of corporate cash holdings during the recent crisis. I create two categories of firms; one with financially constraint and unconstraint firms classified on their size and one with financially constraint and unconstraint firms based on the de size of their dividend payments. Unconstraint firms do not manage their cash holdings in normal conditions‚ but when conditions deteriorated during the crisis also unconstraint firms had to decrease their cash holdings to absorb the negative macro economical shock
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How to Fight a Price War By Akshay R. Rao‚ Mark E. Bergen and Scott Davis IN THE BATTLE TO CAPTURE THE CUSTOMER companies use a wide range of tactics to ward off competitors. Increasingly‚ price is the weapon of choice – and frequently the skirmishing degenerates into a price war. Creating low price appeal is often the goal‚ but the result of one retaliatory price slashing after another is often a precipitous decline in industry profits. Look at the airline price wars of 1992. When American
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facing a price war‚ you ’ll need to understand how it started in order to respond effectively. Often the best counterattack does not. involve a retaliatory price How ^ 1 War 1^ f Scott Davis by Akshay R. Rao‚ Mark E. Bergen‚ and I HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW March-April 2000 N THE BATTLE TO CAPTURE THE CUSTOMER‚ companies use a wide range of tactics to ward off competitors. Increasingly‚ price is the weapon of choice - and frequently the skirmishing degenerates into a price war. Creating
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within this firm will meet‚ and exceed the client’s needs. These include a position in communication position that will deal with the clients while outlining the meetings and notes. This position will assist the consulting firm with planning. Another position critical within this firm consist of an editor position in charge of the oversight of the collecting data in the meetings‚ and editing including processing clients data information. This firm will include a research department in charge of handling
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corporate governance‚ specifically in the chaebol firms as one of the main drives behind the collapse of Korean economy (Chang‚ 2006‚ Lee‚ 2002‚ Nam‚ 2001‚ Kim‚ 2004)‚ some even set it as case study of how corporate governance could relate to firm values and company performance (Black‚ Jang and Kim‚ 2005‚ Baek‚ Kang and Park‚ 2002); and more specifically‚ the impact of having outside directors on board (as an aspect of corporate governance) on firm performance (Choi‚ Park and Yoo‚ 2007). Given the
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Review Leon Cohen Indiana University Section I: Article Summary In the article ‘Do Gay-Friendly Corporate Policies Enhance Firm Performance?’ the potential outcomes of a firm adopting gay-friendly policies‚ such as anti-discrimination policies and the extension of benefits to couples‚ are studied. When the results of the study were assessed‚ it was found that the adoption of gay-friendly policies had improved the studied firms in multiple ways. It was observed that more employees were being recruited
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executives. Effective boards build capabilities within themselves and their organizations that allow them to do both protect existing assets (compliance role). A board is a group of diverse individuals who have different biases and prejudices and whose behavior is affected by social constraints and power relations. This perspective suggests that director heterogeneity plays a key role in how boards function. In contrast‚ most researchers in economics consider the board as a single entity. The only
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As U.S. automobile firms rebuild their brand image‚ distribution networks and workforce from the massive government-sponsored corporate restructuring in recent years‚ and Japanese firms continue to struggle with under-capacity due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami‚ Korean-based firms have flourished (Ramsey & Takahashi‚ 2011). In particular‚ Hyundai has experienced rapid market growth in the U.S. market due in part to the recent struggles of its main competitors. Their success‚ however‚ is also
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English 49 Professor April 18‚ 2013 Midterm Essay Rewrite College Costs How Much? Growing up‚ students were taught to get a higher education in order to make a comfortable living for them and their families. Now‚ those college graduates are crippled with large amounts of debilitating student loans and are unable to start a family of their own. According to the credit bureau TransUnion‚ the average student loan debt carried by each borrower has risen 30% to $23‚829 in the past
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Group No: 5382 NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY NANYANG BUSINESS SCHOOL AB329 APPLIED RESEARCH PROJECT Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: A Study of Family and Non-family Controlled Firms in Singapore U1010347C U1010546K U1010424G Chua Ang Hong Ho Chuan Lui Tee Chin Siang Bryan Supervisor: Associate Professor Ho Kim Wai Applied Research Project submitted to the Nanyang Business School‚ Nanyang Technological University in partial fulfillment for the double degree
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