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Recommendations for actions to ensure compliance of business processes with current data protection regulations at the vocational training center at F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
No full textGovernments across the world, including the European Union through the implementation of the GDPR and the Swiss government through the revision of the FADP, have imposed more stringent regulations on data privacy. These rules highlight the need for openness, data access rights for individuals, and organizational accountability. Despite their already implemented compliance measures, the vocational training center at F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Kaiseraugst is determined to ensure full compliance with these regulations
Extraterritoriality of the Sherman Act and Deterrence of Private International Cartels
Full text linkThis paper presents two major economic arguments relevant to a decision facing the U.S. Supreme Court in early 2004. In Empagran v. F. Hoffmann-LaRoche the Court must decide whether companies like Empagran, an Ecuadorian animal-feed manufacturer, ought to be permitted to sue for treble damages under the 1890 Sherman Act, even though Empagran bought vitamins from a convicted global cartel wholly outside U.S. territory. Because of ineffective antitrust enforcement in its home country, Empagran and similarly situated buyers favor having this right, whereas Roche and 19 other members of the vitamins cartel oppose it. The first argument in favor of extraterritorial expansion concerns the effects on U.S. consumers and the competitiveness of U.S. markets. I argue that in the context of international price-fixing conspiracies, conduct relating to "wholly foreign" purchases necessarily affects domestic commerce. This is because international cartels must prevent international geographic arbitrage in order to succeed in controlling prices in any targeted national market. Second, this paper assembles empirical evidence that, should non-U.S. transactions be excluded from U.S. antitrust protection, the global aspirations of contemporary cartels offer an insuperable challenge to a core aim of the antitrust laws: Deterrence. The broad geographic harm generated by the scores of modern global price-fixing conspiracies has overwhelmed the ability of current laws about corporate antitrust sanctions to provide enough financial disincentives to discourage the formation of similar cartels in the future. Permitting foreign buyers who purchased the products of international cartels abroad to pursue civil antitrust damages actions in U.S. courts is necessary to yield the level of legal punishment needed to protect the U.S. economy and its consumers from future cartel injuries. Territorial expansion will also increase the probability of discovery of clandestine cartels by multiplying the number of jurisdictions in which private parties have an incentive to investigate collusive behavior.International Relations/Trade,
Integration of an E-Signature Workflow into the “System for Apprenticeship Management”
No full textThe vocational training centre of F. Hoffmann La Roche has different document signing processes across the various teams. The dependence on physical signatures and non-standardized workflows led to increased administrative tasks. The lack of a harmonised approach caused inefficiencies, highlighting the need for a standardised solution to streamline operations and ensure consistent legal compliance
EXTRATERRITORIALITY OF THE SHERMAN ACT AND DETERRENCE OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL CARTELS
Full text linkThis paper presents two major economic arguments relevant to a decision facing the U.S. Supreme Court in early 2004. In Empagran v. F. Hoffmann-LaRoche the Court must decide whether companies like Empagran, an Ecuadorian animal-feed manufacturer, ought to be permitted to sue for treble damages under the 1890 Sherman Act, even though Empagran bought vitamins from a convicted global cartel wholly outside U.S. territory. Because of ineffective antitrust enforcement in its home country, Empagran and similarly situated buyers favor having this right, whereas Roche and 19 other members of the vitamins cartel oppose it. The first argument in favor of extraterritorial expansion concerns the effects on U.S. consumers and the competitiveness of U.S. markets. I argue that in the context of international price-fixing conspiracies, conduct relating to “wholly foreign” purchases necessarily affects domestic commerce. This is because international cartels must prevent international geographic arbitrage in order to succeed in controlling prices in any targeted national market. Second, this paper assembles empirical evidence that, should non-U.S. transactions be excluded from U.S. antitrust protection, the global aspirations of contemporary cartels offer an insuperable challenge to a core aim of the antitrust laws: Deterrence. The broad geographic harm generated by the scores of modern global price-fixing conspiracies has overwhelmed the ability of current laws about corporate antitrust sanctions to provide enough financial disincentives to discourage the formation of similar cartels in the future. Permitting foreign buyers who purchased the products of international cartels abroad to pursue civil antitrust damages actions in U.S. courts is necessary to yield the level of legal punishment needed to protect the U.S. economy and its consumers from future cartel injuries. Territorial expansion will also increase the probability of discovery of clandestine cartels by multiplying the number of jurisdictions in which private parties have an incentive to investigate collusive behavior.extraterritoriality, antitrust, cartel, price fixing, deterrence
Magasin de Musique et d’Instruments de F. Hoffmann à Lausanne
No full text1st ed. of revised versionDédiée à Son Excellence Monsieur le Comte d PradelReprésentée pour la première fois sur le Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique, le 28 Novembre 1809, et remise avec des Changemens, le 28 Mai 1817Lithograph, on heavier paper, after t.p.: Imp. Lithogr. de G. Engelmann with caption: Acte II Scène VII Cortez j’ai perdu mes soldats Choeur s’inclinant devant Cortez Ils sont à tes genouxFrench wordsBased on A. Piron's tragedyThis copy has v. 1 (Acts 1 & 2) onlyThis copy has sticker on front cover: Magasin de Musique et d’Instruments de F. Hoffmann à Lausanne signed by HoffmannThis copy from the Collection of Louise Hanson-Dye
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Measuring ROI of IT Trainings in a Global Pharmaceutical Company
No full textHow is it possible to measure how much return trainings bring compared to investments? The client, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Roche) in Basel, faces this problem: the ROI of the Roche IT trainings cannot be measured. Since the benefits are not determinable, hence it is difficult to evaluate whether the courses bring value to the company or if the company would be better off without the current trainings. It is their desire to find a simple and adoptable but still effective way to calculate the ROI of IT trainings
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