feasibility of Spain as a possible location for global operations. An analysis of the external environment of Spain and a SWOT analysis of our organization are the main contents of the report attached. Recommendations have been suggested on the feasibility of the expansion. Executive Summary This report encompasses the feasibility of expanding operations to Spain. The analysis was separated into a PEST and SWOT analysis. The political and legal element resulted in positivity due to
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Corporate Governance Analysis Microsoft The CEO: Steven Anthony Ballmer has been the CEO of Microsoft since January 2000. He graduated from Detroit Country Day School‚ Michigan. He later joined Harvard University‚ where he studied Math and Economics. During that time‚ he lived down the hall from Bill Gates‚ Microsoft’s founder and Chairman of the Board. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11‚ 1980 as the first business manager and the 30th employee. His first salary was $50‚000 including 8% of
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Deadline extended! Microsoft CSR Case Study Competition 2011 Have you heard of corporate social responsibility? Are you passionate about not only doing business but also dong good at the same time? Do you believe that being socially responsible and sustainable is not only the good way but the right way to go? Here is the platform for you to express your ideas and challenge your mind. The deadline for signing up is extended to 23rd March The deadline for report submission is extended to 27th
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Moving from operational planning to strategic planning requires a common understanding of core aims to be established first. • There are a wide range of methods which can be used together to build a strategic plan (see section on strategic analysis). Without a strategic rationale to guide the national use of technology in education‚ ICT policy is only operational. Policy becomes techno-centric‚ promoting the purchase of equipment or the training of teachers without providing a strong educational
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Corporate strategy Corporate strategy • A diversified company has two levels of gy strategy: – Business unit (or competitive) strategy – Corporate (or companywide) strategy Corporate (or companywide) strategy • Makes the corporate whole add up to more than the sum of its business unit parts. sum of its business unit parts • H t How to enter a new industry t i d t – Acquisitions‚ joint ventures and startups A sober picture A sober picture • The short‐term stock price reaction to merger
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On the morning of April 15‚ 1912‚ the sinking of the Titanic the previous night shocked the world. The year had dawned bright with promise and the maiden voyage of the Titanic was a symbol of the advances mankind had made in the last few years. The ship was considered to have been so well constructed it was believed she could sustain any amount of damage and still remain afloat. Late on the night of April 14‚ 1912‚ the sinking of the Titanic proved this idea wrong in a horribly tragic way. The
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program from the office application set that is used to build‚ change‚ format‚ copy‚ print and file text documents. Different types of word-processing are used for creating and filing documents. Some of these softwares are Microsoft Office Word 97‚ Microsoft Office Word 2003‚ Microsoft Office Word 2007‚ and Corel WordPerfect. Word processing program is used to create and open previously saved documents. It allows you to rename these documents as well as work on multiple documents at the same time. It
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2012 Financial Analysis Report Prepared for Microsoft Corporation By Yifei Fu October 9‚ 2012 This report provides information about the operating results and performance of the Microsoft Corporation in the fiscal year of 2012. According to their financial statement‚ there are some concerns listed below that people should pay attention to: 1. Across the entire financial statement‚ there are some significant changes in income statement. Compared with the 2011 fiscal year‚ 2012 net
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INTRODUCTION Microsoft is to acquire Nokia ’s mobile phone arm in a swansong deal for the software giant ’s long-serving chief executive‚ Steve Ballmer‚ delivering Europe ’s last big handset maker into American ownership. For €5.44bn (£4.6bn)‚ Nokia is casting off the business that once represented Finland ’s most important export‚ in a deal that will result in 32‚000 staff transferring to Microsoft. Overtaken in the smartphone arena by Apple and Samsung‚ Nokia ’s board agreed to end the company
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Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy The case at hand is primarily to discuss the financial reporting strategy adopted by Microsoft Inc. for the period 1996-1999 and the subsequent litigation that arose out of the accounting practice followed by Microsoft. Microsoft’s primary operations has been developing and manufacturing of the software products. As a company‚ it has shown a very stable growth in terms of revenues and profits‚ thus enabling better than industry share price increase over
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