Corporate strategy and the role of HRM - published: 07/05/2009
Thesis - 8 pages - Human resources
Throughout “The Thirty Glorious Ones”, HRM started adapting to strategies. Indeed, this period is defined by a spectacular economic growth in which products are uniform and in which customer's needs are the last preoccupations of companies. Thus, the Taylor-Ford model finds in this...
The customer relationship management method in the company "Propriétés Privées" - published: 07/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
I currently work in a real-estate agency in Nantes. This agency is called Propriétés Privées and I am in charge of the international marketing and communication of the company. I have been working for this company for 2 reasons. First of all, Propriétés Privées is a real-estate agency, and I have...
International management: McDonald's - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
McDonald's is a multinational company present in 121 countries. The company owns more than 30,000 franchises of fast food restaurants. The company also heads other brands of restaurants, as “Aroma Café,” “Boston Market,” “Chipotle Mexican Grill,” “Donatos...
An overview of export/import procedures
Case study - 5 pages - Logistics
Certain procedures have to be followed for the purpose of clearing goods to be imported. Briefly these procedures have been discussed below. The person in-charge of a vessel, ship or aircraft must call or land only at a Customs Port or a Customs Airport only. It may call or land at any other...
Business communication: Vivendi - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Vivendi is a worldwide company with a large portfolio of products and services. The company is divided into business units like environment and of course the core activity that we will interest us: the Video Games industry. The market knows an important growth with emerging markets like India and...
A construction project: The Millau Viaduct - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 17 pages - Business strategy
The project of a viaduct over the Tarn Valley and the city of Millau in Southern France was a major issue for many years among the French population and the Ministry of Transport. It aimed at providing a solution for the severe traffic jam that occurred every summer, and its by-product,...
Literature review: Customer relationship management (CRM) - published: 07/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
Customer relationship management has been defined in many ways. Metagroep defines CRM as ‘the automation of horizontally integrated business processes involving front office customer contact points (marketing, sales, service and support) via multiple, interconnected delivery channels'. (Ed...
How does a rational investor build the optimal portfolio? Should international securities be added to that? - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The modern portfolio theory was introduced by Harry Markowitz with the publication of his paper “Portfolio Selection” in the Journal of Finance in 1959 and is called Markowitz portfolio theory (MPT). It is now the major guidance for portfolio allocation decisions for mutual funds,...
Managing customer relationship and their financial aspects: Standard Chartered India
Case study - 33 pages - Finance
The objective of the project was to study the choice criteria to decide upon a bank for savings account and accordingly prepare the competitive update, i.e. Standard chartered VS other private banks to facilitate sales. The nature of the project involved a comprehensive market survey in which the...
Montblanc in China - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
The Montblanc Company is going to open a new subsidiary in China. I have just been promoted to be the manager of this new subsidiary in China and to design a strategic plan for the Montblanc Company. I am aware that it is a particular market and that some measures must be taken if I want this new...
Major trends in the domestic mid - sized car industry in India
Dissertation - 38 pages - Business strategy
The global automobile industry is undergoing dramatic change in recent times. There has been enormous consolidation, both amongst vehicle manufacturers and component vendors to achieve economies of scale product synergies and strong and presence. By contrast, there has been little or no...
Caroll Paris - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
The main purpose of the present report is to design a marketing plan for the French ‘fashion house' Caroll who is aiming to enter the growing ‘middle market' in China. In order to design an appropriate marketing plan, several steps have to be taken. We will first present the Caroll...
Knowledge in organizations: What is a community of practice? - published: 07/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
This report presents you the concept of a community of practice. Normally the term community of practice in reduced to CoP and this term was created by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger in 1991. Now to understand this notion, we should understand the fathers of this notion. Jean Lave is a social...
Analysis and features of Standard Chartered
Thesis - 18 pages - Finance
The world “Bank” has been derived from the Italian world “Banca” meaning a branch or a counter. However, the banks that we are now accustomed to seeing no longer seem to be a reflection of what “Bank” really means. But today's banks are not what banks used to...
How does trade globalization affect women working conditions in South America? - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The international trade agreements have important impact on people living in poverty. But these impacts operate at different levels. In some cases, trade can stimulate the development of these countries, help the economic growth, help employment, give access to local population to variated goods...
