UNLV Theses/Dissertations/Professional Papers/Capstones 5-1-2007 Manager retention and the Steamboat Ski Resort Michael D. Gumbiner University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations Part of the Hospitality Administration and Management Commons, and the Work, Economy and Organizations Commons Repository Citation Gumbiner, Michael D., "Manager retention and the Steamboat Ski Resort" (2007). UNLV Theses/Dissertations/Professional
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economy. With an average per capita income of $720 in 2005, India is still a low-income and mainly rural, agrarian economy. About a quarter of its population lives below the national poverty line, with significant spatial variance across and within states.2 Roughly 70 percent of its population is rural, and 60 percent of the workforce is engaged in agriculture. Illiteracy rates are 46 percent for women and 25 percent for men.3 Given this dual economy, it is natural to ask what can be done both to strengthen
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Micro-Macro Linkages Between Gender, Development, and Growth: Implications for the Caribbean Region Stephanie Seguino Professor, Department of Economics Old Mill 340 University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05401 Tel. 1 802 656-0187 Fax 1 802 656-8405 Email sseguino@zoo.uvm.edu July 2008 Acknowledgements: I am grateful for helpful comments and insights from Rhoda Reddock, Christine Barrow, Caren Grown, three anonymous referees, and participants at the Building Capacity for Gender Analysis
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Communications of the IIMA 25 2006 Volume 6 Issue 2 Disaster Planning and Management Holmes E. Miller Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 18104 Kurt J. Engemann Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801 Ronald R. Yager Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801 ABSTRACT Recent events such as hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, power outages, and the threat of pandemics have highlighted our vulnerability to natural disasters. This vulnerability is exacerbated by many organizations’ increasing dependence on computer
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statement CEO introduction Three priorities Our business model Key performance indicators Financial review Environmental and social review Principal risks and uncertainties Corporate governance Financial statements Other information Page 2 3 5 8 10 12 18 22 26 72 146 FINANCIAL HEADLINES £69.7bn £1.4bn £961m £(6.4)bn 9.42p £(8.5)bn Group sales Group trading profit Underlying profit before tax Statutory profit/(loss) before tax Underlying diluted
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DRIVING DEMOCRACY – CHAPTER 4 9/15/2007 2:33 PM Chapter 4 Wealth and democracy Can formal democratic institutions succeed if they are built in societies with inhospitable social and economic conditions? In particular, will attempts to hold competitive elections fail to strengthen democracy in poor and divided nation states, as well as in regions such as the Middle East which are dominated by autocracy? Skeptics point to an earlier wave of institution building, when European-style parliaments
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things should be accomplished in the paper. First, a specific perspective or overall point should be evident in the paper. Second, theory and/or peer-reviewed academic research on the topic should be combined with practical observations from specific cases, industries, organizations, or events. The source
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copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any
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‘‘true commitment’’ in Facebook Asimina Vasaloua,n, Adam N. Joinsona, Delphine Courvoisierb a School of Management, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK Geneva University Hospitals 6, rue Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland b Received 9 January 2009; received in revised form 3 March 2010; accepted 2 June 2010 Communicated by S. Wiedenbeck Available online 9 June 2010 Abstract Formed on an analysis of design practices, the behaviour chain model stipulates that social network
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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING INFORMATION AND THE RELEVANCE/IRRELEVANCE ISSUE (Global Business & Economics Review Volume 5 No.2 December 2003 pp:140-175) Stanley C. W. Salvary, Canisius College ABSTRACT Some current research conclude that the numbers in financial statements are not relevant for three basic reasons. The numbers: (1) are not isomorphic with capital market values, (2) do not have a future orientation, and (3) are un-interpretable since they are based upon five different measurement attributes
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