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  • Wal-Mart: A Template for 21st Century Capitalism?

    Wal-Mart: A Template for 21st Century Capitalism?

    Working at Wal-Mart Wal-Mart defends its low wage/low benefit personnel policy by arguing that it employs workers who are marginal to the income stream required by most American families. Only seven percent of the company’s hourly “associates” try to support a family with children on a single Wal-Mart income. The company therefore seeks out school-age youth, retirees, people with two jobs, and those willing or forced to work part-time. The managerial culture at Wal-Mart, if

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    Essay Length: 1,078 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Wal-Mart's Planning Levels

    Wal-Mart's Planning Levels

    Wal-Mart as a company employs several different levels of planning to ensure the completion of the many goals is put into motion each year. After the upper management members have attended the massive planning meetings that Wal-Mart holds in order to put projects in motion, they will relay the messages to the next layer of management. It is this level of management, better known as middle management, which we will concentrate on for this paper

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    Essay Length: 1,303 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Wendy
  • A Case Study on Wal-Mart Stores Inc

    A Case Study on Wal-Mart Stores Inc

    Wal-Mart: Staying on Top of the Fortune 500 I. Background Last year, Wal-Mart had revenues of $191 billion. Wal-Mart's 2002 sales topped $218 billion, with sales growth at 13.8 %. Its 2002 net income was $ 6.7 billion, a growth of 6 %. Wal-Mart has 1,283,000 employees, as of 2002; a growth of 11.2 % (www.fortune.com). Wal-Mart is the largest retail store in the United States, and is larger than any other retail chain in

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    Essay Length: 9,701 Words / 39 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Artur
  • Wal-Mart Case Study

    Wal-Mart Case Study

    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. By Kyle September 18, 2005 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates retail stores in various formats in the United States and Internationally. It has two segments: The Wal-Mart Stores and The Sam’s Club. The Wal-Mart Stores segment includes Discount Stores, Supercenters, and Neighborhood Markets in the United States, as well as Walmart.com. It offers apparel for women, girls, men, boys, and infants. They also offer hardware, electronics, home furnishings, small appliances, automotive accessories, sporting

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    Essay Length: 1,574 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: July
  • Wal-Mart Case Review - Economics

    Wal-Mart Case Review - Economics

    How is Wal-Mart able to sustain its economic profit in the face of intense competition? In an article by Burt Helm from Business Week Online, March 28, 2007, Wal-Mart CEO: “I’m not a big fan of marketing”. He later said he meant just “advertising,” but that’s what Chief Executive Lee Scott replied when I asked him what he expected from the upcoming ad campaign, and how the company planned to get shoppers to buy items

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    Essay Length: 1,047 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Wal-Mart Analysis

    Wal-Mart Analysis

    Wal-Mart has been successful in the United States because of their buying of manufactured products for less then as a result passing their savings onto consumers. This has led to their expansion all over America and throughout the world. They have modeled their way around selling products cheaper, thus, changing the way we as consumers shop. They have also managed to outgrow all other retailers within their industry. Not to mention create a multi-billion dollar

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    Essay Length: 1,137 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Wal Mart

    Wal Mart

    WalMartin Sundown Rule The Sundown Rule One Sunday morning, Jeff, a pharmacist at a Wal-Mart store in Harrison, Ark., received a call from his store. A store associate informed him that one of his pharmacy customers, a diabetic, had accidentally dropped her insulin down her garbage disposal. Knowing that a diabetic without insulin could be in grave danger, Jeff immediately rushed to the store, opened the pharmacy and filled the customer's insulin prescription. This is

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    Essay Length: 5,464 Words / 22 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Wal-Mart Case Study

    Wal-Mart Case Study

    Wal-Mart Case Study Wal-Mart’s domestic presence as of July 31, 2006 consisted of 1,146 Wal-Mart stores, 2,098 Supercenters, 567 Sams Clubs, and 107 Neighborhood Markets. Internationally, the Company operated units in Argentina (12), Brazil (293), Canada (278), China (60), Costa Rica (131), Germany (85), Guatemala (119), Honduras (37), Japan (393), Mexico (815), Nicaragua (36), Puerto Rico (54), El Salvador (59), South Korea (16) and the United Kingdom (322). These figures are available in the

