...Building and Developing a Contemporary Luxury Brand © SDA Bocconi1 1. The Tod’s Group From Diego Della Valle’s words stems the legitimate pride of an entrepreneur who, although coming from a family active in the high quality shoe manufacturing since the beginning of the last century, did not inherited an already established global brand nor a well entrenched market positioning for its products. Rather, he was able to transform a medium-sized family business dealing with third-party shoe manufacturing into a first-tier player in the global luxury arena. Today, Tod’s is a multi-brand luxury company active in footwear, leather goods and apparel, with three well-established brands: Tod’s and Hogan in luxury footwear and leather goods, and Fay, in tailored apparel. Diego Della Valle belongs to Della Valle family, active in the business of high quality shoes since the beginning of the 20th century, within the world-known shoe-making industrial cluster located in the Marche region, in central Italy. In the Seventies, the company expanded through both licensing activity for Krizia, Fendi, Romeo Gigli, Gianfranco Ferré, and by developing its own products. “My intuition was to create a bond with designers, producing shoes for their fashion shows. Thanks to the positive feedback in editorials, I gained credibility on the market.”2 At the beginning of the ‘80s, the family decided to focus on its own brands and – after an in- depth marketing study and a long phase of design and testing...
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...search of truth and identity . The great Gatsby is an amazing novel that tells the life of Nick Carraway who travel to New York. Nick wants to be a professional writer . He believed that these time of his life would be success full . On his journal nick tells that the begging he was very happy to be in New York. He was gaining good money, attracting women and the fame was very good. "The Great Gatsby provides a critical social history of America during the Roaring Twenties within its narrative. That era, known for unprecedented economic prosperity, the evolution of jazz music, flapperculture, and bootlegging and other criminal activity, is plausibly depicted in Fitzgerald's novel." (Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph). He has a cousin called Daisy who already were living in New York. She was married to a rich man whose name was Tom Buchanan a popular polo player . Nick doesn't know how his cousin was living. He asked her and she told him that every thing is good.The first thing he realized was that his Cousin Daisy was living a nightmare being married with Tom, he was unfaithful and abusive but she kept quiet because he gave her money and a big mansion with maids and all that fancy things. Then, one time, Tom invited Nick to came with him to a business meet, but it really was a fun afternoon with Tom's lover and her friends, Nick was so confused, so since then he started to realized what New York life was about. When Nick moved to New york he went to live in a small but lovely house...
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...------------------------------------------------- http://vnthuquan.net/(S(1rcl4v45ae4z5mugzj1lc545))/truyen/truyen.aspx?tid=2qtqv3m3237nvnnn0n4n2n31n343tq83a3q3m3237nvn&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#phandau ------------------------------------------------- The Great Gatsby From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the novel. For the film, TV and opera adaptations, see The Great Gatsby (disambiguation). The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding theAmerican Dream.[1][2] Fitzgerald, inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore, began planning the novel in 1923 desiring to produce, in his words, "something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned."[3] Progress was slow with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book...
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...book you are currently using, simply check the cases you want to include, indicate if there are other course materials you would like to add, and click submit. A Cengage Learning representative will contact you to review and confirm your order. G E T S T A R T E D Visit www.custom.cengage.com/makeityours/knapp7e to make your selections and provide details on anything else you would like to include. Prefer to use pen and paper? No problem. Fill out questions 1-4 and fax this form to 1.800.270.3310. A Custom Solutions editor will contact you within 2-3 business days to discuss the options you have selected. 1. Which of the following cases would you like to include? Section 1: Comprehensive Cases 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 Enron Corporation Just for FEET, Inc. Jamaica Water Properties Health Management, Inc. The Leslie Fay Companies Star Technologies, Inc. Lincoln Savings and Loan Association Crazy Eddie, Inc. ZZZZ Best Company, Inc. United...
