...IT’S THE CHEESE – Real California Cheese ® “Great Cheese Comes From Happy Cows”… and happy farmers: The California Milk Advisory Board’s marketing and strategic planning success story. The actions of the California dairy industry over the past 20-plus years exemplify how an industry’s long term prospects can be dramatically transformed by 1) a well done strategic plan at a critical juncture; 2) solid ensuing marketing strategies and tactics that are creatively and consistently executed over time; and 3) additions to infrastructure (both production capacity and knowledge dissemination programs) that support the strategic plan. The many noteworthy aspects of the Real California Cheese (RCC) program include: • • • • • The research that went into development of the long-term strategy How well the tactics implemented the strategy The thoroughness of the plans and pervasive attention to detail The consistency of execution over an extensive period of time The stellar long-term results The Strategic Plan 1 In 1982, faced with declining fluid milk consumption and a surplus of milk at the farm level, the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), a promotional board that is an instrumentality of the California Department of Food & Agriculture and represents all California dairy families, hired the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the growth options for the California dairy industry. The CMAB executes generic promotional programs for all California...
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...Music censorship began its journey in the early 1950’s with the “controversial” music of Blacks during the time period. It has then evolved from a form of racism to a method of suppression. It touches all major genres, but is most commonly issues with both rap and rock music. Major groups such as the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) have been formed to try and monitor the lyrical messages that are expressed in songs. The RIAA is not out to completely censor music, but to advise buyers of the messages they may be listening to on a certain album. Then there is the party that feels censorship at any level shall not be present. It is suppressing one’s First Amendment rights in freedom of expression and also suppresses an artist abilities to fully paint a vivid picture with their lyrics to the audience. The last group believes that censorship is a must, and that any songs that carry the censored material shall be taken off of the shelves. That specific group believes that contaminating society with explicit lyrics should not reward artists. The side that believes censorship of music should not exist at all states that music is a form of art. Many tend to separate music from forms of art, such as paintings and poetry. However, the lyrics in the music are an art form as well, and they cannot restrict that due in part to the First Amendment. It is part of our Bill of Rights as American citizens, and no governing powers can take that away from us. Also, society favors contemporary...
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...with Jay Treaty and The Hague Peace Conferences and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in 1899. (http://www.icj-cij.org) According to EBSCO (2010); “the court was empowered to render judgments in disputes between states that were voluntarily submitted to it and to give advisory opinions in any matters referred to it by the Council or the Assembly of the League.” The Court contains fifteen judges nominated by the General Assembly and the Security Council and they serve a period of nine years but can be reelected each judge should be from a different state. Nine of those judges represent a quorum. The ICJ is able to make its own rules. Cases can be brought before the ICJ by all members of the UN. A special agreement is required by the two parties or one party can only send a written application to the registrar. After that, The ICJ can choose to hear witnesses or to hire investigators to report back on the case. (International Court of Justice, 2002) The only resemblance I can find between the International Court of Justice and any US court is the fact that they are both based on evidence and are based on disputes and negotiates by using justice and legal procedures to resolve cases. An advisory opinion is a request by a party to a court in order to legalize a proposed legislation or conduct and it is usually issued in the absence of the...
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...risk of developing, ___________, through research, education and patient care. ______ Organization & Structure Executive Board The Executive Committee (EC) is responsible for the governance and structure of the _____ and all Boards and Committees established within its organization. The Executive Committee will be comprised of the Chief of the _____, the Director of the _____, the Chief of _____, and the elected Advisory Board Chairperson. . The Executive Committee will also be responsible for identification, qualification and promotion of funding priorities to support the _____ goals. Advisory Board The _____ Advisory Board (_____AB) will consist of 10 – 15 members. Term of membership will be for three years, renewable for up to two terms. Chairperson will be nominated and elected by the Advisory Board. The Advisory Board will also appoint members to chair Committees. Nominations for Advisory Board and Committee membership will be approved unanimously by the _____ Executive Board and by at least a two-thirds vote of the Advisory Board. Management Board The Management Board (MB) will consist of key administrative personnel from each group and the Development Office liaison(s). The Management Board is responsible for directing, communicating, and coordination of initiatives’ established by the Executive or Advisory Boards. The Development Office liaison will head this planning and will consult and communicate their efforts with each Administrator...
