Working Group 2 A. The Current Situation of Formal Education in the Philippines B. Technical/Vocational Education and Training in Laguna Advisor Yutaka Otsuka, Professor Members of Working Group 2-A Masamichi Toyooka Yoshiko Ogura Mia Kim Yumi Kondo Tsunetaka Tsuchiya ** Members of Working Group 2-B Patrícia Moutinho Brito Riai Yamashita *Group Leader **Sub Group Leader Gabriele Castaldi Koichi Motomura* 27 A. The Current Situation of Formal Education in the Philippines
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Introduction Waltham, Inc. is a publicly traded firm that is considering the acquisition of a private firm, Artforever.com. The acquisition is being considered because there are limited investment opportunities in the core business of vintage shoe restoration at Waltham, Inc. The CEO wishes to expand the company into other growing markets. Waltham, Inc. currently has 100,000 outstanding shares of stock trading at $50 per share. The firm also has $2M market value of bonds trading at a yield to maturity
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DECEMBER 2014 REPRINT F1412Z VISION STATEMENT op yo rP os t HBR.ORG Do No tC How to Lie with Charts This document is authorized for educator review use only by SAMPRIT CHAKRABARTI, at IBS Business School until November 2015. Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu or 617.783.7860 IDEA WATCH 1 THE COLOR-CODED MAP HOW TO DO IT Use maps to represent data that isn’t related to geography. WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT IT?
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the conference room with a mixture of excitement and apprehension; a feeling that, they decided dryly, was familiar after a strategy meeting with the chairman and chief mentor of the Infosys Group, Narayana Murthy, and the CEO, Nandan Nilekani. tC The cofounders had set a new and aggressive milestone for the HR group, the latest in a long line of challenging goals that had been set for them. By 2007, the cofounders wanted HR to ensure that Infosys was on the Top Ten lists of both Best Performing
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works in a culture supportive of openness, fairness, meritocracy, team knowledge sharing and innovation in the relentless pursuit of continual improvement and achieving excellence. — M. Adil Khattak, chief executive officer, Attock Refinery Limited tC After attending the management committee meeting in November 2013 at the company offices in Morgah Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Asif Saeed, senior manager, Human Resources, at Attock Refinery Limited (ARL), thought about how to improve performance appraisals
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marginal cost will be greater than the marginal revenue and at that point the company should halt production in order to avoid cutting into the profit margin. | | | | | |Quantity |TR |TC |MR | | | | | | |0 |$0.00 |$10 | | | | | | | |1 |$150 |$30 |$150 | | |
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JANICE HAMMOND Amazon.com’s European Distribution Strategy In January 2003, Tom Taylor, Amazon.com’s Director of European Supply Chain Operations, sat in his office in Slough, United Kingdom, and pondered what changes Amazon needed to make to sustain its growth in Europe. Established in the fall of 1998 through the acquisitions of two on-line booksellers, Bookpages.co.uk in Britain and Telebuch.de in Germany, Amazon Europe had developed into three strong, independently run, country-based organizations
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and so have the needs and requirements from their technology vendors. If Indian IT firms want to stay in the game, they need to change, too." Meanwhile, the country's top IT firms are close to shuffling positions. While Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys Technologies continue to hold sway, Cognizant Technologies, currently the fourth-largest player, is threateningly close to unseating Wipro Technologies for the third slot. In the last quarter, Cognizant's revenues grew 45% to reach US$1
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hydraulic systems for automobiles and trucks and associated equipment under license from a German firm. The venture was successful and within a few years had diversified into other automotive products, including fuel pumps and transmission systems. tC Manufacturing inside Japan was undertaken at five facilities: Ranzan, Ibaraki, Chiba, Hiroshima, and Maebashi. The original production facility, the Ranzan plant, was opened in 1940 to produce hydraulic products. In 1992, it manufactured four major
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Do No tC op yo rP os t 9-604-081 REV: SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 ANDREW MCAFEE VINCENT DESSAIN ANDERS SJÖMAN Zara: IT for Fast Fashion On a beautiful August night in 2003, Xan Salgado Badás and Bruno Sánchez Ocampo settled into seats at their favorite tapas bar in the Spanish city of La Coruña, ordered pulpo gallego (octopus Galician style), and resumed their argument. Salgado was the head of IT for Inditex, a multinational clothing retailer and manufacturer headquartered in La Coruña (see Exhibit 1 for a map)
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