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...during the roaring twenties, especially within the rich. The main character, Nick Carraway, spends a lot of his time with his affluent friends Daisy Buchanan and Tom Buchanan. As the novel goes on one gets a closer look to see who the characters really are. Daisy marries Tom Buchanan instead of waiting for Jay Gatsby to return from the war and as a result Gatsby decides to dedicate the rest of his life to win Daisy over. He does this by becoming as rich as Daisy’s husband Tom, if not more. She is often associated with the color white which symbolizes much more than the color of her car or the color of her clothes. Fitzgerald uses the color white to convey a false sense of innocence to reveal Daisy Buchanan’s true selfish, and her heightened class conscious character to reveal the corrupt lives the rich live during this time period. It can be seen that Daisy never really cares for Gatsby and she just cares about herself and her future. One of the few accounts of the past that one gets to read without any biased opinions, is when Jordan Baker retells the story of the night before Daisy Fay becomes Daisy Buchanan. Daisy becomes extremely intoxicated and starts crying whilst holding a crumpled up letter in her hand: “She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow” (76). This is one of the few times where Daisy’s vulnerable side is on...
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...ACC 577 Final Exam Guide For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com All Questions Details given below (Please Check) ACC 577 Final Exam Study Question 1 At the time Company P acquired controlling interest of Company S the following accounts and balances existed on the books of the two companies: Which one of the following amounts should be eliminated in preparing a consolidated balance sheet immediately following the business combination? Question 2 In which one of the following cases will a non-cash asset transferred as consideration in a business combination be measured at carrying value, not at fair value? Question 3 On January 1, 200x Ritt Corp. purchased 80% of Shaw Corp.'s $10 par common stock for $975,000. On this date, the carrying amount of Shaw's net assets was $1,000,000. The fair values of Shaw's identifiable assets and liabilities were the same as their carrying amounts except for plant assets (net) which were $100,000 in excess of the carrying amount. On that date, the fair value of the 20% non controlling interest in Shaw was appropriately determined to be $200,000. For the year ended December 31, 200x, Shaw had net income of $190,000 and paid cash dividends totaling $125,000. In the January 1, 200x consolidated balance sheet, goodwill should be reported at Question 4 On December 31, 1988, Saxe Corporation was merged into Poe Corporation. In the business combination, Poe issued 200,000 shares of its $10 par common stock, with a market...
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...The temptress is a popular archetype in stories and legends, a temporary distraction for the hero, an obstacle to overcome and to conquer. They are evident in ancient myths and continue to entrap men in modern day film and literature. They are the portrayed as seductive and deceitful, using their feminine wiles in order to trick and manipulate the righteous man. The hero is never at fault for his lapse of judgement, his temporary fall from virtue. Instead, the blame is placed upon the woman, who uses her (often demonic) powers to ensnare and pervert the hero, who otherwise would never fall victim to his desires. Abigail Williams, a seventeen year old girl, embodies the temptress concept in Miller’s play. Her character starkly opposes Puritanical values, representing unrepressed desires in a society in which lust is considered sinful. Abigail...
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...Essay Question 1 1. From the sale of his home in 2004, Melvin will incur a gain in the amount realized from the sale of his home, which exceeds his deferred basis in the home because the property was transferred to him incident to divorce. Furthermore, Melvin will be able to exclude the gain on the sale of his personal residence from his taxable income. The rules pertaining to federal income tax and income tax deductions are governed by the Internal Revenue Code (“the Code”). According to the Code, all income is taxable from whatever source derived unless otherwise excluded. Pursuant to the Code, income is defined as any economic benefit to the taxpayer or any clearly realized accession to wealth. Under this conceptualization of income, income can be in the form of cash or the fair market value of any property received. In the instant case, Melvin sold his principal primary residence. The amount realized for the sale of his home was $200,000 in cash and two paintings, each valued at $50,000. Thus, his entire amount realized, consists of the total value, or $300,000. Determining the amount realized is only the first step in determining what income will be taxable to Melvin in 2004. Next, because the disposition of property (receiving value for the sale of a home) is a capital gain, the amount of Melvin’s basis in the property must be subtracted from the amount realized to determine the amount of taxable income. A taxpayer’s basis in property is the amount of money...
