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Vice President (vice + president)
Selected AbstractsOn the Occasion of the 65th Birthday of Dr. Ferdinand NäfHELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA, Issue 12 2005Roger Snowden The following six publications in this issue of Helvetica Chimica Acta are dedicated to Dr. Ferdinand Näf who was Corporate Vice President of R & D at Firmenich (1989,2005). [source] A New Brand in ImagingIMAGING & MICROSCOPY (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2008Five Imaging Companies Formed MAG In Late 200 The Microimaging Applications Group (MAG) comprises five imaging technology leaders: Gatan, Media Cybernetics, Photometrics, QImaging, and MAG Biosystems. These partners work independently as well as in synergy to offer an unparalleled range of solutions for microimaging applications. Michael Reubold spoke with Steven Ridge, MAG's Vice President of Marketing about the concept and strategy behind the formation of MAG. [source] Roundtable Discussion: Problems in the Management of HypertensionJOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPERTENSION, Issue 3 2002Marvin Moser MD Following a symposium on hypertension sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Chicago, IL on October 3, 2001, a panel was convened to discuss various aspects of hypertension treatment. Moderating the panel was Dr. Marvin Moser, Clinical Professor of Medicine at The Yale University School of Medicine. Panel members included Dr. George Bakris, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Director, Hypertension/Clinical Research Center at the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois and Dr. Henry Black, Professor of Medicine, Associate Vice President for Research, and Chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Rush-Presbyterian. [source] 2005 Research Grand and Award Programs prosthodontic Forum Organizations Prepared by Dr.Stephen Campbell Vice President, American College of ProsthodontistsJOURNAL OF PROSTHODONTICS, Issue 4 2005Article first published online: 14 DEC 200 [source] Ford Motor Company and the Firestone tyre recallJOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Issue 3 2003Robert Moll Abstract This paper was prepared as the basis for a class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. It may be appropriate for public affairs, business and public policy, and/or crisis management courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. In conjunction with this case, it may be useful to use the framework for crisis management developed by Dr Ian I. Mitroff, the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. This best practice model is discussed in ,Managing Crises Before They Happen', which Mitroff published in 2001 with Gus Anagnos, Vice President of Comprehensive Crisis Management. This case leads the audience through the Ford,Firestone tyre crisis from 1997,when Ford began to learn of a problem with Firestone tyres on its popular Explorer sport-utility vehicle,up until the summer of 2001, just after Ford recalled 13 million Firestone tyres and the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration cleared Ford of further investigation into potential defects in the Explorer. The case addresses potential causes of the tyre problem, how Ford handled the crisis from a corporate public affairs perspective and, tangentially, how Firestone handled the issue. Copyright © 2003 Henry Stewart Publications [source] From experience: applying the risk diagnosing methodologyTHE JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2002Jimme A. Keizera No risk, no reward. Companies must take risks to launch new products speedily and successfully. The ability to diagnose and manage risks is increasingly considered of vital importance in high-risk innovation. This article presents the Risk Diagnosing Methodology (RDM), which aims to identify and evaluate technological, organizational and business risks in product innovation. RDM was initiated, developed and tested within a division of Philips Electronics, a multinational company in the audio, video and lighting industry. On the basis of the results the senior Vice President (R&D) of Philips Lighting decided to include the method in the company's standard innovation procedures. Since then, RDM has been applied on product innovation projects in areas as diverse as automobile tires, ship propellers, printing equipment, landing gear systems and fast-moving consumer goods such as shampoo, margarine and detergents. In this article we will describe how Unilever, one of the world's leading companies in fast-moving consumer goods, adopted RDM after a major project failure in the midnineties. At Unilever, RDM proved very useful in diagnosing project risks, promoting creative solutions for diagnosed risks and strengthening team ownership of the project as a whole. Our results also show that RDM outcomes can be used to build a knowledge base of potential risks in product innovation projects. [source] Vice president for student affairs and dean of students: Is it possible to do it all?NEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 116 2006Janet Heeter BassArticle first published online: 15 DEC 200 This chapter examines the role of vice president for student affairs and dean of students, the similarities and differences between the two roles, and the realities of holding both titles at a small college. [source] Read Lining: UHD9 RenovationJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 2 2003MARC SWACKHAMER For a University of Houston downtown (UHD) campus renovation, the school's administration asked us to convert the entire ninth floor of a 1929 cotton warehouse into executive administrative offices, including those of the president, vice president, provost, and human resources department. In response to this task, we posed two primary questions: How can we combine "high-end" and "low-end" materials to alter typical expectations of how a university administrative office should and should not appear? How can we challenge assumed differences between use and appearance, part and whole,and, ultimately, between student and administrator,to produce a space that suspends hierarchical preconceptions and produces a more open "etiquette" for dialogue? [source] CPR will honor GE's vice president & general counsel Brackett B. Denniston