significantly from the beginning of the year. Ford was considering buying some shares for the fund she managed‚ the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund‚ which invested mostly in Fortune 500 companies‚ with an emphasis on value investing. Its top holdings included ExxonMobil‚ General Motors‚ McDonald’s‚ 3M‚ and other large-cap‚ generally old-economy stocks. While the stock market had declined over the last 18 months‚ the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund had performed extremely well. In 2000‚ the fund earned a return of 20
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Exhibit 3.1 Strategic capabilities and competitive advantage Exhibit 3.2 Strategic capability: the terminology Exhibit 3.3 Sources of cost efficiency Exhibit 3.4 The experience curve Exhibit 3.5 Criteria for inimitability of strategic capabilities Analyzing Resources & Capabilities OUTLINE • The role of resources and capabilities in strategy formulation. • The resources of the firm • Organizational capabilities • Appraising the profit potential of resources and
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The Political Economy Of Illegal Bunkering In Nigeria By Kòmbò Mason Braide (PhD) Port Harcourt‚ Nigeria Demonise & Diabolise: The Niger Delta has been a source of illicit international business deals (like the trans-Atlantic slave trade)‚ as far back as the 15th century. Today a new form of syndicated criminal proclivity is threatening the very foundations of Nigeria’s petroleum industry‚ and by extension‚ the Nigerian economy‚ as well as putting tremendous pressure on Chief (General) Olusegun
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Apple has been around since the mid- 1970’s‚ known by its former name. As of July 2011‚ Apple has 357 retail stores in ten countries‚ and an online store. It is the largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalization‚ overtopping ExxonMobil by some $150 billion‚ as well as the largest technology company in the world by revenue and profit‚ worth more than Google and Microsoft combined. As of September 24‚ 2011‚ the company had 60‚400 permanent full-time employees and 2‚900 temporary
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Ans 1 Evolving Meanings of CSR is seriously considering the impact of the company’s actions on society. is the obligation of decision makers to take actions that protect and improve the welfare of society as a whole‚ along with their own interests. supposes that the corporation has economic and legal obligations as well as responsibilities to society that extend beyond these obligations. Four part definition of CSR: Corporate social responsibility encompasses economic‚ legal‚ ethical and discretionary
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BNL-73894-2005-CP Sustainable Development in Kazakhstan: Using Oil & Gas Production by-Product Sulfur for CostEffective Secondary End-Use Products P.D. Kalb‚ S. Vagin‚ P.W. Beall‚ B.L. Levintov Presented at the REWAS 2004 Global Symposium on Recycling‚ Waste Treatment and Clean Technology Madrid‚ Spain September 2004 Environmental Sciences Department Environmental Research & Technology Division Brookhaven National Laboratory P.O. Box 5000 Upton‚ NY 11973-5000 www.bnl.gov Managed
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ENOCH DADZIE MPIMWOOD SCHOOL: COVENTRY UNIVERSITY PROGRAM: MBA-FINANCE STUDENT ID: COVBAF0513079 INTAKE: MAY 2013 COURSE ASSIGNMENT Wood.noon@gmail.com Contact: +233 244137533 The Dow Jones Industrial Average Brief Introduction The Dow Jones Industrial Average also called the‚ the Dow Jones Industrial‚ Dow‚ is a stock market index‚ and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. It was founded on May 26‚ 1896‚ and is now
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Joint Ventures‚ Strategic Alliances‚ Collaborations and Merger and Acquisitions Questions | Q1. Why is a Joint Venture (JV) preferable to more general collaboration form of the Strategic Alliance? Q2. What are the relative merits and weaknesses of JVs and SAs? Q3. Why would company seek M&A as a market entry strategy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of M&A? why might a merger fail and what might be the outcome? Q4. What are the relative merits/ disadvantages of JVs‚ SAs‚ and
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Well known MNCs include fast food companies such as Old Town‚ McDonald’s and KFC‚ vehicle manufacturers such as Proton‚ Perodua‚ Toyota‚ consumer electronics companies like Panasonic‚ Samsung‚ LG and Sony‚ and energy companies such as Petronas‚ ExxonMobil‚ Shell and BP. Luxury product such as Bonia and Royal Selangor. Most of the largest corporations operate in multiple national markets. According to Wikipedia‚ the areas which most of the business people would be looking into it are such as political
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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibilities and Law Contents BP Company Info 3 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Event 4 Summary of the Deepwater Horizon Event 5 Stock price before and after Deepwater Horizon 7 Impact on Stakeholders 8 BP’s Oil Spills and Corporate Social Responsibility 9 Inadequate disclosure on the oil spill event 11 Recommendations for BP to get reputation back 13 Conclusion 14 BP Company Info BP is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London‚ United
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