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 991 - 1,020
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Arkin, Inc. Finance Overview
Company Overview and History Arkin, Inc. is a car manufacturing company located in a small town in Illinois that is suffering from financial difficulties. These difficulties stem from mismanagement from the CFO of the company. The manufacturing facilities consist of ten buildings owned outright by Arkin, Inc and ten buildings that the company is leasing. The lease expense of the building totals $900,000 per year. The company has a month-to-month list and either party can
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Arks & Spencer to Launch New Brand Concept ‘your M&s
MARKS & SPENCER TO LAUNCH NEW BRAND CONCEPT ‘YOUR M&S’ Marks & Spencer has formulated a new brand concept, ‘Your M&S’, which will be used across advertising and in stores from September. According to the company, its core brand is trusted, but seen as middle-class and boring, while its sub-brands are seen as over-diversified and show a lack of confidence. The new brand is an attempt to create a co-ordinated message across all categories and
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Aropostale Inc Case Study
Description of sponsoring firm Aйropostale, Inc. is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting 11 to 18 year-old young women and men. The company provides customers with a focused selection of high-quality, active-oriented, fashion basic merchandise at convincing values. Aйropostale maintains control over its proprietary brands by designing, marketing and selling all of its own merchandise. Aйropostale products are currently purchased only in its stores, on-line thorough its website (www.aeropostale.com) or
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Art of the Interview
10-10-06 Campus Engagement “The Art of the Interview” Blane Ruschak is a recruiter for a major accounting firm. Their closest office is located in Nashville, Tennessee. He has visited Western Kentucky University several times over the past four years. He has come not only as an informational speaker, but as a recruiter trying to find possible employees for KPMG. Mr. Ruschak’s speech on the art of the interview was rather expedient, yet beneficial. The seminar
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Art of War in the Corporate World
There are numerous books on warfare but not many that have been relevant for two and a half thousand years. Sun Tzu was a general in the Kingdom of Wu in China around 490BC. His text was translated from Chinese to French in 1782 and it has been suggested that it was the key to Napoleon's success. It was only when he failed to follow all of the rules set down by Sun Tzu that
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Artemis Sportswear Company
Artemis Sportswear Company Artemis Sportswear is a manufactory company that provides high quality women’s, men’s, and children clothing and distribution of active outdoor apparel and footwear. In today’s competitive business reality, company faces some difficult decision regarding expenses. Nobody wants to cut back on quality or service, nor can a company afford to lose money for a prolonged period. Artemis Sportswear must lower its operating costs and increase productivity just to survive. Reducing fixed and
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Artemis Sportswear Manufactures
Artemis Sportswear manufactures sporting equipment and apparel is based in Louisville, Kentucky. The company competes against companies such as Nike and Adidas, which are much larger and which have significant production facilities overseas where labor costs are less expensive. Artemis has enjoyed good relations with its labor force, but has also suffered a downturn in its profits during the early 2000s. The company is now considering ways to retool its production processes in order to
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Arthur Andersen Collapse
Arthur Andersen Collapse Introduction Arthur Andersen was one of the biggest top 5 accounting firms around the country, practicing globally. The firm ran into many ethical issues when becoming involved in the Enron scandal, which affected the company globally. The ethical perceptions across cultures affected the employment of many people that ended up losing their jobs or transferring to other firms. There were many risks and consequences involved in the demise of Arthur Andersen. All
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Arthur Anderson Culture and Its Downfall
1.1 Aspects of Andersen’s culture that would be signals of a dysfunctional culture. • Inability to question superior’s practices and incapability to suggest new ways of doing things in all areas of the firm. • Andersen’s organization, culture and practices were derived from the old structure, which were still seen as the best practices even if outdated. At the organization, new trends of the market and new competitors were not going to change any of
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Artic National Wildlife Refuge - Is Drilling for Oil Worth?
Artic National Wildlife Refuge Is Drilling for Oil worth The decision to drill for oil in the Artic Wildlife Refuge has been contested over the last fourteen years. Some governmental officials want to expand this exploration to decrease foreign dependence. While environmentalists argue that the damage to the environment will be too great a price to pay for the little recoverable oil which, in the long run will not help America become more self sufficient.
