...specific nurturing tactics parents perform in a child’s early years are responsible for the other half. However, grandmother, Judith Rich Harris, and cognitive psychologist, Steven Pinker along with many others, are convinced that peers have the largest amount of influence. Several believe that attending a private school is more potent at generating a beneficial personality than a public school is. This phenomenon is proved faulty by the Chicago school system and its lottery game in attempt to tackle the income gap between blacks and whites. Schools that have a majority of black students are typically in a poor neighborhood and do not provide the best learning environment due to loitering, gang violence, and the fear of “acting white” (Hamilton, 2004, 161). The low test scores and eventually low income rates are not because black people are black, but because the environment is not fit for learning. Data shows that white students perform just as poor if they are in these districts. With the use of regression analysis, economists figured out that a different school system is not the answer, but a different environment is (Hamilton, 2004, 167). In short, Levitt and Dubner concluded that parents who try all these strategies are wasting their time. It is not what the parents do, but who they are. Thousands of people gather in the month of October every year to run or walk in their pink shirts. Does this really cure breast cancer? No. This only makes people feel better about themselves...
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...CCJS 461 6980 Bryan McAllister Project 2: Literature Review October 20, 2014 “Poverty refers to a situation which the basic resources to maintain an average standard of living within a specific geographic region are lacking.” (Bartol & Bartol, 2014, p. 31) It is known that there is a definite connection between poverty and criminal activity. The connection leaves little doubt that poverty is a legitimate risk factor and those who are forced to survive in impoverished conditions are more likely to engage in criminal activity. “There is little doubt that poverty has a strong connection to persistent, violent offending, as measured by official, victimization and self-report data on both adult and juvenile offenders.” (Bartol & Bartol, 2014, p. 32) Treatment of those who reside in impoverished areas by law enforcement is much different than individuals who reside in more affluent neighborhoods. “In many communities, children from the lower socioeconomic class are targeted by law enforcement practices more than are children of the middle and upper classes” (Bartol & Bartol, 2014, p. 33) Impoverished environments also connect the individuals who reside in them to other issues which make the risk factor of poverty even more complex. According to the text (Bartol & Bartol, 2014) attending inadequate schools, not completing school, being unemployed, carrying a firearm, being victimized, along with being a witness to violent crimes are more likely to occur...
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...The Parable Of The Pipeline Once upon a time long, long ago, two ambitious young cousins named Pablo and Bruno lived side by side in a small Italian village. The young men were best buddies, and big dreamers. They would talk endlessly about how someday, someway, they would become the richest men in the village. They were both bright and hard working. All they needed was an opportunity. One day that opportunity arrived. The village decided to hire two men to carry water from a nearby river to a cistern in the town square. The job went to Pablo and Bruno. Each man grabbed two buckets and headed to the river. By the end of the day, they had filled the town cistern to the brim. The village elder paid them one penny for each bucket of water. "This is our dream come true! "shouted Bruno. "I can't believe our good fortune." But Pablo wasn't so sure. His back ached and his hands were blistered from carrying the heavy buckets. He dreaded getting up and going to work the next morning. He vowed to think of a better way to get the water from the river to the village. Pablo The Pipeline Man: "Bruno, I have a plan," Pablo said the next morning as they grabbed their buckets and headed for the river. "Instead of lugging buckets back and forth for pennies a day, let's build a pipeline from the village to the river." Bruno stopped dead in his tracks. "A pipeline! Whoever heard of such a thing?" Bruno shouted. "We've got a great job, Pablo. I can carry 100 buckets a...
