How to Deal With Brain Drain

THE number of private universities operating in Africa is growing, and the sector is generating a groundswell of interest among investors, in 1960. there were seven private universities in Africa, according to a 2012 statement by Olugbemiro Jegede, then Secretary General of the Association of African Universities. By 1990 there were 27. and by 2006, some 22 percent of student enrolment on the continent was at private institutions, he said.

What Should Be Done to Deal With Pinduoduo’s Glitch-Caused Losses?

On January 20, Pinduoduo, a Chinese ecommerce platform where buyers can get discounts by shopping as an online group, announced that it had suffered losses of millions of yuan due to an uncontrolled avalanche of discount coupons online. Due to a glitch in the company’s computer system,users were able to top up their phones by 100yuan ($14.74) while paying only 0.4 yuan ($0.06)and many users used this opportunity to top up their phones multiple times.

Learn to Deal with Pepole in University

Normally,people take universities as aplace to provide education.Students contributeto the society hy using the knowledge they learnfrom universities.I ever browsed through mis-sion statements of universities and here are twoexamples:"The mission statement of MIT is toadvance knowledge and educate students in sci-ence,technology,and other areas of

How to Deal with a Difficult Boss

可以毫不夸张地说:不读此文,对已经步入或即将步入社会的大学生来说,堪称一种遗憾。就连笔者的一位中年朋友,在翻阅此文后也大叹:相“见”恨晚！ 笔者曾在某公司“打工”。今读此文,往事再现。深感:文章所作的许多分析,有入木三分之功力;文章提出的许多对策,有立竿见影之功效。 从根本言,涉世不深者,对其bosses一般都缺乏一个整体的、客观的、清醒的认识。本文对boss所作的如下结论,读者是否会感到惊诧?文章的结论是: Virtually all bosses are problem bosses, in one way or another. 原因何在?文章的剖析虽然无情,倒也一针见血: The reason, he says, lies in lack of training. Most bosses were promoted tomanagement because they excelled (干得出色)at earlier jobs-not because theyhave experience motivatiog (带动:激发)others. 文章的一个精彩之处是把bad bosses精细地分为几类,而后再提出对策,文章的分类形象而又通俗,读者就很容易将其现在的或是未来的boss对号入座,bad bosses分以下五类: a.欺压下属(The Bully)类: 对付这种boss,作者通过一个具体事例,提供了一帖“良药”; Over the next few months, as the account manager watched co-workerscower (畏缩)under the boss's

The Application of Essential Facilities Doctrine in Antitrust Regulation of IP Rights

The State Administration for Market Regulation has referred to the concept of"essential facilities"in two regulations,and some courts have utilized the essential facilities doctrine in their judgments to recognize a defendant's refusal to deal as an illegal act of monopolization.As a doctrine originally applicable only to tangible properties in the United States,the essential facilities doctrine has gradually evolved through case law to be applied in the context of intellectual property(IP)rights.Nevertheless,there remains significant controversy in China and other jurisdictions as to whether the essential facilities doctrine can be extended to IP rights.Given the fundamental differences between intangible and tangible properties,as well as the core mechanisms of IP laws,greater caution and limits must be exercised when applying the essential facilities doctrine to IP.Specifically,(1)compulsory licensing should only be implemented when the IP in question is deemed an essential facility;(2)Article 7 of the Provisions on the Prohibition of the Abuse of Intellectual Property to Eliminate or Restrict Competition should be interpreted as"harm the competition in the secondary market";and(3)in cases involving compulsory licensing,the court should examine whether such licensing would have an unreasonable adverse impact on the rights holder.