Former US vice-president Al Gore has hit out at company bosses and fund managers for damaging the environment by focusing on short-term goals. Speaking at the National Association of Pensions Funds’ annual investment conference in Edinburgh‚ Gore warned that companies’ obsession with meeting short-term profit targets rather than taking a longer term view‚ was hampering work to combat climate change. Goals Goal-setting ideally involves establishing specific‚ measurable‚ attainable‚ realistic
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The immediate and long term effect of abuse. M1 &D1 Why do we need to spot the signs? So we . . . • Help and protect the service users • Follow the correct legislations – Equality and Diversity Act‚ Human Rights Act and The Care Standards Act • Follow the Care Value Base • Follow professional bodies codes of practice • Follow codes of conduct‚ policies and procedures in a health and social care setting M1 • Assess the likely immediate effects of two different forms of abuse on the health and
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benefits and dangers. Warren Buffet states‚ that ‘Growth benefits investors only when the business in point can invest at incremental returns that are enticing – in other words‚ only when each dollar used to finance the growth creates over a dollar of long term market value.’ We can say that it worked for Starbucks in the beginning‚ when growth also meant growth of the share price‚ and even though no dividends were paid‚ the company was still profitable over the years‚ but with the emerging of new competition
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Overview Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) was a hedge fund founded by John Meriwether in 19941. Meriwether was the former vice-chairman and head of bond trading at investment bank Salomon Brothers. Meriwether put together a high profile team of traders and academics in an attempt to create a fund that would profit from the combination of the academics’ quantitative models and the traders’ market judgment. Some of the high profile employees brought on were Nobel-prize winning economists Myron
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Motivation letter for Long term and short term career goals ============================================ Straight after my MBA I see myself working in a strategy consulting firm. It would provide me a chance to work in and with variety of companies‚ sectors and clients. I would also like to climb the organizational ladder and gain experience in managing client relationships. To fulfill my dream‚ I would join my school’s consulting club and actively participate in the events. I would also participate
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The Difference Between Short-Term and Long-Term Memory Short-term memory differs from long-term memory in two fundamental ways‚ with only short-term memory demonstrating temporal decay and capacity limits. Long-term memory however‚ can store vast amounts of information and is permanent. Short-term memory gives the ability for the human brain to keep information in the mind for a very short period of time‚ such as remembering a phone number long enough until you are able to dial it on our phones
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Effective branding is one of the important element for the Fiat and Chrysler to adopt in short and long terms. There are few recommendations for both companies to improve their brand images in world market. The first recommendation is the companies should differentiate and position the brand effectively. Before embarking on brand building‚ the companies have to take time to differentiate it so that the companies able to attract attention and stand out from competitors. To differentiate the brand
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History Test II There were many long-term causes and short term causes that aided and pushed forward the impending Civil War. The short term causes‚ however‚ were the most effective because they happened quickly and completely divided the nation in half. The causes were not only rapid and influential‚ but they were also all the consequences of the prior‚ creating an exponential rampage of divergence which led the country straight to Civil War. These short term causes were (in order of first to
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| |2012 |$3‚556‚805/$1‚716‚012=2.07 | Current ratios of Mattel. in 2010 and 2012 are both over 2.0‚ which is larger than the miscellaneous manufacturing company (1.64). This means in liquidity Mattel did better than average of manufacturing industry. 2.2 Quick Ratio |Year |Cash+Marketable Securities+Accounts Receivalbe/ Current
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’Sustainable Social Enterprise’ as catchy as it may sound; equally inspiring is the idea of owning such an enterprise. We hear everybody talking about sustainability these days. Sustainable business‚ sustainable energy‚ sustainable development‚ sustainable society and so is every possible thing. The growing interest and increased awareness in sustainability has led to immense developments and considerable improvements of our world today. I developed the idea of sustainable enterprising while
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