THE MACROECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IN THE OIL AND GAS EQUIPMENT SERVICE INDUSTRY We explore how the macroeconomic fluctuation can really affect the performance of a company. We analyze the companies of the oil and gas equipment service industry: FMC Technologies‚ NOV‚ and Schlumberger. We use the MUST Analysis in order to discover what were the macroeconomic variables that really affects our companies’ performance‚ the magnitude‚ and the direction of the variables with the performance. The data sources
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MEMO TO THE CEO Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use By Orit Gadiesh and Hugh MacArthur Harvard Business Press Boston‚ Massachusetts ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-5136-5 10080 Publisher’s Note: Memo to the CEO Authored by leading experts and examining issues of special urgency‚ the books in the Memo to the CEO series are tailored for today’s time-starved executives. Concise‚ focused‚ and solutions-oriented‚ each book explores a critical management challenge and offers authoritative
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Organizational Field Study: [pic] Team Old School: Stephanie de Souza‚ Christopher Mauro‚ Jeff Reinman‚ and David Stewart March 11‚ 2009 Professor Joan Winn INTRODUCTION Background Whole Foods Market is a natural grocery store chain with 290 stores throughout the United States‚ Canada‚ and the United Kingdom. Founded in Austin‚ Texas in 1980‚ Whole Foods has consistently ranked in Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Best Companies to Work For‚ placing 22nd on the 2009 list. The company
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March 2012 CORPORATE PYRAMIDS IN THE ISRAELI ECONOMY: PROBLEMS AND POLICIES A Report Prepared for the Committee on Increasing Competitiveness in the Economy Lucian Bebchuk * * William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law‚ Economics‚ and Finance‚ Director of the Program on Corporate Governance‚ and Director of the Program on Institutional Investors‚ Harvard Law School. I also serve as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Fellow of
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CONTENTS MISSION STATEMENT EVALUATION 5 VISION STATEMENT EVALUATION (based on “building your company’s vision‚ published in Harvard Business Review) 5 1. MACRO-ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS AND INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS 8 Porter’s Five Forces 8 1. Threat of new Entrants: 8 2. Bargaining power of suppliers 10 3. Bargaining Power of Buyers 11 4. Threat of Substitutes: 12 5. Determinants of Rivalry among Existing Firms: 14 Overall Industry Rating: 15 SUMMARY OF PORTER’S 5 FORCES ANALYSIS:
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REAL OPTIONS: STATE OF THE PRACTICE by Alex Triantis‚ University of Maryland‚ and Adam Borison‚ Applied Decision Analysis/ PricewaterhouseCoopers1 n an economic environment characterized by rapid change‚ great uncertainty‚ and the need for flexibility‚ it has become increasingly important for corporate managers to use investment evaluation tools and processes that properly account for both uncertainty and the company’s ability to react to new information. Real options has emerged as an approach
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SUMMER TRAINING REPORT SUBMITTED TOWARDS THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF POST GRADUATE DEGREE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDY OF MARKETING PROCESS OF INSTRUMENTATION LIMITED | SUBMITTED BY: Shubhankar Singhvi MBA-IB (2012-2014) Roll No. : _________________ INDUSTRY GUIDE FACULTY GUIDE (Mr. Basant Kumar Baruah) Dr Nidhi Bhatia Senior Personnel Officer Instrumentation Limited‚Kota AMITY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL‚ NOIDA AMITY UNIVERSITY
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION This chapter is consists the information related to a study of the relationship between corporate governance and financial institution’s performance in Malaysia. 1.1 Background of Study When Asian Financial Crisis happened in 1997‚ the term of corporate governance is introduced‚ public start to concerns on the weaknesses of Malaysia corporate governance practice (Azira Hanani & Siti‚ 2007). ‘Corporate Governance’ is the system of rules‚ practices and processes which
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Research in International Business and Finance 29 (2013) 14–34 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Research in International Business and Finance j o ur na l h om ep ag e: w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / r i b a f Does good governance matter to debtholders? 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
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David Collis Toby Stuart Troy Smith Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (A) In late October 2002‚ Sir John Sunderland‚ chairman and CEO of Cadbury Schweppes‚ contemplated the future of his global confectionery and beverage company. Over the previous decade‚ the company had made several acquisitions to complement its portfolio of chocolate‚ soft drinks‚ sugar confectionery (candy)‚ and gum. Now it was considering a bid for Adams‚ the number two player in the worldwide gum
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