Merrill Lynch

This summer I was offered an internship for Merrill Lynch in my hometown of Towson, Maryland. For eight weeks, I worked five days a week for an average of thirty hours. There are numerous Merrill Lynch offices in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area. Offices in Annapolis and Baltimore are greater in numbers and advisors. The Towson region only has about fifteen advisors and four client assistants. However, almost all of those advisors started their careers in Baltimore. The Towson office

In a rapidly changing world, organizations need to continually identify new opportunities beyond existing competencies if they are to survive and prosper. Customers also increasingly want customized products. Customer service has become a hygiene factor and customer loyalty is now being driven by faster innovation, rapid concept-to-market and product co-creation. This has led to the extension of the collaboration paradigm to customer facing functions in the supply chain, namely the product design

this report is to analyse and evaluate the financial data of Merrill Lynch through 2006, 2007 and 2008. It also looks at the developments in the financial markets during these years and its impact on Merrill Lynch, a what-if analysis of the possible financial performance that might have existed had the economic downturn not occurred and in the end summary and conclusions based on the findings. Introduction to Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s premier providers of wealth management

income, competitiveness and shareholders of organization. As the chairman and CEO of Bank of America, Lewis takes a responsibility to instruct the shareholders about the adverse conditions with Merrill Lynch merger. The same applies goes to Thain who deluded shareholders about financial problems in Merrill Lynch and the bonuses paid. Another point is that Thain and Lewis pay out bonuses before acquisition of the deal. On the other point of view, Lewis had responsibility to the overall well-being of the

price as set by Stewart might have seemed a little too convenient to some. The question here continues to deal with duty and the greater good. If Stewart and Bacanovic did not have this prior arrangement set up, then it was Bacanovic’s duty to Merrill Lynch and to the investors to uphold the responsibilities of his position. Again, this situation deals with the greater good of the investors as a whole, not just Martha Stewart as an individual, and therein lies the purpose behind the rules in place

Case Analysis; Bank of America Acquisition of Merrill Lynch Executive summary Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch in 2008. There were challenges that followed the acquisition. The following paper is an analysis of some of the challenges that transpired at the time. There is the statement of the problem and a proposition on how the management can handle it. The paper then outlines what could have caused the problem and goes ahead to give solutions to those problems. There are the recommendations

Despite being completely unready to leave the nest, I followed the crowd through the gyrations of the career planning office. I woke up one day to discover I had accepted a coveted investment banking job as an Analyst, in the New York office of Merrill Lynch. At graduation my friends and professors congratulated me on my good fortune. However, I had serious misgivings about the wisdom of my choice, succumbing to the lure of prestige and affluence, and foregoing the feeding of my

recommend that Martha Stewart, Faneuil, and Peter Bacanovic revisit Merrill Lynch Ethical Policy. That way they can better understand the meaning of employee confidentiality and the security of client information. Also they can better establish the difference between business professional and the friendship in which they had. Basis for Recommendation: By familiarizing themselves with the ethical policy established by Merrill Lynch, Martha Stewart, Faneuil and Peter Bacanovic would have been able

500 – 700 words telling the committee about your background, your educational goals and how this scholarship will help you achieve these goals. I am twenty years old and currently attend Illinois Central College (ICC). I have a mother, a father, and two older siblings. I have lived in Germantown Hills, Illinois my entire life and have never moved into a different home. Both of my parents have taught in the past and are both currently coaching at Metamora Township High School. They pushed me to excel

MBA 540 Final Exam 1. (10 pts.) Discuss how organizational architecture and corporate culture are related. Use an example of a real-life firm and discuss how its corporate culture blends with its organizational architecture. Organizational architecture and corporate culture should be intertwined within any successful company or organization. In the text, Brickley (2009), refers to organizational architecture as being three legs of a company: assignments of decision rights, 2) methods of rewarding