The idea and history behind Google
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Google, a multibillion dollar company that has changed the way the world searches for information, had a very humble beginning. What started out as merely a great idea for a new algorithm eventually transformed into a complex and extremely sophisticated system for ranking pages and making...
Amazon battles for slice of online gaming market - McGee Patrick (2020) - Amazon's study in the video game sector
Text commentary - 3 pages - Digital & e-marketing
The video game industry or video game industry is a sector of activity specializing in the creation and marketing of video games in the world. Existing since 1970 in the United States, this industry is becoming more and more popular in the world and whose largest firms are today mainly based in...
Artificial Intelligence: a tool for financial institutions in the fight against money laundering and financial crime
Thesis - 16 pages - Business strategy
This document contains a presentation that was used during a thesis defense. It tackles how artificial intelligence can be a tool for financial institutions in the fight against money laundering and financial crime.
Aristotle & the Hellenists
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
In book I (The Object of Life) of 'Nicomachean Ethics', Aristotle sets out to determine what the concept of good represents for man and, more specifically, what the supreme good for man is. Aristotle asserts that, although there are many different relative goods that...
Sectoral study of Louis Vuitton
Case study - 50 pages - Services marketing
Leather is a strategic market for the luxury industry. Supported by interest of customers, leather goods are upscale and luxury goods that are experienced as one of the fastest growing sector in recent years while offering high margins. Even today, the leather remains one of the...
The Layoff
Case study - 2 pages - Human resources
If ever placed in a supervisory position I would be forced to make decisions such as cutting employee hours, hiring, and firing employees. Each supervisor may choose a separate pathway to follow when making such decisions; they are given the option to make the fairest decision as possible. As a...
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
David Ricardo was a prominent figure of his time. He participated in the great debates on the currency, the Corn Laws and so on. He associated with Smith and found numerous proposals that needed to be discussed. He published the 'Principles of Political Economy and Taxation' in 1817....
Why I'm More Important than You Are: A Case for Agent-Centered Prerogatives
Dissertation - 35 pages - Philosophy
We are acting permissibly when we do things like go to the movies once a year, or even once a month. Most of us would find it ridiculous if we were told we actually were not permitted to do these things. I consider anyone who disagrees with this claim to be outside of the accepted norms of...
Demand and Supply: Case study
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Demand is the quantity of products or services a buyer is willing to buy at a certain price. On the other hand, supply is the amount of goods or services that a certain market is willing to supply at a certain price. The relationship between supply and demand is the one that determines...
Schumpeter's Conception of Democracy
Case study - 2 pages - Ancient history
Schumpeter is well known for his efforts in advocating a procedural democracy definition. He sets the stage for his definition by first criticizing the implications of the 18th-century philosophy that was associated with democracy (Medearis, 2009, p. 34). He claims that the definition in the 18th...
Louis Vuitton's market strategy to excel in the competitive luxury industry
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
The leather sector is renowned for the quality of its products, especially in the luxury market. Louis Vuitton, the most prestigious French business of luxury leather goods, has, for years, been an incredible success, continually expanding its activities. Recently, consumer behavior has...
The A to Z of retail trade: Retail management
Thesis - 28 pages - Management
When man started to cultivate and harvest the land, he would occasionally find himself with a surplus of goods. Once the needs of his family and local community were met, he would attempt to trade his goods for different goods produced elsewhere. Thus markets were formed....
Inventory management
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
Any stock that a firm keeps to meet its future requirement of production and sales is called “INVENTORY”. The basic reason for holding inventory is to keep up to the production activities unhampered. It is neither physically possible nor economically justifiable to wait for the stock to...
The perception of morality
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
“There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.” (J.K. Rowling, 2001). What is good, though? Aristotle believes that anything we pursue or aim at is good. These things could be activities for instance such as bowling or fishing. “What is...
Strategic study of Decathlon
Case study - 36 pages - Business strategy
For over a decade, the retail brand Decathlon, has been the European leader in the retail market for sporting goods. This dominance manifests itself in France as the popularity of the slogan: "A background form” and the growing number of superstores located mainly in the outskirts of...
