have a good one! :)
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Cosmo Cricket (Togetherness)
stamps- CC Designs (Butterfly Lucy and Spring Logos)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox creamy brown
Shabby Green Door twine
crochet flowers from my sis :)
Kaiser Craft pearls
Martha Stewart Butterfly punch
K&Co rub on stitches
Copic Spica glitter pens
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- Y32, Y21, Y26, E35
clothes- BG000, BG11, BG15, BG57, R24, R29, E09, E50, E30, 0, Y35, Y17, Y13, E55, Y11, Y13, Y18
30 comments:
- Hlora said...
It is very suuny)) Great yellow colour - so warm and good)))
- March 14, 2012 at 5:23 AM
- Kathy B said...
Absolutely adorable card! Love the colors and the Irish Blessing.
- March 14, 2012 at 5:28 AM
- Annette said...
so adorable...great color combo and love that image...
- March 14, 2012 at 6:06 AM
- Mette said...
A card full of sunshine and butterflies. Just what we need on this dul day. Fabulous card Amy and love your colouring.
Hugs, Mette
- March 14, 2012 at 6:47 AM
- Bex said...
I love that new stamp.
She is so cute.
You did such a great job with your card. Really beautiful.
- March 14, 2012 at 6:57 AM
- Juls said...
so sweet!! Love the little crochet flowers!! Hugs Juls
- March 14, 2012 at 7:12 AM
- Bex said...
Such a sweet and simple card. I love all the details. Awesome job!
- March 14, 2012 at 7:50 AM
- Creations by Shirl said...
Great new release image and love the colour/combo on your card Amy....
Hope you are having a great Wednesday...
- March 14, 2012 at 7:53 AM
- Lissa said...
I see vintage when I look at these guys too! She's gorgeous! LOVE the crocheted flowers as well. The little turquoise pearls are a perfect touch. :)
- March 14, 2012 at 8:00 AM
- Nancy Thomas said...
So pretty Amy - love your paper choices as well as the croched flowers. Beautiful coloring as always.
- March 14, 2012 at 8:25 AM
- Heidi Brawley said...
OMG This is BEAUTIFUL!!!! love the colors, the crochet flowers, the MS butterlies, well I LOVE THE WHOLE card!!!!
hugs, Heidi
- March 14, 2012 at 9:02 AM
- Lau W said...
Superb card with summer's colors ! adorable !
- March 14, 2012 at 9:58 AM
- Danni said...
So very sweet!! I love this latest release so much, hoping that it will rain $$ so I can get a few of them! LOL!!
Adorable and wonderful card!
- March 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- Maria Therese said...
- March 14, 2012 at 12:22 PM
- jeanne girl said...
Absolute sweetness on this card :) I like how you placed the sentiment on the front of this one. Great coloring too!!!
- March 14, 2012 at 12:41 PM
- yvon said...
Gorgeous and love how you colord her hair. Real sunny card.
Hugs, Yvon
- March 14, 2012 at 2:32 PM
- Joy said...
awe! this is so cute! love your layout and the coloring is awesome! what a cute image! guess that's where I am heading off to now...lol! have a good hump day!
- March 14, 2012 at 3:17 PM
- Kelly Schelske said...
Awe, so sweet Amy!
- March 14, 2012 at 3:20 PM
- Tonje said...
I'm loving this card. So bright and "sunny"... Image is cute too.
- March 14, 2012 at 3:46 PM
- Alyce said...
Amy this is just so gorgeous! Love the papers and layout and your colouring is just amazing! :)
- March 14, 2012 at 5:16 PM
- Mimi said...
this is so pretty! love the color combo... so spring like! we're having lots of rain this week, so can't wait for the beautiful sunshine! have a great day Amy! ;)
- March 14, 2012 at 5:39 PM
- gobeagirl said...
Oh Amy, your Lucy is just adorable! I love your color scheme and the way you colored her hair and little shoes. Are those your sister's little flowers? ADORABLE!!! She should sell them, they are the perfect size. Hope your are having a great week so far. Hope that nasty snow you have is melting fast. Hugs, Lisa
- March 14, 2012 at 7:25 PM
- Sudha - Art Admirer said...
So cute. Love the stamp n the colors too.
- March 14, 2012 at 11:15 PM
- Michele Roos said...
This is such a gorgeous card. I love the image you've used and the colours also. Hugs Michele x
- March 15, 2012 at 1:03 AM
- Cami said...
