European Business Forum articles from June 2002

European Business Forum archives from June 2002

Our Strategic Direction
June 22, 2002... Our aim is to be world leaders in energy and petrochemicals. We will grow the value of Shell by delivering robust profitability and leveraging our competitive edge. Our success will ensure highly competitive returns to shareholders and give us...

Living Our Values
June 22, 2002... We operate in over 135 countries and employ some 91,000 people. Our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people are at the heart of the way we manage our business. They are embodied in our Business Principles that describe the...

Benefiting Communities
June 22, 2002... Managing social performance We made important progress in 2001 in our thinking and approach to the way we work with local communities. While voluntary work and social investment are important, often the way we manage our operations can have...

Avoiding the elephant trap.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Designing Effective Organizations: How to Create Structured Networks By Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell Jossey-Bass, April 2002. ISBN: 0787960640. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Strategy, Organisation & the Changing Nature of...

Silicon transplants.(Cloning Silicon Valley: The Next Generation Hightech Hotspots)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Cloning Silicon Valley--the next generation high-tech hotspots by David Rosenberg Prentice Hall, December 2001. ISBN: 1903684064. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "It is not enough for the rest of the world simply to admire or envy...

A CSR Academy.(Did you know?)(Corporate social responsibility)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... A group of leading European companies and business schools have launched The European Academy of Business in Society--a response to the growing call for changes in the way business interacts with society. The Academy initiative is seen as...

Expats want more support from HR.(Did you know?)(Human resource )(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Fifty-nine per cent of expatriates believe their companies are not doing enough to help them find local healthcare, and 55 per cent say their employers are also failing to prepare them adequately for medical emergencies and security crises,...

Putting a price on your time.(Did you know?)(monetary value)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... A professor from Warwick University in the UK has devised a mathematical formula to enable people to put a value on their time. I an Walker says this could help solve dilemmas like whether to spend time cooking or spend money on a takeaway...

Scotland may not be the home of golf after all, after evidence was found linking its origins with Holland.(Did you know?)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Scotland may not be the home of golf after all, after evidence was found linking its origins with Holland. A sports historian has found the rules written down in a 16th century document. He says Scotland's long-standing 15th century evidence...

'Thatcherite' fish vote with their fins.(Did you know?)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... A new study suggests that fish on coral reefs live in their own capitalist, free market economies. The report in the journal Animal Behaviour found evidence from the reefs of Ras Muhammad on the Red Sea coast of Egypt that those fish which...