Death of Mr. Guillaume Bordier

1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (229) ◽  
pp. 221-221
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Master Of Business Administration ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The University

Mr. Guillaume Bordier, former vice-president and an honorary member of the ICRC, died on 9 July 1982.Mr. Bordier was born in Geneva in 1901 and did his schooling there. He continued his studies at the Federal Polytechnicum in Zurich where he graduated in engineering. He then went on to study economics in the United States and received his “Master of Business Administration” degree from the University of Harvard in 1929. On his return to Geneva he joined the Banque Bordier et O in an executive capacity and later became a partner in the bank. He was a member of the Swiss Bankers' Association and sat on the Board of Directors of a number of companies.

George Albert Boulenger, 1858 - 1937

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
The University

George Albert Boulenger was born in Brussels on 19 October 1858 and died on 23 November 1937. He was the son of Gustave Boulenger, notary of Mons, and was educated at the University of Brussels. From boyhood he was interested in animals and whilst at the University became known at the Musee d’Histoire Naturelle in Brussels, being appointed to the staff as an assistant naturalist in 1880. Two years later he was invited by Dr Gunther, the Keeper of the Department of Zoology, to join the staff of the British Museum, and was appointed a first class assistant in that year. This appointment he held till his retirement in 1920. He held honorary degrees LL.D. (St Andrews), Ph.D. (Giessen), and D.Sc. (Louvain), and was an honorary member of scientific societies in Belgium, Brazil, Chili, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxemburg, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America. He became a naturalized British subject soon after his appointment to the Museum and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894. After his retirement he returned to Belgium, working on the systematics of European roses in the Jardin Botanique de l’Etat in Brussels. In 1937 he was appointed to the Belgian Order of Leopold.

scholarly journals Editorial note: A search for the best practices and standards

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabri Boubaker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Agency Costs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Long Line ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Governance Quality ◽  
Corporate Governance Quality

This issue includes papers that embrace major challenges for the board of directors A long line of research documents the crucial role that the board of directors plays in the reduction of agency costs. This issue of the journal goes further to explore a variety of environments, ranging from a highly developed economy, i.e., the United States, to a less developed economy, i.e., Greece and even developing ones, i.e., Saudi Arabian and Ghana. The results documented by the papers from this issue reflect the specificities of the environment in which companies are operating. Moreover, the channels through which the board of directors affects agency costs remain very little documented. Papers that are published in this issue shed new light on this topic by showing that boards might improve firm performance by enhancing corporate governance quality and developing informal communication within the firm.

The Battle for the Migrants: The Evolution from Port to Company Competition, 1840-1914

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Feys
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses the role of Dutch and Belgian consular agencies in opening and sustaining the business of transatlantic steamship lines from Rotterdam and Antwerp to the United States. Via a case study of the Holland America Line it analyses the responsibility of shipping agencies to gather information on migrant opportunities in the United States and to maintain the reputation of European ports. It uses the Line’s correspondence with New York shipping agents and the Board of Directors to interpret business strategies and inter-firm relationships. Though little is known about the activities of shipping agents and shipping companies in influencing migration, it concludes that their advertising efforts and the effects of fierce company competition brought the prospects of the New World into the mindset of a great number of Europeans. It requests further scholarly research into the impact of agents on migration patterns

61 Chapters: Chapter Policy and Review Board Provides Cohesion

1968 ◽  
Vol 32 (4_part_2) ◽  
pp. 29-29
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Future Policy

With 61 diversified chapters in metropolitan centers throughout the United States and Canada, some cohesion and adherence to common objectives is necessary. For this reason, a Chapter Policy and Review Board was established. It consists of ten members, eight regular and two from the Board. Two are appointed each year to serve four-year terms. All members of this group are past presidents of chapters of various sizes, so that all types of chapters are represented. The Board studies and recommends future policy, as well as reviews and recommends action in connection with existing policy which affects chapters. The Board of Directors considers these recommendations very seriously, and rarely acts in opposition to them.

scholarly journals Identity and globalization: The world at a crossroad

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 286-289
Author(s):  
Bruno Henriquez
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Vice President ◽  
World Society ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Renewable Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The University

The author, a Cuban Physicist, is currently involved in environmental physics in buildings, sustainable development and the promotion of renewable sources of energy and bioclimatic architecture. He is a member of the board of directors of Cubasolar, Vice President of the Cuban Society of Physics and Director of Energia y tu, the magazine of Cubasolar. He is an adviser to Cubaenergia, the center for the management of information and development on energy, and has a radio and television program. He has published numerous books of which Energy in Buildings Handbook is forthcoming and the result of his last project "Index of Energy Efficiency in Buildings." He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented by the author at the internationalsymposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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