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Bus& 101 Introduction to Business Readings and Workbook Course Designer: Leslie Lum Academic Year 2010-2011 Funded by the Ga
Bus& 101 Introduction to Business Readings and Workbook Course Designer: Leslie Lum Academic Year 2010-2011 Revised 5/11 Funded by the Gates Foundation/State Board Open Course Initiative 5/28/2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 5 Thirty Second Commercial 22 Resume 6 COMPANY ANALYSIS 24 DOING THE COMPANY ANALYSIS 25 Writing Self Assessment (Courtesy Robin Jeffers) 42 Company Selection 26 Company Research 29 Company Analysis- Marketing 37 Company Financial Analysis 38 Company Management Paper 39 Company Presentation 41 Links to sample student paper 42 Team Writing Assignment 47 Team Research Scavenger Assignment 49 MODULE 1: THE CONTEXT OF BUSINESS 51 Module 1 Goals 51 The Economy 52 GDP: One of the Great Inventions of the 20th Century 52 Economic Growth 55 World’s Economies 56 GDP per capita 66 Inflation 69 Business Cycles 74 Government and Policy 77 Fiscal Policy 77 Monetary Policy 79 Currency Risk 80 Economic Indicators 81 Individual Assignment – Calculating growth rates 85 Team Assignment - Economic Indicators 86 Team Assignment – Costco Case 91 Commanding Heights A Case Study of Bubbles 147 Module 1 Questions for Timed Writes 148 2 MODULE 2 - ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEGAL FORMS OF BUSINESS 149 Businesses and Entrepreneurship 150 Forms of Ownership 155 Choosing the Business Structure 158 Starting a Business – The Business Plan 159 Breakeven Analysis 167 Team Assignment – Forms of Business 171 Team Assignment – Entrepreneurship and Business Plan 173 Team Assignment Optional - Breakeven analysis of your business plan 174 Module 2 Questions -
Annual Report 2011 European Values Think-Tank
ANNUAL REPORT 2011 EUROPEAN VALUES THINK-TANK 1 Dear Reader, you are holding the Annual Report of the European Values Think-tank, in which we would like to present our programs realized in 2011. European Values is a non-governmental, pro-European organization that, through education and research activities, works for the development of civil society and a healthy market environment. From 2005, we continue in our role as a unique educational and research organization and think tank, which contributes to public and professional discussion about social, political and economic development in Europe. In the Czech Republic we point out that, due to our membership – active and constructive – of the European Union we can for the first time in modern history participate in decision- making processes concerning the future of Europe, and ensure that we are no longer just a passive object of desire of large powers in our neighbourhood. With our international program, European Values Network, from 2007, we also contribute to a Europe-wide debate on the challenges that Europe faces today. We believe that the public and politicians do not recognize that the benefits of post-war development on our continent can not be taken for granted, and that there are many global trends that threaten the freedom, security and prosperity of Europe as a whole. We analyze these social, political, security and economic trends, and we offer solutions to problems associated with them. In addition to publishing our own books, publications, studies, recommendations, comments, and media contributions and commentary, we also organize seminars, conferences and training courses for professionals and the wider public. -
Remembering Sudetenland: on the Legal Construction of Ethnic Cleansing Timothy W
