Emory Peak

Oil companies have struggled since the oil price rout started in 2014. Cost cutting has been the norm for most companies and for many cost cuts included dividends. Some companies have refused to put dividends on the chopping block and in the face of plunging valuations have maintained or even increased dividends. It may seem counter-intuitive but there is a strategy behind the decision to maintain dividends despite falling oil prices. The oil price collapse has hammered many companies stock values

Since 1998, Bank of America has become one of the most successful financial institutions in the industry. With the mission to “make financial lives better, through the power of every connection”, Bank of America has operated its business align with its purpose. While assisting its clients understand their money, the company also put on a lot of effort on helping the communities by executing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It is undeniable that the company has successfully addressed many critical

Alliant Energy Strategy Analysis About Alliant Energy Alliant Energy Corporation, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin is a public utility company openly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Alliant Energy specializes in generating and distributing natural gas to nearly 420,000 customers and approximately 1 million electric customers in central and southern Wisconsin (Alliant Energy). In additional, they provide similar services throughout northern Iowa and southern Minnesota through their subsidiary

A sustainable business participates in environmentally friendly activities to ensure that all processes, products, services and manufacturing activities adequately address ongoing environmental concerns while still producing a profit. A business is sustainable if it has a minimal negative influence on the environment, community, society, or economy. Businesses are green if they incorporate principles of sustainability into each of its business decisions and activities. The business supplies environmentally

Energy Sources Introduction Energy sources have been identified as being vital in running virtually all domestic and industrial operations. There are two types of energy sources; renewable energy sources and nonrenewable energy sources. Renewable energy sources refer to the kinds that are naturally replenished. These include sunlight, the wind, ocean tides, waves, geothermal heat and rain (Tiwari et al., 2012). Nonrenewable energy sources, on the other hand, are the kinds that do not renew themselves

The narrative of falling oil prices has been played out in financial news as a blessing for consumers and a bane on the energy sector, namely on oil companies and oil-exporting countries. However, a crucial piece of the narrative has been largely forgotten, and that’s the shock that such oil prices have had on private equity investors in the energy markets for the past year. What was once a lucrative and seemingly obvious investment into the oil boom of the post-recession has, for the last year,

My country’s name is Vsmisly. (Its location has been identified as a state of Kentucky). I have promised to provide electricity to my country free from any foreign dependency and at the same time maintaining biodiversity and solving unemployment issues that we are experiencing right now as much as I can by implementing new technologies and using new ways of getting energy. I’m strongly oriented on creating innovations in the country and at the same time I try to preserve the nature for our future

The Falling Oil Prices of 2014: A Case Study The year 2014 witnessed a dramatic decrease in the world market price of crude oil. Beginning in June 2014, the price per barrel (pb) steadily declined from $115pb to below $50pb at the start of 2015 (Bowler, 2015; US EIA, 2015; Voigt, Walls, McKemey, Bakogiannis, Williams, Morley, Warga, & Bronstein, 2015). Fluctuations in oil prices can considerably affect various aspects of both the world and individual country economies (Basnet, Vatsa, & Sharma,

Topic and Project Description (a thorough description of the topic and project, written in the scholarly format appropriate to the field):  Grinnell College students, faculty, and staff have, for years, tried to make Grinnell College and its community more sustainable. Whether it has been through sourcing food grown locally and without fossil-fuel based fertilizers, advocating for LEED-certified buildings that conserve energy and water, or altering the College’s energy profile through the implementation

Critical evaluation of the impact of oil price volatility on the strategy of ROYAL SHELL OIL PLC. INTRODUCTION Royal Shell plc incorporates a group of global energy and petrochemical companies with its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands and its parent company is the Royal Dutch Shell plc, which is incorporated in England and Wales. Its current CEO is Ben van Beurden. Royal Shell Plc is chosen for this analysis because of its structured decision to balance growth with returns and its bold