...Key Facts...............................................................................................................3 Business Description...........................................................................................4 History...................................................................................................................5 Key Employees.....................................................................................................6 Key Employee Biographies..................................................................................7 Major Products and Services..............................................................................9 Top Competitors.................................................................................................10 Locations and Subsidiaries...............................................................................11 Rowan Technology Group Page 2 © MarketLine Rowan Technology Group TABLE OF CONTENTS COMPANY OVERVIEW Rowan Technology Group (Rowan) is a consulting firm. It provides market analysis, strategic marketing and competitive technical intelligence for the advanced technology, advanced materials and coatings industry. The company primarily operates in the US, where it is headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois. As a privately held company, Rowan Technology Group is not obligated to release its financial results. KEY FACTS Head Office Rowan Technology Group 1590 South Milwaukee...
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...the job is very appealing to those interested in finance – it’s challenging, fulfilling, intellectually stimulating, and potentially very rewarding. You generally don’t have to work quite as many hours as investment bankers or even management consultants, but have the potential to earn more. This results in many, smart and talented candidates looking for buy-side roles, leading to a high supply of labor. On the demand side, investment management is a scalable business, where hiring needs are not directly proportional to assets under management. For example, in order to manage $100 million in stocks, a fund might start out with a PM and two analysts. When the fund hits $300 million, they might add one analyst, and perhaps one more when the fund reaches $500-$700 million. In this example, while AUM went up by five to seven times, the fund’s analyst staff increased by just two times. As a result of these factors affecting both supply/demand, the number of candidates seeking positions far exceeds the number of available seats, and the process is very competitive. There are two general paths to the buy-side from the MBA program – the first is to land a summer internship at a large mutual fund company (Fidelity, T Rowe...
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...Get the inside scoop on investment banking careers in the Asia Pacific region! Read this extended excerpt of the all-new Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking, Asia Pacific Edition and get the inside story on investment banking careers, including: • An inside look at corporate finance, sales & trading, research and other major functions at investment banks. • An oveview of equity and debt markets in the region • A discussion of industry trends and corporate culture in Asia Pacific • Days in the life of investment bankers in Asia Pacific This PDF is an excerpted version of the full 198-page guide To get the complete guide: • Purchase your own print or e-Book version of the guide. Go to www.Vault.com/Asia. • More than 900 universities and MBA programs worldwide subscribe to the Vault Online Library, providing more than 4.5 million students worldwide with access to Vault's guides and career information. Contact your career center today to ask about access to the Vault Online Career Library. ABOUT VAULT Founded in 1996, Vault is the leading global media company focused on careers. With offices in North America, Europe, India and Asia, Vault provides graduates and young professionals worldwide with insider information on careers and education through its award-winning web sites and career guides. CAR E E RS VAU LT CA R E E R G U I D E TO INVESTMENT BAN KING A S I A P A C I F I C E D I T I O N INVESTMENT BANKING JUNG B. LEE, TOM LOTT ...
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...VAULT CAREER GUIDE TO INVESTM E NT BAN KING 2008 EDITION is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors: Customized for: Triston Francis (tfran@wharton.upenn.edu) SEO Online Career Library The media’s watching Vault! Here’s a sampling of our coverage. “For those hoping to climb the ladder of success, [Vault’s] insights are priceless.” – Money magazine “The best place on the web to prepare for a job search.” – Fortune “[Vault guides] make for excellent starting points for job hunters and should be purchased by academic libraries for their career sections [and] university career centers.” – Library Journal “The granddaddy of worker sites.” – U.S. News & World Report “A killer app.” – New York Times Customized for: Triston Francis (tfran@wharton.upenn.edu) SEO Online Career Library One of Forbes’ 33 “Favorite Sites” – Forbes “To get the unvarnished scoop, check out Vault.” – SmartMoney Magazine “Vault has a wealth of information about major employers and jobsearching strategies as well as comments from workers about their experiences at specific companies.” – The Washington Post “A key reference for those who want to know what it takes to get hired by a law firm and what to expect once they get there.” – New York Law Journal “Vault [provides] the skinny on working conditions at all kinds of companies from current and former employees.” – USA Today Customized for: Triston Francis (tfran@wharton.upenn.edu) SEO Online Career Library ...