Maurer School of Law: Indiana University Digital Repository @ Maurer Law Articles by Maurer Faculty Faculty Scholarship 2006 Remembering Sudetenland: On the Legal Construction of Ethnic Cleansing Timothy W. Waters Indiana University Maurer School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facpub Part of the Human Rights Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Waters, Timothy W., "Remembering Sudetenland: On the Legal Construction of Ethnic Cleansing" (2006). Articles by Maurer Faculty. Paper 324. http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facpub/324 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by Maurer Faculty by an authorized administrator of Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Remembering Sudetenland: On the Legal Construction of Ethnic Cleansing TIMOTHY WILLIAM WATERS* I. To Begin: Something Uninteresting, and Something New ......... 64 II. A im s of the A rticle ................................................................. 66 1II. An Attempt at an Uncontroversial Historical Primer .............. 69 A. Czechoslovakia and Munich .......................................... 69 B. The Bene§ D ecrees ........................................................ 70 C. The Expulsions or Transfers .......................................... 73 D. The Potsdam Agreement .............................................. -
Czech Debate on the EU Membership Perspectives of Turkey and Ukraine
Czech debate on the EU membership perspectives of Turkey and Ukraine David Král EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy November 2005 Acknowledgement: This report was written as part of an international project, mapping the state of debate on the EU membership perspectives of Turkey and Ukraine in four Central European countries: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovenia and undertaken jointly by EUROPEUM, Institute of Public Affairs (Warsaw), Centre for Policy Studies at CEU (Budapest) and Peace Institute (Ljubljana). Introduction The question of further EU enlargement is an issue that remained very much on the table even after the May 2004 “Big Bang” expansion of the Union. While in the ten countries that recently acceded all the efforts thus far have been focusing on the rules and conditions of entering the exclusive club, not much space in the public debate remained for discussing the issue as to what are the further steps in EU enlargement, which countries should be considered for joining and what are the stakes of the new member states, including the Czech Republic, in the whole process. This paper will look into examining the Czech attitudes towards the EU membership perspectives of two countries: Turkey and Ukraine. It will deal with the attitudes of the political representation, including the political parties, government and diplomatic service (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and other governmental stakeholders. Further, it will try to give an account of how the issue was treated in the media, especially in the major opinion shaping newspapers. Thirdly, it will try to assess what are the other stakeholders in the process, especially within the ranks of the civil society and how they are likely to shape the public debate. -
The Václav Havel Library Annual Report 2017 2 Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla
The Václav Havel Library Annual Report 2017 2 Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla Published in 2018 by the charity the Václav Havel Library registered at the Municipal Court in Prague, file O 338 dated 26 July 2004 statutory representative: Michael Žantovský address: Ostrovní 13, 110 00 Prague 1 Identification no. 27169413 / Tax identification no. CZ 27169413 Bank accounts: 7077 7077 / 0300 CZK; IBAN: CZ61 0300 0000 0000 7077 7077 7755 7755 / 0300 EUR; IBAN: CZ40 0300 0000 0000 7755 7755 7747 7747 / 0300 USD; IBAN: CZ66 0300 0000 0000 7747 7747 SWIFT CODE: CEKO CZPP Tel.: (+420) 222 220 112 Email: [email protected] The Václav Havel Library is registered according to the libraries law under registration no. 6343/2007 at the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic www.vaclavhavel-library.org www.facebook.com/KnihovnaVaclavaHavla www.facebook.com/VaclavHavelLibrary www.youtube.com/knihovnaVaclavahavla www.twitter.com/KnihovnaVH www.twitter.com/HavelLibraries www.instagram.com/knihovnaVaclavahavla Lidé Knihovny Václava Havla 3 It only makes sense as a living or vital organism that occupies a place that cannot be overlooked in overall public and political life. […] The Library must in some way be original as such, in itself, in its everyday nature, as a permanently existing phenomenon or place. Václav Havel A Few Sentences on the Václav Havel Library Hrádeček 4 Contents Contents on the preparation of film documents THE VÁCLAV HAVEL LIBRARY and retrospectives PEOPLE OF THE VÁCLAV HAVEL LIBRARY PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES Founders Best-selling -
