首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The pages of the Harvard Business Review are not usually populated by novelists. But Joseph Finder is just such a rarity. Recent
The pages of the Harvard Business Review are not usually populated by novelists. But Joseph Finder is just such a rarity. Recent
admin
2022-10-25
51
问题
The pages of the Harvard Business Review are not usually populated by novelists. But Joseph Finder is just such a rarity. Recently, the HBR posted a fictitious case study by Mr. Finder on its website. Readers will now have a chance to comment; the most interesting contributions, as well as the remarks of several corporate grandees, will appear alongside the story in the printed version of the magazine in October.
In the case study, Mr. Finder describes a dilemma facing Cheryl Tobin, the newly installed chief executive of a big aerospace firm. She starts to suspect that her colleagues have engaged in massive corruption to win contracts. Ms. Tobin is also a central character in Mr. Finder’s new book, Power Play, which was released earlier this week. In the novel, her main concern is not corruption but an executive retreat on a remote island that goes horribly wrong.
A graduate of both Yale and Harvard, Mr. Finder took up novel-writing after flirting with a career at the CIA and taking a stab at journalism. He had written a non-fiction book about links between American businesses and the Soviet Union but had been unable to use some of the most fascinating material he had picked up, since his sources wanted it to remain off the record. So Mr. Finder wove those titbits into a political thriller instead. After three more novels on political themes, he decided to set his next book in the world of business.
There are many novels set in offices and boardrooms. The appeal of Mr. Finder’s lies not in the majesty of the prose—they are airport novels, not Pulitzer candidates—but in the plausibility of their plots and the accuracy of their depiction of corporate life. "I’ve not seen anything that couldn’t happen," says Skip Brandon, co-founder of Smith Brandon International, a corporate-intelligence company. "The business community is pretty interesting, with all sorts of characters which he brings to life with a level of realism people can relate to," says Bill Teuber, of EMC, a data-storage company.
Business journalism may provide plenty of facts and figures, Mr. Finder argues, but it seldom gives readers much of a feel for corporate life. Fiction, in his view, can provide a more accurate picture than anything found in newspapers or management literature. At any rate, Mr. Finder is convinced that corporate insiders talk more candidly to him than they do to reporters.
He has found big companies remarkably willing to provide background material. For his book, Paranoia, he talked with high-ups at Apple, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard—a computer-maker whose subsequent involvement in a real-life case of corporate espionage may not have come as a surprise to Mr. Finder’s readers. For Killer Instinct, the company NEC helped him to understand what it was like to be an American working for a big Japanese electronics firm.
Which of the following statements is true?
选项
A、Novels provide a better insight into business than journalism.
B、Journalists can obtain more corporate information than novelist.
C、Mr. Finder’s readers are familiar with business scandals in big companies.
D、Mr. Finder’s novels are popular among big corporations.
答案
A
解析
推理题。题目问的是“以下哪项是正确的?”。由文章第五段第二句“Fiction,in his view,can provide a more accurate picture than anything found in newspapers or management literature. ”可知:在他看来,比起报纸或管理文献,小说更能更准确的描述,这与A项内容相符。其他三个选项在文中均未提及。故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/t4oiFFFM
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)describethechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Yous
[A]Shopkeepersareyourfriends[B]Remembertotreatyourself[C]Sticktowhatyouneed[D]Livelikeapeasant
Thinnerisn’talwaysbetter.Anumberofstudieshave【C1】________thatnormal-weightpeopleareinfactathigherriskofsomedi
Thinnerisn’talwaysbetter.Anumberofstudieshave【C1】________thatnormal-weightpeopleareinfactathigherriskofsomedi
MillionsofAmericansandforeignersseeG.I.Joeasamindlesswartoy,thesymbolofAmericanmilitaryadventurism,butthat’s
MillionsofAmericansandforeignersseeG.I.Joeasamindlesswartoy,thesymbolofAmericanmilitaryadventurism,butthat’s
SupposeyouareamemberoftheStudents’Unionandyouruniversitywillholdawelcomepartyfornewenrolledstudents.Writea
TheUnitedStatesiswidelyrecognizedtohaveaprivateeconomybecauseprivatelyownedbusinessesplay【C1】________roles.TheA
Iftheonlineserviceisfreethenyouaretheproduct,technicianssay.GoogleandFacebookmakea【C1】________collectingperson
Thefollowingexcerptisthebeginningofamemoir,publishedin1989,byawomanwhoemigratedwithherfamilyfromPolandtoC
随机试题
Changesinthewaypeoplelivebringaboutchangesinthejobsthattheydo.Moreandmorepeopleliveintownsandcitiesinst
焊接接头的弯曲试验标准,规定了金属材料焊接接头的(),用以检验接头拉伸面上的塑性及显示缺陷。
A.末梢神经炎B.高尿酸血症C.过敏反应D.听力障碍E.球后视神经炎链霉素的主要不良反应为
A.羚羊角B.天南星C.天麻D.地龙E.白芥子
目前,用于全身作用的栓剂主要是()。
公司担心海外子公司违反《美国海外贪腐防治法》(FCPA)的规定,准备进行审计,此类审计属于?
ABC会计师事务所的甲和乙注册会计师接受委派,对A公司2017年度财务报表进行审计,确定财务报表可容忍错报为10000元。在实质性程序中甲和乙注册会计师运用统计抽样,发现一些样本存在误差,在分析样本误差时,履行了以下程序:(1)对某项目无法或没有执行替
在奥苏贝尔看来,最低层次的有意义学习是()
(吉林2011A—8)一个质数的3倍与另一个质数的2倍之和等于20,那么这两个质数的和是()。
线性链表不具有的特点是
最新回复
(
0
)