Canadian Niagara Power Company fonds

Power at the Falls: The first recorded harnessing of Niagara Falls power was in 1759 by Daniel Joncairs. On the American side of the Falls he dug a small ditch and drew water to turn a wheel which powered a sawmill. In 1805 brothers Augustus and Peter Porter expanded on Joncairs idea. They bought the American Falls from New York State at public auction. Using Joncairs old site they built a gristmill and tannery which stayed in business for twenty years. The next attempt at using the Falls came in 1860 when construction of the hydraulic canal began by the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Co. The canal was complete in 1861 and brought water from the Niagara river, above the falls, to the mills below. By 1881 the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Co. had a small generating station which provided some electricity to the village of Niagara Falls and the Mills. This lasted only four years and then the company sold its assets at public auction due to bankruptcy. Jacob Schoellkopf arrived at the Falls in 1877 with the purchase of the hydraulic canal land and water and power rights. In 1879 Schoellkopf teamed up with Charles Brush (of Euclid Ohio) and powered Brush’s generator and carbon arc lights with the power from his water turbines, to illuminate the Falls electrically for the first time. The year 1895 marked the opening of the Adam No. 1 generating station on the American side. The station was the beginnings of modern electrical utility operations. The design and operations of the generating station came from worldwide competitions held by panels of experts. Some who were involved in the project include; George Westinghouse, J. Pierpont Morgan, Lord Kelvin and Nikoli Tesla. The plants were operated by the Niagara Falls Power Company until 1961, when the Robert Moses Plant began operation in Lewiston, NY. The Adams plants were demolished that same year and the site used as a sewage treatment plant. The Canadian side of the Falls began generating their own power on January 1, 1905. This power came from the William Birch Rankine Power Station located 500 yards above the Horseshoe Falls. This power station provided the village of Fort Erie with its first electricity in 1907, using its two 10,000 electrical horsepower generators. Today 11 generators produce 100,000 horsepower (75 megawatts) and operate as part of the Niagara Mohawk and Fortis Incorporated Power Group.

Estelle Cuffe Hawley fonds, 1852-1999, n.d.

Estelle Cuffe Hawley (1894-1995) was an educator, businesswoman and politician, who became the first woman alderman on the St. Catharines City Council. She began her career as a teacher in Peterborough in 1913, and later taught in St. Catharines at Connaught School and St. Paul’s Ward School, where she served as Principal for six years. In 1928-29, she worked as an exchange teacher in Edmonton, Alberta. This would be Estelle’s last year in the teaching profession. She moved back to St. Catharines in 1930 and began a career in business, as an employee of Sun Life Assurance Co. She remained in this profession until around 1952. It was during this period that she became very active in the community and local politics. In 1934 she was elected to the St. Catharines Board of Education, where she advocated for the improvement of teachers’ salaries, the introduction of nursing services in schools, and the inclusion of music in the curriculum. She served as a member of the school board until 1937. The following year, she became the first woman elected to the St. Catharines City Council. As an alderman, she worked to improve the community's social welfare services, serving consecutively as chairman of all committees. She established comprehensive health services (including medical, dental and nursing), in the public, separate and secondary schools of St. Catharines, the first program of its kind in Canada. She was also instrumental in establishing minimum housing standards and engaging the public in local government by arranging a series of lectures by city officials. She remained a member of City Council until 1943. The following year she campaigned unsuccessfully for the mayoralty. In 1953 she married Hubert Hawley and moved to Orillia. She continued to remain active in the community, serving as President of the Ontario Recreation Association from 1950-1953, and editor of their Bulletin from 1955-1961. During the 1960s, she worked with various groups, including the Voice of Women, the Mental Health Association and the Freedom from Hunger Campaign. In addition to this work, Estelle wrote poetry and short stories, some of which were published in the Peterborough Review, the Globe and Mail and the Canadian Churchman. Some of her short stories (often about her childhood experiences) were broadcast on the CBC, as well as her experiences as a Town Councillor (under the pseudonym Rebecca Johnson in 1961). She also broadcast a segment that was part of a series called “Winning the Peace” in April 1944. Estelle was a sought-after public speaker, speaking on topics such as peace, democracy, citizenship, education, and women’s rights. In 1976, Brock University conferred an honorary Doctor of Law degree to Estelle for her leadership as an educator, businesswoman and a stateswoman. Her husband Hubert died that same year, and Estelle subsequently moved to Mississauga. With the assistance of an Ontario Heritage Foundation grant, she began work on her memoir. She later moved back to Orillia and died there in 1995, at the age of 101.

