Essays on Whitford

Michael Bloomberg is definitely among the public personas whose persistence, inventiveness and meticulousness became the foundation of successful entrepreneurship and overall affluence in financial, political and media realms. In addition to political career, Bloomberg’s greatest achievements in business are a global media empire and a financial data network bearing – quite naturally – the name of their decisive founder, Bloomberg LP. Having created a Wall Street company in 1981 (Anders, 2009) with an intention to collect, structure and deliver financial and trading information (Bainbridge, 2008, p. 27), Bloomberg has been expanding his empire further until today. According to Winfrey (2009, ...

The U.S health care system has undergone changes over the years, with advancements in technology and education, promising more changes to occur in the future. Nurses and nursing practice are at the center of these changes. During this exercise, the views of three nurses; Simon Troy, Karen Smith, and Hannah Wesley were taken into consideration when analyzing the changes in both healthcare and nursing practice. The nurses were in agreement that the future for nurses in the U.S was characterized by both opportunities and challenges. The American health care system is rapidly embracing the concept of continuity of care, ...

The AEG Sustainability Program

Introduction Sustainability should be of great concern to all companies in the events industry. Their business activities have a great impact on the environment. There are many new developments in sustainability, both in theory (including an increasing body of academic literature) and in practice (such as new industry guidelines, accounting frameworks like Triple Bottom Line, and corporate certification schemes) (Sachs, 2015). Corporate management in events companies is, of course, in the best position to make business decisions consistent with the growing awareness of sustainability issues. However, other corporate stakeholders can also become engaged when necessary to assure that their ...