Bill Gates's foundation
Bill Gates’s Foundation was launched in 1995 with an aim of funding health initiatives globally. Currently is is rats as the largest charitable foundation in terms of funding. Have an active role in the fund is the best way. I believe that many foundations are not directly forced by the sponsors. Bill Gates’s foundation is not only offering technological support to the foundation but also getting a full time role is significant. Focusing on charity enables the Microsoft founder to tackle the issues of negative publicity that he isn't giving out to charity. The foundation becomes a key social responsibility of the corporation to offer.
Bill Gates in an interview he asserted “I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.” (Personal communication, June 16, 2006)
Roots of the public-health crisis in the Third World
According to research studies, there is a crisis in public health in third world. Infectious diseases each year kill over 14 million people worldwide where 90% are from third world countries. With 14 million being infected with HIV/AIDS annually 90% of the infected are from third world too. Tuberculosis and malaria are killing millions of people annually in the third world countries. Other diseases which are not very well known which are preventable are killing hundreds of thousands people in the third world. Therefore, this is a major crisis in the public health sector (Philip, 2004).
The root cause of the public-health crisis in the Third World is lack of incentive for the governments to fund research and development. Developing and distributing of drugs to fight seasonal diseases is not available. The main killing diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis in the third world countries are under-funded. Researchers do not get the returns they invest in the research in the third world countries .
Michael Dell's theory of conflict prevention
Theories (McDonald and Dell) state:
“No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like Dell [Computer], will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain. Because people embedded in major global supply chains don’t want to fight old-time wars anymore. They want to make just-in-time deliveries of goods and services – and enjoy the rising standards of living that come that” (Thomas, p.442)
I agree with this theory that many countries have used to resolve their differences. With the merging of technology, competitors have more ways to share the technological advancement. A company stands to lose if it enters into war with the competitors. They both have markets that depend on one another.
Optimistic strategists
This is a group of individuals who have confidence in their past performance and project eh best in future. The strategists always think bout how they will continue to perform better with their abilities. For the optimist strategy to win the participants or individuals carrying out the mission should not think about failure. Anxiety and uncertainty is one factor that optimistic strategists do not know how to handle. They perform poorly under such cases.
The dream for the world is to make it better than they found it. They face each day with the hope of making it in life. They did not dwell in the past failures but work to better the situation.
Refrences
Philip Stevens,(2004). Diseases of Poverty and the 10/90 Gap.
Robert E. Black et al., (2003). Where and Why are 10 Million Children Dying Every Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat, ISBN 1-59397-668-2) pg 421 Year?, 361 The Lancet 2226.
World Health Organization (WHO), The World Medicines Situation 61 (2004) retrieved from, http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/Reports_World_Medicines_Situation.pdf
