Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to a corporation’s accountability for its actions towards its people‚ the communities it interacts with‚ and the environment it is situated in. By implementing CSR as part of its corporate strategy‚ a firm seeks to align its economic interests with its legal and social responsibilities to its employees‚ its community and the rest of its stakeholders. In Singapore‚ though CSR is still a relatively new notion when compared to the Western countries‚ it
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trillion dollars in assets and is a leader in the banking and investment industry. JP Morgan Chase has since merged with other financial institutions and simply monopolized the industry. They are recognized as one of the big four banks alongside Citigroup‚ Bank of America and Wells Fargo (JP Morgan Chase‚ 2007). The corporation provides services to customers in many different countries and services include: Asset management‚ investment banking‚ commercial banking‚ private banking‚ securities services
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Unethical Business Practices at Enron LDR/531 Organizational Leadership August 11‚ 2011 Unethical Business Practices at Enron Enron Corporation came into existance in 1985 as the result of a merger between InterNorth and Houston Natural Gas. This merger produced the longest natural-gas pipeline network in the United States. Under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Jeffery Skilling‚ Enron changed from a gas-pipeline business into a natural-gas and electricity company during the
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Roche Holding AG: Funding the Genentech Acquisition Financial Policy March 5‚ 2015 Morgan Ephriam Kristopher Kirkpatrick Jasmine White 1. Statement of the Problem In the case Roche Holding AG: Funding the Acquisition‚ Roche and Genentech are interested in an acquisition. Roche is acquiring about receiving all outstanding shares of Genentech. Roche Holding AG is a Switzerland-based pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company. It discovers‚ develops and provides diagnostic and therapeutic products
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Audience Analysis The target audience for this article would be individuals that take an interest in war and the lives of soldiers on missions. I would write my summary to target those individuals to encourage or discourage them to read or not read the article written by Tim O’Brien. The audience cannot be defined by age‚ gender‚ and backgrounds or educational level because it could be a wide range of individuals that take notice of the writing for different purposes. The audience may know
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number unproven drug supplier on the street. The police spot the gunshot casings spread around Manalang‚ snap the crime scene‚ the pockets for evidence is empty‚ sideways the blood-splattered cardboard sign‚ was wrap by the body of Manalang in a blue tarp‚ and load him into a waiting ambulance. One of Manalang’s friends starts the motorcycle side car Manalang used‚ and there’s still splattered with blood and drives it away. By that time‚ someone lights a candle next to the thick wet patch of Manalang’s
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Investment Banking Global Education and Career Development Center ♦ 12-170 ♦ (617) 253-4733 ♦ http://careers.mit.edu Overview Investment banking includes a wide variety of activities‚ including underwriting‚ selling‚ and trading securities‚ providing financial advisory services‚ and managing assets. Investment banks cater to a diverse group of stakeholders – companies‚ governments‚ non-profit institutions‚ and individuals – and help them raise funds on the capital market. They perform the following
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Recession 16Specifically‚ Freund (2009) defines global downturns as years when world real GDP growth is (1) below 2 percent‚ (2) more than 1.5 percentage points below the previous five-year average‚ and (3) at its minimum relative to the previous two years and the following two years. 1975‚ 1982‚ 1991‚ 2001‚ and 2008 Freund (2009) describes the evolution of world trade following four previous global downturns. She finds that the size of the decline in world trade during these episodes is
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Module specification INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Code: PGBM04 Credits: 15 Level: Masters FBL‚ Business School Board: Postgraduate Business Studies Learning Hours: 150 of which 30 CONTACT hours Rationale 1. The international business environment is multi-dimensional‚ including economic‚ political‚ socio-cultural and technological influences. While each can be viewed in specific national settings‚ increasingly they have become interrelated through processes of globalisation. In particular
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1.1 Value Chain Analysis Applied to the Timber and Timber Products Industry. Exhibit 1.A below contains a depiction of the value chain. The links in the value chain are as follows: 1. Timber Tracts: Plant and maintain timber tracts (Weyerhaeuser) 2. Logging: Harvests timber (Weyerhaeuser) 3a. Sawmills: Cut timber into various grades of wood (Weyerhaeuser) 3b. Pulp and Paper Manufacturing: Grinds timber into pulp and converts the pulp into various grades of paper and
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