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Book Review: Thieves of Bay Street, By Bruce Livesey By Chaavi Shamihoke Thieves of Bay Street, How banks, brokerages and the Wealthy steel from Canadians, Bruce Livesey, 2012, Random House Canada, p.313 Thieves of Bay Street is a non-fiction crime book about fraud in the financial world written by award winning investigative journalist, Bruce Livesey. Written as a critical study of the Canada’s financial and corporate history, in provides…

Title: Cisco leadership spotlight: Rajiv Menon, Mananging Director of Cisco Systems Capital in APJC Welcome to the Cisco Asia Pacific Japan and Greater China (APJC) leadership spotlight series, where Cisco executives share their expertise and vision, as well as hot topics in the APJC region. In the wake of the global financial crisis, increasingly more corporates are assuming the traditional role of a bank, offering financing to their customers. Cisco is no exception, having incorporated Cisco…

2.1 Company Profile Facten is a privately held company headquartered in Paris, France. Founded from years of research in machine learning and semantic search, Facten invented a fundamentally different way to scan massive bases of scientific information to find hard to spot, yet critical segments of scientists working on the technologies that Facten customers sell (Facten 2016). Facten is Software as a Service application to help companies selling to Life Science Academics discovers, profile and…

Rationality and self-interest are often measured relative to efficiency. However, this is not the only aspect that should commend the acceptability of a business sector’s technique of increasing profits and reducing cost. The privatization of prisons or involvement in state prisons by companies that gain from the forced labor of prisoners advanced by high numbers, low wage and extremely long sentences is one system that brings strong moral questions to mind. Prisoners acquiring jobs in jail, no…

The trend of forced write-offs of humongous inventories in the high tech industry during the turn of the 21st century pushed various firms to rethink their strategies towards supply chain. Supply chain in high tech industries is quiet complex because of its fickle growth, short product lifecycle and demands for mass customization. Keeping customers satisfied and costs down is a big challenge for high tech industries. Altera Corp., California-based chipmaker (Programmable Logic Devices - PLDs)…

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External Analysis: Michael Porter’s five forces In business the ability to make profit depends on how strong of a position the company has in the market. This is determined by; how many competitors that offer the same products, how easy is it for other companies to enter the market if they can see that you make a profit, and how dependent are you to your customers that leads them in to making you lower your price. It is essential to determine you’re positioning in order to avoid working very…