Marshall School of Business University of Southern California Global Investors‚ Inc. Teaching Note Purpose of Case This case was written to illustrate a transfer pricing problem in a service setting‚ here an investment management company. The issues and solutions are not as obvious as in a manufacturing setting where one division produces parts that are transferred to another division for further processing. The case is a disguised version of a real conflict in which emotions were running
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Symantec 2011 Annual Report DEAR FELLOW STOCKHOLDERS‚ Symantec ended fiscal 2011 on a strong note‚ as demonstrated by our solid performance against our key financial metrics. I am proud of our team’s execution and our accomplishments over the past few quarters. We have a unique and differentiated portfolio that spans from the endpoint to the data center‚ supporting both virtual and physical environments. We work with individual consumers all the way to the largest organizations in the world
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Marketing Metrics EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Marketing is no longer characterised by spontaneous investments. Marketing performance is controlled and diagnosed on a continuous basis‚ making the need for simple‚ but comprehensive measures/metrics to do so even more important. There are aspects of Marketing that can be identified‚ separated and measured. The effectiveness of a Company’s marketing department is often measured
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for individuals and business The military saying‚ “If you fail to plan‚ you plan to fail‚” is true. People always make plans‚ like teachers plan their Teaching Plans‚ students write outlines to plan their essay‚ and business managers make plans to improve outstanding achievement. A plan‚ on the other hand‚ helps a manager organize resources and activities efficiently and effectively to achieve goals. Making plans is generally beneficial for those individuals and business managers; however‚ there is
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Software Metric Software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences‚ there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and theoreticians to bring similar approaches to software development. The goal is obtaining objective‚ reproducible and quantifiable measurements‚ which may have numerous valuable applications in schedule and budget planning‚ cost estimation‚ quality assurance testing
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Unit 3 P1 P1 – describe how marketing techniques are used to market products in two organisations. Overall concept: The main thing behind marketing in a business is finding the customer’s needs and produce the product/ services to satisfy their needs‚ this way the customer can choose what they would want included in their product/ service. A business that follows this rule is market-orientated. There is alternatives orientation for businesses‚ these are; The production concept: This is where
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The challenge of finding‚ attracting‚ developing and retaining the right talent is taking up a major part of management and once the right talent is found the next demanding job is to retain that talent Hence the following gains importance Describe the scope‚ intensity and cost of attrition. Determine the risk of attrition. Identify the level and cost of turnover and benchmarking it against competitors Attrition: Number of employees who left in the year / average employees in the year
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Lecture 1: Managing IT in an E-World 1. Define the mean of Information Technology‚ and discuss how the management of IT has changed? 2. Discuss the main changes of recent IT trends? 3. The Information Technology trends offered new ways for competition and new ways of working- Explain that? 4. Discuss how the Information Technology offers new ways of business competition? 5. Discuss how the Information Technology offers new ways of working? 6. Differentiate and explain the advantages
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Course: Business Research Methods (8510) Semester: Spring 2013 Level: MBA Assignment No. 1 Q1. Research performs distinct function to assist manager to enhance decisions making process in the course of effectively gathering information? Elaborate this statement? Answer: The task of marketing research (MR) is to provide management with relevant‚ accurate‚ reliable‚ valid‚ and current information. Competitive marketing environment and the ever-increasing costs attributed to poor decision
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Institutional Investors in Indian Stock Market S S S Kumar* Abstract An important feature of the development of stock market in India in the last 15 years has been the growing participation of Institutional Investors‚ both foreign institutional investors and the Indian mutual funds combined together‚ the total assets under their management amounts to almost 18% of the entire market capitalization. This paper examines the role of these investors in Indian stock markets and finds that the market movement
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