article: Alex W. H. Chan.‚ Hoi Yan Cheung.‚ “Cultural Dimensions‚ Ethical Sensitivity‚ and Corporate Governance” (2011). Introduction and brief summary of the paper Corporate Governance has become an essential tool for improving corporate performance and advancing the development of market-oriented democracies. Good governance practice maintain the integrity of business transactions and in so doing strengthen the rule of law and democratic governance. Chan and Cheung’s study determines
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Article Review 1 Publication: Sports Marketing Quarterly Title: “Spectator Motives: Why Do We Watch When Our Favorite Team Is Not Playing?” Authors: Fink‚ Janet S‚ Parker‚ Heidi M Link: http://tiny.cc/Q2Yzy Summary: This article studies the likeliness of sports fans to watch sporting events when their favorite team is not playing. According to the Nielson ratings system the NFL broadcast’s TV ratings are the highest rated program in the country. Therefore the advertising dollars involved
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Article Review HCS/457 There are many different kinds of community health care issues. One that is a popular topic is the lack of health care coverage in the United States which has lead to healthcare reform. There are many different problems communities face with the lack of coverage. Americans‚ Hospitals and physicians are greatly affected when there is no healthcare coverage. Health care reform will have an impact on the uninsured. This review will focus on some of the
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that we list here are not unfamiliar‚ but don’t underestimate them. As they mature‚ they will have strong effects. By Maureen Glabman Contributing Editor In 1995‚ Harvard business school professors Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower put “disruptive technologies” in the business lexicon by introducing the term in a seminal article in the school’s journal. The phrase described what happened in 1960‚ for example‚ when an unknown company‚ Sony‚ began selling an affordable transistor television
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The bottom of the economic pyramid concept has pros and cons alike. From a business perspective there are vast untapped markets sitting there waiting for someone to take hold. Unfortunately‚ the limitations of entering new global markets make it difficult and possibly unsafe for companies to tap some markets. The obvious potential to add a new source of revenue should be tempting for large companies who have the means to attempt breaking into a new market. Overcoming the “red tape” per say has
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Management a true profession is an interesting article. It is written by two authors‚ Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria. Rakesh Khurana is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School in Boston while Nitin Nohria is also a professor of business administration and senior associate dean and director of faculty development at Harvard Business School. Both authors have written informative books on the subject of business. The purpose of this article is about revolutionizing the training
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Do Mergers and Acquisitions create Value? This essay will focus on the motives of mergers and acquisitions and the benefits. The motives and benefits will be critically accessed. Empirical evidence will be covered and viewed in the hope of drawing a conclusion and to whether mergers and acquisitions create value or not. A real life example will be taken and accessed against the empirical evidence and merger motives in order to demonstrate the effects a merger has on both the Offeree and Offeror
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global leader of hospitality. Take a look at some of our most important‚ guest-focused firsts along the way. The Hilton Hotels brand remains one of the company’s flagship brands and one of the largest hotel brands in the world. The company places marketing emphasis on both business travel and leisure travel with locations in major city centers‚ near airports‚ convention centers‚ and a number of vacation resorts and leisure-oriented hotels in popular vacation destinations around the world. Hilton
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Harvard Business Review Let’s Hear it For B Players: A Summary B players are often downplayed as mediocre employees because they lack the “luster and attitude” of star A players. Like any theatre performance‚ if managerial attention is low on supporting actors‚ and high only on its few star actors‚ the entire production will suffer as a whole. In business‚ a company’s long-term performance rate depends on the “commitment and contributions of B players”—who make up the biggest group of workers
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English 101C- WB 10/04/12 Uncontrollable Numbers Today‚ magazines are causing uproar with targeting consumers with outrageous numbers to gain attention. Seeyle states‚ “A trip to the newsstand these days can be a dizzying descent into a blizzard of numbers.” Reading through the article‚ the author adventured through numbers in sales‚ and how people can be addicted to these certain number strategies. She claims that in most popular magazine distribution all numbers sell. Seeyle looks into most of many
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