IIIALTERNATIVES TO THE HIGH COST OF LITIGATION, Issue 9 2005Russ Bleemer CPR's offer to insurers in response to the devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; details on CPR's Corporate Leadership Award Dinner next month honoring General Electric Co.'s vice president and general counsel, Brackett B. Denniston III, and more. [source] Vice president for student affairs and dean of students: Is it possible to do it all?NEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 116 2006Janet Heeter BassArticle first published online: 15 DEC 200 This chapter examines the role of vice president for student affairs and dean of students, the similarities and differences between the two roles, and the realities of holding both titles at a small college. [source] Psychological Illness in Presidents: A Medical Advisory Commission and Disability DeterminationsPOLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2006Robert E. Gilbert Although the 25th Amendment is intended to provide for instances of presidential disability, critics claim that it is impractical since it requires vice presidents and cabinet members to move overtly against the president,which they are unlikely to do. Also, they warn that medical information about the president is likely to be concealed. To overcome these problems, they recommend that a Medical Advisory Commission be established at the outset of every presidential administration to examine the president annually and then provide formal medical input so that the vice president and cabinet would be "compelled" to act in the presence of medically determined "inability," whether physiological or psychological. This paper argues, however, that such a proposal is badly flawed and quite unworkable, particularly in the case of psychological illness where accurate diagnosis typically depends on long-term, continuous doctor-patient interaction rather than through sporadic and superficial interchange. It concludes that less draconian measures in implementing the Amendment are far more sensible, such as those proposed by the Working Group on Presidential Disability which are discussed here. [source] Reform, Reorganization, and the Renaissance of the Managerial Presidency: The Impact of 9/11 on the Executive EstablishmentPOLITICS & POLICY, Issue 2 2006Richard S. Conley In the wake of 9/11, realigning the human and financial resources of the executive branch to fight the war on terrorism quickly became the defining mission of George W. Bush's transformed presidency. This article assesses the ways in which 9/11 impacted on the executive branch of the U.S. government, using a framework of "punctuated equilibrium" to posit that the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington added considerable force to trends already in motion. September 11 proved a catalyst for significant institutional changes, such as the enhanced role of the vice president in policy making and the reorganization of the federal government and intelligence apparatus. Organizational reforms, driven in a top-down fashion by the White House, reflect President Bush's confidence in the managerial presidency: the notion that preventing future terror threats is effectively a problem of executive control, bureaucratic coordination, and adequate funding. [source] Retrospective Voting in Presidential PrimariesPRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2010WILLIAM G. MAYER Though retrospective performance evaluations are now widely appreciated as a major influence on voting in general elections, their influence in presidential primaries has rarely been noticed. Using exit polls conducted by major media organizations over the last nine election cycles, this article shows that retrospective voting is an important, indeed dominant, factor in two types of situations: when an incumbent president is running for reelection, and when an incumbent vice president is seeking to become his party's next presidential candidate. This finding, in turn, helps explain two significant institutional features of the contemporary presidential nomination process: why most recent presidents have been renominated without much difficulty, and why the vice presidency has become such a good launching pad for presidential candidacies. [source] The Making of the Modern Vice Presidency: A Personal ReflectionPRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2008RICHARD MOE Thirty-two years ago, Walter Mondale was elected vice president of the United States. His actions in the first months after the election profoundly recast that office. Richard Moe, then Mondale's chief of staff, provides an inside perspective on this transformation. The article first appeared in Minnesota History in the fall of 2006. [source] Never Cared to Say Goodbye: Presidential Legacies and Vice Presidential CampaignsPRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2002John M. Murphy Presidents are always concerned with their places in history and spend considerable time trying to influence historical judgments. One important locus for the exercise of such influence is the campaign of a potential successor. This article analyzes the ways in which presidents attempt to influence judgments of their legacies through the campaigns of their vice presidents. We focus on presidential discourse during the campaigns of 1960, 1968, 1988, and 2000. Each president used three primary rhetorical strategies in support of his vice president. These strategies formed a coherent narrative, a story that almost inevitably diminished the vice president and cut against the ostensible goal of the discourse: the elevation of the vice president to the presidency. [source] Facilitating Leiden's Cold: The International Association of Refrigeration and the Internationalisation of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Cryogenic LaboratoryCENTAURUS, Issue 3 2007Dirk VanDelft The International Association of Refrigeration (Association Internationale du Froid) was founded in January 1909. Right from the start, the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853,1926) played a major role in the new association, which brought together the science of low temperatures; the refrigeration industry; applications of cold to foodstuffs, trade, and transport; and relevant legislation. In July 1908, Kamerlingh Onnes became the first person to liquefy helium, making his