David Yoffie - Strategy: Taking Dell Private Materials: Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake today walked away with their prize‚ the computing company Dell‚ having won the approval from a significant majority of shareholders to take the company private in a $25 billion leveraged buyout. Success for Dell as a private company — which it will be within a few months — is by no means assured. Simply put‚ the plan calls for Dell to double down on investments in research and development
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The gender wage gap still goes on today‚ the gap depends on the hours worked‚ education‚ and the job‚ but can also depend on gender. Of course‚ a man that works more hours than a woman is going to make more money‚ but if they work the same hours and same job a man can make more money than a woman. Woman earn seventy-seven cent for every dollar a man makes. Women of color have a greater disadvantage with only sixty-four cents on the dollar for African Americans and fifty-six for Hispanics. (Kaster)
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head: THE GENDER GAP IN MATHEMATICS 1 The Gender Gap in Mathematics THE GENDER GAP IN MATHEMATICS 2 The Gender Gap in Mathematics A gender gap is defined by Dictionary.com as the discrepancy in opportunities‚ statuses‚ and attitudes between men and women (2012). According to author Xie of articles “Math Gender Gap Gone In Grade School‚ Persists In College‚” the gender gap in mathematics was
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1001EHR Employment Relations Assessment Item 2: ESSAY Several explanations have been put forward to explain why the gender-wage gap persists in Australia. Pick two and critically evaluate each. Within Australia’s workforce history‚ there has been a strong presence of the gender wage gap between men and women. The differences in wages between men and women still seem to persist in today’s society (Sap 1993). A study by van Wanrooy (2009) suggests that even though there is an increase of women
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last 200 years Indigenous people have been victims of discrimination‚ prejudice and disadvantage. Poor education‚ poor living conditions and general poverty are still overwhelming issues for a large percentage of our people and we remain ‘as a group‚ the most poverty stricken sector of the working class’ in Australia (Cuthoys 1983). As a people‚ our rate of chronic disease is still 2.5 times higher than that of other Australians‚ and Indigenous people in this country die 15 to 20 years younger
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write about Healthy vs. Happy. I will talk about the relevance of being happy and healthy from my perspective. Taking great care of my body has always been important to me. With that being said not only do I like to take care of my body‚ but also it is also exciting as well as motivating for me to see the great changes that one can make happen with food‚ diet and exercise. Almost 20 years ago I took an interest in vitamins‚ herbs and healing the body. My first book and guide down the path to a
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The wage gap is a statistical value commonly used as an indicator of the status of women’s earnings relative to those of men; this gap is calculated by dividing the median annual earnings for women by median annual earnings for men. According to the institute for Women’s policy Research‚ in 2015 it was recorded that female full-time workers earn about 80 cents for every dollar earned by men‚ indicating a gender wage gap of 20%. To understand the wage gap that exists today and what factors contribute
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Minorities Fall Victim to Achievement Gap The achievement gap continues to be up for major discussion in America’s schools. Researchers‚ reformers‚ and educators alike are baffled by the achievement gap‚ for they have no concrete idea why it occurs or any stable solution to solve this growing problem. The achievement gap can be seen through-out grades‚ test scores‚ drop-out rates‚ and graduation rates. To show the extend of the achievement gap‚ Harold Berlak‚ a Senior Research Fellow at the Applied
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1 The Gap‚ Inc. SWOT Analysis Strengths Strong Liquidity Position During the 2010 fiscal year‚ The Gap‚ Inc. saw an increase in cash inflow from operating activities of 36.4%‚ according to GlobalData. Increasing cash and cash equivalent represents the company’s ability to fund its business opportunities‚ working capital needs‚ meet shortterm obligations and other capital requirements in the future. GAP is superior competitors. According to DataMonitor‚ 2011‚ the company’s net profit margin (8
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The Gender Pay Gap PROBLEM Introduction The pay gap between men and women has fallen quite dramatically over the past 30 years though a sizeable gap still remains‚ but this headline figure masks some less positive developments in recent years. We are used to each generation of women making progress relative to the one before‚ but this process has slowed slightly with the better than the previous one(Centre Piece Summer 2006). The gender pay gap measures the earning differences between
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