researching interest groups‚ I found that there are not only hundreds of interest groups that exist around our nation. President Truman described interest groups as an "any group that is based in one or more shared attitudes and makes certain claims upon other groups or organization in the society." In our nation’s capital‚ Washington DC‚ politics represent almost seven thousand interest groups including the US Chamber of Commerce. The US Chamber of Commerce is an advocacy interest group that emerged
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Case Study Questions –Paramount Communications Inc. 1993- Why a paramount is a takeover target? Several Strategic Reasons - Cost reduction: through combinations of similar business and economy of scales - Sales increase: a) cross-promotions of each company’s brand and utilization of each company’s channels‚ and b) cooperation in international businesses. 2. Which of the two firms (Viacom or QVC) would make a better fit with Paramount? -Viacom: Overlap in the business creates
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institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position‚ be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position. When choosing the fields of study‚ students would be influenced by mainly three kinds of factors—their own interest‚ parents’
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SELF-INTEREST‚ ALTRUISM‚ INCENTIVES‚ & AGENCY THEORY Michael C. Jensen Harvard Business School MJensen@hbs.edu Abstract Many scholars‚ business people‚ policy makers‚ and religious leaders are suspicious of self-interest and incentives and often oppose the use of incentives to motivate managers‚ employees‚ public servants‚ or the public itself. I address here some of these issues regarding human nature and organizations raised by Michael Brennan (1994) in “Incentives‚ Rationality‚ and Society
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profit. Arbitrage is a strategy that investors use to not have to make an investment which includes no risk or funds being tied to a certain asset. There are three forms of international arbitrage: location arbitrage‚ triangular arbitrage and covered interest arbitrage. Location arbitrage is a process where a participant of the foreign exchange can go to one place‚ bank in a specified location‚ to purchase a currency at a lower price and then sell it to another location where the currency is priced
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http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT/EXTSARREGTOPINTECOTRA/0‚‚contentMDK:20592520~menuPK:579454~pagePK:34004173~piPK:34003707~theSitePK:579448‚00.html India: Foreign Trade Policy | | | | | India: Foreign Trade PolicyAlthough India has steadily opened up its economy‚ its tariffs continue to be high when compared with other countries‚ and its investment norms are still restrictive. This leads some to see India as a ‘rapid globalizer’ while others still see it as
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paper is to explain my interest in ELL Education. ELL is English language Learner. These are students that are from different backgrounds that require some type of instruction that is modified in the English language. This is an interest that I personally have due to seeing the increased need for many students. In this paper‚ I will explain more in depth the reasons for choosing this topic. If we take a brief look at ELL and what it is‚ we will see that ELL students are those that are unable to effectively
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The Role of Government in Policy-Making Bobbie Souder November 13‚ 2011 HSM 240 Lynn Duong Mauricio There are eight tasks that the people and the legislation have to do in order to get bills passed. The first task is for an interest group to define the issue and agree to what the problem is and what they want the legislation to do about it. The second task is to set up a paper about the pros and cons of the problem or issue and summarize what they know and don’t know about the problem. The
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consumption 3. Risk-change that fin asset won’t earn return promised 4. Inflation-price goes up over time 5. Federal reserve (monetary policy)-slow(control)growth and int rates go up; loosens money supply‚ int goes down (easy fed policy) 6. Deficit (fiscal policy)s- gov’t borrows‚ int goes up; larger the deficit‚ the higher the int 7. Int’l business-trade deficit goes up‚ int rates go up 8. Business activity-goes up‚ int goes up -nom risk free rate-rate of int on sec that is free of all risk
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