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gender gap is more displayed by the disparity in high rank positions. According to the Fenwick & West survey (Bell &White, 2014), more than 80% of Silicon Valley 150 companies had only one woman director or none at all in the 2014 proxy season. Tech firms are starting to hire women for senior positions considering media pressure and its public image. Verne Kopytoff, a senior editor at Fortune, talked about Twitter’s case in his article “In Silicon Valley, women still a rarity in the top ranks” (2014). Twitter faced intense criticism for having only one woman among its top leaders despite counting millions of women among its users. The company’s chief executive refused to change the situation and even publicly ridiculed a diversity advocate who accused the company of arrogance and chauvinism. The company ultimately bowed to the pressure and appointed a woman to its previously all-male board because of its initial public offering. However, can we expect Twitter to add this female board member if there is no media coverage and the upcoming IPO? Besides, Twitter is not the only company that appointed a woman until being caught attention by the public. Although statistically (Kamm, 2014), companies with sustained high representation of women on their boards significantly outperformed those with sustained low representation by 84% on return on sales, 60% on return on invested capital, and 46% on return on equity. Unfortunately, the data is just not enough to convince firms to hire…

information publishing website in China, in 9th May 1995 (Liu, 2007). It had been 3-month earlier than the time when the Internet was available in China (Liu, 2007). Then, he was invited by China International Electronic Commerce Centre (CIECC) and became general manager of CIECC in 1997 (Liu, 2007). He established a series of website, including official website of Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Chinese online commodity trading markets, Chinese online technology exports…

Multinational companies need to organized to have presence in foreign markets. Companies can create growth and profit if they penetrate foreign markets the correct way. A company can structure the business so it can be public. It can allow the company to raise funds by investors through an initial public offering. When a company is in the correct geographic area and provides a service or product that is in demand, the opportunities are endless for a multinational. ABB Sells Unit to NKT Cables…

first priority (George, 2007; Howard, 2008). Customers, stockholders, and owners want to know that those in who they are investing or buying products from are not simply looking out for their own self-interest. Secondly, ambiguity can be effectively eliminated through a formal conflict of interest policy because many situations do not clearly fall into what common sense would consider a “conflict of interest” (George, 2007). These policies provide examples of what is prohibited and a mechanism…

taken off in its introduction on the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of bringing $105 million up in a first sale of stock, reinforced by financial specialist interest for more upscale fast food. Shares of the burger bind dramatically multiplied to $45.90 at the nearby in New York, giving it a business sector estimation of $1.6 billion. Shake Shack sold 5 million shares for $21 each in the IPO, as indicated by an announcement Thursday, subsequent to offering them for $17 to $19…

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Heigl Hounds of Hope which identify the types of business she conducts . She would also secure a copyright on her production company which is geared towards her artistic work. Since Heigl is a well known public figure, being the entertainer she is, she would need protection against false and defamatory statements that are made with actual malice. This includes false endorsements and false publicity which is known of its falsity. The tort, invasion of privacy under the common law, safeguards…

worldwide B2C e-commerce sales amounted to more than 1.2 trillion US dollars in 2013.” There are those type of people who will not shop online because they love shopping and seeing your product before you buy it but, recently there have a huge increase in the amount of revenue an E-commerce store has generated. Topic “Daniel has a networking website. He only allows potential users to join if they have been invited by another user to join the network. A new user is charged $20,000 to…

all TAF stores turned to Finish Line stores in 1986, the company has grown tremendously. 105 stores located throughout the southeastern and midwestern states had annual sales of nearly $100 million by 1991. The company started planning how to stay financially stable. According to M: Business by Ferrell 5e, planning is the process of determining the organizations objectives and deciding how to accomplish them. The solution to expand Finish Line’s throughout the country as well as eradicate some…

After many sleepless nights and a lot of hard work I was seeing the result of several years of sacrifice, I had finally graduated from FIU, one of the best universities in South Florida and was about to achieve every accountant’s goal; to obtain my CPA license. Even though one of the “big four” tried to recruit me, I decided to open my own CPA office in South Beach. To my surprise, I was immediately engaged by Cardozo & Co., a firm that wants to go public. As an auditor, to the best of my…