DardenBusinessPublishing:210838 UVA-F-1299 Rev. Feb. 8‚ 2011 This document is authorized for use only by Mattia Tenaglia at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. ENRON CORPORATION’S WEATHER DERIVATIVES (A) Everybody talks about the weather‚ but nobody does anything about it.1 In October 2000‚ Mary Watts‚ the chief financial officer of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW)‚
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Substance Abuse Notes Week 2 (First lecture) – 9/10 * Substance use vs. abuse * Use * The legal enjoyment of your property within socially acceptable norms * i.e. you don’t drive under the influence – that’s not socially acceptable * Consumption of any psychoactive substance * More neutral * Includes * Social drinking * 1-2 drinks on any one social occasion * Abuse * Any use of illegal
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UVA-F-1372 Rev. Sept. 8‚ 2010 WORLDWIDE PAPER COMPANY In December 2006‚ Bob Prescott‚ the controller for the Blue Ridge Mill‚ was considering the addition of a new on-site longwood woodyard. The addition would have two primary benefits: to eliminate the need to purchase shortwood from an outside supplier and create the opportunity to sell shortwood on the open market as a new market for Worldwide Paper Company (WPC). Now the new woodyard would allow the Blue Ridge Mill not only to reduce its
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Empirical Study on Consumer Preference Towards Garnier Skin Care Products in Ghaziabad District OF BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (AFFILIATED OF CH. CHARAN SINGH UNIVERSITY‚ MEERUT) ACADEMIC SESSION (2010-2013) Submited by Akhil singh (9354562) UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF Mr. MUKESH VERMA Mr. KUMAR SAURAV External supervisor Internal supervisor Sales manager Assistant Professor‚ IMS
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Danger: Chemical Sunscreens Sunscreen is meant to be a product designed to protect the skin from the sun. The first form of sunscreen was a red‚ petroleum jelly like substance that was mainly used to aid troops during WWII‚ it then transformed into a sort of pasty‚ white substance of zinc oxide. As the years passed and society began to evolve into one that craved sun kissed skin‚ many companies started to brainstorm in search of a new kind of sunscreen. The formula they aimed for was one that protected
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UV0010 NIKE‚ INC.: COST OF CAPITAL On July 5‚ 2001‚ Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group‚ a mutual-fund management firm‚ pored over analysts’ write-ups of Nike‚ Inc.‚ the athletic-shoe manufacturer. Nike’s share price had declined significantly from the beginning of the year. Ford was considering buying some shares for the fund she managed‚ the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund‚ which invested mostly in Fortune 500 companies‚ with an emphasis on value investing. Its top holdings included ExxonMobil
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DardenBusinessPublishing:205053 This document is authorized for use only by Hongyi Liu at George Washington University - School of Business. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. UVA-QA-0581 SCOR-eSTORE.COM Scor-eStore.com was not yet a companyit was still simply the ideas and experiments of two budding entrepreneurs. Mark Burgess‚ a graduate student in computer science‚ and Chris Madsen‚ a professional musician‚ hoped
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| Radiation Safety | UML-Radiation and Life Sec 031 | | Ryan M. Burnett | 3/11/2013 | | Radiological protection deals with methods and efforts of safeguarding people and the surroundings from the deadly effects of ionizing radiation that includes electromagnetic radiation and particle radiation. Sometimes radiation cannot be controlled or contained and accidents take place causing radiation leaks. For this reason‚ protocols and radiation safety has become a pre-curser in our
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I am currently pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Biology from University of Virginia. Upon graduation‚ I prefer to apply to the UVA School of Medicine to pursue my degree in medicine. I am passionate about cancer research because I have lost many loved ones to cancer. I have witnessed the pain and suffering that cancer patients go through immense pain and suffering. Cancer causes
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DardenBusinessPublishing:210258 UVA-F-1341 This document is authorized for use only by shuang lin at UMD. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. MARKOV’S TRILEMMA George Markov eagerly awaited his first day at his new job with Athena Asset Management in a major metropolitan area in the northeastern United States. His future boss had given him a list of questions that would prepare him well for the
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