2012年3月27日 星期二

中國走狗:歌颂




德国之声早前曾报道,薄熙来免职后,孔庆东仍然在"第一视频"节目中高声力挺薄熙来和"重庆模式",认为免薄熙来的职相当于"发动反革命政变。"
其后该视频遭删除,孔庆东也销声匿迹,3月24日,微博网友忽然发现孔庆东发出博文,称薄熙来事件后,他被国家安全部门限制自由5天时间及问讯。因他接受 薄熙来资助的100万元用于宣传 "重庆模式"而被调查。孔庆东也在微博中称已经退回该笔资助费,目前"很平静很坦荡",该微博被网友大量转载后,后又被删除。


当日中国另一挺薄的左派人士司马南在微博也透露:"孔庆东进国安绝非因出卖国家机密,只待了五天,现在平安了。"司马南在近期接受媒体访谈时力证自 己并未如传言所说,因事涉薄熙来事件"出关被阻"和"离婚转移财产等",但语义中暗指遭两名国家部门人员约谈。但公众质疑其力挺薄熙来背后牵涉利益输送。

"花钱买歌颂"
《苹果日报》指薄熙来为推销"重庆模式",曾下令重庆当局斥巨资宣传,包括出书、拍电视片及出钱雇请孔庆东等有影响的左派学者,为重庆颂扬。重庆卫视于去 年3月1日改为"红色频道",黄金时段播出"红色影视剧"等,并且不允许插播任何广告,为此重庆政府每年给重庆卫视补贴1.5亿元人民币;孔庆东此番自曝收取薄熙来的宣传费,不免让人忆及他昔日挺薄和"重庆模式"言论和文章,他曾写下《"警界铁腕"王立军被北邮聘为教授当之无愧》,《王立军有一颗心一个胆》,《汉奸媒体反对"重庆模式"其目的很明显》,《重庆警察值得表扬》,《自有天龙灭妖孽》等文章。
2011年6月28日,美国前国务卿基辛格第三次到访重庆并赞扬薄熙来是中国的一位传奇式人物。私下里,他还亲身参与了红歌会并高度评价"唱红打黑。" 基辛格此次访问重庆是非官方的私人访问。香港《开放》杂志总编金钟当时发表评论文章:"基辛格已和中共建立了利益共同体。基辛格的顾问公司业务是数十家大 公司的中国生意。相信很少有政客像 基辛格这样将从政资源最大化变为商业利益。他在商界已赢得'跨国掮客"的称号。"

而另一位中国左派学者,现为香港中文大学政治与公共行政系主任、教授的王绍光,曾在2011年写下"探索中国式社会主义3.0:重庆经验",也曾被公众质 疑和重庆政府间达成利益输送关系并助依附权力。3月23日,他在接受《南方人物周刊》采访时,表示"王立军事件"后依然肯定"重庆模式。"

"防火墙之父"方滨兴闻"重庆"色变?
早在两会期间, 北京邮电大学校长在以安徽省人大代表身份参加两会时,有记者问他是否会解聘几个月前从他手中接过"北邮教授"聘书的王立军,方滨兴闻"军"色变,拔腿跑人。
另据博讯网的报道,方滨兴也曾接受薄熙来巨款,以为薄熙来提供网路监听、窃取政要网路电话、电邮等机密资讯的服务。

"一些知识分子与官商的利益交换是普遍现象"
金钟向德国之声表示,近年中国大陆在"官商勾结"之外,又出现官商将一些知识分子拉入"共同利益"团体中,为其政策、商业形象等著书立说;特别是一些知识 分子,以成为"政府智囊"而自抬身价。学术界甚至弥漫"人人都有一个帝师梦"的气氛,其间部分知识分子为追逐名利风骨尽失: "按照我们对大陆的了解,不排除司马南和政商团体之间有利益交换,目前这种利益输送是非常普遍的现象。政党也许、大财团也好,都要利用他们。"
金钟也认为公共知识分子为政府或企业代言,将会给社会带来很多负面影响。公共知识分子的公信力也在不断被透支。
作者:吴雨
责编:乐然

2012年3月20日 星期二

William Hsiao(蕭慶倫) .


