...MGT 409 – Business Policy & Strategic Management Instructor Course Sections & Location Glenn Hodges, PhD Section 001: TU / TH 1:00 – 2:20 E-mail: hodges@broad.msu.edu Section 002: TU / TH 2:40 – 4:00 Office Phone Number: 517-432-3522 Location: C132 Holden Hall Fax: 517-432-1111 Office: N440 BCC Office Hours: TU 10:30 – 11:30 (or by appointment) Address: Department of Management Eli Broad College of Business 632 Bogue Street N475 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1032 COURSE DESCRIPTION This course addresses a very fundamental business question: “Why are some firms more successful than others over the long term?” The answer to this important question can be found in the relationship between the organization, its strategy, and its environment. This relationship is complex, uncertain, and always changing. Top managers shape and guide this relationship, making strategic decisions that change the organization's capabilities, shift its position in the environment, and / or lead the firm into a new business. This course is designed to familiarize students with the strategic management process by: * Introducing students to the different aspects of strategic decision-making from a business, corporate, and entrepreneurial perspective (lecture materials) * Exposing students to the complexity and ambiguity of strategic decision-making through the analysis of situations faced by real companies (case studies) ...
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...In Singapore, we have different ethnics group and globally we also do have different generations working together hand in hand. In order to have a harmonious environment, we have to understand and turn it into an advantage instead. In Singapore, what I feel most affected would be generation gaps, as for myself I am considered as a Y-Generation group. Where by the baby boomers (born before 1960s), tend to have their own sense of thinking and expectation from us. Yet most of Y-generations have left a bad impression to the baby boomers or to X-generation (born early 1960s to early 1980s), seen as a group of ignorant people who are not able to withstand hardship to achieve a higher aim. On contrary, as a Y-generation, I would said Y-generations just have a more innovative way to solve problems instead of following what is expected and given. Under Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, Individualism versus collectivism Y-generations possess a high Individualism, the stress is placed upon personal achievements and rights. They stand up for themselves and are low uncertainty avoidance index. They are open for changes, one of the examples I have gone through myself would be in a view of an engineer. When a problem arises, engineers are trigger to make a trip to customer’s site for troubleshooting, most Y-generations would not have read the manual provided to them as they would feel it is too thick and troublesome since they were born, everything pretty much are in electronic form, but instead...
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...Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ih Detected | Feb 20 2009 07:04 GMT | Released | Apr 02 2009 16:24 GMT | Published | Feb 20 2009 07:04 GMT | Manual description Auto description This description was created by experts at Kaspersky Lab. It contains the most accurate information available about this program. Manual description Auto description This is a description which has been automatically generated following analysis of this program on a test machine. This description may contain incomplete or inaccurate information. Technical Details Payload Removal instructions Technical Details This network worm spreads via local networks and removable storage media. The program itself is a Windows PE DLL file. The worm components vary in size from 155KB to 165KB. It is packed using UPX. Installation The worm copies its executable file with random names as shown below: %System%\<rnd> %Program Files%\Internet Explorer\<rnd>.dll %Program Files%\Movie Maker\<rnd>.dll %All Users Application Data%\<rnd>.dll %Temp%\<rnd>.dll %Temp%\<rnd>.tmp <rnd> is a random string of symbols. In order to ensure that the worm is launched next time the system is started, it creates a system service which launches the worm’s executable file each time Windows is booted. The following registry key will be created: [HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netsvcs] ...
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...www.oliverwyman.com Phone: 0857123123 (01) 123123 Fax: (01) 123321 Oliver Wyman’s Consultancy Group Report to Eircom Group Plc Board of Directors February 2010 [pic] - Alia Shafiza (Head of Marketing) - Ausra Ivaskiene (Head of Human Resource) - Svetlana Klimentjeva (Head of Corporate Affairs) Content Page Introduction …………………………………………………………………..…………… 2 Executive Summary ………………………………………………………….……..…. 3 Part 1: Analysis of the Environment ………………………………………………… 4 1. The Environmental Forces ……………………………………………… 5 2. Key drivers of change ……………………………………………..……… 8 3. Future Orientation ……………………………………………………..…. 10 4. Industry analysis …………………………………………..………………. 12 5. Importance of Convergence in Telecoms Industry ……………. 16 6. Irish Telecom Industry Lifecycle ………………………………….…. 19 7. Strategic Alliances within Irish Telecom Market …………….… 23 Part 2: Analysis of Eircom’s Strategic Capabilities …………………...….…… 25 2.1 Resources and Competences …………………………………….……. 26 2.2 Eircom’s Cost efficiency …………………………………………….….. 30 2.3 Eircom’s Sustained Competitive Advantage …………………..… 31 2.4 Usage drivers: Innovation ………………………………………….….. 33 2.5 Importance of Knowledge Management ………………………..… 36 2.6 Benchmarking ………………………………………………………...……. 38 2.7 Advertising campaigns of Eircom ……………………………………. 39 2.8 Appraising Eircom’s Resources and...