Amy, you're such an enabler! The other day, I bought Bunny Lucy, and now, I fell in love with this Butterfly Lucy and guess what? I went back to ATS and bought her! I didn't see her the other day so I'm glad you made this gorgeous with her! Love your coloring as always, and the way you drew in "lines" in her hair!
Hugs, Cami
- March 15, 2012 at 3:31 AM
- Berenice R. said...
Such a lovely card. Thanks for sharing :)
- March 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM
- Sharon said...
I'm so in love with these stamps. Love how you colored her hair!!!
- March 15, 2012 at 1:48 PM
- RiNNE said...
Awww, the color combo is just magnificent. this card makes me smile! Those butterflies are heavenly!
- March 16, 2012 at 1:36 AM
- Leanne said...
Aw, she is the sweetest little girl. I love the colors you chose and those papers are pretty terrific! Nice and bright. Love it!
- March 16, 2012 at 5:32 PM
- ♥Rach♥ said...
Love the colors and her blonde hair is just perfect, love your hair coloring skills :0)
- March 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM


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Maersk Drilling in AngolaVallentin, Steen (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This case centers on the efforts of Maersk Drilling to apply its CSR policy to its business operations in Angola, the second largest oil producer on the African continent. The case explores 1) the organizational and strategic integration of CSR initiatives; 2) how strategic notions of CSR (as a mode of value creation) are applied in practice; 3) how strategy relates to compliance in the development of CSR; 4) how the CSR strategy of a multinational company is (or can be) adapted to the local conditions of a developing country. Maersk Drilling's approach to CSR and the strategic mindset that drives its efforts to be considered a good corporate citizen in Angola, have to be considered in lieu of it being a business unit within a multinational conglomerate: the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group. Therefore, we will start out by presenting the organizational background for CSR in Maersk Drilling and proceed from there. The case reflects Maersk Drilling's strategic outlook, market situation and organization as of late 2013/early 2014. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9213
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Abstract: Modern global society has seen dramatic changes that throw us into impenetrable ethical problems of a kind never before witnessed in history. By this means, ethical problems constitute the locus of our confrontation with our own life situation. It is this condition that I take to be of fundamental importance when one undertakes to reflect upon the meaning of ethics today. If we approach the issue from the point of view of the history of ideas, we find that throughout the whole of the history of philosophy there have been a series of different attempts to articulate an ethics. Most of them address our concerns about how a human being ought to act in order to realise his or her life in the best or most correct way. I will return to the array of suggestions that have been offered in this regard. What is important for my purposes, meanwhile, is that there is some-thing that precedes ethical considerations, namely, the fact that ethics imposes itself upon the indi-vidual as a vital problem, and as one that cannot be escaped. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6438
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Abstract: This paper explores the practical and theoretical avenues for working with mindset as a strategic lever and method of securing business strategy executional agility. Taking the mindset development aspirations of Solar A/S as point of departure, the building up of a collective mindset conducive to strategy execution is explored as a method of securing implementation of business strategy. Reflecting the strategic priorities and internationalization process of the case study organization, the concept of global mindset is activated as an avenue of exploration (Chatterjee, 2005; Levy et al., 2007; Dekker et al; 2005; Bowen & Inkpen, 2009; Gupta & Govindarajan, 2002). A global mindset is the cognitive ability (of managers) to be open towards and navigating, integrating and mediating between multiple cultural and strategic realities on both global and local levels mirroring the Solar notion of group mindset supporting business strategy. It is argued that a knowledge gap exist with regards to creation and change of mindset in connection with strategy execution. Concepts of organizational learning are put forward as a possible point of entrance to mindset change. The paper is informed by the exploratory data from the initial phase of an ongoing industrial Ph.D.- project in Solar A/S with the working title "A mindset for strategy execution -mindset-driven leadership development and strategic performance." URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8586
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Knudsen, Line Gry; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi; LPF; Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy; LPF (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter aims at summarizing the discussion on collaborative networks as discussed in the reviewed literature (see appendix 3.). The question on governance of networks has today assumed a key role as more and more research programs are depending on large scale network collaborations. The criteria for evaluation the optimal organizing of a network can be divided into two important categories, each facing a number of important challenges. Management of network and management in network constitute together the governance system of the network and are of course closely connected but represent simultaneous a very important division of labour in the whole network system. Each type of management has to find solutions to specific challenges raised by the function of the network and its participants. This is what the following pages will describe in more detail. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7758
