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  • Alternative Fuel Vehicles Feasibility Study

    Alternative Fuel Vehicles Feasibility Study

    Alternative Fuel Vehicles Feasibility Study As a leader in the rental vehicle industry for the past 30 years, ABC Rental Cars has continually remained a step ahead of its competition. To continue to set the pace for other rental agencies to follow, and to ensure ABC Rental Cars' dominant position in the marketplace, alternative fuel vehicles (AFV), or more specifically, hybrid vehicles, should be evaluated as to the feasibility and consumer interest of introducing these

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Merck & Co. Case Study

    Merck & Co. Case Study

    Executive Summary In 2000, Merck & Co., Inc., a global research-driven pharmaceutical company, was facing a threat that patents of their most popular drugs would expire in two years. Following by the patents’ expiration, company’s sales and profits would decline dramatically since generic substitutes would take place. The only way to recover the loss caused by patents’ expiration was to develop new drugs and refresh the company’s portfolio. LAB Pharmaceuticals, who specializes in developing compounds

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Edward
  • Abc, Inc. Case Study

    Abc, Inc. Case Study

    Introduction Mr. Carl Robins, who is a new campus recruiter for ABC, Inc., fell short on planning and execution of the new employee orientation. His lack of planning and execution could imply that either Carl is not fully qualified, or ABC, Inc. does not have a very solid mentoring program. Being a new employee of only six months, Carl’s supervisor/manager should have been monitoring Carl’s planning of the new employee’s orientation and offer assistance if

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Janna
  • United Parcel Service (ups) Case Study

    United Parcel Service (ups) Case Study

    UPS Strike In early August of 1997 the United Parcel Service (UPS) had a predicament on its hands, a teamsters strike. UPS, the world’s largest package distribution company was coming off a year [1996] in which they reported sales of $22.4 billion. UPS Employed ,000 management and non-union employees compared with 185,000 teamsters who are part of the AFL-CIO that were going on strike. The teamsters rejected a contract extension offer from the company

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    Essay Length: 1,900 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Historical Research Paper: Oil Spill Case Studies Burmah Agate

    Historical Research Paper: Oil Spill Case Studies Burmah Agate

    Burmah Agate 1979 For my historical research paper I decided to write about a spill called "Burmah Agate". It all began in the quiet morning of November 1, 1979. The Burmah Agate and the Mimosa collided at the entrance to the Galveston Harbor. The affects were absolutely devastating. The Mimosa struck the Burmah Agate on its starboard side, tearing an 8 by 15 foot hole in the hull. Before anyone could even comprehend what had

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    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • A Comparative Study of the Development of Ragtime and Dixieland Between 1850 and 1920s

    A Comparative Study of the Development of Ragtime and Dixieland Between 1850 and 1920s

    Blues, work songs, ragtime, spirituals, and minstrel songs were, in their own ways, all part of the great "Africanization of American music" that was originated by enslaved Africans in the southern United States. But the greatest of the musical forms developed in this process was jazz--one of the major American contributions to world culture. Each of these forms of music made essential contributions to the development of jazz itself but each, more or less, retained

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    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Citibank Case Study

    Citibank Case Study

    1. Are the items assessed in the performance scorecard fair? Do they fit Citibank’s stated goals & culture? Should measures that have “hard” data be treated differently from those that are more subjective? Why or why not? Are the items assessed in the performance scorecard fair? YES, they include important factors to the bank that should be understood by the professional managers and if they know the rules in advance then it is fair. Particularly

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    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Adam Smith - Modern Study of Economics

    Adam Smith - Modern Study of Economics

    Adam Smith founded the modern study of economics on the premise that all businesses are driven by the invisible hand to seek as much profit as possible while society will take care of itself. However, as the public’s opinion of big business has steadily declined in the recent decades, big business has developed a social conscience to improve all aspects of society from worker compensation to protecting the environment to helping the needy. As Stephen

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    Essay Length: 277 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Southwest Airlines Case Study

    Southwest Airlines Case Study

    Situation Analysis Since day one, Southwest Airlines has been able to maintain a winning strategy. Starting with just three aircrafts in the state of Texas, Southwest implemented a low cost, low fare, no frills strategy that proved successful. As they have grown, more plans have been put into practice, such as a widely popular frequent flyer program and their now legendary customer service. These strategies have proved successful, as Southwest is the only airline to

