the Values In 2003‚ CEO Sam Palmisano authorized a bold effort to refresh the values via an IBM “values jam‚” two 72-hour Web chat sessions about what IBM stands for‚ open to every IBMer in the world. When he presented the plan to the IBM board‚ one of the directors‚ a former CEO‚ questioned him about whether this was “socialism.” Palmisano explained that this was the only way to build an enduring institution in which IBMers embraced and owned the values. “It wouldn’t do to create values from
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advice and expertise. Accountants also act as management and corporate caretakers‚ taking care of small business matters. Accountants perform a wide range of tasks like tax advice and assistance in order to complete your tax returns. Financial Accountant A financial accountant looks at past business transactions‚ everything from what the company has bought to what it has sold throughout the year. All the information is needed to create profit and loss balance sheets which are called the final accountants
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Houses and public buildings in Britain and the US have been built in a range of styles and materials. Old and new stand side by side. In Britain there are timber-framed houses‚ buildings of brick or stone‚ and modern concrete and glass structures. Many US architectural styles came originally from Europe. The South-west has many buildings in the Spanish colonial or mission style. The federal style borrowed elements from ancient Rome‚ and the facades and columns of Greek revival buildings
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Markowitz attacks hedge fund diversification claims Author: Kris Devasabai Source: Risk magazine | 26 Feb 2014 Nobel prize winner Harry Markowitz says alternative investments may not deliver the diversification benefits sought by investors Harry Markowitz‚ one of the pioneers of modern portfolio theory and 1990 Nobel prize winner‚ has claimed alternative investments such as hedge funds rarely offer the diversification benefits sought by their investors. "The people selling these products
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Yahoo! and Customer Privacy (A) In the summer of 2004‚ the People’s Republic of China asked Yahoo!’s Chinese subsidiary for the name and address associated with username "houyan1989@yahoo.com.cn." The government gave no explanation of why it needed this information or what it intended to do with it. Yahoo!’s privacy policy stated it would not divulge a customer’s personal information unless officially requested via a court order or some other legal means. This was new and unexplored territory‚ however
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China grinding media remodeling has been top level To analyze the change of grinding mill consumption per unit of China’s iron ore concentrator from 1986 to 1995‚ it is easy to see that it dropped O l7 kg / t. Calculated as 246 million tons in 1995 iron ore production for China’s iron ore concentrator ball consumption of steel by 41 860 t. Value of 1.2558 billion yuan. During this period due to the iron ore concentrator emphasis on reducing consumption of steel‚ generally carried out the
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The case study‚ “Reorganizing Yahoo” written P. Indu and Vivek Gupta touched on the long road of ups and down for the organization during a time where competitors such as Google were fiercely entering the arena. Yahoo! began as a student hobby of founders Jerry Yang and David Foli have sense evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other‚ find and access information. David Filo and Jerry Yang‚ were both completing their doctoral thesis in Electrical Engineering
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Yahoo! in China - Background Shi Tao Shi Tao‚ a Chinese poet and journalist‚ is serving a ten-year prison sentence in China for sending an email to the U.S. According to a letter Amnesty International received from Yahoo! (YHOO)‚ and Yahoo!’s own later public admissions‚ Yahoo! China provided account-holder information‚ in compliance with a government request‚ that led to Shi Tao’s sentencing. Mr. Shi was accused of "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities" after sending an email
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What does ’’competitiveness’’ mean at the country level? How can it be defined and measured? “Take someone who doesn ’t keep score‚ who ’s not looking to be richer‚ or afraid of losing‚ who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he ’s free.” Maybe Rumi (Persian poet born in 13th century) was right‚ maybe the key to true freedom and probably to happiness is to stop trying to be the best‚ stop competing with each other. But the feeling of competitiveness has existed in man since
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CORPORATE FINANCE EXERCISE 2012-2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CHAPTER 4. ASSETS IN A COMPANY EXERCISE 1 In order to run the business effectively‚ Enterprise X purchased a set of 4 computers by the beginning of Year N+1. Its purchasing price is 15 million VND per item (excluding VAT). The total transportation and testing cost is 5 million VND. Their estimated useful life is 5 years. Required:
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