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James Collins' Good to Great

Whether this is working or not remains to be seen. 2) Dunkin Donuts recently announced the launch of latte espresso products. Why ...

Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Technology

argued to be the potential source of a competitive disadvantage. However, information technology, although a single phrase can enc...

An Analysis of Five Investment Firms

to compare five current investment firms. The search for the five companies began at Google, where a search for "investment broke...

Property Performance Measurement and Yields

ordinary investments (2002). While it may indeed be difficult to evaluate property in terms of performance, the tools necessary...

Comparative Analysis of Ask Jeeves and Yahoo Internet Search Engines

prices were about a dollar off. In addition, both stocks have had their ups and downs - both, for example, recorded their lowest p...

Investment Target Selection

company, but it is likely that IBM will be able to attain growth at lease equal to that of last year Figure 1 provides a view of ...

Problems of Accounting and Finance

substantial portion of the target companys business" (Trelease, Meehan and Storum, 2002; p. 23). The case does not state what por...

Project Standardization Viability

able to compete with everything theyve got - and often al they have is a vision. While routine application of assessment s...

Business Cycle, Investment, and Gross Domestic Product

on durable goods and other types of goods. The more money a person has (goes the theory), the more he/she is willing to spend on g...

Finance and the Contributions of Benjamin Graham

in 1914 (Brainyencyclopedia.com, 2004). During that same year, Graham began his career on Wall Street. During the booming 1920s, G...

Lazard and the Investment Banking Industry

several management models to look at the industry. Following this an investment bank can be used as a caser study agisnt this envi...

Car Industry and DFI

evidence also exists that indicates the growth may not be this slow for some time. For example in the UK the market still has a gr...

EMH and Asset Allocation

s an asset allocations uses the different asset classes there is a spread of risk as the risks of one asset are offset by another ...

Developing Countries and Foreign Direct Investment

to be a situation where both side benefit. Direct investment is seen as a way of increasing the wealth of a country as well as a...

Annual Report of Coca Cola Examined

The annual report of any publicly traded company can be found quickly by going to Yahoo!, selecting "finance" at the top of the pa...

A Taxation Article Summary

While it is clear that some of these hidden costs go to taxation, and that the right venue really does not get the amount of money...

2005 Position of Gap

fall of 2002, one of the first things my teenage daughter asked was, Doesnt Gap use sweatshops?" (Gap Inc. 2003 Social Responsibil...

Capital Asset Pricing Model and Beta

comparison of risk and rates of return to the overall market (CAPM, 2000). The entire technology sector all but crashed in ...

Southwest Airlines Report Analysis of Investment, Valuation, and Capital Structure

socks and stockings, they have delivered the pre-flight safety information to a rap beat. One pilot reportedly told passengers, "...

HP Investment

Meanwhile printing and Imaging remains HPs most profitable unit, representing about 35 percent of sales (Lower, 2003). Yet Dell is...

Business Investment in Saudi Arabia

it provides 75% of the budget revenues and accounts for 90-% of the countries export earnings, it is understandable why the govern...

Investing in Microsoft

creating software for the format, this is one innovation that was only introduced recently, and is likely to grow in popularity (M...

Wal Mart's Capital Sources

$2,823 (Wall-Mart, 2003). Financing is the next source of capital. Where a company does not have liquid assets to make the inves...

Electronic Commerce and the 'Plunge' Firms Take Before Considering Investment Returns

processed electronically and sent directly to suppliers of the products, thus eliminating one more time costly step (Business, 200...

Germany and FDi

boost opportunities in the former East Germany (McCrary, 1999). Interestingly enough, although Germany has been known thro...

Enron and WorldCom Financial Statement Manipulation

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

Real Estate Investment

or selling dependent on the market (2003). Finally, real estate is an excellent investment because there are government benefits i...

Second World War and the Anti Hitler Contributions of Australia

1995). Yet another crucial element to prewar considerations was the fact that there existed a great quest for peace. Democ...

Effects of Efficient Market Hypothesis Examined

the market" (Heakal, 2002). Fama (n.d.) described market efficiency in 1970, formulating the efficient market hypothesis at that ...

Jim Bakker, Dennis B. Levine, and 1980s' Ethical Questions

insider activities by people such as Dennis B. Levine of Drexel Burnham Lambert during the 1980s can be considered quaint part of ...