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Adecco SA's Acquisition of Olsten Corp.
by Peter Tufano Simi KediaIn the summer of 1999, Adecco SA, one of the world's leading staffing companies, was in the midst of attempting to acquire the staffing operations of Olsten Corp., a U.S. firm. This case analyzes the economics of the staffing industry, basic valuation, cross-border issues including tax arbitrage, valuation of minority interest, and the importance of financial health in merger negotiations.
¡Adelante!: Cómo ser emprendedora y autosuficiente para alcanzar una vida rica y realizada
by Nely Galán Suze OrmanUna revolución mundial del espíritu emprendedor está en marcha. Para Nely Galán --empresaria, productora de TV y magnate de bienes raíces-- ayudar a mujeres a volverse emprendedoras y autosuficientes es una misión. ¿Y qué es ser una mujer rica y exitosa? Significa ser rica en todos los sentidos: rica en dinero, rica en familia, rica en amor, rica en tiempo: ¡es abundancia! Galán lo dice todo de frente, sin tapujos, compartiendo valiosos consejos francos y sensatos como: * "El Príncipe Azul no existe": Ningún marido te va a rescatar, tu jefe no es tu héroe. Primero, ¡elígete tú! * "Piensa como inmigrante": Ahorra, ahorra y luego, ahorra todavía más. No gastes dinero que no tienes, mantén tus metas a la vista para gastar dentro de tus límites. * "No compres zapatos, compra propiedades": Olvídate de la gratificación inmediata. Prueba con una orientación por metas. Sueña en grande, rompe el cascarón y descubre una idea ambiciosa, adopta una visión para tu vida. * "El poder no te lo entregan en bandeja de plata, tienes que tomarlo": Escucha tu voz interior pero mantén la mente abierta para escuchar un buen consejo. Desafíate tú misma e identifica mentores. ¡Adelante! también presenta inspiradoras historias de mujeres exitosas, ejercicios para identificar tus metas y tus fortalezas, así como consejos prácticos y pequeños trucos para ahorrar dinero, hacer dinero y encontrar "dineros escondidos" que puedan contribuir a poner en acción tus sueños de trabajar por cuenta propia. Así que únete al movimiento ¡Adelante! La revolución empieza dentro de ti. "Un libro sabio y muy necesario que enseña a las mujeres a no temerle al dinero sino a verlo como una forma hacer realidad sus sueños".--Sandra Cisneros "Sé de primera mano que Nely Galán es una máxima empresaria y tu mejor amiga. La generosidad de su espíritu salta de las páginas de este libro".--Nell Merlino, fundadora de Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence, una organización para mujeres empresarias "¡Adelante! enseña a las mujeres a liberar su pasión y lanzarse a tomar acción para alcanzar su éxito. Nely inspira a sus lectoras a usar lo que tienen para conseguir lo que quieren".--Tory Johnson, autora de The Shift, bestseller #1 del New York Times "Tú no estarás completa hasta que te sientes realizada en todo aspecto de tu vida y tu dinero. Y eso es lo que más va a impactar el futuro de tus hijos".--Maria Elena Lagomasino, presidenta de WE Family Offices y miembra de la junta directiva de Walt Disney, Coca-Cola y AvonFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy
by Stuart C. Gilson Belen VillalongaIn 2002, a massive accounting fraud and corporate looting scandal involving the founding Rigas family made Adelphia the 11th largest bankruptcy case in history, and the third--after WorldCom and Enron--among those triggered by fraud. Set in 2005, when Adelphia is contemplating several options to emerge from bankruptcy, including a $17.6 billion cash-and-stock offer from Time Warner and Comcast, a $17.1 billion cash-only offer from Cablevision, and a $15 billion cash-only offer from KKR and Providence. The fact that both Comcast and Cablevision are themselves family-controlled and with a large wedge between the family's ownership and control rights further complicates the decision.
Adeo Health Science: Turning a Product into a Brand
by Elizabeth A. Keenan Jill AveryFor decades, American parents were warned to avoid introducing potential allergens to their babies prior to their first birthday. But two influential clinical studies caused the medical establishment to radically reverse their position. Parents were now warned that delaying the introduction of these types of foods increased a baby's risk of food allergies. Adeo Health Science was ready, with patents filed for a baby food that made it simple for parents to introduce allergens. Now, the new company had to turn its product into a brand and map its go-to-market strategy, including creating a compelling value proposition, choosing a path to market that was either direct-to-consumer, through grocery retailers, or via the physician channel, and planning its marketing communications and sales strategy. As a new startup with constrained resources, the company knew its marketing decisions would make or break the new product.
ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain
by Tracy OtsukaAn unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to embark on a journey of self-discovery. ADHD is one of the most common neurological disorders in the United States—yet a staggering 75 percent of girls and women remain undiagnosed. Due to the gender gap in medical research, which does not account for symptoms manifesting differently in women—leading to increased problems with anxiety, depression, working memory, sleep, energy, and concentration—many ADHD women are left to navigate a society that fails to understand their struggles and gifts. But what if every woman had the resources and support to uncover the hidden wonders of her neurodivergent brain?Enter certified ADHD coach and podcast host Tracy Otsuka. Armed with her experience coaching thousands of women, cutting-edge medical research, and personal insights from her own diagnosis, she presents a revelatory guide tailored specifically for girls and women with ADHD. In it, Otsuka offers an entirely new set of tools, systems, and strategies to access a world of boundless productivity, focus, and confidence.With her signature wit and levity—in entertaining chapters designed for ADHD readers—Otsuka explores the unique challenges that ADHD women face and illuminates the extraordinary qualities that set them apart: overflowing creativity, laser-focused attention, deep empathy, and fearless entrepreneurial spirit. Even without an official diagnosis, readers will be equipped with the tools to conquer any to-do list and to tap into their true purpose, personally or professionally.By dismantling the long-standing stereotypes and misinformation surrounding women with ADHD, Otsuka offers a beacon of hope for any woman looking to transform her symptoms into strengths. Comprehensive, lively, and long overdue, ADHD for Smart Ass Women is the key to unlocking unparalleled potential and to understanding your truly magnificent and brilliant brain. Are you ready to discover your superpower?
adidas Group: IT Multi-Sourcing at adidas
by Martin Wiener Carol Saunders Lynda M. Applegate Grandon GillThis case describes the design and implementation of an IT-multi-sourcing strategy at a large global sportswear company, the adidas Group, which is headquartered in Germany. To help increase the benefits and reduce the risks of its sourcing arrangements, adidas carefully selected two tier-2 vendors to work with its primary tier-1 vendor, a large Indian outsourcing firm that it had worked with closely for over a decade. The management of the multi-sourcing arrangement is posing a number of challenges. The Chief Information Officer is considering a number of options to ensure the continued success of the multi-sourcing strategy, including restructuring the IT group, developing the skills of its staff, and starting a captive center.
adidas Group: IT Multi-Sourcing at adidas
by Carol Saunders Grandon Gill Lynda M. Applegate Martin WienerThis case describes the design and implementation of an IT-multi-sourcing strategy at a large global sportswear company, the adidas Group, which is headquartered in Germany. To help increase the benefits and reduce the risks of its sourcing arrangements, adidas carefully selected two tier-2 vendors to work with its primary tier-1 vendor, a large Indian outsourcing firm that it had worked with closely for over a decade. The management of the multi-sourcing arrangement is posing a number of challenges. The Chief Information Officer is considering a number of options to ensure the continued success of the multi-sourcing strategy, including restructuring the IT group, developing the skills of its staff, and starting a captive center.
The Adidas Scandal: The account of an investment banker
by Laurent AdamowiczThe book Adidas Scandal is a report given by Laurent Adamowicz about the Adidas Company buying and selling. Mr. Adamowicz has decided to write this book as a result of being harashed by various stakeholders about his role and his knowledge of the Adidas file. That is his role and his knowledge about the Adidas buying by Bernard Tapie and its selling by this one to the Crédit Lyonnais. This transaction has made headlines of many newspapers of the time. The fact is that the testimonies given by Mr. Adamowicz had been distorted and changed by many journalists, lawyers and other personalities for their mere knowlege of the file or for other reasons. For Mr. Adamowicz facts have to speak by themselves; that is why he has decided to tell only facts but not procedures. The book is composed of five parts: 1- The negotiation to find a potential buyer 2-Financing of the acquistion with the involvement of Japanese banks 3-The portage by the French bank the Crédit Lyonnais that become the majority owner. 4- The Adidas company selling by the French bank 5- The Adidas company listing on the stock exchange market.
