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An Activist Approach: Confidential Role Assignment for Fultons Department Stores
by Guhan Subramanian Kaitlyn SzydlowskiA three party, multiple-issue negotiation exercise dealing with a potential merger between two leading department stores, called for by an activist investor hedge fund in a letter to both companies. Company management will now attempt to navigate next moves, which are complicated by weak takeover defenses of their corporate boards, hedge fund ownership stake within both companies, and potential anti-trust risk. Meanwhile, the third party, the activist hedge fund, is turning up the heat in planning their next move.
The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation (Columbia Business School Publishing Ser.)
by Ira MillsteinSome of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have relied on short-term share price increases to sustain their companies long term. Driven by a desire for prosperity, not posterity, these actions can doom any company. In The Activist Director, attorney Ira M. Millstein looks back at fifty years of counseling companies, nonprofits, and governments to actively govern their corporations and constituencies. From the threat of bankruptcy and the ConEd blackout of 1970s New York City, to the meltdown of Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s, to the turnaround of General Motors in the mid-1990s, Millstein takes readers into the boardrooms of several of the greatest catastrophes and success stories of America's best-known corporations. His solution lies at the top: a new breed of activist directors who partner with management and reject short-term outlooks, plan a future based on growth and innovation, and take responsibility for corporate organization, strategy, and efficiency. What questions should we ask of potential board members and how do we know they'll be active? Millstein offers pragmatic suggestions for recruiting activist directors to the boardroom to secure the future of the corporation.
Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity
by Gino CanellaNow more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms available, activists sometimes fail to have a coherent media and communication strategy. Drawing from his experiences as a documentary filmmaker with Black Lives Matter 5280 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado, Gino Canella argues that activist media create opportunities for activists to navigate conflict and embrace their political and ideological differences. Canella details how activist media practices—interviewing organizers, script writing, video editing, posting on social media, and hosting community screenings—foster solidarity among grassroots organizers. Informed by media theory, this book explores how activists are using media to mobilize supporters, communicate their values, and reject anti-union rhetoric. Furthermore, it demonstrates how collaborative media projects can help activists build broad-based coalitions and amplify their vision for a more equitable and just society.
Activist Retail Investors and the Future of Financial Markets: Understanding YOLO Capitalism (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)
by Usman W. Chohan Sven Van KerckhovenContemporary financial markets have been characterized by sociocultural phenomena such as "meme stocks", the Gamestop short squeeze, and "You Only Live Once (YOLO) trading". These are movements led by small-scale retail investors banding together to participate forcefully in financial markets through decentralized but coordinated actions. This book deploys many different subdisciplines to explore the recent ‘power grabbing’ of retail investors and the online environment that enables them to join the ranks of major financial players, and participate in contemporary capitalism. It offers multiple perspectives on the genesis, role, motivations, power, and future prospects of retail investors as a force in contemporary financial markets. Drawing upon the insights of authors hailing from many different countries, the book frames YOLO capitalism through numerous angles that help to explain the context and the importance of activist retail investors in modern financial markets, and thereby explore the possibilities of a transformed financial future with much wider small-scale participation. The book assesses the potential of online - and other - communities in enabling global coordination in impacting or even driving financial and crypto markets, and the challenges that come with it and weighs the competing narratives both positive and negative regarding YOLO capitalism. It strikes a balanced assessment of their legal, cultural, behavioural, economic, and political roles in modern finance. This book will be of interest to a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary audience of scholars in financial markets, financial regulation, political economy, public administration, macroeconomics, corporate governance, and the philosophy and the sociology of finance.
Activist Unionism: Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin
by Donald R. StabileFirst Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics
by Margaret E. Keck Kathryn SikkinkIn Activists beyond Borders, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.
The Activist's Media Handbook
by David FentonA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Activities Management (Team Leader Development Ser.)
by Cathy LakeActivities Management is a comprehensive guide to running a smooth and successful operation. It includes:* practical help on how to plan and manage work;* health and safety in the workplace;* environmental considerations that today's supervisor needs to know. The Team Leader Development Series is an essential tool towards gaining the Supervisory Management Award. Consisting of four practical and interactive textbooks, this series will be invaluable not only to students, but also as a guide individuals and organisations seeking to improve their business performance at the first level of management.Key learning features:* Learning Objectives to enable the reader to assess the knowledge gained throughout the series.* Activities to put the learning into practice.* Case studies - 'true-life' scenarios!* Workbased Assignments which will also provide evidence for S/NVQ portfolios.* Language is straightforward and direct, contextualised to relate to team leaders and supervisory managers working in a wide range of industry sectors.* Influential protagonists in the field will be alluded to as appropriate to support the learning.Tutor resource material for each title in the series is available either as hard copy or is downloadable from the BH website. Please contact BH marketing on bhmarketing@repp.co.uk.
