9-805-124 REV: JUNE 7, 2006 STEPHEN P. BRADLEY, THOMAS R. EISENMANN MASAKO EGAWA, AKIKO KANNO NTT DoCoMo, Inc.: Mobile FeliCa With more than 49 million customers and a market share of 56% in Japan, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. was the world’s second-largest and Japan’s top mobile communications company. Nevertheless, DoCoMo faced several challenges in its core business in December 2004. First, with nearly two-thirds of the Japanese population already owning a mobile phone, the market was becoming
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USN/USMC Commander’s Quick Reference Handbook for Legal Issues 2008 i Report Documentation Page Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this
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code-switching in the classroom, taking it that the switches either indicate a failure to learn the target language or an unwillingness to do so. Willis (1981), for instance, suggests that “if the students start speaking in their own language without your permission… it generally means that something is wrong with the lesson” (p. xiv). Cummins and Swain (1986) similarly argue
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9 -8 0 3 -1 1 7 REV: SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 MICHAEL J. ROBERTS LINDA A. CYR NanoGene Technologies, Inc. It was Friday, November 9, 2002, and Will Tompkins was both excited and concerned. The 41year-old Biochemistry Ph.D. had quit his job at Eastern Institute of Technology’s Advanced Materials Sciences Lab (AMSL) six months earlier to become CEO of NanoGene Technologies, a life sciences start-up based on nanotechnology. Over the previous six months, he and his four co-founders from AMSL had
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for full-service chain restaurants was nearing its saturation point at both in-city and shopping mall locations. The big chains were looking overseas for growth, but as a small regional player, Porcini’s had neither the resources nor brand power to pursue that option. It needed a domestic avenue for growth. Alessio had persuaded Porcini’s senior executives to consider opening limited-menu outlets, Porcini’s “Pronto,” to serve interstate highway travelers. Most competitors serving this market were fast-food
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sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://gsp.sagepub.com/content/12/2/149.refs.html >> Version of Record - Aug 16, 2012 What is This? Downloaded from gsp.sagepub.com at Taylor's University on November 5, 2012 Article gsp Global Social Policy 12(2) 149–172 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468018112443686 gsp.sagepub
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organize the company's historical legacy to ensure that the broader story could be told. As a result, the first fifty years of the company (including its early international expansion) are fairly well documented and accessible to the public in research materials and in books. The historical record of the next fifty years, including the company's modernization and further international development under Henry Ford II, is less complete. By the early 1960s, for various reasons, the Ford Archives
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3 The Regulatory System in the United Kingdom This chapter examines the regulatory system currently in place in the United Kingdom. It provides an overview of the structure and objectives of regulation, the role of the regulator and the techniques that are employed in regulating firms and individuals who engage in investment business. 3.1 Background: the financial crisis and regulatory reform 3.1.1 Responding to the financial crisis In the UK, as elsewhere, the onset of the financial crisis
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