Business Quarterly articles from March 1995

Business Quarterly archives from March 1995

Taking the slow boat to China. (Canadian corporations in China)(comment and reply to article by Neil Abramson and Janet Ai, Business Quarterly, vol. 59, 2, Winter 1994) (Dialogue)
March 22, 1995... "Although China is now one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding markets in the world, Canadian companies that have tried to do business there are losing market share to American, Japanese, Hong Kong and European competitors." This was the...

Keeping bad taste in the family. (W.K. Buckley Ltd.) (Company Profile)
March 22, 1995... It is possible for Canadian family-owned company to survive and even thrive in the rough and tumble international pharmaceutical business Our company has weathered a depression, a world war, a few recessions and oceans of international...

There's a lot more to Canadian Tire. (Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd.) (Company Profile)
March 22, 1995... When I was invited to join Canadian Tire in early 1993 to take on the job of CEO, powerful forces of change were buffeting the company. Two years of debilitating recession had made consumers very reluctant to part with their disposable income at...

The pinnacle - why boards fail. (corporate boards)
March 22, 1995... The recent recession and increased international competition have exposed serious flaws in the system by which companies around the world have been managed. Huge losses and writeoffs have focused public attention on corporate governance,...

Manufacturing: thriving on competition. (includes related article)
March 22, 1995... "300 workers at two Canadian plants among the victims...," "Ontario plant-closing to hit 170 jobs," "Closing 16 plants - 560 to lose jobs" Contrary to extensive media reports, successful Canadian manufacturing plants do exist. They are not...

Books for business - Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers.
March 22, 1995... On March 25, 1990, Jim Rogers set off on a around the world - by motorcycle. Twenty-two months and six continents later, the Wall Street investment wizard had covered 65,067 miles, crossed more than 100 borders and visited a slew of towns and...

Managing the Professional Service Firm.
March 22, 1995... This book is must reading, not only for managing partners of professional service firms but for all professionals who believe they are owners of their enterprises. Ii is also must reading for business school professors as business schools move to...

Viewpoint - derivatives: the devil incarnate or the promised land?
March 22, 1995... A breathtaking array of new financial instruments is fast changing the staid old world of finance. so-called derivatives are making time-honored corporate financial practices obsolete, often vitually overnight. It is far from coincidence that the...