Activity Accounting--Another Way to Measure Costs
by William J. Bruns Jr.Explains the principal differences between traditional cost accounting systems and activity-based costing systems.
Activity-Based Costing: Introduction
by Robert S. Kaplan Robin CooperProperly constructed activity-based costing (ABC) systems provide more accurate cost information about business activities and processes, and about the products, services, and customers served by these processes. ABC systems focus on organizational activities as the key element for analyzing cost behavior by linking organizational spending on resources to activities and business processes performed by these resources. This chapter describes the foundations of activity-based costing.
Activity-Based Costing and Capacity
by Robert S. KaplanDiscusses the use of budgeted rather than historical data in an activity-based costing (ABC) model and argues for calculating rates using practical capacity, not actual utilization. An ABC model need not be limited to analysis of historical data. When cost driver rates are calculated based on forecasted data, they can be used proactively for decisions such as pricing and order acceptance. Second, to avoid distortion of cost driver rates caused by unused capacity, the rates should be calculated using the practical capacity of the resources performing the activity. Discusses how to estimate practical capacity in various situations, including lumpy capacity acquisition, ramp-up of capacity utilization, seasonal and peak-load capacity, and differing service quality levels from supplied capacity.
Activity-Based Management: Operational Applications
by Robert S. Kaplan Robin CooperThe activity-based costing (ABC) model provides managers with a more accurate economic map of organizational spending and activities. How can managers benefit from this information? Activity-based management (ABM) accomplishes its objective through two complementary applications: operational and strategic ABM. This chapter examines operational activity-based management, which encompasses the actions that increase efficiency, lower costs, and enhance utilization, enabling managers to achieve short-term and highly visible successes from their Stage III ABC system.
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability (Routledge Revivals)
by Brian PlowmanThis title was first published in 2001: Product and particularly customer profitability are black holes in most managers’ understanding of their business. Identifying customer revenue is easy but identifying what they cost - so we can understand whether or not they are profitable - is difficult. In a world in which competition, regulation and the increasing use of the Internet put ever greater pressure on margins it is vitally important to understand both product- and customer-profitability. Activity Based Management (ABM) enables you to do this. This book explains the power of using ABM to increase the profitability of your business. It provides step-by-step guidance on basic principles, comparisons between traditional methods, definitions of processes, activities and cost-drivers as well as details of data collection techniques and implementation steps. Through the book’s numerous detailed examples a logical picture builds up of how to obtain the benefits that ABM can deliver. On its own ABM will change management decision-making: by showing how ABM also supports other profit improvement initiatives such as Business Process Reengineering, Shareholder Value Added and Customer Relationship Management, managers will learn how they can use the best possible toolkit to put their business firmly on the road to leaps in profitability.
Activity-Based Management at Stream International
by Robert S. Kaplan Norman KleinStream International's Crawfordsville, Indiana facilities undertake the design and implementation of an activity-based costing project. After analyzing the costs assigned to 161 work activities, Crawfordsville managers present five proposals for change based on ABM results, then meet to decide which to implement.
Activity Based Management at W.S. Industries (B)
by Jeremy Cott V. G. NarayananDescribes activity-based budgeting at W.S. Industries. Also describes target costing-led product redesign, and product, customer, and order profitability.
Activity-Based Management for Financial Institutions
by Bahnub Brent J.Discover how to use activity-based management to improve your bottom line The first book of its kind to focus on activity-based management in the financial services industry, Activity-Based Management for Financial Institutions: Driving Bottom Line Results will show you how to drive changes to your organization's bottom line. After providing a brief overview of a financial services activity-based costing model, this book focuses on how to directly improve net income, covering essential topics including costing, chargeback, and pricing; implementing ABC; implementing ABM; managing organizational change; and avoiding pitfalls. Written for those in the financial services industry-banks, securities firms, insurance companies Reveals how to drive benefits to the bottom line through disciplined execution of activity-based management and organizational change management Provides real world examples and tools for quick results and sustained success This one-of-a-kind book will take your financial institution from stuck to financially successful, driving profitability and performance.
Activity Guide For Foundations Of Restaurant Management And Culinary Arts: Level 1
by National Restaurant Association Staff<P>Industry-driven curriculum that launches students into their restaurant and foodservice career<P>! Curriculum of the ProStart(r) program offered by the National Restaurant Association.<P> The National Restaurant Association and Pearson have partnered to bring educators the most comprehensive curriculum developed by industry and academic experts.
Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
by René van der Duim Carina Ren Gunnar Thór JóhannessonThe recent surfacing of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism studies correlates to a rising interest in understanding tourism as emergent thorough relational practice connecting cultures, natures and technologies in multifarious ways. Despite the widespread application of ANT across the social sciences, no book has dealt with the practical and theoretical implications of using ANT in Tourism research. This is the first book to critically engage with the use of ANT in tourism studies. By doing so, it challenges approaches that have dominated the literature for the last twenty years and casts new light on issues of materiality, ordering and networks in tourism. The book describes the approach, its possibilities and limitations as an ontology and research methodology, and advances its use and research in the field of tourism.The first three chapters of the book introduce ANT and its key conceptual premises, the book itself and the relation between ANT and tourism studies. Using illustrative cases and examples, the subsequent chapters deal with specific subject areas like materiality, risk, mobilities and ordering and show how ANT contributes to tourism studies. This part presents examples and cases which illustrate the use of the approach in a critical way. Inherently, the study of tourism is a multi-disciplinary field of research and that is reflected in the diverse academic backgrounds of the contributing authors to provide a broad post-disciplinary context of ANT in tourism studies. This unique book, focusing on emerging approaches in tourism research, will be of value to students, researchers and academics in tourism as well as the wider Social Sciences.
The Actor's Guide to Self-Marketing: How to Brand and Promote Your Unique Image
by Carla RenataStand Out from the Competition! How do actors sell their personality? What does it take to make a lasting impression? How can actors use their image to achieve their dreams? The Actor's Guide to Self-Marketing answers all these questions and more. With a background in acting and publicity, author Carla Renata has gathered insider info and proven tips to help actors create their own brand and utilize it for success. With The Actor's Guide to Self-Marketing, you will learn how to: Highlight unique traits and skills Distinguish yourself from the crowd Market yourself through social media Angle for your dream role And so much more! Renata's methods have been tested and developed through her branding and social media program, The Branding Buddha, which has been taught online and privately, as well as in group classes at top universities in the United States. Along with tips from her program and extensive background in the field, Renata uses meditative practices and self-actualization to help actors develop their public image and reach their goals with clarity and intention. As she writes, "The mind is everything. What you think, you will become." With The Actor's Guide to Self-Marketing, you'll be well on your way to becoming the actor you really want to be and landing your dream roles.
The Actor's Survival Kit: Fifth Edition
by Miriam Newhouse Peter MessalineThe Actor’s Survival Kit is required reading in Canadian theatre schools and is a constant resource for its many readers across the country. This fifth edition gives actors fresh research from today’s experience, new lists of Canada-wide contacts, and input from success stories. It speaks to a new generation of artists, giving them an up-to-date guide to the business of acting. The book addresses a range of new issues: performer websites, video self-production, and sending rmand networking on the Internet. It also takes a fresh look at old ones: agents, self-promotion, and work opportunities for women and minorities. The authors learn by constantly talking to emerging artists about the problems they face in the business in Canada. Often those conversations begin with, "You wrote the book!" The authors are still receiving thanks from grateful artists who have been guided by this irreplaceable book over the years.
Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance (Columbia Business School Publishing Ser.)
by Michael PowersMuch has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional "insurance" risks of earthquakes, storms, terrorist attacks, and other disasters. Insightfully exploring these "acts of God and man," Michael R. Powers guides readers through the methods available for identifying and measuring such risks, financing their consequences, and forecasting their future behavior within the limits of science.A distinctive characteristic of earthquakes, hurricanes, bombings, and other insurance risks is that they impact the values of stocks, bonds, commodities, and other market-based financial products, while remaining largely unaffected by or "aloof" from the behavior of markets. Quantifying such risks given limited data is difficult yet crucial for achieving the financing objectives of insurance. Powers begins with a discussion of how risk impacts our lives, health, and possessions and proceeds to introduce the statistical techniques necessary for analyzing these uncertainties. He then considers the experience of risk from the perspectives of both policyholders and insurance companies, and compares their respective responses.The risks inherent in the private insurance industry lead naturally to a discussion of the government's role as both market regulator and potential "insurer of last resort." Following a thoughtful and balanced analysis of these issues, Powers concludes with an interdisciplinary investigation into the nature of uncertainty, incorporating ideas from physics, philosophy, and game theory to assess science's limitations in predicting the ramifications of risk.
