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Week Two Project Paper #1 Quality Texas Award GM570 Marco Pollo January 24, 2012 Purpose and Background The Quality Texas Award was started by Governor Anne Richards as a concept during her campaign for Governor in 1990. It is a 501c3 nonprofit cooperation that includes the Governors office, the Texas Department of Commerce, and Texas businesses. The Quality Texas Foundation organized and delivered quality awareness seminars across the state of Texas. In the first two years of the Foundations existence, seminars were presented to 1,800 individuals representing more than 700 organizations. EDS Corporation, which is a leading global technology services provider, assigned an executive to lead the development of the state quality
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Kamala Devi Harris Courtney Hunt ENC Kamala Devi Harris, 49, born October 20, 1964, is an American attorney. She is the 32nd and current Attorney General of California following the 2010 California state elections. Harris has worked as an author and a politician and served as District Attorney of Sac Francisco from 2004 to 2011. First elected in 2003, defeating incumbent district attorney Terence Hallinan, she was re-elected in 2007. Harris is the first female and Asian American attorney general in California.
Taken on December 8, 1980, Leibovitz’s photo was shot just hours before his death. In 1983, Leibovitz left Rolling Stone and began working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair. With a wider array of subjects, Leibovitz’s photographs for Vanity Fair ranged from presidents to literary icons to teen heartthrobs. A number of Vanity Fair covers have featured Leibovitz’s stunning and controversial portraits of celebrities. Examples are a nude and pregnant Demi Moore and a half-submerged Whoopi Goldberg in a bathtub of milk.
The Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business DePaul University FIN 555: Financial Management Winter 2012 Dan Deli Phone: 312.362.6888 Office: 6134 DePaul Center ddeli@depaul.edu Case Study Questions: Midland Energy Resources, Inc: Cost of Capital Janet Mortensen, senior vice president of project finance at Midland Energy Resources, is in the process of preparing her annual cost of capital estimates for Midland and each of its three divisions (oil and gas exploration and production (E&P), refining and marketing (R&M), and petrochemicals). These estimates are used in many analyses within Midland, including capital budgeting decisions, financial accounting, performance appraisals, M&A proposals, and stock repurchase decisions. There has been some disagreement in the past about specific inputs and assumptions used to arrive at the cost of capital estimate, so Mortensen needs to devote extra care in preparing the cost of capital estimates and justifying her assumptions. These questions relate to the Midland Energy Resources, Inc: Cost of Capital case. You can find the data for this case on the course website in a spreadsheet named: Midland Energy Resources Exhibits.xls.