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.
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West Indies Yacht Club: When Cultures Collide
Case Analysis: West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide The British Virgin Islands (BVI’s) are made up of thirty-six islands, less than half of which are actually inhabited. Though the government of the British Virgin Islands has restricted development and growth, the vacation and tourism industry has ceased to develop into a profitable, yet highly competitive market. There are mainly five upscale hotels, one of which is the West Indies Yacht Club Resort (WIYCR).
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West Point Cheating Scandal
West Point Cheating Scandal Description: In April of 1976 it was found that there was a possibility that over half of the junior class at West Point Academy had violated the West Point honor code by cheating on a case assignment. The honor code states "A cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do." This was by far the largest violation of the honor code in West Point history and presented
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Western Dialysis Clinic
Advanced Management Accounting, R. S. Kaplan, A. A. Atkinson, International Edition, Third Edition, Prentice Hall International, Inc, 1998 p. 116. Answer all four requirements of the case study. In addition to these requirements you are recommended to exhibit your ability to: 1) Critically evaluate the advantages and drawbacks of traditional costing systems. 2) Compare activity-based costing systems to traditional costing systems. 3) Analyze the circumstances and provide arguments with solid numbered reasoning to support appropriateness
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Western Digital Corporation Case Study
TABLE OF CONTENTS NO TITLE PAGE 1 Part 1: INTRODUCTION 2 2 PART 2: INDUSTRY BACKGROUND 3 3 PART 3: ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND 4 4 PART 4: OB CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FACED BY THE ORGANIZATION 5 4.1: CHALLENGES FACED BY WESTERN DIGITAL 5 4.2: SOLUTION BY WESTERN DIGITAL FOR OB CHALLENGES 6 5 PART 5: CONCLUSION 10 6 REFERENCE 11 ________________ Part 1: Introduction Western Digital Corporation, commonly known as WD, is an American developer and
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Western European Car Industries & Economies of Scale
Essay #1 - Western European Car Industries & Economies of Scale There are a lot of factors that determines whether or not a company will be successful. These factors are usually derived from economics. One factor that I plan to focus on is scale economies or better known as economies of scale. Firms that have expanded their scale of operations to obtain economies of mass production have survived and flourished. Whereas smaller firms who have
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Western Utilities Company
Western Utilities a privately owned utility company currently faced with financial inefficiencies resulting from an expansion of its facilities. MBO is being implemented by John Givens and Hilda Hirsh to identify key standards with which to control performance. President Robert Delgado has personally asked them to raise the standard of employee performance as well as setting goals that are not easily attainable. During the past year however, a significant amount of dissatisfaction among employees has
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Westjet Airlines Research Paper
Intermediate Accounting Research Project Table of Contents Introduction 3 Key Financial Reporting Issues 4 Frequent Flier Accounting 4 Lease Contract 4 Fuel Risk 5 Accounting Standards 6 Frequent Flier Accounting 6 Lease 7 Fuel risks 7 Management Manipulation and Uncertainty Analysis 8 Deferred Reward Programs 8 Operating Leases 9 Fuel Risks 11 Influence on Earnings and Ratios 11 Lease 11 Loyalty points 12 Fuel risk 14 Conclusion 14 Exhibition 15 References: 17 ________________ Introduction Low-cost
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Wesuityou Case Study
Preface This business plan is a summary of how WeSuitYou intends to organize an entrepreneurial endeavor and implement activities necessary and sufficient to let WeSuitYou succeed. It is a written explanation of the company’s business model. This business plan is used internally for management and planning but also used to convince banks and investors. XXXXXX, General Manager XXXXXX, Design & Production Manager Table of contents 1. Executive Summary 4 1.1 Objectives 5 1.2 Mission 5
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Wet Seal
Wet Seal started as a bikini shack in Newport Beach, CA in 1962. By the mid 1980’s they were known for offering trendy clothes to the most fashionable customers in Orange County. Wet Seal sold the right merchandise at the right time, and by 1995 they had enough capitol to buy 237 Contempo Casual stores from the Neiman Marcus Group. When Wet Seal went public in 1996 they realized they needed a marketplace for 20-35
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Wet ‘n Wild - Business and Management
Wet n’ Wild [Question and Answers] [Institution Affiliation] [Insert Name] [Course] [Submission Date] Question As a new facility, Wet ‘n Wild was keen to recoup their infrastructure investment as quickly as possible. Therefore, is this the most effective pricing strategy or would there be a more appropriate approach to pricing? In my opinion, I disagree with the company's pricing strategy. The Wet and Wild Company adopted a premium pricing strategy by selling the tickets at
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Weyerhaeuser Company
