B Corporations Benefit Corporations‚ also known as B corps‚ are a new way to do business in a socially responsible way. Curtis Lum’s article‚ “Legislation would allow for creation of ‘B corps’” published on March 18‚ 2011 in the Pacific Business News‚ talks about the ongoing legislative battle to legally recognize B corps in Hawai’i. An additional article from the PBN‚ published the same day by John Webster‚ “Social responsibility is beginning to take root‚” provides further background to Lum’s
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| |Do not remove this notice. | Revision Question Answers: (d)‚ (a) ➢ Some tips on studying this course Corporations Law is a difficult course. The phenomena giving rise to disputes in the company law context are complex. The corporate law is a mix of statute‚ common law‚ and equity. The typical failure rate of the equivalent course in the Griffith Law School
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12-14-cent-an-hour for your hard work‚ imagine you work with toxic chemical glues‚ paints and solvents everyday. Multinational Corporation is a company that make and sells a product in more than one country. Sometime we called a ¡°transnational corporation ¡±. Multinational Corporation are harmful because of bad working condition‚ low wage and long hours‚ bad future and life. Multinational corporations are harmful because they have bad working conditions. According to Sweatshop Fact sheet‚ workers who work for
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Case 06-65 The Minnetonka Corporation The Minnetonka Corporation‚ which produces and sells to wholesalers a highly successful line of water skis‚ has decided to diversify to stabilize sales throughout the year. The company is considering the production of cross-country skis. After considerable research‚ the cross-country ski line has been developed. Because of the conservative nature of the company management‚ however‚ Minnetonka’s president has decided to introduce only one type of the new
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1. What caused Middleby’s struggles in the 1990s? The following caused the struggles of Middleby Corporation in the 1990’s: a. A period of rapid international and domestic expansion by chain restaurants during the first half of the 1990’s‚ which caused DFE manufacturers and suppliers to increase production capacity domestically and build assets in foreign markets. b. A decline in sales through the second half of the 90’s which was caused by a shift in domestic consumer eating habit towards
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Mengxiong Li English 205OL The Google Corporation Google has developed into the biggest search engine on the Internet‚ and it has already become the most familiar name to everyone nowadays. Most of us must have experienced its impeccable search engine in today’s Internet world. But how much do we know about Google? Google was founded in 1998 by Stanford computer science graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin who named the search engine they built “Google‚” which is a variation on
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ways to produce a specific product do so in abundance and share it through global trade with the world‚ rather than it be extremely difficult and costly for a single state to do it alone. Through foreign direct investment‚ multinational corporations are able to invest in other countries by establishing their own facilities in foreign territories. This is the base of globalization. Through FDI and MNCs companies are locating closer to customers and introducing themselves in the same area as
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2. What advantages are there for the consumer in having public utilities owned and operated as Crown Corporations? Most of the Crown Corporations are designed to meet the public needs‚ especially transportations. Since some of the private sectors are unable to provide those public needs‚ government has to open up some corporations to meet the needs. The price of the Crown Corporations is controlled by the government. The price‚ therefore‚ will be reasonable to meet the basic needs of the consumers
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Characteristics of Corporations Corporations represent an important type of organization. Their unique characteristics offer advantages and disadvantages. Advantages of Corporate Characteristics Separate legal entity: A corporation conducts its affairs with the same rights‚ duties‚ and responsibilities of a person. It takes actions through its agents‚ who are its officers and managers. Limited liability of stockholders: Stockholders are liable for neither corporate acts nor corporate debt
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Corporation by-Laws ARTICLE I Offices 1.1 Registered Office and Registered Agent: The registered office of the corporation shall be the same as listed on the articles of incorporation and at such place as may be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors upon filing of such notices as may be required by law‚ and the registered agent shall have a business office
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