The paper arises from a 98-corporation study of building e-business infrastructure.
A recent RAND corporation study found that more than 40percentt of veterans didn't understand what benefits were available to them, and 25percentt didn't know whom to ask about them.
Google applications like Google Docs and Google Desktop were used in 60percentt of the corporations studied.
While administration officials cautioned on Thursday that no decisions have been made and that any debate in Congress could take years, Mr. Obama has directed his economic team and Treasury Department analysts to review options for closing loopholes and simplifying income taxes for corporations and individuals, though the study of the corporate tax system is farther along, officials said.
Of the 25 corporations studied, ten had taken action on salt, five on sugar, four on fat and eight on trans fats, but only two on portion sizes [ 119].
(The corporation did conduct an internal study of the video game industry in 2007 but concluded "that its small size didn't merit investment," according to the report).
Chandler was also known for his books Strategy and Structure (1962), which explored the organization of large corporate enterprises, and Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (1990), a comparative study of successful corporations in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany.
A study of large corporations found that the ones, "with the most advanced analytics capabilities are outperforming competitors by wide margins".
One of his favorite books was "Moral Mazes," by Robert Jackall, an anthropological study of several large corporations, which examined how the structure of the corporations created a corporate morality.
"They really pulled it off, from a near disaster," said David C Robertson, American author of Brick by Brick, a study of the Lego corporation.
The development corporation also plans to release a study of transportation projects in January, laying out which of several projects previously discussed by planners will be the first to be built with $4.55 billion of federal financing that was secured earlier this year.
