RSM100Y1 Lecture 9: Feb.11th.2013 AccountingII, Business Strategy and Planning
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Speaker: jennifer riel from desautels center for )ntegrative thinking. Dell wants to buy back the shares of dell. Going private can mean that dell can make more decisions. Also debt is now cheaper than any other source of financing (cid:884). Our dean for rotman writes a lot about integrative thinking (e was a strategy consultant, not formally a professor like traditional dean (e studied successful people. When he started, ge had (cid:884)(cid:889) billion dollars revenue. (e earned 4(cid:882)(cid:882) billion dollars over (cid:884)(cid:882) years. Entrepreneurs are more innovated, and they focus on growth. Jack thinks the company was not focusing on growth enough. Ex. when we close our eyes and imaging our classroom in as much detail as possible, we don"t remember everything. We remember only some of the things and leave out the rest. The problem is that we don"t think we missed out these details.
