Business
In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
17,334 Essays on Business. Documents 5,431 - 5,460
-
Evaluating and Improving Hr Practices Within an Organization
Introduction Corporate America and government agencies continue to improve their HR practices to stay competitive in today's changing marketplace. By taking too long to find and to hire talented professionals in a tight labor market, companies and government agencies are losing out on top candidates and limiting their ability to become innovative and dynamic organizations. Traditional, deliberate, and risk-averse hiring and retention models lead to positions remaining open for long periods, opportunities lost as top
Rating:Essay Length: 1,704 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: May 5, 2010 -
Evaluating New Markets
In evaluating new markets for Church & Dwight Company, Inc., we have looked into the country of Nigeria. Nigeria has been the subject of many reports by the United Nations regarding population growth. Pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates are elevated in this small country which is slightly larger than Texas, yet smaller than Alaska. We believe that the Trojan brand as well as the First Response brand could se significant sales and exposure within
Rating:Essay Length: 508 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: April 17, 2010 -
Evaluating Resources and Sustainable Competitive Advantage at Amazon.Com, Inc.
Evaluating Resources and Sustainable Competitive Advantage at Amazon.com, Inc. Miranda Stascak, Keith Hughes University of Wisconsin - Platteville ________________ Part I: Company Background Amazon.com “is one of the largest global online retailers1”. They have created and/or purchased several well-known business such as “Zappos (shoes and clothing), Whole Foods Market (America’s healthiest grocery store), and Amazon Web Services (scalable cloud computing services)2”. Additionally, they have launched several well-known products such as ‘Alexa, Kindle and their very
Rating:Essay Length: 2,034 Words / 9 PagesSubmitted: April 18, 2018 -
Evaluating Security Software Tools
Evaluating Security Software Tools Security software is computer software, which is designed to enhance security for an individual computer or for a computer network. This software is meant to be used as part of a total security plan, rather than as a standalone security measure. Numerous software companies make security products, ranging from freeware which can be downloaded by individual computer users to specialty programs designed for particular networks, such as those used to store
Rating:Essay Length: 1,408 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: April 21, 2013 -
Evaluating the Framework of the Integrative Model of Work Attitudes, Motivation and Performance,
Evaluating the framework of the Integrative Model of Work Attitudes, Motivation and Performance, by Raymond A. Katzell, Donna E. Thompson, 1990 
Motivation is Psychology drive to achieve goals. There are many theories of motivation that can be combined then the capacity of each theory will predict the reality of people’s behaviour in work environment. Katzell and Thompson developed in 1990 a comprehensive theoretical model of work attitudes, motivation, and performance based on a key constructs
Rating:Essay Length: 872 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: January 6, 2010 -
Evaluating the Performance Metrics
thorntonlmba5150-8 week 7 Evaluating the Performance Metrics Lynn Thornton Northcentral University ________________ Evaluating the Performance Metrics In today’s economy, businesses should be able to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness by the use of metrics and any other processes and standards. However, to be effective in every action, the business competitiveness and sustainability of the companies of their market, it is important to have the right appropriate and functioning metrics for measuring effectiveness. Finally, in this
Rating:Essay Length: 1,358 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 19, 2016 -
Evaluation Company Scm Performance
1.1 Background of study Increased domestic and global competitions, economic downturns, rapidly changing the market trends, and volatile financial markets have all increased the pressure on organizations. Moreover, ease of traditional trade barriers; economic liberalization, globalization and deregulation have thrown several challenges to organizations in developing and newly industrializing economies like Thailand. To effectively respond to the rapid changes in external environment, several firms have been deploying new strategies to improve their competitiveness. Intensive domestic