Adiós a los bancos
by Miguel Fernández Ordóñez¿Qué razón hay para impedir a los ciudadanos el acceso a depósitos públicos y seguros? ¿Qué lleva a los estados a proteger a los bancos privados en vez de fomentar competencia e incentivar la innovación? ¿Dónde estriba la fragilidad de los depósitos en los bancos privados? La gran crisis de 2008 puso de manifiesto la debilidad del dinero usado en los países desarrollados. Millones de trabajadores arrojados al paro y millones de euros dedicados a salvar los bancos son algunos de los daños gigantescos que causan las crisis bancarias. El diagnóstico mayoritario atribuyó la crisis a un mal funcionamiento de los mercados, que llevó a un aumento aún mayor de las regulaciones y de la protección de los bancos. Fernández Ordoñez presenta la visión, diametralmente opuesta, de otros economistas que defienden que el sistema actual de dinero privado es muy frágil y que sus problemas no podrán resolverse con más regulaciones. Estos estudiosos proponen usar el dinero público y seguro que ya existe: los depósitos en los bancos centrales. El tsunami de la digitalización y de las nuevas tecnologías también está exigiendo la liberalización de las actividades bancarias, y hoy se cuestiona con fuerza el sistema actual del dinero y la banca. Este libro, por su sencillez y claridad, ayuda a entender este debate.
Adjacent Learning: Using Insights from Outside the Organization to Develop Workplace Performance
by David Hayden Steve GeorgeUse insights from outside the business to rethink workplace learning in order to drive individual and team performance.Workplaces are not the only setting where employees learn. They are learning constantly in all areas of their lives. The problem is that learning and development (L&D) practitioners don't know how to apply the experiences from outside the traditional business setting to improve employee learning and drive business results. Adjacent Learning is a practical guide which solves this problem. Topics covered include acting, difference and emotion through to language, observation and storytelling and explains how these can be used to deliver more effective workplace learning. There is also expert guidance on the importance of employees understanding the 'why' of learning as well as just the 'how' as well as why it's essential to consider experiences from other countries and industries to create diversity of thought which generates the best possible results. Reflection points and key takeaways are included in every chapter as well as interviews with leading figures in the L&D industry. This practical guide is also full of advice, tips and examples throughout to help L&D professionals design a robust learning strategy that will allow employees and the business to thrive.
Adjudicating Employment Rights
by Susan Corby Pete BurgessAdjudicating Employment Rights compares and analyses institutions for resolving employment rights disputes in ten countries. In addition to detailed individual chapters, the study offers a theoretical perspective and an evaluation of national institutions against key yardsticks.
Adjudicating Global Business in and with India: International Commercial and Investment Disputes Settlement (Routledge Research in Corporate Law)
by Leïla Choukroune and Rahul DondeThis edited collection on international commercial and investment disputes in, and with, India examines past and present landmark legislative and regulatory reforms initiated by the Indian government, including the 2015 new Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) model, the 2015 amendments to the 1996 Arbitration Act and the 2013 amendments to Section 135 of the Companies Act on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as well as the most recent amendments to the same. The book also includes recent developments in the dispute resolution arena, regional, and international negotiations involving India, the legal profession’s response to these developments, and civil society’s comments. In addition, it addresses contemporary problems of key importance and at the centre of today’s discussions, from the legitimacy and relevance of Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) to the denunciation of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and the role arbitration should play in emerging economies now leaders in world trade. In creating bridges between commercial and investment arbitration, it also renews the conceptual approach to these too often artificially isolated fields of law. The volume provides an accurate and updated account of the many fascinating conceptual and practical evolutions, which already impact the world of international dispute resolution far beyond the borders of India. This unique and exhaustive study will be of great appeal to a vast range of readers from practitioners to academia.
Adjusted Present Value Method for Capital Assets
by Stuart C. Gilson Steven R. FensterThis case provides an explanation of the adjusted present value method for valuing capital assets. The authors believe this approach is generally simple and better for the complicated and changing capital structure found in restructuring.
Adjusting the Levers: Levers of Organization Design at Work
by Robert L. SimonsThis chapter focuses on the important interplay of the four levers of organization design. Examples from three different organizations are used to discuss the effect of each design variable on the others.
