"The sense of empowerment is the same," Vern Keenan, who runs a San Francisco Internet consulting firm, observes dryly, "but the politics is very different.
"In Britain, finance directors seem to be more loyal to their practice than to their firm," observes Frank Schroeder.
As Nathan Bush of O'Melveny & Myers, an American law firm, observes, restricting access to personal data makes it easier for those with bad intentions to get away with fraud.
Ronny Gal of Sanford Bernstein, a financial research firm, observes that even though it requires a lot of computing power and know-how to improve a drug, the necessary skills and equipment are becoming quite widespread.
Nancy Qian of KXTX, a logistics firm, observes that companies compete so fiercely on price that most barely make any money, and so lack the funds needed to modernise or achieve economies of scale.
Anne Stevenson-Yang of J Capital, a research firm, observes that these bonds have since been wiped clean from its balance-sheet without any explanation for where they went: "The AMCs seem to be virtual holding-tanks where the debt doesn't stay and doesn't depart either".
More pessimistic firms observe the creation of a bigger rival, able to exploit economies of scale, and seek defensive unions.
3 Thus, a higher value of p1 does not lead the firm (or others) to expect a higher value of p2. 4 Note that, because the firm can observe workers' performance and thus base wages on performance, the motivation for using the threat of layoffs as an incentive tool is different from the typical efficiency wage model.
5) A firm must observe proper standards of market conduct.
And over the last few years, as Robert Barbera, the chief economist at the investment advisory firm ITG, observed, the Federal Reserve took short-term interest rates from 1percentto51/4percentrcent.
