8/08/2012 BUSS5000 Critical Thinking in Business Week 2: Business key concepts (1) Dr Leanne Piggott Director‚ Business Programs Unit BUSS5000 UoS Coordinator THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY BUSINESS SCHOOL Preview of today’s lecture › What is Business? - What do all businesses have in common? › Sustainable Competitive Advantage: the internal dimension - Strategy‚ structure‚ behaviour ›Next week 2 What is business? 1 8/08/2012 Wilcannia › Paul‚ M. 2012‚ ‘Wilcannia’s
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Primate Classification LECTURE This lecture will address basic primate classification. Primates are classified based on their features- primates that share certain features are classified into the same group. There are lots of different ways of classifying animals- using an evolutionary taxonomy (like Linneaus’ family tree) or using cladistics. We are going to stick with the evolutionary taxonomy. There is a chart in your book- on Page 168-169 of your book- I would suggest that you have that open
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Asia Pacific Business Lecture 4 Business in China Dr. Huaichuan Rui School of Management Royal Holloway University of London This lecture includes 1. 2. 3. 4. Introduction Political and Economic Environment State Owned Enterprises’ Reform Changing Policy Toward Foreign Direct Investment 5. Challenges for Foreign Firms in China 1. Introduction Profile: People’s Republic of China Area: 9.6 million sq km Population: 1.34 billion (UN‚ 2009) Currency: Renminbi Yuan (Rmb) Major language: Mandarin
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Research methods Lecture #4 Planning phase 1. understanding the problem gather information use multiple sources of information if possible Posing/refining questions 1. what are the questions we want to adress? descriptive (studying the world as it is) vs. normative questions 2. Verifying the questions transforming/organizing questions into research hypotheses checking if our questions/hypotheses are: explicit(no hidden assumptions)‚ logical‚ testable Planning phase 2. selecting research design
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presenter of the guest lecture presented well‚ he explained about the products and their 3 product lines. Also he informed us about the new line called the hobo line‚ their company and their operations. In this assignment I will tell you about the company itself and their product lines and brand image. further in the assignment I will link their company to some of the theory of brand positioning and brand elements. To finalize I will give my own opinion about the lecture and also about their brand
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The Heroic Journey of Jackie Robinson Program In this lecture about Jackie Robinson we were enlightened about not only Jackie Robinson and his history playing baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers but also about the time period he lived in. When Jackie was first drafted‚ it was 1945 and the Brooklyn Dodgers decided to take on the first African American ball player. It was Branch Rickey who decided to take on the experiment of drafting an African American to an all white baseball team. During this
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Guest Lecture Summary 3 “Extension and Refurbishment of His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen for Aberdeen City Council’’ by Mrs. Karen Dinardo‚ Director at Dinardo Partnership on the 11th of February‚ 2013 Student: Thanos Al This lecture was presented by Mrs. Karen Dinardo‚ who is the director of Dinardo Partnership‚ a consulting civil / structural engineers and CDM coordinator. Mrs. Dinardo graduated from University of Glasgow in 1987 with a Civil Engineering degree
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I. Choices: Look at three biggest points in each lecture for the final! WHY DO WE MAKE THE CHOICES WE DO? -If we all did these 15 things we would have a mortality rate that is half of what it is now -What is choice? Free Will Fate? Fun Hedonism (Hedonist choose pleasure) Control- people will want to exercise more if they feel a sense of control in the type of exercise they do Ex. HIV- if taken care of properly with medications aids patients can live a normal life span -Mother believed she didn’t
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1 25721 INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SESSION 2‚ 2012 Lecture 5: The Capital Asset Pricing Model Last Week 2 Index models Systematic and idiosyncratic risks Calculating covariance Case study Calculating systematic and idiosyncratic risks Investment strategies Required return Reward-to-risk ratio Today 3 Asset pricing models: what and why The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Assumptions The claim Implications The economic mechanism The
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ECM1000 Research Methods in Finance Lecture 9 Autocorrelation 1 Outline • • • • Introduction Consequences of Autocorrelated Disturbances Detecting Autocorrelation Remedy References: Gujrati‚ Ch. 12 Introduction Imagine that we are fitting the regression equation to a set of economic variables observed through time: yt xt1 ........ xtk ut Then it is usual to assume that the disturbance ut represents the net effect of everything not accounted for by the systematic part of
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