Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business By Thomas Malthus (See note at the bottom of the page) Thirty-five years ago‚ Milton Friedman wrote a famous article for The New York Times Magazine whose title aptly summed up its main point: "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits." Friedman had no patience for capitalists who claimed that "business is not concerned ’merely’ with profit but also with promoting desirable ’social’ ends; that business has a ’social conscience’
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NOVEMBER 2014 Rethinking the role of the strategist Michael Birshan‚ Emma Gibbs‚ and Kurt Strovink Strategic planning has been under assault for years. But good strategy is more important than ever. What does that mean for the strategist? Many companies have an executive to guide their strategies. The discipline’s professionalization‚ which began in earnest in the 1980s as it evolved from the chief executive’s domain into a core corporate function‚ prompted the creation of heads of strategy‚ strategicplanning
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www.WileyFinance.com. A MARKETPLACE BOOK McMillan on Options Second Edition Lawrence G. McMillan John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Copyright © 2004 by Lawrence G. McMillan. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ Hoboken‚ New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ scanning‚ or otherwise‚ except as permitted
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Aspin Corporation’s charter authorizes issuance of 2‚000‚000 shares of common stock. Currently‚ 1‚400‚000 shares are outstanding‚ and 100‚000 shares are being held as treasury stock. The firm wishes to raise $48‚000‚000 for a plant expansion. Discussions with its investment bankers indicate that the sale of new common stock will net the firm $60 per share. a. What is the maximum number of new shares of common stock that the firm can sell without receiving further authorization from shareholders
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According to the article‚" Rethinking School Discipline" schools are being urged to reform their discipline policies in effort to attack the school-to-prison pipeline issue. According to Federal data in 2010‚ Black and Hispanic students accounted for 70% of school arrests. Research supports‚ once involved in a suspension; the student is more likely to participate in risky behavior during the autonomous time and show unfavorable academic effects. The common practice of suspending students advocates
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2014 Case 2: GMO: The Value versus Growth Dilemma‚ UVA-F-1328 1. What is value investing? What is its rationale? What are GMO’s main arguments in favor of value investing? Value investing is the art of selecting equities that are currently trading at a lower price than their underlying value‚ but seem likely at some future time be recognized more widely by traders as having been undervalued. Thus‚ for example‚ stocks that are trading at a low P/E ratio relative to similar stocks can be examined for
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numbers relate to stock returns?” By D. Craig Nichols and James M. Wahlen Written by Tra My Nguyen Student ID 24458 Submission date 27 March 2014 Submitted to Mr John Mulenga Financial Statement Analysis Module Review’s layout: I. Main contribution the research paper II. Summary of the findings Research Paper Review The research paper summarized the theory and empirical evidence on the relationship between accounting earnings of a firm and its stock returns. The theory was
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The SAS System 21:44 Wednesday‚ November 26‚ 2014 Obs date refd_1st_lag refd_1st_diff refd_1st_diff_1st_lag refd_1st_diff_2nd_lag 1 30MAR1990 . . . . 2 29JUN1990 . . . . 3 28SEP1990 . . . . 4 31DEC1990 -0.19835 0.42248 . . 5 29MAR1991 0.22413 -0.16683 0.42248 . 6 28JUN1991 0.05730 -0.20439 -0.16683 0.42248 7 30SEP1991 -0.14709 0.20291 -0.20439 -0.16683 8 31DEC1991 0.05581 -0.02545 0.20291 -0.20439 9 31MAR1992 0.03037 -0.13786 -0.02545 0
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to discuss what separates high-growth companies from the rest of their industry. Based on the article‚ the main difference between companies with high growth and other companies is in how they view the five dimensions of strategy. As indicated in the table of the article‚ value innovators view strategy in an entirely differ way than companies using the conventional strategic logic. Value innovation is defined as "the simultaneous pursuit of radically superior value for buyers and lower costs for
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Returns 1 RETURNS Prices and returns Let Pt be the price of an asset at time t. Assuming no dividends the net return is Pt Pt − Pt−1 −1= Rt = Pt−1 Pt−1 The simple gross return is Pt = 1 + Rt Pt−1 Returns 2 Example: If Pt−1 = 2 and Pt = 2.1 then 2.1 Pt 1 + Rt = = = 1.05 and Rt = 0.05 Pt−1 2 Returns 3 The gross return over k periods (t − k to t) is 1 + Rt (k) := Pt−1 Pt−k+1 Pt Pt ··· = Pt−k Pt−1 Pt−2 Pt−k = (1 + Rt ) · · · (1 + Rt−k+1 ) Returns are • scale-free‚ meaning that they do not depend
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