Rating:Essay Length: 1,103 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 14, 2009 -
Evaluation of Board Meeting
(Period 0) This is where you review and print off your results for each Board Meeting in Phase 3, see feedback and keep track of the decisions you have made each Board Meeting. SHARE PRICE Your Share Price is currently: £4.94 (EUR 5.93) Share Price Trend You can see your Share Price trend after each Board Meeting. Start Position Board Meeting One (Period 1) Board Meeting Two (Period 2) Board Meeting Three (Period 3) Board
Rating:Essay Length: 834 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: May 31, 2015 -
Evaluation of Budget and Department Expansion
REED HEALTH SYSTEM MEMORANDUM TO: CFO HENRY MASON FROM: MS. GONZALEZ SUBJECT: EVALUATION OF BUDGET AND DEPARTMENT EXPANSION DATE: 5/5/10 CC: HUMAN RESOURCE DEPT. This memo is to address the criticism on whether the $1,530,000 spent to reduce turnover had been a good use of funds. After many calculations, cash savings were $1,230,648.00 and cash savings including productivity were $2,231,247. The funds spent on the program have been beneficial to the Reed Health System and
Rating:Essay Length: 686 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 5, 2010 -
Evaluation of Factors Roche
Roche’s main challenge is determining inventory levels and maintaining supply chain readiness in the event of a flu pandemic. They are dealing with wildly varied demand. In 2005-2006, they went through enormous effort to streamline and grow their supply chain to handle more than quadruple their capacity of Tamiflu. This was in response to international concern about a potential avian flu pandemic. Their success was due, in part, to their ability to include multiple outside
Rating:Essay Length: 432 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 5, 2015 -
Evaluation of Ford’s Supply Chain in the Light of Dell's Virtual Integration
Virtual Integration of the Supply Chain Examination & Evaluation of Ford’s Supply Chain in the light of Dell’s business model 1. Executive summary Dell Computer Corporation was the first company in its field to adopt a revolutionary formula known as the “Direct Business model”. Its founder, Michael Dell, succeeded in creating a perfect system of so called “virtual integration” between both his suppliers and his customers using the newest technologies available, optimizing the company’s supply
Rating:Essay Length: 3,385 Words / 14 PagesSubmitted: October 11, 2017 -
Evaluation of the Cost Estimating Process
EVALUATION OF THE COST ESTIMATING PROCESS AT WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE Technical Advisor Francisco S. Reyes White Sands Test Center Budget Office Prepared by Andres Ruvalcaba Materiel Test Directorate Tactical Missiles Branch December 2, 2004 EVALUATION OF THE COST ESTIMATING PROCESS AT WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE Andres Ruvalcaba 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Currently, White Sands Missile Range cost estimates account for the majority of the labor, material, contracts, and equipment costs. Thus, on the basis
Rating:Essay Length: 1,266 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: December 28, 2009 -
Evaluation of the General Motors
EVALUATION OF THE GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION Prepared for Prepared by General Motors 2 General Motors Corporation Introduction General Motors Corporation is more than just cars and trucks. This corporation is involved in Telecommunications, Aerospace, Defense, Financial and Insurance Services, Locomotives, Automotive Systems and Heavy Duty Automatic Transmissions. General Motors comes in second on the Fortune 500 list behind only Wal-Mart, with total revenues of over 186,736 million dollars. This massive corporation employs over a
Rating:Essay Length: 1,037 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: April 1, 2010 -
Evaluation of the Performance of Blue Island Public Company Before and After March 15th of 2012
I Financial Markets and Institutions- Summer 2014 Assessed Coursework: Evaluation of the performance of Blue Island Public Company before and after March 15th of 2012 For the purpose of this course assignment, I chose to evaluate the Blue Island Public Company. The company was established in 1993 (under the name Blue Island Fish Farming Ltd) as a mariculture unit and it has converted into a Public Company listed in the Cyprus Stock Exchange in 1999.