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...reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, used in a spreadsheet, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, without permission. For enquiries regarding bulk purchases and reprint permissions, please call 91-40-23430462/63 or write to ICFAI Center for Management Research, 49, Nagarjuna Hills, Panjagutta, Hyderabad 500082, India or email icmr@icfai.org. Copies of this case can also be purchased online from the ICMR website, www.icmrindia.org. BECG/035 GOVERNANCE ISSUES AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE “The New York Stock Exchange is long overdue for a very serious and thorough examination and overhaul of its governance. The very fact that they nominate their own board without any input from anyone else should not be tolerated.” - Nell Minow, Editor, Corporate-Governance Research Firm - The Corporate Library in August 2003.1 op y “Today, we take an important step towards a governance architecture with standards of independence and disclosure that are comparable to or stronger than those we require of our listed companies.” C - John Reed, Interim Chairman & CEO – New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) commenting on the proposed NYSE reforms, in November 2003.2 ot PAYBACK TIME AT NYSE o N On September 18, 2003, Richard Grasso...
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...While the advisory board Bob put in place was effective, his approach in vetting its members was not Ideal. Bob’s assembly of the board was unconventional He made a very broad assessment of the company’s advisory needs. His most effective and intentional action was making the choice to seek out Barry Ready. Barry’s business acumen particularly with regard to family business’ operations is proven. Operating a company that has been successful for a substantial number of years and specializes in issues related to growng a business while maintaining familu ties ad succession provides a long term benefit to Northwest Securities. The way in which Carter and Crandnell were sought out and appointed was a bit haphazard. An advisory board should consist of proven leaders whose successees can be qualified and quantified with extensive research so that the fate of the company is in knowledgeable hands. Enthusiasm is not a significan enough criteria for appointment, particularly when one is being compensated for the role. TheAddition of Peggy was also a bit unfounded. While having a female representative to add some perspective to the group is always beneficial, substantiating her role by pinpointing how her expeience is beneficial to the team is more important. It didn’t seem as though that was the case. The financial...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Company Overview Blackberry is a brand that was created by Research in Motion's (RIM) Founder Mike Lazaridis in 1996, providing wireless web enabled devices across multiple networks. At the time, Lazaridis was an engineering student at the University of Waterloo while Fregin was an engineering student at the University of Windsor. BlackBerry Limited (BlackBerry), incorporated on February 24, 2003, is a provider of mobile communications. The Company is engaged primarily in the provision of the BlackBerry wireless solution, consisting of smartphones, service and software. The Company's four areas of business are Devices business, Enterprise Services, BlackBerry Technology Solutions (BTS) business and Messaging. The Company's Devices business is focused on delivering smartphone products. BlackBerry's Enterprise Services business offers enterprise products and services. The Company's BTS business consists of five units: QNX Software Systems Limited (QNX), Certicom, Paratek, the BlackBerry Internet of Things (IoT) Platform, and Intellectual Property and Patent Licensing (IPPL). The Company's Messaging business is engaged in providing BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). The Company's smartphones are powered by the BlackBerry 10 operating system (OS). BlackBerry smartphones are available from various carriers and indirect channels, through a range of distribution partners, and are designed to operate on a range of carrier networks, including High Speed Packet Access...