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...Get the inside scoop on investment banking careers in the Asia Pacific region! Read this extended excerpt of the all-new Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking, Asia Pacific Edition and get the inside story on investment banking careers, including: • An inside look at corporate finance, sales & trading, research and other major functions at investment banks. • An oveview of equity and debt markets in the region • A discussion of industry trends and corporate culture in Asia Pacific • Days in the life of investment bankers in Asia Pacific This PDF is an excerpted version of the full 198-page guide To get the complete guide: • Purchase your own print or e-Book version of the guide. Go to www.Vault.com/Asia. • More than 900 universities and MBA programs worldwide subscribe to the Vault Online Library, providing more than 4.5 million students worldwide with access to Vault's guides and career information. Contact your career center today to ask about access to the Vault Online Career Library. ABOUT VAULT Founded in 1996, Vault is the leading global media company focused on careers. With offices in North America, Europe, India and Asia, Vault provides graduates and young professionals worldwide with insider information on careers and education through its award-winning web sites and career guides. CAR E E RS VAU LT CA R E E R G U I D E TO INVESTMENT BAN KING A S I A P A C I F I C E D I T I O N INVESTMENT BANKING JUNG B. LEE, TOM LOTT and the staff of vault ...
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...Hudson and three other members working on the deal, Jean Fenster, Rich Patten and Payton Edwards, have been keeping their experiences of working with Chip Mazey to themselves. The case reveals that they finally confided in each other about how it was like to work with Chip Mazey. Associates and Analyst at Hudson were experiencing something far more than just a competitive and stressful work environment. Jeremy Frazer along with some of his other colleagues directly under Chip Mazey’s leadership was experiencing a broken culture and disruptive work life. The present culture at Hudson proves to be one of hostility between the employees and VP, Chip Mazey. Mazey has been with Hudson for 10 years, the case reveals that he followed his demeaning and derogatory or “kiss up, kick down” style of working. How is Mazey’s work style affecting the culture of the associates and analyst at Hudson? Mazey’s work style introduces us to our first presenting issues. Mazey attitude affects his work style and the work life of many employees at Hudson. The company provides a 360-degree feedback system, which presented Mazey as having a nasty reputation amongst the analyst and associates at Hudson. Analyst and associates at Hudson are clearly not happy and have not been for the past ten years. Mazey was considered a solid banker at Hudson that gave him the reputation through the organizations that he was something different from his reputation. In the financial industry one who is a solid banker...
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...Get the inside scoop on investment banking careers in the Asia Pacific region! Read this extended excerpt of the all-new Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking, Asia Pacific Edition and get the inside story on investment banking careers, including: • An inside look at corporate finance, sales & trading, research and other major functions at investment banks. • An oveview of equity and debt markets in the region • A discussion of industry trends and corporate culture in Asia Pacific • Days in the life of investment bankers in Asia Pacific This PDF is an excerpted version of the full 198-page guide To get the complete guide: • Purchase your own print or e-Book version of the guide. Go to www.Vault.com/Asia. • More than 900 universities and MBA programs worldwide subscribe to the Vault Online Library, providing more than 4.5 million students worldwide with access to Vault's guides and career information. Contact your career center today to ask about access to the Vault Online Career Library. ABOUT VAULT Founded in 1996, Vault is the leading global media company focused on careers. With offices in North America, Europe, India and Asia, Vault provides graduates and young professionals worldwide with insider information on careers and education through its award-winning web sites and career guides. CAR E E RS VAU LT CA R E E R G U I D E TO INVESTMENT BAN KING A S I A P A C I F I C E D I T I O N INVESTMENT BANKING JUNG B. LEE, TOM LOTT and the staff of vault ...
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...Calculators, lemmings or frame-makers? The intermediary role of securities analysts Daniel Beunza and Raghu Garud Introduction As Wall Street specialists in valuation, sell-side securities analysts constitute a particularly important class of market actor.1 Analysts produce the reports, recommendations and price targets that professional investors utilize to inform their buy and sell decisions, which means that understanding analysts’ work can provide crucial insights on the determinants of value in the capital markets. Yet our knowledge of analysts is limited by insufficient attention to Knightian uncertainty. Analysts estimate the value of stocks by calculating their net present value or by folding the future back into the present. In so doing, they are faced with the fundamental challenge identified by Frank Knight, that is, with the difficulty of making decisions that entail a future that is unknown. These decisions, as Knight wrote, are characterized by ‘neither entire ignorance nor complete . . . information, but partial knowledge’ of the world (Knight, [1921] 1971: 199). The finance literature has not examined the Knightian challenge faced by analysts. Indeed, existing treatments circumvent the problem by adopting one of two extreme positions. In the first, put forward by orthodox economists, it is assumed that Knightian uncertainty is non-existent and that calculative decision-making is straightforward. Analysts are presented as mere calculators in a probabilistic world of risk...