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1780-1860Reckendrees, Alfred (Munich, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the early 19th century coal mining in the region of Aachen (Prussian Rhine Province) developed to an industrial scale within few decades production was mechanised and new types of industrial organization emerged that allowed for concentration on production and economies of scale. The region hosted two mining areas (the Wurm area and the Inde area) showing rather different patterns of development; while the industry on the Inde was already concentrated at the turn of the century, and industrial modes of production emerged earlier, the industry on the Wurm developed slowly more slowly. Decentralized ownership prohibited scale economics before the mid-1830s. Then, new joint stock companies allowed for concentration of ownership, rationalisation of production and efficient governance. The analysis shows that these different patterns result from different pre-industrial institutional arrangements that were only harmonized during the French occupation of the Rhineland. The ms. containes 189p., 24 figures and maps, 49 tables on regional industrial production. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8981
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Degnegaard, Rex (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Co-‐creation as a concept has won terrain over the past 10 years (Bhalla, 2010; Ramaswamy and Goulliart, 2010; Ramaswamy, 2011). In practice as well as in literature, co-‐creation is climbing the agenda in relation to contemporary opportunities and challenges within management, organization design, and change initiatives. Thus, there has been a vast growth in application and conceptual development of the concept of co-‐creation. However, there is very little research-‐based literature on how the field of co-‐creation has developed, and of how the concept is being established, and on the future frontiers of the concept of co-‐creation. This paper aims to build an overview of the literature on co-‐creation to explore what the existing literature relate to and indeed to pinpoint if any patterns or streams can be identified. The paper illustrates how the use of the concept of co-‐creation suggests a necessity for focusing further on specific co-‐creation related issues and challenges of significance to business and society. Thus, the paper highlights new co-‐creation related issues, challenges, and frontiers in practice and research rather than giving answers or solutions to existing problems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8732
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Drivers and formsKnudsen, Line Gry (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The increasing challenges of globalization call for a more adept utilization of existing knowledge and resources through more efficient and effective collaborations between universities, research organizations and businesses. The aim of this report is to establish the drivers and forms of such integrated networks in the knowledge triangle of education, research and innovation. The empirical context of this project is the field of climate and energy research. This field is in specific need of more efficient collaborative models that can facilitate knowledge sharing and thereby ease the development of new energy technologies. The use of conventional energy sources entails perpetual problems. Oil and other fossil fuels will at some point run out. And increasing CO2 emission is a danger to our climate. We need to think about sustainable alternatives if we are to continue to meet the world's increasing energy consumption and to stop the dramatic climate changes we are experiencing. And we need to do it with the greatest possible dispatch. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7757
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Knudsen, Line Gry; Mønsted, Mette; Hansson, Finn (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present literature review is prepared as a part of the SUCCESS1 project; a pilot project launched by the EIT with the purpose of benchmarking past and ongoing collaborations in the knowledge triangle of research, education and innovation in the European Union. The empirical focus is the field of climate and energy research. This field is in specific need of more efficient collaborative models that can facilitate knowledge sharing and thereby ease the development of new sustainable energy technologies. Still, the present literature review draws on research done on collaboration in various fields; collaborating on innovation, research or educational aims is imperative to many actors struggling to keep pace in a complex, uncertain and dynamic environment. Thus vital empirical experiences and essential theoretical knowledge about the organizational and managerial dimensions of collaboration may be found in various fields of research, inside as well as outside the field of climate and energy research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6398
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In search of micro-foundationsKnudsen, Line Gry (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to improve the understanding of how collaborative R&D capabilities come about and how they are jointly determined by individual and organizational level factors. I argue that despite the fact that a surge of interest in inter-organizational collaboration has been witnessed in research fields as diverse as strategic management, economics, sociology, and organization theory, we know very little about the micro-foundations of collaborative R&D capabilities. Processes going on internally in collaborating firms are treated like a 'black box' in many strands of research. How, we may ask, does openness towards external knowledge sources lead to enhanced R&D performance? What are the internal organizational mechanisms that facilitate the collaborative processes? How are specific collaborative capabilities developed to ensure collaborative success, and—most importantly—what is their composition in terms of organizational and individual level factors? In this thesis these and related questions are addressed by means of empirical as well as theoretical analyses. It is argued that studies of strategic alliances and R&D collaborations have suffered from being mainly conducted on large datasets and with little attention to individual level factors that may be key drivers of alliance success. The case-study methodology is emphasized as a useful complementary method as it entails the option of learning from the employees engaged in the formation and operation of collaborative arrangements. Three narrative studies are undertaken with the aim of identifying the micro-foundations of collaborative R&D capability in the firms. This is done to provide an explorative overview of the determinants rather than to evaluate the degree to which the capabilities have been implemented successfully leading to better performance. The objective is thus to challenge the existing theories in the field of strategic alliances and to qualify them by joining theoretical knowledge about firm level benefits of R&D alliances with theories on individual level work motivation, and behaviors in connection to R&D collaboration. The study is focused on knowledge intensive firms (as distinct from 'supplier dominated firms', 'specialized equipment suppliers' or 'scale intensive firms'). It is stressed that even core knowledge used in the various R&D or innovation processes does not necessarily need to stem from sources internal to the firm, but is likely to originate externally. R&D collaboration has become an important means to foster opportunities to learn, and to access, transfer and utilize knowledge to create innovative solutions But very high failure rates are shown and between fifty and seventy percent of all alliances do not justify the expectations. This vindicates a better understanding of collaborative R&D capabilities. A study of the micro-foundations of these capabilities is both timely and warranted. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7925
