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  • Kao Corporation

    Kao Corporation

    Executive Summary In this project, I have chosen the Fast Moving Consumer Product industry as the topic of study. First of all we will take a brief look at how the industry started in the late 19th century as soap making companies and slowly evolving into some of the most successful multidomestic company of today. Following we will have insight on the industry's prominent characteristics and highlight some of the major players. We will also

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    Essay Length: 9,414 Words / 38 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2009 By: David
  • Downsizing and Organizational Culture

    Downsizing and Organizational Culture

    Downsizing And Organizational Culture Thomas A. Hickok -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract In this article Hickok argues that, ultimately, the most prominent effects of downsizing will be in relation to culture change, not in relation to saved costs or short-term productivity gains. In particular, the author notes three observations in relation to the impact of downsizing on organizational culture. First, it clearly appears that power has shifted away from rank-and-file employees in the direction of top management/ownership. Accompanying

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    Essay Length: 6,454 Words / 26 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Concentric Network Corporation Business Plan

    Concentric Network Corporation Business Plan

    Concentric Network Corporation provides complete, easy-to-use Internet business solutions for small to medium-sized companies and customized Virtual Private Network and data center services for larger organizations. Concentric's portfolio of services for small to medium-sized companies includes high-speed DSL access, Web hosting and e-commerce. For larger organizations, the company offers dedicated Web hosting services and VPN solutions that enable an organization to securely and reliably communicate with its offices, mobile sales force, business partners, vendors and

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    Essay Length: 4,415 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Starbucks Corporation

    Starbucks Corporation

    1. Starbucks Corporation's rise seems to be out of a storybook for Howard Schultz. Starbucks began selling whole bean coffee in 1971 under Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker. Business grew at a slow and steady pace until Schulz joined the company as manager of retail sales and marketing. After a visit to Milan, Italy, Schultz was inspired by a vision. He saw how important coffee was to the romantic culture of Italy. He

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    Essay Length: 1,668 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Self-Assessment and Reflection Paper

    Self-Assessment and Reflection Paper

    Self Reflection 1 Self-Assessment and Reflection Paper Managerial Communication (COM 515) February 6, 2001 Self Reflection 2 Self-Assessment and Reflection Paper In the last seven weeks, I had an opportunity to look back and analyze the events that has shaped my life. This was a unique experience where I was emotionally comfortable enough to look back at life. I was able to objectively revisit many events that were often buried and too painful to face.

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    Essay Length: 1,110 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Wal-Mart Corporation

    Wal-Mart Corporation

    "Basic History Overview" Wal-Mart's history is one of innovation, leadership and success. It started with a single store in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962 and has grown to what is now the world's largest - and arguably, the most emulated - retailer. Some researchers refer to Wal-Mart as the industry trendsetter. Today, this retailing pioneer has annual revenues of over $100 billion, 3,000 stores and more than 0,000 employees worldwide. Wal-Mart operates each store, from the

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    Essay Length: 1,724 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: July
  • Case Study: Dell Computer Corporation

    Case Study: Dell Computer Corporation

    CASE STUDY A : DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION Introduction Michael Dell founded Dell Computer Corporation in 1984 with a simple vision and business concept – that personal computers can be built to order and sold directly to consumers. Michael believed his approach had two advantages: (i) by passing distributors and retail dealers eliminated the markups of resellers, and (ii) building to order greatly reduced the costs and risks associated with carrying large stocks of parts, components

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    Essay Length: 1,714 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: July
  • The Oddyssey in Popular Culture

    The Oddyssey in Popular Culture

    Many forms of popular culture today are inspired by themes, characters, and other references in various types of classical literature. John Denver's song "Calypso" parallels with a number of the themes in Homer's the Odyssey. The Odyssey's themes involving Odysseus' journey back home and the aid of gods and goddesses directly influence "Calypso." The first stanza in Calypso is influenced by Odysseus' journey to back to his homeland. The first couple of lines compare

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    Essay Length: 654 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • 60's Culture

    60's Culture

    The article "From counterculture to Sixties Culture" clearly demonstrates that the hippie movement was not just founded on pure rebellion from what their parents had prescribed. The article reveals that the 60s culture was a product of many factors including the youths reaction to the Vietnam War, the outpouring of self expression on college campuses around the continent, the constantly dynamic civil rights, and especially the rejection of the counterculture by the mainstream society. The