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...governance practice”. Do you agree and why? (10 Marks) Introduce to Corporate Governance Corporate governance looks at issues pertaining to transparency, integrity, effectiveness and accountability in the management of the affairs, and all other activities of an organization. Management is concerned with the company’s operations, functions and financial performance; hence, corporate governance aims to involve the quality assurance of the operation of the board itself. The concern is for the welfare, good performance, corporate ethics and morality, as well as social and public responsibility for the good corporate citizenship. Corporate governance also involves in system to ensure that the organization’s obligations to its major stakeholders. The relationship among the many stakeholders and the way of corporation is directed and governed is therefore created. Stakeholders might include customers, employees, creditors, suppliers and distributors, the community and the owners at large. The principle stakeholders are the board of...
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...I’m Eren Jeager, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, and I’m pleased to welcome you to our Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The script of our Annual Meeting will be available following the meeting through our website at www.cabotcmp.com. I would like to remind all of you that our conversation today may include statements that constitute forward looking statements. Such statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward looking statements, and we assume no obligation to update them. Mikasa Ackerman, the General Counsel and Secretary of our Company, will act as Secretary of the Meeting. First, I would like to emphasize our appreciation for our Board of Directors and the advice and guidance provided to our company. I would like to acknowledge the members of our Board of Directors, the following of whom are with us today in person: Bob Birgeneau, Jack Frazee, Larry Fuller, Rick Hill, Barb Klein, Ted Mooney, Steve Wilkinson, and Bailing Xia. The first order of business for our annual meeting is to organize the meeting and determine the presence of a quorum. Will all stockholders present and wishing to vote in person by ballot, and all persons holding proxies not previously filed, please report to the Secretary and deliver their ballots and proxies to her. On or about January 17, 2014, our Board of Directors sent notice of...
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...THE PIOB AND THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ACCOUNTANTS Stavros B. Thomadakis Chairman, Public Interest Oversight Board IFAC Council Auckland, New Zealand – November 17, 2005 Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to have been invited to the IFAC Annual Conference, and to come to this faraway and very beautiful land of New Zealand. I want to express my personal gratitude to the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants for their hospitality. As IFAC completes its first year of operation under a new and rigorous constitution, this week provides an important opportunity for all of you to reflect on how far IFAC has travelled and to determine what distance remains. In the same way, my objective today is to bring Council members up to date on the many positive developments that have occurred since your meeting in Paris last year, on where the Public Interest Oversight Board stands right now, and where it intends to go from here. A year ago IFAC reaffirmed its unanimous support for constitutional reforms that included, among other important matters, the creation of the Public Interest Oversight Board. Even more important was the strong signal that the new entity should be launched as quickly as possible. This task fell to the same key groups responsible for the final formulation of IFAC reforms, and was executed by the end of February 2005. This was an impressive achievement considering the many players involved, the importance of the task, and the need for full consensus...
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...first decade of F&ME’s existence saw it entering into production on 50-odd international co-productions with a total budget of EUR 120 million involving 102 production companies from all over Europe. It now has a catalogue of rights in over 50 features including Academy Award Nominee and Venice Golden Lion winner Before the Rain, box office horror hit Deathwatch; Cannes Directors’ Fortnight opener Princess; Sundance South African hit Son of Man; Jason Biggs starrer GUY X and Dinard winner White Lightnin' as well as 2012 Berlinale Audience Award Winner Parada by Srdjan Dragojevic. The company remains fully owned and managed by producers Mike Downey (European Film Academy Board Member, BAFTA Council member and member of the BAFTA Film Committee) and Sam Taylor ( Board of PACT) backed by its advisory board Billy Elliot/The Hours/The Reader/Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close director Stephen Daldry (Chairman), ex-Creative Artists Agency agent Johanna Baldwin, former Chief Executive of the Guardian Group, James Markwick, merchant banker and internet pioneer Matthew Wilson. Launched in 2000 as part of a public offering on the Frankfurt Neuer Markt, F&ME was the subject of a management buy-out by its principals Sam Taylor and Mike Downey in 2003, and as an independent entity has kept to its annual production targets of producing 2 in house films and between 4 and 6 co-productions a year in the £1.5 - £5 million budget range. The first decade of F&ME’s existence saw it entering...
