For the exclusive use of P. Isautier Harvard Business School 9-899-003 Rev. August 3‚ 1999 Amazon.com—Going Public Joy Covey‚ chief financial officer of online bookseller Amazon.com‚ settled into her airline seat and opened the day’s Financial Times as her plane pulled back from its gate at London’s Heathrow airport. It was April 30‚ 1997‚ and Covey and Jeff Bezos‚ Amazon.com’s founder and CEO‚ had just completed the European leg of Amazon.com’s “road show.” Over the past three days‚
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Islamic Equity Mutual Fund Performance in Malaysia: Risk and Return Analysis Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad Universiti Teknologi MARA‚ Kelantan nmaheran@kltn.uitm.edu.my Masliza Mokhtar Universiti Teknologi MARA‚ Kelantan masliza@yahoo.com Abstract Mutual funds in Malaysia have experienced a considerable growth over the last decade in terms of the number of funds offered and the volume of capital managed by unit trust management companies. A higher growth can be expected due to a strong participation
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from any of the two broad means of financing - equity financing or debt financing. The debt financing includes the issuance of debentures. The Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) defines a debenture as a written acknowledgment of indebtedness by the company setting out the terms and conditions of the indebtedness. 1. In the given question‚ I think unsecured long term debt like debenture could not be the plausible alternative to selling equity for the OM as trading unsecured debentures is less
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EQUITY RESEARCH IN BANKING SECTOR Research Project submitted In Part Completion of Masters of Management Studies University of Mumbai By Amit Kanowjia Under the guidance of Mr. Nikesh Ruparel Vidyalankar Institute of Technology Wadala (E)‚ Mumbai – 400 037 JULY 2010 DECLARATION I hereby declare that the project work entitled “Equity Research in Banking Sector “ submitted to “Vidyalankar Institute of Technology‚ wadala(E)‚ Mumbai-400037 “ is a record of an original
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Section 134 Common Sense Paper In the years of 1775 through 1776‚ the American colonies were at the beginning of a war with Great Britain. American loyalists‚ those who supported the King of England‚ believed the colonies should remain loyal to their parent country of Great Britain‚ whereas the American patriots viewed the King of England as a tyrant and the country of Great Britain as betraying the American colonies. In 1776 Thomas Paine‚ a British patriot‚ wrote the political pamphlet‚ Common Sense
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compels people to avert from “the less taken route”. Though this is true for most of the Asian countries‚ the statement does not stand for the British liberal education. In Britain‚ education encourages the open discussion of topics throughout all levels of education. It is based on the medieval concept of the liberal arts‚
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essay work are breaking the educational institution regulations. These practices of cheating create lack of creativity‚ inability to gain new knowledge and disrespect towards the professor and the original author. Copy and paste plagiarism is a common phenomenon occurring within universities and colleges. According to Lars R. Jones attempting to pass of‚ as personal work‚ a whole work or any part of a work belonging to another person‚ group or institution is Academic dishonesty and is strictly
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RED BULL: BUILDING BRAND EQUITY IN NEW WAYS 02-05-2011 Question 1: Describe Red Bull’s sources of brand equity. Do these sources change depending on the market or country? Answer: Red Bull has a strong marketing strategy for communicating product value to customers. The strategy for building the brand has been created around a simple goal. Whenever a consumer is in need of energy‚ the company wants then to automatically think of Red Bull. The brand uses traditional media channels
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Commercial hospitality is just extension of hospitality in the home. Do you agree? Hospitality is a difficult concept to define; numerous authors suggest it is both a social and commercial activity (Lugosi 2008). Nevertheless it’s important to highlight a dominant theme in accepted definitions of hospitality. Brotherton (1999) defined hospitality as “a contemporaneous human exchange‚ which is voluntarily entered into‚ and designed to enhance the mutual well-being of the parties concerned through
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When I asked a friend who I should write this essay about‚ she asked me‚ “Who inspires you the most? Who makes you get up every day? Who makes everything worth it‚ and makes you want to do good things with your life?” To be quite frank‚ I had no idea. The answer then hit me; it is my nearly three year old niece‚ Kadynce Ryley Collins. She is all of those things and more embodied into one tiny person. She influences me (sometimes by force) to get out of bed every day‚ and makes me want to be a better
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