4. Imagine you are Horatio. He has been asked to give an account of his and Hamlet’s actions by the new king‚ Fortinbras. What would he say? Sir Fortinbras‚ friends‚ noble audience lend me your ears; I come to speak in late Prince Hamlet’s death. Let me deliver a tale to th’ yet-unknowing world to Explain the happenings behind this bloodbath that You from the Polack wars and you from England Have since so arrive upon. Of late‚ the kingdom of Denmark was one of violent and unnatural acts
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bravely under Confederate General Robert E. Lee. At the start of the whole thing we were quite confident in our ability to win due to the astounding victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville‚ Virginia‚ in May 1863. We all felt extremely good in the direction this was heading‚ as General Lee only intended to collect supplies from Pennsylvania farmland. He also believed that we needed to leave poor Virginia alone‚ as the majority of the fighting had occurred there already. Us Confederates only wanted to
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Lydia Butler Board of Directors Apple A. Board of Directors 1. William V. Campbell Chairman Intuit‚ Inc. (external) 1983 Tim Cook CEO Apple (internal) 2011 Millard S. Drexler Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J. Crew (external) 1999 Albert Gore‚ Jr. Former Vice President of the United States (external) 2003 Andrea Jung Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Avon Products‚ Inc. (external) 2008 Arthur D. Levinson‚ Ph.D. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Genentech
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1. We recognized a pre-tax charge of $40.9 billion in 2010 and a pre-tax credit of $3.7 billion in 2011 as a result of the Incident. The total amounts that will ultimately be paid by BP in relation to all obligations relating to the Incident are subject to significant uncertainty and the ultimate exposure and cost to BP will be dependent on many factors. Furthermore‚ the amount of claims that become payable by BP‚ the amount of fines ultimately levied on BP (including any potential determination
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role of a non-executive director as ‘custodian of the governance process.’ A non-executive director (NED) sits on the board of company just as a normal executive director would do so‚ however a non-executive director does not form part of the executive management team of the company. Essentially they are not an employee of the company or affiliated in any way other than their role as an independent NED. The distinction between a non-executive director and an executive director is illustrated
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The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey∗ Ren´e B. Adams‚† Benjamin E. Hermalin‚‡ and Michael S. Weisbach§ e April ‚ Abstract This paper is a survey of the literature on boards of directors‚ with an emphasis on research done subsequent to the Hermalin and Weisbach (2003) survey. The two questions most asked about boards are what determines their makeup and what determines their actions? These questions are fundamentally intertwined‚ which
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1. Topic: Effective Board of Directors 2. Six Steps to Building an Effective Board By:Bruce R. Evans 3. Summary: The author Bruce R. Evans is a managing partner in Summit Partners’ Boston office. He has also been a member of more than 25 boards‚ which include 10 public company boards. He claims that when a Board is working effectively it is a big part of the company’s success. However‚ an ineffective board can be distracting and cause liabilities for the company. Through his experiences
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COMPANY PROFILE Costco Wholesale Corporation REFERENCE CODE: 7EE0FB19-6C6E-4865-AFD1-D601275DC508 PUBLICATION DATE: 30 Aug 2012 www.marketline.com COPYRIGHT MARKETLINE. THIS CONTENT IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED OR DISTRIBUTED. Costco Wholesale Corporation TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Overview..............................................................................................3 Key Facts.................................................
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2. Introduction BP is one of the largest multinational corporations in the world. According to CNN (2011)‚ BP is the fourth largest multinational corporation in the world and employs over 80‚000 people and making annual revenue of $392 Billion. BP has massive influence on the global economic climate and has the operation capacity to affect stakeholders. This essay will analyse BP’S current stance using Porters five forces. It will also establish who are the most important stakeholders and suggest
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Board of Directors Apple’s Board of Directors (BOD) is composed of seven members. Out of the seven directors‚ six of them are males; Steve Jobs age 54‚ William Campbell age 69‚ Arthur Levinson Ph.D. age 60‚ Ronald Sugar age 61‚ Millard Drexler age 65‚ and former vice president Albert Gore Jr. age 62 and one is a female Andrea Jung age 51. The average age for the board is 60 years old. The members of the board bring into Apple a vast experience from retailing‚ governmental‚ engineering and technological
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