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...Republic of the Philippines Supreme Court Manila FIRST DIVISION LYDIA C. GELIG, | | G.R. No. 173150 | Petitioner, | | | | | | | | Present: | | | | | | CORONA, C. J., Chairperson | - versus - | | VELASCO, JR., | | | LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, | | | DEL CASTILLO, and | | | PEREZ, JJ. | | | | PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, | | Promulgated: | Respondent. | | July 28, 2010 | x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - x D E C I S I O N DEL CASTILLO, J.: An examination of the entire records of a case may be explored for the purpose of arriving at a correct conclusion, as an appeal in criminal cases throws the whole case open for review, it being the duty of the court to correct such error as may be found in the judgment appealed from.[1] Petitioner Lydia Gelig (Lydia) impugns the Decision[2] promulgated on January 10, 2006 by the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR No. 27488 that vacated and set aside the Decision[3] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Cebu City, Branch 23, in Criminal Case No. CU-10314. The RTC Decision convicted Lydia for committing the complex crime of direct assault with unintentional abortion but the CA found her guilty only of the crime of slight physical injuries. Factual Antecedents On June 6, 1982, an Information[4] was filed charging Lydia with Direct...
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...CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT ECONOMIC REVIEW Vol. 51 No. 1 2010/2011 Research, Development and Publishing Sector The Economic Review is issued by the Research, Development and Publishing Sector at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) on a quarterly basis. It aims to make available to a broad readership of specialists and nonspecialists a wide range of information on the performance of the Egyptian economy during the reporting period. The CBE posts the Review on its website: www.cbe.org.eg. Contents Page Main Monetary and Financial Indicators The Leading Article - Output Gap and Its Determinants: The Experience of Egypt ………………………………………… 1- Macroeconomic Performance 1/1 1/2 1/3 1/4 Gross Domestic Product (GDP)……………………………... Employment and Unemployment……………………………. Inflation……………………………………………………… Tourism………………………………………………………. 21 27 28 33 1 2- Monetary and Banking Developments 2/1 2/1/12/1/22/1/32/1/42/1/52/2 2/2/12/2/22/2/32/2/42/2/52/2/6Monetary and Banking Policy and Monetary Aggregates…… Monetary Policy……………………………………………... Reserve Money (M0)………………………………………… Domestic Liquidity (M2) and Counterpart Assets…………... Payment Systems and Information Technology (IT)………... RTGS and SWIFT Local Services…………………………… Banking and Credit Developments…………………………... Banking Reform……………………………………………... Supervision Sector…………………………………………… Overview of Banks' Aggregate Financial Position………….. Interbank Transactions in Egypt……………………………... Deposits……………………………………………………… Lending Activity……………………………………………...
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...Fundamentos del Estudio del Piano, 2a Edición Por Chuan C. Chang 8 de Abril del 2008 Copyright 1991-2008; Ninguna parte de este documento puede ser descargado o copiado sin incluir el nombre del autor: Chuan C. Chang, y esta declaración de derechos de autor. Este sitio Web proporciona lecciones de piano gratuitas, material educativo para el piano, e instrucciones para afinación de pianos. Tu puedes aprender a tocar el piano hasta (¡) 1000 veces más rápido (!) comparado con otros métodos (ver el Capítulo Uno, IV.5). Este es el primer libro jamás escrito sobre cómo estudiar el piano. Por cientos de años, muchos profesores y otros libros te enseñaron que técnica dominar, pero esto es de poca utilidad a menos que conozcas como adquirirla rápidamente, como Mozart, Liszt, etc., lo hicieron. Puedes descargar gratis el libro entero usando las ligas que encontrarás a continuación. ii Información General Fechas de revisión más recientes: Año 2004 Cáp. Uno: II.20 & II.21, adiciones significativas, 25-Ene; III.5, Escalas y Arpegios, adiciones significativas, 25-Ene; III.10, adiciones significativas, 26-Ene; III.20, nueva sección sobre las Invenciones de Bach, 5-Feb; III.5, III.7.d, adiciones menores, 16-Feb; III.4.b, adiciones menores, 3-Mar; III.16.e, nueva sección, 4-Mar; III.5, Escalas y Arpegios, adiciones menores, 5-Mar; agregado III.21, 18-Abr; Cambia mi dirección de Colts Neck, NJ, a Odessa, Florida, 18-Abr; Cambia mi dirección de Odessa, a Tampa, Florida, 15-May; Testimonios:...
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