UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington‚ D.C. 20549 FORM 10-Q QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the quarterly period ended JUNE 30‚ 2009 Commission File Number: 1-3433 THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 38-1285128 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 2030 DOW CENTER‚ MIDLAND
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Competing on Resources Key ideas from the Harvard Business Review article By David J. Collis‚ Cynthia A. Montgomery The Idea in Brief What gives your company a competitive edge? Your strategically valuable resources -- the ones enabling your enterprise to perform activities better or more cheaply than rivals. These can be physical assets (a prime location)‚ intangible assets (a strong brand)‚ or capabilities (a brilliant manufacturing process). For example‚ Japanese auto companies have consistently
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A nation’s dream When we are talking about “the American dream” we are not talking about a person or a group of people’s dream‚ we are talking about the entire nation’s dream. First‚ let’s define what the American dream is? The American dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone‚ with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest
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Dollar-Value LIFO Review Problem XYZ Company began operations on January 1‚ 2010‚ and uses the dollar-value LIFO method for externally reporting inventory. XYZ Company uses an external price index in its calculations. On January 1‚ 2010‚ XYZ Company had an inventory of $50‚000. The following information has been extracted from inventory records: Year Ended December 31 Ending Inventory at Year-End Costs Cost Index (Relative to Base Year) 2010 $56‚160 1.04 2011 $62‚700 1.10 2012
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1.) (a) The areas at risk from two or more natural hazards are located mainly between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn. The Philippines is an area that is at risk from two or more natural hazards and this is located on the pacific ring of fire that is very vulnerable to violent volcanic eruptions and severe earthquakes. (b) A natural hazard can be one of two things; a geophysical hazard and a hydro-meteorological hazard. A geophysical hazard is one caused by the earth’s process such
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Best Practices for Preparing a Request for Proposal by Betsy Walli Copyright 2010‚ Faulkner Information Services. All Rights Reserved. Docid: 00018560 Publication Date: 1012 Report Type: TUTORIAL Preview A well-crafted‚ thoroughly defined RFP is the principal instrument for successful procurement of enterprise systems and software. The RFP should focus on the business needs to be addressed by the acquisition‚ and be designed to elicit vendor responses that are specific‚ complete‚ and
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SPARTAN HEAT EXCHANGERS INC. On June 10‚ Rick Coyne‚ materials manager at Spartan Heat Exchangers Inc. (Spartan)‚ in Springfield‚ Missouri‚ received a call from Max Brisco‚ vice president of manufacturing: “What can materials department do to facilitate Spartan’s new business strategy? I’ll need your plan in next week.” SPARTAN HEAT EXCHANGERS Spartan was a leading designer and manufacturer of specialized industrial heat transfer equipment. Its customers operated in a number of industries such
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EGERTON UNIVERSITY NAKURU TOWN CAMPUS COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PROGRAM: BSC. COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECT PROPOSAL: HOSPITAL PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AUTHOR: YEGON K. DENIS REG. NO: SP13/20600/10 UNIT: COMP 402(SYSTEM PROJECT) SUPERVISOR: MR. KIMANI NJOROGE CO-ODINATOR: DR. ING. W.GIKARU VERSION: DRAFT The Project proposal submitted to the Department of Computer Science‚ in partial fulfilment for the Award of Bachelor of Science
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IIE Standard Development 2013 Business Communication C BUCOf020 Assignment Business Communication C 2013 DUE DATE: TIME ALLOWANCE: MARKS: TOTAL PAGES: INSTRUCTIONS: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Assignments must be typed. Handwritten work will not be marked. All work must be adequately and correctly referenced. No more than 25% of the assignment may be copied from the original source(s) used‚ even if referenced correctly. Begin each section on a new page. Follow all instructions on the assignment cover
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Babylon Revisited: Analysis Of Characters. Charlie Wales Despite his many flaws‚ Charlie is a man whom almost everyone can’t help but like. It’s surprising that Charlie’s so likeable considering his wild past of uncontrollable alcoholism‚ his possible complicity in his wife’s death‚ and the fact that he essentially abandoned his child. He seems so earnest in his efforts to reverse the situation. We also note that he rejects his former friends and he merely takes only one drink per day. Fitzgerald
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