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Public debate as the solution to controversies about science and technologyHorst, Maja (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Developments in biotechnology have sparked a number of social controversies during the last decades and it has been common to understand public debate as a necessary prerequisite for the ability to deal with these controversies. This is particularly true in the case of Denmark, where public debate has been taking place for more than 25 years, and the paper uses the Danish example to argue that controversies about biotechnology intersect with fundamental political discussions about order and control in today's knowledge society. Inspired by cultural theory and the work of Mary Douglas, it is proposed that arguments about biotechnology are justified by reference to particular articulations of social order. Her four notions of social order are identified in the analysis of a sample of arguments from four major Danish newspapers. On the basis of this typology, the paper examines the broad discursive consensus in favour of public debate and participatory exercises regarding the social responses to biotechnology. It does, however, simultaneously point to inherent tensions in the expectations towards public debate and its role in the creation of solutions to controversies over science and technology. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8270
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Ernø-Kjølhede, Erik (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Research management is a relatively new academic discipline. This paper takes stock of the developments leading to increased focus on the management of research seen from primarily a Danish perspective. It also discusses conditions for research management in a Danish context. Particular emphasis is placed on management in Danish universities as universities are the institutions in which all researchers have been trained and socialised and furthermore home to many of the norms and standards traditionally associated with the scientific community. In conclusion an attempt is made to develop an approach to research management. It is argued that this approach should not exclusively be built on the basis of existing, general (business) management theories. An independent approach must be developed which takes into account the diversity of the scientific community, of the research work and of the management process itself. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6385
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Negotiating the EU Internal Market for ProductsHøjbjerg, Erik; Frankel, Christian (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The EU internal market has predominantly been studied in terms of changes in delegation of authority and division of labor between EU institutions and member states. However, this EU internal focus ignores that already in 1987 the completion of the internal market was substantially left to the private European standardization organizations (ESO). The paper addresses two fundamental challenges in this transnational, public-private, and internal-external delegation of authority. First, it involves a governance challenge, because private actors are directly involved – but to a certain extent outside EU political and administrative control – in the constitution of the internal market. Second, the delegation raises important analytical questions concerning the identification of the institutional locus of European integration, when the realization of the political goals with the internal market is dependent on an inter-organizational coordination between the EU and ESO. Applying the analytical concept of a 'policy field' the analysis shows how the completion of the internal market fundamentally challenges institutionalized conceptions of the role of politics in constituting markets. Keywords: Internal market, policy field, technical standards, transnationalization, new approach harmonization, private product policy URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6406
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Palm Oil in Southeast Asia in Global Perspective (1880s–1970s)Giacomin, Valeria (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation examines the case of the palm oil cluster in Malaysia and Indonesia, today one of the largest agricultural clusters in the world. My analysis focuses on the evolution of the cluster from the 1880s to the 1970s in order to understand how it helped these two countries to integrate into the global economy in both colonial and post-colonial times. The study is based on empirical material drawn from five UK archives and background research using secondary sources, interviews, and archive visits to Malaysia and Singapore. The dissertation comprises three articles, each discussing a major under-researched topic in the cluster literature – the emergence of clusters, their governance and institutional change, and competition between rival cluster locations – through the case of the Southeast Asian palm oil cluster. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9381