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...Communication Process: Atlantic Power Corporation Final Course Project MGMT591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Darr Ana Perez ana1025@gmail.com October 2012 INTRODUCTION The Energy industry is a very dynamic one and volatile at the same time. In order to be successful in this industry a power producer has to identify the right market according to the type of fuel used to produce the power. There has been a surge of many independent power producers (IPP) that build power plants and sell to either the open market (the power grids) or to a specific customer. When these IPPs are not successful they are usually acquired by a bigger IPP. This was the case I found myself in at Atlantic Power. Atlantic Power is a leading publicly traded, power generation and infrastructure company with a well-diversified portfolio of assets in the United States and Canada. The Company’s power generation projects sell electricity to utilities and other large commercial customers under long-term power purchase agreements, which seek to minimize exposure to changes in commodity prices. Atlantic Power has a combination of natural gas plants, hydro plants, bio-mass plants, and wind projects. The headquarters is in Boston and has satellite offices in Downers Grove, IL and Toronto, CA. I am currently the Operations Controller for the wholly owned plants of the limited partnership of the company. I am accountable for the execution of the monthly accounting close of the...
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...Executive Summary This report will introduce Toyota company of business ethics, in the first part, the report described the definition of business ethics, and then introduced the environmental scanning method and PEST and concretely introduces the Toyota company's ethical dilemma, how to solve this problem, from the Angle of moral evaluation, the whole situation based on different kinds of ethical theory, business ethics from the perspective of moral comprehensive understanding of the problem, and then to carry on the analysis. Making companies in the society, the government, and people’s hearts set up a better image, which is beneficial to the development of the company and have more income. Hope this report from every Angle analysis Toyota company pedal events, brake event. Let the Toyota Company remember the lesson. And effectively solve it. 1.0What is business ethic? Have a lot about what is the business ethics idea, or is simple; some people think is right or wrong. Essentially, business ethics is the pursuit of truth. Can and should be regarded as for $5 and $5 $10 is equal to the initial level, the simple truth. Therefore, the businessman must provide good quality goods and service, with reasonable price to consumers' normal supply. They must avoid addicted to like adulterate unfair trade practices, promoting misleading advertising, cheating weights and measures, such as the black market, they must give fair wages and their workers provide good working conditions....
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...www.thetestpreps.com CRITICAL CONCEPTS FOR THE 2014 CFA® Approximation formula for nominal required rate: ExAM Exprctrd return, variance of2-S1ock portfolio: THICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ANDARDS Professionalism Knowledge of the Law, Independence and Objectiviry Misrepresentation. Misconduct. Inregrity of Capiml Markers Material Nonpublic Information. Market Manipulation. Duties to Clients Loyalty. Prudence. and Care. Fair Dealing. Suitability, Performance Presentation. Preservation of Confidenrialiry, Duties to Employers Loyalty. Additional Compensation Arrangements. Responsibilities of Supervisors. Investment Analysis, Recommendations, and Action Diligence and Reasonable Basis. Communication wirh Clients and Prospective Clients. Record Rereruion. Conflicts of Interest Disclosure of Conflicrs. Priority of Transacrions. Referral Fees, Responsibilhies as a CFA lnstirute Member Or CFA Candidate Conduct as Members and Candidates in the CFA Prograrn. Reference to CFA Institute. the CFA Designation. and the CFA Program. Performance Standards E(R) ~ RFR + fP + RP Means Arithmetic mean: sum of all observation values in sample/population. divided by II of observations. Geometri« "mill: used when calculating investment returns over multiple periods or ro measure compound growth rates. Geonmrir /liMn return: E(Rp) = w"E(RA) + wBE(Rs) I (A) (B) I (C) (D) (A) ,.ar(Rp)= wl\u!(R\)+w~u2(R8) +2w \ w8(7{RA )U(RR)P(R Normal Distributions Norma] distribution i~ completely...
