Ali Farhoomand, Yuen Ying Chan and Pauline Ng; the Asian Case Research Center, The University of Hong Kong, 2007; 30 pages, with teaching notes and DVD. Founded in 1988 and chaired by Lawrence Fung, the Hong Kong Economic Times Group ("HKET Group") started off as a publisher of Hong Kong Economics Times (HKET)--the first Chinese-language financial newspaper in Hong Kong. Launched when the city's economy was booming, the newspaper set out to be the Chinese-language equivalent of the Financial Times
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Venture capital flows to tech startups Tech investors at the iHub offices at Bishop Magua Centre on Ngong Road, Nairobi. Stephen Mudiari | Nation By JEVANS NYABIAGE jnyabiage@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Monday, November 8 2010 at 16:00 In Summary * Equity financiers scout for buyouts in Kenya as mobile and internet spur innovation Kenya’s tech environment is bustling with innovations driven by mobile telephony and strong entrepreneurial spirit, but access to capital remains a major constraint
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The Dot-Com Crash of 2000 Case Study 1. What is the intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? The intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries are shown in Exhibit 10, with the idea that the overall structure and individual roles are working as a whole to facilitate the capital flow from the investors to the companies. 2. Are their incentives aligned properly with their intended role
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The Future of Same-Day Delivery: Same as the Past? Although home delivery of pizza has been successful in the United States, most other sameday delivery efforts have failed. The same-day delivery battle has again heated up with Amazon, Walmart, and eBay launching major efforts to implement same-day delivery. Amazon has a new game. Now that it has agreed to collect sales taxes, the company canlegally set up warehouses right inside some of the largest metropolitan areas in the nation. Why would
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Venture Budgeting and Forecasting Many Americans live with self-care disabilities. The Americans who chose to remain home is increasing as the cost of assisted living facilities increases. The decision to remain in home stimulates from the increasing cost of assisted living facilities as well as the ease of remaining in a familiar environment. Though the decision brings challenges, many Americans chose to seek in-home assisted living services. As the demand for assisted living requirements increases
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I recently got an email from a founder that helped me understand something important: why it's safe for startup founders to be nice people. I grew up with a cartoon idea of a very successful businessman (in the cartoon it was always a man): a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties who wins by exercising power, and isn't too fussy about how. As I've written before, one of the things that has surprised me most about startups is how few of the most successful founders are like
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ACCT 311 Dot-Com Crash 2000 Ting Hu Bradley Bromelow Austin Person 1.What is the intended role of each institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? There is an information gap between investors and companies. Investors usually do not have enough information or expertise to determine the good investments from the bad ones. And companies do not usually have the infrastructure and know-how to directly receive capital from investors
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considered a precursor to e-commerce except: | | DNS. | | | Baxter Healthcare's remote order entry system. | | | the French Minitel. | | | Electronic Data Interchange. | 0.5 points Question 2 1. Approximately what percentage of dot-com companies formed since 1995 survived as independent companies in 2012? | | 10 | | | 20 | | | 30 | | | 40 | 0.5 points Question 3 1. By what year is the United States Internet household penetration rate likely to reach the current
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The PESTEL framework provides a broad analysis of six major organizational factors; Political, economic, social, technological, environmental, legal. The origin of the PESTEL diagnostic model is fairly ambiguous, as it has only recently become a staple in corporate human resource environments within the last ten to fifteen years. The model itself is a broad snapshot of an organization’s big picture. In other words, the PESTEL diagnostic model can be used to help identify strengths, weaknesses
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pressure among the top management to meet the most important performance indicator Expense-to-Revenue(E/R) ratio, even when the entire telecommunication industry is facing adverse conditions at the onset of economic recession and the aftermath of the dot-com bubble collapse. This pressure on top management provided the necessary motivation to commit to fraudulent accounting practices. Adding to the motivation, the culture within the organization is very diluted with no proper corporate code of conduct and
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