Corporate Restructuring: Corporate restructuring is one of the most complex and fundamental phenomena that management confronts. Each company has two opposite strategies from which to choose: to diversify or to refocus on its core business. While diversifying represents the expansion of corporate activities‚ refocus characterizes a concentration on its core business. From this perspective‚ corporate restructuring is reduction in diversification. Corporate restructuring is an episodic exercise‚
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We’ve seen that the financial manager acts in the best interests of the stockholders by taking actions that increase the value of the stock. However‚ in large corporations ownership can be spread over a huge number of stockholders. This dispersion of ownership arguably means that management effectively controls the firm. In this case‚ will management necessarily act in the best interests of the stockholders? Put another way‚ might not management pursue its own goals at the stockholders’ expense?
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Ontario K1N 6N5‚ and 1 HEC Montreal‚ 3000 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road‚ Montreal‚ Quebec H3T 2A7‚ Canada Email: benamar@telfer.uottawa.ca‚ claude.francoeur@hec.ca‚ taieb.2.hafsi@hec.ca‚ real.labelle@hec.ca This study investigates the joint effect of corporate ownership and board of directors’ diversity configurations on the success of strategic merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions. Board diversity is defined as the extent to which its demographic diversity as measured by the culture‚ nationality‚ gender
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ACCG927 CURRENT ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING & Corporate Governance Week 1 Introduction and Overview of Accounting Theories 1 Introduction • • • • • • • • • • About the unit Teaching and learning strategy Assessments In-class essays Essay writing workshop Research essay Turnitin requirements Oral team presentation Required readings Importance of written answers each week 2 The Nature of Accounting & Corporate Governance Theory • What is a theory? Kerlinger‚ 1964: "A set of interrelated
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Six Components of a Great Corporate Culture by John Coleman | 3:00 PM May 6‚ 2013 The benefits of a strong corporate culture are both intuitive and supported by social science. According to James L. Heskett (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/what_great_companies_know_abou.html) ‚ culture “can account for 20-30% of the differential in corporate performance when compared with ‘culturally unremarkable’ competitors.” And HBR writers have offered advice on navigating different geographic cultures
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Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Ashwin Kaja Eric Werker Working Paper 09-108 Copyright © 2009 by Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Ashwin Kaja Eric Werker* Abstract We test for evidence of corporate misgovernance
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Corporate Corruption In today ’s world it is all too prevalent to see more and more people hungry to gain success at an ever-increasing rate. Modern culture can and indeed is labelled greedy ’ and thoughtless ’. Through my relatively short time spent in business‚ I have encountered many of these types of people. But who are they hungry for? Who benefits from their thoughtlessness‚ and why do they do what they do? More importantly‚ who is to blame when things don ’t go according to plan? These
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Exploring Corporate Strategy CLASSIC CASE STUDIES Nokia: The Consumer Electronics Business Martin Lindell and Leif Melin The case describes the entry of the Finnish company‚ Nokia‚ into the consumer electronics market – resulting in a significant reorientation of the company. It describes the internationalisation of the Nokia Group from a Finnish company‚ to a Nordic company‚ to a European company and finally to a global player in world markets. The case raises three main questions. Why and how
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Corporate Governance The system of rules‚ practices and processes by which a company is directed and controlled. Corporate governance essentially involves balancing the interests of the many stakeholders in a company - these include its shareholders‚ management‚ customers‚ suppliers‚ financiers‚ government and the community. Since corporate governance also provides the framework for attaining a company’s objectives. Corporate governance refers to the structures and processes for the direction
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answer to explain the U.S. financial system to DellaTorre. a. Why is corporate finance important to all managers? Corporate Finance is important to all managers because they are the ones who have to determine‚ assess‚ and mitigate/prevent risks that are financial in nature to the business. Every decision they make is affected by their ability to translate financial calculations into risks for the company. Without corporate finance‚ those managers will not be able to assist the company in garnering
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