vehicles and started to diversify their business, producing more pick-up trucks and lobbying to government. However, Ford is already making profits from North America while GM and Chrysler are trying to bounce back from their severe damage. New cars are getting good reviews from customers, and for GM, the market share in North America is started to grow during past several months. See [table 3].
Ⅱ. Economic Environment
The economic trends of a country are very influential over business operations. Singapore's economy has shown continued resilience against most global crisis, and has rebounded with a record 13% growth from the recent global economy downturn. This rebound not only showed that the Singapore's forward-looking and alert damage-control measures are always in place and
(2) Long Term Care in Korea
In July 2008, Korea introduced social insurance for long-term care. There are several
important demographic and social changes leading to the introduction of long-term care
(LTC) insurance, including the rapid ageing of population as a result of the increase in life expectancy and the sharp decline in fertility. Total fertility rate is below 1.1 in 2005 (NSO,2007).
1. What is the "Hedge Fund"
1.1 What is Hedge Fund?
1.1.1 Definition of the "Hedge Fund"
1) What is a hedge fund?
"Hedge fund" is a general, non-legal term that was originally used to describe a type of private and unregistered investment pool that employed sophisticated hedging and arbitrage techniques to trade in the corporate equity markets. Hedge funds have traditionally been limited t
However, it was obviously difficult for eBay to provide everything, so they tried to achieve the goal by establishing a strategic alliance with other companies and merging the other companies. Strategic alliance and M&A are the one of the most important strategies for eBay to expand their market share and make consistent profits even though some of them was failed, such as Billpoint and Skype.