KKR and the Art of the Steal Shareholder Theory and Buyback Programs Introduction Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) is an investment firm that acquires influence in a company by purchasing a controlling amount of shares or else a significant amount of sh Continue Reading...
Civil Society Organizations 1) International NGOs, or civil society organizations, play an important role in global governance. Some of these are transnational bodies, comprised of many different nations, that act on behalf of the global community. Continue Reading...
North Africa Nation Building Authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have been collapsing unexpectedly over the past year, or at least are under severe challenge by their own people for the first time in decades. In Tunisia, the fi Continue Reading...
SOX provides explicit legislative directives for SEC regulation, altering this authority division, of what was once perceived as the states' exclusive jurisdiction. Rule 404 of the SEC The following Executive Summary reflects the Rule 404 of the S Continue Reading...
PESTLE Analysis Country's Profile Political Perspective Environmental Perspective Legal Perspective Economic Perspective Cultural and Ethnic Issues Technological Perspective Billabong is a leading name in the apparel industry of Australia. Th Continue Reading...
, although more governments are including citizen satisfaction survey results to address the lack-of-quality-indicators criticism. Ultimately, the article's key findings can be summarized in the four lessons learned from the states that the authors p Continue Reading...
That said, Goodhart believes that global governance, if pushed too far into sovereign nations' doings, can in fact undermine popular sovereignty as "a viable conception of democracy" but it is not doing that and in fact, in a globalized world that i Continue Reading...
Foreign Aid vs. Economic Growth: A critical evaluation of the success/Failure of foreign aid in Africa (Ethiopia) In this paper, explore the concept of foreign aid and economic development in an African. We focus on a critical evaluation of the succ Continue Reading...
Organizing research-development-engineering meetings Such meetings were organized by Continental in order to focus around researchers and developers within the company and to grant them an entrepreneur value, in order to directly confront them wit Continue Reading...
Sarabanes-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. This template argues that the fiscal responsibility o Continue Reading...
The world's largest economy has seen much since the financial crisis of 2008 began the role toward the precipice in terms of the Wall Street corruption. Transparency president Nancy Boswell maintains that it is an "integrity gap "(Graham, 2010). Ho Continue Reading...
Chicago: Planning and Urban Life Urban Sustainability Urban sustainability revolves around many factors. This means for the area to endure, several factors have to be considered. These factors may involve engaging the local communities in order to Continue Reading...
This is important, because it goes against the fundamental principles of the American democracy, as citizens demand accountability and transparency. To address this issue, the private sector can provide many different services that the government is Continue Reading...
European Union a state, or what else distinguishes it from other International Organizations The primary question concerning global organizations as a medium of global governance relates towards the quantity and excellence of this governance within Continue Reading...
During times where they are not needed, this would be a waste of resources. Instead, a PMC is there when the military needs it, and when the mission is over, the military no longer has to spend resources to maintain their personnel. Another benefit Continue Reading...
The recent 1MDB scandal that stretched from the East to the West is a major example of misconduct in the financial industry. It is also indicative of an endemic culture of misconduct within the industry itself. Several banks and higher-ups in governm Continue Reading...
Environmental Issues, Business Ethics Background history on business ethics The term "business ethics" has contexts in different ways making the history of business ethics vary according to how one perceives the subject. The history is likely to va Continue Reading...
Social equity is a key issue of public administration and forms the basic theme of the 2013 "Social Equity Leadership Conference," in June. This white paper discusses the key goals of the conference based on the conference issue for social equity as Continue Reading...
This can only be accomplished by first focusing on the entire value chains' unmet needs, and given the monopolistic approaches of De Beers in this industry, channel partners and retailers will have many unmet process needs that once served could tur Continue Reading...
Public Administration in Brazil PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION IN BRAZIL The grassroots and rural development happen to be the main concern and responsibility of any responsive government in a political system. This because the power of political participati Continue Reading...
