The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted ten days‚ from 3 May 1926 to 13 May 1926. It was an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners. The biggest cause of the strike was the First World War‚ in which coal was heavily used for domestic purposes. Productivity of coal mines was comparatively low and wages were reduced in order to normalize profits. Miners were dissatisfied with
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Merck & Co.‚ Inc. Case If one hold a key to resolve a very serious problem‚ one has a responsibility to put an effort to make it happen‚ at least try one’s best. In this case‚ river blindness disease was a very serious problem‚ and Dr. Vagelos was the one who could make a decision as to whether the research and development of a human version of ivermectin should be carried on‚ then it was his responsibility to pursue it. Caused by a parasitic worm carried by a tiny black fly‚ the disease
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Application X-Trac Computer Co 1. What is the likely reason Xtrac persistently underforecast sales? * I personally think that the main reason why Xtrac is persistently underforecast it’s because the sales offices set their own goals without an opinion of the manufacturing department and also they don’t take into account the growth from one year to year. * Sales representatives income is based 30% on a small wage and 70% on commissions‚ so whenever they do the forecast‚ they tend
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Harmonic Hearing Co. Case Recommendation Under the two circumstances presented‚ I recommend that Harriet Burns and Richard Irvine should finance the purchase of Harmonic Hearing Co. through the deal proposed by the private equity firm‚ Comet Capital. This proposal best aligns with Burns and Irvine’s goal to select an option that offers the “best combination of cost‚ expected return of their ownership interest and financial flexibility.” To evaluate the two alternatives‚ a comparison
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The Vermont Teddy Bear Co Making decisions is certainly the most important task of a manager and it is often a very difficult one. This article offers a decision making procedure for solving complex problems step by step. It presents the decision-analysis process for both public and private decision-making‚ using different decision criteria‚ different types of information‚ and information of varying quality. It describes the elements in the analysis of decision alternatives and choices‚ as well
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COMPANY PROFILE-PEPSI CO. (US) PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient foods and beverages‚ with revenues of about $27 billion and over 143‚000 employees. The company consists of the snack business of Frito-Lay North America and the beverage and food businesses of PepsiCo Beverages and Foods‚ which includes PepsiCo Beverages North America (Pepsi-Cola North America and Gatorade/Tropicana North America) and Quaker Foods North America. PepsiCo International includes the snack businesses of Frito-Lay
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Calculating Beta for Compuware Corporation Financial websites tend to calculate beta on securities differently for publicly traded companies. Beta is merely an estimable measure of an assets’ risk in relation to the market. Because each website has their own underlying assumptions‚ they compute beta to have different values. In some cases‚ the variance in beta is as large as 0.50. To find out what underlying assumptions websites used to compute their betas‚ we performed a series of regression
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What if sports turned co-ed? Co-ed sports should be allowed. Three reasons are: the teams would have the best of both genders on one team‚ there would be more competition to make the team‚ and there would be better opponents to make better games. First of all‚ co-ed should be allowed because the teams would have the best players of both genders on one team. According to Caitlin Granfield of youthletic‚ “Before puberty‚ boys and girls who play sports together can learn many things about each
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Table of Contents 1. In what way(s) is Tiffany exposed to exchange-rate risk subsequent to its new distribution agreement with Mitsukoshi? How serious are these risks? 2. Should Tiffany actively manage its yen-dollar exchange rate risk? Why or why not? 3. If Tiffany were to manage exchange rate risk activity‚ what should be the objectives of such a program? Specifically‚ what exposures should be actively managed? How much of these exposures should be covered‚ and for how long? 4. As instruments
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INTRODUCTION : The purpose of this project is to introduce the students to a better understanding of what business really is and how the world of business comes together from scratch. Pune university has made it compulsory to students studying BBA to have business exposure through industrial visit. The faculty of Sinhgad College Of Commerce arranged an industrial visit for students to Hyderabad. Hyderabad apart from being a great holiday destination
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