Rating:Essay Length: 1,892 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: March 11, 2015 -
Evaluation of the Relationship Between Social Involvement and Economic Performance
Businesses engaged in social involvement incur costs as a result of their activities, so it is only natural to determine if there is a financial justification for the investment, beyond the moral and ethical. Though many studies have been conducted, the only conclusion defined as “meaningful” by our textbook is that there is little evidence that a business’s social involvement is detrimental to its long term economic performance. Some businesses do engage in socially responsible
Rating:Essay Length: 496 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 8, 2009 -
Evaluation of the Strategic Management in the Global Competitive Environment.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this report is to evaluate the process of the strategic management in the global competitive environment. The globalization of the business in our environment has been a source for global organizations to incorporate the process of a global strategic management. In this report, we are going to propose three different frameworks from three different group of authors: Yip, Johnson and Scholes, and Cavusgil and Zou. However, theses proposed framework would
Rating:Essay Length: 2,425 Words / 10 PagesSubmitted: December 9, 2009 -
Evaluation of Tourism Marketing in Indian Environment
EVALUATION OF TOURISM MARKETING IN INDIAN ENVIRONMENT Dr.S.Yuvaraj Lecturer in Commerce University of Madras The marketing principles facilitate a breakthrough in the tourist system. It helps the tourist organizations in establishing an effective communication system with actual and potential tourists. This makes it easier to know the likes and dislikes or the taste and preferences which make the possible conditioning of the supply position in tune with the changing demand position. It was in the
Rating:Essay Length: 778 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: December 8, 2009 -
Every Family Has a Story...Welcome to Ours
Fatoumata(Fifi)Samake Professor Sharon Preiss English 101 September 25, 2014 If I Knew… “Every family has a story… Welcome to ours.” (Hubpages) .We all have different stories when it comes to our family, mine is probably one of the craziest. Family, can’t live with them, can’t live without them. I am not the type of person that says I love you to my family all the time because of so many reasons. Growing up without my
Rating:Essay Length: 732 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 1, 2014 -
Everyone Is Better off with Free Trade
Everyone is better off with free trade. I agree with this statement as free trade will be able to bring much more benefits to the world. Free trade advocates specialisation. With specialisation, each country will be able to specialise in producing and trading goods which they have a comparative advantage over. Countries will be able to gain from these as free trade enables a country to produce a higher quantity of exports, bringing in economic
Rating:Essay Length: 546 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: January 3, 2017 -
Everyscape Profile
Everyscape Profile – The Real World. Online. Everyscape was founded in 2002 in Waltham Massachusetts by Mok Oh and Jim Schoonmaker. In 2007 Jeff Brandes joined the team to provide business development experience in order to expand Everyscape to its full potential. Everyscape provides its users with virtual tours in various cities through its patented Hypermedia Technology Platform. This technology allows anyone with a camera and GPS to contribute by geo-referencing photos that can be
Rating:Essay Length: 964 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: December 31, 2009 -
Everything
Answers to flood trail questions Location 2 • Why is it useful to have the embankment close to the houses and not the river? This allows the river to flood over an extensive area before the water reaches the embankment • What is the land on the riverside used for? Why is there little development here? The land is used for recreation and as playing fields. This area is allowed to flood and so is
Rating:Essay Length: 768 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: December 16, 2009 -
Evolution of Management
Evolution of Management By Jason Kolff American Public University January 27, 2008 In this paper I will be explaining the evolution of management from the beginning of the industrial revolution to present which includes Classical School of Management, the Human Relations/ Behavioral School of Management, Theory X and Y, the Scientific Approach, Contingency Approach, and Theory Z. I will also be comparing the classical style and the present style to each other and to my
Rating:Essay Length: 2,329 Words / 10 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Evolution of Strategy