Adjusting to Global Economic Change: The Dangerous Road Ahead
by Robert A. Levine David R. Frelinger James T. BartisThe author combines macroeconomic history since the Great Depression with a brief exposition of economic theory that stems from and explains that history, and explores how that experience may apply to the present economic crisis. He warns that we may again be headed for stagflation and makes suggestions for escaping the worst effects of the crisis.
Adjusting to New Realities: MENA, The Uruguay Round, and the EU-Mediterranean Initiative
by Patricia Alonso-Gamo Susan Fennell Khaled SakrAdjusting to New Realities: MENA, The Uruguay Round, and the EU-Mediterranean Initiative
Adjusting to Reality: Beyond 'State Versus Market' in Economic Development (Routledge Revivals)
by Robert KlitgaardOriginally published in 1991, Robert Klitgaard’s classic book addresses questions of enduring relevance in a lively and insightful way. Bribes, tribes, and markets that fail—these are the realities in many developing countries. The usual strategies for reform—be they capitalist or socialist—have failed to address them effectively. What is to be done when economic reforms leave the poor behind or when when new constitutions and elections are undercut by inefficient bureaucracies, overcentralization, and corruption? And what to do about persistent ethnic inequalities within developing countries? The book provides inspiring examples from around the world, as well as analytical frameworks to guide inclusive policy discussion. Theorists will enjoy the novel uses of industrial economics, the theory of the firm, and the economics of discrimination. The book highlights overlooked causes of underdevelopment: imperfect information and weak information processing in individuals and institutions. In the preface, the former President of Panama, Dr. Nicolás Ardito Barletta, writes: "Poverty, Klitgaard argues, is—and should be—a principal concern of development strategists, but policy makers and analysts will continue to run from pillar to post in their search for a cure unless they can adjust their development schemes to reality…." "The new approach that the author proposes is based on two fundamental principles. One is that the proper choice of economic strategies cannot be determined in the abstract but depends on particular circumstances… The other is that information is at the heart of problems in the real world of the developing countries… Klitgaard offers examples from Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, and the Philippines to make his point. "The author suggests creative ways in which the state and citizens themselves can solve their own ‘inevitably unique problems.’ One of the key tasks, in Klitgaard’s view, is to ensure that environments are rich in information. This volume offers a broad framework for policy analysis that moves us closer to intelligent solutions to the real problems of the real poor in the modern world."
Adjustment and Financing in the Developing World
by Tony KillickThis book, edited by Tony Killick, consists of papers presented at a seminar sponsored jointly by the IMF and the Overseas Development Institute, held in London, England, to discuss the problems facing the developing world in a global environment of high inflation rates and large payments imbalances.
Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Evangelos A. Calamitsis Anupam Basu Dhaneshwar GhuraAfter a prolonged crisis, sub-Saharan African countries have been broadening their reform efforts and enjoying improved economic growth rates. The gains they have made are fragile, however, and to achieve sustained progress they need to strengthen their current reform programs and resolve the serious conflicts threatening the region.
Adjustment and Poverty: Options and Choices (Priorities for Development Economics)
by Frances StewartThe last decade has brought sharp adjustment and rising poverty for most of the developing world. Adjustment and Poverty: Options and Choices examines the major causes and results of this situation, including: *the relationship between structural adjustment and poverty; *the extent to which the situation was brought about by internal and/or external policies; *the impact of the IMF and World Bank on adjusting countries; *government tax and spending policies - with a particular focus on social sector spending; *the possiblity of better policies in the future.
Adjustment, Conditionality, and International Financing
by International Monetary FundThe seminar was the first to be conducted in Spanish under the seminar program for nonofficials recently established by the External Relations Department of the Fund. The seminar program aims at promoting understanding of what the Fund has done and is doing to help members with their balance of payments problems. The seminars are also designed to improve the Fund's knowledge of thinginh in academic, and other circles concerning the isues with which the Fund deals in order to find ways of enhancing the effectiveness of the Fund's work.
Adjustment for Growth: The African Experience
by International Monetary FundOccasional Paper from the IMF
Adjustment for Growth: The African Experience
by International Monetary FundFinancial report from the IMF
Adjustment Policies and Development Strategies in the Arab World
by International Monetary FundThe issues of adjustment and development in the Arab world have acquired urgency following the recent decline in oil prices and the unfavorable developments in the world economy. This seminar was thus timely and important. It provided and excellent opportunity for a number of participants concerned with adjustment and development to exchange views on a variety of important topics.