The secret behind the success of Michelin Tyres
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Michelin has been the market leader for tyres. Michelin equips vehicles like cars, motorcycles, aircrafts, etc. with tyres. Michelin also brings solutions for each different usage of tyres, which allows the vehicle to give optimum performance. The company constantly innovates in order to...
EasyJet strategy
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
EasyJet is a company that was founded in 1994 by Stelios. This was the first European airline to offer cheap local flights. In 1995, EasyJet was one of Europe's leading low cost airlines, thanks to an efficient operating model, brand awareness and the ability to maintain a high level...
Differences between Air France and Emirates with respect to recruitment process or policies
Case study - 5 pages - Management
The airline companies in the West are currently experiencing a mass exodus of their pilots, who have been leaving their national companies or national carriers for other new airlines where the salaries and perks are two to three times higher than their current salary. Most of these new airlines...
Ryanair: A strategic analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Ryanair is a low-cost airline that was founded in 1985 by Tony Ryan. It began in Ireland, with a capital of one Irish pound or 1.23 Euros and 25 employees. The newly created company proposed to start flights between London and South East Ireland on a plane with just 15 seats. The...
The low-cost airline industry
Market study - 5 pages - Business strategy
In this paper we will analyze the airline sector using various theories and tools to examine it. As part of our strategic focus, we will first study the overall market and then, by using the example of Ryanair, look at the features of a low cost airline. The passengers of the airline industry...
The traceability of A380 airbus
Case study - 8 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Airbus aircraft manufactures, creates, develops, manufactures, sells and manages aircraft maintenance. Airbus Industrie was formed in 1970 as an economic interest group extending into the European level. The range of very large aircraft development has emerged recently with the A380. It is a...
The Serious Game: Strategy and market analysis
Case study - 20 pages - Business strategy
Mobiclic, MS Flight Simulator, NASCAR Racing, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Dance Revolution are all concrete examples of the explosive popularity of the serious games. Classified by their nature, they satisfy different needs. Mostly played by the young generation, these games are also a source...
The company EasyGroup
Thesis - 22 pages - Management
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the "serial entrepreneur", launched EasyJet in March 1995 and in 1998, founded EasyGroup. EasyGroup has the strategy that every company bearing the name "easy" should refocus its activities by reducing costs, and have lower priced products but by keeping a wide margin....
Analysis of the structure of the Ups company
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The UPS Company was founded in 1907, and is currently the leading express carrier and largest package delivery company. As a multinational company, it is currently active worldwide and employed 430 000 people (including 2,000 in France), has 147 000 vehicles and 500 planes. It is the ninth...
Analysis of New Frontiers
Case study - 17 pages - Services marketing
The company "Nouvelles Frontieres", was chosen as a subject because this study is interested in all the four sectors of tourism, and it needs to discover how the company uses direct marketing. Direct marketing is a tool, and a business approach that is critical to a company. It is characterized...
Structural analysis of Air France
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
Founded on July 3, 2005, Air France-KLM was formed as a result of a merger between Air France (founded in 1933) and KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines founded in 1919). It has a capital of 2,289,759,903 euros, divided into 269,383,518 shares at 8.5 euros each. The Air France-KLM company is organized...
Performance of the British Airways
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
BA is one of the world's largest international airlines, providing travelers with a broad network to and from the U.K. and has a total service for premium travelers in co-operation with world alliance partners. The company expanded rapidly in the 1990s, which led to overcapacity, lower fares...
Different views on the 'definition of death'
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
What exactly is death? What is the after life? Is it even possible to define them? Pose these questions to several different people, and several different answers will be the result. Death itself and other related ideas such as the after life are presented in many different ways in each of...
The homes of Catherine in 'Washington Square' and Frado of 'Our Nig'
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
The homes of Catherine in 'Washington Square' and Frado of 'Our Nig' are essential to the development and understanding of these heroines. Each novel places emphasis on different aspects of the homes as they relate to the most involved characters of the novel, particularly...
The United Nations and Libya
Case study - 9 pages - Political science
Violence used against Libya's citizens created a monumental concern for the United Nations organization—the country waged war on its own people. By “repress[ing] peaceful demonstrators and rejecting unequivocally the incitement to hostility against the civilian population,” the...