A study on the various approaches to job evaluation
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The definition for Job evaluation is “any method ranking the relative worth of jobs, which can then be used as a basis for a remuneration system”. It is the systematic process of establishing the relative worth of jobs within an organization. The exercise involves placing jobs at their...
Indian retail: Stepping ahead to create a benchmark
Dissertation - 47 pages - Business strategy
India is standing on the verge of having the pleasure to hold 2010 Olympic Games .Its retail business meter shows only about 4% organized retail in India. It means that a whopping 96% market is yet to be captured by entrepreneurs. Retail will grow more. India will be making waves in trends that...
Chocolate industry in India
Dissertation - 49 pages - Business strategy
Chocolates began during the times of the Mayas and the Aztecs when they beat cocoa into a pulp and made bitter frothy chocolate out of it. They first became popular in Europe in a highly unrefined form. Then the Hershey Food Company was the first to bring out chocolates in the currently popular...
The market competitors of broadband services and their performance in the markets in India: HCL Infinet ISP
Thesis - 18 pages - Management
HCL Infinet ISP is the Internet Infrastructure initiative of the HCL group, India's premier information technology group. Through the pioneering presence of the HCL group companies and the vast experience of the markets, HCL Infinet has propelled itself to the path of “Total Technology...
Brand management in retailing in India
Dissertation - 38 pages - Business strategy
Research can be defined as “A careful investigation or inquiry especially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge”. Data collection is an elaborate process in which the researcher makes a planned search for all relevant data. Data is the foundation of all marketing...
A study on evolution, working and the current scenario of the commodity market in India
Tutorials/exercises - 41 pages - Finance
What is “Commodity”? - Any product that can be used for commerce or an article of commerce which is traded on an authorized commodity exchange is known as commodity. The article should be movable of value, something which is bought or sold and which is produced or used as the subject or...
Critical skill mapping of employees based on four-quadrant model in relation to the study of Tata steel
Thesis - 23 pages - Human resources
Setting an Objective is the first and one of the most important stages of any report. This is because poorly defined problem will not yield useful results and causes confusion. The aim of our study is to “study and analyze the Debt and Capital Structure of Orient Paper and Industries Ltd....
Market analysis and study of the Indian airline industry in relation to the environmental (internal & external) factors
Thesis - 19 pages - Business strategy
Overview & Scope of the project and Methodologies used - What business does an airline industry participate in? This is a fundamental question which needs to be answered before a marketing analysis on the industry is presented. To a layman the airline industry means carrying the passengers and...
The evolution, features, concepts, application and terminologies of fiscal policy
Thesis - 12 pages - Government finance
Fiscal policy can be explained as a policy executed by the government to produce desirable effect on national income, output and employment. There are two type of fiscal policy they are - Contractionary & Expansionary.It helps the government by creating an environment for rapid economic growth....
The importance and application of value chain analysis in business - (17 Slides)
Presentation - 5 pages - Finance
An organized creative approach aimed at identifying unnecessary costs and eliminating the same from the system without affecting the functional utility, guarantee and safety performance. A study on the factors determining value. The stages through which the return of investment varies is another...
A research on the possibilities of flexible working strategy
Thesis - 19 pages - Business strategy
This research proposal seeks to present findings on the policy of flexible working hours being provided to employees so as to enable them to balance their personal as well as professional lives more efficiently. This research paper develops hypothesis on the challenges faced by organizations to...
A study on the Indian leisure industry and its importance in the business world
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
The concept of leisure, and the freedom to choose individual pastimes and leisure pursuits, is a 20th century development for the mass population. Historically, only the wealthy could divide up their time to engage in activities of their choosing. The working classes had neither the time nor the...
An analysis and study on stress management and its implementation
Thesis - 20 pages - Management
Only recently has stress been seen as a contributory factor to the productivity and health costs of companies and countries. As studies of stress-related illnesses and deaths show, stress imposes a high cost on individual health and well-being as well as organizational productivity. There are...
Business plan: Give me 5
Business plan - 41 pages - Management
This business plan is designed for the creation and the early management of a company providing and delivering a mix of 5 fruits and vegetables in baskets to help individuals eat healthy. The company will be established in the largest area in London, and will follow the English government...
The banking risk management
Dissertation - 36 pages - Finance
The risk of diversification is a basic precept of the banking activity. A big part of the large banking failures was due, in a way or another, to a concentration of the credit risk. The banking controlling authorities have, at all times, strongly encouraged the banks placed under their...
