INVESTORS IN EXCELLENCE How it works The Investors in Excellence Standard is a framework for improvement and assessment. The Standard consists of five essential elements of excellence: • What matters most • Leading • Resourcing • Delivering • Achieving Within each of these elements there are a number of indicators containing questions that form the basis of the framework. Mapping your organisation against the Standard will highlight your strengths and also identify further opportunities
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10/11/2014 Abstract Dollar General Corporation is United States largest small-box discount retailer headquartered in Goodlettsville‚ Tennessee [1]. Dollar General offers both name brand products and generic merchandise [2]. Its competitors include Family Dollar‚ Dollar Tree which also operate in deep discount segment of US retailing. The following case study discusses about the various political‚ economic‚ social and technological forces that Dollar General have faced and their impact
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Bufn758Q—Quantitative Investment Strategy Name & Student ID #:_____________________ Professor Wermers Spring 2010 Numeric Investors 1. Briefly discuss the two momentum strategies of Numeric Investors. First approach – Based on past changes in analysts’ estimates‚ where they would cluster their forecasts of company earnings‚ and would revise their earnings estimates incrementally instead of big jumps. This would force analysts to update their estimates and would make consensus estimates
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Why many children run away from home? Outline I. Topic sentence: Running away from home can be very dangerous for a child. There are many dangers out there that children don’t often think about when they leave the safe arms of their parents. Even when they do know the dangers‚ they tend to think that nothing bad can happen to them. There are some of the reasons why children run away from home. II. First Cause: Abuse A. Physical B. Mental III. Second Cause: the drug use
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MEMORANDUM TO: UST Inc. Investors CC: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Debt Policy at UST Inc. ADD INTRO PARAGRAPH From the viewpoint of the bondholder‚ UST Inc. has various attributes that make the company a safe‚ yet sometimes risky investment. Qualities that make UST Inc. a superior investment include their excellent A-1 credit rating and their strong brand name and market position‚ which has made UST Inc. one of the most profitable companies in corporate America. While their asset tangibility
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The structured decisions are those defined as recognizable and defined. Unstructured decisions are described as problems that are new or different For this‚ Whirlpool had no prior knowledge or procedure in place for the consideration of the amount (dollars) for design changes. As Chuck went ahead and created this process by starting groups to focus on changes as well as marketing this would be measured as an unstructured problem that Chuck made for Whirlpool. 2.Describe and evaluate the process Chuck
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The short of it: Investor sentiment and anomalies by* Robert F. Stambaugh‚ Jianfeng Yu‚ and Yu Yuan November 3‚ 2011 Abstract This study explores the role of investor sentiment in a broad set of anomalies in cross-sectional stock returns. We consider a setting in which the presence of marketwide sentiment is combined with the argument that overpricing should be more prevalent than underpricing‚ due to short-sale impediments. Long-short strategies that exploit the anomalies exhibit profits
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This paper critiques the slow pace and use of legal rigmaroles in frustrating enforcement investors’ protection laws in Nigeria‚ compared with the American legal system‚ using AJAYI v SEC as reference. It concludes that (a) Nigerian courts should employ their power to sanction lawyers and litigants more proactively; (b) specialised courts’ powers‚ such as the Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) must be enhanced to handle specific subject-matters in Nigeria; and (c) the rights of appeal to appellate
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Dollar General Case Analysis Dollar General (DG) has succeeded in becoming a prominent competitor in the extreme value retail market segment in the United States. Throughout the years‚ DG has executed key business initiatives that have led to major advantages. They have implemented a low cost business model that targets smaller communities‚ which in turn allows for lower prices on products that consumers consider essential. By using the low cost business model‚ DG has been able to sustain a
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lower classes and caused war and bloodshed. a. Liberalism also stirred up national aspirations in central Europe‚ which could lead to war and the breakup of the Austrian Empire. b. The empire‚ which was dominated by the minority Germans‚ contained many ethnic groups‚ including Hungarians and Czechs‚ which was a potential source of weakness and dissatisfaction. II. Radical ideas
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