In 1989 Barnevik, the big-vision, articulate leader, merged Sweden's Asea and Switzerland's Brown Boveri into a cross-border engineering colossus that would give General Electric a run for its money.
The conditions are necessary to prevent Wall Street executives from paying lavish bonuses and buying corporate jets, some experts say, but others say the conditions go beyond protecting taxpayers and border on social engineering.
According to foreign mining company employees who work in the Gobi Desert border areas, this "engineering work" seems to involve installing electronic surveillance equipment to monitor North Korea and the Lop Nor nuclear testing site in China, which is just across Mongolia's western border.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin March 11 , 2009Some financial institutions are sorry they ever got involved with this bailout — it's so needy and demanding: The conditions are necessary to prevent Wall Street executives from paying lavish bonuses and buying corporate jets, some experts say, but others say the conditions go beyond protecting taxpayers and border on social engineering.
Twenty years after the fall of Communism, the region's economy has been rebuilt in a Western image by entrepreneurs who mastered all sorts of challenges, like getting their early shipments past border guards and engineering products that their European neighbors actually wanted to buy.
But mall REITs, eyeing a richer bounty, take an active interest in tenants that borders on social engineering: getting the right mix and putting them in the right places to maximize sales.
The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is a feat of engineering that borders on miraculous.
Engineers Without Borders Canada, which creates engineering solutions to international development problems, publishes a "failure report" every year alongside its annual report.
The student, Antonio Omaña, developed a computer model to assist decision-makers in emergency response, which won a prize from Engineering Without Borders.
The United States has provided the Mongolian military with peacekeeping training, English lessons and, for the Chinese border area, patrol radios and engineering work.
The border town has highly skilled engineering talent with an international mindset and is in close proximity to the United States, ideal for nearshoring.
