4.1 Background to Vue
The management of processes or operations is the very essence of any kind of business enterprise, and it is critically important that they are designed and managed well. This course taster uses case studies and models to illustrate the importance of effective operations management and outlines the steps to preparing your own operations proposal.
Postcolonial futures: the Caribbean in dialogue
Dr Kevon Rhiney, Commonwealth Fellow and lecturer (Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies) considers contemporary social and economic development in Jamaica, in the light of environmental vulnerability and climate change. This series of podcasts explores the contemporary Caribbean today, addressing the region's role as a crucible of modernity from pre-Columbian times, through the eras of mercantilism, slavery and colonialism to today's position of at once both global
Assessing your skills
Welcome to Assessing Your Skills one of the series of Futures workbooks, which help students choose and prepare for their careers. Like the other workbooks in the series you can dip in and out doing the exercises which are most relevant to you. You might want to include the exercises or the output in your personal development plan or e-portfolio.
The aim of this workbook is to help you to clarify or identify your skills as a first step toward choosing work that really suits you. It can also he
Babbage: The ethics of AI Artificial intelligence heralds the fourth industrial revolution. But what are its ethical challenges? Also, Anne McElvoy and producer Cheryl Brumley head under Manhattan to inspect New York’s newest water tunnel. And the biggest rocket in the world prepares for its maiden flight. Kenneth Cukier hosts.
Tasting menu: Highlights from the December 19th 2015 edition
This week: what happened when slaves and free men were shipwrecked together, agony aunts through the ages and a day in the life of a Beijing park
Virtual Maths - 2D Shapes, rectangle
Interactive simulation demonstrating calculation of area of a rectangle
Sino-U.S. Trade Relations: ‘They’re Playing Football; We’re Playing Baseball’
While the dust settles on the U.S.'s midterm elections, questions abound about where the country's international trade and economic policies go from here. As it stands, the U.S. is squarely "at a disadvantage" with countries like China, argues economist Clyde Prestowitz, a former trade negotiator and author of The Betrayal of American Prosperity. Wharton management professor Stephen J. Kobrin and Knowledge@Wharton spoke with Prestowitz about the elections and beyond, how the U.S.'s econ
First Recording
Playing around
Lawrence Bailey - Market Research Valedictory Lecture - slides (as PDF)
A pdf of the slides used in Lawrence Bailey's guest lecture on Market Segmentation, Qualitative Research and Conversations Across the Garden Wall at Leeds Metropolitan University on 27 January 2011.
1.5.4 Summary The Euro has become an important currency of denomination for government and corporate bonds. There is now emerging a two-currency world, made up of the US dollar and the EU Euro. The advantages to countries of being able to borrow internationally in their own currencies have not been lost to them, so there will be an incentive for the east-Asian countries to develop their own ‘regional’ financial markets.
Cronbachs Alpha
Cronbachs Alpha was developed by Jonathan Houdmont
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The week ahead: Paranoia in Ankara
Conspiracy theories reign in Turkey since July's coup attempt - many believe the West played a role. Europe editor Matt Steinglass discusses how relations can be managed with NATO's most awkward member. Our Americas editor analyses whether the peace deal between FARC and the Colombian government will last. And is India's heavy handed approach to protests in Kashmir stoking discontent?
Learning outcomes On completion of this unit you should be able to: describe why and how we study social phenomena; outline how theory can help us to deal with complex evidence; give examples of the most appropriate theory; identify which concepts are most useful for the task; explain how hypotheses are generated; summarise what makes our evidence and arguments more plausible.
Pesticides Health and Safety posters The posters available here pertain to the safe use of agricultural and domestic pestici Podcast 7: Xavier Rolet, CEO of the London Stock Exchange, on the importance of governments working The End of QE Is Not the End of Bad Policy
Recently the financial press and media has been abuzz as the Federal Reserve moved closer to the anticipated end to its massive bond and mortgage backed
securities purchases known as quantitative easing. James Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, stirred controversy last week when he
suggested the Fed should consider
Author(s): 'Political Theory at the Margins' Panel 2: Contested Conceptions of Objects and Property Can the Fed Become Insolvent? In light of Bernanke's plans to purchase $600 billion of longer-term government debt, many academic economists are beginning to worry: Could the Federal Reserve itself become insolvent? In this article I'll explain these fears and I'll 3.4 As core or secondary texts The final categorisation of texts is especially useful when looking at celebrity texts. It allows us to distinguish between: the ‘core’ texts representing the work (the films, television shows, sound recordings, books, sporting performances) which provide the basis on which the individual's celebrity is founded; and the secondary texts of several genres (including gossip ones) which promote the core works and/or the celebrity her- or Engaging students, engaging industry and engaging enterprise
At London Business School's Up Close speaker event in February 2010, Xavier Rolet, CEO of the London Stock Exchange says that "global financial regulation is around the corner"
Part of the Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference, a conference that aims to explore themes and topics in political theory that resonate with contemporary political events and phenomena. Chair: JanaLee Cherneski. Discussant: Joanna Rozpedowski.
Johanna Maj Schmidt (Goldsmiths) ‘Worlding Heritage – The Politics of Objects’
Thomas Coughlan (Cambridge) ‘Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Other Property’
This reflective case study and poster relates to a specific event staged by students and examines the phases and critical points within the whole process. It identifies some key learning outcomes for all involved