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    Essay Length: 602 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2009 By: Top
  • Financial Assessment

    Financial Assessment

    Financial Assessment (Exhibit 1) 1. Net Profit Margin Net profit margin is an indication of how effective a company is at cost control. The higher the net profit margin is, the more effective the company is at converting revenue into actual profit. In 2004, the net profit margin of Dell was 7.8%, and it has been steady. Although net revenue has been increasing from 1998 to 2004, net profit margin has been increasing as much

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    Essay Length: 628 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Victor
  • Organizational Cultural Inventory Paper

    Organizational Cultural Inventory Paper

    OCI Paper I applied the Organizational Cultural Inventory (OCI) with the intention that it is a fictional company, J Enterprises. It will be assumed that it is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. The main emphasis of the responses comes from the department in which I work. However, the results could be indicative of the entire company. The OCI Circumplex showed that the company has a culture with moderately strong Oppositional

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    Essay Length: 1,357 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Cultures' Standard of Beauty

    Cultures' Standard of Beauty

    People are damaging and killing themselves to fit into societies definition of beautiful. Currently we live in a society that is composed of many cultures. These cultures can influence what ones day to day worries are; one of them is being part of a society’s definition of beauty. Some of these cultures are American, European, and Hispanic to name a few. These cultures have influence that way people live, act, and think. Often people

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    Essay Length: 1,144 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • Management Strategies on McDonald’s Corporation

    Management Strategies on McDonald’s Corporation

    Assignment Report of case study on Management Strategies of McDonald's Corporation Jun 2006 Table of Content INTRODUCTION 1 ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND 1 LOW THREAT OF ENTRY 2 Economies of scale, Learning Curve and Experience Curve 2 Brand differentiation 3 Cost and technology advantage 3 Access to distribution channels 4 HIGH THREATS FROM SUBSTITUTES 4 Price and quality 4 Better performance/service 5 Different industry(Similar product) 5 HIGH THREATS FROM THE BARGAINING POWER OF BUYERS/CUSTOMERS 6 Forcing

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    Essay Length: 3,095 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: David
  • Utopia as Presented by the McDonald’s Corporation

    Utopia as Presented by the McDonald’s Corporation

    Utopia as Presented by McDonald's The McDonald's Corporation spends over two billion dollars a year in advertising. They employ over one million minimum wage earners, who have reported discrimination and lack of rights, understaffing, few breaks and illegal hours, poor safety conditions and kitchens flooded with sewage, and the sale of food that has been dropped on the floor. McDonald's is the largest slaughterer of cows of in the world, and uses the beef to

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    Essay Length: 1,165 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Yan
  • Women in Pop Culture

    Women in Pop Culture

    If Oprah emphasized racial oppression more aggressively, would she be as popular? After reading Tammy Johnson’s article, I believe that answer to this question is probably no. I myself am a fan of Oprah and I believe that she is extremely generous and does more for the world in one year than most people can hope to do in a lifetime. I believe that Tammy Johnson raised some interesting points, but I don’t necessarily agree

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    Essay Length: 637 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Assessment of Gilbert Grape

    Assessment of Gilbert Grape

    I. Identifying Information 1. Client’s Name: Arnie Grape 2. Sex: Male 3. Date of Birth: July 16, 1987 4. Age: 17 5. Address: 300 Hugh Hunter Rd., Endora, Iowa 42262 6. Phone Number: (931) 555-1212 7. Occupation: unemployed 8. Family Members: Mother Bonnie Grape 54 unemployed Father Albert Grape deceased Sister Ellen Grape 16 works at ice cream shop Sister Amy Grape 34 unemployed Sister Larry Grape 32 flight attendant Brother Gilbert Grape 24 works

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    Essay Length: 10,011 Words / 41 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Spanglish: Low Culture Versus High Culture?

    Spanglish: Low Culture Versus High Culture?