Like CrysTel, Weyerhaeuser Company is involved in a continually evolving industry and must be prepared to face constant change. Unlike CrysTel, however, Weyerhaeuser has incorporated employee feedback into its corporate “Roadmap for Success” which demonstrates the company’s understanding of the relationship between employee satisfaction and corporate success. The company realizes that continuous change requires leadership to be in touch with and understand employee perspectives. Weyerhaueser has learned the value of knowing the pulse of its
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Weymouth Steel Corporation
WEYMOUTH STEEL CORPORATION Case Overview: Weymouth Steel Corporation in September, 1990 is having a critical time in finding out the ways to communicate the bad and good news to its salaried employees. An erroneous selection of time and communication channel selection may demoralize the workforce completely resulting in a disaster for the company. The good news is that the company management has decided to increase the salary and benefits of almost all the salaried employees
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Wharehouse one
Abstract Warehouse One focuses on a female-owned and operated business with its offices in an inner city location in Kansas City, Missouri. Founder and CEO, Mary Lou Jacoby, is dissatisfied with the company's growth rate. She has a current opportunity to develop the forklift market in the US and in a partnership with a Mexican firm. Longer-term she confronts the challenge of molding her company to meet the challenges of the evolving market place. Among
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What Accounts for the Today’s Difference in Unemployment Rates Between France and Us?
What accounts for the today’s difference in unemployment rates between France and US? France has one of the highest unemployment rates out of the industrialized nations. It has been at around 10% for the last two decades. Many French workers will go through unemployment at some point in their career, and it is an especially high probability for the low skilled workers and the young. There are many possible reasons for why France has a
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What Alternatives Did David Pottruck Have Just Before January 15, 1998? as David Pottruck, Would You Cut Prices on January 15, 1998?
What alternatives did David Pottruck have just before January 15, 1998? As David Pottruck, would you cut prices on January 15, 1998? David Pottruck had become increasingly uncomfortable with the distinction in service that was created by eSchwab product, and wanted to do away with the distinction between eSchwab and regular Schwab customers, and offer all customers low priced internet trading with full complement of Schwab's customer service options (e.g. branches, telephone, online). Apart from
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What Are Beliefs Attitudes and Values?
Beliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves, about others in the world and about how we expect things to be. Beliefs are about how we think things really are. Beliefs tend to be deep set and our values stem from our beliefs Values are about how we have learnt to think things ought to be or people ought to behave, especially in terms of qualities such as honesty, integrity and openness which when people
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What Are Business Ethics?
What are Business Ethics? To simply put it, business ethics involves learning what is right and wrong, and then doing the right thing. Philosophers have been discussing ethics for at least 2500 years, since the time of Socrates and Plato. Many ethicists consider emerging ethical beliefs to be "state of the art" legal matters. Values, which guide how we ought to behave, are considered moral values, e.g., values such as respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility, etc.
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What Are Mutual Funds
A mutual fund is a common pool of money into which investors with common investment objectives place their contributions that are to be invested, in accordance with the stated objective of the scheme. The investment manager invests the money collected into assets that are defined by the stated objective of the scheme. For example, an Equity fund would invest in Equity and Equity related instruments and a Debt fund would invest in Bonds, Debentures, Gilts
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What Are Some of the Significant Workforce Composition Changes That Have Been Taking Place Since the Second World War?
1. What are some (mention at least five) of the significant workforce composition changes that have been taking place since the second World War? The first significant workforce composition is immigration, in the 1990s wave of immigrant workers was by far the largest in the past three decades, and contributed a larger share of the growth in the nation’s labor force than at any other time since the end of World War II. Immigrants also
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What Are Some Steps That Xerox Needs to Take to Turnaround Its Operations and Restore Investor Confidence?
What are some steps that Xerox needs to take to turnaround its operations and restore investor confidence? In order for Xerox to turnaround their operations they need to implement key management strategies consisting of appropriate leadership, internal confidence, as well as a value-added line of aggressively marketed products. By incorporating these essential components, the Board of Directors will be able to effectively manage the company, and in turn the company will operate more productively and
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What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages with Saab’s Strategy (the Strategy Is Written Below the Corporate Strategy?