From Membership Referendums to European Elections
From membership referendums to European elections Jean-Michel De Waele The wave of referendums which was organised in the eight countries of Central Europe to ratify their membership of the European Union is a fascinating subject for research. This is, in fact, almost the first time that an almost identical question has been asked to the electors of eight different states within a period of less than one year. As we shall attempt to illustrate, this phenomenon raises important questions on the use of referendums in our societies and facilitates comparison. We then proceed to update the information by setting it alongside the results of the European elections in June 2004 and the referendums on membership of the European Union organised in 2003. Did these referendums foreshadow the broad trends identified the first time the new member states had an opportunity to elect European representatives? The rising number of referendums, including the new rounds organised in the eight Central European states to ratify the European Constitution, calls for serious consideration of the referendum question. What part does the referendum play in our modern representative democracies? How do we explain the increase in the use of the referendum in the decision-making process in the European states? What is the situation elsewhere in the world? When and why was the referendum decided upon as a way of making decisions? Is it possible to make comparisons? Can explanatory models be isolated? Do states which use referendums share common political and legislative features? There are many questions to be answered, but not so many have clear answers, partly because of the scope of the questions and partly because of the lack of genuinely comparative research undertaken in recent years on the subject. -
Miroslav Kalousek a 20 Let Jeho Úrednických a Politických
Miroslav Kalousek a 20 let jeho ´uˇrednick´ych a politick´ych her Struˇcn´averze pro nen´aroˇcn´ehoˇcten´aˇre Nadaˇcn´ıfond proti korupci Obsah Prolog 2 Pˇredmluva 3 Uvod´ 4 1 Zlat´a90. l´eta 7 1.1 Jak to bylo s pad´aky? . 8 1.2 Modernizace tanku T-72 . 11 1.3 St´abn´ıinformaˇcn´ısyst´em.ˇ . 13 1.4 Prodej deseti letoun˚uMiG-29 . 16 1.5 Prodej stovky tank˚uˇradyT-72 do Alˇz´ırska . 20 1.6 Prodej kas´arenna n´amˇest´ıRepubliky . 22 1.7 Shrnut´ı:Kalousk˚uvsyst´emrozd´av´an´ıveˇrejn´ych zak´azek. 25 2 Pˇresahdo nov´ehotis´ıcilet´ıa jeho pˇrelom 30 2.1 Kauza Diag Human . 30 2.2 Ochrana vzduˇsn´ehoprostoru ˇcilikauza Gripeny . 35 3 Na sam´emvrcholu 40 3.1 Kauza M´ytn´ea kauza Elektronick´evinˇety . 40 3.2 Kauza Hazard . 44 3.3 Znovu arm´ada{ kauza Letadla CASA . 50 3.4 Starost o pˇr´ırodu ˇciliekologick´asuperzak´azka . 56 3.5 Starost o c´ırkev ˇcilic´ırkevn´ınarovn´an´ı . 59 4 Humorn´eodlehˇcen´ına z´avˇer 63 4.1 Plukovn´ık N´ahl´ık\ odch´az´ı! . 63 " 4.2 Miroslav Kalousek a humor . 64 Pˇr´ıloha{ Richard H´ava & Miroslav Kalousek 65 Literatura 69 1 Prolog Kir je mal´epostavy, zat´ımjen m´ırnˇeproˇsedivˇel´y.Ve tv´aˇrinem´anic pozoruhodn´eho. " Kdybys ho potkal na ulici, ani se za n´ım neotoˇc´ıˇs,ani dech se ti nezataj´ı, srdce se ti nerozbuˇs´ı.Oblek m´ataky ten nejobyˇcejnˇejˇs´ı{ ˇsediv´ys prouˇzkem.Uˇsit´yje ovˇsems vkusem. -
Populism in Central Europe
Organiser: Objectives of this book are: The Association for International Affairs (AMO) is a Czech non-govern- ■ To examine the factors that feed the contemporary populist facet of Central European politics. mental organization that conducts research, and hosts educational pro- ■ To critically analyze the concept of populism: Is populism an inherent feature of politics? grams in the fields of international affairs, foreign policy and security ■ To discuss the historical and ideological roots of Central European populism: What has influenced studies. AMO, established in 1995, the formation of populism in Central Europe? is currently one of the leading institu- With kind support of: tions of its kind in the Czech ■ To ask whether the features shared by the