9 -4 0 4 -0 6 8 OCTOBER 20, 2003 JEFFREY T. POLZER INGRID VARGAS HILLARY ANGER ELFENBEIN Henry Tam and the MGI Team Henry Tam felt tired and extremely frustrated. He was halfway through his final semester in the MBA program at Harvard Business School (HBS), and things were not going as expected. Spring break was about to start, but Henry, like many others in the class of 2002, was feeling the pain of the worst job market in over a decade. Henry recalled the troubled sentiment around
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Customer loyalty is both an attitudinal and behavioral tendency to favor one brand over all others, whether due to satisfaction with the product or service, its convenience or performance, or simply familiarity and comfort with the brand. Customer loyalty encourages consumers to shop more consistently, spend a greater share of wallet, and feel positive about a shopping experience, helping attract consumers to familiar brands in the face of a competitive
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* Chapter Introduction * 7-1Recruiting Employees * 7-1aInternal Recruiting * 7-1bExternal Recruiting * 7-1cMethods for External Recruiting * 7-1dInternships: A Mixed Model * 7-1eRealistic Job Previews * 7-2The Selection Process * 7-2aSteps in Selection * 7-2bBasic Selection Criteria * 7-3Popular Selection Techniques * 7-3aApplications and Background Checks * 7-3bEmployment Tests * 7-3cWork Simulations * 7-3dPersonal
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Mergers and Acquisitions Basics Mergers and Acquisitions Basics All You Need To Know Donald DePamphilis Amsterdam • Boston • Heidelberg • London New York • Oxford • Paris • San Diego San Francisco • Singapore • Sydney • Tokyo Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Elsevier, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, UK Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights
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Examination Paper of Principles and Practices of Management 1 IIBM of Business Management IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper MM.100 Principles and Practices of Management Subject Code-B101 Section A: Objective Type & Short Questions (30 marks) This section consists of multiples choice and short notes type questions Part one carries 1 mark each & part two carries 5 marks each. Attempt all questions Part One Multiple Choices: 1. A plan is a trap laid to
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This text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee. Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org 1 Preface Competing books are focused on the academic part of HRM, which is necessary in a university or college setting. However, the goal with this book is not only to provide the necessary academic background information but also to present
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Why Does Someone Own A Business? • View of Authors. Epstein believes that people start businesses to make money. Roberts and Shepherd believe that this is basically correct, but that businesses are organized to "create value." Shepherd also believes that businesses can be started to help people. • Other Experts. Other experts such as Milton Friedman look at corporations solely as a way to maximize profits and shareholder value. Principal and Agent • Principal. "'Principal' is a word used to
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60 68 REFERENCES APPENDICES i Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1784297 GLOSSARY CAC CALPERS CAPSA CBS C-D CEO CGE CSR DB DC E.T.I EME ERISA FMA GASB GDP GSP INPFRS INSS IPD IRA IRBS KNAO KNBS LUPFUND NSE NSSF NYSCRF OECD OSFI PBGC PLC PPF PPR PROST PRPOPS PSPS PSSS RBA SAM SIPO SOX SSNIT SSS Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act CEO California Public Employees Retirement System The Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities Central Bureau of Statistics
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Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XLV (March 2007), pp. 83–126 A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat EDWARD E. LEAMER∗ Geography, flat or not, creates special relationships between buyers and sellers who reside in the same neighborhoods, but Friedman turns this metaphor inside-out by using The World is Flat to warn us of the perils of a relationship-free world in which every economic transaction
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