Need for financial statement analysis in a computer hardware industry
Tutorials/exercises - 38 pages - Finance
Financial management, as an integral part of overall management is not totally an independent area. It draws heavily on related disciplines and fields of study such as economics, accounting, marketing, production and quantitative methods. The scope of finance function was treated by the...
An overview of business process outsourcing
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
Companies are increasingly outsourcing key business functions and their related IT operations. The BPO industry is built around the raison d' etre of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. With the current focus on core business capabilities, many companies are outsourcing select business functions...
Managing international teams
Course material - 22 pages - Management
With an ongoing globalization of activities and companies, heterogeneity in companies' workforce has become a reality. Managing diversity has turned into a major challenge for companies' survival. As a matter of fact, large companies can no longer boast their national affiliation as the workplace...
Human resources management in Siemens
Tutorials/exercises - 57 pages - Human resources
The outsourcing history of India is one of phenomenal growth in a very short span of time. The idea of outsourcing has its roots in the 'competitive advantage' theory propagated by Adam Smith in his book 'The Wealth of Nations' which was published in 1776. Over the years, the...
A survey on recruitment advertisements
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Human resources
Advertising is a phrase used for the announcements made by the seller to promote the sales of their products. Advertising refers to the mass selling techniques used when direct face to face selling is not possible or is too time consuming and expensive. It is different from propaganda, publicity...
E-commerce and the ready-made garment industries
Dissertation - 40 pages - Business strategy
Electronic Commerce is the conducting of business over the web. It typically involves three broad steps. First, a person uses the web to collect information to decide which product or service to purchase. Second, the person transmits payment information (such as a credit card number) to the...
A study on quality circle
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
The term quality circles refers to small groups of line employees (usually ten or fewer) who meet periodically outside of regular work hours to discuss ways to improve the quality of products they produce and the efficiency and effectiveness of the production processes they oversee. Although...
The impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the retail industry in India
Dissertation - 102 pages - Finance
Retailing is the largest private industry in India and second largest employer after agriculture. Retailers not only provide consumers with a wide variety of products, but also a wide range of complementary services such as assurance of products delivery which can lead to more informed choice and...
Training and evaluation in human resource management
Thesis - 8 pages - Human resources
Human Resource is the biggest asset for the success of any organization, but to make it an asset, activity of training and development plays a very important role. However, it is very essential to ensure that training imparted to people is effective which can enhance the performance of the people...
Effectiveness of recruitment and selection process in Satyam
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Human resources
Satyam Computers Services Ltd., is a leading global consulting and IT services company that offers a wide array of solutions for a range of key verticals and horizontals. Starting from the strategy consulting right through to implementing IT solutions for clients, Satyam straddles this entire...
Analysis of software project time overrun
Tutorials/exercises - 38 pages - Business strategy
A project can be defined as a plan or proposal; a scheme or an undertaking requiring concerted effort. Software's are the programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation. They are instructions for the computer. A series of...
Business analysis of Air Deccan (Now Kingfisher Red)
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Business strategy
Air transport is the most modern, the quickest and the latest addition to the modes of transport. Because of speed with which airplanes can fly, travel by air is becoming increasingly popular Air Deccan is a unit of Deccan Aviation Private Limited, India's largest private heli-charter...
Corporate gifting: An overview
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The complexity of management decision-making has greatly increased during recent years throughout the world. This is especially true with respect to the marketing activity is located at the interface between the firm and every changing environment, dynamic factor such as rapidly changing...
A study conducted on executive perception towards organization environment in a firm
Tutorials/exercises - 58 pages - Human resources
The origin of organization has been spontaneous. It came into existence in the early stages of human evolution when persons began to co-operate and combine together to achieve a common goal. A sound management is based on proper organizational structure, which is concerned with determining...
A study on the E-Brands and case studies of Amazon.com, Boo.com & Gap
Tutorials/exercises - 57 pages - Business strategy
Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the online world - an explosion that is also a harbinger of how business will operate in the future. Supply chains are being rethought, products and services reconfigured, and business models revamped. As such, the Internet is having a...
