decision‚ because they would benefit the long-term interests of company and maximize the shareholders interests. However‚ negative institutional shareholders who only pursue immediate interests would have bad effect on company’s development. In the case study‚ Hermes desired to intervene in Total’s activities of which invest in Burma. Total is giant French oil company with government support‚ but it had been claimed CSR problems and was laggard of reputation compared with the peers. Although Total has
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Case Summary The case discusses about one of the worst disasters to strike the city of Chicago in the form of a heat wave that swept across the Great Plains and the Mid West in July 1995. It represented the affect of the disaster and also the problems faced by the healthcare and public protection authorities in coping up with the situation during and after the disaster. The number of lives lost was estimated to be 522 and 733‚ count given by two sources. The heat wave struck Chicago on 11 July and
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Shinji Kubo lives with his mother‚ a pearl diver‚ and his younger brother‚ Hiroshi. He and his mother support the family because Shinji’s father had died in World War II after the fishing boat he was on was strafed by an American bomber. However‚ the family lives a somewhat peaceful life and Shinji is content to be a fisherman along with his master‚ Jukichi Oyama‚ and another apprentice‚ Ryuji. Things change when Terukichi Miyata‚ after the death of his son‚ decides to bring back the daughter he
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1. A 1.08 x 103 kg car uniformly accelerates for 12.0s from rest. During this time the car travels 132 m north. What is the net force acting on the car during this acceleration 2. A net force of 12 N is exerted on and to cause it to accelerate at a rate of 0.03 m/s2. Determine the mass of the encyclopedia. HYPERLINK http//fc.codmanacademy.org/branches/physicsofdriving2/pushingbuses.jpg INCLUDEPICTURE http//fc.codmanacademy.org/branches/physicsofdriving2/images/pagemaster/pushingbuses
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Leading lines are present in the drawing as the drawing of the road is the first part of the drawing that catches the audience’s eyes due to it being smooth. It is smooth as contour lines aren’t present there‚ therefore the smooth surface contrasts against the rest of the parts of the drawing in the foreground and middle ground. Then through the long road‚ the audience’s eyes are directed towards the trees‚ then towards what appears to be a body of water. Then the leading line continues to the buildings
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Why Do People Buy Hybrid Cars? Consumers are buying increasing numbers of environmentally friendly cars. Increasingly‚ many of these environmentally conscious consumers choose to purchase petrol-electric hybrid vehicles. In this category of “greener-cars”‚ Toyota’s Prius model is reported to be the market leader. In 2009-10‚ it was the best-selling car in Japan‚ an important leading market for automobile trends (Mick 2010). Sales of the Prius keep growing despite well-publicised quality and
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US ARMY SIGNAL CENTER AND FORT GORDON PRINCIPLES OF RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION (SC:25C) EDITION DATE: FEBRUARY 2005 PRINCIPLES OF RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION Subcourse Number SS0130 EDITION B United States Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon Fort Gordon‚ Georgia 30905-5000 10 Credit Hours Edition Date: February 2005 SUBCOURSE OVERVIEW This subcourse is designed to teach the principles of radio wave propagation. The prerequisite for this subcourse is that you
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Leading Change Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on September 13‚ 2014‚ for Samone Norsworthy’s Contemporary Leadership Challenges class. Leading Change I found an article on Forbes.com that is about a leader that led a successful change to his company and it talks about what he felt was key in doing this. The article is about a New Zealand based fertilizer company Ballance Agri-Nutrients and its executive Greg Delaney. Delaney wanted to make
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Hybrid threat adaptation is the ability to find a way to defeat or at a minimum negate the effectiveness of the hybrid threat. This adaptation process can occur in one of two ways‚ it can occur as a natural adaptation or as a directed adaptation. A natural adaptation occurs when the government or group of personnel facing the hybrid threat have the ability to adapt their equipment‚ personnel‚ or TTPs proactively to the threat using their political‚ economic‚ military or informational capabilities
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Leading with Vision ORG 300 – Applying Leadership Principles Colorado State University – Global Campus June 23‚ 2013 Leading with Vision Having vision and goal setting are very important key factors in leadership. An organization cannot be successful with a vision for its future. Clark (2004) states‚ “Good
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