Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project 1. Executive Summary “Nobody knows anything”. This famous line coined by William Goldman‚ a well known Hollywood screenwriter‚ simply but honestly sums up the movie industry. Numerous academic studies have tried to gauge the determinants of movie success but have yet failed to deliver a satisfying answer. Ravid A. (1999) for example finds that neither stars nor big budgets contribute to profitability of a movie. This case study investigates the case of buying
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GUIDE TO SELECTING AN IMPLEMENTING PARTNER. PRESENTED BY: CHINEDU O. AGORSON‚ Bsc‚ ACA‚ ACIB‚CISA‚CCNA cagorson@yahoo.com‚ cagorson@gmail.com 1. INTRODUCTION: This piece is an executive summary of the processes and steps required for selecting a winning Implementing Partner for development work. It is the
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[Type the company name] | Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project | Advanced Corporate Finance Case Analysis I | ZUBOV‚Vasily 1072582 LI‚Xinyuan 05403613 WU‚Yun 08426959 LU‚Yuan 08426975 9/21/2009 | Executive summary In 1992‚ an unusual business idea came into the eye of David A. Davis‚ a movie industry analyst in Los Angeles. The idea
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Proponents of this venture believe that Arundel should be able to make money by buying options to movie sequel rights as a portfolio of rights rather than on a film-by-film basis because they are diversifying their risk by spreading their options across multiple projects rather than a single movie. Arundel avoids trying to forecast how well the movie will do by purchasing the options to a group of movies ahead of time‚ thus they minimize the risk of moviegoers preferences changing. Past performances
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Domestic Partner Benefits COMM/215 Employers worldwide are beginning to embrace the idea of a domestic partner employee by reorganizing their benefit packages to include coverage for domestic partners in order to stay competitive and retain current employees. Most often these benefits are an extension of the same ones offered to married employees. The only difference being that a marriage is not a requirement. Many are confused by what exactly a domestic partner is and
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Spouse-Partner Recruitment The literature review highlights the importance of involving spouses in the recruitment process. Spousal and family contentment was cited several times as one of the main determinants for physician recruitment and retention. These spouses often have their own career path outside of healthcare‚ which they might find difficult to continue in a rural community. Therefore‚ rural hospital managers should inquire about the preferences of these individuals and try to find solutions
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BACKGROUND & PROPOSAL In April of 1992‚ a movie industry analyst name Mr. David Davis of Paul Kegan Associates‚ Inc. was approached with an interesting and fresh business idea. The proposal was to create a new investment group‚ Arundel Partners‚ that would exist solely for the purpose of purchasing sequel rights to motion pictures produced by major U.S. movie studios. The proposal was unusual in that studios rarely sold rights to sequels prior to 1992‚ and interesting in the sense that it did
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An ideal husband would be a person who is an ideal companion.Does it appear that I am running around in circles?I hope it does not.Through the traditional role of a husband is different from that of a wife‚the qualities of a person are not sex-oriented‚they are person-oriented.What do I want in the person I marry?My list may be a long one but it is sound in its priorities.I want the man I choose as a husband to be generous‚to have a sense of humor and to be trusting and trustworthly.I would like
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A public–private partnership (PPP) is a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. These schemes are sometimes referred to as PPP‚ P3 or P3. PPP involves a contract between a public sector authority and a private party‚ in which the private party provides a public service or project and assumes substantial financial‚ technical and operational risk in the project. In some types of PPP‚ the
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Explain what is meant by working in partnership with parents. Partnership with parents means working together with a child’s parent to help support their child’s learning‚ this would mean identifying any needs and what can be done to meet those needs. It’s also to give parents advice and guidance to help them learn how to best support their child’s education. Having a positive partnership with parents can help increase a child’s self-esteem‚ their sense of self-worth
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