Business Quarterly articles from March 1989

Business Quarterly archives from March 1989

Destiny or disappointment: which will it be? (career planning)
March 22, 1989... Destiny or Disappointment: Which Will it Be? After reading approximately 2,900 pieces of written work relating to career management, I was struck by the similarity among the writers' ideas regarding their future careers. Indeed, "similarity"...

Venture capital: are the rules changing? (part 3 of 3 )
March 22, 1989... Venture Capital: Are the Rules Changing? When the number of players in a game increase one has to ask, "has the nature of the game changed and have the rules changed?" The number of players in the venture capital game in Canada has increased...

Venture capital: coping with growth. (part 2 of 3)
March 22, 1989... Venture Capital: Coping with Growth There has been a dramatic increase in the supply of venture capital in Canada in the last three years, providing good news for those seeking capital. There are, however, some inherent problems, both despite...

Deficit reduction and the self-interest of business. (financial management)
March 22, 1989... Deficit Reduction and the Self-Interest of Business A lower total government deficit has much to commend it to Canadian business. It is in the self interest of business to support aggressively serious public sector deficit reduction. It...

Business concerns about implementing the free trade agreement. (US-Canada free trade agreement)
March 22, 1989... Business Concerns about Implementing the Free Trade Agreement Although the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is signed and sealed it is not yet delivered. Two extremely important components remain to be implemented in a manner...

Hiring the best. (hiring business school graduates)
March 22, 1989... Hiring the Best In about 20 years of teaching and working with business students at both undergraduate and MBA levels, we have seen a lot of recruiting and hiring take place and have reached three conclusions: * Some graduates are more...

Tax incentives and scientific research.
March 22, 1989... Tax Incentives For Scientific Research If the future success of your business depends on the outcome of its current efforts in technological advancement, is it making optimum use of the tax incentives available for scientific research? These...

Business education in Canada: business should be concerned.
March 22, 1989... Business Education in Canada: Business Should be Concerned Despite rapid growth in business school enrollments over the past three decades and the expenditure of vast sums of money by governments and corporations, there is still little...

How to profit from the new proposed national sales tax.
March 22, 1989... How to Profit from the New Proposed National Sales Tax Under Stage Two of the Mulroney government's tax reform program, the proposed National Sales Tax (NST) will replace the Federal Manufacturers Sales Tax (FMST), significantly altering...

The next ten years - a white knuckle decade with nowhere to hide. (A prospective on Management Trends)
March 22, 1989... The Next Ten Years -- A White Knuckle Decade with Nowhere to Hide INTRODUCTION The Next Ten Years is the title of this introduction to the Business Quarterly supplement for two reasons: on the one hand, we stand at the threshold of the...

What about the future? (future business management trends in Canada) (A Prospective on Management Trends)
March 22, 1989... What About the Future? Surely the primary lesson of the past 10 years or so has been that business can only operate with the consent and approval of society as a whole. Business people have paid lip service to this precept for many years but...

"Put me in coach" ... Human resources managers in the 1990s. (A Prospective on Management Trends)
March 22, 1989... "Put Me In Coach"... Human Resource Managers in the 1990s "Put me in coach, I'm ready to play." These words evoke images of the athlete who practices hard and diligently, but for some reason never gets into the game. Ignored by the coach,...

Trends in corporate financing. (A Prospective on Management Trends)
March 22, 1989... Trends in Corporate Financing Technology, deregulation, competition and innovation are driving a dramatic transformation of the financial services sector worldwide. New financing instruments and innovations in capital markets are being...

Listening to clients. (A Prospective on Management Trends)
March 22, 1989... Listening to Clients For professional service firms, no less than for any other kinds of business, a primary means of achieving a competitive advantage is to have a better understanding of the wants and needs of the clients than does the...

Taking control of your systems. (A Prospective on Management Trends)
March 22, 1989... Taking Control of Your Systems Over the decade from 1978 to 1988, information technology expenditures at Royal Trust jumped 480%, with an average annual increase of 22%. The sheer size of the expenditure, now $70 million dollars a year, makes...

Simplification: a tool for renewal. (A Prospective on Management Trends)
March 22, 1989... Simplification: A Tool for Renewal When speaking to a group of business students at The University of Western Ontario recently, I opened my remarks with a conclusion: Those who do not anticipate the future may never experience it. The...

G-FORCES of change and the geo-strategic management era (1990-2050). (global forces of change) (A Prospective on Management Trends )
March 22, 1989... G-FORCES of Change and the Geo-Strategic Management Era (1990-2050) We stand on the threshold of a new management era in which executives will need to "geo-strategically" manage the future or it will manage them. The business world is being...

The future: an exciting time for managers. (A Prospective on Management Trends) (panel discussion)
March 22, 1989... The Future: An Exciting Time for Strong Managers This year, as we begin our fourth decade, we at Touche Ross Management Consultants are pleased to present a prospective of management trends. The prospective is a companion piece to the...