...Are you for or against Net Neutrality? I am in favor of Net Neutrality. I believe in Net Neutrality and the freedom of speech on the Internet. Content within a site should be free to the public. By protecting open Internet, it will insure that the Internet is not own by only a hand full of key players in the industry like Google, Verizon, Comcast dominating the Internet. What are your thoughts concerning this? My major concern about net neutrality is that few key companies would dominate the Internet. It might means pushing small companies out of business due to key players in the industry would take control over the cost of Internet, speed of the Internet, and even take control of access to information over the Internet. Internet became a part of our lives and in past 10 years most of our offline activities like banking, shopping, and professional recruitment are following the trends and move to the online world. For better or for worse, the Internet is changing the way we are evolving. At “The Future of the Internet” public hearing, FCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn said “New and innovative media companies are constantly starting-up today, citizen journalism is on the rise, blogs have an increasing influence on public discourse, and media providers from broadcast networks to newspapers are shifting their strategies online. For these reasons and more, I say without hesitation, that an open Internet is indeed the great equalizer. It enables traditionally...
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...1. Using examples, explain the difference between obscene and indecent materials. Obscene and indecent both have different meanings but are similar in many ways. Obscene material is described as disgusting or repulsive but indecent material is described as being offensive to the public. Both obscene and indecent can be view differently by the public; however, the Constitution plays a role with indecent material. Obscene material "is not protected by the First Amendment,” (The Dynamics of Mass Communication Tenth Edition, page 377) and broadcast stations cannot air obscene material at anytime. The problem with this is that no one had come up with a set standard of what obscene material is. Due to the difference in beliefs between families and individuals, no two people have the same beliefs and will not agree to a set standard of what obscene material really is. Since obscene material is can not be banned completely and therefore can be view during nighttime broadcasting. A good example of this is the adult swim channel. During the day children can view cartoons like Spongebob and Rugrats; but when 10 o’clock p.m. hit, the channel switches to adult swim when there are show with naked women and sex scenes. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, to be obscene, material must meet a three-prong test, "(1) an average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest (i.e., material having a tendency to excite...
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...FAIRNESS OPINIONS IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS Anil K. Makhija* The Ohio State University Rajesh P. Narayanan Ohio University April 11, 2007 ____________________________________________________________ __________________ Abstract Fairness opinions provided by investment banks advising on mergers and acquisitions have been criticized for being conflicted in aiding bankers further their goal of completing the deal as opposed to aiding boards (and shareholders) by providing an honest appraisal of deal value. We find empirical support for this criticism. We find that shareholders on both sides of the deal, aware of the conflict of interest facing advisors, rationally discount deals where advisors provide fairness opinions. The reputation of the advisor serves to mitigate this discount, while the contingent nature of advisory fees appears to have no impact. We also find support for allegations that fairness opinions are sought by boards for the legal cover they provide against shareholders unhappy with the deal’s terms. JEL Classification: G34, G24 Keywords: Fairness Opinions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Investment Banking ____________________________________________________________ __________________ *Corresponding author: Anil K. Makhija, 700 E. Fisher Hall, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. Tel: (614) 292-1899. E-Mail: Makhija.1@osu.edu. We are grateful for comments from Angie Low, Brian Nocco, Robert Rosholt, and René Stulz,...
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...Back when my mother was my age, the only media source they had was newspapers, radio, and television. Back then phones only had one function which was to communicate by voice and then came text. Now days our phone is a one stop shop for all media. All together though we do have: TV, phone, newspapers, radio, and the internet for our source media source. I personally don’t have cable anymore because of the dreaded news on each channel you turn to these days. I normally get my news from yahoo in whom I get an update in the morning and again in the evening. While serving in the Military, they told us that the only news we can really trust to be accurate was CNN and the Military News Network, that everyone else was exaggerated for higher program ratings. Should I be held accountable for their information? No. They should be, because the public values the truth and sometime the severity of it. According to Spark notes (http://www.sparknotes.com/us-government-and-politics/american-government/the-media/section3.rhtml) Printed media and Internet are unregulated. They can print whatever they want as long as they don’t slander anyone’s name. Broadcast Media is under strict regulations by the government. The FCC acts as a police agency over the airwaves. “Since the 1980s the government has loosened restrictions on media ownership, and Congress passed the Telecommunications Act in 1996 to allow companies to own even more media outlets. Due to the loosening of ownership restrictions, more...