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...Behavioral Finance By Albert Phung http://www.investopedia.com/university/behavioral_finance/default.asp Thank-you very much for downloading the printable version of this tutorial. As always, we welcome any feedback or suggestions. http://www.investopedia.com/contact.aspx Table of Contents 1) Behavioral Finance: Introduction 2) Behavioral Finance: Background 3) Behavioral Finance: Anomalies 4) Behavioral Finance: Key Concepts - Anchoring 5) Behavioral Finance: Key Concepts - Mental Accounting 6) Behavioral Finance: Key Concepts - Confirmation and Hindsight Bias 7) Behavioral Finance: Key Concepts - Gambler's Fallacy 8) Behavioral Finance: Key Concepts - Herd Behavior 9) Behavioral Finance: Key Concepts - Overconfidence 10) Behavioral Finance: Key Concepts - Overreactions and Availability Bias 11) Behavioral Finance: Key Concepts - Prospect Theory 12) Behavioral Finance: Conclusion Introduction According to conventional financial theory, the world and its participants are, for the most part, rational "wealth maximizers". However, there are many instances where emotion and psychology influence our decisions, causing us to behave in unpredictable or irrational ways. Behavioral finance is a relatively new field that seeks to combine behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance to provide explanations for why people make irrational financial decisions. By the end of this tutorial, we hope that you'll have a better understanding of some...
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...INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME: AN ANALYSIS 1.Introduction In the era of technology all activities are being conducted with the help of technology in all over the world. Now it is considered that ‘information is power’ and so the widely used term ‘information’ is combined with ‘technology’ that encompasses the term ‘information technology’. Information technology generally means processing and distribution of data using computer hardware and software, telecommunications and digital electronics. So the common medium of information technology is computer, internet, and mostly used cellular phone. This system helps us take the optimum benefit from this ‘Global Ocean of knowledge’ that much our every day needs. The strength of internet in which everybody’s knowledge is open for use by everybody within a global village for better living standards. On the other hand crime is a social and economic phenomenon and is as old as the human society has become a legal concept and has the sanction of the law. So in combination the term of information technology and crime if positive relation then makes a definition that information technological crime is those facts which is made by digital way getting economical and social benefit illegally and legally prohibited by law, on the other hand if opposite relation then make definition is a method if reducing crime by digital way in the digital era. From the view of positive technology stimulates not only a free trade and economic...
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...Foods (London: PFD, OTC: PRRFY) ….. 32 Also Inside Editor’s Commentary …………….. p. 4 Superinvestor Holdings Update …. p. 9 45 European MF Companies …… p. 10 Interview: Ciccio Azzollini ……… p. 12 Top 5 European Ideas ……………p. 16 Other European candidates …….. p. 36 Euro Book Value Bargains ……. p. 100 100 Cheap European ADRs …….p. 114 About Portfolio Manager’s Review Our goal is to bring you investment ideas that are compelling on the basis of value versus price. In our quest for value, we analyze the top holdings of top fund managers. We also use a proprietary methodology to identify stocks that are not widely followed by institutional investors. Our research team has extensive experience in industry and security analysis, equity valuation, and investment management. We bring a “buy side” mindset to...
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...MR PROJECT COMPANY: INFOYSIS LTD GROUP – 10A ORACLE: The future Market Teller GROUP MEMBERS: TABLE OF CONTENT INTRODUCTION 1 AIMS & OBJECTIVES 2 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE 3 DESK RESEARCH 5 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 19 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH 20 REPORTING 22 CRERDENTIALS 22 REFERENCES 23 INTRODUCTION Infosys Limited (NYSE: INFY) was cofounded in 1981 by seven people, N.R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani...
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...content ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form | | Bottom of Form * Business * History * Languages * Math * Psychology * Sciences * Home * Business * Management * Organizational Behavior ------------------------------------------------- Behavioral Performance Management By Luthans, F. Edited by Paul Ducham Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on google_plusone_share Contents * BEHAVIORISTIC THEORIES * COGNITIVE THEORIES * SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY * LAWS OF BEHAVIOR * REINFORCEMENT THEORY * BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT * POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE REINFORCERS * ANALYSIS OF MONEY AS A REINFORCER * SOCIAL RECOGNITION * PERFORMANCE BEHAVIORS * MEASUREMENT OF BEHAVIOR * FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR * INTERVENTION STRATEGY * PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT * BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT * SERVICE APPLICATIONS BEHAVIORISTIC THEORIES The most traditional and researched theory of learning comes out of the behaviorist school of thought in psychology. Most of the principles of learning and organizationalReward Systems and the behavioral performance management approach discussed in this chapter are based on behavioristic theories, or behaviorism. The classical behaviorists, such as the Russian pioneer Ivan Pavlov and the American John B. Watson, attributed learning to the association or connection between stimulus and response (S-R). The operant...
