School 9-298-016 Rev. April 2, 1998 Chase Manhattan Corporation: The Making of America's Largest Bank * In mid-August 1995, Walter Shipley, chairman and CEO of Chemical Banking Corporation, was preparing to leave the bank’s Manhattan headquarters building after a long day. For the past four weeks he and other senior Chemical managers had been in intensive negotiations with their counterparts at Chase Manhattan Corporation, including that bank’s chairman and CEO Thomas Labrecque. At issue was
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A CORPORATE PROFILE About Food & Water Watch Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources
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astonishingly good performance in light of the 10%–12% return typical of industry in general. A second and equally important contributor to Berkshire’s outstanding performance is a handful of substantial holdings in publicly traded common stocks such as The American Express Company, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wells Fargo & Company. As both manager and investor, Buffett looks for ‘‘wonderful businesses’’ with outstanding economic characteristics: high rates of return on invested capital, substantial profit margins
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Report 2009 letter from the chairman Samuel J. Palmisano Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer our company IBM basics The role of the ibmer A world of global citizens employees Investing in the IBMer ibmers in service Corporate Service Corps enters its third year communities Engagement, expertise and sustainable service environment Environmental sustainability, inside and out supply chain A holistic approach Governance Managing risk, maintaining trust public engagement Collaborating for
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OVERVIEW UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FISCAL YEAR 2014 BUDGET REQUEST APRIL 2013 OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER) / CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Preface The Overview Book has been published as part of the President’s Annual Defense Budget for the past few years. This continues for FY 2014, but with modifications as proposed by congressional staff. From FY 1969 to FY 2005 OSD published the “Annual Defense Report” (ADR) to meet 10 USC Section 113 requirements. Starting
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY ........................................................... 8 1.1 The Function of Shipping .................................................................................................. 8 1.2 The Structure of World Seaborne Trade and the Demand for Shipping Services....................... 8 1.3 The Ton-Mile as a Measurement of Demand for Shipping Services ....................................... 12 2. ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL COMMODITIES
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------------------------------------------------- Unmanned aerial vehicle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "UAV" redirects here. For the entertainment company, see UAV Corporation. For the veterans' organization, see Ukrainian American Veterans. A group photo of aerial demonstrators at the 2005 Naval Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Air Demo. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is anaircraft without a human pilot onboard. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by
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Journal of International Business and Law Volume 7 | Issue 1 Article 3 1-1-2008 Management Controlled Firms v. Owner Controlled Firms: A Historical Perspective of Ownership Concentration in the US, East Asia and the EU Andrew C. Spieler Andrew S. Murray Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/jibl Recommended Citation Spieler, Andrew C. and Murray, Andrew S. (2008) "Management Controlled Firms v. Owner Controlled Firms: A Historical Perspective
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Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….30 6. Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….32 7. References…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….33 Appendices A1 Selection of Key Institutes A2 Results Patent Analysis A3 Research Profiles 1. Introduction This report analyzes the R&D infrastructure in the United States in the field of new medical devices. It is part of the Innovative Medical Devices Initiative the Netherlands (IMDI.NL) thematic program
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Assignment No.3 “Better a consistently applied mediocre strategy, than a series of ad hoc brilliant strategies.” Introduction to strategic planning To achieve certain strategically valuable results, specific actions are required to be planned and acted upon by an organisation or an individual. What inputs are made by the management of an organisation define the expected outputs. Steiner, George A. (2010) in his book explains that strategic planning is indissolubly mixed with field of management
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