THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LXI‚ NO. 4 • AUGUST 2006 Corporate Financial Policy and the Value of Cash MICHAEL FAULKENDER and RONG WANG∗ ABSTRACT We examine the cross-sectional variation in the marginal value of corporate cash holdings that arises from differences in corporate financial policy. We begin by providing semi-quantitative predictions for the value of an extra dollar of cash depending upon the likely use of that dollar‚ and derive a set of intuitive hypotheses to test empirically
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Personal values & Corporate Strategy What are personal values? A value is a belief‚ a mission‚ or a philosophy that is meaningful. Whether we are consciously aware of them or not‚ every individual has a core set of personal values. Values can range from the commonplace‚ such as the belief in hard work and punctuality‚ to the more psychological‚ such as self-reliance‚ concern for others‚ and harmony of purpose. When we examine the lives of famous people‚ we often see how personal values guided
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the corporate culture driving this company will reveal how Google has managed to gain such coveted permanence in daily life‚ how it will manage to stay in its place as the top search engine‚ and how it will maintain its relevance in the technology market. One definition of culture from Merriam-Webster Online (2010) is “the set of shared attitudes‚ values‚ goals‚ and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.” That definition requires that both the idealistic vision –values‚ goals
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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ANALYSIS OF USEC Inc.‚ Prepared For: Dr. Doina Chichernea BUAD 6200 SPRING 2011 The University of Toledo APRIL 21‚ 2011 Executive Summary USEC is the world’s leading supplier of enriched Uranium to nuclear power plants. Due to the expiration of long term energy cost savings contracts‚ USEC is examining the possibility of taking on a new project called the American Centrifuge Project. This project will utilize a different process for Uranium enrichment‚ which is the core business process
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Sunny Beach Hotel Evaluation Report Regarding Various Scenarios for Adding a Karaoke Pub in the Sunny Beach Hotel . Dear Sir‚ I have considered the scenarios you suggested to be evaluated from economic point of view regarding the opportunity of accepting the offer of Planet Karaoke Pub to install one of its facilities inside the free space from 2nd floor of Sunny Beach Hotel or to extend the activities of our company with a Karaoke pub located on the beach area administrated by our
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FIN41340: Quantitative Methods in Finance Tutorial: Time Value of Money Lecturer: Email: Dr. Thomas Conlon conlon.thomas@ucd.ie Tutorial Questions 1. What is the present value of a 3-year annuity of $100 if the interest rate is 6%? What is the present value of this annuity‚ if you have to wait two years instead of one year for the first payment? 2. Your hedge fund can lease a supercomputer for the purposes of high frequency trading for $8‚ 000 per year (paid at year end) for six years
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SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS‚ FINANCE & MARKETING CORPORATE FINANCE MID SEMESTER TEST FIRST SEMESTER 2008 – Part-time STUDENT DETAILS (Please Print Clearly) Family Name: ___________________________________________________________ First Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________ Tel. No: (BH) ___________________________________________________________ Student Number: _________________________________________________________
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eBay: How can eBay build its culture in China I. Overview eBay is an online provider of marketplaces for the sale of goods and services. It also provides commerce‚ platforms‚ online payments services and online communications. It offers products and service to individuals and businesses. Established in 1995‚ the company operates in the US and other international markets with employs 16‚400 people. eBay keeps its leadership position in the new industry – C2C (consumer to consumer) (Ou and Banerjee
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