The primary advantage of a corporate form of business is that a corporation is a stand-alone entity‚ which means you are not personally liable for the assets and debts of the business. Incorporating protects your personal assets from lawsuits‚ debt collection and other business issues that can arise. The stand-alone entity also separates tax liabilities‚ which is another advantage. This means that the corporation’s taxes are separate from your personal tax liabilities. As a business
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The facts of the case 18 States and the Justice Department brought suit against Microsoft to "eliminate Microsoft’s unlawful practices‚ to avoid recurrence of similar practices and to restore the competitive threat that middleware products posed prior to Microsoft’s unlawful conduct. The procedural history of the case Microsoft grew the government’s attention in 1991‚ because word was that it was abusing its monopoly in the PC operating system market. The government had the FTC conduct an inquiry
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integration between Microsoft and Nokia‚ two market leaders in their own rights‚ may create new opportunities to challenge the market. This acquisition and consolidated case study discusses the acquisition of Nokia by Microsoft. Throughout
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Section 1 Presents some good guidelines for preparing cases in general. This information will help you prepare your group case to present to the class as well. Section 2 Describes specific questions that must be addressed in the course of your group presentation. Section 1 GUIDE TO CASE ANALYSIS Preparing a Case for Class Discussion If this is your first experience with the case method‚ you may have to reorient your study habits. Unlike lecture courses where you can get by without preparing intensively
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You are required to prepare an investigative report on a recent corporate scandal that involved improper accounting practices or any form of financial scandal. Your report must include the following: an overview of the corporation a description of the scandal methodology - explaining the specific accounting impropriety that the company used. an explanation of how the firm managed to hide their accounting improprieties a discussion of who the scandal effected - both inside‚ and outside
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liability of the shareholders. However‚ under certain circumstances the corporate entity may be disregarded. This is also known as piercing the corporate veil and is the most frequent method for holding the shareholders liable for the acts of a corporation. Corporate officers‚ directors and controlling shareholders have a general fiduciary duty of loyalty and care which should govern all their corporate conduct. Unless they breach that duty by gross negligence or acts in bad faith‚ they usually will
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requires healthy‚ ongoing leadership and management‚ planning‚ product and service development‚ marketing and financial management. To carry out these practices in an ideal manner‚ it is important to analyze an organization so as to bring out the pros and cons and henceforth rectify its path for betterment in future. The process of analyzing an organization can be done in different dimensions which may be subjective or objective by using social theories. Microsoft stands aloft on a high pedestal today
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Project Management Organizational Structures Paper Project Management - MGT/437 Introduction At the start of every project‚ it is important to select the organization structure. There are three organizational structures the functional‚ matrix‚ and pure project structures. Each structure has its advantages and disadvantages. All three are different and when it comes to structuring a project the project managers is in charge of deciding which organizational structure is best
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT MICROSOFT: COMPETING ON TALENT CASE STUDY 5/09/07 Microsoft: Competing on Talent CASE STUDY OVERVIEW Microsoft has had a long standing practice of aggressively pursuing and hiring the brightest engineers in the software field. Yet by 1999 Microsoft had matured and many of its talent employees were leaving the company as documented in a Wall Street Journal article “As Microsoft Matures‚ Some Top Talent Chooses to Go Off Line”. The article reported
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Microsoft’s Strategic Initiative Microsoft was cofounded on April 4‚ 1975‚ by childhood friends‚ Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Bill Gates served as the first CEO due to the 60/40 partnership he had with Paul Allen. The first Japanese office‚ ASCII Microsoft‚ opened in August 1977. Microsoft became incorporated in Washington thus becoming Microsoft Inc. in 1981. Microsoft’s many products include Microsoft’s Operating Systems‚ Microsoft Mouse‚ Windows‚ Microsoft Office‚ Internet Explorer‚ and the
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