analyze the Purinex‚ Inc. financing plan‚ which is related to determine the best financing alternative for the company in securing additional cash needed to establish a partnership with a large-capitalization pharmaceutical firm. Gilad Harpaz‚ Purinex’s chief financial officer believes a partnership deal could bring the company to execute its mission‚ developing drugs for the treatment of sepsis and diabetes. However‚ the problem facing Purinex is that—while there is a chance for Purinex to secure
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Decision Trees A Primer for Decision-making Professionals By Rafael Olivas 2007 Decision Trees A Primer for Decision-making Professionals ii Decision Trees A Primer for Decision-making Professionals Table of Contents Section Page Preface................................................................................................................................. iv 1.0 Introduction................................................................................................
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DECISION TREES DECISION Decision trees may be described as the graphic display of the decision-making process. Let us take for example a situation where one must decide whether to go to a movie house or to stay at home and watch TV or a video tape. State of nature node Branches Good movie Decision node Movies Bad Movie Good program TV New program or cassette Poor program Rerun
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Case Study: Purinex‚ Inc. Introduction The case asks for evaluation of different financing options. Gilad Harpaz is Purinex’s CFO and he needs to determine which one from the three options provides lowest risk‚ highest company value‚ and short term cash for operations. Purinex is a biotechnological company that has 35 patents pending in pharmaceutical field. It is one of the raising stars that may develop new drug for specific use in diabetes and sepsis. Company has 14 employees. Monthly burden
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I. CASE FACTS Purinex was a drug-discovery and -development company based in Syracuse‚ New York‚ that sought to commercialize therapeutic compounds based on its purine drug-development platform. Purine was a naturally occurring molecule that played an important role in numerous biochemical processes. Purinex had developed a process for creating small molecules that acted as selected agonists (activators) or antagonists (blockers) for specific purine receptors in the cell membrane. Purinex’s goal
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Executive Summary Purinex is a drug discovery and development company based in Syracuse‚ New York. The company sought to commercialize therapeutic compounds based on Purine‚ which is useful in numerous biochemical processes and its intellectual portfolio of Purinex consists of more than 35 patents‚ pending and issued in the purine field. The company has a headcount of 14 and maintains a chemistry laboratory a few miles from its main office. The company’s target is to develop products that act
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Let’s begin with timidity. This trait needn’t have any thing to do with generosity‚ but if often plagues givers. Timidity is sthe opposite of assertiveness‚ which is easy to associate with takers: they know what they want‚ and they’re not shy about demanding it. For a giver‚ however‚ the goal of acting in others’ interests can make it difficult to assert one’s own. Managers can help the givers in their organizations tease the two concepts apart and learn techniques for appropriate self-advocacy that
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Warren Buffett 1. What is the possible meaning of the changes in stock price for Berkshire Hathaway and Scottish Power plc on the day of the acquisition announcement? Specifically‚ what does the $2.55 billion gain in Berkshire’s market value of equity imply about the intrinsic value of PacifiCorp? Answer1: The increase in the stock price of Scottish Power plc and Berkshire Hathaway indicate a market approval for the acquisition and created value for both buyers and sellers. Answer2: a
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“The Trees” by Philip Larkin The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread‚ Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No‚ they die too‚ Their yearly trick of looking of looking new. Is it written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In full grown thickness every May. Last year is dead‚ they seem to say‚ Begin afresh‚ afresh‚ afresh. Imagery to Larkin’s “The Trees” Voice
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the tree respectfully and economically‚ we have one of the greatest resources on the earth. - Frank Lloyd Wright Trees provide a range of benefits to society. These benefits are both tangible and non-tangible. Tangible benefits are marketable resources g g g that we can measure. Intangible benefits are difficult to measure‚ but improve our quality of life. 1 Most trees in cities or communities are planted to p p provide beauty or y shade‚ which are two excellent reasons for their
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