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Articulations of Social and Natural Order in Mass Mediated Representations of BiotechnologyHorst, Maja (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandlingen undersøger massemedierede kontroverser om bioteknologi som politiske uenigheder ved at analysere argumenters konstruktion af problemer og løsninger. Det hævdes at ethvert argument i kontroverserne altid implicit artiku-lerer en eller anden bestemt forestilling om den sociale (og naturlige) orden og om, hvordan denne orden opretholdes eller kritiseres. En sådan forestilling er afgørende for at argumentet kan fungere som argument, dvs. som en menings-fuld sammenkædning af et problem og en mulig problemløsning. Kontroverser-ne om bioteknologi handler derfor ikke kun om teknologi og forskning, men er grundlæggende uenigheder om, hvilken rolle forskningen skal spille i samfun-det, og om social organisering i al almindelighed. En analyse af mønstre i disse argumenter kan derfor belyse de diskursive mulighedsbetingelser for regulering af bioteknologi i Danmark. Afhandlingens teoretiske grundlag er en relationel ontologi formuleret på bag-grund af den franske filosof og videnssociolog Bruno Latour, der giver anled-ning til at formulere en forståelse af offentlig meningsdannelse som en konstant produktion af italesættelse i netværk. For at kunne analysere denne strøm af ita-lesættelse inddrager afhandlingen den britisk-amerikanske antropolog Mary Douglas' kulturteori som et analysestrategisk redskab. Det empiriske materiale udgøres af dagbladsartikler fra Politiken, Jyllandsposten, Information og Ekstra Bladet. På baggrund af en række søgeord er der udvalgt 1575 artikler i perioden 1. august 1997 – 31. december 2001, der omhandler sundhedsrelateret biotekno-logi. En foreløbig indholdsanalyse af disse artikler er dokumenteret i et bilag til afhandlingen. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7130
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Providing Common KnowledgeFoss, Nicolai J.; Kristensen, Tore; Wilke, Ricky (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper draws on ideas in economics and game theory to develop a new theory of marketing and corporate communication in the emerging network economy. We argue that in a network economy, firms and consumers will confront "coordination problems." With the emerging network economy all this become urgent because the availability and cost of information decreases. Also, timing issues becomes crucial as millions of people get access to the same information simultaneously. That explain why events where masses of viewers simultaneously participate in the same events become so important. We introduce a simple game theoretic model to explain this, and discuss marketing applications and possible strategies. Key words Coordination problems, common knowledge, corporate communication URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6401
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Recognition and Discovery of Investment OpportunitiesVintergaard, Christian (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: From the perspective of Austrian economics, this paper develops a conceptual understanding of how corporate venture managers recognize and discover opportunities in a network environment. In an effort to create a better understanding of who is involved in process, this paper reports on the development path of an entrepreneurial opportunity of the Danish corporate venture capitalist, Danfoss A/S. This paper distinguishes itself from previous research done on entrepreneurial opportunities by creating a holistic and conceptual framework, which broadens and expands the perception of the market participants involved in recognition and discovery. Consequently the paper offers insight to a diversified group of actors who mix and match technological and market capabilities in a constant process of recognition and discovery. Key words: Corporate venturing, entrepreneurship, discovery, networks, opportunities, recognition. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6397
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studies of work teams in knowledge organisationsHemlin, Sven (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6339
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A study of crowd phenomena in the U.S. financial markets 1890 to 1940Hansen, Kristian Bondo (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation undertakes an explorative historical analysis of problems associated with crowd phenomena in the U.S. financial markets between 1890 and 1940. While a study of crowd-related problems in the financial markets invariably involves examinations of panics and crises, the dissertation shows that crowds were not exclusively seen as crisis phenomena, but were considered by many financial writers to be of much broader significance to the organisation and functioning of markets. The dissertation claims that it is necessary to explore the close connections between financial markets and crowd phenomena in order to fully understand how markets were perceived and conceptualised in the given historical period. Inspired by Michel Foucault's reflections on the analysis of problematisations, the dissertation explores how practical, academic and popular accounts of financial markets problematised (i.e. reflected upon, contested and responded to) various crowd phenomena as they occurred in the markets. As part of the historical exposition, the dissertation examines how financial writers employed tropes and terminology from late nineteenth century crowd theories when describing and seeking to explain the processes and practices of the markets. The dissertation argues that the way in which crowd phenomena were problematised as well as the attempts to address these alleged crowd problems influenced perceptions of financial markets and transformed approaches to market analysis and speculation. Drawing on an archive of handbooks on how to become a successful investor or speculator, scholarly work on financial markets (from the academic fields of economics, sociology and psychology) as well as a range of popular (fictional and non-fictional) textual accounts of trading in financial markets, the dissertation offers a broad, yet rigorously focused, historical perspective on crowd phenomena in financial markets. Furthermore, it explores how ideas about crowd action, imitation, herding and contagion were introduced to and became integral parts of the discourses on financial markets. Reiterations of such historically formed ideas about crowd phenomena in financial markets are still prominent in current discussions and the dissertation thus offers a historical contextualisation of a pertinent feature of contemporary debates on financial markets. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9496
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og rådsmedlemmernes syn på forskningsanvendelseKnudsen, Line Gry (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Cornell University Library is proud to house a rich collection of Chinese-Western language dictionaries from the 16th century up to the present, and a new exhibition showcases 20 valuable items from the collection.