What are the advantages and disadvantages with Saab’s strategy (the strategy is written below the corporate strategy, p. 5)? Advantages: One part of their strategy is to grow long-term relationship with their customers, that is a obviousness since almost all deals includes productions that is done over several years. Furthermore the customers will probably need service to the products later on. That they are famous for being in the lead within their product categories is
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What Are the Criteria Used in Competency Models and Why?
LEAD: Pre-term Assignment What are the criteria used in Competency models and why? “Competency models” are developed to help in identifying, training and retaining stars in the leadership roles. To create such competency models, most companies recognize metrics typically used to classify outstanding leaders in each of their respective fields. Some companies may extensively interview the leaders in their firm to easily identify common traits and build the competency model. Selection of criteria could vary
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What Are the Differences in Leadership at Green River and Fmc Aberdeen?
What are the differences in Leadership at Green River and FMC Aberdeen? Green River’s leadership is hierarchical and referred to autocratic/authoritarian style with the control (all decision made at the top) coming from the top management, often employing authoritarian leadership style versus participatory model (like Aberdeen), with particpatory/transformative leadership style. The former is hierarchical, whereas the latter is a more flattened structure, employing the team approach, where decisions have input from all team players -
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What Are the Distinctive Features of the Perfectly Competitive Model of the Market for Goods and Services? What Are the Implications for a Business Strategy Aimed at Enhancing Profitability?
What are the distinctive features of the perfectly competitive model of the market for goods and services? What are the implications for a business strategy aimed at enhancing profitability? Perfect competition is an idealised market structure theory used in economics to show the market under a high degree of competition given certain conditions. This essay aims to outline the assumptions and distinctive features that form the perfectly competitive model and how this model can be
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What Are the Economic Functions Financial Intermediaries Perform?
1. What are the economic functions financial intermediaries perform? Financial intermediaries provide two important advantages to savers. First, intermediaries provide many loans, so the few that fall short do not impact as much as a the loss faced by an individual with few loans. They provide a platform to incur less risk to each individual. Another reason financial intermediaries reduce risk is that by making many loans, they learn how to better predict which of
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What Are the Elements of Effective Opt-In Email? Have You Had Experiences with Ineffective Optin Email?
Email marketing is a favorite tool converting more leads from email marketing, you have to first get your readers to open your emails, and click through on them. There are 9 components of an effective email that you should always be looking to optimize in every single email you send. Creative subject lines - creativity leads to opens - get to the point, entice me. You need to grab the reader's attention. Your subject line
Rating:Essay Length: 522 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 12, 2017 -
What Are the Finance Strategies?
WHAT ARE THE FINANCE STRATEGIES? ==================================== Finance strategies in this consolidating communications industry are combined tightly with operational goals, so it requires a detailed reading of the Sprint annual report (and a close eye on everything that management says). Luckily, Sprint provides a detailed annual report. Some of the key activities that management is taking are: 1. Spinning off the local phone carrier portion of the business to shareholders and recapitalize the company in the
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What Are the Functions of the Entrepreneur?
From an economists point of view entrepreneurship is best considered as a function. The entrepreneur is what the entrepreneur does. Entrepreneurship was first described in economic terms by Cantillon (1755) who defined the components of trade but the term was accorded prominence by Say (1803). The modern theory of the entrepreneur is primarily concerned with the primary characteristic of the search for or the discovery of knowledge. The entrepreneur uses this knowledge in reallocating resources,
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What Are the Issues and Opportunities Facing Global Communications?
What are the issues and opportunities facing Global Communications? Step One: Describe the situation: There are lots of little problems going on with GC, but I believe the main issue is a conflict of interest between the company's growth goals and the value (or lack thereof) placed on current employees. Here are some conflicts that have occured so far: 1. GC has renegotiated contracts with it employees--forcing them to take a 20% cut in education
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What Are the Issues in the Upcoming Negotiation?
1. What are the issues in the upcoming negotiation? From Wes Unselds perspective the issue of how much was Howard worth to the Washington Bullets? How much would the Bullets be willing to pay to keep Howard from going to another NBA team? 2. Based on a review of ALL the issues, what is the "bargaining mix"? (Which issues do we have to cover? Which issues are connected to other issues?) Juwan Howard's future talent
Rating:Essay Length: 377 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 1, 2011