Historical development of strategic management Birth of strategic management Strategic management as a discipline originated in the 1950s and 60s. Although there were numerous early contributors to the literature, the most influential pioneers were Alfred Chandler, Philip Selznick, Igor Ansoff, and Peter Drucker. Alfred Chandler recognized the importance of coordinating the various aspects of management under one all-encompassing strategy. Prior to this time the various functions of management were separate with little overall coordination or
Rating:Essay Length: 1,948 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: November 16, 2009 -
Evolution of the Legal Status of American Unions
Evolution of the Legal Status of American Unions The evolution of American unions from the beginning to now has been a slow and frustrating process for both labor and management. During the first half of the 19th century unions were not recognized by employers as legitimate organizations. Many activities such as the rights to organize, bargain, strike, boycott, and picket, even if done peacefully, were restricted by the courts. These activities were viewed as interfering
Rating:Essay Length: 759 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: March 5, 2010 -
Evolution of the Xbox Supply Chain
EVOLUTION OF THE XBOX SUPPLY CHAIN April 2, 2007 Contents Section 1: A Synopsis and interpretation of the Supply chain changes made between Xbox and Xbox 360 Section 2: Benefits and Risks of global launch of Xbox 360 Section 3: Benefits and Limitations of using EMS firms concentrated in China and an Analysis of the co-ordination efforts required Section 4: References 21 Section 1: A Synopsis and interpretation of the Supply chain changes made between
Rating:Essay Length: 4,666 Words / 19 PagesSubmitted: February 4, 2010 -
Evolving from Information to Insight
One important issue surrounding the increasing plethora of information, and the increasing need to manage information is the changing of our workforce. It seems that less than two centuries ago Adam Smith talked about the division of labor between humans, but with the increasing levels of technology and information management it now seems that there is a new division which is between people and computers. Also, there is a growing division within human labor itself,
Rating:Essay Length: 663 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: April 6, 2010 -
Examination of the Cost of Equity Paper Critque
The paper develops a theory that costs will rise as a firm expands from the three elements of property rights, agency, and finance structure. A firm’s ownership structure is derived from a market force investigated in the concept of agency and its relationship to “separation and control” along with the nature of agency costs generated by debt and outside equity being invested. Agency costs are spread about between all owners and this will reflect attitudes
Rating:Essay Length: 802 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 9, 2009 -
Examine and Explain the Main Aspects of the Solow-Growth Model
Name: Cameron Byrne Tutor: Nandipa Fumbabta Tutor Period: Fridays, Period 1 Student Number: g13b2866 ECONOMICS 202 ASSIGNMENT Due date: 14 April, 2014 TOPIC: Examine and explain the main aspects of the Solow-growth model of economic growth AND identify whether capital accumulation has been the main cause for economic growth in South Africa. Discuss the main strengths and weaknesses of this model and how it can be improved in order to provide a better fit for
Rating:Essay Length: 2,048 Words / 9 PagesSubmitted: August 13, 2015 -
Examining an Effective Decision Making Tool
Examining an Effective Decision Making Tool By Dennis Burlison University of Phoenix CS330 Facilitator-Robert Mc Ginnis 11/07/2005 What tools are available to assist teams in making a decision? In addition to creating an environment for effective decision making and reaching consensus on methods for making decisions as a team, there are tools that can assist teams in formulating and reaching decisions. Many of these tools were developed in the 1990s as companies working on
Rating:Essay Length: 1,108 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: February 20, 2010 -
Examining Berkshire Hathaways Purchase of Geico
Berkshire Hathaway and GEICO Insurance © 2001 Tim Glowa September 12, 2001 -1- White Paper: Examining Berkshire Hathaway's 1995 Purchase of GEICO Insurance Tim Glowa Tim@Glowa.ca September 12, 2001 © 2001 Tim Glowa Berkshire Hathaway and GEICO Insurance © 2001 Tim Glowa September 12, 2001 -2- Table of contents Executive Summary.................................................................................................... 3 Introduction................................................................................................................. 4 Review of the case: Berkshire Hathaway purchasing GEICO.................................... 4 Strategic Outcome....................................................................................................... 7 Finance........................................................................................................................ 7 Time Value of Money................................................................................................. 8 Assessment of
Rating:Essay Length: 1,318 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: May 11, 2011