Review: Fasting‚ Feasting by Anita Desai The most recent novel of Indian born author Anita Desai‚ Fasting‚ Feasting (1999) tells the story of two middle-class families and the allegorical struggles of the individual members to find individual identity and happiness. This meticulously constructed prose gravitates towards the position of women in the family unit and explores socially ordered gender imbalance in domestic life. Featuring a traditional Indian family in provincial town India and a typical
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article: Alex W. H. Chan.‚ Hoi Yan Cheung.‚ “Cultural Dimensions‚ Ethical Sensitivity‚ and Corporate Governance” (2011). Introduction and brief summary of the paper Corporate Governance has become an essential tool for improving corporate performance and advancing the development of market-oriented democracies. Good governance practice maintain the integrity of business transactions and in so doing strengthen the rule of law and democratic governance. Chan and Cheung’s study determines
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The increasing competition in the global economy has raised the number of virtual teams‚ and the cultural difference is identified as a critical factor that determines the effectiveness of team performance (Connaughton and Shuffler‚ 2007‚ cited in Dekker‚ Rutte & Van den Berg‚ 2008). Dekker et al. (2008) investigate whether members of virtual teams from the U.S.‚ India‚ and Belgium perceived the same critical interaction behaviours as Dutch team members from a previous study; that is‚ they evaluate
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C-2 Corporate‚ Business‚ Finance & Commercial C2.1 Corporate Values 2.1.1 Draw GASCO’s organization chart‚ and indicate your Work Team. Explain the functions of the four top levels of management. 2.1.2 What is the purpose of having financial authorities? What are the limits for your CEO‚ your SVP your team leader and your department or division manager? C2.1.1 Describe what is meant by ethical business practice: a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles
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Management a true profession is an interesting article. It is written by two authors‚ Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria. Rakesh Khurana is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School in Boston while Nitin Nohria is also a professor of business administration and senior associate dean and director of faculty development at Harvard Business School. Both authors have written informative books on the subject of business. The purpose of this article is about revolutionizing the training
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during checkout. Achieving the Ideal Brand Portfolio http://hbr.org/product/achieving-the-ideal-brand-portfolio/an/SMR167-PDF-ENG Source: MIT Sloan Management Review 8 pages. Publication Date: 一月 01‚ 2005. Prod. #: SMR167-PDF-ENG To optimize a portfolio of brands‚ companies can use a step-by-step approach: decide on the brands to review; analyze each brand with respect to its contribution to the company; assess the brands according to current market performance (traction) and future prospects
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Functional Areas of Business Management Jeffery B Smith MGT 521 Jan 21‚ 2013 Doris Savron Abstract A summary of the sales and marketing functional areas of an organization’s structure as an examination of the overall role and responsibility of the managers of each area. The sales manager’s primary goal is the development‚ implementation and evaluation of the strategic goals they desire to achieve with the sale organization to be able to meet the company’s overall goals. The marketing manager
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Article review by Dawn Drake – Writing sample 5/2008 dawn.drake@yahoo.com Lieff‚ J. (1982). Eight reasons why doctors fear the elderly‚ chronic illness‚ and death. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology‚ 14(1)‚ 47-60. Jonathan Lieff‚ author of this article‚ holds a B.A. from Yale College and an M.D. from Harvard Medical College‚ and is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry (Ages Health Services Inc.‚ 1996). When the article was published in 1982‚ Lieff had developed services
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multinational corporation is a business organization whose activities are located in more than two countries and is the organizational form that defines foreign direct investment. A multinational corporation/company is an organisation doing business in more than one country. ’In other words it is an organisation or enterprise carrying on business in not only the country where it is registered but also in several other countries. It may also be termed as international corporation‚ global giant and
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BACKGROUND Global Financial Corporation (GF) offers financing services for customers purchasing heavy construction equipment from its parent company Global Equipment Company (GEC). GF’s Bakersfield‚ California office is setup to process the loan applications for the western United States. A recently appointed Vice President of GF‚ Nancy Rodriquez‚ is also in charge of managing the Bakersfield office. She has received a memo from the Director of Marketing at GEC with a complaint stating that the
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