commission and management fee. B is higher than A and C. This is because B requires paying load or commission at 5% to purchase. Besides‚ B has a high percentage management fee. 2. Which alternative should the top management of Stuart & Co. want Philip to recommend to his client? Is the company’s control system designed to ensure that choice? (The case mentions several measures used to reward the branch managers). I think alternative B is what the top management wants because it will bring the
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Joseph Taj Ahn Nyguyen J Yu Fin 423 Haddad Nov 18‚ 2014 Philip Morris Inc.: Seven Up Acquisition (A) This case discusses Philip Morris Inc. intentions to acquire the Seven-up Company in an effort to diversify their consumer goods. The decision has already been made‚ however they must decide on an offer price to buy out the company. This report will discuss PM’s acquisition strategy and its appropriateness‚ along with whether or not 7up fits the criteria of PM’s strategy. The report will further
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The two rather radical conspiracy theories‚ the first states that although the government knew in advance about the attacks‚ it did not act to deter them and still let them get carried out. The second‚ as its name indicates‚ suggests that elements within the American government purposefully engineered and carried them out as part of an inside job. Both ‘letting it happen on purpose’ and ‘making it happen on purpose’ theories are divisive topic of debate which relies on the representation of democracy
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In 1792 radicals took control of the Assembly and created a second constitution. This extends voting rights to all male citizens‚ not just property owners. In 1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are both put and trial and executed by guillotine. The National
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RADICAL FEMINISM: THE KISS OF DEATH By Marsha West February 9‚ 2007 NewsWithViews.com Daughters and granddaughters of the women who started the sexual revolution of the 60s have tossed aside what remained of sexual taboos. Gloria Steinam must be tickled pink. Just check out what’s going on with the younger generation and you’ll get the picture. Only the picture is not a pretty one. The "great strides" made by the feminist movement have been lost on young celebrities. Britney Spears has
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and the women’s suffrage movement in North America. This issue has gained much attention in the world of social sciences‚ and scientists from all branches (of social science) have conducted numerous studies to deepen their understanding of it. Philip Zimbardo is a world-renown social psychologist who has made many significant contributions to his field‚ as well as with the issue of prejudice and discrimination. He was born on March 23‚ 1933 in New York City to Sicilian parents. He was the first
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imitate for competitors. There exists a strong relation between organizational learning and innovation and the innovation is important as a source of competitive advantage. One of the variables of
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1B. Title of the Research Proposal “The influence of coloured in-store lighting on the mood and purchase behaviour of a consumer – a case of Jack & Jones stores” 1C. Summary of the research proposal Today‚ in many households and shopping environments coloured lighting is present. People change the colour of their home environment to the mood where they are in at that specific moment. Shop-owners also are trying to find new ways to ‘persuade’ their customers. Different colours in shops (retail)
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theories that try to help us understand and explain why crime occurs. In their article‚ Lynch and Groves advocate the approach known as radical criminology. Radical criminologists believe crime is linked to a society’s political and economic conditions especially in capitalist cultures like the United States (p. 372). Deriving their position from Marx‚ radicals believe that four conditions relate to occurrence of crime: a) capitalism is based on inequalities between those who own and those who
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1. The previous reading on Islam from the Bilhartz textbook did connect to the the web article and the web video regarding Sufism and Radical Islam. Bilhartz explained that the term "Sufism" derived from ascetics who " adopted the custom of wearing austere garments made of suuf‚ the Arabic word for wool" (2006‚ p. 117). The practice of wearing wool garments was to reject worldly clothing. This may explain the origin of the word Sufi‚ which is the Arabic term for "mystic" and is used to describe the
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