Wall Street Journal Article Review #2 Microsoft Abandons ‘Stack Ranking’ Employees Article by Authors‚ Shira Ovide and Rachel Feintzeig Abstract In the article “Microsoft Abandons ‘Stack Ranking’ Employees”. Shira Ovide and Rachel Feintzeig discuss how getting rid of such a system will benefit the company. The authors cite several sources. They don’t go into too deep of detail on why CEO Mr. Ballmer decided to implement the change‚ only that before he leaves the company for good he wanted
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WSJ/Fortune Essay 2 In a Wall Street Journal article titled “Greed is for Wimps”‚ the writer talks about how the new generation‚ Generation Y‚ is becoming more socially aware. According to the article‚ this new generation of professionals wants to give back to the community. Apparently it’s not enough to be successful and make all the money in the world. These young professionals are no longer satisfied with driving expensive cars and wearing name brand clothes. An interview with one such young
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Occupy Wall Street Movement Melissa Parks Professor Galloway Business Ethics 11/2/12 The Occupy Wall Street Movement began on Sept. 17‚ 2011‚ when a diffuse group of activists began a loosely organized protest called Occupy Wall Street‚ camping out in Zuccotti Park‚ a privately owned park in New York’s financial district. The protest was to stand against corporate and government greed‚ social inequality and the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic
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Wall Street Journal Article: Fed Splits over how long to keep cash spigot open In my opinion‚ the Federal Reserve bank should not ’keep the cash spigot open’. Mr Stein‚ the president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston has stated that low rate policies help the U.S economy‚ however some institutions and individual investors may take on too much debt‚ or too many risky assets‚ resulting in the toppling of banks and other financial institutions. I have to agree with Mr. Stein. Low interest
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change the national and international debate to focus on issues such as inequality‚ corporate greed‚ political corruption‚ while also shinning lights on issues that affected the movement such as free speech‚ civil liberties and police brutality. Occupy Wall Street’s ability to tie all themes of the movement together successfully showed how the “99 percent” was being marginalised and the system unfairly stacked against them. The slogan “We are the 99 percent” demonstrated how the “1 percent” have concentrated
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Main Street Finally Matters to Wall Street For the most part‚ the sluggish performance of the real economy since 2009 has provided a bullish backdrop for US equities‚ because the risks of the Fed having to abruptly reduce excessive monetary accommodation were commensurately reduced. Moreover‚ the struggles of Main Street were‚ rather perversely‚ often seen as good news for Wall Street‚ because a greater proportion of the rewards stemming from economic activity would flow through to corporate profits
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The novel Silence written by Japanese author Shūsako Endo and the film interpretation of it directed by Martin Scorsese‚ who is a renowned director for his other films Taxi Driver‚ Goodfellas‚ and The Wolf of Wall Street‚ are truly two works of art that transcend storytelling and the way one views things‚ in my opinion. A surface explanation of the plot of the story; is that it revolves around two Portuguese Jesuit priests‚ Rodrigues and Garupe‚ who find out that their teacher‚ who was sent to Japan
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We perceive social media to be a powerful device capable of shaping opinions through the wide dissemination of knowledge. However‚ through Paolo Gerbaudo (2012)’s critical examination of the Occupy Wall Street movement‚ we see a clear case study of the failure of social media to create real change. In addition‚ it demonstrates how social media interactions and limitations can undermine critical messages and actions. Another advocacy campaign fell victim to this media pitfall‚ and its lead‚ perhaps
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This amazing story of survival and dysfunction‚ of imagination and rationalization‚ and of shear ingenuity is a testimony to the flexibility and beauty of children. Jeannette Walls’ true story flashes back through a childhood with crazy addicted parents (the father to alcohol; the mother to art and idealism and the father) who raised three children in spite of recurrent poverty‚ nomadic tendencies‚ and a heritage of rebellion. The heiress-mother ends up rummaging in a dumpster‚ homeless in NYC
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The movie in summary portrays that earth is slowly dying due to the pollution that the human race produces each day but do not realise the side effects of this. However in this story‚ it begins where piles of trash were seen on the surface of earth and the human race were forced to leave for space as it is too difficult to survive and sustain in a place where there is no sign of survival at all. Thus‚ they created a robot which is capable to clear the trash by crushing it into cubes. However as days
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