哈佛大學的William Hsiao(蕭慶倫) .
Fareed Zakaria's Puzzling Take on Health Care in Britain, Taiwan, and Switzerland
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Zakaria goes on to discuss the interesting case of Taiwan. Taiwan recruited Harvard economist William Hsiao—best known among US health wonks for his institution of price controls under Medicare—to bring universal coverage to the island nation.
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William Hsiao

K.T. Li Professor of Economics

Department of Health Policy and Management

Department of Global Health and Population

124 Mt. Auburn
Program in Health Care Financing 4th Floor
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Phone: 617.496.8856

Research

Dr. Hsiao's health policy research program spans across developed and less developed nations. He and his research team focus their economic studies on five topics:
  1. a simulation model of the US health sector;
  2. payment systems for physicians and hospitals;
  3. comparative health care systems;
  4. financing health care in developing nations; and,
  5. interaction between economic development and health care.
Two projects address policy issues of the United States. Hsiao and his colleagues developed a large scale simulation model that intends to assess the fiscal and health impacts produced by various national health insurance plans. Using time series/cross-sectional data, Hsiao's team designed a multi-equation model that employs a number of variables to predict utilization rates and prices of health services. This model also predicts total health expenditures from supply and demand variables, giving special attention to supply variables, such as physician and hospital beds per capita, availability of primary care physicians, and new technologies. The second project further expands his previous work on the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) by packaging physician services into episode of illness, and examines variation in resource input costs by quality of service.
Comparing health systems across industrialized nations, Hsiao applies political and economic theories to develop a structural framework of essential elements of health systems. His team uses econometric models to test various hypotheses and to estimate the extent to which each structural element influences health expenditures and health status. Employing his systemic framework, he is assisting Taiwan, Cyprus, Mexico, Colombia, China, and Sweden in their health systems reforms.
In developing nations, Hsiao's research focuses on the development of sustainable financing mechanisms to provide health care for the poor, rural population, and urban workers. With UNICEF's support, he collaborates with seven universities in China to conduct a nationwide study on health care financing and provision for 100 million poor Chinese. Meanwhile, with the support of The World Bank, he is launching a large scale social experiment on community financing for the rural Chinese population, involving 100 communities and two million people.

Education

Ph.D., 1982, Harvard University

2012年3月14日 星期三

雷穎/雷寶華

我聽過一場改變志向,決心走向工業界的演講,是高禩瑾先生請趙鐵頭來講中鋼創辦史的感人故事……這是我的一次難忘體驗: 我很少聽演講。這輩子印象最深刻的演講是:我1970年 代初,上高禩瑾先生的工業管理學課程,他講的,都是很正統的美國企業管理知識。實務方面,高先生會請他的舊部屬來演講,如中鋼公司負責人趙耀東先生(他後 當過經濟部長)的故事,最感人。他演講的一些具體內容,可參考雷穎《造化遊戲四十年:雷穎回憶錄》,(台北:中央研究院近代史研究所,民國88年(1999),頁175-80)。當然,最重要的是「趙鐵頭」親身說法,他很有說偉大英雄故事的魅力,讓年青人嚮往萬分。(現在,第一代中鋼員工多快退休了……2008年八月初還傳出新進員工考試作弊之醜聞)。高院長又請各行業界領導來演講「台灣的產業問題」,……. 敬悼 趙耀東先生