Central European states outweigh their differences and Republic. whether there is such phenomenon as "Central European populism". The Research Center of AMO pro- Václav Nekvapil and Maria Staszkiewicz (editors) vides independent expert analyses, supports discussions at various levels and provides solutions for these issues. EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND IN PRAGUE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC POPULISM IN CENTRAL EUROPE Populism in Central Europe Editors: Václav Nekvapil and Maria Staszkiewicz Compiled by: Vendula Peisertová, Jiří Bednář, Lauren Trigero, Adéla Jurečková, Jitka Jurková, Lenka Ryjáčková and Vlaďka Votavová Translations: Gwendolyn Albert (Eva van de Rakt: Opening Remarks; Marie Gailová: Populism in the Context of "the Roma Question"; Jiří Musil: Reflections on Czech Populism; Václav Nekvapil: Populism and the Role of Political Parties in the Czech Republic and Lukáš Benda: Populism in Contemporary Hungarian Politics) Designed by: Tomáš Barčík – design studio Printed by: BCS, s. -
Abstract the Elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on 28Th and 29Th May 2010 Was Called Facebook Elections
Abstract The elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on 28th and 29th May 2010 was called Facebook elections. The reason for such title was the scale of usage of Facebook by the political parties for their campaigns. The thesis Facebook and the elections. The analysis of a self-presentation of the Czech political parties before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010 focuses on a semiotic analysis of Facebook accounts of some political parties and their chairmen. During the monitored period Facebook presentations were presented by the Civic Democratic Party, the Czech Social Democratic Party, TOP 09, the Public Affairs party, Christian Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party and the Greens. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia was not officially registered on Facebook. We also analyzed Facebook pages of Mirek Topolanek (ODS), Petr Necas (ODS), Jiri Paroubek (CSSD), Karel Schwarzenberg (TOP 09), Radek John (VV), Cyril Svoboda (KDU-CSL) and Ondrej Liska (SZ). We call Facebook a viral social network. We analyzed it as a cyberspace with an ambivalent structure which influences the mean of a communication process before elections. Rhizomatic map of Facebook is comparable with a topology of a virtual cafe. We also present a comparison to an egocentric structure of a monitored socioware. With the help of a theory of a political marketing we also show on what principals does the facebook campaign work and how does it differ from means of propaganda of political parties in previous years. We are trying to understand when the self-presentation and reveal of the background is effective and when it, on the contrary, leads to a demystification of a political authority. -
Central European Update
CSIS New European Democracies Project Volume 4 ▌Number 27 ▌July 13, 2007 Central European Update Poland be discussed next month, accord- reported that Hungary is deter- Slovenia On 10 July Polish President Lech ing to Czech Finance Minister mined to complete the require- On 12 July Slovenia’s Public Kaczynski met his visiting Czech Miroslav Kalousek. ments for joining the euro by Agency for Railway Transporta- counterpart Vaclav Klaus. The two 2009. tion and SCT, a local construc- officials stated that they share Former Czech Foreign Minister tion company, signed a contract views on the future of the EU con- Cyril Svoboda revealed that the On 6 July, a delegation from for a EUR 12 million project stitutional treaty and the voting Czech government of former NATO’s Defense Review Com- aimed at improving the country’s weights in the Council of the Euro- Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek mittee urged Hungary to increase railway infrastructure. The project pean Union. They also discussed first discussed the missile defense defense spending and restructure is part of a larger initiative, which trade and economic collaboration radar proposal with the U.S. at a the armed forces. Hungary’s De- is sponsored by the EU and the and missile defense. The Czech NATO summit in Prague in 2002. fense Minister Imre Szekeres Slovenian government and is President also met with Prime Min- Technical negotiations were con- insisted that the defense budget scheduled to be completed by the ister Jaroslaw Kaczynski to dis- ducted only with the defense min- will remain at 1.2 percent of GDP end of 2009. -
