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shareholders. Most important, we will never lose sight of who we are. ON tHE COVER Matt Cox, who has type 1 diabetes and uses the waterproof ANIMAS® VIBE™ insulin pump, swam an English Channel relay to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Matt wants to show his son, Jack, who also has type 1 diabetes, that the condition need not hold him back in life. Read Matt’s story on page 16. CHAIRMAN’S LETTER To Our Shareholders hroughout our annual report this year, you’ll
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...........11 Led by recent Columbia Business School graduate Ari Supran, Sonance’s sales and marketing teams struggled to determine the best strategy for the future. * Natalie Mizik is Gantcher Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School Acknowledgements I am grateful for the time and effort donated by Shawn Sugarman (CEO, Sonance) and Ari Supran (COO, Sonance) in the development of this case. Danielle Fox provided research and writing support. Copyright information
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resources or capabilities (Rothaermel & Boeker, 2008), and entering new markets (Garcia-Canal, Duarte, Criado, & Llaneza, 2002). By the turn of this century many of the world’s largest companies had over 20% of their assets, and over 30% of their annual research expenditures, tied up in such relationships
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INTRAPRENEURIAL PRACTICES ON COMPETITIVENESS OF MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES IN NAKURU MUNICIPALITY OLILO NICODEMUS AMBOYE A Research Project submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfilment for the Requirements for the award of Master’s Degree in Business Administration of Egerton University EGERTON UNIVERSITY OCTOBER 2012 DECLARATION AND RECOMMENDATION This research project is my original work and has not been presented to this or any other Institution of higher learning.
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Graduate School of Business Stanford University William H. Beaver Graduate School of Business Stanford University Wayne R. Landsman Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill January 2001 We thank Dan Collins, Brian Rountree, participants at the 2000 Journal of Accounting & Economics conference, and the editors, S. P. Kothari, Tom Lys, and Jerry Zimmerman, for helpful comments and suggestions. We appreciate funding from the Financial Research Initiative, Graduate
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ELSEVIER Journal of Financial Economics 38 (1995) 243-267 ECONOMICS Underperformance in long-run stock returns following seasonedequity offerings D. Katherine College of Business Administration, Spiess*, John Affleck-Graves University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA (Received July 1994; final version received December 1994) Abstract We document that firms making seasonedequity offerings during 197551989substantially underperformed a sample of matched firms from the
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Airline Brand Loyalty: A case study involving the three airlines, - SAS, Norwegian and Widerøe A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Tourist Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway by Basant Raj Shrestha Course code: RMG40 Candidate no. 3 Student no. 420456 October 2014 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There are several people, without whom this Master thesis would never have been started, let alone finished and who deserve to
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a view to minimize transaction cost cum operating expenses thereby increasing the overall net profit to enable for successful survival by overcoming the threats posed by foreign banks. 455 Ball Bouncing Exercise Jayanta K. Nandi, ICFAI Business School, Jaipur, jknandi@rediffmail.com This exercise is aimed at to demonstrate such dynamics that influence the individuals to achieve the organizational goal as a whole, more effectively and efficiently. During this exercise two balls
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Acquisitions of US Firms^ Michael Hitt,* Jeffrey Harrison,^ R. Duane Ireland* arid Aleta Best§ *Lowry Mays College of Business Administration, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4221, •College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, 'Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798-8004, and ^College of Business and Industry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA Acquisitive growth strategies continue
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