Dear Colleagues, Happy new year to you all. I hope you celebrated the start of 2014 in good spirits with family and friends. Now that we just passed a few days of the new year, it’s good to look ahead and think about what this year may bring us. But first, a quick look back. 2013 was quite a year for all of us at SUMMIT. We’ve been through many developments, in sometimes less than favourable circumstances. But we’ve also achieved a huge amount. Within automatic analyzer and reagents of clinical
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2/11/2014 Buad 455 Letter to the Editor The “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the most powerful, popular speeches of all time. This historic speech touched on many different theories and issues occurring in society. On august 28th, 1963, in this speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for racism in the United States to end. He spoke his word to over a quarter of a million individuals in attendance. In this speech, Dr. King referenced the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation
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Employment at Will Doctrine Kristen Harrison Leg 500 February 4, 2014 Elaine B. Wilson EMPLOYMENT AT WILL DOCTRINE The Employment at Will Doctrine The employment at will doctrine was developed in the late nineteenth century, as a default employment contract which was assumed to give employers and employees equal ground to develop wages, benefits, and employment agreements. The employment at will doctrine continues to prevail
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Financial Statement Insurance This is a proposal to increase the effectiveness of corporate governance in the post-Enron era through the implementation of financial statement insurance. This paper gives a brief history of the purpose of financial statements as well as the importance of external auditing of financial statements. It gives examples of the corporate governance failures of companies like Enron and WorldCom. It covers how and why these failures happened and reviews the grave consequences
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Assignment 2: Employment at Will Doctrine LEG500 Legal, Ethics and Corporate Governance August 3, 2014 Referring to the Employment-At-Will doctrine, which states that both employer and employee can terminate their relationship as employee and employer for good cause, for no cause, for cause morally wrong or for no cause at all, some of these employees seems to have crossed the line that gives all the possible reason for the company to fire them (Halbert & Inguilli, 2012, pg 46). Considering
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine Sherita Pittman October 26, 2014 Master of Business Administration LEG 500 Strayer University Employment and employee go hand and hand at some point in life. Work is defined as, exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil and employment is, an occupation by which a person earns a living; work; business (Dictionary.reference.com (2014). As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a midsize company preparing for an Initial Public
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Decline of Democracy in America The founding fathers didn’t create a democracy because they thought it would work perfectly. They didn’t give people the right to vote so that everyone would find true happiness. They knew better than to create a utopia where everyone had their own white picket fence, went to church on Sunday and lead lives as model citizens. They understood that toes would get stepped on, feelings would get hurt and sacrifices would happen. The founding fathers
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How Europeans View Americans: Whether or not I agree with the author is based on my beliefs and experience with different economic factors. Although this article is opinionated of how the author shares different experiences from different Europeans frames (points of view) of the American society, we should all note that this is not the consensus for all Europeans. In reference to the matters that persuaded the United States to utilized their military might (September 11 2001), are only the actions
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Organizational Behavior Kofi Osei Tutu Law, Ethics & Corporate Governance: Employment At Will Doctrine Dr. Meredith Brasca February 2, 2014 Employment-at-will [EAW]: “when an explicit agreement of contractually binding terms of employment is absent, the employment relationship exists only so long as both parties will it to continue. That is, either party is free to end the relationship at his or her will. Moreover, the relationship may be terminated at any time and for any reason. United
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FASHION MARKETING - BURBERRY 1- Overall Context The year 2014 has been a huge turning point for Burberry with Angela Ahrendts leaving the company and with Christopher Bailey taking over major roles as the Chief Creative and at the same time the new CEO of the company. As the annual revenue grows more as a result of a stronger Burberry under the undeniable leadership of past and current CEO’s Rose Marie Bravo, Angela Ahrendts and Christopher Bailey, the company is moving upward as it embraces
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