Global Perspectives on Investment Management LEARNING FROM THE LEADERS Conversation with a Money Master BILL MILLER, CFA with FRED H. SPEECE, JR., CFA Bill Miller, CFA, is chairman and chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management, Inc., and was named ‘‘The Greatest Money Manager of the 1990s’’ by Money magazine. In this question and answer session, Fred H. Speece, Jr., CFA, interviews Bill Miller about his insights into portfolio management in general and value investing in particular
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of their decisions. Fortune magazine annually assess America's most Admired Corporations and does so by evaluating over 300 organisations against 8 criteria, one of the eight used is "Community and Environmental Responsibility". Firms such as Merck, Rubber maid, Procter and Gamble, Wal-mart, Pepsico, Coca-cola and 3 M have received consistently high overall ratings. The presence of strong social values such as social responsibility has a powerful impact on organisations and their actions.
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9-798-062 REV: FEBRUARY 25, 2006 PANKAJ GHEMAWAT JAN W. RIVKIN Creating Competitive Advantage Some companies generate far greater profits than others. The pharmaceutical maker ScheringPlough produced an economic profit of more than $10 billion during the period 1984-2002. That is, the accounting profit it generated exceeded its cost of equity capital by that amount. Over the same period, U.S. Steel produced an economic loss of nearly $500 million; its cost of capital exceeded its accounting
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An Analysis of the Emerging U.S Stem Cell Industry Management of Technology - MGMT 620 (EMBA) Professor – Dr. Gopalakrishnan Norman Cousar Draft Version 3 December 16, 2011 Due to previous government regulations, US companies have not used embryos for stem cell research, and international companies have gained a first mover advantage in commercializing stem cell treatments and therapies. The use of stem cells has opened up a new field called regenerative medicine or cell therapy, which
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Analysis and interpretation of company’s financial Tutor: Richard Pennington Submitted by: Ming Zhi: 5515543 Group members: Chang Zhang: 5979309 Ming Zhi: 5515543 Lu Cao: 5949139 Ya Lei Qiang: 4119832 Xuechen Wang: 6443412 Table of content 1. Background information 3 1.1 Bayer 3 1.2 Johnson & Johnson 4 2. Vertical and horizontal analysis 5 2.1 Bayer’s Horizontal Analysis of the Income Statement 5 2.2 Johnson & Johnson 10 3. Ratio analysis 15 3.1 Profitability
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Chinese Medicine, 2012, 3, 49-60 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/cm.2012.31009 Published Online March 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/cm) Beneficial Effects of Fumaria indica on Chronic Stress-Induced Neurobehavioral and Biochemical Perturbations in Rats* Gireesh Kumar Singh1, Geeta Rai2, Shyam Sunder Chatterjee3†, Vikas Kumar1# 1 Neuropharmacology Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India 2 Department of Molecular
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This chapter was excerpted from Dayle M. Smith (2000). Women At Work: Leadership for the Next Century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Cynthia A. Thompson and Laura L. Beauvais I love my life! My husband and I have arranged our work lives so that we can spend as much time as possible with our kids, and still feel like we’re making a difference at work. —JESSICA DEGROOT, FOUNDER. THE THIRD PATH INSTITUTE It just got to be too much. Monday through Friday
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S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II www.ibscdc.org 1 Transformation Corporate Transformation Korean Air: Chairman/CEO Yang-Ho Cho’s Radical Transformation A series of fatal accidents, coupled with operational inefficiencies snowballed Korean Air into troubled times. Then, at the beginning of the 21st century, its CEO/ Chairman, Yang-Ho Cho undertook various transformation initiatives - for instance, improving service
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Published in: Food chemistry (2005), vol. 91, pp. 469-476 Statut: Postprint (Author's version) Heating effects on some quality characteristics of date seed oil Besbes Souhail1, Blecker Christophe3, Deroanne Claude3, Lognay Georges4, Nour-Eddine Drira2, Hamadi Attia1 1 Unité Analyses Alimentaires, Département de biologie, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax, Route de Soukra B.P. W., 3038 Sfax, Tunisie. 2 Laboratoire de biotechnologie végétale, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, Route de Soukra
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UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA FACOLTA’ DI INGEGNERIA Corso di Gestione aziendale Prof. A. Ancarani Analisi strategica Caso studio: “ Johnson & Johnson” Allievi Asero Alfredo Basile Nicolò Di Mauro Daniele ANNO ACCADEMICO 2009 – 2010 1 Indice 1 L’AZIENDA…………………………………………………………….......………….…3 1.1 Informazioni generali....................................................................................................3 1.2 Alcuni numeri ....................
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