    Spanglish: low culture versus high culture? There are numerous critics of Spanglish among both Spanish-speakers and American-English-speakers. It is commonly assumed that Spanglish is a jargon: partly Spanish and partly English, “with neither gravitas nor a clear identity” . It is spoken by many of the approximately 35 million people of Hispanic descent in the United States, who, “no longer fluent in the language of Cervantes, have not yet mastered that of Shakespeare” 3. The

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    Essay Length: 854 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Corporate Analyisis of Pentair

    Corporate Analyisis of Pentair

    Pentair, Inc. Headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, Pentair owns and operates fifty facilities throughout eleven different countries. Pentair’s Technical Products Group is a leader in global enclosures, thermal management products, and custom enclosures that house and protect sensitive electrical components. The Water Group manufactures innovative products used in the movement, treatment, storage and enjoyment of water. Pentair’s local ties include two manufacturing facilities. The Sheboygan operation molds plastic and extruder block water filters, while the

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    Essay Length: 2,182 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation?

    How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation?

    How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation? At the end of this case study, Bernal Flores asks if he should use the alignment strategy or the saturation strategy to implement Total Quality Management (TQM) at the San Juan facility. When the implementation process at Playa Negra and Bocagrande is evaluated, it becomes clear that better choices in implementation and management’s role could have been accomplished. For Bernal, it is a

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    Essay Length: 1,419 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Culture of Fear Fears Based on Fallacies

    The Culture of Fear Fears Based on Fallacies

    The Culture of Fear Fears based on Fallacies Americans have a tendency to underestimate the power of the media and its influence over our beliefs and expectations in society. News is delivered to our homes in many different ways including the television, newspaper and word of mouth. It is our first instinct to take what we see and hear from authority figures or news stations to be true. Therefore, we do not realize that the

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    Essay Length: 2,622 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Vika
  • Corporate Responsibility at Merck

    Corporate Responsibility at Merck

    TO: Dr. Roy Vagelos, Chairman and CEO Merck Corporation. January, 1991. The decision to move forward with the program to donate the new drug Mectizan on a large scale to the affected population in the Third World needs to be systematically analyzed. There are two especially important angles from which this decision needs to be considered. The first concern that needs to be taken into account is that of the stockholders and investors in this

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    Essay Length: 691 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Cultural Context in View from a Bridge by Arthur Miller

    Cultural Context in View from a Bridge by Arthur Miller

    Examine how cultural context is established in two of the texts on your comparative course When examining the topic of cultural context, one must become immersed in the world of the texts under discussion. The historical and geographical setting of a work creates a world that the characters can credibly inhabit. They are influenced and shaped by the customs, moral values and social structures of that society. The cultural environment created offers the reader a

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    Essay Length: 1,878 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Wal-Mart Corporation Overview

    Wal-Mart Corporation Overview

    Wal-Mart Corporation Overview “Basic History Overview” Wal-Mart's history is one of innovation, leadership and success. It started with a single store in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962 and has grown to what is now the world's largest - and arguably, the most emulated - retailer. Some researchers refer to Wal-Mart as the industry trendsetter. Today, this retailing pioneer has annual revenues of over $100 billion, 3,000 stores and more than 0,000 employees worldwide. Wal-Mart operates each

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    Essay Length: 1,282 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Benetton’s Corporate Strategy

    Benetton’s Corporate Strategy

    I. Introduction 2 II. Benetton Company 2 1. History 2 2. The company in figures 2 III. Dimension performance of the Group 3 1. Five forces framework 3 2. Holding 3 3. Corporate governance 3 4. Corporate culture 3 5. Scope of activities 3 6. Resources commitment 4 7. Corporate social responsibility stance 5 IV. Benetton competitive advantages 6 1. Value chain 6 2. Strategic capabilities 6 V. Two future scenarios 7 1. SWOT analysis

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    Essay Length: 1,640 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Importance of Ethnic Culture - How Important Are Cultural Roots for Yourself?

    Importance of Ethnic Culture - How Important Are Cultural Roots for Yourself?

    Importance of ethnic culture How important are cultural roots for yourself? There are many races in this earth some with more culture, morals, influence, and values than others. That still doesn't change the fact that we all live in this earth together sharing what ever piece of land we live on. No matter what race we are -- we are always influenced to believe in our roots. I am Hispanic, my roots are very strong

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    Essay Length: 778 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mike

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