Actúa: 12 llamadas a la acción frente a la crisis económica, política y social
by Rosa M Artal MAYOR ZARAGOZA, FEDERICODoce razones para actuar frente a la crisis económica política y social. Cuanto más hostil es el entorno y negras las previsiones, más importante es tratar de comprender lo que ocurre y contribuir a la búsqueda de soluciones. Esa es la doble misión que se proponen los autores de Actúa. Después de un convulso 2011, examinan una España y un mundo que se radicalizan, con mayor conciencia ciudadana, pero también con retrocesos históricos en los ámbitos esenciales de nuestra vida. A pesar del desánimo causado por una crisis económica sin precedentes, a la que se une la brutal quiebra de la sociedad y el descrédito de la política, ahora es necesario pensar y actuar. En doce capítulos alrededor de temas específicos (la justicia, la democracia, las relaciones internacionales, el empleo, la sanidad, los medios de comunicación o la ciencia, por ejemplo), destacados expertos analizan la situación actual tras cinco años de crisis y uno de indignación, explican las causas y proponen respuestas. Porque creen -creemos-, que no da lo mismo lo que haga cada uno, porque lo que se hace cuenta, porque estamos a tiempo de construir un nuevo mundo más humano, más justo y más libre. Por todo eso, ¡actúa! Reseñas: «Hay que actuar para no enfermar, levantando la mirada y poniéndose en pie para darnos cuenta de que no estamos solos en la voluntad de un cambio global. La salud se sitúa ahora en el epicentro de la lucha entre economía y política, entre las instrucciones del neoliberalismo y los derechos y necesidades de las personas.»Àngels Martínez I Castells «Se están echando por la borda millones de euros invertidos en miles de científicos para que terminen sobradamente preparados en la calle o en el extranjero. Mientras, la idea de una España basada en la economía del conocimiento y la innovación se pisotea cada vez con mayor fuerza.»Esther Samper y Sergio Pérez Acebrón «La sociedad necesita buenos políticos. Mientras llegan, nos las tenemos que arreglar solos. En el clima neoliberal que vivimos, la cultura debe convertirse en herramienta de lucha.»Javier Pérez de Albéniz «Las grandes luchas ambientales del siglo XXI necesitan de la acción colectiva. Queda dicho que la individual es necesaria, pero en ningún caso suficiente. Los grandes conflictos ecológicos hunden sus raíces en un modelo económico depredador de recursos.»Juantxo López de Uralde «Encontrarse en las calles y comprobar que somos muchas y muchos los que nos cuestionamos el sistema, ha generado una conciencia colectiva de que existen posibilidades, recursos e individuos para alterar el aquí y el ahora.»Lourdes Lucía y Sofía De Roa «Juntos, muchos, insistentemente, informados, aventando reflexiones inducidas y usando el cerebro, el corazón y la dignidad, superando la depresión, la abulia y el miedo que nos adormecen y debilitan, con las armas de la razón y de la no violencia, podemos lograr un mundo más justo para todos.»Rosa María Artal
Actuarial Aspects of Long Term Care (Springer Actuarial)
by Frédéric Planchet Etienne Dupourqué Néfissa SatorThis book proposes a review of Long-Term Care insurance; this issue is addressed both from a global point of view (through a presentation of the risk of dependence associated with the aging of the population) and an actuarial point of view (with the presentation of existing insurance products and actuarial techniques for pricing and reserving). It proposes a cross-view of American and European experiences for this risk. This book is the first dedicated entirely to long-term care insurance and aims to provide a useful reference for all actuaries facing this issue. It is intended for both professionals and academics.
Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance: ICASQF, Bogotá, Colombia, June 2014 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #135)
by Daniel Hernández-Hernández Jaime A. Londoño José GarridoFeaturing contributions from industry and academia, this volume includes chapters covering a diverse range of theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance, including portfolio management, derivative valuation, risk theory and the economics of insurance. Developed from the First International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, held at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá in June 2014, this volume highlights different approaches to issues arising from industries in the Andean and Carribean regions. Contributions address topics such as Reverse mortgage schemes and urban dynamics, modeling spot price dynamics in the electricity market, and optimizing calibration and pricing with SABR models.
Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance: ICASQF2016, Cartagena, Colombia, June 2016 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #214)
by Jaime A. Londoño José Garrido Monique JeanblancDeveloped from the Second International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, this volume showcases the latest progress in all theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance. Held at the Universidad de Cartagena in Cartegena, Colombia in June 2016, the conference emphasized relations between industry and academia and provided a platform for practitioners to discuss problems arising from the financial and insurance industries in the Andean and Caribbean regions. Based on invited lectures as well as carefully selected papers, these proceedings address topics such as statistical techniques in finance and actuarial science, portfolio management, risk theory, derivative valuation and economics of insurance.