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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Silicon Valley Technologies‚ a simulation of a technology based corporation‚ gathered their top twenty managers for an off site management meeting. The top management teams included The President‚ Director of Special Projects‚ three Vice Presidents‚ eight Directors and seven Managers. The purpose of this simulation was to handle diverse problems within Silicon Valley Technologies with all the real life complexities that arise when running an organization. My position was as the Director of Special
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COST OF CAPITAL Directed Silicon Valley Medical Technologies - SIVMED was found in San Jose‚ CA‚ in 1982 by Kelly’s O’Brien‚ David Roberts‚ and Barbara Smalley. O’Brien and Roberts‚ both MDs‚ were on the research faculty at the UCLA Medical School at the time; O’Brien specialized in biochemistry and molecular biology‚ and Roberts specialized in immunology and medical microbiology. Smalley‚ who has a PhD‚ served as department chair of the Microbiology Department at UC-Berkeley. The company
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1. What specific items of capital should be included in the SIVMED’s WACC? Should before-tax or after-tax values be included? Should historical or new values be used? Why? Answer: WACC covers computation of SIVMED’s cost of capital in which each category of capital is proportionately weighted. All capital basis - common stock‚ preferred stock‚ bonds or any other long-term borrowings – should be listed under SIVMED’s WACC. We determine WACC by multiplying the cost of the corresponding capital
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Pirates of Silicon Valley assignment The Pirates of Silicon Valley tells the story about how Apple and Microsoft came to be today’s technological giants. At first‚ Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak come up with the idea of creating computer that everyone‚ including ordinary people‚ could use. They name their company Apple. After they can’t come up with any ideas for their new project‚ they go to a big computer company‚ and steal their ideas in order for them to start developing their own. After some
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYSilicon Valley Medical Technologies (SIVMED) was founded as a research and development firm. In the beginning‚ SIVMED performed its own basic research‚ obtained patents on promising technologies‚ and then either sold or licensed the technologies to other firms which marketed the products. The firm has since then grown and is now contracted to perform research and testing for larger genetic engineering firms‚ biotechnology firms‚ the US government‚ and is now widely recognized as
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Silicon Element Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14 and atomic mass is 28. It is a tetravalent metalloid‚ less reactive than its chemical analog carbon‚ the nonmetal directly above it in the periodic table‚ but more reactive than germanium‚ the metalloid directly below it in the table. Controversy about silicon’s character dates to its discovery; it was first prepared and characterized in pure form in 1823. In 1808‚ it was given the name silicium‚ with an -ium
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Hickey’s essay “Pirates and Farmers” as well as Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”. The essay will also touch on the question of how I am perceived by others versus how I perceive myself. According to Dave Hickey‚ in the world‚ there are only two kinds of people: Pirates and Farmers. Pirates are a plundering and boundary-defying individualists while farmers tend to build fences and create territories. He goes ahead to say that pirates may not even know that they are pirates‚ but farmers can
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Introduction: Silicon Valley Infomedia Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian based IT firm headquartered at Ahmedabad‚ Gujarat. It caters Information Technology (IT)‚ Computer-aided Design (CAD) and Outsourcing Ministrations. Initiated in the year 2004‚ the firm excels in furnishing Mobile App Development and Web Application Development Services. The firm is an ISO: 27001 2013 IT Security Certified Company and a member of NASSCOM with its principal pursuits into Online Web Applications and Software Development
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The Pirates of Somalia by Jay Bahadur is about getting to know a Somali pirate and his ways of thinking. The book is a lot like the movie Captain Phillips‚ where it describes Somali pirates and their journies. The book also shines light on how misinterpreted the Somali pirates and all pirates are. They feel that they have the right to protect their ocean and think that the real criminals are the fisherman. To get his information‚ Jay Bahadur travelled to Somalia to interview the pirates. They aren’t
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