This week‚ the readings exhibit further developments of American prose and poetry. These are explored via the writings of Irving‚ Fenimore Cooper‚ and Wheatley. Washington Irving contributed interesting new developments in American literature through his completely fictional story of Rip Van Winkle. This is the first purely fictional writing that we have covered in this course. For example‚ in the story‚ Irving writes‚ “His historical researches‚ however‚ did not lay so much among books‚ as among
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Evolution of Corporate Governance in India and Abroad Introduction Corporate governance issues have attracted considerable attention‚ debate and research world wide in recent decades. Almost invariably‚ such efforts gain momentum in the wake of some major financial scam or corporate failure‚ as these tend to highlight the need for tighter surveillance over corporate behavior. Corporate governance has wide ramifications and extends beyond good corporate performance and financial propriety though
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The Empire Strikes Back: Counterrevolutionary Strategies for Industry Leaders By: Richard D’Aveni Industry leaders or incumbents frequently face threats that have the potential to make their firm’s competencies and products obsolete. Threats can be in the form of new technologies or business models‚ the author refers to these threats as revolutions. Richard D’Aveni wrote the article to describe the structure of a counterrevolution and what strategies should be used against revolutionaries. D’Aveni
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Interests in corporate governance‚ specifically in business accountability‚ emerged in 2001-2002 in response to the financial collapses that large companies faced such as Enron in the United States‚ Parmalat in Italy‚ Ahold in Netherlands etc... . Governments and agencies‚ tried to prevent these scandals by issuing laws and regulations such as the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002‚ United States federal law‚ however‚ shortly the interests in good corporate governance was renewed and emphasized after the
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Structuring Corporate Financial Policy: Diagnosis of Problems and Evaluation of Strategies Introduction This case discusses the element of good process by which an analyst could proceed to assess the financial policy of a firm. It discusses the elements of good process and offers three basic stages in that proces: (1)description- the ability to describe a firm’s financial policies‚ (2)diagnosis-one derives a „good“ financial structure by triangulating from benchmark perspectives and (3)prescription-
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Corporate Restructuring means any change in the business capacity or portfolio that is carried out by inorganic route or any change in the capital structure of a company that is not in the ordinary course of its business or any change in the ownership of a company or control over its management or a combination of any two or all of the above. Reasons for corporate restructuring: Restructuring a corporate entity is often a necessity when the company has grown to the point that the original structure
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Leonard Cooper Charter School’s LAN Networking Concepts & Apps January 21‚ 2014 Leonard Cooper Charter School LAN Leonard Cooper Charter is a K-12 school that is in need of a local area network that will benefit them greatly. They have approximately 1‚000 students‚ and they have had many complaints about the speed and function of their present network. A few years back they had a new section added on to the school‚ and this is when the problems began. To best suit them‚ a number of stakeholders
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in FDI provide a range of potential benefits that extend to the actual investors as well as the host country that is receiving the investment which are quite apparent. An example within many of these advantages include‚ increased profits for the industry or the firm due to lower costs of resources abroad‚ and increase in jobs provided in the host country. However‚ despite the
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Ontario K1N 6N5‚ and 1 HEC Montreal‚ 3000 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road‚ Montreal‚ Quebec H3T 2A7‚ Canada Email: benamar@telfer.uottawa.ca‚ claude.francoeur@hec.ca‚ taieb.2.hafsi@hec.ca‚ real.labelle@hec.ca This study investigates the joint effect of corporate ownership and board of directors’ diversity configurations on the success of strategic merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions. Board diversity is defined as the extent to which its demographic diversity as measured by the culture‚ nationality‚ gender
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Presentation Hello‚ everyone‚ today I want to talk about the ingredients safety in food processing industry through an Australia company- Goodman Fileder . There are 3 parts of my presentation : first‚ I will give a briefly introduction of Goodmam Fileder Company. Second‚ I will talk about corporate governance of Goodman Fileder Company. At the last‚ I will present an example - Sanlu poisonous milk powder incident to demonstrate the importance of CG. I will begin with the introduction of Goodman
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