The dictionaries included in "Dictionaries: A Bridge Between China and the West" offer a mirror that reflects an essential element in the culture exchange between the two places.
This exhibition – staged outside the Asia Reading Room in Kroch Library – includes:
- the first Chinese-English dictionary (1815-1823) autographed by its compiler, Robert Morrison;
- an original copy of "Dictionnaire chinois, français et latin" (1813) commissioned by Napoleon; and
- "Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language" (1872) by Justus Doolittle, which introduced many Western scientific and technological terms into the Chinese vocabulary.
The exhibit is jointly organized by the Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. It will run through July 5.


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Revived plans to build a pair of skyscrapers along Boston Harbor are finding a newly receptive audience in City Hall, signaling a possible end to a long-running real estate feud that has for years stalled the redevelopment of prime waterfront.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh's administration said Wednesday that it is open to tall buildings on the site of the Harbor Garage, as long as developer Donald J. Chiofaro's plan also provides adequate open space and public access to the water.
The 600-foot-tall complex of buildings proposed by Chiofaro includes a 70-foot public arcade that would give visitors the rare opportunity to walk down steps directly into the harbor. And the arcade would have a retractable roof allowing for lush landscaping in summer and ice skating in the winter.
"We are confident that the unprecedented benefits we can provide will more than offset the impacts," Chiofaro told a waterfront planning committee Wednesday afternoon.
RELATED: The Harbor Garage, before and after
His $1 billion proposal would demolish the hulking Harbor Garage on Atlantic Avenue and move its 1,400 parking spaces underground. He would replace it with two towers — one 600 feet tall, the other 550 feet, both far higher than the property's recommended height limit of 200 feet. The towers would contain up to 300 hotel rooms, 120 luxury condominiums, and three levels of retail and restaurants.
Wednesday's meeting was the first step in a revival for Chiofaro, one of the city's most colorful developers, and his highly ambitious project. His previous versions — with taller towers, one reaching 780 feet — had been blocked by Thomas M. Menino, the former mayor. The two men became locked in an unusually public feud over the project.
But the Walsh administration is striking a different tone, saying it would consider building proposals that exceed the area's recommended height limit if they provide the open space and waterfront access required by law.
"With its proximity to the Greenway and the waterfront, the Harbor Garage site has great potential to be an iconic destination," said Nick Martin, a spokesman for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. "We look forward to reviewing Mr. Chiofaro's latest proposal with fresh eyes."
The project must clear a number of hurdles before construction could begin. Although Chiofaro's proposal drew considerable praise Wednesday, neighbors and members of the waterfront planning committee questioned the density of the development, impacts on traffic, and the shadows it would cast on surrounding property and the water.
PHOTOS: Harbor Garage redevelopment plans
Any new buildings would need to be approved by the BRA and state environmental officials who enforce requirements that waterfront developments devote half of the site to open space, among other rules.
Although Chiofaro's proposal would increase open space on a site that now forms a barrier to the water, it is slightly short of the required 50 percent of open space. State regulations also require the public space be open to the sky, raising the question of whether his proposed retractable roof meets the technical definition of the rules.
During his presentation Wednesday, Chiofaro did not provide images of the tops of his buildings, saying he wants to gather more public reaction before completing the design. The absence of tower images — usually the most controversial aspect of any new building — allowed him to focus on the improvements he intends to make on the ground floor. Those include shopping and dining options, along with new views of the water.
