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How China rises What lessons can be drawn from China's spectacular and sustained economic growth? As Hu Jintau remarked at the 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the period since the previous Congress five years ago has been extraordinary. China's economic achievements have been arousing not only astonishment and admiration but also some anxiety. In the past twelve months alone, The People's Republic of China (PRC) has overtaken Canada as the biggest source of imports to the USA
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Just a few years after independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, had the World Bank’s country‐classification system been in place, Malaysia would have qualified as a middle‐income country. Since then, it has continued to enjoy relative prosperity, initially as a commodity exporter of rubber, tin, then palm oil and petroleum, with total income rising at 6 to 7 percent each year from 1970 until 2000. As a result, industrial sector in Malaysia has been rapidly grow over
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Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) Australia Arab Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AACCI) Business Guides to the Arab Gulf United Arab Emirates Prepared by Bayliss Associates Pty Limited Part I: A brief overview of the United Arab Emirates 4 The formation of the United Arab Emirates 4 The Government of the United Arab Emirates 5 The United Arab Emirates Economy 5 Basic demographics 5 GDP trends 5 Oil and the UAE 6 Gas – the Dolphin project 6
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Tesla: Supercharging the Future by Akash G. Nandi An honors thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science Undergraduate College Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University May 2013 Professor Marti G. Subrahmanyam Faculty Adviser Professor Joseph Foudy Thesis Adviser 1 I. Introduction...................................................................................................................Page 4 A. The Inefficiency of Cars
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India’s Drive to Industrialization: The Tata Nano Case Study [pic][pic] STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN NON-MARKET ENVIRONMENTS GROUP 3 Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION 3 II. CASE SUMMARY 3 III. BACKGROUND 3 a. A History of Tata Motors 3 b. Tata’s Nano 4 c. Politics in West Bengal 4 IV. ANALYSIS 5 a. Issues 5 b. Interests 7 c. Institutions 8 d. Information 8 V. RECOMMENDATIONS
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Ethics and Social Responsibility in International Business 1 Ethics and Social Responsibility in International Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in International Business 2 Table of Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3 Defining Ethics and Social Responsibility ....................................................................... 3 Do Countries with Lower Ethical Views Attract
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J.B.M. Vol. 17 No. 1 Journal of Business and Management Editors Cristina M. Giannantonio, Ph.D. Amy E. Hurley-Hanson, Ph.D. Published by Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics Sponsored by the Western Decision Sciences Institute WDSI WDSI WESTERN DECISION SCIENCES INSTITUTE The Western Decision Sciences Institute is a regional division of the Decision Sciences Institute. WDSI serves its interdisciplinary academic and business members primarily through
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The Little Book of Valuation Aswath Damodaran Stern School of Business 44 West Fourth Street, 9-‐96 New York, NY 10012 Email: adamodar@stern.nyu.edu Phone: 212-‐998-‐0340 First draft: October 14, 2010 Preface Knowing the value of an asset may not be a prerequisite for investing
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know M&M Financial services was started in 2004 for a measly Rs. 50 Lakh.The LeapFrong purchase values the firm at Rs. 520 crore. LeapFrog specfialises in investing in companies that cater to rural markets.”We feel very proud that we invested Rs. 50 Lakh and today it is values at RS. 520 crore”Said M&M Chairman&MD Anand Mahindra, in an interaction with ET. The investment marks the third such multi-bagger or high retun investement for the group in the part eight years after M&M Financial and Tech
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