Syllabus 323063 Empirical Methods in Finance‚ September – December 2013 Teachers (* course coordinator) prof. dr. F.C.J.M. de Jong Room K941 email: f.dejong@uvt.nl dr. J.C. Rodriguez* Room K909 email: j.c.rodriguez@uvt.nl dr. O. Spalt Room K940 email: o.g.spalt@uvt.nl Teaching Assistants Tamasz Barko (t.barko@tilburguniversity.edu) Andreas Rapp (a.c.rapp@tilburguniversity.edu) Zorka Simon (z.simon@tilburguniversity.edu) Lectures: (2 lectures a week) According to the study guide
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STRATEGIC EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHINESE LUXURY HOTELS Organizations’ success is relying on the critical value of human resources. Competitive advantage can be earned by giving more effective utilisation of human resources in organizational context (Guest‚ 1987). When the organisation becomes a success‚ it will spring from organisational capabilities such as speed‚ agility‚ employee competence and learning capacity but it is an issue to achieve these organisational capabilities (Leonard-Barton
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Recruitment of a Star In the event that you were Stephen Conner‚ who would you contract‚ and why? There were four hopefuls for the Semiconductor position offered by Stephen Conner. They are David Hughes‚ Seth Horkum‚ Sonia Meetha and Gerald Baum. Of the four my choice would be Seth Horkum. He displayed quite a few positive attributes‚ which made him my first choice‚ for example‚ he had related knowledge with the Power chip organization‚ while employed at RSH)‚ he displayed loyalty to a firm
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“Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded upon crumbles‚ they‚ too‚ fade away” - Milan Kundera. Even something as strong as love can crumble‚ and such was the case with the Roman Empire. The Romans forged a powerful empire that could have been just as strong as the power of love. It all began in 753 BCE when Rome was first founded on the Italian peninsula. The humble village on the palatine grew and grew‚ until eventually it became a Republic in 509 BCE‚ “Rome’s rise to power came with
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“Don’t be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.” The meaning of this quote is that true courage consists of standing up for one’s beliefs and principles‚ even in the face of unfavorable odds. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird the characters Atticus Finch‚ Jeremy Atticus Finch (Jem)‚ and Jean Louise Finch (Scout) have shown the same true courage. They stood up for what they believed in even when the entire town was against them. One character from To Kill
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1.1 Compare and contrast different organisational structures and culture Organizational structures Organizational structure is a system used to define a hierarchy within an organization. It identifies each job‚ its function and where it reports to within the organization. (Lucy Friend‚ 2009) There are several organizational structures; however‚ the type of structure in an organization depends on aim‚ size of the business‚ and industry. Carefully chosen structures will improve the communication
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then-common fountain pens could not do. In the period between 1904 and 1946‚ particularly alternatives or improvements to the fountain pen were invented. Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907‚ a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910‚ and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916. In these inventions‚ the ink was placed in a thin tube whose end was blocked by a tiny ball‚ held so that it could not slip into
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Apple inc. The role of entrepreneurial leadership in the success of entrepreneurs: A case study of Steve Jobs—Apple Inc. Title The title of this research paper is “The Role of Entrepreneurial Leadership in the success of Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Steve Jobs- Apple Inc.” Introduction In leadership‚ the area of entrepreneurship has been of foremost interest that has been theorized and researched as well as it is still in a formative phase
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1. Rosenburg N‚ Jolicoeur P: Retroviral pathogenesis. In In Retroviruses. Edited by Coffin JM‚ Hughes SH‚ Varmus HE. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 1997::475-586. 2. Nowinski RC‚ Hays EF: Oncogenicity of AKR endogenous leukemia viruses. J Virol 1978‚ 27:13-18. PubMed Abstract | PubMed Central Full Text 3. Cloyd MW‚ Hartley JW‚ Rowe WP: Lymphomagenicity of recombinant mink cell focus-inducing murine leukemia viruses. J Exp Med 1980‚ 151:542-552. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text 4
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Childhood Financial Socialization and Young Adults’ Financial Management Jinhee Kim and Swarn Chatterjee The current study investigates the association between childhood financial socialization and financial practices and asset choices of young adults‚ using a nationally representative dataset. Results revealed that childhood financial socialization experiences were positively associated with the beneficial financial practices and financial asset ownership of respondents in young adulthood. Financial
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