For the exclusive use of Z. YUAN Harvard Business School 9-191-002 Rev. October 15, 1999 Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A) The first time Nordstrom sales clerk Lori Lucas came to one of the many “mandatory” Saturday morning department meetings and saw the sign—”Do Not Punch the Clock”—she assumed the managers were telling the truth when they said the clock was temporarily out of order. But as weeks went by, she discovered that on subsequent Saturdays the clock was always “broken” or the
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Inditex Strategy Report Jessica Vincent Phillip Kantor Daniel Geller April 19, 2013 Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Company Background ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Business Model..........................................................
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Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers Alberto Cavallo∗† MIT & NBER This version: April 18, 2016 Abstract Online prices are increasingly being used for a variety of inflation measurement and research applications, yet little is know about their relation to prices collected offline, where most retail transactions take place. This paper presents the results of the first large-scale comparison of online and offline prices simultaneously collected from the
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of Contents Executive Summary (JS) 5 Introduction 6 Background / History of the Company(CD) 6 Mission Statement(CD) 7 Business(CD) 7 Major Goals(CD) 7 Corporate Philosophy(CD) 7 Strategic Evolution (KH) 8 Intended Strategies (KH) 8 Emergent Strategies (KH) 8 Stakeholders (AB) 9 Internal (AB) 9 External (AB) 9 General Growth Properties Organizational Structure (KM) 9 Purpose of the Report (CD) 10 External Analysis (KM) 11 Basic Industry Information (AB/KM) 11 Industry
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last six months and this issue brings you lots of stories and tall tales from across the African continent and beyond. From species conservation strategies and Red List updates, interesting wild and captive behaviours to translocations, hooves and DNA, this is truly a fully loaded newsletter. An inspiring
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Corporate Psychological Defences: An Oil Spill Case Author(s): T. Ketola Source: Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 65, No. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 149-161 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25123778 . Accessed: 03/12/2013 07:49 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover
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Thursday, October 24, 1929, easily ranks as the most dramatic day that Wall Street has ever seen.1 That day witnessed the beginning of the Great Stock Market Crash that over the following few years would result in an almost ninety percent decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Although not nearly as dramatic as “Black Thursday,” September 15, 2008, is a date that modern day Wall Street insiders will not soon forget. On that day, one of Wall Street’s iconic investment banking firms
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Handbook of Management Accounting Research Volume 3 Edited by CHRISTOPHER S. CHAPMAN Imperial College London, UK ANTHONY G. HOPWOOD University of Oxford, UK MICHAEL D. SHIELDS Michigan State University, USA AMSTERDAM – BOSTON – HEIDELBERG – LONDON – NEW YORK – OXFORD PARIS – SAN DIEGO – SAN FRANCISCO – SINGAPORE – SYDNEY – TOKYO Elsevier The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK First edition 2009 Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved No part of
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