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    Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born and raised in Metairie, Louisiana the daughter of Betty Degeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, an insurance agent. She has one brother, Vance, a musician and producer. She is of French, English, German, and Irish descent. She was raised as a Christian scientist until age 13. In 1973, her parents filed for separation and were divorced the following year. Shortly after, Ellen 's mother married Roy Gruessendorf, a salesman

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    Bill Gates Biography

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    Microsoft's $520 million. Over time, the company's stock increased in value and split numerous times. In 1987, Bill Gates became a billionaire when the stock raised to $90.75 a share. Since then, Gates has been at the top, or at least near the top, of Forbes' annual list of the top 400 wealthiest people in America. In 1999, with stock prices at an all-time high and the stock splitting eight-fold since its IPO, Gates's wealth briefly topped $101 billion. Several companies started trying to develop their

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    Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies Merger and acquisition is a corporate strategy entailing the selling, buying, and combining or dividing business entities in a bid to facilitate rapid recovery or growth. A merger is distinguished from an acquisition in the sense that an acquisition entails a take-over. A merger involves a combination of business assets of two companies forming an entirely new one ADDIN EN.CITE Mehnert2008259(Mehnert, 2008)2592596Mehnert, M.Negotiation: Definition

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    Cognizant Analysis Paper

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    The organization that I was working in the past before starting my Master’s program is Cognizant Technology Solutions. It is a Multinational Corporation that provides Information Technology, Consulting and Business Process outsourcing services. I was working as a Senior Systems Executive proving the clients with monitoring and requests handling services. My team and I also made reports from big data and presented it to the clients with suggestions in order for them to make better business decisions

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    Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) P&G – Procter & Gamble is a consumer product company founded and headquartered at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1837 by Mr. William Procter and Mr. James Gamble. It is now led by Mr. Alan.G.Lafley whom rejoins the company in 2010. P&G success was contributed to the heart of its business model – Innovation; and that is not just for newly invented product or service, it was for the goal of recreating needs for the improvement of consumers’ living. And it is a very long culture started

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    hospitals merged, and many doctor's have banded together to form larger, more cost-effective, speciality groups. One of the largest and most obvious changes has been in cost of healthcare. In 1990 the avereage cost of care per person was $2800, rising in 2000 to $4700, and then in 2010 exceeding $7500. In 1990, 14.1% of Americans had no insurance and in 2010, and additional 50 million people, or 16.3%. Certainly these issues are concerns, but there have been incredible innovations that have changed the

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    claims in the past even though none had surpassed $8 million dollars. CID supported $325 million dollars. Basically, the company could not rationally approximate the array of loss if any, which caused from the substance (“Edgar Filing Documents,” 2016). Clearly these types of problems are portions of business within an extreme controlled industry; There is no extra lawsuit problems known of. DEF-14A Proxy Statement: The Proxy Statement for the United Health Group’s expose extensive optimistic

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    William Durant in the early 1900’s. GM’s market has grown to capture more than 20 other companies throughout its success as automobiles expanded to become a basic American need for transportation (GM, History & Heritage). In addition, by the early 2000’s, GM was the largest manufacturer of automobiles and web-based communication, went on to buy Saab and created partnerships with other major car manufacturers, such as Suzuki and Subaru. Furthermore, alliances were formed with Honda and Toyota to

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    range for most years throughout the last 10 years. (Trading Economics, South Korean Balance of Trade, n.d) (Aneki.com, Ranking and Records, United States vs. Korea South) (Inflation.eu, Worldwide Inflation Data, Inflation South Korea 2012, n.d) (Global Rates Com, Fed Federal Funds Rate, American Central Bank’s Interest rate, n.d) (UN Data. A World of Information, Per Capita GDP at Current Prices USD, South Korea) (Index Mundi, Unemployment Rate South Korea, Historical Data Graphs per year) (U.S

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    different attitudes to the population policy, some of them tend to delay the increase of population while others introduce policies to encourage childbirth. After centuries of continual growth, which started at the first industrial revolution, the global population reached over 7 billion individuals in 2013. Research by Ezeh, Bongaarts and Mberu (2012) states that increasing population is a threat to individuals and societies by bring problems based on unsatisfied demand. The “increasing population”

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