Memo To: Apax Partners and Hicks‚ Muse‚ Tate & Furst From: Subject: Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group Date: April 9‚ 2014 Yell Group‚ a holding company created by British Telecom (BT)‚ has two business divisions located in two different countries: Yellow Pages business in the U.K. and Yellow Book business in the U.S. Recently‚ BT is under pressure to reduce heavy debt load through outright sale of directories
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2.3 Case Study: Irish Model of Conflict Management Conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland was termed as sectarian violence‚ although other factors include political beliefs‚ ethnicity and class divisions that played major roles as well. It might also refer to general philosophical‚ political or armed conflict between different schools of thought such as that between Shi’a and Sunni sects. After decades of atrocities and violence‚ the sectarian conflict in Northern
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Although it seems easily defined intelligence is a very broad subject. A vast amount of meanings are given to intelligence as a concept from various cultures and sciences. Intelligence can be classified in two ways one way is fluid intelligence and the other is crystalized intelligence. Fluid intelligence is closely tied to biology as well as nature and is responsible for our quick thinking abilities. An example of fluid intelligence would be thinking of an escape route to flee a burning
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Bilingualism & Intelligence Nowadays‚ bilingualism is prevalent in many parts of the world. It is a multi-faceted concept‚ shaped by factors such as migration‚ medium of instruction‚ interracial marriage‚ and politics‚ among others. From Southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America – people have been using more than one language in numerous situations‚ as well as for various purposes and functions. “It is very reasonable to guess that over half the world’s population is bilingual‚” states Cindy Kandolf
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technological areas. Those technologies are called Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence means that computers imitating human’s intelligent actions. Artificial Intelligence is a branch of Science which deals with helping machines find solutions to complex problems in a more human-like fashion. This generally involves borrowing characteristics from human intelligence‚ and applying them as algorithms in a computer friendly way. Artificial intelligence had been advanced for such a long time and still
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Area 1 2. Discuss the results of Luthans’ (1988) Real Manager Study concerning effective versus successful managers and their implications for management and leadership. Luthans’ Real Manager Study found that “effective” managers are not necessarily “successful” managers. Effective managers are usually not the ones promoted rapidly through the organizational ranks. The managers that were promoted most rapidly were the best networkers. Luthans found that all managers engaged in four managerial
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The intelligence cycle is taught to all new analysts stepping into the intelligence community. It is basically a circle moving from one step to the next and then‚ rinse and repeat. According to Keithly (2010)‚ “The process generally divides intelligence efforts into six phases: (1) direction and planning‚ (2) collection‚ (3) processing and exploitation‚ (4) production‚ (5) dissemination and integration‚ and (6) continuous evaluation” (p. 2). It would be important to remember these phases revolve
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Cloud Intelligence. There are 3 new things in the cloud intelligence compared to the old business intelligence. 1. Elasticity Dynamic on-demand pro-visioning of resources. For cloud computing‚ this term has mostly been used in relation to scaling up/down the performance‚ e.g.‚ the number of processing nodes. While this form of elasticity is obviously also relevant for cloud intelligence‚ an even more important type of elasticity is the ability to dynamically bring in new data sources to meet
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cultural intelligence (CQ) becomes a vitally important aptitude and skill‚ (Earley & Mosakowski‚ 2004‚ p.139) especially for today’s leaders who will more than likely encounter someone from another country‚ generation or perhaps occupational background where there are unique behaviors. As Earley and Mosakowski (2004) point out‚ cultural intelligence is related to emotional intelligence‚ but it picks up where emotional intelligence leaves off. A person with high emotional intelligence grasps what
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something that is taken for granted but what exactly is a mind and are humans the only to possess them? Ever since the invention of the computer‚ they have been a mystery‚ even to the smartest of scientists. With the ongoing development of artificial intelligence and high population of computer literate people‚ the possibility of computers with minds must be re-evaluated. The initial question that must be answered before tackling the mind/computer problem is how do you define a mind? This is something
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