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    Essay Length: 419 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Sportswear Case Study

    Sportswear Case Study

    Sportswear Case Study Memorandum From: ABC To: XYZ Ltd Subject: Sportswear Case Study Date: October 21, 2007 Introduction The Apparel industry had the high growth in the 1980’s and later in nineties there were many players in the industry which increased the competition. Sportswear Company performs the assembly operations and supplies to the apparel manufacturers. Profits and sales revenue of the company are very high even after facing the recession in the economy. Later it

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: David
  • Daimler Crysler Case Study

    Daimler Crysler Case Study

    DaimlerChrysler B BUS 300 March 05, 2006 Table of Contents TOC o "1-3" h z u HYPERLINK l "_Toc130024939" Introduction PAGEREF _Toc130024939 h 3 HYPERLINK l "_Toc130024940" Organizational Size, Life-cycle and Control PAGEREF _Toc130024940 h 3 HYPERLINK l "_Toc130024941" Organizational Structure PAGEREF _Toc130024941 h 7 HYPERLINK l "_Toc130024942" Cross-functional teams PAGEREF _Toc130024942 h 9 HYPERLINK l "_Toc130024943" Recent Product Innovations PAGEREF _Toc130024943 h 10 HYPERLINK l "_Toc130024944" Innovation Process PAGEREF _Toc130024944 h 11 HYPERLINK l

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Prose Study Coursework: Five Victorian Short Stories

    Prose Study Coursework: Five Victorian Short Stories

    Prose Study Coursework: five Victorian short stories Examine the settings the writers have chosen in 'The Man with the Twisted Lip', 'The Red Room', 'The Signalman', Napoleon and the Spectre', and 'The Old Nurse's Story'. How do the effects achieved by the writers contribute to the atmosphere of the stories? Edgar Allan Poe was said to be the first to define a set of rules for short stories. These were: "- It must create a

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: regina
  • White Castle Case Study

    White Castle Case Study

    Running Head: WHITE CASTLE CASE STUDY White Castle Case Study Team B MKT 551/Marketing Management University of Phoenix (Online) Bill Copeland December 04, 2006 White Castle Case Study “More than 80 years. More than 380 restaurants. More than 500,000,000 burgers sold last year alone” (White Castle, About Us). This is White Castle’s mantra. Does this mantra mean that White Castle needs no marketing strategies? Of course not. Every company needs marketing strategies, no matter how

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Vika
  • Paul Cronan Case Study

    Paul Cronan Case Study

    Paul Cronan Case This case involves a corporate response to AIDS in the workplace. The return to work of Paul Cronan, a person with AIDS, after a much publicized law suit, led to a walkout of his coworkers. This case documents the circumstances which preceded the work stoppage. Analyzing this case from Paul Cronan's supervisors point of view there are three main ethical issues to be considered: duty to protect the interests of the company,

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Reference and the Concept of Identification: A Contrastive Study

    Reference and the Concept of Identification: A Contrastive Study

    Reference and the Concept of Identification: a Contrastive Study Dr. Hazim Hakkush Al- Dilaimy English Department Ibri College of Education Sultanate of Oman 1. Introduction The concept of reference has received much attention by linguists and semanticists to be “the relation that holds between linguistic expressions and what they stand for in the world or universe of discourse”. (Lyons, 1981: 220). Most of the literature on reference is devoted to such issues as how

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Vika
  • Federico Garcia Lorca

    Federico Garcia Lorca

    Federico Garcia Lorca Federico Garcia Lorca was many things in course of his life. He was a playwright, a poet, a musician, a scholar, a homosexual and a martyr. Lorca’s life began in 1898 in the village of Fuente Vaqueros, just outside the Spanish city of Granada. He developed artistically at a very young age, studying music as a child and writing poetry starting in his teen years. He went off to The University of

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Frito-Lays Inc Case Study

    Frito-Lays Inc Case Study

    Frito-Lay Inc. has a very profitable dip product line. This is not only a great deal now, but also has shown tremendous sales growth over the past few years. In 1981 their sales reached 30 million dollars, with the sales figures almost tripling by 1985, reaching 87 million dollars. However, this success brings the corporation into a very unique situation as well as bringing up a very good question of “how to develop this further?”

