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The Financial Industry (the banking sector) The University of Zurich Article BUSINESS CULTURE IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY FAVOURS DISHONEST BEHAIOUR A new study by Alian Cohn, Ernst Fehr, and Marechal from the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich done to show if the rumours saying that bank employees in nature are less honest people true. Their results show that bank employees are in principle not more dishonest than their colleagues in other industries. They did so by randomly…

Prospect Faceoff: Matthews stays hot in Zurich, Svechnikov/Garland dual, plus two top-20 teams clash in college hockey Auston Matthews is taking an unconventional path to the NHL, and has earned a few accolades already while playing in Switzerland. Two electric playmakers go head-to-head in a battle of assist machines in the QMJHL, and a pair of potential Canadian teammates will likely see a lot of each other in a weekend contest. The Tampa Bay Lightning’s newest signee lines up against a…

Trench was considered caused bad reputation for the Weimar Republic because of its gruesomeness and offensiveness. Another aspects that made this works controversial is because the painting lacked any heroic elements and seems disrespectful towards the military’s reputation (Gutbrod and Dix 2010). Kolnische Volkszeitung predicted that this works will always find many enemies since it represented the most gruesome picture ever painted (Crockett 1992). A lot of media criticized this works because…

Standardized process: standardized people In 1895 a young man, who has a history of poor grades in school, was rejected in an admission test for Zurich University. Ten years later he created three theories that revolutionized physics and, consequently, changed the way we understand the world. His name: Albert Einstein. So, how the most important scientist of the last 300 years was a bad student in his childhood? He wasn’t a bad student; just the way of teaching and evaluation, based on standard…

Lasker-Schuler’s life is essential to answering these questions. Lasker-Schuler was born in Germany and lived there for much of her life, but because of the rise in power of the Nazi party, the Jewish artist fled to Switzerland. During her time in Zurich, she took a few trips to Israel and was greatly inspired each time, but on her last visit, World War II broke out and Swiss authorities forbade Lasker-Schuler to return to Switzerland (The National Library of Israel). One can infer that the…

New Museum Response Paper Pipilotti Rist, whose original given name was Elisabeth Charlotte, was born in 1962 in Grabs, Switzerland and is currently living in Zurich. She studied graphic design, illustration and photography at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna, as well as audiovisual communications and video at the School of Design in Basel. As a visual artist, Rist works with videography and creates films which are often projected in exhibitions. From her earliest tapes to her recent…

was owned by Rene Dreyfus, a well known grand Prix driver. He lost the car in a drunken poker game in 1934 in Paris. The car was won by Adalbert Bode, a well know playboy from Switzerland. It is also possible that it was owned by an architect from Zurich, named Max or Marco Schmuklerski, who was originally from Poland. It is possible that the Bugatti was acquired by Max at that time, who was a student of architecture on the prestigious college Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. However, it is not…

physics. Because of that he was accepted. His first job after he graduated was as a patent clerk. He thought the job was dull. The spare time he had, he used it to research, which he eventually earned his doctorate in physics from the University of Zürich. Now, thanks to Einstein, we know the general theory of relativity, the existence of space time. He also showed that nothing moved faster than light, and how a tiny amount of matter can make an enormous amount of energy using the equation of…

As I continue my passion of interviewing those involved in the entertainment industry, sometimes I happen upon people in most unusual ways. I happened to put in a request to interview an actor (Karl E. Landler--his interview will happen later), and this charming gentleman included Marem Hassler as part of that request. I was quite unfamiliar with her and her fantastic work, but as I have continued to interact with her and discover her impressive list of credits, she happily agreed to answer some…

Konrad von Gesner was born on March 26, 1516, in Zurich. He had studied at the University of Strassburg, where he had shown great talent and interest in nature. He continued his studies at Basel where he also studied medicine. After that he continued medical studies and settled down at the medical school…