bout de papier, Volume 18, Issue No. 2, 2001
bout de papier, Volume 8, Issue No. 1, 1990
Re-imagining Capitalism
Mumbai is a late night town. Typically, Bollywood does not start work until late in the afternoon. Business dinners start at 10 p.m. Visiting Canadian ministers are often not received at Varsha, the chief minister’s official guest house, until even later.
The State, Business and Industrial Change in Canada
Except for the discussion a year or two ago about a Federal Business Development Bank loan program for strip clubs, we have not heard much about industrial policy lately. It was different back in the 1970s, when a great deal of political…
Photography as an Investment
An article about photographic art as an investment during a recession may strike you as a little odd, but this is really one of the best times to begin collecting works of art, particularly photography. On the international scene, most major art…
A Visual History of Modern Canadian Business — Guts, Greed and Glory
In 1921, the readers of the Sunday Express in England were treated to a panegyric on the virtues of capitalism by the newspaper’s bumptious millionaire publisher, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook. Having cut his capitalist teeth as an itinerant bond salesman in the Maritimes…
International Business
Is Canada preparing itself adequately to compete internationally by developing needed expertise in international business? This question was examined at the Corporate Higher Education Forum held in the Autumn of 1988. The following quotations were made by various CEO’s who attended the…
Controlling the Crisis Climate
One always wishes for greater age, wisdom, insight or argumentative powers in crises cases, but what is really needed is a formal crisis management plan. Such a plan need not anticipate the actual cause of the crisis, but it should contain policy…
La Chambre africaine de commerce et d’industrie du Canada
En Afrique il y a un vieil adage qui dit «Si tu vas à l’étranger et si là-bas, tout le monde marche tout croche, ne pose pas trop de questions, marche tout croche». Au colloque de Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire) du 28 au…
Entrevue avec Bernard Lamarre, PDG Lavalin
Lavalin est l’une des 5 plus grandes firmes d’experts-conseils au monde. Son rayonnement international a acquis ces dernières années un ampleur considérable, pour le plus grand bénéfice des exportations canadiennes, tant de biens que de services. Grand artisan de la réussite de…
