Corporate Case Study: Apple Inc. Article One: Apple’s Secret Plan for Its Cash Stash In 2012‚ Forbes Magazine published an article that discusses what Apple Inc. plans to do with the large amounts of money it has acquired over the years. The sum reaches up to $100 billion‚ making the company one of the most profitable in history. However‚ the company has around $64 billion of their cash stuck oversees. If Apple were to choose to move the money back to the United States they would be hit with a
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sustainable environment in order to achieve long-term profits. While all of the above relationships are valuable‚ none should be dominant over the others. The CEO should be accountable to set up a holistic strategy that captures the needs of corporate governance‚ which “emphasized a manager’s accountability to multiple constituencies besides the shareholders” (1). This will allow the organization to maximize its value in the long term. Companies are networks of parties and people working together towards
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Recently the terms "governance" and "good governance" are being increasingly used in development literature. Bad governance is being increasingly regarded as one of the root causes of all evil within our societies. Simply put "governance" means: the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented). Since governance is the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented‚ an analysis of governance focuses on the formal
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Corporate Wellness Program In term of increase memberships as well as the sales revenue‚ 24-M1 Fitness Club could consider to offer corporate wellness program to employees who worked nearby the Georgetown area. It is believed that healthy employees tend to be happier and more productive employees. The benefits for company are obvious as the corporate wellness program would bring them lowered expenses in return which often in the form of better performing employees because the employees are the most
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The leader’s role in effective governance of organisations Assignment 1 Report by : Jorge Andres Cuellar Student Id : S0224193 Subject : LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE Course Code : MGMT20152 Tutor: Grace Phan-Athiroj Central Queensland University Sydney January 2012 Since last decade there are major interest in executive directors’ role to achieve a high status and be recognized into organisations‚ universities and other entities. Nowadays‚ words as leadership‚ quality‚ and management have
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female in good treatment‚ 11 male and 19 female in bad treatment and 9 male and 21 female in neutral treatment. Result 1: Subjects who received bad fortune telling are more risk averse in gain and loss situation than neutral fortune telling. Moreover‚ subjects who received good fortune telling affects subjects to be more risk averse in loss situation than neutral fortune telling. In table 4.1‚ we compare number of safe choices from good and bad treatment with neutral treatment by using t-test. We
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“Case: Tianjin Plastics” Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Course Advanced Corporate Finance Students Fatin Azear Jos Kusters Maaike van der Steen Case: Tianjin Plastics This assignment considers the case of Tianjin Plastics. Pat Johnson‚ project finance analyst for Maple Energy (U.S.-based international power plant developer)‚ has to make a recommendation regarding the financial viability of the Tianjin Plastics power plant project in China. The recommendation would require a final evaluation of
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In “school is bad for children” John Holt (1969) claims from his experience that “children are often the best teachers of other children”. What is more important‚ we know that when a fifth or sixth-grader who has been having trouble with reading starts helping a first
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VIGILANCE AND E-GOVERNANCE Vigilance means watchfullness or to bring awareness. Vigilance came into existence mainly for the purpose of fighting corruption. Corruption involves misuse of power ‚ money ‚government property etc. Though corruption can’t be brought down to zero level‚ we can try to bring it as low as possible. This can be ensured by watchfulness‚ caution and vigilance. Or in other words it can be achieved by E-Governance. E-Governance is the use of various modern information
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Working Paper Series British Airways and Balmer’s AC3ID Test of Corporate Brand Management Professor John M T Balmer Dr Helen Stuart Working Paper No 04/26 July 2004 The working papers are produced by the Bradford University School of Management and are to be circulated for discussion purposes only. Their contents should be considered to be preliminary. The papers are expected to be published in due course‚ in a revised form and should not be quoted without the author’s permission. W O R
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