Olga Vidisheva—founder and CEO of Shoptiques.com, an online platform that allows small fashion boutiques from all over the world to have an online retail presence. Vidisheva, a Harvard Business School grad, left a job with Goldman Sachs to develop her idea for Shoptiques in Y Combinator. She’s since raised $3 million in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Benchmark, SV Angel, William Morris Endeavor Agency and Y Combinator. Shoptiques revenue hit $3 million in 2014. Oliver Miao—Co-founder
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To: Dr. Nguyen From: Derek Su Date: November 22, 2015 Subject: Uber Extra Credit Project What is Uber? Uber Technologies Inc. is a network orchestrator, connecting passengers with drivers. Uber manages a network of drivers and passengers through a phone app. It also provides options and varieties in the transportation service. Business Model: Step 1 (Request a cab): The first step in the business model of Uber is about creating a demand. People have a smartphone app, which
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SAMSUNG, 20 . HONDA, 21. H&M ,22. ORACLE ,23 . PEPSI 24. AMERICAN EXPRESS, 25. NIKE, 26. SAP, 27. NESCAFÉ ,28. IKEA ,29 . JP MORGAN, 30. BUDWEISER 31. UPS, 32. HSBC ,33 .CANON, 34. SONY, 35 . KELLOGG’S ,36. AMAZON.COM, 37. GOLDMAN SACHS 38. NINTENDO, 39. THOMSON REUTERS MEDIA, 40. CITI ,41. DELL, 42. PHILIPS, 43 . EBAY, 44. GUCCI ,45. L’ORÉAL, 46. HEINZ, 47 . ACCENTURE, 48. ZARA, 49. SIEMENS, 50. FORD, 51 . COLGATE ,52 . MORGAN STANLEY, 53. VOLKSWAGEN, 54. BLACKBERRY, 55
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Public relations are indispensable for any Company. In this Age of Information, the way an organization controls its flow of information can become the differentiating factor between success and failure. Case in point, one of the first steps that Goldman Sachs took after being in the news for all the wrong reasons for months was to appoint a seasoned person as its PR honcho. Similarly, the 2010 BP oil spill crisis was exacerbated by its disastrous PR. As for an effective advertising campaign, who doesn’t
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week’s five-day gathering in Davos, Switzerland of 2,500 executives, policy makers, investors and academics. Delegates include German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, both of whom won praise in the poll. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein and billionaire investor George Soros will also be there. “There’s a great sense of relief we dodged a lot of bullets in 2012 -- we didn’t go off the fiscal cliff in the U.S., Europe didn’t
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rigging of benchmark interest rates. Committee members and Mr. Diamond himself kept coming back to one lofty concept, directly referred to 50 times during the hearing: culture. There is a lot of it about. Culture was the “secret sauce” at Goldman Sachs, of which there is now “virtually no trace,” according to Greg Smith, a disgruntled former employee of the US investment bank. The “ingrained conventions of Japanese culture” were behind the crisis at the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, says
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Faculty of Business Studies Module: Presentation and Communication Skills Examiner: Dipl. Ök. Marina Alvares-Wegner The BRIC countries Leslie Authier Matr. No.: 7007017 E-Mail: leslieauthier@orange.fr Diana Carolina Ramirez R. Matr. No.: 7004479 E-Mail: dianacarolina_puebla@yahoo.de Maya Höpfner Matr. No.: 7003768 E-Mail: maya.hoepfner@googlemail.com Table of content 1 Introduction...................................................................................................... 2 2 The
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that will be added one day before the effectiveness date. In this case, if I would be able to swap the deletions and additions at the date, I would bear no risk. 2) What would you do if, instead, you were at the proprietary trading desk of Goldman Sachs? There are two possible trading strategies. 1st: used by arbitrageurs who anticipate a continuous price rise in the period after the announcement. But simply irrational bull traders may cause the price rise. Arbitrageur shorts deletions (buy
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E-Guard: Customer Acquisition Plan Target Segmentation and Fraud Risk Analysis Considering the past cases of insider trading viz. Rajaratnam case (Galleon Group), Rajat Gupta case (Goldman Sachs) and accounting fraud like that of Satyam Computer Services or Enron Group, the target sectors to be aimed are Financial (hedge fund, mutual fund, trading, investment banking firms, etc.) and big corporate houses like Energy and Steel. * Market study of amount of Data handled in respective sectors
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government to stop corruption all over the world through the criminal justice system. The second article I found interesting involves a whistleblower. Secretly taped conversations were being done between Federal Reserve and officials at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. One of the women involved, Carmen Segarra, filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against her former employer. She recorded the conversations and brought them to Jake Bernstein, an investigative reporter on a public radio show called “This
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