While some mutual insurers have started moving into banking by acquiring savings and loan charters, Mr. Benmosche said that to provide full banking services -- should Met Life eventually choose to do so if Federal barriers fall -- he believed Met Life would need to embrace a holding company structure, which it is now doing.
Countries around the world increasingly recognize that in order to compete in a globally integrated economy they must invest in human capital and innovation, and embrace a competitive tax structure.
Indeed, the challenge to the Bush administration, many of whose top national security officials were veterans of the cold war, is to demonstrate that they are able and eager to embrace a very different military structure to deal with a very different age.
In the medium term it is this choice - between an attempt to change the UK's national business model into something more co-ordinated, ordered and European or embrace a flexible, liberalised economic structure - that will have most impact on the UK's productivity.
Falun Gong embraces a minimal organizational structure, and does not have a rigid hierarchy, physical places of worship, fees, or formal membership.
Instead of top-down command (and payroll) structures, companies should embrace an atmosphere where all workers have an equal say when it comes to developing big ideas.
Therefore, this organization usually embraces a highly centralized authority structure, eliminates work autonomy in every segment, and simplifies and streamlines operations (Taylor 1997/1911; Guillen 1994).
Founded in 1882, Standard Oil of New Jersey was one component of the trust; by design the Standard Oil Trust embraced a maze of legal structures, which made its workings virtually impervious to public investigation and understanding.
It was no coincidence that the alternative structure he embraced, a doctrinaire Marxism or Maoism, purported to grant workers control of the means of production and to promote collaborative work — in fact, Godard co-founded a Marxist cinema collective the following year.
Albright and Ashbrook make even less of an effort than Newberg and d'Aquili to embrace the structure of experimental neuroscience.
