Can HR be a strategic partner to the business? The article I have chosen is around the question whether ‘HR can be a strategic partner to business’ and how? One of the reasons I chose this article is because during our combined class with the Temple Executive MBA batch‚ we realized that a lot of business people do not consider HR to be a strategically thinking department. It was quite surprising as well as shocking to hear that‚ according to business‚ HR is considered a clerical and administrative
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Case 1. Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights? Why do the partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating movie-by-movie to buy them? The principals at Arundel Partners believe that there is value that is not captured in a discounted cash flow when analyzing the launching of a film. They believe that by launching a new film‚ there is immediately an option to launch a sequel
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Every year‚ nearly 10 million men and women are abused by an intimate partner in the United States. Intimate partner violence or IPV is defined as any behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical‚ psychological‚ or sexual harm to those in the relationship (Burgess‚ Regerhr‚ & Roberts‚ 2013). Acts of physical aggression include slapping‚ punching‚ kicking‚ beating‚ and biting. 20 individuals are victims of physical violence every minute in the United States. Psychological maltreatment
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The man should be the dominant partner in the marriage 13th September 2012 There are two main Christian views towards roles in marriage. There is the traditional view‚ and the modern view. Traditionalists‚ fundamentally say that men should always be dominant in marriage‚ whereas‚ the modernist view is centred on both partners being equal. The traditional view held by Christians is that men should be the dominant partner and that they should go out to work to pay for the family‚ while the wife
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Our Endangered Values by former President of the United States of America‚ James Earl Carter Jr. (Jimmy Carter)‚ is a book which discusses America’s “moral crisis.” The aforementioned crisis concerns heavily debated political issues since President Carter’s term‚ including abortion‚ gay rights‚ foreign policy‚ and the death penalty‚ and discusses President Carter’s views on such topics. He speaks of his contention between his religion‚ Christianity and his own political beliefs‚ as a Democrat (Left-Wing)
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Social standards had predetermined their wedding‚ the couple stimulated a strong sense of nationalism‚ and they abundantly supplied Europe with royal offspring. However‚ as Gillian Gill highlights in her book‚ “We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers‚ Partners‚ Rivals” in reality this relationship was far from orthodox. In a world where misogyny‚ debt‚ and lewd behavior were common among rulers‚ their partnership broke many modern-day standards and created a new set of values. Though many of these values
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financial performance in its industry. 2.1. Business objectives: Nestle business objective is to manufacture and market its products in a way that creates value that can be sustained over the long term for shareholders‚ employees‚ consumers‚ business partners and national economies in which Nestlé operates. The aim of the creating values for the company include with improve business condition for the firm. To obtain more reliable and high qualify source of raw materials‚ improved government functioning
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On January 20‚ 1980‚ President Jimmy Carter sparked controversy for the ultimatum directed towards the Soviet Union in regards to the Moscow Olympics. Deep into the Cold War in December of 1979‚ The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to support the Afghan government against growing insurgencies who were planning to overthrow the government. The United States was not happy with the Soviet’s interference‚ so Carter demanded that all Soviet Troops be removed within a month or the United States would not
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Sambian was founded in 1975 by Helen’s father Peter Gasbarian and the idea of this company was be the best architecture and engineering firm by giving the appealing offers to young talents. Helen took over the firm after her father’s death in 1997 and she made her mission to increase collaboration among the firm’s cutting-edge designers‚ engineers‚ and client account managers. The other large firms were then just begun to flourish‚ by then‚ Sambian had already designed dozens of LEED- certified building
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Palamon Capital Partners/TeamSystem S.P.A. 1. Valuation of TeamSystem S.P.A. using Free-Cash-Flow-to-Equity Model (FCFE) (1) Calculate Free cash flow to equity per year: FCFE = NI – (CAPX – DEPR) –NWC + Net Borrowing (2) Discount Rate / Equity Rate: Elson estimated discount rate to be 14%. (Source: Elson believed that a 14 percent discount rate would appropriately capture the risk of the cash flows.) (3) Present Value: Note: the company is expected to grow by 6% forever since
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