Acer Incorporated Company profile Acer Incorporated – company profile 2 SOMO Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations Policies and business overview - General characteristics Acer has constantly pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing its brand-name IT products around the globe‚ Acer ranks as the world’s No. 3 vendor for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks‚ with the fastest
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Jacob Gyntelberg Eli M Remolona +852 2878 7145 jacob.gyntelberg@bis.org +852 2878 7150 eli.remolona@bis.org Risk in carry trades: a look at target currencies in Asia and the Pacific 1 We analyse carry trades involving the Australian dollar‚ Indonesian rupiah‚ Indian rupee‚ New Zealand dollar and Philippine peso as target currencies. We find evidence supporting the view that downside risk is an important feature of such strategies and propose ways of measuring this risk. JEL classification: F310
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The Swastika The swastika (from Sanskrit svástika) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles‚ in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period and was first found in the Indus Valley Civilization of the Indian Subcontinent. It occurs today in the modern day culture of India‚ sometimes as a geometrical motif and sometimes as a religious symbol; it remains widely used in Eastern
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The Use of Propaganda in the GDR During the Cold War More than any other wars‚ the Cold War was fought with words‚ mainly through the media as psychological warfare. Popular culture was used as a decoy to sway the opinions of the general public in support of various governmental institutions. In East Germany‚ political propaganda was frequently incorporated into film‚ journalism‚ and the mass media to promote socialism. East Germany was a close ally to the Soviet Union who fought to keep western
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Management-Ahmedabad‚ but declining the highest offers ever made in the institute has raised more than a few eyebrows. Two of the six second-year post-graduate programme students of IIM-Ahmedabad who were offered the position of associates by Deutsche Bank‚ declined it despite their salaries‚ in rupee terms‚ was more than Rs 1 crore. Debashish Chakravarty‚ one of the two students who refused the offer said‚ "I declined the offer because I wanted to be on my own." The challenge of entrepreneurship
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A STUDY ON RISK MANAGEMENT IN BANKING INDUSTRY SHAJITHA.K M.Phil SCHOLAR.‚ Risk management is relatively new and emerging practice as far as Indian banks are concerned and has been proved that it’s a mirror of efficient corporate governance of a financial institution. Globalization and significant competition between foreign and domestic banks‚ survival and optimizing returns are very crucial for banks and financial institutions. However‚ selecting the efficient customer and providing
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’Capex Optimization Strategies: Operator Best Practices for Making the Most of 3G Network Capex‚’ a Telecom Insider Report by Researcher‚ presents a selection of 17 techniques for managing 3G networks in a capex-efficient way. These techniques have resulted from the application of the MASI‚ PYR’s proprietary framework for analyzing and optimizing capex‚ to the capex profiles of a wide variety of operators. In this report‚ we explain each of these capex-effective techniques for managing networks
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MAKE OR BUY? – THE CHOICES When firms face a “make-or-buy” decision‚ it means that they have to choose whether to insource a particular production process or service or to outsource it to a third party. The word “insourcing” stems from the union of the words “inside resource using” and indicates the “use of internal labor‚ personnel and resources to supply the operational needs of the enterprise” . A firm can decide either to insource –i.e. to produce in-house- a production process or a service
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TIMBRE In music‚ the term “timbre” is used for the quality of a musical note or sound that distinguishes different types of sound production‚ such as voices or musical instruments. Timbre is also known in psychoacoustics as tone quality or tone colour. There is no rating scale on which timbre can be measured‚ unlike pitch and loudness‚ which can be rated on scales from “high” to “low”.(i) The commonly quoted American National Standards Institute formal definition of timbre reflects this: “Timbre
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One way Schindler managed to save money and increase his profit was because of Itzhak Stern. “Itzhak Stern...was a man of Jewish faith who worked for German industrialist Oskar Schindler. He was the accountant for Schindler’s enamelware company (Deutsche Emaillewarenfabrik) in Kraków
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