آشنایی با مدیران موفق جهان

[Sahel 87]

خیلی عالی بود آقای مدیر
احساس غرور به آدم دست میده این همه ایرانی موفق و به نام میبینه
حیف كه اونور آبن..!!

[H A M E D]

هر جا هستن ایرانی هستن

[A.L.I.]

دقیقا ! با حرف حامد جان و خانم شمس موافقم . مهم عرق ملی است که باعث افتخار آفرینی و پیشرفتهای بزرگ علمی در سراسر جهان میشود. من هم احساس غرور میکنم از دیدن این همه ایرانی متمدن و بافرهنگ که همه دنیا را از وجود پر افتخارشان متعجب میکنند.
متشکرم از این همه توجه و علاقه شما دوستان خوبم.

[Sahel 87]

بله خوب معلومه هرجا هستن ایرانین و افتخارش واسه ماست
اما من منظورم این بود كه اگه قراره بهتزین باشن تو كشور خودشون باشن
یه چیز دیگه ام اینه كه شاید اگه ایران بودن هرگز نمی تونستن جزو مدیران برتر جهان بشن ولی می تونن برگردن و به كشور خودشون خدمت كنن كه اینجا متاسفانه اونجور كه باید بهشون ارزش داده نمیشه!!!

[H A M E D]

خب مشکل همینجاست دیگه!
وقتی بها داده نشه در نتیجه انرژی ای واسه ادامه کار نیست! بنابراین ایران جای مناسبی واسه شکوفا شدن نیست.

[A.L.I.]

پروفسور مهرداد سئيف رئيس دانشگاه در کانادا





Personal Webpage

Mehrdad Saif, P.Eng.
Professor and Director
School of Engineering Science



Research Interests
Systems and control theory. Particularly interested in model based fault detection and diagnostics, linear and nonlinear
controller/observer design, large scale systems and decentralized control, optimal and intelligent control. Application
domains include, automotive, power , space, and mechatronic systems.
Personal Webpage
http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/people/faculty/saif/

http://web.ensc.sfu.ca/people/profile_saif



Mehrdad Saif
Engineering Science
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Dr.
Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6
Canada
Tel: (604) 291-3119
Fax: (604) 291-4951
Email: saif@cs.sfu.ca

[A.L.I.]

پروفسور فرشاد رفيعي عضو هيئت مديره دانشگاه در آمريکا

Name
Farshad Rafii

Phone
310-274-1774

E-mail Address
rafii@babson.edu

Academic Division
Technology Operations and Information Management Division

Title
Associate Professor

Education
B.S.E.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.B.A., D.B.A., Harvard University
M.S.E.E., Cornell University

Expertise
Operations
Business Strategy
Management of Technological Innovation
Manufacturing Strategy
Product Design and Development
Technology Strategy




Farshad Rafii is an associate professor of technology management at Babson College. He teaches MBA and Executive Education courses on business strategy, product development, technological innovation, operations management, and manufacturing strategy. Prior to joining Babson College, he was on the faculty at Boston University’s School of Management. Dr. Rafii is also the Founding Director of the Center for Technology and Enterprise at Babson College, an industry-funded center for conducting research on how business enterprises can best create and leverage technological innovation for competitive advantage.
Professor Rafii has been involved in several innovative curriculum-design projects, including a leading role in the creation of Babson’s well-regarded integrated MBA program and the creation of a hands-on product design and development laboratory course for MBA students. He also has considerable experience in the design and development of custom executive education programs for companies in high-tech and financial services industries. Professor Rafii has conducted research on several topics including new product development, concurrent engineering, internationalization of software, technological innovation, and manufacturing strategy.
He has authored numerous cases and articles, which have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Business Horizons, IEEE Software, Design Management Journal, and Journal of Operations Management.

[A.L.I.]

علي مشيري رئيس شرکت Chevrontexaco

The Socially Responsible Company:
High Standards for a Changing World

Speech by Ali Moshiri
Managing Director, Upstream Latin America
Business Unit in ChevronTexaco Overseas
Petroleum Inc.
to the Annual Conference of the
World Affairs Council of Northern California
Asilomar, California
04 May 2002



Back when Chevron and Texaco were starting out more than a century ago, it is probably safe to say that neither company gave a lot of thought to health issues in Africa or small business growth in Central Asia. Their concerns were more along the lines of struggling to stay afloat in a brand-new industry.

Today, ChevronTexaco not only thinks about issues like these, but is actively involved in them all over the world. Whether a floating clinic in the West Niger Delta, a blood bank in Angola, low-interest loans for entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan, schools in Maracaibo, or a computer lab in Colombia, these and so many other initiatives are today part-and-parcel of how we do business everyday.


A quick look at a map helps to explain why such an evolution is taking place. ChevronTexaco operations spread a lot further afield today than California and Texas. (ChevronTexaco's Map of Operations)

But more important, this evolution reflects changes not only in business, but in the world around us. In the last 10 years alone, the world has become a smaller and more intimate place, thanks to globalization, the Internet and other technologies.

