Business Horizons articles from November 1990

Business Horizons archives from November 1990

Leadership. (executive training in business management) (editorial)
November 1, 1990... My secret dream came true when I became Executive in Residence at the School of Business at the University of Louisville. In my heart, I knew I wanted to teach. For some 16 years I had been CEO of a family-owned broadcasting company, and we...

If business directed the war on AIDS. (the effects of using business management methods in the war on AIDS)
November 1, 1990... Conventional wisdom provides a fairly narrow definition of the responsibilities of an enlightened company in the age of AIDS. Such a company would not fire a worker diagnosed as testing positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the...

Not smoking in the workplace: the real issue.
November 1, 1990... A surface review of the current literature would indicate that "smoking in the workplace" is one of the hottest areas of human resource management research today. However., a deeper review of that same literature reveals that, due to the...

Why bad things happen to good companies - and what can be done.
November 1, 1990... Why is it that bad things sometimes happen to good companies? By good companies I mean those in which top management wants its employees to be ethical and tells them so. Why is it that no matter how many times or how forcefully top...

Ethical business and the ethical person.
November 1, 1990... Because our nation is made up of people with different educational, social, and economic backgrounds, there are multiple sets of ideas and principles as to what is good or bad behavior. Ethics is behavior that promotes human welfare as...

Hiring thoroughbreds: pitfalls to avoid and rules to follow.
November 1, 1990... To maintain a leading edge, high technology organizations must attract and retain the very best people. Too often, the selection team inadvertently makes some common mistakes because they either ignore or are unaware of the pitfalls of the...

New breed workers need new yardsticks.
November 1, 1990... Bob Muhlenburg, a corporate recruiter for a top fast food chain, spends several days a month in Pittsburgh and other rust-belt cities hiring management trainees who will be relocated to Philadelphia and other high-employment East Coast cities...

The world turned upside down? IBM in the 1990s.
November 1, 1990... It sometimes seems that computer industry watchers spent much of the latter half of the 1980s laying odds on the fall of IBM. And IBM's performance in that period, concluding in 1989-its 75th birthday as a public corporation-has not always...

Terrorism's hidden threat and the promise of multinational corporations.
November 1, 1990... Multinational business activity has been growing at an unprecedented rate, accelerating greatly since the end of World War 11. No longer is it the domain of only modern, industrialized nations. Many third-world countries are spawning large,...

Protecting directors and officers: a growing concern.
November 1, 1990... The business executive faces many risks in managing a firm in today's environment. There are aggressive national and international competitors, constantly changing tax laws, the threat of merger or acquisition, more demanding consumers, and...

How to use your time efficiently when writing. (tips on business writing)
November 1, 1990... I have all the data pulled together. Now it's just a matter of finding time to get everything down on paper. I have a pretty good idea where I want to go with it. The report probably won't be longer than ten pages once I get it together.......

Ni zao: good morning, China. (report on Canadian-Chinese multicultural development project)
November 1, 1990... This is an account of a multicultural development project, undertaken by two corporate giants who quite literally did not speak the same language. One giant was a Canadian company, Alcan Aluminium Limited (Alcan). The other was a large branch...

Trade and Investment Relations Among the United States, Canada and Japan.
November 1, 1990... Even at a time when it is impossible to pick up any periodical without reading about Japan and its economic impact on global financial problems, this book would be important reading material for anyone interested in Japan and the world....

Beyond IBM.
November 1, 1990... Beyond IBM is about much more than IBM. The authors begin by talking about IBM-which is logical, since Lou Mobley worked there from 19381970, wrote speeches for Tom Watson, Sr., and was a member of the committee formed by Tom Watson, jr. in...