Travelling on business Catching a train Exercise 1. Listen and complete the conversation. - Good morning. (a) the times of trains (b) Newcastle‚ please? - Afternoon‚ evening? When (c) ? - About five o’clock this afternoon. - About (d) . Right. Let’s have a look. There’s a train that (e) 4.45‚ and there’s (f)
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Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years" say seven strategic mistakes are behind many business failures. Ads by Google Small Business Opportunity Source quality products at Best SMB Site - hktdc.com www.hktdc.com Tech Bets Carroll and Mui point to Motorola’s $5 billion investment in satellite-based phones. On the market‚ the phones cost $3‚000 apiece and came with hefty monthly charges‚ all of which customers ultimately
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Situation 1: The motorcycle helmet market has 13 companies‚ and four firm concentration ratio of 26%. While the helmets have a variety of designs‚ they are sold at very similar prices. Recently‚ the death rate from head injuries in motorcycle crashes has been rising. The producers advertise their helmets as “effective‚” but some helmets withstand most falls and others are produced with materials that are more likely to crack in commonly experienced falls. The weaker helmets cost about $8 less to
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HEC Paris Financial Markets Spring 2012 Final Exam “Cheat Sheet” 0. Basic Statistics (a) Consider an n-outcome probability space with probabilities p1 ‚ p2 ‚ . . . ‚ pn . Consider two discrete random variables X and Y with outcomes (X1 ‚ X2 ‚ . . . ‚ Xn ) and (Y1 ‚ Y2 ‚ . . . ‚ Yn ). 2 The we have the following formulas for means (µX ‚ µY )‚ variance (σX )‚ standard deviation (σX )‚ covariance (σX‚Y )‚ and correlation (ρX‚Y ) µX = EX = E(X) = p1 X1 + p2 X2 + · · · + pn Xn µY = EY = E(Y ) =
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Dimensional Fund Advisors 2002 Introduction: Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment firm based in Santa Monica‚ California. It was founded in 1981 by David Booth and Rex Sinquefield. It is a different investment firm which think differently and push the frontiers of innovation. The firm had close working relationships with academics such as Eugene Fama and Kenneth French who introduced the Fama & French three factors model. Fama has worked in DFA since very early days‚ now he is
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Credit Suisse (UK) Private Banking: Company Profile and SWOT Analysis Released On 23rd September 2015 Synopsis Credit Suisse (UK) Private Banking : Company Profile and SWOT Analysis contains in depth information and data about the company and its operations. The profile contains a company overview‚ key facts‚ major products and services‚ SWOT analysis‚ business description‚ company history‚ recent developments‚ key employees‚ company locations and subsidiaries as well as employee biographies.
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α = actual return – return predicted by CAPM Mispriced assets: When α ≠ 0‚ we can take advantage by tilting our portfolio away from the market‚ making an active portfolio. We exploit ‘a’ but gain unsystematic risk. Four-Factor model: * SMB = difference between small and large cap stocks * HML = difference between high and low book-to-market stocks * MOM = returns difference between stocks with high and low past returns * CAPM Fama-French (FF) model: Doesn’t include MOM
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Technology Case Solutions Cisco Systems: Managing the Go-to-Market Evolution 1) How have Cisco’s channels evolved in the last 10-15 years? Why have they evolved that way? Ans# In the last five years‚ there has been a marked shift in Cisco’s channel strategy. Rather than being purely focused on the volume of business that a channel does with the vendor‚ it is now paying great attention to the value of the business that the channel does. The focus is therefore no longer pure ly on point product
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Assignment #1: Company Background 1. FIRM NAME: Apple Inc. 2. HEADQUARTER LOCATION: 1 Infinite Loop CUPERTINO‚ CA 95014 United States Phone: +1-408-996-1010 Fax: +1-408-996-0275 Website: http://www.apple.com KEY EXECUTIVES Name | Since | Current Position | Arthur Levinson | 2011 | Independent Chairman of the Board | Timothy Cook | 2011 | Chief Executive Officer‚ Director | Peter Oppenheimer | 2012 | Chief Financial Officer‚ Principal Financial Officer‚ Senior Vice
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