Le golf : un modèle opérationnel pour l’entreprise éthique

Depuis les années 1980, le besoin d’éthique progresse régulièrement. Néanmoins, l’intégration de l’éthique dans les entreprises ne va pas sans poser certains problèmes. Dans ce travail, notre hypothèse est qu’une activité dont l’existence même est conditionnée par le respect de certains principes éthiques fondamentaux, le golf, peut constituer un modèle opérationnel pour les entreprises soucieuses d’éthique (MOG). Les trois dimensions de ce modèle sont : l’éthique en relation avec la loi, l’éthique en relation avec l’environnement et l’éthique relative aux personnes, dimensions qui sont d’ailleurs d’ores et déjà présentes dans les documents éthiques de référence de certaines grandes entreprises françaises qui peuvent donc être considérées comme des précurseurs de ce modèle.

L'évolution de l'éthique des affaires aux États-Unis (1961-2002): la théorie institutionnelle en action

En dépit de toute l'histoire philosophique et théologique qui a relié l'éthique à l'économie, l'éthique des affaires comme champ de recherche est véritablement né aux États-Unis à la fin des années 1960. Nous avons identifié trois périodes dans l'évolution de l'éthique des affaires aux États-Unis: (1) les prolégomènes d'un intérêt porté à l'éthique dans le milieu des affaires américain (1961-1976); (2) l'effervescence d'une préoccupation éthique dans les grandes entreprises américaines (1977-1990); (3) l'instrumentalisation de l'éthique supportée par l'appareil gouvernemental (1991-2002). À travers ces trois périodes, nous ferons ressortir l'apport des recherches les plus marquantes en éthique des affaires, qu'elles aient adopté une perspective descriptive, normative ou analytique.

Imputation en présence de données contenant des zéros

L’imputation simple est très souvent utilisée dans les enquêtes pour compenser pour la non-réponse partielle. Dans certaines situations, la variable nécessitant l’imputation prend des valeurs nulles un très grand nombre de fois. Ceci est très fréquent dans les enquêtes entreprises qui collectent les variables économiques. Dans ce mémoire, nous étudions les propriétés de deux méthodes d’imputation souvent utilisées en pratique et nous montrons qu’elles produisent des estimateurs imputés biaisés en général. Motivé par un modèle de mélange, nous proposons trois méthodes d’imputation et étudions leurs propriétés en termes de biais. Pour ces méthodes d’imputation, nous considérons un estimateur jackknife de la variance convergent vers la vraie variance, sous l’hypothèse que la fraction de sondage est négligeable. Finalement, nous effectuons une étude par simulation pour étudier la performance des estimateurs ponctuels et de variance en termes de biais et d’erreur quadratique moyenne.

L’éthique de la discussion : Portée et limites des propositions de Karl-Otto Apel

Management sciences and corporate practices of companies bring extensive views on the ethics and the corporate responsibility. The practical experiments try to build, and to make appropriate themselves to itself by the actors of companies, the deontological ethics governed by principles. Dialogue and deliberation are the political frame given to this construction. A question seems then central, that of the ultimate rational foundation of the morality and its normative contents. K.O. Apel’s propositions concerning his ethics of the discussion founded in a pragmatico-transcendental way seems to me to allow an essential advance on the subject. According to Apel, this foundation should supply: 1) The bases of an ultimate rational foundation of the morality and its normative contents, 2) The bases of the universal validity of a principle of justice, solidarity and co responsibility, 3) The bases of an ethics of the responsibility, but not an deontological ethics, governed by principles which could come to complete and to legitimize socio organizational processes and systems of relations which, placed in a new ethical context, could continue. In this article, I try to show in what K.O. Apel’s propositions allow to enrich a reflection opened by the research works in business ethics and in organizational behavior.

