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Toyota Motor Corporation: Launching Prius
Toyota Motor Corporation: Launching Prius – Study Questions: 1. What buyer value is created with the hybrid powertrain as implemented in the Prius? - The biggest value is the added fuel efficiency of the vehicle. With the volatility of oil and gas prices having a fuel efficient car was a benefit for the buyer. As Hiroshi Okuda, President of the Toyota Motor Corporation stated: "Consumers are smart. They recognize the threat that pollution and global
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Corporate Governance
Dominique Johnson- Lindsay October 12, 2011 Chapter 10 Corporate Governance Corporate governance is the pattern of relations and controls between the stockholders, the board of directors, and the top management of a company. The idea of corporate governance is to govern a corporation, a separate legal entity. Corporate governance serves as a mechanism of control to allow corporation to be fair, effective, and efficient. “Corporate governance is all about three words: expectations, communications, and accountability.”
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Sprint Corporation and McI Worldcom
n October 5, 1999 Sprint Corporation and MCI WorldCom announced a $129 billion merger agreement between the two companies. Had the deal been completed, it would have been the largest corporate merger in history, ultimately putting MCI WorldCom ahead of AT&T as the largest communications company in the United States. However, the deal did not go through because of pressure from the US Department of Justice and the European Union on concerns of it creating
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Target Corporation Guides for Growth
Target is known by many for its excellent inventory and prices, but many of its consumers do not know of its humble beginnings and the evolutionary process it has went through to become one of today’s leading retailers. Many do not think of “Tar-zhay” as a discount store as it does not resemble what we know such stores to look like (Rowley 9). Rather it is a clean, well-organized store where one can purchase clothes,
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Understanding and Confirming the Existence of Corporate Psychopath Theory in Business
The field of business industries is one of today’s most booming entities in the society. It could be observed that in this particular field, several individuals of different characteristics and capabilities join together to make a name for their companies and a few others stand out to make a name for themselves. Due to the differences of individuals enjoined in the system, several scandals and controversies occur. It seems like as if some people would
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Costco Wholesale Corporation
Part 1 Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco or "the company") operates an international chain of membership warehouses, mainly under the "Costco Wholesale" brand name. The company offers a limited selection of nationally branded and selected private-label products across a wide range of merchandise categories at lower prices. Costco has operations in the US, Puerto Rico, Canada, the UK, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico and Australia. The company is headquartered in Issaquah, Washington and employed about 164,000 people,
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Anderson Corporation Case
This is monir , I am student of MBA at National University. My country name is Bangladesh. I want to study in various issues. Such Social, Organizational behavior Philosophy Social Science Business, psychology, Search Organizational Behavior Case:Out with the Old, In with the New for The Anderson Corporation was started in 1962 as a small consumer products company. During the first twenty years the company's R&D staff developed a series of new products that proved
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Procedural Account of Autonomy, Coherence Reasons Responsiveness
Is the coherentist notion of autonomy coherent? I endeavour to establish a content-neutral account of autonomy articulating a structure whereby actions can be deemed autonomous, as substantive accounts positing constraints on autonomy derived from socially generated ideals, fail to account for the lack of consensus over values within our pluralistic society. In considering strict coherentism, the obvious problems arise that the account fails to deal with coercive aspects of the origins of our ‘core selves'
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Analysis of the Corporate Bonds
Summary of the Case: The manager has four Government of Canada bonds in the portfolio with $10 million in each bond as of today February 20 2012 The manager is following a rate-anticipation strategy with the goal of maximizing gains (minimizing losses) as of the June 1 2012 The manager has come to our team for advice on how to adjust this portion of the portfolio in order to achieve capital gains
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Personal Responsibility
Personal responsibility is very important within a group. If one or two people do not take responsibility for their share of the work, the other members are forced to pick up the slack or risk the group failing. [ This can lead to resentment and bad feelings which will affect the communication and ultimately the success of the group. The law of cause and effect suggests that for every action, there is a reaction. This
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Case Studies in Corporate Sustainability
Case Studies in Corporate Sustainability The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines sustainability based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations (EPA, 2012). In protecting the earth, we protect our
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Slhs 1010 Exam 3 Study Guide - the Individual's Response to Disability
SLHS 1010 Study Guide for Exam #3 Chapter 7 – Smart Text "The Individual's Response to Disability" What is the difference in congenital disabilities versus acquired disabilities regarding memory. Individuals with congenital disabilities have no memory of not having the disability. 4 reasons to use response versus acceptance of disability from the text and lecture are: 1. Not disability itself, but the meaning that will determine response 2. There are many types of responses/acceptance –
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Social Factors of Childhood Obesity
Social factors of childhood obesity Obesity in children does not have just genetics to blame. Before the advent of industrialisation overweight in children may have been the result of an unlucky gene pool. However, today it is a symptom of a sedentary society, and its prevalence is increasing at an alarming rate – overweight in children tripled in the U.S. from 1980 to 2004 (Ogden et al. 2007). Obesity in children is not yet as
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Tata Steel Corporation Case
