Business Horizons articles from November 1989

Business Horizons archives from November 1989

The 1980s: an evolutionary decade for the financial system. (editorial)
November 1, 1989... This decade has seen the financial system change almost completely. What will happen tomorrow? The financial system used to be easily understood. You got a business loan from the bank and a mortgage from the savings and loan association....

The decline of public equity: the return to private enterprise?
November 1, 1989... As large corporations dwindle in number, the result might be a renewal of economic power. It is an article of faith that large-scale business activities go hand-in-hand with the public corporation. The suggestion that it is inefficient to...

Bond market innovations and financial intermediation.
November 1, 1989... Changes in the bond market in the past two decades have affected not only investing strategies, but also the nature of the financial industry For many years the bond market was the realm of blue chip issuers and conservative investors. Its...

The globalization of world financial markets.
November 1, 1989... Investors and managers now have many more worldwide opportunities to make and lose money in the trading game. The term "globalization" has become the business buzzword of the eighties, and it appears likely to be the key word for describing...

On the computerization of finance.
November 1, 1989... Today's technology not only affects the world's financial transactions; it may affect economic theory as well. A funny thing happened on our way to the twenty-first century. Economists became respectable. Some 200 years ago, Edmund Burke...

Program trading of equities: renegade or mainstream?
November 1, 1989... Program trading gained a bad name after the 1987 stock market crash. But it is here to stay with new products coming out all the time. The strategy of portfolio/program trading of lists of securities simultaneously has been around for some...

Innovations in short-term financial management.
November 1, 1989... The electronic revolution has radically altered the short-term management of financial resources; it has also radically altered the jobs of those who have performed those functions. People used to call short-term financial management...

Technology and performance: the evolution of market mechanisms.
November 1, 1989... The evolution of markets in the recent past has largely been the result of technology. As globalization of markets continues, technology and our reaction to it will become even more important. Technology's place in the stock market is a...

Innovations in financial intermediation.
November 1, 1989... The markets, they are a-changin'. The results have opened up new areas for both institutions and investors. Innovation has been important in the financial markets of the 1980s. It promises to be at least as important during the next decade....

Truth or consequences: politics and performance appraisals.
November 1, 1989... Politics often enters the performance appraisal process, thereby gumming up the works. A conscious effort must be made by both the manager and those training him or her in appraisal techniques to keep the process from becoming mired in a...

Making internal services market driven.
November 1, 1989... Internal services must be run like external services to keep companies competitive. As many companies search for ways to compete more effectively in today's markets, managers are giving increased attention to internal services-and with...

Marketing in the AIDS era.
November 1, 1989... The worldwide spread of AIDS is a fact. Managers need to come to grips with it and make the best of the situation. In spite of the rate at which the number of AIDS cases worldwide is increasing, little attention has been paid to the...

American management as viewed by international professionals.
November 1, 1989... The American style of management is like any other-it may have its weaknesses, but it also has strengths that need to be emphasized. About the time of the American Revolution, Robert Burns wrote stingingly of a beautiful but vain lady...

Soviet Agriculture.
November 1, 1989... Soviet Agriculture by Zhores Medvedev The reviewer, Catherine Sokil, is Associate Professor of Economics at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Zhores Medvedev's book Soviet Agriculture traces the history of the blunders,...

Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America.
November 1, 1989... Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times between Blacks and Jews in America by Jonathan Kaufman The reviewer, Irving Katz, is Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies at Indiana University. Jonathan Kaufman, a...