Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data A community white paper developed by leading researchers across the United States Executive Summary The promise of data-‐driven decision-‐making is now being recognized broadly, and there is growing enthusiasm for the notion of ``Big
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INVITED PAPER Overlapping Communities Explain Core–Periphery Organization of Networks The paper presents a new paradigm for uncovering the modular structure of complex networks. By Jaewon Yang and Jure Leskovec ABSTRACT | Networks provide a powerful way to study food web networks have a single central dominant core while complex systems of interacting objects. Detecting network communities in protein–protein interaction (PPI) as well as communitiesVgroups of objects
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Executive Summary Facebook’s growth in user base and web integration has created a massive platform that reaches over a billion people. Facebook has been successful driving revenue by developing algorithms and application programming interfaces. These revenue drivers turned their social networking platform into an advertising tool, connecting third-party businesses to quality consumers. Although Facebook’s user base and revenue are growing at very rapid rate, there is concern with their future strategy
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Strategic Audit of Starbucks Traci Hall Jones College Business Policy and Administration Professor E. Smith June 20, 2011 I. Current Situation A. Current Performance Starbucks is the fastest growing food chain and shows no signs of slowing down. it plans to boost earnings by 20% to 25% annually over the next three to five years and to bring its number of storefronts to 40,000 worldwide which is 10,000 more than McDonald’s. Starbucks is conservative in how it finances its goals. Operating
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Integrated e-Marketing Plan: Developing an e-Marketing Plan for Competing in the Electronic Global Marketplace Prepared for [SEARS] By: [Maria Quinonez] Date: [October 29, 2014] Table of Contents Starting an e-business in the Electronic Global Marketplace: Completing an Integrated e-Marketing Plan 1 Executive Summary 3 Selection of the e-Business for the Project 4 Environmental Analysis of the Marketplace 6 Targeted Market Segmentation 8 Consideration
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Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. Thursday, October 24, 1929, easily ranks as the most dramatic day that Wall Street has ever seen. 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
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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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Operating Instructions For CLIKRTM-5 Cable Remote Control UR5U-8780L & UR5U-8790L 1 Introduction The CLIKRTM-5 UR5U-8780L & UR5U-8790L is designed to operate the CISCO / SA, Pioneer, Pace Micro, Samsung and Motorola digital set tops, Plus the majority of TV, VCR, DVD and AUX equipment on the market as shown below. CBL : Cable Set-top Box TV : Televisions VCR : VCRs and TV/VCRs DVD: DVD Players AUX : Audio Equipment, Media PC, etc. 4 Button Functions A. Quick Set-Up Method
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General Growth Properties Christina Dukes (CD) Pamela Davis (PD) Claudia Botello (CB) Edgar Garcia (EG) June 28, 2011 Table of ContentS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (CD) 1 INTRODUCTION (CB) 2 Background / History (of the Company) (CB) 2 Mission Statement (CB) 3 Mission (CB) 3 Business (CB) 3 Major Goals (CB) 4 Corporate Philosophy (PD) 4 Strategic Evolution (PD) 4 Intended Strategies (PD) 5 Emergent Strategies (PD) 6 Stakeholders (EG) 6 Internal (EG) 7 External (EG)
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Executive Summary XO Group Inc. is an internet based lifestage media company. XO Group has four flagship brands and each brand is specific to a particular market. The Knot and Wedding Channel are focused on the wedding industry. The Nest is dedicated to the home environment. The Bump is focused on family planning. XO Group provides services to couples who seek advice and information on planning lives together; from the wedding to their first baby and everything in between. XO Group’s professional
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