雷穎--盡所學 無怨無悔論 過往 悲喜難道 工程師 雷穎 兵工世界展長才 管理帶人一把罩

基本資料:
姓  名 雷穎
性  別 男
訪談時間 2006年08月02日
訪談摘要:
雷穎先生雖然是位將軍,並且在兵工界 享有盛名,歷任陸軍汽車基地廠廠長、61兵工廠廠長、兵工署署長、聯勤參謀長、聯勤副總司令,及臺灣機械公司總經理、董事長等,但是卻沒有任何一點官架 子,甚至比許多其他的榮民伯伯還親切,當我向他解釋這次專訪的目的及內容時,雷先生竟兩手一攤,笑笑地說沒關係,一切隨我擺佈,實在是令我受寵若驚。
雷 穎先生出生於北平,父親雷寶華*曾任北票煤礦公司總工程師及總經理,來臺後擔任臺糖總經理,舅舅為重慶金融鉅子康心如,對雷先生小時後的教育有著重大影響。 中學時就讀南開中學,南開中學對於學生的德智體群美同等重視,要求學生不能偏廢任何一項,雷穎先生便是在這種自由開明中的環境中成長;畢業後由於體認到兵 工未來的發展,因此進入兵工學校造兵系就讀,接受嚴格的兵工訓練,畢業後派到各地進行兵工任務。
38年隨兵工廠來臺,因著對英文的興趣,46年 起,多次擔任高級企業管理討論會的翻譯,使得雷穎先生近一步了解管理並激起其對管理的興趣,49年時奉命代理陸軍汽車基地勤務廠廠長職務,雖然壓力沉重, 但雷穎先生仍本著身為軍人就要服從上級命令的精神,咬牙接下任務,談到當時工作的辛酸,直言「當時真是苦啊!」雖然辛苦,但3年後雷先生離開汽基廠時,已 將汽基廠的績效好轉,因此上級指名要求雷先生接任61兵工廠廠長一職,雷先生說這是他職場生涯中最快樂的一段日子,不僅做的是他最愛的兵工,同事間也相處 融洽。由於績效卓越,日後雷先生更是更上一層樓,擔任兵工生產署署長及聯勤參謀長、副總司令,因為功蹟顯著,接著被外調到臺灣機械公司擔任總經理及董事長 一職,雷先生語重心長地告訴我們,帶人主在帶心,只要能讓部屬心向著你,那麼一切事情就都好辦,我想,這就是雷先生一路走來,成功的秘訣。
訪談結束挑選照片時,雷先生拿出一個封袋笑說已經幾十年沒打開了,今天讓我們看一下,封袋上面寫著「最有價值、最值得珍藏的照片」,原本我猜想裡面可能是他與達官要人的合照,不料卻是雷先生家人的照片,由此也看到雷先生重視家庭的另一面,也讓我對這位將軍更加地敬佩。
*陳之藩先生有篇悼念雷寶華的文章: 把酒論詩 (1981年3月寫於香港 是陳的最好文章之一) 收入一星如月

2012年3月13日 星期二

Samuel J. Palmisano,



我是資訊產業的旁觀者 IBM 公司的頭頭 Palmisano 在2002年上任時 讀了許多他的報導
這10年他又把 IBM轉型為確實的世界一流的公司
是相當了不起的


IBM's Palmisano: Top 12 Milestones as CEO
eWeek
29, 2002, IBM announced that Samuel J. Palmisano would become the company's eighth CEO of IBM. Palmisano replaced Louis V. Gerstner, who would retain his position as chairman of IBM through the end of 2002. Gerstner came to IBM in 1993 and helped turn ...


Leadership and Change
(Video with Transcript)
IBM's Sam Palmisano: 'Always Put the Enterprise Ahead of the Individual'

As far as a legacy goes, says IBM chairman Sam Palmisano, "I just want to leave the company better than I found it." Judging by IBM's successes over the past decade, Palmisano, who was CEO of IBM until he stepped down earlier this month, did just that. During an interview with Wharton management professor Michael Useem, Palmisano discussed the sale of the company's personal computer business, the PricewaterhouseCoopers acquisition, how a big company can encourage innovation, and what he learned from his mentors, among other observations drawn from almost 40 years at IBM. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/2927.cfm




