...Corporate Governance Apple’s Board of Directors 07 May 2013 Introduction As we all know, the competition in IT industry is extremely intensive. Tremendous amount of companies are providing customers various electronic products with different features. However, Apple is the most popular and amazing company on the earth, brought us the most delicate, fancy, high-end electronic devices and software just like from future. It is the kind of company, who totally blew people’s mind and change people’s life on the way they listening to the music, making phone call, taking photos and etc. Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation, which was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozeniak on April, 1976 with a release of the Apple 1, and it was incorporated in Cupertino, California in 1977. Apple is the world’s second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics and the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia. However, the company is facing a problem for its contractor’ labor practices its declining market value. Board According to the Model Business Corporation Act, the Board has fiduciary duty, including duty of care, duty of loyalty and fair dealing, and duty of supervision. Also, based on the judgment rule, it protects board members from liability if they make reasonable decision. There is no certain form of board is perfectly good from every company. However, assuming all public firms have...
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...¸P DôNG NGUY£N T¾C KH¤NG PH¢N BIÖT §èI Xö TRONG C¸C CAM KÕT VÒ TH¦¥NG M¹I DÞCH Vô CñA VIÖT NAM KHI GIA NHËP WTO Vũ Anh Thư* Dẫn nhập Kể từ sau khi Việt Nam chính thức trở thành thành viên thứ 150 của Tổ chức Thương mại thế giới (WTO) vào ngày 11/1/2007, Việt Nam được hưởng đầy đủ các quyền mà các hiệp định của WTO dành cho, nhưng đồng thời Việt Nam phải thực hiện đầy đủ các nghĩa vụ với tư cách là thành viên tham gia các hiệp định cũng như các cam kết bổ sung đối với các thành viên khác của WTO trước khi được các nước thành viên chấp nhận cho Việt Nam gia nhập WTO trong tất cả các lĩnh vực thương mại hàng hoá, thương mại dịch vụ, sở hữu trí tuệ liên quan đến thương mại, đầu tư, mua sắm chính phủ, chống trợ cấp v.v... Nghĩa vụ quan trọng nhất của một thành viên của WTO là thực hiện đầy đủ các nguyên tắc hoạt động cơ bản của WTO, đó là không phân biệt đối xử, mở cửa thị trường thương mại tự do hơn, tăng cường cạnh tranh công bằng, khuyến khích phát triển kinh tế và tính dễ dự báo trong thương mại. WTO coi các nguyên tắc cơ bản này là triết lý nền tảng cho hoạt động của mình nhằm thúc đẩy phúc lợi quốc gia tại tất cả các nước không chỉ là thành viên của WTO mà còn có tác động đến cả các quốc gia chưa phải là thành viên và để giúp các nước này tích cực tham gia vào một sân chơi thương mại tự do. Trong bài viết này, chúng tôi chỉ tập trung nghiên cứu và đánh giá việc thực hiện cam kết không phân biệt đối xử của Việt Nam trong lĩnh vực thương mại dịch vụ theo...
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...Analyzing Messages Comm 470 Analyzing Messages The first e-mail is from Erlene M. Clark, who is an assistant professor for the department of Architectural and Engineering Computer Aided Design (A&E CAD) at Austin Community College (ACC). The professor was inquiring about a specific course in which the A&E CAD department had articulated with the high school in which the student had attended. She was trying to give the student the appropriate credit in accordance with the articulation agreement between the high school and ACC. The procedure she was trying to do accomplish was to show a credit (CR) on the college transcript and award the appropriate number of credit hours for a specific course as stated in the articulation agreement. She was experiencing problems with the online server for that specific program in which she would enter the student identification number and proceed to award credit to the student. After she tried several trouble-shooting methods that attached to the general use of the program guide, Professor Clark contacted me. My main job description is to work with the program dynamics, work with the professors on the college level, work with the teachers in the local high schools, and make sure that the correct information entered for the appropriate student. I double-checked the system and procedures for entering the information. I also had to make sure that tasks were complete and finalized before the program had closed. The use of e-mail...
