Short-termism has resulted directly or indirectly in corporate earnings games, the deferral of investments needed for long-term competitiveness and the transformation of investment and commercial banking from a capital-facilitating agency service business into a principal proprietary trading business.
Sporting a corporate logo during games is indeed against NBA rules.
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Short-termism can result in a range of corporate and financial games that may enrich management at the expense of market integrity and efficient investor capital allocation.
One group that may not realize their vulnerabilities is the corporate sponsors of the games.
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Mr Townsend, a former head of marketing for Transport for London, said there was an "overwhelming importance" for UK corporate sponsorship of the games.
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It was due to deceitful, and perhaps illegal, games played by corporate executives: diverting funds into secret partnerships, cooking the books to keep those deals secret, lying to investors and employees about the financial health of the company, while selling their own stock to make sure they wouldn't be hurt when the whole house of cards collapsed.
Now NBC is a partner in the Olympics, both as the exclusive American broadcaster of the games and through other corporate ties.
Leading the way of corporate ownership and operation of bowl games is ESPN Regional Television, a sports marketing, syndication and production company subsidiary of ESPN.
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Organizing Committee head Peter Ueberroth, who largely changed the landscape by chasing more corporate sponsorship dollars to fund the games, parlayed his success into the baseball commissioner's job a year later.
When the practice of managing up gets confused with promotion of self-interest, brown-nosing, manipulation, the gymnastics of corporate climbing, or other mind games, a good theory rapidly becomes twisted resulting in a false and dangerous reality.
Wags are already writing off the 2002 games as another Atlanta, where corporate dollars will overshadow the Olympic spirit.
If Microsoft wants to deal a serious blow to its only major competitor in the high-end games console space, it should use some of that corporate weight to drop the price on the next Xbox and make its next console the only logical buy.
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.
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The best mobile management platforms also offer control over games and apps, with the ability to push out mandatory corporate apps, restrict the use of designated categories of apps, and tailor policies for apps based on organizational groups or job functions.
The NFL Network, Direct TV, content on mobile phones, tablets and computers, naming rights, corporate sponsorships have all occurred because of labor peace and the insurance that the games will be played.
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And if Jobs has his way, games like "Super Monkey Ball" will mean that people stuck in corporate meetings may be twitchier than ever in the near future.
The results they are gathering will give them new insights into game theory, that little corner of mathematics where games and economics collide, and which can be found behind everything from corporate bargaining to the 1950s arms race.
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With relatively few games, football rakes in less than other sports from in-stadium sponsorships, including corporate naming rights.
Take-Two's creative teams make fantastic games, and the company has gotten some good interim support from a group of new corporate leaders.
Students can easily take notes in class, children can play games, artists and designers can make sketches or draw directly on their computer screens and the corporate user can answer emails or work on a spreadsheet as they move between meetings.
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