The Dow Jones Challenge 100

How well do you know the world's most popular economic indicator - the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the companies that are or have been a part of it? Even if you know little to nothing about the Dow, the facts and knowledge of this book will astonish and amaze you. You man even find a surprise or two that will make you way "Really?"Take the Dow Jones Challenge 100!* Which DJIA company was part of a legal battle that had a role in defining insider trading laws?* Which DJIA company began with a candle maker and a soap maker?* American Can Company became what company before purchasing Travelers and merging with Citicorp?* Which of the original members of the Dow is the only to be dissolved?* Which company was a member of the Dow for only 98 days?Learn the answers to these and dozens more questions about the Dow. Results of having this book are likely to include one or more of the following results...* Amaze your friends.* Impress your clients.* Increase your arsenal of little known facts to five you the edge.* Astound your boss (especially when given as a gift).* Solve your question - what to buy the guy who has everything.

Information Technology Law examines how the law interacts with our actions in cyberspace and other elements of the information society. The first textbook to consider the relationship between the legal system and the information society, it also covers issues such as governance, free expression, crime, and looks forward to future challenges

This book focuses on two central aspects of the risk managing process, namely 1. how managers (can and do) assess developments in the external risk environment and deal with them, and 2. analysing the effects of risk management and different managerial approaches. The articles represent state of the art academic analyses and research contributions.

Information Technology Law takes a unique socio-legal approach to examining the interaction between the law and other elements of the information society. Murray discusses relevant issues such as governance, free expression, and crime with enthusiasm, and looks forward to future challenges presented by developing technologies.

People passionately disagree about the nature of the globalization process. The failure of both the 1999 and 2003 World Trade Organization's (WTO) ministerial conferences in Seattle and Cancun, respectively, have highlighted the tensions among official, international organizations like the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, nongovernmental and private sector organizations, and some developing country governments. These tensions are commonly attributed to longstanding disagreements over such issues as labor rights, environmental standards, and tariff-cutting rules. In addition, developing countries are increasingly resentful of the burdens of adjustment placed on them that they argue are not matched by commensurate commitments from developed countries. Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets including the brain drain, sweat shop labor, wage levels, and changes in production processes, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices. Baldwin, Winters, and the contributors to this volume look at multinational firms, foreign investment, and mergers and acquisitions and present surprising findings that often run counter to the claim that multinational firms primarily seek countries with low wage labor. The book closes with papers on financial opening and on the relationship between international economic policies and national economic growth rates.

New developments in bio- and nanotechnologies and also in information and communication technologies have shaped the research environment in the last decade. Increasingly, highly educated experts in R&D departments are collaborating with scientists and researchers at universities and research institutes to develop new technologies. Transnational companies that have acquired various firms in different countries need to manage diverse R&D strategies and cultures. The new knowledge-based economy permeates across companies, universities, research institutes and countries, creating a cross-disciplinary, global environment. Clearly, managing technology in this new climate presents significant challenges.This book comprises selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Management of Technology, which was convened under the auspices of IAMOT and UNIDO on 22-26 May 2005 in Vienna, Austria. It deals with some important aspects of these challenges, and discusses in detail the changing dynamics of innovation and technology management. It will certainly appeal to academics, scientists, managers, and policy makers alike.

Every day presents new challenges as the face of global economics changes. In this first book in the Emerald Studies in Finance, Insurance, and Risk Management, expert editors and contributors come together to discuss global response to new uncertainty and challenges.

One of America's canniest stock market wizards O'Higgins has beaten the Dow Jones Industrial Average return year in and year out since becoming a money manager. Here he shows how all investors can make a lot of money.