Introduction The activities of Multinational Oil Companies in their host countries have receive increasing scholarly and international attention in recent years. These companies have long suffered from public criticisms especially in developing countries and this gives them a rather unpleasant public image. The oil and gas sector is among the leading industries in championing corporate social responsibility. In recent years‚ oil companies attach greater importance to their social and environmental
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UV5319 May 10‚ 2010 B CORPORATION: A NEW SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL “We envision a new sector of the economy which harnesses the power of private enterprise to create public benefit.” —B Lab‚ “Declaration of Interdependence‚” 2010 Introduction Jay Coen Gilbert and Bart Houlahan were friends as undergraduates at Stanford University. In 1993‚ a few years after graduation‚ they helped start the basketball shoe and apparel company AND1. As the company grew‚ cofounder Gilbert and president
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Situation Analysis Introduction This case study is concerned with HTC Corporation‚ an international Smartphone and technology manufacturer. Though HTC is a recent player in the technology market‚ its ability to produce highly technical and innovative solutions to real world technology problems‚ primarily through the design and introduction of the Smartphone‚ has made the company a global leader in the Smartphone market. Problematically‚ the highly volatile nature of this market has seen HTC’s
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was one of the most notorious African American Leaders during the end of the nineteenth century. Born a slave‚ from a slave mother and an unknown white father‚ he argued that the black people‚ after Emancipation Proclamation‚ should first improve themselves in the education field as well economically. In his autobiography “Up from the Slavery” the reader gets to know exactly the way Booker T. Washington understood the society of the United States in the mid ninetieth and
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first major world war where many countries participated for their freedoms. For being the first major world war‚ it definitely made a strong impact on human history. It lasted four long years‚ from 1914 to 1918. This tragic event left over 17 million soldiers and civilians killed and 20 million seriously wounded. We humans should and probably will never forget this very important affair in history that changed so many lives. Some for the better‚ and some for the very worst. Events Leading Up to World
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Municipal Corporation is a local government body that administers the city. Under the panchayati raj system‚ it interacts directly with the state government‚ though it is administratively part of the district it is located in. The Municipal Corporation consists of members elected from the wards of the city. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected by the members among themselves. A Municipal Commissioner‚ who is from the Indian Administrative Service is appointed to head the administrative staff
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Organisational Transformation in Practice Department of Accounting and Information Systems BB315O15S Academic Year: 2011/ 12 Semester/Trimester: 2 Contents 1. Key Information 2 2. Introduction to the Module 2 3. Intended Learning Outcomes 3 4. Outline Delivery 3 4.1 Attendance Requirements 4 5. Assessment 4 6. Assessment Criteria and Marking Standards 8 7. Assessment Offences 11 8. Learning Resources 11 8.1. Library 17 8.2. Other Resources 17 9. Module Evaluation
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effect of varying concentration of a certain sugar solution on the amount of osmotic activity between the solution and a potato core of a given size 10mm Hypothesis: Osmosis is defined as the net movement of water or any other solutions molecules from a region in which they are highly concentrated to a region in which they are less concentrated. This movement must take place across a partially permeable membrane such as a cell wall‚ which lets smaller molecules such as water through but does not
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EVIDENCE FROM THE OIL MAJORS ROBERT M. GRANT* McDonough School of Business‚ Georgetown University‚ Washington‚ DC‚ U.S.A. The long-running debate between the ‘rational design’ and ‘emergent process’ schools of strategy formation has involved caricatures of firms’ strategic planning processes‚ but little empirical evidence of whether and how companies plan. Despite the presumption that environmental turbulence renders conventional strategic planning all but impossible‚ the evidence from the corporate
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Hewlett-Packard Company and Microsoft Corporation Financial Analysis According to company financials for the 2012 fiscal year‚ HP current ratio is at 1.09 while Microsoft Corp. ratio is at 2.6 which make HP a lesser candidate to obtain a short-term credit. They would not have enough to pay its current liabilities. Also HP recorded inventories of $6.32B compared to Microsoft $1.14B. If sales for PC’s‚ tablets‚ phones and other products dropped‚ HP would have a difficult time selling its inventory
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