The Tennessee Valley Authority Introduction The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was the first large regional planning agency created by the United States Government in May of 1933. The TVA was one of the most innovative and significant ideas of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help tackle the economic‚ social‚ and political problems in the Tennessee Valley‚ a region with no economic growth and was heavily impacted before and after the Great Depression. The TVA is a federally owned
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Case Problem 3- Hart Venture Capital Problem Statement Hart Venture Capital (HVC) specializes in providing venture capital for software development and Internet applications. Currently HVC has two investment opportunities: (1) Security Systems‚ a firm that needs additional capital to develop an Internet security software package‚ and (2) Market Analysis‚ a market research company that needs additional capital to develop a software package for conducting customer satisfaction surveys. In exchange
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special connections to the firm * Placement agent role - getting personal kickbacks for directing them to investment vehicles * Calpers fraud problem with pension funds and personal incentives 2. Compensation * 2nd five years of venture capital firms is called – harvesting – don’t have to work that hard‚ essentially let the investments run themselves * Management fees should decline over time‚ lower during harvesting season * Carried interest – where VC’s make their money
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substitutes Wine has been the preferred alcoholic beverage of the European people. But with the changing taste of younger generation‚ wine is loosing customer share to other drinks. • Threat of entry The wine industry is not capital-intensive‚ as it does not require heavy machinery and investments. Moreover‚ the wine production techniques are not patented or difficult to copy. In Europe‚ governments have made regulations on how the production of wine should be carried out. Lately‚ the new world producers
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CHALLENGES OF EFFECTIVE STAFFING (RECTUITMENT SOURCES‚ TYPES AND CHALLENGES) TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 RECRUITMENT 3 SOURCES OF RECRUITMENT 4 NON TRADITIONAL RECRUITING 5 EXTERNAL VERSUS INTERNAL CANDIDATES 6 RECRUITING PROTECTED CLASSES 6 PLANING THE RECRUITMENT EFFORT 6 CONCLUSION 7 REFERENCES 7 INTRODUCTION Modern organizations are facing tremendous challenges in the process of staffing as they need to streamline
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Silicon Valley Technologies Analysis Paper This paper discusses my experience and learnings as I participated in the Silicon Valley Technologies (SVT) simulation. SVT simulation was a unique experience as it put me in situations which I were new to me and made it clearly evident that when dealing with complicated corporate issues “effective communication” was the only way to make your opinion count. This simulation gave me an opportunity to put to practical use the concepts that I learnt in MGMT
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Cisco in the Coyote Valley. In the discussion case of “Cisco in the Coyote Valley”‚ there are different stakeholders‚ which hold different interests in the company’s expansion. Some of these stakeholders are in favor of the company’s expansion and there are other stakeholders that are not. Different opinions like these will arise when expanding a business and a company needs to take that into factor when planning to expand. In the discussion case “Cisco in the Coyote Valley” there were relevant
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The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a film about Steve Jobs‚ the co-founder of Apple Computers and Bill Gates‚ the co-founder of Microsoft. This film historically traces the development of these two computer companies from the time these two gentlemen are college (the early to mid 1970’s) to approximately 3 months before Steve Jobs was fired by John Sculley‚ then CEO of Apple Computer in 1985. This story shows not only the development of these two computer companies‚ but also the rivalry between
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MARKETING REPORT FOR New Balance Company (Minor Assignment 2) Table Content 1.0 Introduction 2 2.0 Marketing Segmentation 2 2.1 Demographic 2 2.2 Geographic 3 2.3 Psychographic 3 2.4 Behavioral 4 3.0 Targeting 4 4.0 Positioning 5 1.0 Introduction Footwear industry in China was lucrative‚ since there was an increasingly number of people buying brand shoes and increasing franchising opportunities
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Australian GST The GST (Goods and Services Tax) proposed by the Howard government is a new tax which plans to add ten percent to the cost of every item purchased whether it be a car or a pen with only a few exceptions. The tax set to commence on July 1 2000 may still not become a reality if the senate does not have a majority vote on the issue. The VAT (Value Added Tax) of the United Kingdom is much the same tax adding seventeen and a half percent to all goods and services (although there
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