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Author: Andrea Verhohlen Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 364019392X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 35
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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, New College Durham, language: English, abstract: GlaxoSmithKline plc. (GSK) was formed in December 2000 by the merger of “Glaxo Wellcome” and “SmithKline Beecham” and is now one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. The organisation is headquartered in London and has further production facilities in 114 countries within Europe as well as in Northern America and Asia. Apart from pharmaceutical products and vaccines, health- and sanitary items are also manufactured and sold in over 140 countries. (Annual Report, 2007, p.4) GSK employs over 103,000 people around the world. In 2007, women “accounted for 24 per cent of senior managers and 37 per cent of all managers” while “minorities made up 19.1 per cent of employees in the UK workforce”. (Corporate Responsibility Report, 2007, p.100) The organisation invests in its own research to develop new drug substances. One in six employees’ works in the area of research and in 2007 GSK spent over 13 million pounds every day for R&D. Research efforts are also directed at diseases, which are mainly widespread in underdeveloped countries.
Author: Andrea Verhohlen Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 364019392X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 35
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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, New College Durham, language: English, abstract: GlaxoSmithKline plc. (GSK) was formed in December 2000 by the merger of “Glaxo Wellcome” and “SmithKline Beecham” and is now one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. The organisation is headquartered in London and has further production facilities in 114 countries within Europe as well as in Northern America and Asia. Apart from pharmaceutical products and vaccines, health- and sanitary items are also manufactured and sold in over 140 countries. (Annual Report, 2007, p.4) GSK employs over 103,000 people around the world. In 2007, women “accounted for 24 per cent of senior managers and 37 per cent of all managers” while “minorities made up 19.1 per cent of employees in the UK workforce”. (Corporate Responsibility Report, 2007, p.100) The organisation invests in its own research to develop new drug substances. One in six employees’ works in the area of research and in 2007 GSK spent over 13 million pounds every day for R&D. Research efforts are also directed at diseases, which are mainly widespread in underdeveloped countries.
Author: L.T.C. Harms Publisher: WIPO ISBN: 9280522493 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 576
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With this publication, WIPO and the author aim at making available for judges, lawyers and law enforcement officials a valuable tool for the handling of intellectual property cases. To that effect, the case book uses carefully selected court decisions drawn from various countries with either civil or common law traditions. The extracts from the decisions and accompanying comments illustrate the different areas of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on matters that typically arise in connection with the enforcement of intellectual property rights in civil as well as criminal proceedings.
Author: J. DiVanna Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230006086 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 187
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The premise of the book is to provide insight into new ways through which corporations create and execute strategies. It is the result of a 24-hour intensive workshop that brought together over twenty strategy practitioners from multiple industries. They were asked to consider the proposition that strategy is shifting from a product of an élite group of people within the firm to a process that aggregates strategic thinking from all levels of the firm.
Author: Ruth Bender Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136414045 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 317
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Corporate Financial Strategy is a practical guide to understanding the elements of financial strategy, and how directors and advisors can add value by tailoring financial strategy to complement corporate strategy. The book sets out appropriate financial strategies over the key milestones in a company's life. It discusses the practicalities behind transactions such as: * Raising venture capital * Flotation on a stock exchange * Making acquisitions * Management buyouts * Financial restructuring In explaining financing structures, the book sets out the basic building blocks of any financial instrument to enable the reader to appreciate innovations in the field. It also illustrates how and why different types of security might be used. The second edition of this very popular textbook brings to bear the considerable commercial and academic experience of its co-authors. Throughout, the book offers a range of up-to-date case studies, abundant diagrams and figures, and frequent 'Working Insight' sections to provide practical illumination of the theory. This book will enable you to understand the potential value added by the best financial strategy, while fully demonstrating the working role of financial strategy within an overall corporate strategy. An excellent practical guide for senior financial managers, strategic-decision makers and qualified accountants, the text is also invaluable as a clear-sighted and thorough companion for students and senior executives on finance courses (including MBA, MSc and DMS).
Author: Matthew M. Hayward Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 364201075X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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High quality leads provide the foundation for the discovery of successful clinical development candidates, and therefore the identi?cation of leads is an essential part of drug discovery. The process for the identi?cation of leads generally starts with the screening of a compound collection, either an HTS of a relatively large compound collection (hundreds of thousands to one million plus compounds) or a more focused screen of a smaller set of compounds that have been preselected for the target of interest. Virtual screening methods such as structure-based or pharmacophore-based searches can complement or replace one of the above approaches. Once hits are identi?ed from one or more of these screening methods, they need to be thoroughly characterized in order to con?rm activity and identify areas in need of optimization. Finally, once fully characterized hits are identi?ed, preliminary optimization through synthetic modi?cation is carried out to generate leads. Parallel optimization of all properties, including biological, physicochemical, and ADME is the most ef?cient approach to the identi?cation of leads. Hit characterization is described in the previous chapter. The focus of this chapter is on hit optimization and the identi?- tion of leads. After a general overview of these processes, examples taken from the literature since 2001 will be used to illustrate speci?c points. There are also a number of excellent reviews covering the lead identi?cation process [1–6].