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...Working Paper 3/2010 Investment Climate Series Investment Climate in Bangladesh: Enhanced Role of the Capital Market Dr. Prashanta K. Banerjee Md. Mohiuddin Siddique Economic Research Group Working paper No: 3/2010 Investment Climate Series Investment Climate in Bangladesh: Enhanced Role of the Capital Market Authors Dr. Prashanta Kumer Banerjee1 Mohiuddin Siddique2 Mentors Mohammad Musa Ph.D3 Farook Chowdhury4 ECONOMIC RESEARCH GROUP JUNE 2010 1 Senior Associate Professor, Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM), Dhaka 2 Associate Professor, BIBM, Dhaka 3 Professor of Finance, School of Business, United International University 4 Program Manager, BMB Mott MacDonald, Dhaka. Published By Economic Research Group (ERG), Dhaka, Bangladesh The papers in this series are published as part of contract under the Small Grants Program, implemented by ERG and BMB Mott MacDonald and supported by the Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund (BICF). BICF is managed by IFC, in partnership with the U.K. Department for International Development and the European Union. Details about the program can be found at http://www.ergonline.org/ifc/index_of_SGAPP.html © Dr. Prashanta Kumer Banerjee, Mohiuddin Siddique, 2010 This publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted for research and academic works without prior permission of the publisher or the author(s) but proper acknowledgement must be given...
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...IIM-C SMP09 Marketing Nuggets Project – SUV Market in India Success of Mahindra XUV 500 By: Amit Ahi Samir Chitkara Dr. Bhaskar Sonowal Anirban Sarkar Amit Dass J.Mohapatra Dwarka Nath Sharma Table of Contents Current market Size & key market trends 5 India’s Socio demographic profile 5 Indian Automobile Market 6 Size of Indian Automobile market 7 Key Market Trends for SUVs / Automobiles 8 Key market trends of SUVs 10 Segmentation of the market 11 Price Based Segmentation 11 Entry Level 11 Mid Segment 11 Premium Segment 11 Luxury 11 Price Wise Segmentation for Indian SUVs 12 Usage Based Segmentation 13 Off Roading: 13 Soft Roading: 13 Consumer Behavior noticed in Buying SUVs 13 Psychological factors 13 Personal Factors 14 Social Factors 14 Positioning of different brands in SUV market in India 15 Entry Level SUVs: 15 Renault Duster 15 Mahindra Scorpio 15 Tata Safari 16 Mid Segment: 16 Tata Aria 16 Force One 17 MAHINDRA XUV 500 18 Skoda Yeti 18 Ford Endevour 19 CHEVROLET Captiva 19 HONDA CRV 19 TOYOTA Fortuner 20 Key Advertising and Promotion campaigns adopted by leading brands 21 Mahindra XUV 500 21 Digital Marketing – FAce Book & Twitter 21 Launch Campaign 21 Force One 21 Big B as the Brand Ambassador 21 Toyota FORTUNER 23 Campaign Tag: “The Art of Power” 23 Toyota Fortuner Marketing Campaign: Experience the Power of Art on your Mobile 23 Results and achievements...
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...How Venture Capital Works by Bob Zider Harvard Business Review Reprint 98611 HarvardBusinessReview NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 1998 Reprint Number Michael e. porter CLUSTERS AND THE NEW ECONOMICS OF COMPETITION 98609 daniel golem an WHAT MAKES A LEADER? 98606 carl shapiro and hal r . varia n VERSIONING: THE SMART WAY TO SELL INFORMATION 98610 stewart d. friedm an, perry christensen, and jessica d e gro ot WORK AND LIFE: THE END OF THE ZERO-SUM GAME 98605 bob zider HOW VENTURE CAPITAL WORKS 98611 henry mintzberg COVERT LEADERSHIP: NOTES ON MANAGING PROFESSIONALS 98608 andy bl ackburn, m at t halprin, HBR CASE STUDY THE CASE OF THE PROFITLESS PC 98603 and ruth veloria ja mes c. anderson and james a. narus idea s at work bill gross first person BUSINESS MARKETING: UNDERSTAND WHAT CUSTOMERS VALUE THE NEW MATH OF OWNERSHIP PETER F. DRUCKER 98607 hbr cl a ssic THE DISCIPLINE OF INNOVATION peter l . bernstein 98601 98604 bo oks in review ARE NETWORKS DRIVING THE NEW ECONOMY? 98602 Before you can understand the industry, you must first separate myth from reality. HOW VENTURE CAPITAL WORKS BY BOB ZIDER nvention and innovation drive the U.S. economy. What’s more, they have a powerful grip on the nation’s collective imagination. The popular press is filled with against-all-odds success stories of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. In these sagas, the entrepreneur...
