differing market reactions, we find that, ultimately, neither acquisition created value overall. In exploring the reasons for the acquisition outcomes, we rely primarily on interviews with managers and on internally generated performance data. We compare the results of these analyses to those from analyses of post-acquisition operating and stock price performance traditionally applied to large samples. We draw two primary conclusions. (1) Our findings highlight the difficulty of implementing a successful
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capacity on-demand. The implication is that at some point additional instances of an application will be needed in order for the architecture to scale and meet demand. That means there needs to be some mechanism in place to balance requests between two or more instances of that application. The mechanism most likely to be successful in performing such a task is a load balancer. The aim of this paper is to discuss the existing techniques of load balancing and elaborate the main points of the techniques
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Nicole J Brown English 102 Martin Arnold Compare and Contrast The Byte of the Forbidden Fruit The bite of computation and processing has taking the world as we know to another dimension, From computers original content of meaning someone who can process and compute, to now meaning an electronic mechanism that can do it all. This device in itself has become more technical, profitable, marketable and even more personable. The device comes in all shapes and fashions, desktops, laptops, tablets, netbooks
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Predictive Policing Walter Clay Strayer University Predictive Policing In order to compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. We have to look into the technologies available to them today. Predictive policing has become the one of leading standard for police departments today. Predictive policing primary role is to simply pre-empt crime, it is rooted heavily in business
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CASE 1 The Dabbawalas of Mumbai Ashok Kumar, Stephen T. Margulis, and Jaideep Motwani The dabbawalas of Mumbai carry hot lunches from the homes of employees (customers) to their places of employment. The aluminium containers or ‘tiffins’ serve the dual purpose of keeping the food warm and preventing it from splashing out during the tiffin carrier’s rushed and jostling journey. A typical tiffin carrier carries about 40 of these dabbas on a long, unwieldy tray on his head as he moves speedily
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Sr. No | Title | Author | Country & year | Variables | Techniques | Major findings | Limitations | Future direction | 1 | Shocks are causes of turnover: What they are and what organization can do to control them
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Title of assignment: Describe compare and contrast the traditional abstinence model of addiction treatment with the modern harm reduction model in the context of counselling a heroin using client who is HIV or Hep-C positive I declare that this assignment is entirely my own work and that all sources are credited. Introduction: In this essay I am going to first define abstinence, harm reduction, heroin and HIV. Then i’m going to compare and contrast the abstinence model versus the harm reduction
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Introduction Theoretically, earnings management is a technique taken by manager in manipulating accounting transaction in order to achieve some specific objective. This is more likely to occur in few circumstances either the company unable to meet the investor expectation or sometimes also due to several motivation factors. Even though earnings management is often intentionally to misleading information, however it is consider as “allowable but unethical” as long as not lead to fraudulent activity
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argument, the design or order found in the universe provides evidence for the existence of an intelligent designer (or orderer) usually identified as God. A classic version of this argument appears in William Paley's 1802 Natural Theology, where Paley compares the complexity of living things to the inferior complexity of a watch that we deduce to be designed by an intelligent being. Just as a watch could not exist without a watchmaker, Paley argued, living things could not exist without an intelligent
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Asignment Brief Orgin Assessment Brief Distribution date: w/c 20/05/2013 Submission deadline: 29/07/2013 Result and feedback date: 4 weeks from the deadline Assessment Brief Unit Details: Unit Code: Organisations and Behaviour (Unit 3) Programme Name: BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Awarding body: Edexcel Unit Level (QCF): QCF-4 Academic term: May - July 2013 Course Details | Course Name | BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business | Unit number | 3 | Unit Name |
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