HISTORY Tata Steel Corporation is India's top steel producing company. It has done so by being the cost leader in the industry thus allowing it to offer prices lower than that of its competitors. The company has also successfully secured the trust of the country's consumer population by expanding and maintaining its renowned reputation for benevolence in its relationship with the community. With these achievements, Tata Steel Corporation was able to forge a harmonious relationship
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Social Controls
Social controls Considering that the implementation of sub-metering system A would not entirely address the problem of energy consumption, introduction of a cultural control system seems inevitable. Our cultural control system is comprised of set of values, symbols and norms that would influence the members of UTS (Building 3) and would ultimately contribute to changes in their behaviour. Moreover it will comply with mentioned requirements in our planning and budgeting process. The following controls may
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Human Capital Management Through Social Media
Hi guys! Summery: Human capital management through social media (Cut costs in tough time) Company: EMC Primary business : Computer data storage systems and software. With more than double the market share of its closest competitors. Director: Joe Tucci, the company's chairman and CEO Founder: Dick Egan Background : economic downturn, the company had to do pay cut. They have international business, acquisitions counts for more than fifty. The unlikely rise of social media: EMC
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Equus and Its Relation to Social Constructivism
EQUUS and its relation to social constructivism Equus is about a 17 year old boy (Alan Strang), who had a fascination with horses since ages 6. He was employed at a horses ranch but shortly after became institutionalized because his obsession with animals lead to a mental break down; which resulted in him viciously blinding 6 stable horses with a metal spike. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist was assigned to his case to discover through hypnosis
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Social Theory of Aggression
According to the social learning theory there are several learning components linking with aggression. Aggressive behaviour can be learnt through observation usually observing role models because a role model is someone you respect and look up to and is usually the same gender. For example, a young boy may imitate his older brothers aggressive behaviour because when seeing him in a fight because the older brother is the same gender as the little boy. We
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Political/social Allegory in Lord of the Flies
Political/Societal Allegory in Lord of the Flies The novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, can be interpreted as a political and societal allegory. Golding includes many aspects in the novel that can represent two contrasting political societies. Golding chooses to represent Ralph and Jack as leaders of the two political societies, in which he shows their two contrasting ways of ruling them. Ralph can be viewed as the leader or president of the
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Corporate Finance in the U.S.
A. Do you think Adam Lee should develop a strategic plan for the company? Why? What are the central elements of such a plan? What is the role of finance in a strategic plan? Yes. The goal of companies is to create more wealth for the owners and for financial managers to make their company more valuable and without well designed strategic and tactical plans in place it is impossible to do. The central elements
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Miniscribe Corporation Case
MINISCRIBE LTD CONTENTS Executive Summary…………………………………………………………..2 Introduction…………………………………………………………………….3 Management Style…………………………………………………………....3 Governance……………………………………………………………………5 Ethics………………………………………………………………………......6 Financial Reporting/ Accounting …………………………………………....7 Financial Statements and Adjustments.....................…………………….8 Auditing……………………………………………………………………..…10 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………....11 Recommendations…………………………………………………………...12 References……………………………………………………………………17 Executive Summary Miniscribe Corporation is headquartered in Colorado and designs, manufactures and markets a line of data storage solutions for the computing industry. Products are sold through a network sales system using employed personnel and independent distributors. Sales were volatile in the 1980’s yet despite this, revenues soared 100% in 1987. Substantial price
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Spdb's Responsible Profiting
1. Introduction Since the "our profit is too embarrassingly high to disclose" statement by some half-witted bank executive, commercial banks in China are under intensive public scrutiny for undertaking a just business. The masses want something/somebody to blame for the gloomy economy, and the press simply want blood. I have served in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB) as a corporate banking specialist for 5 years, thus my genuine acknowledgement of some complaints voiced by the
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The Development of Corporate Governance in China
The history and legal framework of corporate governance for listed companies in China Prior to 1978, most Chinese companies were state owned enterprises with strong government influence. The government set targets and an agenda and the individual business and managers were measured against those targets. In 1978, the government decided to reform the state owned enterprises and focus on the process to improve corporate governance measures and allow for a market based system. The first
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A Cross-Country Investigation of Blockholder Effects on Corporate Performance
A Cross-country Investigation of Blockholder Effects on Corporate Performance Introduction During the last twenty years corporate governance has been widely researched, which has led to important findings with regard to ownership structure and its determinants. La Porta and Colleagues (1998) find that shareholder protection is positive correlated with widely held firms and larger financial markets. La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Shleifer (1999) subsequently find that countries with common law have larger financial markets and provide better
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Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance, Assignment II Problem 1 a) “If corporate debt is exposed to market risk, Modigliani-Miller’s proposition I will not hold.” FALSE MM1 states that the firm’s value is independent of its capital structure. MM1 doesn’t say anything about the riskiness of the debt. When the firm’s capital structure becomes more levered, the riskiness of the firm increases, but the firm value is unchanged. MM1 holds. b) “Because both bondholders and stockholders demand higher rates
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