A study on the aircraft design center
Tutorials/exercises - 54 pages - Management
It is the employees who have to take up the challenging assignments and help the company march forward. Thus it is very essential to have good Industrial Relations. Participative Management is one such system that helps in preserving amity and good relations between the management and the...
Advertising on search engines
Essay - 14 pages - Communication
Today, advertising is everywhere. We always think that there are some conventional media that we should use to promote products, services, brands or companies but, there is no real law to do that way. Moreover, some advertisers don't hesitate to use walls, poles, cars, wagons, and even tube...
Organization, people and changes
Essay - 9 pages - Human resources
The debate about change is a complex one because it not only affects the organization's internal elements; it is also affects the external elements on the whole. And because the companies purposes are various, it could be nevertheless conflicting. Within this case, if we hope dealing with it...
Financial Analysis Performing: Coca Cola Inc. vs. Pepsi Co.
Financial analysis - 25 pages - Finance
Coca-Cola was invented in May 1886 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia. John Pemberton created the Coca Cola formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard. The name was a suggestion by his bookkeeper Frank Robinson who also scripted the famous logo. The soft drink was...
Intercultural management, electronic arts in China: strategic plan
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Electronic Arts, an American company specializing in video games wants to expand its products all around the world where there are opportunities. The American company founded in 1983 and based in Redwood City in California, is today one of the top ten companies as video game producers in the...
Burton Case
Case study - 11 pages - Management
The changes braved out by Burton since its set up in the beginning of 1900 came up in the context of globalization and the Industrial Revolution angle. Within this perspective, clashes for ideals changes are common; especially in the way information and know-how are considered and exercised as...
Analysing financial statements: Puma
Financial analysis - 13 pages - Business strategy
Despite few important sport events, the sporting goods industry as a whole, has continued to record further growth. The healthy growth in the sport lifestyle segment was due to the sustained trend towards fitness and wellness, the increasingly important connection between sport and lifestyle, and...
Intercultural management: BMW
Case study - 11 pages - Management
In this document, I deal with companies' inter-cultural management processes for which cultural differences have been a barrier or source of competitive advantage, affecting their success in international business environment. In choosing the BMW Company, an international one, we will see that...
Management decision making: the Nestle Nespresso case
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Nestle Nespresso is one of the fastest growing subsidiaries of the Nestlé group. The group includes many different brands producing coffee. Among them, there are two very profitable entities: Nespresso and Nescafé. Although they are not the same company, they are owned by the same group, and...
Advanced corporate finance II: modern Portfolio theories
Essay - 8 pages - Finance
Harry Markowitz is a Nobel Prize winning economist who worked on the modern portfolio theory. His work has changed the ways of investing for many traders, keeping in mind that his work gave scientific features to risk versus return. The modern portfolio theory is made of different tools to...
Corporate entrepreneurship: Nestle Nespresso case - publié le 24/05/2009
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Nestlé Nespresso is one of the fastest growing subsidiaries of the Nestlé group. The group includes many different brands of coffee. Among them, there are two very profitable entities: Nespresso and Nescafé. Although they are not the same company, they are owned by the same group, yet the...
Dubai Land: would the pharaons have dared?
Case study - 9 pages - Management
Dubai Land' is a huge entertainment and leisure complex, in terms of investment, size and attractions. More ambitious than any entertainment destination in the world, it intends to become one of the most visited places in Middle East and worldwide. The objective is clear, become a new leisure...
Financial Statement Analysis: Nintendo ltd
Financial analysis - 7 pages - Management
Nintendo manages its financial features efficiently. This is not surprising from a big international company which has big experience. The video game industry is in a growth phase and Nintendo, in its war against Microsoft and Sony, has to be very vigilant to keep in its hands its recent place as...
Strategic management : Credit Agricole - publié le 24/05/2009
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Credit Agricole is the first bank group in France owning 28% of the household market. This group is also the first in Europe regarding revenues of retailing banks and the fourth group in the world concerning the equity level. Leader of the proximity banks in France with 39 local funds or region...
Risk Management - publié le 24/05/2009
Course material - 9 pages - Finance
Measuring operational risk allows, in so many ways to anticipate the continuous and discrete potential risks that hold many intangible elements. By sophistical trends, we can measure how it could affect any project on the long term and involve in its management ways. Even the measurement needs to...