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...public-private collaboration around competitiveness was taking place. In 2000, Governor Rowland was evaluating the state’s progress thus far and considering how to carry the strategy forward. Connecticut Profile Do No Connecticut, one of the 13 original U.S. colonies, adopted in 1639 the first constitution establishing representative government. Connecticut was the fifth state to approve the U.S. Constitution in 1788 after the state’s delegates helped to engineer the "Connecticut Compromise" providing for equal state representation in the Senate and representation according to population in the House of Representatives. Connecticut earned the nickname “The Constitution State.” 1 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. 2 Ibid. 3 State of Connecticut, Office...
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...Selena Anguiano The Benefits of U.S. Individual Giving for England’s Arts (Case Study) August 2008 Presented to City University (as required) for the diploma: MA-Culture, Policy and Management The Benefits of U.S. Individual Giving for England's Arts (Case Study) Anguiano, S. Table of Contents.………………………………………………………….….. 1 Tables ………………...……………………………………………………….... 2 Abbreviations…………………………………………………………………... 3 Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………... 4 Declaration……………………………………………………………………… 5 Disclaimer………………………………………………………………………. 6 Abstract…………………………………………………………………………. 7 Chapter 1- Introduction…………………………………………………………. 8 1.1 Literature Review………………………………………………….. 11 1.2 Fundraising/Philanthropy Experts…………………………………. 12 1.3 Additional Material………………………………………………… 13 Chapter 2- Methodology……………………………………………………….. 14 2.1 Books and Reports 2.1.a Research Questions 2.2 Interviews…………………………………………………………... 15 2.3 Desk Research……………………………………………………… 19 Chapter 3- Research……………………………………………………………. 20 3.1 Philanthropy-A Very Brief Start 3.1.a-U.S.-Avoiding Triviality and Inadequacies of the Federal Government 3.1.b- England-Strategic Beginnings Give Birth to a State of Reticence………………………………………………… 22 3.2 Current Motivations for Individual Giving in the U.S. and England...24 3.2.a Non-profit Individual Giving Percentages…………………. 27 3.3 Deterrents to Individual Giving in England………………………….. 28 3.4 Case Study Interviews:………………………………………………. 30 3.4.a-„Suck It...
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...STALIN, THE GREAT PURGE, AND RUSSIAN HISTORY: A NEW LOOK AT THE ~EW by MARSHALL SHATZ Paper No. 305 1984 CLASS' STALIN, THE GREAT PURGE, AND RUSSIAN HISTORY: A NEW LOOK AT THE 'NEW CLASS' ~ MARSHALL SHATZ Paper No. 305 1984 Marshall S. Shatz received his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.A., Certificate of the Russian Institute, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He edited The Essential Works of Anarchism (New York: Bantam Books, 1971; Quadrangle Books, 1972) and is the author of Soviet Dissent in Historical ¥erspective (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980). He is Professor of History, University of Massachusetts at Boston. 1 STALIN; THE GREAT PURGE; AND RUSSIAN HIsroRY: A NEW IOOK AT '!HE • NEW CLASS' Though nearly fifty years in the past; Stalin •s Great Purge of the 1930s still loans as one of the nost enigmatic events of the twentieth century. Whether we think of the Great Purge as a IOOre or less continuous process fran the assassination of Kirov in 1934 to Ezhov's replacement by Beria as head of the secret police at the em of 1938; or limit it to the EzhoVshchina of 1937 and 1938; When the terror reached its peak; operation is astounding. the sheer nagnitude of the The nuniber of arrests; deportations; imprisonments; and lives lost in these years is impossible to measure; and attempts to do so have varied wildly. Even the lOi/est estimates; however; are staggering.l It ...
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