A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy By Dina Gerdeman 28 MAY 2012 RESEARCH & IDEAS : http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6994.html Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company ’s effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. CSR may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit
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Wireless communication protocols have evolved rapidly since the introduction of 802.11 Legacy over a decade ago. Over the last 10 years we have seen efficiency and performance increases on all fronts‚ which have lead to greater range and faster transfer speeds. With Legacy 802.11 protocols‚ speeds maxed out at around 2 Mbits/sec and indoor range was only about 20 meters. In 1999‚ the 802.11 protocol got a couple of amendments in the form of 802.11a and 802.11b. Both offered higher speeds and slightly
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Wireless Hill Project Preparing for the 2012 Centenary Celebration and Realising Vision 2020 Business Case (FINAL) July 2011 Business Case Summary Project Title Wireless Hill Project – Preparing for the 2012 Centenary Celebration and Realising Vision 2020 Strategic program See 4.4 Strategic Impact for the link to the City of Melville Strategic Plan Realise the Wireless Hill Vision 2020 Concise Scope Interpretation plan‚ concept plan‚ detailed design‚ approvals‚ staged implementation
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1. Based on prices for comparable transactions‚ how would you assess the reasonableness of the Bet Performers $133 million purchase price in May 2008? To value a ship using the market approach‚ one had to identify a set of “comparable” ships where comparability was based on four main factors: ship type‚ size (DWT)‚ age‚ and condition. According to Exhibit 3‚ there are five ships which are the most comparable to Bet Performer. They are Martha Verity‚ Ingenious‚ Sumihou‚ Cape Sun‚ and Coppersmith
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Wireless LAN Products Wireless LAN Compliance Status Last updated: December 8‚ 2011 This page lists the Wireless LAN products and the specific countries each product is currently certified in for order and shipment. If there is not an “X” in the matrix box that corresponds to the country and product‚ then that product is not certified to ship to this country. Please take note of the Country SKU Suffix in the column adjacent to your country. You will need this specific SKU Suffix to ensure you order
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Current Corporate-level Strategies Fedex emphasizes on employees being the main competitive advantage that they hold. Fedex strongly believes that there is a strong relationship between pay and performance. The year 2015 saw higher rewards given to its employees than 2014 due to their higher adjusted earnings (FedEx Annual Report‚ 2015‚ pg 4). Rewarding of employees is an important part of the Fedex culture as well as the People-Service-Profit philosophy. It is a well worked strategy because it enables
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of the Addition of Wireless Technology at Riordan The management of Riordan Manufacturing has requested an analysis of adding wireless technology to the existing wide area network (WAN). The organization’s goal in considering wireless technology is to keep the network current while controlling costs. The purpose of this document is to provide a basic understanding of wireless technology and outline what the organization must consider in determining the viability of wireless within the organization
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What I’m proud about in my computer science class is the Verizon app challenge that I did with my group. I picked this artifact because it taught me some levels of computing and working in a group to create ideas for an app. What me and the group was good at throughout creating and Ideas for this app was creating a scenario video‚ while our weakness was coming up with the topic ‚and editing videos. If we had an additional time our group would make the video more visual and realistic to our topic
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What is WAP? WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol. The idea has been developed by some of the wireless telecommunications giants such as Nokia and Ericsson. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) uses the Internet as a gateway for the transmission of the protocol. WAP has brought the Internet and the sub-services that it provides right into our lives as we are on the move. WAP brings us information right to the screen of our mobile phone. WAP offers the possibility to call specific
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Abstract This paper will discuss the Wireless Ethernet product produced by Cisco‚ the Aironet 3500 wireless access point. The Aironet 3500 access points are designed for installation into areas of wireless frequency saturation. They are an ideal solution for businesses‚ hospitals and universities plagued by interference devices such as microwave ovens‚ rogue devices such as phones and digital tablets. Universities can take advantage of the technology by deploying the APs on dorm floors knowing
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