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This case study provides a glimpse at Research in Motion’s (RIM’s) entry into the Chinese market during a time when many distractions—principally a patent dispute with NTP—occupied management’s attention. Norm Lo had been in charge of the Asia Pacific region for eight months, though he had been with RIM for five years. Lo was successful in signing new partners throughout Asia, but China remained a difficult market to crack. One holdup was an impasse with regard to RIM’s use of encryption
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bill is beneficial from the viewpoints of local producers and consumers respectively. A brief overview of the Swissness bill The draft of the Federal Act on the Protection of Trade Marks and Indications of Source provides a more sophisticated regulation on the indication of geographical source of a product, thereby defining how “Swiss” the product should be in order to label it as being Swiss. Under the proposal, at least 50 per cent of the total manufacturing costs must incur in Switzerland for
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PAMBAYANG DALUBHASAAN NG MARILAO ABANGAN NORTE MARILAO, BULACAN 2010 – 2015 TOURISM MARKETING PHILIPPINE AIRLINES (PAL) [pic] SUBMITTED BY: HERRERA BEVERLY G. RIVERO, CHRYSTALYN S. CALUMPIANO, MARIZ D. DAYRIT, BENERYN JOY R. FELICIANO, MICHELLE SUBMITTED TO: MRS FEROLYN SANTIAGO I. Executive Summary Philippine airlines also known as PAL, is the flag carrier and national airline of the Philippines. Headquartered in the Philippine national bank financial center in Pasay
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This document is for reference & educational purposes only. Reproduction or/and copying are not authorized. Any anti-plagiarism software will flag this document or its sections as unoriginal. Coping and Resiliency Skills in African American Urban Youths Introduction Growing up with a limited understanding of how to regulate emotions and cope in the face of ubiquitous urban blight, severe socio-economic hardship, and systemic racism is difficult for many urban youths. Resiliency is a term that
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School of Management Blekinge Institute of Technology How macro environmental forces affect business buying behavior after a recession: A case study of the second hand truck business NAME OF AUTHOR Christos Kakazoukis NAME OF SUPERVISOR Urban Ljungquist MASTER’S THESIS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, MBA PROGRAM Jan 2011 Thesis for the Master’s degree in Business Administration Autumn 2010 Abstract Master thesis in business administration, MBA Program, School of Management, Blekinge Institute
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CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 Introduction This chapter reviews literature related to this study. This was done with the expectation that relevant information would be obtained to help shape and enrich the study, knowledge of what has been done on this topic is important in helping to clarify issues. The following topics were reviewed for the study; definition of loan, definition of SME, general principles of lending, loan monitoring and control, access to credit as well as repayment performance:
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