All of us have a much greater awareness that what we do has an impact on others. Companies like ours have a much greater awareness of the interrelationship between energy consumption and the environment and social needs. And businesses as a whole have a much greater awareness of their responsibilities as they relate to consumers and customers and shareholders -- indeed, to society as a whole.


Commercial success is no longer the sole measure for a business today. Our impact on society -- good or bad -- is also taken into account.

We see a lot of different definitions of what is generally known as "Corporate Social Responsibility." But no matter what you call it, the best companies clearly agree that success in our world today means doing business in a socially responsible and ethical manner.

It means respecting the law. It means respecting human rights. It means benefiting the communities where we work. And specifically for an energy company like ours, it means respecting the environment while working to meet the world's growing energy demands.

... the best companies clearly agree that success in our world today means doing business in a socially responsible and ethical manner.

In our company, we outline all of this in a document we call The ChevronTexaco Way, and I know that other companies also have these documents.

In fact, we have made a special effort since our merger to engage all our employees everywhere in the world to embrace our vision and values. You have to have everyone on board, at every level.


The imperative to work in a socially responsible manner reflects the rapidly evolving expectations that global companies face today -- expectations that come both from within and from the outside.

Investors, for instance, have many choices today. They also have greater access to information, analysis and commentary than ever before. In short, they can afford to pick and choose exactly what kind of investments they want to make and what kind of companies they want those investments to impact.

The growing influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) is also changing the dynamic between companies and government, and companies and consumers.

The NGO community now has a seat at the table when it comes to many vital issues facing industry today: climate change and sustainable growth, to name only two.

And outside organizations are now taking more steps to measure the performance of multinational companies when it comes to promoting social development or protecting the environment.

The World Bank now requires both environmental and social impact assessments before agreeing to finance new projects.

And Dow Jones has launched a "sustainability index" to recognize those companies that are actively working to increase shareholder value while promoting responsible development at the same time.


Clearly, as companies become more global in their thinking and their operating practices, they are also making every effort to become more global in meeting the social, environmental and economic needs of the places where they do business.

Fortunately, this is nothing new for us at ChevronTexaco.

The term "Corporate Social Responsibility" basically describes the range of responsible and ethical practices that ChevronTexaco has followed for years in the communities and countries where we work. (ChevronTexaco on Social Responsibility)

Are we completely successful in all our outreach programs? Of course not. But our commitment is unequivocal, and we will continue to strive to make our presence a positive one wherever we may be.

We have touched millions of people through initiatives such as the already mentioned floating clinic in Nigeria or an inner-city recreation center in California or hosting visits to U.S. facilities for thousands of Indonesian engineers.

We are committed to hiring the people and services and equipment we need in the countries where we need them. We are committed to billions of dollars in contracts with women- and minority-owned firms.

We are committed to cutting carbon dioxide emissions in project areas from California to Kuwait by switching to natural gas to generate electricity.

And we are committed to one of the oldest privately sponsored conservation programs in the United States.

We are dedicated to all these things because we believe we should use our resources:

• to train and empower local residents in our host communities;
• to contribute to improving their health, their education and welfare; and
• to learn from them and their cultures - whether we are talking about the Gulf Coast of Texas, the Caspian Basin in Kazakhstan, or the Middle East

Global forces have encouraged us to change the way we work, our business models, our assets and investment strategies. They have changed the way we recruit, develop and manage our work force. They have changed how we manage risks and the role we play in communities.

Global forces have led us to shed the traditional way of doing things and to expand into new and eye-opening opportunities.

The good news is that these new ways of doing things are giving us a competitive advantage. They allow us to attract and retain the best employees, investors, partners, customers and suppliers. They allow us to maintain and improve our license opportunities to operate in host countries. And they give us a leading edge in access to new business.

Losing sight of these expectations and our ability to meet them means losing that competitive edge. And, quite frankly, it means losing any chance of competing effectively in today's global economy.


The early American patriot Thomas Paine wrote in The Rights of Man that "my country is the world ... and my [aim] is to do good." Those words that helped launch the idea of democracy around the world two centuries ago are in many ways even more resonant today.

For a company like ours, our country is indeed the world � and our aim should be to do good not only because it is good for business -- which it is -- but because we live in a world where expectations have changed and new benchmarks are making respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment non-negotiable.

Thank you very much.

[A.L.I.]

پروفسور فريدون آفاق رئيس دانشگاه در آمريکا

Fred F. Afagh
B.Sc., M.Sc. Washington State,
Ph.D. Waterloo,
P.Eng.
Professor
Sabbatical: July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008

Research Interests Vibrations Structural Dynamics and Control Smart Structures Stability Theory Elastic Stability
Research and Publications


Contact:
Telephone: (613) 520 2600 ext. 5705
Fax: (613) 520 5715
fafagh@mae.carleton.ca

[A.L.I.]