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Artic Oil
Artic oil I am writing in response to the environmentalist on the subject of drilling for oil in Alaska’s Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Their argument is that if we open up ANWR to the oil drilling companies there would be no end. They think if we open up these conservation areas then others could eventually have the same fate. They want to leave this beautiful 1.5 million acre tundra untouched by man and pass
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Article Analysis
Article Analysis 2 One of the foremost problems facing the accounting profession today is the loss of respect that faces accountants in light of recent accounting scandals. In order to regain lost respect in the accounting profession an accountant must have integrity and ethics that are above and beyond the norm. This fact is true whether the accountant works for a business entity or for a government entity. In either situation the accountant is
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Article Analysis: Let's Get Fictional (economics)
Article Analysis: Let’s Get Fictional The performance of the U.S. economy in the mid to late 1990s “grew at above-average rates driven by technological change and innovation.” (Puplava, 2005) Today our economic strength is measured by our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Real GDP is “the market value of final goods and services produced in an economy, stated in the prices of a given year.” (Colendar, 2004). Today, as in the 1990’s the U.S. has
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Article Citation
1. Article Citation- Culture study in international marketing: a critical review and suggestions for future research. Attila Yaprak-School of Business Administration, Wayne StateUniversity,Detroit,Michigan,US 2. Main Objectives The main objectives of this paper is to present a critical review of culture study streams in international marketing and offer suggestions for future development. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the evolution of culture study in international marketing to paint a picture of how
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Article Marketing’s Worth
Regular readers of my blogs know I’ve been testing article marketing using the article distribution and repository service from Ezine Articles. Ezine Articles allows writers to publish articles that include a special area at the end called a resource box. In the resource box the author leaves a link or two along with a couple of sentences. Other webmasters and publishers are allowed to reprint the article on their own websites, newsletters or blogs, as
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Article of Conporation
ARTICLE FOUR: This corporation is organized NOT for profit and the nature of its business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is: Said corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. ARTICLE FIVE: No part of the
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Article Review - Big Debts Keep Law Grads out of Low-Paying Public Service Jobs”- James V. Grimaldi
http://www.ourpublicservice.org/pressroom/pressroom_show.htm?doc_id=147617 “Big Debts Keep Law Grads Out of Low-Paying Public Service Jobs”- James V. Grimaldi For many college students the idea of working in the public sector is fascinating. The thought of having first hand knowledge of how the United States government is run is an appeal to many; however it is not enough to include these students in the workforce. Perhaps the number one reason why many potential employees do no choose the
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Article Review - Managing Versus Leading
Managing vs. Leading 1. What is the primary point of this article? What is the author trying to convey? The author’s primary point was to show the advantages and disadvantages of managing versus leading. The author points out when problems arise in a company it is typical to add more leadership when in all actuality their might be too much leadership. He promoted more of a balance between management and leadership. 2. Do you essentially
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Article Review of When Growth Stalls
Article Review Review of: Olson, Matthew S., Van Bever, Derek ,Verry, Seth. 2008. When Growth Stalls. Harvard Business Review, 51-62. The article raises the issue of revenue growth stalls that affect even the most successful companies. The article focuses on four major causes of the crisis. The first cause is the premium-position captivity that is”the inability of a firm to respond effectively to new, low-cost competitive challenge or to a significant shift in customer valuation
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Artist's Rights and Lady and the Tramp
LITIGATION In the case of Lee v. Disney we considered two separate legal issues: breach of contract and invasion of privacy. To determine whether breach of contract has occurred we looked to the terms of the contract to establish the parties’ obligations and applied general legal practices which the court will use to make a judgment in this case. The court will apply the plain meaning rule to interpret the contract between Disney and Ms.
