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Legislative requirements for board gender diversity and firm performance

Board Diversity and Firm Performance: How Legislative Requirements Might Help Boost Earnings Just under a decade ago, Norway made headlines by passing a law that required all public limited companies (PLCs) had boards made up of at least forty percent female members, in an effort to establish…

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Machiavellian principles in tobacco industry marketing

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most controversial yet enduring political manifestos regarding the differing types of military affairs, principalities, and qualities of a great leader.

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Employee motivation and recognition programs at Walt Disney

The objective of this work is to answer the questions of: (1) What explicit rewards and status symbols are used to motivate employees of Walt Disney? (2) Are there any stories, legends or myths that are familiar to employees and customers of Walt Disney?

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Corporate culture and employee fit in organizational success

Corporate Culture can be effectively defined as the basic behaviors and the attitudes and all the related approaches that individuals within an organization use when they interact with one another for any reason at all.

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Organizational transformation at Intersect Investments: gap analysis and change management challenges

The current research is the study of management problems which occurred in company which decided to transform its operation practices after 15 years of successful their implementation.

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The five roles of financial management in modern organizations

Implements controls and procedures to ensure funds are tracked according to GAAP and FASB stds; Manages a/P and a/R functions; ensure auditability of transactions

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The Enron scandal and the creation of Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Standard to most businesses is the idea that it is management's only responsibility in an organization to generate profits -- the best possible fiscal return for stakeholders.

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Expatriate compensation for Riordan Manufacturing's operations in Japan

Globalization has many different effects on the world, the nations within it, and the individual organizations and people that populate these nations.

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Managing offshore software testing projects between U.S. and Indian providers

In the article and research cited in An Empirical Investigation of Client Managers Responsibilities on Managing Offshore Outsourcing of Software-Testing Projects (Jain, Poston, Simon, 2011) the dynamics of outsourcing alliances with American companies and Indian service providers' shows signs of…

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Walmart's low price everyday strategy and mission alignment with customer value creation

All internal systems, processes, external stakeholder management initiatives, supply chain management, sourcing, quality management and merchandising initiatives in WalMart revolve around the fulfillment of the expectations they create with their customers daily.

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