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...1. Cast Iron Plant (Aspidistra elatior) Earned its name by growing under the worst of conditions, even outdoors in deep shade. Prefers low lights. Grows in a clump. Leaves are sword-like, pointed, about 4" wide & 2' long. Occasionally flowers indoors. A variegated version is available with white stripes. (USDA Zones 7 - 9) 2. Christmas Cactus (Zygocactus or Schlumbergera) A trailing member of the cactus family that produces deep pink / red flowers in early winter. Seems to do its best when ignored. Can handle low light, but you’ll get more flowers in bright light. Pruning after blooming with keep the plant bushy. You can force your Christmas cactus to bloom in December by keeping it in complete darkness for 12 hours a night, beginning in about mid-October, until buds appear. An even easier method is to subject it to cool temperatures (50 - 55 degrees F.) starting in November. Just leave it on a windowsill at home while the heat is off, because you’re at work. (USDA Zones 9 - 11) 3. Dragon tree (Dracaena marginata) & Lucky Bamboo (Dracaena sanderian) Dracaena have long been the centerpiece of container plantings. Street plantings in towns across America feature 1 spiky dracaena stuck in the center of red blooming geraniums in a half whisky barrel. But there is actually a good amount of variety in dracaena and most make excellent, easy care houseplants. In particular, Dragon Tree (Dracaena marginata) which resembles a small palm tree and can reach heights of 10...
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...express our gratitude to our lecturer for Business research method, for giving us the opportunity to conduct the research. We also like to thank our course leader that, in the first place, giving us this useful assignment, that, in the end of the day, will be proven use to us all. The research that we picked for this assignment is “Reason for Being Loyal to Laptop” The phenomenon that we have identified is brand loyalty toward laptop. The rationale of choosing this phenomenon is because we had realize that nowadays there are many people that using laptop for many reason which could be for work, for school, for art, for contract, or anything that was more widely used this laptop in their daily life. This phenomenon slowly emerged on 1979 when on that time actually the using of laptop was not widely used by people. Most of the people that use laptop on that time were employer or people with high salary whom afford to but laptop. But on today, most of people in one family had one laptop. Due to laptop was more affordable today; more people were getting opportunity to buy their own laptop. 1.1 Background of Research In this subtopic, it can be narrow down the research about the tendency of loyalty people to used laptop in their daily life. First of all, more people choose to use laptop rather than using computer. It is because, after appearance of laptop, people more interested to use laptop because in era globalization the technology run with faster same with the changed of...
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...today’s problems and policies. Our approach to this matter is sociological, i.e., exploring how the interconnection between culture, social institutions, groups, and individuals function to create drug-related phenomena. A sociological approach integrates many kinds of social, cultural, political, and economic factors that manifest themselves in everyday life. While pharmacology helps us comprehend how specific drugs impact brain activity, sociology can inform us about the social roots of drugrelated behaviors which ultimately shape beliefs and behavior and motivate social policy. Therefore, a review of drug use in the U.S. and the social response to it must consider many diverse phenomena. This broader framework will move us beyond domestic borders and into the international community, for the history of drug abuse is an international, socio-political marvel. Another idea warrants mentioning before we begin our history lesson. It centers on the idea that drug use and abuse are socially constructed phenomena. In other words, the meaning attached to specific drugs and drug use patterns is determined by how people –especially powerful people-- interpret them in everyday life. Today controlled substances are constructed as extremely undesirable, even dangerous. However, history shows us that many of these same substances were once viewed favorably and had considerable...
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...Table of Contents Company and Background....................................................................................................................................4 Rationale..................................................................................................................................................................4 Target Audience.......................................................................................................................................................4 Company History.....................................................................................................................................................5 Legal Status..............................................................................................................................................................5 Company Issues.......................................................................................................................................................5 Vision Statement......................................................................................................................................................6 Mission Statement....................................................................................................................................................6 Ethics.....................................................................................................................................
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