"We will continue working from the ground up and describe how we think re-imagining a site with zero open space today can ultimately provide so many of the benefits contemplated" in the municipal harbor planning process, Chiofaro said.
He emphasized his project would open up new views of the ocean from the adjacent Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway and would add more than 27,000 square feet of public open space where there is currently none.
He said the 70-foot-wide public arcade on the ground floor would connect the Greenway to the harbor, creating more opportunities for waterfront dining, shopping, movies, and concerts. In spring and summer, it could have an open-air lawn and seasonal landscaping. In winter it could be used for an indoor skating rink about the size of the one at New York's Rockefeller Center.
Chiofaro and his architects — Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates of New York and ADD Inc. of Boston — said the project would become the eastern terminus of the city's "high-spine" of buildings, the line of towers that runs from the Prudential Center in the Back Bay to the downtown waterfront. They noted the complex would be surrounded by other tall buildings at Atlantic Wharf and in the Financial District.
The harbor planning committee is charged with making recommendations to the Walsh administration about what should be built along the downtown waterfront between the North End and the Evelyn Moakley Bridge. The committee is reviewing plans to improve public spaces and private development sites.
The Harbor Garage is among just a few remaining development sites on the downtown waterfront, which boasts some of the city's most popular attractions but remains oddly disjointed in places. Chiofaro and his partner on the project, Prudential Financial Inc., bought the property for about $155 million in 2007.
After his initial development effort failed, the typically outspoken Chiofaro has kept out of the media and redoubled efforts to work with community planners and improve the property's ground floor. He has also floated his plans inside City Hall.
Still, Wednesday's meeting offered glimpses of Chiofaro's previous combativeness. The 68-year-old developer jabbed a finger into the air as he asserted that the Harbor Garage cannot be redeveloped unless tall buildings are permitted for the site. He said the buildings need to be of substantial size to produce enough income to offset the $155 million initial cost of the property and the $180 million it will take to move its parking spaces underground. Adding open spaces in and around the site would also be costly.
At the conclusion of his presentation, Chiofaro put in stark terms the choice that members of the waterfront planning committee — and the broader public — face.
"The reality is that this committee has the power to ensure that the [Harbor] garage remains in place for generations to come," he said, "or, conversely, to open the door for the garage to come down and become a place that captures the imagination of Boston."
The committee is expected to make recommendations for Chiofaro's site and other parcels by the fall.
• Photos: Two skyscrapers proposed
• Graphic: Compare images of Harbor Garage to proposed development
• New plans for garage development focus on street
• 2009: The city Menino (painstakingly) builtCasey Ross can be reached at email@example.com.


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A day after Prime Minister David Cameron called London rioters the product of dysfunctional families, the British press has seared Mr. Cameron for his speech on the riots, saying he is seeking political gain while not grasping the roots of last week's violence.
Prime Minister Cameron "denied that racial tensions, poverty, or his government's controversial austerity cuts were to blame. He claimed there were around 120,000 problem families in Britain who had little respect for authority, singling out boys raised without a male role model as especially prone to 'rage and anger'," The Christian Science Monitor reported yesterday.
"These riots were not about race: The perpetrators and the victims were white, black, and Asian. These riots were not about government cuts: They were directed at high street stores, not Parliament," said the Conservative prime minister. "And these riots were not about poverty: That insults the millions of people who, whatever the hardship, would never dream of making others suffer like this.
"No, this was about people showing indifference to right and wrong, people with a twisted moral code, people with a complete absence of self-restraint," he said.
In the past 24 hours, opinion writers have weighed in.
The Telegraph's editorial board wrote that while Cameron's speech mentioned the areas that need to be addressed, it lacked specific recommendations and showed little understanding of what could be done to turn the "broken society" around.
One headline said that the Prime Minister was laying out plans to "fix society", and that rather captured the all-embracing nature of his ambition – as well as its scatter-gun impracticality. For example, Mr Cameron said that the problem of police officers being snowed under by bureaucracy "will be fixed by completely changing the way the police work".
More immediately pressing, however, is the need to deal with the levels of criminality that we saw last week. Two thirds of those convicted of looting had previous convictions – testimony to the failings of the criminal justice system. The Prime Minister said that he was determined to "sort it out", but did not explain how.
Across the board, Cameron critics accused him of political expediency and of being unable to understand those not from his same socioeconomic background. Guardian social affairs editor Randeep Ramesh said he was "seeking opportunity in a moment of crisis."