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...Malaysia’s 40 Richest T AKING A BREAK FROM AN investor presentation at the Ritz-Carlton in Singapore, AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes, sporting his trademark red baseball cap, flips through his company’s 140-page annual report. He pauses on 2 of the 16 ads, one from AIG and one from General Electric. “We’re the only company in the world putting ads in our annual report,” Proletariat Capitalist TONY FERNANDES revolutionized Asia’s airline industry by introducing the region’s first low-cost carrier. Now he’s plotting more insurgencies in airlines, hotels and financial services. By Justin Doebele 30 F O R B E S A S I A JUNE 4, 2007 Malaysia’s 40 Richest Sleepover in Kuala Lumpur: Tune Hotels, with rooms costing as little as $3 a night, are Fernandes’ attempt to provide cheap, clean lodging. he boasts. “For others it’s a cost, but we made a $50,000 profit.” Fernandes, 43, relishes turning costs into cash. After all, he built a small fortune by being budget-conscious. Less than six years ago he and a partner paid a debt-ridden Malaysian company 27 cents for a troubled carrier and assumed its $11 million in debt. He relaunched AirAsia Berhad as Asia’s first low-fare airline and the region’s first carrier to allow customers to buy tickets online and through mobile phones. The no-frills outfit got rid of complimentary food and drinks, frequent-flier programs, airport lounges, even cleaning crews; flight attendants now clean the cabins after flights. Ads are sold on the...
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...STATA 十八讲１入门 STATA 十八讲 中国人民大学 陈传波 chrisccb@126.com 1 STATA 十八讲１入门 目录 STATA十八讲 ....................................................................................................................................1 目录 ..................................................................................................................................................2 前 言 ..............................................................................................................................................6 1 STATA入门.....................................................................................................................................9 1.1 安装.....................................................................................................................................9 1.2 启用和退出.........................................................................................................................9 1.3 打开和查看数据...............................................................................................................11 1.4 寻求帮助与网络资源.......................................................................................................12 1.5 命令示例...........................................................................................................................13 1.6 几个环境设置...................................................................................................................14 1.7 复习和练习...........................................
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...Encounter® Conformal® Equivalence Checking Reference Manual Conformal ASIC, Conformal Ultra, and Conformal Custom Product Version 9.1 October 2009 © 1997– 2009 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Cadence Design Systems, Inc., 2655 Seely Avenue, San Jose, CA 95134, USA Trademarks: Trademarks and service marks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Cadence) contained in this document are attributed to Cadence with the appropriate symbol. For queries regarding Cadence’s trademarks, contact the corporate legal department at the address shown above or call 800.862.4522. Open SystemC, Open SystemC Initiative, OSCI, SystemC, and SystemC Initiative are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open SystemC Initiative, Inc. in the United States and other countries and are used with permission. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Restricted Print Permission: This publication is protected by copyright and any unauthorized use of this publication may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. Except as specified in this permission statement, this publication may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without prior written permission from Cadence. This statement grants you permission to print one (1) hard copy of this publication subject to the following conditions: 1. The publication may be used solely for personal, informational, and noncommercial...
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...Retailing in the 21st Century Manfred Krafft ´ Murali K. Mantrala (Editors) Retailing in the 21st Century Current and Future Trends With 79 Figures and 32 Tables 12 Professor Dr. Manfred Krafft University of Muenster Institute of Marketing Am Stadtgraben 13±15 48143 Muenster Germany mkrafft@uni-muenster.de Professor Murali K. Mantrala, PhD University of Missouri ± Columbia College of Business 438 Cornell Hall Columbia, MO 65211 USA mantralam@missouri.edu ISBN-10 3-540-28399-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-28399-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932316 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com ° Springer Berlin ´ Heidelberg 2006 Printed in Germany The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not...
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