The pervasiveness of the entrepreneurial phenomenon attracts the attention on the determinants of the decision of becoming entrepreneur. As the entrepreneurial decision can be additionally conceived as firm entry, as a real business investment in the creation of a new business and as a career choice in favour of self-employment, the literature about entrepreneurship is integrated with industria...

Since the enactment of Foreign Investment Risk Review and Modernization Act 2018, Committee on in United States (or CFIUS or Committee), has enjoyed some its broadest authority since establishment almost fifty years ago. Tasked with screening cross-border transactions that ‘threaten to impair national security States’, discretion define ‘national security’, historically definition evolved with,...

This study reviews the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance on its credit rating. The result of regression analysis to credit ratings with relevant primary independent variables shows that both factors have significant effects on it. As we have predicted, the signs of both regression coefficients have a positive sign (+) proving that corporates with excellent...

Risk control plays an important role at privacy protection. Article 17 (1) of the Directive 95/46/EC (DPD) requires that the controller must implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data. ICT offers solutions in the shape of privacy protection for users, consumers and citizens. The application of ICT to protect privacy has become widely known under the nam...

* Wei Sun is an assistant professor at the Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics at Renmin University in Beijing, China. Anthony Webb is a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. This brief, which is adapted from a longer paper (Sun and Webb 2012), provides general guidance that may be useful in many circumstances. However, a household’s specific investment...

The success of the electronics industry over the last decade in developing the mass consumer market for computers, cellphones and other personal electronic equipment has been phenomenal. Society must now finds ways of safely and economically recovering the materials that are embedded in these products. This will require significant investment by governments, industry and individuals, in technol...

The author of this document, Bill Harvey, was involved in many of the major developments in this field, and so this history is written from the author’s personal perspective. However, a more complete picture would require interviews with others so as to round out the total history of media optimization. In its present form, this document is solely intended for use in building internal consensus...

Medical school tuition and medical student debt have increased dramatically during the past two decades, but loans are available on favorable terms, which makes it possible for students without personal or family means to get a medical education. As an investment, medical education is an excellent choice; its net present value is more than a million dollars. Cost is nevertheless a strong deterr...