The Network Analysis of Co ‑Voting Strategies of the KDU ‑ČSL Deputies 1
The disintegration of KDU ‑ČSL in 2009: The network analysis of co ‑voting strategies of the KDU ‑ČSL deputies 1 DUŠAN BRABEC Politics in Central Europe (ISSN: 1801-3422) Vol. 16, No. 2 DOI: 10.2478/pce-2020-0023 Abstract: The main objective of this study is to capture and analyse the dynamics of co ‑voting ties among the members of the KDU ‑ČSL political party group in the 5th parliamentary term between 2006 and 2010 when some members of KDU ‑ČSL left this party and founded new political party TOP 09. For the analysis of the data, network approach and methods were used, with emphasis on the detection of possible rivalling communities in the constructed network of co‑voting ties between deputies belonging to the KDU‑ČSL parliamentary party group in the analysed time period. The co‑voting was treated as a proxy indicator of a possible relationship indicating co ‑operation or rivalry between the deputies. The main outcome of the study was the identification of the co ‑voting strategies and dynamics of the co ‑voting between deputies who left KDU ‑ČSL in 2009 and formed a new political party with their former party colleagues. The study is of a quantitative nature, but the main findings are connected to qualita‑ tive insights as well. Keywords: political parties; unity, party discipline, party factionalism, co‑voting, legislative networks 1 This study was supported by the Charles University Research Programme ‘Progres’ Q18 – Social Sciences: From Multidisciplinarity to Interdisciplinarity. The author would like to thank Lukáš Hájek for the initial data preparation. POLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPE 16 (2020) 2 547 Introduction It has been more than ten years since the new political party TOP 09 was estab‑ lished in 2009. -
Dohoda Ústavních Činitelů, Parlamentních Politických Stran a Občanů O Společném Postupu Proti Nárůstu Extremismu a Rasismu
Dohoda ústavních činitelů, parlamentních politických stran a občanů o společném postupu proti nárůstu extremismu a rasismu y ústavní činitelé a předsedové parlamentních politických stran v duchu nedotknutelných hodnot M lidské důstojnosti a v souladu s našim slibem hájit ústavní pořádek ČR založený na úctě k lidským právům a zásadám občanské společnosti spojujeme svůj hlas a touto dohodou: – jednoznačně odsuzujeme šíření extremistických nálad a vyvolávání atmosféry konfrontace a násilí v naší společnosti – jasně odmítáme jakékoliv projevy rasové diskriminace a pokusy o vymáhání rasové nadřazenosti a etnické či sociální segregace – nepřipustíme, aby tyto názory a myšlenky pronikly do veřejného diskursu a politické reality předvo- lebního boje – vyzýváme veřejnou správu, aby efektivně využívala všech dostupných právních nástrojů k překonání těchto názorů a nálad – budeme při výkonu svých funkcí podporovat veškeré aktivity vedoucí k omezení nárůstu pravicového a levicového extremismu a vždy budeme vystupovat proti všem projevům rasové diskriminace ve společnosti. Předseda Poslanecké sněmovny ČR Předseda Senátu ČR Předseda Vlády ČR Členové Vlády ČR MZV MO MF MEZ MV MPO MSP MPSV MD MZE MZD MŠMT MŽP MK MMR Předsedové parlamentních politických stran ODS KDU-ČSL SZ ČSSD KSČM Veřejný ochránce práv 1. Prezident ČR navrhovatel: ministr Michael Kocáb Senátoři Milan Štěch Jaromír Chalupa Ondřej Plašil Miroslav Antl Jaromír Štětina Radim Chytka Petr Pleva Vlastimil Balín Tomáš Töpfer Kateřina Jacques Pavel Ploc Ivo Bárek Pavel Trpák Věra Jakubková Jiří Polanský Marta Bayerová Alena Venhodová Vítězslav Jandák Jiří Pospíšil Jiří Bis Otakar Veřovský Jiří Janeček Zdeněk Prosek Milan Bureš Petr Vícha Miroslav Jeník Přemysl Rabas Pavel Čáslava Václav Vlček Josef Ježek Petr Rafaj Jiří Dienstbier Alexandr Vondra Libor Ježek Juraj Raninec Hana Doupovcová Dagmar Zvěřinová Zdeněk Jičínský, DrSc.