Governance Following the Financial Crisis Principles of Good Governance Following the Global Financial Crisis Many high profile companies suffered a downfall following the 2008 global financial crisis. The meltdown spanned across various nations i Continue Reading...
Audit Management DQ Consider the governance of the company owning Rana Plaza and describe the regional expectations as well as best practice in this area and the benefits that adoption brings. Evaluate the governance of Rana Plaza during and after t Continue Reading...
Strategic positioning is the positioning of an organization (unit) in the future, while taking into account the volatile environment, plus the systematic recognition of that positioning. The strategic positioning of an organization includes the plan Continue Reading...
Government plays a considerable role in creating feelings of shared obligation and respect in society. People must have confidence that it will defend the public interest, since representative democracy rests on officials and the trust they provoke Continue Reading...
Roles of Directors and Duties of an Audit Committee The Board of Directors is an organization's or company's governing body that is mandated with the task of ratifying all major decisions. Generally, the Board of Directors handles all issues of majo Continue Reading...
" (p. 4) This is to make the argument that it should be seen as a practical reality of this new business atmosphere that responsibility to the social realities and standards of an operational setting will be directly predictive of long-term survival, Continue Reading...
On the other hand, we might be able to "incubate" a cable network by playing a Thursday night series of cable games, and such a network could be a long-run success that would strengthen our product as well." (Tagliabue, 2004) Tagliabue states that Continue Reading...
The Shared Information Principle is also the most reliant on technologies, with the Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) and communications technologies being the most crucial within this specific principle. The Principle of Knowledge Developm Continue Reading...
Abuse of power also adds to the list. In regard to the remedies that may be used in taking care of unfair prejudice. It is therefore evident that the Companies Act 2006 has several changes that are relevant to the protection of the shareholder. The Continue Reading...
Compliance, Risk and Governance This report presents to the board of WB a brief overview of the key findings from the review undertaken, elucidating the concerns recognized from the initial findings from an internal audit. The report, then offers a Continue Reading...
They call for greater recognition in the national policies, which negatively affect the goals (Zeemering, 2007). Taking a critical perspective, I find the Federalism and intergovernmental relations to be undemocratic. This system propagated the ten Continue Reading...
One other new thing brought to the attention of companies by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the fact that, under this law, every public company is supposed to prove strong internal systems designed to catch an employee intending to commit fraud or flag Continue Reading...
Wal-Mart Inc. Wal-Mart is an American-based multinational discount store, currently operating more than 11,000 retail outlets in 27 different countries, and serving approximately 140 million customers weekly. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, Continue Reading...
Hospital Crisis Management Planning The study of crisis management is one of the most written about issues of importance. This is true in part because crises can happen to any or all types of organizations (from businesses to community or government Continue Reading...
Cloud Computing Benefits As cloud-computing starts to take hold, a number of significant advantages have turned out to be evident. The first one of these, and perhaps the most important, is the costs. The cloud claims to decrease the price of obtai Continue Reading...
PUBLIC CORRUPTION IS AN OBSTACLE TO a COUNTRY'S DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC CORRUPTION AS AN OBSTACLE TO A COUNTRY'S DEVELOPMENT Public Corruption as an Obstacle to a Country's Development Public Corruption as an Obstacle to A Country's Development Public Continue Reading...
Policy Efficacy: Terrorist Activity since 9/ Terrorism The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 changed the world forever. This one of the most successful and large-scale attacks in the history of transnational terrorism. These attacks sent eff Continue Reading...
There needs to be a more thorough focus on how CSR programs in India require disclosures, how these disclosures need to be handled, and guidance on how best for the CEO to respond and be responsive to them (Dizik, 2009). A press release will not sol Continue Reading...
" (Bawer, 2005) Thus, culture and a higher cost of going out both come into play. Europeans have more health care and social services than Americans, but they still also pay more in taxes. True, they have better public transportation as well -- but g Continue Reading...
