Foundations of Planning Facilitator: S. Ali Jafari CASE Understanding Powerful Role of Your Experience in Finetuning Your Judgment Contd… • Those who cannot remember past are fated to repeat it. -George Santayana -George • Bad judgment can come form bad memory. -L. William Seidman -L. • Only thing new in world is history you don’t know. don’t -Harry S. Truman -Harry • Farther backward you can look farther forward you are likely to see. -Winston Churchill -Winston Contd… Contd… Understanding
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FINA 411 Portfolio Management Winter 2015 Section D Instructor Dr. Yuan Wang Office MB 12-317 Phone (514) 848-2424 ext. 2913 E-mail yuan.wang@concordia.ca Office Hours Tuesday 14:30-16:30 (or by appointment) Class Time: Tuesday 08:45-11:30 OBJECTIVE: This course focuses on modern investment theory and its application to the management of entire portfolios. It will consist of lectures‚ discussions of cases and articles‚ and video presentations. Topics include: a) construction of optimal
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Microsoft’s Management Planning Paper Within this paper Microsoft’s organization will be assessed with the planning functions of management. Along with a brief analysis of Microsoft’s history and the impact that legal issues‚ ethics and corporate social responsibility have on the planning functions of management. It will also analyze the factors that influence the Microsoft’s strategic‚ operational‚ and contingency planning. The Microsoft corporation is one of the most prevalent and powerful
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION I. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning‚ organizing‚ staffing‚ leading or directing‚ and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation
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MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PRACTICE 802 MANAGEMENT PROCESS PLANNING BY: KEYA Moses Reg. No. MBA/G/31/12 & KIILU Joseph Mutisya Reg. No. MBA/G/28/12 MANAGEMENT PROCESS PLANNING Definition and nature of planning Schermerhorn‚ 2010 defines planning as the process of setting objectives and determining how to accomplish them. This involves setting performance expectations and goals for groups and individuals to channel their efforts toward achieving organizational
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Organizations are responsible for the legal‚ ethical‚ and social issues that affect each stakeholder within the company. These factors continually impact the planning process performed at each level of management. An organization that neglects to establish and monitor plans can become disorganized and ultimately lose control of practices performed throughout the corporation. A prime example of poor planning due to disregard of legal‚ ethical‚ and social issues were the executives employed at WorldCom.
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Introduction Companies which handle packaging services must be able to provide a variety of options to their consumers. They must be able to meet consumer demands when parcels need to be shipped and received within a designated timeframe. UPS is a global company which meets all of these needs. Describe Main Line of Business of the Company United Parcel Service started out as the American Messenger Company founded by 19 year old James Casey in Seattle‚ Washington back in 1907. Most deliveries
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[pic] Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 Tawnie Smith OLRM 225 Module 5 Defined as: An Act to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967‚ and to modify the operation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973‚ to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the
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Stock | Vanguard 500 | California REIT | Brown Group | Standard Deviation | 4.61% | 9.23% | 8.17% | Expected Return | 1.10% | -2.27% | -0.67% | Question 2: To compute the standard deviation in a portfolio‚ it follows the formula SD= ( ) 1/2 First‚ it needs to get covariance‚ using the EXCEL COV ( ) Function Stock | California REIT | Brown Group | Cov (Vanguard 500‚ Stock) | 0.03% | 0.24% | SD of the portfolio (99%
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Most companies have a vision‚ mission statement‚ and a set of core values. These three things are normally made up by a group of senior managers or a leadership team. Once these three things are decided upon‚ the upper management or leadership team should deliver the information to the management below them‚ so the important information is delivered to all levels of employees within the company. After the these three things have been set‚ most companies will post their vision‚ mission statement and
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