Internet Trends March 18‚ 2008 mary.meeker@ms.com / david.joseph@ms.com / anant.thaker@ms.com Morgan Stanley is currently acting as a financial advisor to Microsoft Corp. ("Microsoft") in relation to their proposed offer to acquire Yahoo! Inc. ("Yahoo!")‚ as announced on February 1‚ 2008. The proposed offer is subject to definitive documentation‚ due diligence‚ the consent of Yahoo! shareholders‚ required regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. This report and the information
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Question 1 At the time Cynthia Cooper discovered the accounting fraud‚ WorldCom did not have a whistle-blower hotline process in place. Instead‚ Cynthia took on significant risks when she stepped over Scott Sullivan’s head and notified the audit committee chairman of her findings. Discuss the key criteria for the operation of an effective corporate whistle-blower hotline. Be sure to highlight potential pitfalls that should be avoided and reference professional codes‚ legislation and academic
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Michael Stein (the discussant at the Joint Symposium)‚ and two anonymous referees for their constructive comments and suggestions which lead to a sunstantial improvement of the paper. Jong-Hag Choi gratefully acknowledges financial support from Samil PWC Research Fellowship. Jeong-Bon Kim acknowledges partial financial support for this research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada via the Canada Research Chair program. The usual disclaimer applies. Correspondence: Jeong-Bon
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weaknesses of Lonza‚ the organisation outlined in the case study. Finally‚ I will present how I believe Lonza can develop‚ implement and embed radical and incremental innovation within its business so that it‚ like many organisations as described by PwC‚ can achieve growth. “Innovation is driven by the ability to see connections‚ to spot opportunities and to take advantage of them” according to Tidd & Bessant (2009). However the challenge is not simply identifying opportunities‚ but making these
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jon24565_ch05.qxd 11/2/05 1:22 PM Page 138 C H A P T E R 5 Business Ethics and the Legal Environment of Business Learning Objectives After studying this chapter you should be able to: 1. Understand the relationship between ethics and the law and appreciate why it is important to behave ethically. 2. Differentiate between the claims of the different stakeholder groups affected by a company’s actions. 3. Identify the four main sources of business ethics‚ and describe
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Contents INTRODUCTION Airlines had suffered a huge impact after the crisis in 2008‚ but the long term perspectives are optimistic. Air traffic has doubled in the last 15 years and will double in the next 15 years. There will be a lot of changes in the business model explained in a summarized way by the PEST analysis‚ but the main point is that people demand for flying will persist and increase in the next years. Due to a reduction on ticket prices and a simultaneous economic power increase
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Abstract This paper seeks to examine the ways in which the increased presence of the Internet has changed the advertising industry in the United States in recent years. Some different types of internet advertising methods will be presented‚ as well as how some consumers view these types of advertising and their overall effectiveness. Many companies today take advantage of the online technologies that are available‚ and this has caused a great change in advertising platforms and messages. This
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( Employability Skills for Indian Mobile Phones Telecom Sector First Author: Rishi Kapal‚ BE‚ LLB‚ PGPM (Vice President-Sony Mobile Communications‚ India) Abstract It may not known to many that after Alexander Graham bell invented the first telephone‚ Motorola’s Martin Cooper is understood to have created the first mobile phone‚ followed by IBM-Bellsouth making the first Smartphone. However‚ in the present day‚ not much is heard about the companies that pioneered the mobile and Smartphones
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2003. GDP per capita nearly tripled since 2002‚ from $3‚500 to $10‚444. 5. Turkey is one of the world’s biggest markets with a population of 74 million and a labour force of 27 million. Half of the population is below the age of 30. Turkey has the highest youth population and 4th largest labour force compared to EU-27 countries. 6. The Economist has recently coined the term ‘CIVETS’ (Columbia‚ Indonesia‚ Vietnam‚ Egypt‚ Turkey and South Africa)‚ to describe six emerging‚ often overlooked
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Issues December 16‚ 2008: Satyam board approved a 51% stake acquisition of Maytas Infra‚ a listed company in the Bombay Stock Exchange for US$1.3 billion and 100% stake in unlisted firm Maytas Properties for US$300 million. Both of these firms were in the construction and real estate business and Satyam’s chairman‚ Ramalinga Raju family held a 36% stake in Mayta’s Infra and 35% stake in Maytas Properties. Implication: The deal was seen as a way of diverting cash from Satyam’s shareholder to Satyam’s
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