for several years as a committee member in the Museum Computer Group‚ a group interested in the relationship between the museums and digital technologies. In what ways‚ do you feel that digital technologies can further develop to enhance the future prospects of Museums? The Museum Computer Group is an open and interesting group. I was involved in a couple of their conferences and some of their meetings and it was really interesting. What I found quite frustrating‚ quite difficult it is that they
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Prospect theory Prospect theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 as a psychologically realistic alternative to expected utility theory. It allows one to describe how people make choices in situations where they have to decide between alternatives that involve risk‚ e.g. in financial decisions. Starting from empirical evidence‚ the theory describes how individuals evaluate potential losses and gains. In the original formulation the term prospect referred to a lottery.
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Activists WAL MART’S Published by Wal-Mart Watch • 1130 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 430 • Washington‚ DC 20036 • http://walmartwatch.com WAL-MART’S INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION “All around the world‚ we save people money‚ so they can live better. That’s good news – in any language.” – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. As of May 2007‚ Wal-Mart’s 7‚343 stores and Sam’s Club locations in 14 markets employ more than two million Associates world wide‚ serving more than 179 million customers a year. Wal-Mart isn’t just
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INDIAN MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY: CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS Ms.Renu Introduction India has been the fastest growing markets for mutual fund industry. With progressive liberalization of economic
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Career prospects 1. Before you strike off in pursuit of a career that really lights your fire‚ take some time to do some serious self-exploration. Make a list of all things in your life that you have really enjoyed. It could be work or play‚ an event‚ or a period of time in your life. Pick one and start digging into reasons why. Get beyond what you love doing‚ and break it down into the underlying characteristics. Think of it as identifying your passion’s building blocks. Once you have a picture
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Sam Walton‚ Wal-Mart has grown to be the largest discount retail chain in the world. Wal-Mart currently has over 6‚500 thousand stores in 14 different countries‚ 1.8 million plus associates and nets sales this last quarter of over 85 billion dollars‚ an increase of 8.3 percent (walmart.com). The only other corporation larger than Wal-Mart to date is Exxon Mobile. So how does Wal-Mart keep their competitive advantage and sustain their position in discount retailing?Historically Wal-Mart main competitive
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Chairman & CEO South Asian Regional Development Gateway 25 May 2007 Professor Klaus BRUNNSTEIN President IFIP - International Federation for Information Processing Hofstraße 3‚ A-2361 Laxenburg‚ Austria Dear Professor Klaus: Hope you are keeping well. It has been long time since we met at WITFOR 2005 in Botswana. I am pleased to learn that IFIF is organizing the WOTFOR 2007 in Addis Ababa that was my workplace till recently. As the WITFOR 2007 will focus on an area of my close interest and long time research
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Airlines-Analysis and Valuation The current memo outlines the analysis and valuation of Southwest Airlines along with sectoral trends in the US airline industry‚ its prospects for growth in the near future contact@solvemyassignment.com http://solvemyassignment.com/ Overvie w of the US Airlines Industry and Growth Prospects In the last 20 years‚ capacity in the US airline industry has grown at a CAGR of 1.4 % to ~ 1‚012 billion available seat miles while passenger traffic has grown at a
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Prospect House The story Prospect House‚ written by Frances Childs is a realistic description from the bottom of the social heap. In the story we meet Kim‚ a girl with a bleak background who has an identity crisis. This crisis is presumably caused by the mother she never had‚ and it is the red line in the story; the author clearly illustrates that parent’s plays an important role in their children’s live‚ especially when they are not there. The story takes place outside the city‚ probably near
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Are multination corporations such as Wal-Mart helpful or harmful to the global economy? To a lesser extent‚ multinational corporation such as Wal-Mart are harmful to the global economy. Multinational corporation is a corporation or company that is registered in more than one country or that has operations in two or more countries. Global economy generally refers to the economy‚ which is based on economies of all of the world’s countries’ national economies. Also‚ global economy can be seen as the
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