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...Product 6 Price 6 Place 6 Promotion 6 Marketing strategies 6 Product 6 Price 7 Place 7 Promotion 7 Summary 7 Tactics and Action plan 8 Product 8 Price 8 Place 8 Promotion 9 Monitoring 10 Our Mission statement We enable consumers to improve the quality and convenience of their lives by providing high-quality, innovative electronic solutions The Product The new EasyLoad microwave oven introduces a revolutionary concept for built-in microwave ovens. Conventional microwave ovens simply have a hinged front door, making it very difficult to load the microwave if it’s built into kitchen cabinets. EasyLoad will come with a slide out tray, exposing the complete interior, easy to load from the top even for heavy items like a smaller turkey. Main features Top loading instead of front loading | This very new concept is cementing our leading positon in terms of innovation and emphasizes our core values of improving the quality and convenience of our customers. Our channel partners will be thrilled because this not only a small improvement of an existing product, but the re-invention a common household appliance. | Natural loading movement instead of knee jerking | Having a natural loading movement by putting items into the oven from the top at, for that movement, suitable height, instead of holding potentially heavy items in front of you and then bend your knees (which can be dangerous at times) , we...
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...operationally convenient and to unite the different silos that existed in the organization. While restructuring Sony, a lot of young blood had been infused into the top management of the company. This was also viewed as a move to break the Japanese tradition of seniority in favor of performance. On the new reorganization, Stringer said, ―This reorganization is designed to transform Sony into a more innovative, integrated, and agile global company with its next generation of leadership firmly in place.‖21 Through its new restructuring efforts, Sony planned to gain a substantial position in the networked electronics market, and a new group – Networked Products and Services Group – was created especially for that purpose, concentrating on products like the PlayStation and the Vaio personal computers. Analysts were of the view that the networked products and services group had a tough task ahead — it had to create digital services that would tie all Sony‘s products together. Some industry experts were of the view that the reorganization would result in sustained profitability and a cohesive corporate culture. It was also expected to result in nimbleness in the organization and in making it ready to face the new-age rivals. The creation of cross company units in the areas of logistics and software was also seen by analysts as an effort to bring down the silos in the company. Stringer, however, tried to bring in coordination and was largely successful in bundling the Blu-ray22...
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...seven criteria to figure out which mutual fund that I believed is alluring to investments. My seven criteria are Morningstar Analyst Rating, Morningstar Risk, Annual Return, Year After Tax Return (no sale), Open to New Investment, Morningstar Rating and Equity Style box. Screening criterion: Morningstar Analyst Rating >= Gold Morningstar analyst rating is based on “funds past risk and load adjusted returns”. It analyzes the fund’s process, performance, people, parent and price. I choose Gold, which is the highest rating scale. According to Morningstar, “Gold is the Best-of-breed fund that distinguishes itself across the five pillars and has garnered the analysts' highest level of conviction”. I believe that professional rating is very important source for me to choose mutual fund. Morningstar Risk <= Below Average For long-term investment, I prefer below average risk investment. It is too risky to do a risky mutual fund as a long-term investment, because you could not predict future. 2013 Annual Return >=9 Annual return is very necessary criteria to consider if this mutual fund is profitable. I prefer the recently data, which could provide more helpful information for me to consider mutual fund. Based on the data, it shows average is 4.87 and top area is between 8.85-54.48. So I choose above 9, so my chosen mutual fund has the top annual return. 5 Yr AfterTax Return (no sale) >=14 After I choose the annual return, I feel that after tax return is...