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Anna
  • Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study and Dysphagia

    Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study and Dysphagia

    Running head: VIDEOFLUOROSCOPIC SWALLOW STUDY The Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study and Dysphagia The Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study and Dysphagia The videofluoroscopic evaluation of swallowing, also known as the modified barium swallow, is considered to be the “gold standard” in the identification and evaluation of dysphagia (McMullough, Wertz, Rosenbek, & Dinneen, 1999). According to Wilcox, Liss, and Siegel (1996) “the procedure incorporates a set of modifications in bolus size, texture, patient positioning, and radiographic focus to facilitate optimum

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Royal Caribbean Case Study

    Royal Caribbean Case Study

    Introduction: In 1968, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line was founded with one ship. Over the next twenty-five years RCCL has expanded its fleet to 29 ships, with 2 more ships being built. RCCL has made its way in the cruise industry as one of the top three cruise lines. Over the past 5-7 years RCCL has experienced some problems with the external environment. These and other factors have placed RCCL in a situation of future organizational

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Tata Motors’ Acquisition of Daewoo - Case Study

    Tata Motors’ Acquisition of Daewoo - Case Study

    Introduction: Over the past three to four years, overseas acquisitions by Indian firms have increased in terms of number and average deal size. According to UBS Investment Research Report 2007, they believe this is a consequence of Indian corporate' strong balance sheets and rising global ambitions. In this essay I am going to use a specific acquisition example based on the article named “Tata Motors’ Acquisition of Daewoo Commercial Vehicles” to illustrate the Indian Acquisition

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Artur
  • Mis Case Study Chp 7-Homeland Security

    Mis Case Study Chp 7-Homeland Security

    MIS Case Study: Ch. 7 Database Woes Plague Homeland Security and Law Enforcement 1. It is important to connect as much of the data in many of the federal, state, and local information systems because it will help stop future attacks and events to happen to the United States. After September 11, the federal government created a new cabinet called the homeland security. The cabinet has a database of thousands of federal, state and local

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Malacca Case Study

    Malacca Case Study

    Brief History Malacca’s (one of the states in Malaysia) strategic location as the bridge between Europe and East Asia made Malacca a major regional entrepot in the 16th century, where Chinese, Arab, Malay, and Indian merchants traded goods. Ships from the east traveling to the west and vice versa have to pass through the Straits of Malacca which makes it a natural trading port. This potential jewel of economy attracted the attention of many European

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Janna
  • Netflix Inc. Case Study

    Netflix Inc. Case Study

    Company Background Netflix Inc. incorporated in 1997 and made its first public offering in 2002. Netflix is an online movie rental service which provides its 3,000,000 subscribers access to over 40,000 DVD titles. Although Netflix stocks nearly every title available on DVD, it does not stock titles containing adult content. The Netflix program allows subscribers to rent as many DVD’s as they want, and keep them for as long as they want. Three DVD’s

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Jessica
  • A World Lit only by Fire Study Guide

    A World Lit only by Fire Study Guide

    A World Lit Only By Fire Summer Reading Test Section 1: The Medieval Mind 1. Whose country was described as "the back of a horse?" The Huns' country 2. Who declared he was "above grammar?" Sigismund 3. Who invaded Rome in A.D. 410? The Visigoths under the leadership of Alaric 4. Who was the last Roman emperor of the west? Romulus Augustulus 5. What were the serfs' basic agricultural tools? Picks, forks, spades, rakes, scythes,

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Yan
  • Caregroup Case Study

    Caregroup Case Study

    CASE ANALYSIS: CAREGROUP Introduction CareGroup was born in late 1996 from the merger of several hospitals in eastern Massachusetts. Intense financial pressure and competitiveness in the healthcare community was the driving force for the merger. As the second largest hospital group in the area, CareGroup was now a formidable force in the medical cost war that included healthcare providers and employers. The Network Collapse While most companies are not completely “paperless,” many organizations use technologies

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Artur