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...With respect to what particular type of fairness did you score highest? What specific experiences contributed to this assessment? My score was the highest in Interpersonal justice in the area of fairness that I received. My interpersonal justice score reflects the relationship that I have with my superior and my perception of fairness by my supervisor (Greenberg, 2010). I work for the same company for many years and my last boss was one of the best ever. He was concerned with family first and always treated all of the leaders and line level with respect. He also promoted from with in. 2. With respect to what particular type of fairness did you score lowest? What specific experiences contributed to this assessment? Procedural justice was the type of fairness I received the lowest score for. The hospitality industry is tough. Often you work long hours and weekends. In the very beginning of your career, you work many holidays that keep you away form the family. When you first start off, the pay is not the best and you have to relocate to grow your career faster. 3. What kinds of problems resulted from any violations of any type of organizational justice you may have experienced? What could have been done to avoid these violations? For me, I feel there is a disconnect in the field due the informational justice. Often leaders in the corporate office fail to provide information and explanations to the field. For management to be successful...
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...voices coming through radio stations telling people what they want and need. Advertisement pictures and videos are constantly being played on the television screens, cellphones and almost any other electronic gadget. Advertisers still manage to stretch the truth, now in more creative ways. Advertisements, especially print, are photo-enhancing and distorting images to create a false image. Photographs of human beings, taken to help sell a product, are now being altered and becoming the product. There are many studies that have been conducted on the effects of these altered images, however a majority of these studies revolve around the female body. Targeting men with other men on advertisements is something that has spread widely and effected men's body image. Advertisements give a false image of how men and women should look; these advertisements need to reduce or label the level of retouching or possibly stop retouching photographs all together. Just as with women, photos of men are changed so that they meet the unrealistic image that has been made idealized by advertisements. As with the images of women, the images of men in advertisements are thinner than the average male. However, the images targeting men contain a high amount of muscle. The images used in advertisements affirm the idea that a man...
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...article will make deciding if the content being reported is worth listening to. One of the key issues I see with journalists is they have their own agendas and are not secure enough in their position to have it questioned or debated on television. They are quick to attack their “opponent” with a barrage of unchecked fact-based questions and will not allow their victims a proper platform to respond. If the conversation is not going the way they want it to they will simply “run out of time” and go to a commercial break. Journalists say they are just doing their jobs and want the truth, but I know it’s merely for ratings and pushing their agenda. In researching the two websites listed in the content area, the Media Research Center (MRC) and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), I’ve come to the conclusion that there will always be bias in today’s media. The MRC is a pro Democratic website looking for biased media content that favor the “Right”, with FAIR doing the same for the “Left”. One New York Times article written by Neil Irwin was up for debate on FAIR’s website. The article was titled “Why Americans Don’t Want to Soak the Rich” (New York Times, Neil Irwin, 4/17/15). Mr. Irwin’s intent was to portray that the majority of Americans don’t believe in the redistribution of wealth from the rich to the less fortunate. His article was filled with misleading facts and no examples of the surveys or polls to corroborate his claim. The New York Times is a staunch supporter...
