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Crowdfunding Challenges For New Charity Organizations, Katherine M. Lowe

Marriott Student Review

A look into the complicated and competitive world of nonprofit fundraising in the modern world. With a special emphasis on the struggles new nonprofits face in differentiating their services and attracting donors through online crowdfunding.

Best Strategic Practices For Small And Medium-Sized Procurement Organizations, Peter O'Reilly

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Presentation discusses best practices, goals and objective, and strategies, and for small and medium-sized procurement organizations.

Best Strategic Practices For Small And Medium-Sized Procurement Organizations, Peter O'Reilly

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Presentation discusses best practices, goals and objective, and strategies, and for small and medium-sized procurement organizations.

New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara

Ray McNamara

This paper uses case studies and interview data to explore the relationship between control and new venture success/survival. A model of the new venture control process is distilled and explored in six new venture cases. The control processes were traced through an examination of the everyday language of venture principals to determine a grounded lower order model. Integrating these models into contingency theory locates strategic risk reduction choices as the crucial link between contingent variables and organizational control packages. In this sense the process of organizing is seen as a tiered process of risk reduction: successful firms analyze and control …

New Ventures: Control Of Risks Through Strategies, Simone Kelly, Raymond Mcnamara

Simone Kelly

This paper uses case studies and interview data to explore the relationship between control and new venture success/survival. A model of the new venture control process is distilled and explored in six new venture cases. The control processes were traced through an examination of the everyday language of venture principals to determine a grounded lower order model. Integrating these models into contingency theory locates strategic risk reduction choices as the crucial link between contingent variables and organizational control packages. In this sense the process of organizing is seen as a tiered process of risk reduction: successful firms analyze and control …

Remic Tax Enforecement As Financial-Market Regulator, Bradley T. Borden, David J. Reiss

Bradley T. Borden

Lawmakers, prosecutors, homeowners, policymakers, investors, news media, scholars and other commentators have examined, litigated, and reported on numerous aspects of the 2008 Financial Crisis and the role that residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) played in that crisis. Big banks create RMBS by pooling mortgage notes into trusts and selling interests in those trusts as RMBS. Absent from prior work related to RMBS securitization is the tax treatment of RMBS mortgage-note pools and the critical role tax enforcement should play in ensuring the integrity of mortgage-note securitization.

This Article is the first to examine federal tax aspects of RMBS mortgage-note pools formed …

How Purchasing Departments Can Take Advantage Of The Sluggish Economy To Achieve Strategic Opportunities Through Best Practices, Peter O'Reilly

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Presentation objectives:

• What is a Strategic Best Practice and Why is it Important to a Purchasing Department?

How To Implement Best Strategic Practices In Small And Medium-Sized Procurement Organizations During Difficult Economic Times, Peter O'Reilly

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Presentation objectives:

• What are Small-sized and Medium-sized Sourcing Departments?
• What is a Strategic Best Practice and Why is it Important to a Sourcing Department?