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    Essay Length: 862 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Andrew
  • International Supply Chain: Wal-Mart Case Study

    International Supply Chain: Wal-Mart Case Study

    Before analyzing Wal-Mart’s corporate strategy, it is important to decide what business it is in. For example, if Wal-Mart is in the business of selling consumer goods such as TV’s, sheets, clothes, etc then it is pursuing a concentric strategy by entering the food business. However, this changes depending on how you analyze what business Wal-Mart is in. Wal-Mart is in the business of selling everything customers need in their everyday lives. This includes the

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    Essay Length: 1,231 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Wal-Mart

    Wal-Mart

    Walmart and Why It is Good for American Business "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer..." Adam Smith. Wal-Mart is a producer who has the sole purpose of promoting consumption of the consumer. Wal-Mart and its quest for capital improvement are playing a major and vital role

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    Essay Length: 1,084 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: regina
  • Swot Wal-Mart

    Swot Wal-Mart

    Executive Summary Wal-Mart, it’s everywhere you go these days no matter the locality in which one lives. Then again, would you expect anything less from the most dominant player in the retail industry? One, in which is the largest employer in the United State at a staggering 1.6 million employees. As is the case with any company, Wal-Mart has its own distinctive strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. With Wal-Mart being the dominate power it is,

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    Essay Length: 1,413 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Wal-Mart Economics

    Wal-Mart Economics

    Sam Walton, a leader with an innovative vision, started his own company and made it into the leader in discount retailing that it is today. Through his savvy, and sometimes unusual, business practices, he and his associates led the company forward for thirty years. Today, four years after his death, the company is still growing steadily. Wal-Mart executives continue to rely on many of the traditional goals and philosophies that Sam's legacy left behind, while

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    Essay Length: 3,329 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Janna
  • Wal-Mart: Welcome to the Machine

    Wal-Mart: Welcome to the Machine

    Wal-Mart: Welcome to the Machine Wal-Mart, Wally World, The Wal-Mart, the name doesn’t change what it is: A corporate machine that has made a significant and horrendous impact on the global economy. Although they have been very compliant with the Better Business Bureau and handled all customer dissatisfactions with the most professional tactics available (BBB reliability reports), they just don’t quite contribute to the progressive global economy that everyone wants to see. They have been

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    Essay Length: 275 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: David
  • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: On Becoming the Worldвђ™s Largest Company (2002)

    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: On Becoming the Worldвђ™s Largest Company (2002)

    Title: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: On Becoming the World’s Largest Company (2002) Executive Summary: Objective: This case’s objective is to be able to find out how Wal-Mart Stores positively responded to the time when they encountered a lot of problems and still end up to be the world’s largest company. Problem: Wal-Mart had experienced a very disappointing year. It was when sluggish consumer spending, rising unemployment, the energy crisis, and the terrorist events of September 11,

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    Essay Length: 1,354 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Jon
  • Wal-Mart

    Wal-Mart

    Wal-Mart Is Wal-Mart good for communities, or is Wal-Mart a wolf in sheep's clothing? With a gross annual sales of over $67 billion and more than 2,000 stores, Wal-Mart is one of the biggest corporations in the United States. Wal-Mart opens a new store once every two days in small communities and cities across the United States, however, are these stores good for these communities, or are they wrecking havok? When you look down at

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    Essay Length: 569 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Janna
  • Wal-Mart

    Wal-Mart

    Among the important actions carried out by management, planning is the first function needed to lay out the foundation and goals a company will pursue. From a business standpoint, goals are set in association with what stands as the organizations overall mission. Tyco's mission statement notes, "We will increase the value of our company and our global portfolio of diversified brands by exceeding customers' expectations and achieving market leadership and operating excellence in every segment

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    Essay Length: 1,906 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Labor Relations and Wal-Mart

    Labor Relations and Wal-Mart

    Labor relations are a part of our daily lives, whether we realize it or not. For those of us who work, it relates to our wages, the hours that we work and the way we are treated as an employee of an organization, no matter how large or small. Families across the nation are familiar with the big white building with the blue and white Wal-Mart sign across it. At least one of us has