Author: Brian J. Wardyga Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1351172344 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 806
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The Video Games Textbook takes the history of video games to another level, with visually-stimulating, comprehensive, and chronological chapters that are relevant and easy to read for a variety of students. Every chapter is a journey into a different era or area of gaming, where readers emerge with a strong sense of how video games evolved, why they succeeded or failed, and the impact they had on the industry and human culture. Written to capture the attention and interest of both domestic and international college students, each chapter contains a list of objectives and key terms, illustrative timelines, arcade summaries, images and technical specifications of all major consoles. Key Features Explores the history of video games, including the social, political, and economic motivations Facilitates learning of material with illustrative timelines, arcade summaries and images Highlights the technical specifications of all major consoles Illustrates the breakthroughs and trends of the gaming market
Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1647821274 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 269
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The one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects. We're now living in the project economy. The number of projects initiated in all sectors has skyrocketed, and project management skills have become essential for every leader and manager. Still, project failure rates remain extremely high. Why? Leaders oversee too many projects and have too little visibility into them. Project managers struggle to translate their hands-on, technical knowledge up to senior management. The result? Worthy projects are starved of time and resources and fail to deliver benefits, while too much investment goes into the wrong projects. To compete in the project economy, you need to close this gap. The HBR Project Management Handbook shows you how. In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a new and simple framework that will increase any project's likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, it will teach you how to manage your organization's projects, strategic programs, and agile initiatives more effectively and push the best ones ahead to completion. Timeless yet forward-looking, this book will help you win in the project-driven world. In the HBR Project Management Handbook you'll find: Everything you need to know about project management in practical, nontechnical language A definitive taxonomy of project types, from product launches to digital transformations to megaprojects A road map for becoming an effective project leader and executive sponsor A new, simple, and universal project framework, the Project Canvas, that breaks down any project into essential building blocks that can be easily understood by all project stakeholders Original concepts and exclusive case studies from public- and private-sector organizations worldwide You'll learn: A common language for project managers and executives to run successful projects across your organization When to use agile, traditional, or hybrid methods in your projects The twelve principles of successful projects, including purpose, agility, and a focus on outcomes Techniques for selecting and advancing the best projects and managing a strategic and balanced project portfolio How today's projects will help address some of the most pressing global trends, including automation, sustainability, diversity, and crisis management Why project management needed to be reinvented and what the future holds HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, and real-life stories, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack—whatever your role.
Author: Constantine Gatsonis Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1351659456 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 634
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Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternative methods to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical condition or to improve the delivery of care (IOM 2009). CER is conducted to develop evidence that will aid patients, clinicians, purchasers, and health policy makers in making informed decisions at both the individual and population levels. CER encompasses a very broad range of types of studies—experimental, observational, prospective, retrospective, and research synthesis. This volume covers the main areas of quantitative methodology for the design and analysis of CER studies. The volume has four major sections—causal inference; clinical trials; research synthesis; and specialized topics. The audience includes CER methodologists, quantitative-trained researchers interested in CER, and graduate students in statistics, epidemiology, and health services and outcomes research. The book assumes a masters-level course in regression analysis and familiarity with clinical research.
Author: L.T.C. Harms Publisher: WIPO ISBN: 928052982X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 174
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With this publication, WIPO and the author aim at making available for judges, lawyers and law enforcement officials a valuable tool for the handling of intellectual property cases. To that effect, the case book uses carefully selected court decisions drawn from various countries with either civil or common law traditions. The extracts from the decisions and accompanying comments illustrate the different areas of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on matters that typically arise in connection with the enforcement of intellectual property rights in civil as well as criminal proceedings.
Author: Stefanie Aulenbach Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638857476 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 29
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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 2,0, University of Sunderland (New College Durham), language: English, abstract: The Group's principal activities are operating international and domestic air transportation services, providing freight services, selling international and domestic holiday tours and associated support activities including information technology, catering, ground handling and engineering and maintenance. (http://www.qantas.com.au) Qantas flies to more than 142 destinations in about 40 countries. Besides Qantas the company's operations include an Australian regional carrier, QantasLink, and a low-fare carrier, Jetstar. Overall, the company's fleet includes about 219 aircraft. Qantas is part of the Oneworld global marketing and code-sharing alliance, which is led by British Airways and American Airlines. A proposed purchase of Qantas by an investment group led by Macquarie Bank and TPG failed to win shareholder approval in 2007. (http://www.qantas.com.au) Stakeholders are all groups and individuals who have an interest in the company being analysed. In order to focus on these groups which have the power to influence, corporate level activities have to be identified first. This can include large shareholders, governments and trade unions. The power and interest of those stakeholder groups have an impact on the process by which strategy develops at the corporate level and in each individual business.(Williamson et al, 2004, pg. 9) Qantas’ stakeholders are its shareholders, employees, customers, business partners and the community, indirect stakeholders include academics, the media, governments and non- governmental organisations. They all have a major influence on the business, its strategy and therefore its performance. According to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales “the objective of financial statements is to provide information about the reporting entity’s financial performance and financial position that is useful to a wide range of users for assessing the stewardship of the entity’s management and for making economic decisions”.(Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, 2002/2003, pg. 22) Furthermore, it says that this objective can usually be met by concentrating only on the information needs of present and potential investors which are the defining class of user. That is the reason why I will focus on present and potential stakeholders in the main part of this assignment.
Author: Andrea Verhohlen
Author: Andrea Verhohlen
Author: L.T.C. Harms
Author: J. DiVanna
Author: Ruth Bender
Author: Matthew M. Hayward
Author: Brian J. Wardyga
Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Author: Constantine Gatsonis
Author: L.T.C. Harms
Author: Stefanie Aulenbach