L’indignation citoyenne contre la loi hypothécaire en Espagne : complémentarités entre éthiques de la justice et de la sollicitude

Consumers are legitimate stakeholders but are unevenly active and powerful in the dynamics that can lead companies to a more socially responsible behaviour. This article proposes to test the relevance, across the struggles of consumers, of the well-known opposition in business ethics between ethics of justice and ethics of care. Relying on a semi-participant direct and webnographic observation of a wide citizen movement that arose in Spain, questioning banks and mortgage regulation, after the explosion of the housing bubble in 2008, this article strives to highlight the permanent dual approach to ethics at all levels of the movement, from spokespersons to supporters, in speech and in actions. One approach is more focused on laws and principles, whereas the other is more focused on direct support to people affected by foreclosures. This article demonstrates the continuities between these two registers of justice and care and their functional complementarities in the dynamics of mobilization. A discussion will then follow on the substance of the opposition between the ethics of justice and the ethics of care as well as on the possible representativeness of this case: behind the singularities of the mortgage issue or of Spanish political culture, one cannot but observe the challenging mobilizing process that comprises a human rightist activism combined with a feminist approach to social issues.

Moving from Margin to Mainstream

School of Management Studies,Cochin University of Science and Technology

A model of Distributed Ayurvedic Diagnosis and Therapy System for Hridroga Using Agents

Diagnosis of Hridroga (cardiac disorders) in Ayurveda requires the combination of many different types of data, including personal details, patient symptoms, patient histories, general examination results, Ashtavidha pareeksha results etc. Computer-assisted decision support systems must be able to combine these data types into a seamless system. Intelligent agents, an approach that has been used chiefly in business applications, is used in medical diagnosis in this case. This paper is about a multi-agent system named “Distributed Ayurvedic Diagnosis and Therapy System for Hridroga using Agents” (DADTSHUA). It describes the architecture of the DADTSHUA model .This system is using mobile agents and ontology for passing data through the network. Due to this, transport delay can be minimized. It is a system which will be very helpful for the beginning physicians to eliminate his ambiguity in diagnosis and therapy. The system is implemented using Java Agent DEvelopment framework (JADE), which is a java-complaint mobile agent platform from TILab.

Cultura organizacional en la empresa Faber Castell en Colombia

El siguiente es el trabajo de grado de la Facultad de Administración de la Universidad Colegio Mayor de nuestra señora del Rosario para optar por el titulo de Administrador de Empresas. Es un estudio de clima y cultura organizacional en la organización Faber Castell aplicada a su subsidiaria en Colombia Tecnacril Ltda. Empresa dedicada a la producción y comercialización de artículos para escritura y arte. El trabajo busca determinar la cultura y el clima organizacional dentro de la organización determinando características únicas les permite diferenciarse y tendencias a nivel de comportamiento y procesos dentro de la organización y como es reflejado en el entorno en el cual se desarrolla. Para este trabajo se aplico el instrumento para medición de clima (IMCOC) y de cultura en desarrollado por el doctor Carlos Eduardo Méndez Álvarez profesor de la Universidad Colegio Mayor de nuestra Señora del Rosario Los resultados obtenidos nos determinar pautas y aspectos a mejorar o cambiar dentro de la organización en fin de buscar una mayor productividad y por ende competitividad de la misma basándonos en el talento humano como uno de los principales rasgos competitivos dentro de la organización.