Leiden cryogenic laboratory the coldest spot on earth. Because of this success, he was one of the big stars of the First International Congress of Refrigeration, held in October 1908, in Paris. As vice president of the association and chairman of the ,first committee', which dealt with the science of low temperatures, Kamerlingh Onnes was able to strengthen Leiden's position as the leading international centre for cryogenic research. His presentation at the Paris congress unleashed a stream of guest researchers to Leiden, where they enjoyed Kamerlingh Onnes's hospitality and were allowed to extend their research to much lower temperatures then could be reached in their own laboratories. The Association provided grants for young physicists to perform research ,relevant to cold technology' in Leiden's cryogenic laboratory. In practice, however, the Leiden program dealt only with basic research. In 1920, in the wake of World War I, the Association was transformed into the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR). Kamerlingh Onnes, monsieur Zéro Absolu, maintained his key position. By stressing that the science of refrigeration had a golden future and that superconductivity, which was demonstrated in Leiden in 1911, would come to the aid of electrical engineers, Kamerlingh Onnes was able to secure the funding of his Leiden laboratory by the IIR. [source] Psychological Illness in Presidents: A Medical Advisory Commission and Disability DeterminationsPOLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2006Robert E. Gilbert Although the 25th Amendment is intended to provide for instances of presidential disability, critics claim that it is impractical since it requires vice presidents and cabinet members to move overtly against the president,which they are unlikely to do. Also, they warn that medical information about the president is likely to be concealed. To overcome these problems, they recommend that a Medical Advisory Commission be established at the outset of every presidential administration to examine the president annually and then provide formal medical input so that the vice president and cabinet would be "compelled" to act in the presence of medically determined "inability," whether physiological or psychological. This paper argues, however, that such a proposal is badly flawed and quite unworkable, particularly in the case of psychological illness where accurate diagnosis typically depends on long-term, continuous doctor-patient interaction rather than through sporadic and superficial interchange. It concludes that less draconian measures in implementing the Amendment are far more sensible, such as those proposed by the Working Group on Presidential Disability which are discussed here. [source] The Rising Power of the Modern Vice PresidencyPRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2008JOEL K. GOLDSTEIN Long a pilloried office, the vice presidency has become a significant government institution especially since the service of Walter F. Mondale (1977,81). Mondale and President Jimmy Carter elevated the office to a position of ongoing significance through a carefully designed and executed effort that required the confluence of a number of factors. Mondale's service provided his successors a more robust institution with new resources, enhanced expectations, and a successful model for vice presidential service. Subsequent vice presidents have benefited from Mondale's legacy but have exercised the office in different ways depending, to some degree, on the way in which the factors that shaped Mondale's term have played out for each new incumbent. [source] Never Cared to Say Goodbye: Presidential Legacies and Vice Presidential CampaignsPRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2002John M. Murphy Presidents are always concerned with their places in history and spend considerable time trying to influence historical judgments. One important locus for the exercise of such influence is the campaign of a potential successor. This article analyzes the ways in which presidents attempt to influence judgments of their legacies through the campaigns of their vice presidents. We focus on presidential discourse during the campaigns of 1960, 1968, 1988, and 2000. Each president used three primary rhetorical strategies in support of his vice president. These strategies formed a coherent narrative, a story that almost inevitably diminished the vice president and cut against the ostensible goal of the discourse: the elevation of the vice president to the presidency. [source] The Performance Impact of Content and Process in Product Innovation ChartersTHE JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2007Chris Bart The significance of product innovation charters (PICs) cannot be overemphasized, as they provide understanding and a tool for setting organizational goals, charting strategic direction, and allocating resources for new product portfolios. In a unique way, a PIC represents a sort of mission statement mutation for new products. With the backdrop of strategy formulation and product innovation literatures, this article investigates the impact of both content specificity within PICs and satisfaction with the PIC formulation process on new product performance in North American corporations. A survey was undertaken among executives knowledgeable about their organization's new product development process. The respondents included chief executive officers, vice presidents, directors, and managers. The findings demonstrate that significant differences exist both in PIC content specificity and process satisfaction between highly innovative and low innovative firms. The study also shows that PIC specificity in terms of the factors mission content and strategic directives positively influences new product performance. Further, the study demonstrates that satisfaction with the process of formulating PICs plays a positive and powerful mediating role in the PIC specificity,performance relationship. The results suggest that product innovation charters, like their mission statement cousins, may be of more value than most managers realize. The study shows that achieving a state of organizational satisfaction with a PIC's formulation process is critical for obtaining better new product performance. Directions for future research also are suggested. [source] | ||||||||||||||||