REVISED FEBRUARY 11, 2015 CRAIG FURFINE KEL553 Wildcat Capital Investors: Real Estate Private Equity “Okay. Now we’re even,” said the voice on the telephone. As he hung up the phone, James Tripp, managing director of Wildcat Capital Investors, thought back to that beautiful summer evening two years earlier when he was about to enter Ravinia Park to enjoy a performance of the Chicago Symphony with his friend, commercial real estate broker Katherine O’Brien. The sound of scraping metal
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CARR Outreach workshop on business history for helpful comments. “Those clubs which have floated to become public companies – Manchester United, Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham- now have as their principal objective the making of money for their shareholders.” -David Conn, The Football Business, p154. 1. Introduction In North America it is commonplace, especially among economists, to think of the owners of professional sports teams as profit
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Case Study: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY Ian Christopher Tapia Christine Joy Pabiton Edgel Perfinan Ma. Christina Gallaza INTRODUCTION The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, which is headquartered in Atlanta,Georgia. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola
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is about the novel. For the film, TV and opera adaptations, see The Great Gatsby (disambiguation). The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum
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American Case Law • Federal cases: The Supreme Court of the United States is the only federal court to officially report its cases. This reporter is the United States Reports (U.S.) • The Bluebook requires citation only to the official report • Supreme Court Opinions are also published in three unofficial reporters: 1. Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.) 2. Lawyer’s Edition (L. Ed.) Lawyer’s Edition, Second Series (L. Ed. 2d) 3. United States Law Week (U.S.L.W.) Citations of Federal Cases, cont.
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Chapter 17 Ten percent plan This plan was an attractive deal for Southern people by Abraham Lincoln. It was said that that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union if 10 percent of its voters made a grave promise of reliability to the Union. RADICAL REPUBLICANS These people were members of Republican Party during the Civil War. They did an overwhelming effort to secure rights for liberated slaves during Reconstruction. The Wade–Davis Bill In 1840, two Radical Republicans, Senator
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sectors most associated with forced labour and the policies in place to combat the problem (or compensate victims of it). Secondary data will be collected from four sources: • Academic and ‘grey’ literature • Legal and policy documents • Case material from organisations working with exploited workers (the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), unions, religious organisations, government agencies) • Media coverage Primary data will be collected from three sources: • Sector focus groups
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Department of Anthropology 6-1-2004 An Integrated Analysis of Pre-Hispanic Mortuary Practices: A Middle Sicán Case Study Izumi Shimada Southern Illinois University Carbondale Ken-ichi Shinoda National Science Museum, Tokyo Julie Farnum Montclair State University Robert Corruccini Southern Illinois University Carbondale Hirokatsu Watanabe Terra Information Engineering Company Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/anthro_pubs © 2004 by The Wenner‐Gren Foundation
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44-1334-462-861. E-mail: rh10@st-andrews.ac.uk Received: November 24, 2011 Accepted: April 26, 2012 Online Published: July 1, 2012 doi:10.5539/res.v4n3p18 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v4n3p18 Abstract Europe’s relation with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is discussed in the context of normative (International Society) and materialist approaches (World System’s Theory). First, European imperialism’s export of a flawed Westphalian state system is summarized. How Europe is “caught” between
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Case Study: Power Grid Failure For two consecutive days millions of people in India suffered from a crippling power crisis after power grids failed in many parts of the country. It was one the biggest power outages in the last decade that even brought essential services like the railways and the metro trains to a grinding halt. Why are the grids failing time and again? Here’s a look at the system and its weak points. Electrical Grid The power generating stations are hooked onto an interconnected
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