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...Perform an initial ratio analysis with Enron’s 2000 10-K Report, using the “Irrational Ratios”, the “Key Ratios for Investing” and the “Emerging Ratios”. Irrational Ratios Days Sales in Receivable Index | 1.376 | *This could be a red flag because this comes in closer to the mean manipulators index than the non-manipulators index. | | | | Gross Margin Index | 2.144 | *This is definitely a red flag because it is much higher than the average manipulators index of 1.193. | | | | Asset Quality | 0.7714 | *Not a red flag because it is smaller than the mean non-manipulators index. | | | | Sales Growth Index | 2.513 | *This is also a red flag because it is much higher than the mean manipulators index. | | | | Total Accruals to Total Assets Index | -0.0121 | *TATA is not a red flag because it is very close to the non-manipulators index. | Key Ratios for Investing Price/Book | 5.597 | | | | *Red flag because industry average is only between 2 and 3. | Price/Earnings | 71.429 | | | | *Red flag because average is between 20 and 25 which is significantly lower. | Price/Sales | 0.637 | | | | *Not a red flag because this falls below the benchmark of 1.9. | Price/Cash Flow | 13.433 | | | | *Not a red flag because this falls below the benchmark of 15.1. | Profit Margin | 0.9713% | | | | *Red flag because this does not fall within the benchmark of 4%-8%. | Top-Line Growth | 151.269% | | | | *Red flag because...
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...Deloitte Consulting WetFeet Insider Guide 2005 Edition The WetFeet Research Methodology You hold in your hands a copy of the best-quality research available for job seekers. We have designed this Insider Guide to save you time doing your job research and to provide highly accurate information written precisely for the needs of the job-seeking public. (We also hope that you’ll enjoy reading it, because, believe it or not, the job search doesn’t have to be a pain in the neck.) Each WetFeet Insider Guide represents hundreds of hours of careful research and writing. We start with a review of the public information available. (Our writers are also experts in reading between the lines.) We augment this information with dozens of in-depth interviews of people who actually work for each company or industry we cover. And, although we keep the identity of the rank-and-file employees anonymous to encourage candor, we also interview the company’s recruiting staff extensively, to make sure that we give you, the reader, accurate information about recruiting, process, compensation, hiring targets, and so on. (WetFeet retains all editorial control of the product.) We also regularly survey our members and customers to learn about their experiences in the recruiting process. Finally, each Insider Guide goes through an editorial review and fact-checking process to make sure that the information and writing live up to our exacting standards before it goes out the door. Are we perfect? No—but...
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...Analyst information intermediation – private and public information –and the central role of knowledge and social forces in economic processes in the ‘market for information’. John Holland, University of Glasgow, Jo Danbolt, University of Edinburgh, Lei Chen, University of Keele. John Holland, University of Glasgow, The Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Main Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland Abstract: This paper develops a model of the information intermediation role of analysts in the ‘market for information’ (MFI). It illustrates how the same type of ‘soft’ intangibles information changes as it progresses through analyst information intermediation processes. The latter concern: company disclosure; analyst acquisition and analysis of company information; analyst reporting processes; and market impacts. The common information concerns ‘soft’ or qualitative information about the company intellectual capital (IC) or intangibles in the company business model. Banks and bank analysts are used as examples. Knowledge, social and economic factors in the wider ‘market for information’ (MFI) are shown to be major influences on ‘soft information’ and how it changes in analyst information intermediation processes. Negative knowledge and social factors play a role in weakening and eventually destabilising economic processes in analyst and the MFI. They were important factors in creating knowledge and information problems in analysts and the MFI, both ongoing...
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...I aspire to be a Senior Financial Analyst within the next 5 years. My goal for the survey is to see if I can meet the requirement to become a Senior Financial Analyst. Becoming a Senior Financial Analyst make me happy? I sent an email survey to 17 senior financial analysts within my current company. The data collected will confirm if I should continue seeking the position of a Senior Financial Analyst. Seventeen Senior Financial Analysts were given an e-mailed survey to complete which will show what is required for a Senior Financial Analyst position. The questions that were asked are as follows: 1. What is the highest educational requirement needed for a Senior Financial Analyst? A) Bachelors; B) Masters, C) Doctorate, or D) Certificate/License 2. How many years of experience are needed to become a Senior Financial Analyst? A) Less than 5 years; B) 5 years; or C) more than 5 years 3. How many hours do you work each week as a Senior Financial Analyst? A) Less than 40 hours per week, B) 40 hours per week; or C) More than 40 hours per week. 4. Due to the level of responsibilities for a Senior Financial Analyst, are you happy with your annual compensation? A) Yes or B) No 5. Are you satisfied being a Senior Financial Analyst? A) Yes, o B) No Out of the 17 emailed surveys, I received responses from 13. The results to the questions are below in Table 1: Table 1 Highest Level of Edu Bachelor Masters Doctorate Certificate/License 3 8 2 0 Years of Experience...
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