The prime minister sought to identify "deeper problems" and came up with a sociological canard: the culture of poverty.
This analysis is one that regards the chaotic lives of poor people as cause, not symptom, of the collapse of their communities. For the prime minister, these families and their children simply chose to be feckless, indolent or on the wrong side of police lines.
Such talk will do much to harden public attitudes – helpful to a prime minister who wants to push draconian social policy through the Lords in the autumn. The rhetoric will profit the contentious welfare reforms, a policy built on the idea that poor people are "culturally" unique and dependent on welfare by their own design.
Guardian columnist Anne Perkins framed Cameron's speech as an attempt to change the public's understanding of the violence and bring them on board with the Conservative Party's agenda.
It was less about the speeches themselves than the underlying contest for how the riots are understood. For Cameron, they need to be seen as a question of personal responsibility and personal morality. That way he can repackage the broken society. Moral rearmament pleases his long-standing critics on the right and feeds into his broader programme of welfare and educational reform. It also gives him an opportunity to sharpen the message: that, for example, the welfare state denies moral hazard.
Cameron is credited with putting a kinder face on the Conservative Party, but after yesterday's speech – in which he brought up the Human Rights Act, the health and safety culture, and "120,000 dysfunctional families" as causes of society's problems – "the nasty party is making a comeback," Perkins argued.
Indeed, Guardian columnist John Harris said Cameron sounded more like Margaret Thatcher than the progressive that he used to portray himself as. "Cameron was meant to be slightly different," Mr. Harris said. The old Cameron would have acknowledged the connections between "deprivation, and crime, disorder, and family dysfunction," Mr. Harris writes.
There is masses of this stuff in the archives: as late as November 2009 he was paying tribute to Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level, and saying things like this: "There's a massive difference between a system that allows fair reward for talent, effort and enterprise, and a system that keeps millions of people at the bottom locked out of the success enjoyed by the mainstream." He was talking about modern Britain. What happened?
Today he sounded cold, cynical, and occasionally quite odd. How did he end up making no reference to youth unemployment but decrying the Human Rights Act and that hoary old Aunt Sally, health and safety culture?
The riots of the 1980s bear many similarities to last week's riots, he said. "Then, as now, there was a spasm of over-the-top sentencing and political rhetoric accompanied by a rising sense that something in society was very wrong, which too many people at the top failed to grasp."
Margaret Thatcher's response engendered little admiration – "Not for the first time, she was unable to strike the right note when a broad sense of social understanding was required," The Times wrote. Its judgment of Ms. Thatcher's response could have just as easily described Cameron yesterday, Harris wrote.
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Associate Dentist - Littlehampton
Associate Dentist to join our well-established practice in Littlehampton,West Sussex.
What we do matters. Our customers trust us with one of their most important assets, their smile. Patient care is our passion and we believe everyone deserves a happy and healthy smile, which is why we thrive on having the very best people in the industry working with us to ensure we all keep on smiling.
Here at Oasis Dental Care (now part of Bupa) our people are at the heart of everything we do, because we care. We have created environments where people can look forward to coming to work, feel empowered and benefit from working collaboratively with brilliant & talented experts. So joining us isn't just for a job, but a career.
As an Associate Dentist you'll be benefiting from a supportive practice team, a well-managed appointment book, exceptional development and opportunities to take you as far as you want to go; and that's just to mention a few, so what's not to love?
This exciting opportunity also offers:
- 5 days per week
- Up to7000 UDAs at an excellent rate
- Great Private earning potential
- Additional discount for utilising Oasis Labs
- Continuous Professional Development
Littlehampton is situatedon the beautiful South Coast, it's a short distance away from the popular seaside destination of Bognor Regis to the West or Brighton to the East which is a 40 minute train direct train journey. There is a direct train service from London which takes 1 hour 30 minutes. The practice is easily accessible by road as well.
The Practice: Established with 6 surgeries, modern working environment, fully computerised, digital x-ray, Rotary Endo, SOEsoftware,and fully Air Conditioned. Experienced longstanding associates, supported by a dedicated Dental Hygienist and a team of qualified professional support staff. Providing a mix of NHS & Private, and in addition offering Oasis Basics.
Why join Oasis? Here's a selection of the fantastic incentives we have to offer:
- Excellent Working facilities and the latest equipment
- Highest standards of clinical governance & expert support
- On-boarding and Induction process
- Oasis Indemnity that offers you full cover, bespoke to Oasis
- Sponsored Education
- Career Mobility