Marlon Wijesekara PA 642 Fall 2010 Final Paper During trying economic times‚ it is important to study how to organizations could be restructured for them to become more efficient; to accomplish more with less. As MPA students‚ we will be faced with such decisions in our professional careers; to combine‚ allocate and restructure our organizations to become more effective. In this paper‚ I will use three hypothetical fire stations which would be consolidated into one using the concepts from the
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013 Kerala solar panel scam From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia 2013 Kerala solar panel scam involved a fraudulent solar energy company‚ Team Solar‚ in Kerala‚ India‚ which used two women to create political contacts with links even to the Chief Minister’s office‚ duped several influential people to the tune of 70 million Rupees‚ by offering to make them business partners‚ or by offering to install solar power units for them‚ and receiving advance payments for the same. Contents [hide] 1 Incident
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Games Directors play While analysing the Reality of Boardroom we say many games and tactics often employed by directors so that they don’t lose power. Some such games were alliance‚ coalition‚ lobbying‚ scaremongering‚ log rolling etc. Here also majority of BOD were near and dear ones of Bright so everybody chose to stay quiet about what is going on. Under-reserving Like we say in the HLL case under-reserving is a tactic used by firms but in the long run it cant stop companies from collapsing
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The attacks of September 11‚ 2001 were a tragic day in the history of the United States. Law enforcement efforts after these attacks have been construed by many as racial profiling‚ because they focus on Muslims of Arab and South Asian origin; however‚ male African Americans have experienced this racial profiling for decades. Defining racial profiling and discussing its impact on America will show that even in the smallest of towns this is a common practice that is just not going away. We will be
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politics‚ culture and ideology of one country to penetrate another.” (Mittleman 1994‚ 428) By its very nature it is an intrusive process‚ one that ignores the sovereignty of states in order to allow the features of one state to infuse into another. Its modus operandi accordingly‚ is the manipulation of interactions between states and their asymmetrical power relations operationalised through neo-liberal market integration approaches. This market integration can be a “totalising or homogenous force… [Or]
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Introduction: IT Doesn’t Matter was an article written by: Nicholas G. Carr for the Harvard Business Review Magazine in 2003. The article outlines a situation‚ not quite as its title suggests‚ that IT is less relevant that it used to be in terms of a competitive advantage in Industry. This essay will consider what the point of view of Mr Carr is and whether it is a fair and accurate reflection of the reality on the ground. With the benefit of 9 years of hindsight‚ It’s more of a case of what lessons
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Two IIM-A grads shun Rs 1-cr offer AHMEDABAD: Declining pre-placement offers is nothing new for students of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad‚ but declining the highest offers ever made in the institute has raised more than a few eyebrows. Two of the six second-year post-graduate programme students of IIM-Ahmedabad who were offered the position of associates by Deutsche Bank‚ declined it despite their salaries‚ in rupee terms‚ was more than Rs 1 crore. Debashish Chakravarty‚ one of
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Creating an Analytical Unit Crime analysis is the systematic study of crime and disorder problems as well as other police related issues. The discipline of crime analysis began in London in the early 19th century‚ but it was not until the early 1900’s that crime analysis was practiced in the United States. During the 1970’s‚ publications about crime analysis techniques and functions came out‚ and more police departments began to formalize crime analysis. Nowadays crime analysis is well known;
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Are Science and Religion in Conflict? The debate about the compatibility of science and religion has been quite ongoing for a while. Many clergy men do not believe that both institutions are in conflict with each other. In fact people have come to believe that they both complement each other. In other words‚ science provides an explanation where religion falters and religion provides an explanation where science falters. This argument has been used to quell inquiries into the relationship that
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Throughout history‚ humankind has witnessed multiple relevant chapters that have drastically changed the world to the currently known and admired. Such events have marked important periods in history and have been certainly influential in numerous ways‚ ideologically‚ socially‚ politically‚ and undoubtedly artistically. However‚ some eras have been the mere recreation or blend of other significant periods. The Renaissance‚ which began in the early 14th century in the city of Florence‚ Italy‚ is a
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