Word: investers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...important that any revenue increase be achieved with as little damage to economic incentives and long-term growth as possible. That means that the current incentives to save and to invest should be preserved and strengthened. It also means that further increases in already high tax rates should be avoided...
...that the company has cruelly treated its striking employees and violated the fundamental principles of corporate-labor relations set down in the New Deal also remain. President Bok and the Harvard Corporation ought to openly, publicly, and immediately debate selling stock in this company. They have a responsibility to invest ethically and an ethical duty to at least consider divestiture...
...only major Pacific nation in which Japan has been slow to invest is China. The two countries have 19 joint ventures, including factories in south China that make television sets and cassette tape players, but the total value of Japan's investments is only about $80 million. Japanese companies have many reasons to be skittish about China: uncomfortable living conditions, a complex government bureaucracy, lack of control over labor relations, the difficulty of repatriating profits, and unreliable power supplies. But as the business climate slowly improves, the Japanese will become more interested in what is potentially the world's largest...
Japan's leaders recognize the need to open up their economy to more foreign goods. The process, though, will be gradual. In the meantime, the Japanese will continue to accumulate trade surpluses and scout around the world for ways to invest their treasure trove both productively and profitably...
...Japanese invest abroad, more and more U.S. businessmen will find themselves doing deals with them. The corporate style that works for Americans at home may not go over with their new colleagues or competitors. Neff and many other Boston-area executives are turning to Ikuko Atsumi, 43, a Japanese poet and feminist who has lived in the U.S. since 1981. She is president of the New England Japanese Center, which teaches often bewildered Americans how to do business with her countrymen. Says Atsumi: "To succeed in Japan, the fastest shortcut is to learn Japanese culture...