Scientific Publishing Company DOI: 10.1142/S0219024911006693 DO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS CARE ABOUT THE AMBIGUITY OF THEIR ASSETS? EVIDENCE FROM PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS IN ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS CHRISTIAN KOZIOL∗,‡ , JULIANE PROELSS†,§ and DENIS SCHWEIZER†,¶ ∗University of Hohenheim D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany †WHU — Otto Beisheim School of Management D-56179 Vallendar, Germany ‡c.koziol@uni-hohenheim.de §juliane.proelss@gmx.de ¶denis.schweizer@whu.edu Received 21 October 2009 Accepted
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of Cars, the fifth movie in the five-picture deal. Unfortunately, contract renewal negotiations between Steve Jobs, CEO of Pixar, and Eisner had broken down in 2004 amid reports of personal conflict. When he assumed his new role, Iger reopened the lines of communication between the companies. In fact, he had just struck a deal with Jobs to sell Disneyowned, ABC-produced television shows—such as “Desperate Housewives”—through Apple’s iTunes Music Store.2 Iger knew that a deal with Pixar was possible;
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Information Technology MIS 535 October 27, 2012 Dr. Shawn Harrs Table of Contents 1. Abstract……………………………………………………………………………. 3 2. Brief Company Background………………………………………………………. 6-7 3. Discussion of Business Problem(s)……………………………………………….. 7-9 4. High Level Solution……………………………………………………………….. 10 5. Benefits of Solving the Problem…………………………………………………... 11 6. Business Technological Approach and Implementation Plan……...…………….... 12 7. Business Process Changes…………………………………………………………
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Strength. Momentum. Connectivity. 2011 ANNUAL REPORT BUILDING A BANK OF GLOBAL QUALITY WITH A REGIONAL FOCUS WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE OPERATE OUR PROGRESS ANZ‘s ANZ‘s history of expansion and growth stretches over 175 years. We have a strong franchise in Retail, Commercial and Institutional banking in our home markets of Australia and New Zealand and we have been operating in Asia Pacific for more than 30 years. ANZ ANZ is the only Australian bank with a clearly articulated
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More Than a Numbers Game A Brief Histor y of Accounting Thomas A. King John Wiley & Sons, Inc. More Than a Numbers Game More Than a Numbers Game A Brief Histor y of Accounting Thomas A. King John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 2006 by Thomas A. King. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or
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Systems Corp., Computer Sciences Corp., and Perot Systems (Exhibit 1). The multiyear billings of some contracts totaled in excess of $1 billion. Pretax profit margins at the division level were close to 10%. In order to present the most attractive value proposition to potential customers, GSD sought to cut costs and improve performance by “offshoring” certain activities. The combination of huge capacity expansion and similarly large price reductions in telecommunications made it highly efficient
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after its first entry. In Taiwan it experienced relatively smoother development, although KFC headquarters was to spend a huge amount of money and effort in order to get the ownership back from its joint venture partners at a later stage.4 This case was written by Gabriel Szulanski, Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, Weiru Chen, Assistant Professor of Strategy, and Jennifer Lee, Research Associate. It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective
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1 UNIT 1 Living Things and Their Environment DRAFT April 29, 2014 Photo Credit: http://www.flyingfourchette.com/2013/05/25/around-ubud/ 2 UNIT 1: Living Things and Their Environment Introduction At this point, students have already learned in Grade 8 how the body breaks down food into forms that can be absorbed through the digestive system and then transported to each cell, which was on the other hand discussed in Grade 7 to be the basic unit of life. The learners have also discovered that cells
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successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left. I believe that the prime responsibility of a manager is to guard constantly against other people’s attacks.1 This case begins by describing Intel’s origins as a semiconductor company before turning to its evolution into the leading manufacturer of microprocessors. Intel: The Early Years Intel was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce (one of the co-inventors of the integrated
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prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth
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