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...Change is the act or instance of making or becoming different. Women had being through changes over the past years in regards to concern to woman's role, concern about equality, and feminist consciousness. Women have now become self conscious about themselves and have come to understand their place in religious communities and their relationship to scripture. However, this new women change is known as "feminist critical consciousness". First and foremost, when it comes to concern for woman's role, prior to early nineteenth century, women were not known in society as compared to men. It was all about men as a man's world. Women were not recognized with their roles as men but were just part of men as an attachment. They were seen as unclean and the source to sin. When they realized in understanding how unfair they've been addressed and inferior to men, some opponents started to use what's said in the bible against them on their wishes. Women however continue to realize how they were limited to many aspects of life but they were still undervalued and even the bible says and support it in a way that the head of a woman is her husband. This makes women less equal than men. Moreover, concern about equality was another issue women experienced then in the early centuries. Feminist began to promote "women studies" as women's experience was important. Women were seen as secondary while men had to lead everything in society. They were treated as minority in society and didn't have...
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...MEN’S WEARHOUSE CASE STUDY GROUP 1 Overview of Case The case study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business that is subtitled: Success in A Declining Industry is a detailed description of the events that led to Men’s Wearhouse success. Men’s Wearhouse is a specialty retailer for clothing tailored for the businessman of the past and present. Since its first store in 1978, it had developed rapidly into over 1,175 stores nationwide (Hoover, 2012). Men’s Wearhouse developed its own culture, management theories, and practices. In the case study the external environment of this industry was fiercely aggressive with many companies closing due to financial strains. Founder and CEO of Men’s Wearhouse, George Zimmer saw the “untapped human potential” of his employees as the key asset rather than property, plant, and equipment. According to Zimmer, the company’s five stakeholder groups in order are: Employees, Customers, Vendors, Communities, and Shareholders. He believes that if you take care of your employees first, they will in turn take care of your customers, who will then in turn take care of your top-line growth (Nishimura, 1993). Men’s Wearhouse implemented management systems for compensation and staffing, promotion and career development, and communication with employees at all levels. It has been said, “They instituted unusual and groundbreaking workforce management...
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...ECON 344/ARBUS 301 Individual Submission Magazine Advertisement Analysis Publication - Men's Health Magazine Men's Health Magazine is a very successful publication that holds a strong grip in its market. The target segment that Men's Health focuses on is the single young and middle aged male adults, who are health and body conscious. In the past this would be a small market, but in the current trend of workout videos, such as P90X, rise of UFC fighting, and increased popularity in gyms, it has now expanded to becoming a very large and profitable market. One major strategy that the magazine focuses on is emphasizing and creating an atmosphere of manliness in every article/issue it writes. It does this by promoting ideas and keywords such as muscle gain, sex, fights, and work out to appeal to its main core audience. By doing this they are even able to make something such as eating salads, watching calories, or coping with stress/emotion interesting to its readers, similar to the strategy that Coke did with its Coke Zero brand. This creates an environment that is highly appealing to the magazine's target, men, creating something that they will turn back to time after time for advice, information, and even products related to them. Another major strategy that this magazine focuses on is creating a premium product and that would be viewed as a high end quality magazine. It does this in two ways by (1) setting a higher price than competitors and (2) having high end key...
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... I was very nervous when I first received this exercise because I had the not even the slightest idea on how to handle a negotiation. The Thompson reading definitely helped ease my anxiety about the exercise and taught me all the basic skills needed to have a successful negotiation. This negotiation went a lot better than I thought and both parents got what they wanted and we tried to arrange everything while having the children’s best interest at the center of every decision that we made. One of the first things the Thompson article mentioned was to identify your key goals, brainstorm your options, and then to plan your opening move. Our client was very adamant in making sure he had some sort of legal custody over the children so we first argued for sole custody, but our adversaries also want sole custody to go to Joan. We were very aggressive on the point of custody and basically said there is no way that we were willing to give Joan sole legal custody over the children. Instead, we offered that we would settle for joint legal custody of the children with primary physical custody with Joan during the weekdays while giving Tom the children on the weekends. Our initial offer also included giving Tom overnight stays on the weekends when the children were staying with him. For some reason this was part of the negotiation that actually took us a long time to agree on. Our adversaries at the beginning offered no overnights on the weekends, then they offered one night a month. We...