我可能在管理學新生 blog 寫更多的他
一心以企業為先 IBM's Samuel J. Palmisano

March 12, 2012Print version

IBM leader to send off JHU grads


Sam Palmisano
Samuel J. Palmisano, the chairman of the board at computer giant IBM and the company’s former president and CEO, will be the featured speaker at this year’s university commencement ceremony, to be held on Thursday, May 24, on Homewood Field.
Palmisano, a 1973 graduate of Johns Hopkins and a former university trustee, began his career at IBM right after college and rose through the ranks at a business currently listed 18th on the Fortune 500.
Palmisano is perhaps best known for leading the ambitious transformation of a 100-year-old company, and for his vision of how technology and global integration are reshaping business and society. Under his leadership, IBM made tough calls to get out of businesses that IBM itself had invented and enter new ones, leading to growth and innovation.
In January of this year, Palmisano stepped down as IBM CEO, leaving a legacy of record performance despite the global economic crisis. He continues to serve as IBM’s chairman of the board.
“Sam is a daring and visionary leader, whose dedication to discovery and refusal to accept the status quo guided one of the great transformations in business history,” said university President Ronald J. Daniels. “His capacity for bold, creative and critical thinking across domains reflects the power of a Johns Hopkins education. I’m delighted to welcome back one of our own to share his insights as the class of 2012 looks to the future.”
Palmisano joins a distinguished group of Johns Hopkins commencement speakers, a list that has included former Vice President Al Gore; comedian Bill Cosby; Elizabeth Dole, former senator and then president of the American Red Cross; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Brian Billick, then head coach of the Baltimore Ravens; Sen. John McCain; Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House at the time; and others from the worlds of politics, sports, media and entertainment.
Palmisano grew up in Baltimore and attended Calvert Hall College High School. At Johns Hopkins, he studied history and played on the offensive line for the Blue Jays football team that he co-captained.
He began his career at IBM in 1973 in Baltimore and took on a series of leadership positions before rising to president and chief operating officer in 2000, CEO in 2002 and chairman of the board in 2003.
He holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an honorary fellowship from the London Business School. He received the Atlantic Council’s Distinguished Business Leadership Award in 2009 and the inaugural Deming Cup, presented in 2010 by Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness. He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Palmisano returned to his alma mater in February 2011 to launch the IBM Centennial Lectures, a yearlong series celebrating the company’s 100th anniversary and focusing on leadership and driving progress in an integrated and increasingly technologically enabled world. To hear the lecture, go to gazette.jhu.edu/2011/02/07/ceo-of-ibm-kicks-off-yearlong-lecture-series-at-his-alma-mater.
Palmisano recently sat down with President Daniels for the spring edition of Johns Hopkins Magazine to talk about higher education, innovation and U.S. global competitiveness. To read the interview or listen to their conversation, go to magazine.jhu.edu/colloquy.
In an effort to promote a more unified Johns Hopkins family, the university in 2010 fused the universitywide commencement ceremony with the Homewood undergraduate diploma ceremony for one grand graduation observance. The result is a single ceremony, at which Palmisano will speak, for graduates from all divisions and campuses.
More information on this year’s commencement ceremony, including a full list of speakers for all university divisional ceremonies, will be posted as it becomes available at www.jhu.edu/commencement.

2012年3月4日 星期日

Uniqlo's Tadashi Yanai

Tadashi Yanai (柳井 正 Yanai Tadashi?, born February 7, 1949) is founder and president of Fast Retailing, of which Uniqlo (ユニクロ, "unique clothing") is subsidiary. He is routinely ranked as one of richest men in Japan, and in 2009 he was ranked 76th richest man in world according to Forbes, making him richest man in Japan with estimated net worth of $6.0 billion USD.[1][2]

[edit] Biography

Yanai attended Ube High School and later Waseda University, graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Politics.[3] In 1984, he opened his first Uniqlo store in Hiroshima.[3] In the April 2009 issue of Monocle magazine, Yanai said, "I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time."

Yanai won the International Retailer of Year award for 2010 from the National Retail Federation in US. He was only the fourth Japanese national to win it, and the first since Masatoshi Ito (the owner and honorary chairman of the Ito-Yokado retailing group) in 1998. He was also chosen as best company president in a survey of Japanese corporate executives by Sanno Institute of Management in 2008 and 2009.[4]

In March 2011, Yanai donated 1 billion yen to victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake.[5]


6 February 2008

CNN's Talk Asia Interviews Uniqlo's Tadashi Yanai

Those who know me know i love brands, particularly fashion brands. One fashion brand that i am a fan of is Uniqlo. I love their brand image personality. Most importantly, their products delivers and keeps the brand promise of great quality mix-n-match fashionable clothing at more than affordable pricing.



Recently CNN's Talk Asia interviewed the founder and mastermind behind Uniqlo's phenomenal growth, Mr. Tadashi Yanai. The insightful interview comes in 3 parts; the first part forcusing on the no brand brand, the second part talks about working for Uniqlo and the final part discusses American consumers. Click here to see Tadashi Yanai share his thoughts on where the brand came from, what it stands for, and where it is headed.

I have been keeping a watchful eye on their development since I landed in Japan in 2002. What i am most interested in and find most impressive are the advertising and marketing efforts they use to initially, rebrand themselves to up their street-cred and desirability, and to maintain this image.



Take their Uniqlo Jump campaign last year for example. Instead of using models they enlisted the help of their 650+ staffs worldwide in Japan, UK, US, China and South Korea, for their ads shown on user-generated sites such as flickr, youtube, hatena blog and even google maps. The ads in my opinion are wonderful as they make me feel good and happy, they are full of vitality and energy and shows Uniqlo to be a fun and stylish brand. Most importantly, their clothes and their stores shine out in them.

To those i know and don't know, take care always and i'll see you guys later. Comments welcome.

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