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Victor
  • A Strategic Management Paper on Wal-Mart

    A Strategic Management Paper on Wal-Mart

    A strategic management paper on Wal-mart Abstract Sam Walton, a leader with an innovative vision, started his own company and made it into the leader in discount retailing that it is today. Through his savvy, and sometimes unusual, business practices, he and his associates led the company forward for thirty years. Today, four years after his death, the company is still growing steadily. Wal-Mart executives continue to rely on many of the traditional goals and

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    Essay Length: 3,162 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Monika
  • Wal-Mart's Effect on Local Economies

    Wal-Mart's Effect on Local Economies

    Wal-Mart's Effect on Local Economies The superstore chain known as Wal-Mart largely effects local and global economies as the premier super retailer that strategically offers more choices with lower prices. Wal-Mart has become a goods conglomerate for consumers who previously shopped at several stores to get the products they needed for their families. With the help of Wal-Mart, consumers can now save time while shopping at only one store as opposed to several. Since Wal-Mart

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    Essay Length: 5,590 Words / 23 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Negative Effects of Wal-Mart

    Negative Effects of Wal-Mart

    Negative effects of Wal-Mart Imagine you are visiting one of the Natural Seven Wonders in the World, the pyramids and right next to the pyramids are a McDonald's and a Wal-Mart. The traffic is horrendous and the set-up of these places have them looking the same way they do in America. Large corporations are not helping, but are hurting our economy and homogenizing the entire world. This concept is what one might call globalization. "Globalization

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    Essay Length: 1,482 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Is Wal-Mart Good for the Economy?

    Is Wal-Mart Good for the Economy?

    After reading the article and seeing the two opposing points of view I would have to say that the more accurate one of the two comes from the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation asserts that the entry of Wal-mart stores into southern California would be beneficial to the local economy from the point of view that since Wal-mart offers such competitive,

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    Essay Length: 315 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Wal-Mart Case

    Wal-Mart Case

    Many retail stores are created by an owner that has a very creative idea for marketing products. Not all stores seem to stay in business partly due to the lack of interest shown in later years of the business's growth. The chains that tend to succeed are of course financially backed but the owner of the stores stays creative and innovative in their ideas to keep promoting the chain. One of the best examples of

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    Essay Length: 1,401 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Monika
  • A Case Study on Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

    A Case Study on Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

    A Case Study on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Contributors to this Report: Patrick Hayden, Seung Lee, Kate McMahon, Mike Pereira Written in April 2002 - Web posted September 2002 Back to Case Study Index Page Wal-Mart: Staying on Top of the Fortune 500 I. Background Last year, Wal-Mart had revenues of $191 billion. Wal-Mart's 2002 sales topped $218 billion, with sales growth at 13.8 %. Its 2002 net income was $ 6.7 billion, a growth

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    Essay Length: 9,684 Words / 39 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: July
  • Wal-Mart

    Wal-Mart

    Income Statement Get Income Statement for: View: Annual Data | Quarterly Data All numbers in thousands PERIOD ENDING 31-Jan-06 31-Jan-05 31-Jan-04 Total Revenue 315,654,000 287,989,000 258,681,000 Cost of Revenue 240,391,000 219,793,000 198,747,000 Gross Profit ,263,000 68,196,000 59,934,000 Operating Expenses Research Development - - - Selling General and Administrative 56,733,000 51,105,000 44,909,000 Non Recurring - - - Others - - - Total Operating Expenses - - - Operating Income or Loss 18,530,000 17,091,000 15,025,000 Income from

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    Essay Length: 338 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Wal-Mart and the Information Age

    Wal-Mart and the Information Age

    Wal-Mart and the Information Age Since it was founded in the early 1960s, Wal-Mart has been committed to being a successful retailer in the United States. Throughout the years, Wal-Mart has changed its business practices to take advantage of the ever-changing global digital economy. By introducing several uses of information technology and information systems, the company started a track which would lead them into becoming one of the nation’s largest and most profitable companies.

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    Essay Length: 1,394 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Andrew

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