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Magic bowl for success in business

Diagnóstico y propuesta para la implementación de un departamento de mercadeo en la multinacional Rhodia Colombia 2012

Este trabajo de grado se realizó con el fin de hacer un diagnóstico para evaluar y analizar la estructuración un departamento de mercadeo en Rhodia Colombia, teniendo en cuenta la coyuntura actual de la compañía y su intensión expansionista en los mercados de industria química en Colombia. Para lograr esta intención es necesario que este departamento pueda llevar procesos de investigación alineados con las estrategias de Marketing que desarrolla Rhodia Brasil, y así mismo brindar a los gerentes comerciales información valiosa para realizar esfuerzos en los mercados potenciales de Rhodia y a los mercados en que se ha posicionado Solvay en Colombia. Las expectativas se fundamentan en lograr establecer un departamento de Mercadeo estructurado donde se lleven a cabo procesos de Marketing “Business to Business” en pro de buscar nuevas oportunidades de mercado, fortalecer la presencia comercial en nichos de mercado estratégicos y monitorear los mercados de la compañía para anticiparse ante los sucesos coyunturales donde interactúan los productos de Rhodia en Colombia.

Recomendaciones para la integración de la industria textil en la conformación del cluster

Este trabajo de grado se realizó con el objetivo de obtener un diagnóstico sobre los factores internos de las empresas del sector textil en Bogotá-Cundinamarca, para determinar cuáles son los factores fundamentales, que afectan o benefician a las compañías, en el momento de la toma de decisión de ser partícipes de la política de asociatividad. Dicha política específicamente hace referencia al programa del Clúster de la moda Bogotá, el cual busca vincular los diferentes actores pertenecientes al mismo sector económico y estratégico, para crear un ambiente cooperativo donde exista el flujo continuo de información, logrando ser competitivos a nivel mundial. De igual manera para entender a fondo el tema a tratar, se desarrollaron investigaciones en fuentes primarias y secundarias, que permitieron identificar la situación que ha tenido el sector textil en la capital, además se estudió el programa Clúster de moda Bogotá, el cual se comparó con una de las regiones líderes en Colombia en programas de cooperación empresarial, como lo es el clúster de moda Medellín y por último se implementó una entrevista a profundidad a microempresarios del sector principalmente, con el fin obtener un diagnóstico más detallado de la realidad actual. Una vez condesada dicha información, se generó las conclusiones y recomendaciones pertinentes para poder validar la proposición planteada.

De la morbilidad a la perdurabildad : caso empresarial multiproyectos

El presente trabajo de grado es el resultado del proyecto de investigación realizado con el Centro de estudios empresariales para la perdurabilidad (CEEP) y el grupo de investigación empresarial de la facultad de Administración de la Universidad del Rosario, donde se muestra el trabajo de una de las tres líneas que ha venido realizando el grupo de investigación: perdurabilidad empresarial, aprendizaje de resurgimiento y condiciones de incidencia que permitan que las pequeñas y medianas empresas perduren en la línea de tiempo en el contexto Colombiano. En el presente escrito se encuentran los resultados de los análisis y la información recolectada para el caso de la empresa Multiproyectos, empresa que obtuvo el premio ave fénix en el año 2007, el cual destaca el resurgimiento de las empresas que se vieron envueltas en la crisis y que por fruto de su esfuerzo, sinergia y ardua disciplina lograron superarla.

Internacionalización y perdurabilidad de Cemex Colombia

Los estudios de internacionalización y la perdurabilidad de las organizaciones en el mundo, han tenido grandes desarrollos en la Administración y con esto, se han podido observar e identificar pasos en las estrategias de dichas empresas, para ser estudiadas y establecer modelos que contribuyan al desarrollo de muchas otras. En el siguiente trabajo se busca identificar cuáles fueron las estrategias de la multinacional mexicana CEMEX para incursionar en el mercado colombiano, ser perdurable por más de 10 años y ser una de las empresas líderes del mercado cementero desde que llegó al país. También, este estudio identifica las estrategias de CEMEX de dichas líneas de investigación, para tener una claridad y poder establecer una guía para otras empresas, que tengan como intención, entrar en el mercado colombiano o quieran ser perdurables en el mismo. En resultado, se identificará a CEMEX como modelo de estrategia en Colombia y qué se puede aprender de este.