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...talking about the "men's movement" and "wildman weekends." "I mean," he continued, "if they want to get dirty and sweat and cuss and pOW1d on things, why don't they just get real jobs and get paid for it?" Below, the crane growled, the next piece lifting skyward. I replied: "Nah, Ron, that isn't the point. They don't want to sweat every day, just sometimes." He said: "Man, if you only sweat when you want to, I don't call that real sweatin." Although my degree is in English, I am an ironworker by trade; my girlfriend, Patti, is a graduate student in English literature. Like a tennis ball volleyed by two players with distinctly different styles, I am bounced between blue-collar maulers and precise academicians. My conversations range from fishing to Foucault, derricks to deconstruction. There is very little overlap, but when it does occur it is generally the academics who are curious about the working life. Patti and I were at a dinner party. The question of communication between men had arisen. Becky, the host, is a persistent interrogator: "What do you and Ron talk about?" I said, “Well, we talk about work, drinking, ah, women.” Becky asked, "Do you guys ever say, 'I love you' to each other?" This smelled mightily of Robert Bly and the men's movement. I replied: "Certainly. All the time." I am still dissatisfied with this answer. Not because it was a lie, but because it was perceived as one. The notion prevails that men's emotional communication...
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...father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.[1][2] It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane.[5] In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level.[6] She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers.[7] Since 1938 she had the help of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate...
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...Coach John Wooden, the legendary men’s college basketball coach who led UCLA to 10 national championships in the late 60’s and early 70’s, wrote “Wooden on Leadership.” He has been called the greatest coach of all time, regardless of sport, and has written several books about character habits and leadership. Some of his remarkable achievements are the 10 national championships, seven of them in a row, 88 consecutive victories, 38 straight tournament playoff wins, four perfect seasons (all but the 88 consecutive wins are still records), and in 41 years of coaching he only had one losing season which was his first. Of course with this type of success coaches and business leaders around the world wanted to know what was his secret. How did he do it? The secret, he reveals, is simple, and parallels many of the same principles of servant leadership. Coach Wooden does not simply offer up random thoughts on leadership and coaching. He graduated Purdue as an English teacher and, barring a few financial hurdles, he would have been quite satisfied to have become a teacher rather than a coach. But he had been a highly successful athlete at Purdue and was sought after as a coach for a high school program in Indiana. It was then that he began to develop an overall concept for leadership that has over the years solidified into a tangible philosophy that has been used by many leaders since then. The reader can tell that Coach Wooden took great pride in this pyramid of success...
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...Known as “arguably the best basketball coach ever, with a record 10 national titles as the [head] coach of [UCLA basketball] and the distinction of being the first person to be voted into basketball’s Hall of Fame as both a player…and coach,” John Wooden is a great leader to take a look at and examine (Leadership Lessons). Coach Wooden believed that “leadership itself is largely learned [and] most of us have a potential far beyond what we think possible” (Wooden 4). Furthermore, John Wooden stated, “those who aspire to be leaders can do it [and] those who wish to become much better leaders can also do it” (Wooden 5). Coach John Wooden falls within the category of a much better leader and his leadership skills were learned through a variety of experiences. John Wooden’s journey to becoming a great leader can be traced back to the single most important person in his life, his father Joshua Wooden. Wooden stated multiple times that his father was “at the core of [his] philosophy of leadership (Wooden 6). More specifically, the “character and achievements of John Wooden can largely be traced to a piece of paper his father gave him on the day he graduated [grade school],” a “defining moment” if you will (Williams and Denney 26). Joshua Wooden handed a young John a small card with a seven-point creed to which he asked his son to live by. The seven points contained on the card were: “1. Be true to yourself. 2. Help others. 3. Make each day your masterpiece. 4. Drink deeply from...
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