McKinsey Global Institute June 2011 Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity The McKinsey Global Institute The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), established in 1990, is McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm. MGI’s mission is to help leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors develop a deeper understanding of the evolution of the global economy and to provide a fact base that contributes to decision making on critical management
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spectacular year, having grown to $18 billion (up from $1 billion when he had taken over the office). Yale had developed a rather different approach to endowment management, including substantial investments in less efficient equity markets such as private equity (venture capital and buyouts), real assets (real estate, timber, oil and gas), and “absolute-return” investing. This approach had generated successful, indeed enviable, returns. Swensen and his staff were proud of the record that they had compiled
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BUSINESS CASE TEMPLATE Provision of Mailing Services to [insert organisation name] Business case - explanation • This document will help postal procurement personnel to detail the potential benefits (financial and non-financial) and costs involved in improving their postal services • It can be used to secure commitment from senior management for changes required to improve performance • It is intended to be a guide and will require completion and tailoring by individual
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Strategic Asset Allocation: Determining the Optimal Portfolio with Ten Asset Classes Niels Bekkers Mars The Netherlands Ronald Q. Doeswijk* Robeco The Netherlands Trevin W. Lam Rabobank The Netherlands October 2009 Abstract This study explores which asset classes add value to a traditional portfolio of stocks, bonds and cash. Next, we determine the optimal weights of all asset classes in the optimal portfolio. This study adds to the literature by distinguishing ten different investment
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Learning Team A Mastering Teacher Leadership Case Study RES351 Chosen Cheng Aug 15 2013 Summary The Mastering Teacher Leadership case study is about a proposed change in licensure requirements for Ohio private and public school teachers. According the newly passed Ohio Department of Education Teacher Certification Standards, Educators are now required to have a Master’s Degree in order to renew their license. In order to gauge interest or reception to the changes, the Local Professional
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that best align with their own preferred choice. In Michigan most of the public schools are no longer. Parents are placing their children into charter schools, or private schools because they think that the education will be better, and the schools are often not overcrowded. I thought this way myself and place my grandchildren into private school. I now think differently about the education they are receiving, I feel like they should have been placed in a good public school and my money in the bank
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teaching aides (including library, communication facilities etc). But that being said, access to higher education is the most important piece of the puzzle. Because of limited number of seats in public universities, and high tuition fees charged by the private universities, access to university education is rather limited in Bangladesh. Degree colleges that account for the lion’s share of enrolment at the higher level of education in Bangladesh,
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Bangladesh Software and IT Service Industry Recent Trends & Dynamics Software and IT service industry in Bangladesh has crossed a long road over the last few decades. It has matured. The industry no more remains at the sideline. It joined the mainstream. Not only the industry is contributing significantly in the national income, but also it has been playing very crucial role in creating high quality employment for a sizable portion of young graduates of the country. The presence of high number of
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Introduction: One of the main distinguishing factors between public and private sector organisations lies in their objectives and sometimes funding structure. While public sector bodies have a more social objective and focus more on the allocation or distribution of public goods and services within the country, private sector bodies have the main objective of increasing the wealth of their shareholders (IFAC, 2011). However, both private and public sector bodies face similar operational and business challenges
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Miami Schools Negotiation University of Phoenix Organizational Negotiations MGT/445 April 4, 2011 Miami Schools Negotiation Miami School District has decided to change the school boundary parameters due to the high applications of enrollment. This would be good for the school to rezone the boundaries but it is not favorable to the stakeholders in some circumstances. The stakeholders are the parents of the children in this case. The big issue for the current students is the disruption
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