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...Code) | Telephone Number: | (256) 443-2219 | Email: | jmg0041@auburn.edu | Date of semester(s) or term(s) you wish Associate Membership: | January 2014 | August 2014 | | (From Month/Year) | (To Month/Year) | Class you will be during this time: | Soph | (Soph.-Jr.-Sr.) | | Jessie Groch | | | (Applicant signature) | | In the space below please state briefly but clearly your reasons for requesting Associate Membership. | | Please obtain the following signatures approving your application. Encourage any of these to write to the Province Director of Chapters directly if they feel further comment is necessary. If a letter is accompanying this application, CHECK HERE . Did your Advisory Board approve this request? | | Yes | | No | Advisory Board Chairman Signature: | | Address: | | | | | (Number and Street) | (City, State and Zip Code) | (Email) | | Yes | | No | | Is the applicant in good standing? | | Yes | | No | | Has applicant paid all dues to date? | | Yes | | No | | N/A | If application is for financial reasons, is member working regularly? | | Yes | | No | | N/A | Has every effort been made to assist with her financial situation? | | Yes |...
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...Glass, Lewis & Co. was founded in 2003 and is considered to be one the largest proxy advisory firms in the world. Its HQ is based in California yet it is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, one of Canada’s largest pension systems. Glass Lewis currently maintains approximately 37% of the market share for proxy advisory services. Glass Lewis provides services to shareholders to research and provide analysis proposals being put up for a vote. These votes analyzed include, election of Board members, ratification of compensation, ratification of the auditors, changes in the company's bylaws, companies strategy and exposure to risks and other important or relevant social and environmental issues that may have a significant impact to the companies long term performance. Glass Lewis empowers institutional investors that collectively manage $20 trillion to make sound voting decisions by uncovering and assessing governance, business, legal, political and accounting risks at issuers domiciled in 100 countries. Services Viewpoint: vote management platform that supports all aspects of governance program, from the engagement of members before, during and after the proxy season, to the implementation of custom policies, to the internal collaboration that results in a final vote decision Proxy Paper: features case-by-case, independent analysis of all the proposals contained in tens of thousands of meetings held each year across more than 100...
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...conflict of interests regarding cyber break-ins. The Duty of Care is relevant because the directors and officers have a duty to exercise reasonable care in conducting corporate affairs. And lastly Shareholder litigation is seen here when the shareholders filed a derivative action after the discovery of the data breach and the decline of stock prices of the Risk Corporation. Scenario 2 A shareholder is part owner of a corporation based on the percentage of the corporation's stock the shareholder owns. Shareholders have the right to vote to approve any fundamental corporate changes that the board of directors wishes to implement. Examples of changes are amending the articles of incorporation or its by-laws, merging or dissolving the corporation, increasing the shares the corporation can authorize, and selling corporate assets. Shareholders also have the right to vote on any vacancy on the board of directors by a proportion of the shares they hold. They are also granted...
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...Composition of the Board of Directors The Company’s remuneration policy, as determined by the remuneration committee, is presented to shareholders for endorsement at the last annual general meeting. This is in accordance with the Corporate Governance - King III Report requirements that ensures that shareholders should approve the company’s remuneration policy. Shareholders should pass a non-binding advisory vote on the company’s yearly remuneration policy and the board should determine the remuneration of executive directors in accordance with the remuneration policy put to shareholders vote. The King III Report also requires companies to remunerate directors and executives fairly and responsibly. As for Impala Platinum Holdings, the composition of the committee is in line with King III recommendations whereby the remuneration committee ensures that the policy strives for competitive and fair reward, to recognise and reward individual and team achievement and to contribute to the attraction, retention and motivation of employees, organisational growth and prosperity. The board should be assisted by a competent, suitably qualified and experienced company secretary. The board should appoint and remove the company secretary and should empower the company secretary to enable the person to properly fulfil his duties. The company secretary should provide guidance to the board on the duties of directors and good governance. The company secretary should ensure board and committee charters...
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