PBL: Human resource management
Case study - 5 pages - Human resources
AsiaAir has a very diverse workforce that is made up of flight attendants, pilots, maintenance workers, baggage handlers, cleaners, office workers and the call center operators. All the groups of the employees at AirAsia that is a low cost carrier in the South East Asia region all want...
Lance Airlines
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
In order to achieve success, Lance Airways is proud to provide a two part mission statement, one to our guests and another to our colleagues; both are available to view by all. To our guests: Lance Airways is in the business to provide safe, dependable and friendly air transportation to our...
Research to prove the effects of Stress to Blood Pressure
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Stress refers to the physical response of one's body because of physical or psychological pressure, which normally leaves an individual upset, and might make them feel threatened (Bailey 54). Stress is an appropriate way of the body to react to real or imagined danger in a process known as...
An analysis of Ryanair competitiveness
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
This report illustrates an analysis of Ryanair competitiveness, adaptation to the macro-level factors in the United Kingdom and factors contributing to its current success. Initially, the Porter's five-force model entails analysis of the threat posed by buyers, suppliers, industrial rivalry,...
Short Story Review
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Readers love the story of the predator and the prey, regardless of where or with whom the sympathy falls. A tale of survival or near-survival keeps us craving more, and if the creator or messenger of that story can secretly divulge wisdom along the way, then both reader and author benefit....
Technical Aspects and the Drive of the Protagonist in Run Lola Run
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
In Tom Twyker's film Run Lola Run, Lola is a character kinetically driven by her love for her boyfriend, Manni, and her desire to save him. This drive takes her on three separate but similar journeys, with fate and timing to decide the outcome. Lola's drive to find a hundred thousand marks...
Troia 2002 A Case Study in the Applications of Magnetometry
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Geology
Between July 26 and August 3, 2002, research was conducted by Prof. William Aylward of the UW-Madison Classics Department, Dr. Jim Compton Tucker of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Research Center, and Jamon Van Den Hoek in partnership with the Troia Project by using a magnetometer linked...
Monarch Conservation and Justice in Mexico
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Monarch butterflies are among the most charismatic of endangered fauna. Because of not only their visual beauty but also their enchanting migrations, they have achieved striking popularity especially among Northern conservationists. While these migrations may be spectacular, they are also...
An investigation of Edgard Varèse's Poème Électronique
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
To those who are familiar with the unique historical context in which he was growing up, it comes as little surprise that Edgard Varèse was a composer at the forefront of the twentieth-century electronic music movement. As Malcolm MacDonald claims in his treatise on the artist, Varèse grew up...
Postmodernism and cinema
Thesis - 7 pages - Film studies
‘It's about flights of fantasy, and the nightmare of reality, terrorist bombings, and late night shopping, true love, and creative plumbing.' (Gilliam; 1985). This tagline for the film Brazil highlights most of the concepts present in postmodernist criticism of cinema and television....
Economy of Mexico
Thesis - 11 pages - Economy general
From the 1940's until the 1960's there was a strong economic growth in Mexico. This strong economic performance proceeded into the 60's. Manufacturing was the country's dominant growth sector and attracted many foreign investors. Although there was a growth in Mexico, there was fiscal...
Radicalization of the French Revolution, from 1789 to the end of 1794
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
The French Revolution is often depicted as a process of growing violence, underpinned by more and more radical theories. Indeed, a Manichean view often leads people to believe that France was peaceful in the beginning of 1789, and turned violent and radical in 1793. In other word, it is often...
Easy Jet, Strategic management project
Essay - 12 pages - Business strategy
The airlines industry has been highly perturbed by many new external and internal events since the last five years (September 11th, increasing of fuel value, and recently many technical incidents in some flights). All these components transform major stakes and keys of the different...
Can psychological stress cause physical illness?
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Stress is a fundamental human coping mechanism for dealing with threats and adjusting to new (often sudden) changes in the demands of the environment. Fundamentally it can be described as an individual's perception of the balance between the demands placed on them and their ability to cope with...
Internship report in Fleetway Travel Plc
Thesis - 11 pages - Educational studies
During 4 months, I had the opportunity to be an intern at Fleetway Travel Plc. The company, based in the heart of Central London, offers many travel products at competitive prices, including tailor-made breaks, flights, hotels, car hire, and travel insurance. I had never worked in the...
