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Serving our consumers, today and tomorrow Hindustan Unilever is India's largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company. We meet everyday needs of millions of Indians, right from the morning cup of tea to brushing at bedtime. Our brands touch the lives of more than 700 million Indians. It is this relationship with our consumers that we would like to build upon and strengthen. We will continue to straddle the consumer price pyramid to meet the needs and aspirations of diverse consumers across India
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The World is Flat Thomas L Friedman Kq p K To Matt and Kay and to Ron Kq p K Contents How the World Became Flat One: While I Was Sleeping / 3 Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World / 48 Flattener#l. 11/9/89 Flattener #2. 8/9/95 Flattener #3. Work Flow Software Flattener #4. Open-Sourcing Flattener #5. Outsourcing Flattener #6. Offshoring Flattener #7. Supply-Chaining Flattener #8. Insourcing Flattener #9. In-forming Flattener #10. The Steroids Three: The Triple
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INSURANCE ADVISORS EFFECTIVENESS FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSURER: A DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY Krishan Kumar Pandey*Manisha Pandey** Manish Kerwar***Ashutosh Khare**** Dharmendra Singh***** Abstract : Few years back insurance was an arcane word for all of us. Insurance is no longer an unexciting business and the insurance advisor an apologetic salesman. New entries have actually changed the rules of the game in the insurance industry. One such change that has made a huge positive impact in the minds of
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www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Praise “A must-read resource for anyone who is serious about embracing the opportunity of big data.” — Craig Vaughan Global Vice President at SAP “This timely book says out loud what has finally become apparent: in the modern world, Data is Business, and you can no longer think business without thinking data. Read this book and you will understand the Science behind thinking data.” — Ron Bekkerman Chief Data Officer at Carmel Ventures “A great book for business
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with R Second Edition 123 Peter Dalgaard Department of Biostatistics University of Copenhagen Denmark p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk ISSN: 1431-8784 ISBN: 978-0-387-79053-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-79054-1 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-79054-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008932040 c 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street
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in company management to study various activity alternatives using developed models. Every individual model comprises various components, variables, parameters, relations, limitations and criteria [1]. • Components correspond to the elements of the system under study. • Variables are used to describe the relations between individual components of the model. They can have more than a single value [2]. • Parameters characterize the influence that various variables have in the model. They are constant
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HAL R. VARIAN 1 NORTON To my parents Copyright @ 1992, 1984, 1978 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America THIRD EDITION Library o Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data f Varian, Hal R. Mlcroeconon~lc analysis / Hal R. Varian. -- 3rd ed. p. an Includes blbllographlcal references and index. 1. Mlcroeconomlcs. 1. Title. HB172.V35 1992 338.5--dc20 ISBN 0-393-95735-7 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue
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Media History Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Mass media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5 1.1.6 1.1.7 1.1.8 1.1.9 Issues with definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forms of mass media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Professions
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