پروفسور نارايمان فروردين رئيس دانشکده در آمريکا

Nariman Farvardin Professor and Dean
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

E-mail: farvar@eng.umd.edu
Phone: +1 301-405-3683
Fax: +1 301-314-9281
Office: 2415 A.V. Williams
URL: ww.ee.umd.edu/~farvar/

Last modifie November 2, 2000
Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1980, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1979, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Awards

• Invention of the Year Award (Information Sciences), University of Maryland, College Park, (with Eiji Atsumi), 1999.
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1998
• Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award, Institute for Systems Research , 1993
• Award of Excellence (with Joseph JaJa), Maryland Industrial Partnership Program, 1992
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation , (1987-1992)
• George Corcoran Award, Department of Electrical Engineering , 1987

Research Interests

• Information theory and coding
• Signal compression and applications to speech, image and video coding
• Multimedia wireless communications
• Multi access protocols for wireless networks
• Speech and speaker recognition
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• Click here for examples of specific research and information on the Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory .

Selected Publications

• N. Farvardin, "A Study of Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 36, pp. 799-809, July 1990.
• N. Farvardin and V. Vaishampayan, "On the Performance and Complexity of Channel Optimized Vector Quantizers,'' IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 37, pp. 155-160, Jan. 1991.
• N. Tanabe and N. Farvardin, "Subband Image Coding Using Entropy Coded Quantization Over Noisy Channels," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Commun., Vol. 10, pp. 926-943, June 1992.
• N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Moriya, "A Unified Approach to Tree-Structured and Multi-Stage Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 835-850, May 1993.
• R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "A Structured Fixed-Rate Vector Quantizer Derived from a Variable-Length Encoded Scalar Quantizer - Part I: Memoryless Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 851-867, May 1993.
• R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "A Structured Fixed-Rate Vector Quantizer Derived from a Variable-Length Encoded Scalar Quantizer - Part II: Vector Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 868-876, May 1993.
• R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "Trellis-Coded Structured Vector Quantization," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 40, pp. 860-870, May 1994.
• R. Joshi, H. Jafarkhani, J. Kasner, T. Fischer, N. Farvardin, M. Marcellin and R. Bamberger, "Comparison of Different Methods of Classification in Subband Coding of Images," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., pp. 1473-1487, November 1997.
• H. Ito and N. Farvardin, "Wavelet Video Coder Using Entropy-Coded Trellis Coded Quantization," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Proc., pp. I.598-601, Washington, DC, Oct. 1995.
• H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin,"Fast Reconstruction of Subband Decomposed Images for Progressive Transmission," Proc. Data Compression Conference, pp. 230-239, Snowbird, UT, April 1996.
• H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Fixed Rate Successive Refining Scalar Quantizers for Progressive Transmission," Proc. Data Compression Conference, pp. 250-259, Snowbird, UT, April 1996.
• H. Jafarkhani, P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Rate Allocation in a Joint Source/Channel Coding Framework for Wireless Channels," Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference, pp. 492-496, Atlanta, GA, April 1996.
• H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Channel--Matched Hierarchical Vector Quantization for Transmission of Video Over Wireless Channels," International Conference on Image Processing, pp. III.755-758, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 1996.
• P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Finite-State Power Control for Fading Channels," Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March, 1997
• V. Chande, H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, ``Joint Source-Channel Coding of Images for Channels with Feedback," Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Diego, CA, Sept. 1997.
• H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Image Coding Using Spectral Classification," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., Vol. 7, pp. 605-610, April 1998.
• H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Fast Reconstruction of Subband-Decomposed Progressively Transmitted Signals," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., Vol. 8, pp. 891-898, July 1999.
• E. Atsumi and N. Farvardin, "Lossy/Lossless Region-of-Interest Image Coding Based on Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees," Proc. IEEE ICIP, pp. 87-91, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1998.
• V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding for Progressive Transmission of Embedded Source Coders," Proc. Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, April 1999.
• H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Joint Design of Progressive Fixed-Rate Source-Channel Codes," Proc. Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, April 1999.
• V. Chande, N. Farvardin and H. Jafarkhani "Image Communication Over Noisy Channels with Feedback," Proc. Int. Conf. Image. Process. Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999.
• M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "Admission Control Policy for Wireless Networks Subject to a Quality of Service Constraint," Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC '99), pp. 1521-1525, New Orlean, Sept. 1999.
• M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "D-PRMA: A Dynamic Packet Reservation Multiple Access Protocol for Wireless Communications," Proc. Second Annual Workshop on Modelling and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, pp. 41-49, Seattle, WA, Aug. 1999.
• V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding Schemes for Progressive Trasnmission over Noisy Channels with or without Feedback," Proc. of the 3rd ITG Conference on Source Channel Coding, Munich, Germany, Jan. 2000.
• H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Design of Channel Optimized Vector Quantizers in the Presence of Channel Mismatch," IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 48, pp. 118-124, Jan. 2000.
• H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Channel-Matched Hierarchical Table-Lookup Vector Quantization," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, to appear.
• P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Optimizing the Transmit Power for Slow Fading Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory,} to appear, March 2000.
• V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Progressive Transmission of Images over Bit Error and Packet Erasure Channels," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, to appear.

Fall 1999 Teaching

• ENEE 324 Engineering Probability
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