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Aruba, Hub to the Caribbean
Aruba, Caribbean knowledge HUB Diversification the Singapore way Implementation of the Singapore Master Plan on the Island of Aruba A viable Market Development solution? Remo Kock MBA Masterclass International Marketing and Business Caribbean University, Aruba Preface Because of my own interest in the Information & Communication Technology sector developments and the Aruban economy, I started thinking of the successful Singapore Master Plan where, in Singapore, the economy has grown with an annual rate of 8.5%
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Arun Ice-Cream - Five Elements of Strategy
Business Strategy Assignment Arun Ice-cream Five Elements of Strategy Group no. 8 Group Members: B-21 Reema Gandhi B-23 RaveenaGohil B-32 UzmaKeruwala B-40 Shailavi Modi B-60 Jayni Shah B-65 Sagar Sharma B-66 Shubham Singh ________________ Five Elements of Strategy As a group we have recommended that Mr. Chandramogan should go for Diversification i.e. he should do ‘Backward Integration’ by setting up Dairy farm where he can do milk production which he can use for ice-cream and
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Arundel Case Study
This case report discussed the financial and business situation of an investment group, Arundel Partners. Arundel partners focused its investments on the sequel rights of that �associated with firms produced by one or more major U.S. movie studios’. As owner of the rights, Arundel could continue or reject the production of sequel. Business The proposal was innovative but at the same time, very risky. According to the case report, �Arundel would purchase the sequel rights
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Arundel Case Study
BACKGROUND & PROPOSAL In April of 1992, a movie industry analyst name Mr. David Davis of Paul Kegan Associates, Inc. was approached with an interesting and fresh business idea. The proposal was to create a new investment group, Arundel Partners, that would exist solely for the purpose of purchasing sequel rights to motion pictures produced by major U.S. movie studios. The proposal was unusual in that studios rarely sold rights to sequels prior to 1992,
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Arundel Partners
1. INTRODUCTION In 1992, Arundel Partners was looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights were to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wanted to determine if this innovative business strategy is viable by estimating the value of the sequel rights. 2. OBJECTIVE Our report aims to investigate the viability of the implementation of Arundel’s strategy in purchasing sequel
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project
Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project Investment Analysis and Opportunity Review EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background The proposed business venture, Arundel Partners, is an investment group which would purchase the sequels rights associated with all films produced by 1 or more selected U.S. movie production studios for a specified period of time, or a specified number of films. As your investment analysts, our goal is to assess the value of the sequel rights to allow a determination of
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Arvind Eye Hospital
1. Case summary The case describes the transformation of an eye hospital's comprehensive eye-care system. Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, does about 60 per cent of their eye surgeries (mostly cataract) free for poorer patients. Yet it does not charge paying patients a high fee either. It achieves this through a highly efficient and streamlined system of operations; a dedicated set of doctors, nurses and supporting staff; and a visionary and energetic
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As a New Manager, I Have Been Brought in to Change the Environment of a Department That Is Struggling to Survive.
As a new manager, I have been brought in to change the environment of a department that is struggling to survive. The problems this department is currently faced with include an outdated product line, ineffective interdepartmental communication and fierce competition for corporate funding. These problems must be corrected in order for this department to survive, if this department cannot be turned around then corporate will see it as a liability and eventually find a way
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As a Product Manager of a Pharma Company You Have an Opportunity to Launch a Brand in the Market Which Has a Growth of 30% Yoy & There Is only one Competitor Which Does Not Have the Brand Focused for Promotion. Chalk out a Marketing Plan for the Same?
I. Executive Summary A high-level summary of the marketing plan. II. The Challenge Brief description of product to be marketed and associated goals, such as sales figures and strategic goals. III. Situation Analysis Company Analysis • Goals • Focus • Culture • Strengths • Weaknesses • Market share Customer Analysis • Number • Type • Value drivers • Decision process • Concentration of customer base for particular products Competitor Analysis • Market position • Strengths
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As Boas Práticas De Governança Corporativa Sempre Resultam Em Um Maior Desempenho Da Companhia? (portuguese)
As boas práticas de governança corporativa sempre resultam em um maior desempenho da companhia? São Paulo 2015 As boas práticas de governança corporativa sempre resultam em um maior desempenho da companhia? São Paulo 2015 SUMÁRIO 1INTRODUÇÃO.............................................................................................................................4 2 REFERENCIAL TEÓRICO ....................................................................................................5 3 METODOLOGIA......................................................................................................................11 4 CONSIDERAÇÕES FINAIS ................................................................................................46 5 REFERÊNCIASBIBLIOGRÁFICAS...................................................................................47 1. Introdução A presente pesquisa buscou estudar a correlação existente entre as empresas que aderem as boas práticas de governança corporativa e o desempenho de suas ações
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