KISII UNIVERSITY ELDORET CAMPUS CORPORATE LEADERSHIP – DBAM 903 TO: DR. KEMBOI AMBROSE. TASK: LEADERSHIP TUWEI TECLAH DCB/10071/14 ………… LEADERSHIP STYLES INTRODUCTION The mystery of why one leader ’s style is more effective than another ’s is unsolved. Leadership style consists of a leader ’s general personality‚ demeanor‚ and communication patterns in guiding others toward reaching organizational or personal goals. Leadership style research
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Netscape Summary August 8‚ 1995 had taken an unexpected turn for Netscape Communications Corporation’s board of directors. Earlier that morning‚ the day before the company’s scheduled initial public offering (IPO)‚ Netscape’s lead underwriters proposed to the board a 100%increase in the original offering price from $14 to $28 per share. Founded in April 1994‚Netscape Communications Corporation provided a comprehensive line of client‚ server‚ and integrated applications software for communications
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Netscape’s IPO Case Memo Question 1 a) Why are investors excited about Netscape? Historically speaking‚ the main reason that made investors so excited about Netscape’s IPO is because the whole market favored venture-backed high-technology stock offerings‚ particularly those related to the internet in 1990s. The market was in hot issue status that the stock prices were increased by an average of 20% on the first day of trading for nearly half of IPOs in
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JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation Summary In July 1999‚ David Neeleman announced his plan to launch a new airline that would bring “humanity back to air travel.” Despite the fact the airline industry had 87 new-airline failures in U.S. over the past 20 years. Neeleman’s plan convinced a group of investors and quickly raised $130 million from venture-capital community. This is the way JetBlue Airways established. With its strong capital base‚ JetBlue acquired a fleet of new Airbus A320 aircraft and focused
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Facebook kept growing rapidly. With the high expectation of investors‚ Facebook finally decided to go public. The “Red Herring” of Facebook stated that its goal was to connect all two billion global Internet users. Basing on our analysis of Facebook’s IPO‚ we would like to give several recommendations on the investment of Facebook. Analysis Facebook generated its revenues mainly through advertising. Advertising accounted for 98% of Facebook’s revenue in 2009‚ 95% in 2010 and 85% in 2011. As a real identity
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Evidence from the credit ratings of Japanese firms Hiroyuki Aman a‚1‚ Pascal Nguyen b‚∗ a School of Business Administration‚ Kwansei Gakuin University‚ Uegahara‚ Nishinomiya‚ Hyogo 662-8501‚ Japan b Faculty of Business‚ University of Technology Sydney‚ P.O. Box 123‚ NSW 2007‚ Sydney‚ Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 15 March 2012 Received in revised form 4 October 2012 Accepted 11 February 2013 Available online xxx Keywords: Credit rating Cost of debt
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Chao-Hsuan Tang Professor McKennon Eng68 winter 2013 23 January 2013 The Rating System Movie‚ film or motion pictures‚ “a sequence of images of moving objects photographed by a camera and providing the optical illusion of continuous movement when projected onto a screen.” (Dictionary.com). A movie is an entertainment that was invented in the mid-19th century and was slowly developed in the early 1900s. At the beginning‚ a movie was just a simple entertainment without any sound‚ but as technology
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Facebook after IPO Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin‚ Andrew McCollum‚ Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. "Facebook was not originally created to be a company‚" CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18‚ 2012. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." Facebook
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definition of a Mature rating according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is "Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence‚ blood and gore‚ sexual content‚ and/or strong language." The ESRB states that the "ratings are designed to provide information about video and computer game content‚ so you can make informed purchase decisions." The ratings consist two parts one is the ratings symbol which
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The unit has not been performing well. Morale and performance are at all-time low. During the past two years‚ the unit’s productivity has fallen by 25 percent‚ absenteeism has risen by 10 percent‚ and job related injuries have risen by 12%. Andrew suspects that the problem have been caused by the misuse of the performance appraisal system on the part of the previous manager‚ Ted Simpson. The workers are rated annually on a five-point graphic rating scale on the following job dimensions: 1. 1
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