S c h o o l of Ac c ount a nc y Faculty of Business Writing F O R A C C O U N TA N T S Edited by Di Lewis i This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. © School of Accountancy, QUT 2003 Produced by QUT Publications 232975 8437 ISBN: 1 74107 014 7 ii Contents Preface Accountancy writing and
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Expanding Global Operations: Mobile Phone Manufacturing in Shenzhen, China Professor Julian Dalzell MGMT 801: Human Resources in the Global Firm Fall 2012 Group 4 Team Members: Ben Alverson Wyman Bowers Lindsay Gilliam Rod Jaraiedi Alicia Parker Yolanda Rhodes Gabriel Saracila Eric Seymore ------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction The competitive pressure in today’s manufacturing landscape is more complex than ever, resulting in the need for companies
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Management: West Africa (1950s to 1970s) and South Africa (1990-2000s) Stephanie Decker sdecker@hbs.edu Abstract The colonial legacy in Africa has determined the development of management on the continent, as the comparison between the historical case of Africanisation in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s with South Africa in the 1990s and 2000s highlights. Despite the fact that Ghana and Nigeria were not settler colonies, when white managers were replaced with blacks (who previously
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beginning of the company in 1972, victory has been a term that has represented many things about the Nike brand. The Nike corporation produces athletic shoes, apparel, equipment and accessories that can be found in distributors in over 170 countries worldwide, it sponsors many professional and college level sports teams and has grown to be one of the largest athletic apparel corporations in the world. In the early „70s they started out manufacturing running shoes featuring innovative new technology that
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21 October 2009 Accepted 27 October 2010 In this paper, we analyze whether model risk/asset-specific ambiguity is an issue for institutional investors. For this purpose, we first show how model risk (which turns out to be equivalent to special cases of ambiguity) affects optimal portfolio allocation. Using average portfolio holdings for traditional and alternative asset classes of 119 institutional investors, we then calibrate our model to implicitly determine the ambiguity factors of different
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UVA-F-1483 Version 2.3 WARREN E. BUFFETT, 2005 On May 24, 2005, Warren E. Buffett, the chairperson and chief executive officer (CEO) of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., announced that MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, would acquire the electric utility PacifiCorp. In Buffett’s largest deal since 1998, and the second largest of his entire career, MidAmerican would purchase PacifiCorp from its parent, Scottish Power plc, for $5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in
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social change. Ben and Jerry.1 Nobody wants to end up like Ben and Jerry’s, where soon after a multinational acquired it, key facets of its social mission were cut from the company.2 Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. was once the darling of proponents of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.3 It was a for-profit corporation that seemingly did not put profits first. Rather, it pursued, in the parlance, a “double bottom” line, seeking to advance progressive social goals, while still yielding an acceptable
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paper examines a particular labor-management negotiation process, a Mandatory Conciliation (MC), as it is named in the Argentinean labor legal system, that took place from July through mid October, 2009, between the managers of the Multinational Corporation (MNC) Kraft Foods (KFT) subsidiary in Argentina -Kraft Foods Argentina (KFTA)- and the Workers Internal Commission (WIC) of the firm s most important industrial plant in the country. The Argentinean Ministry of Labor (MLAB) convened the MC negotiation
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renewable energy, in a quest to implement alternative energy sources. If integrated correctly, the NREL have claimed the Western Interconnection can take up to approximately 35% in renewables. They are proposing 30% produced by wind turbines and the 2 remaining 5% produced by solar power. This solar power would, in turn, be generated from solar thermal plants scattered across the correlating area (Richard). A project known as Tres Amigas SuperStation in Clovis, New Mexico, is geared
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