Marketing plan - Louis Vuitton in Japan
Case study - 12 pages - Services marketing
In 1854, Louis Vuitton, a Parisian trunk maker, opened his store on Place Vendome. Over the years the brand has grown significantly and is now attached to the LVMH group, the number one luxury group in the world, owned by Bernard Arnault. Louis Vuitton is one of the first commercial brands to...
Decathlon Group: Sports Megastore
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
"Decathlon is a major French sporting goods chain store, with stores located throughout the world. It started with a shop near Lille, France in 1976. The retailer stocks a wide range of sporting goods, from tennis racquets to advanced scuba diving equipment, usually in large...
Decathlon: A Competitive and strategic study to develop recommendations to establish a specific communication in the bicycle market for women and children
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Michael Leclercq established Decathlon in France in 1976. Decathlon was the first mass producer of sports equipment and caters to all a sportsman's needs whether he is an athlete or just a sports enthusiast. Decathlon is the leading innovator, producer and retailer of a broad range of sports...
International Trade and Finance
Case study - 4 pages - Finance
International trade involves exchange of goods and services across the international borders. It allows for competition of goods and services in the market resulting to more affordable goods to the consumers. Through international trade goods and services are made...
A look at the Value Added Tax in India
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
Unlike the erstwhile single point or cascade type of sales tax system, Value Added Tax (VAT) is a multi-point sales tax levied on the value added to goods with set-off for tax paid on purchases (inputs) and capital goods. What this means is that the amount of tax paid by the dealers...
Adidas: the role of woman in the future of the sport: strategy marketing to target the new market of the women
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
Sport has become an important aspect in the lives of people. This is due to the changes and innovations that are increasing in this area. It has to meet the needs of consumers' of sporting brands through several different products on the market of sport. Today, Adidas is one of the biggest...
SWOT Analysis - Louis Vuitton
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
This resource kit consists of six articles dealing mainly with the company Vuitton. Three of these articles are from famous French newspapers (Le Monde, Les Echos, La Tribune) and are recent ones (October 2005). They deal mainly with Vuitton's place in Asia. We also include the article...
Development for the sector of the luxury: The case of China (2006)
Essay - 43 pages - Services marketing
There are as many definitions of the term in the luxury sector. Dictionaries summarize luxury as a way of life characterized by a taste for expensive and comfort that requires large expenditures.The resulting products are therefore synonymous, not only of beauty,originality, creativity and...
They Live: Underestimating Camp
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Distinguishing a film as “campy” is, arguably, as difficult as determining whether or not a film is “good.” The definition of “camp” is utterly malleable and, moreover, exists almost purely in the eyes of the beholder. Similarly, a film is rarely definably...
Establishment of the brand of Louis Vuitton luxury on the Japanese market
Case study - 16 pages - Services marketing
France is a country with the largest number of firms in the luxury sector and Japan is a country that imports a lot of luxury goods. It is then natural to focus on the implementation of the first French luxury brand Louis Vuitton, among the largest importer of luxury goods in Japan....
Web Design in E-Business - Interface Analysis
Case study - 6 pages - Management
In this day, internet takes a vital role in many facets of an online business' life and process (Krug 2005). It can be defined as a tool where goods and services are provided well to reach customer needs and satisfaction. It is a way of attracting people's attention, arousing their...
The evolution of ethics in management.
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Now it is common knowledge that ethics and management go hand in hand. Through ethics, management is made more human. Although in the advent of management during the time of this is truly not the mindset. The focus was on production and output. The main concern regarding people is how to make...
Consequentialism and social inequality
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Everybody in society strives to some degree to be good people. However, being a good person does not always come easily. What is a good person anyway? When one begins to think about what needs to be done to be considered a good person, questions begin to arise. The...
US seaports: how to avoid congestion in the future?
Essay - 13 pages - Logistics
The continuous increase of port congestion in the San Pedro Bay is pushing every day more importers to relocate the port of entry of their goods. However, both ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles provide facilities and service that can not be found in any port. This reports first aims to...
Export procedures and documentation in India
Tutorials/exercises - 74 pages - Government finance
India has a mission to capture 2% of the global share of trade by 2010, as compared to the present level of less than 1%. Export is one of the lucrative business activities in India. The government also provides various promotional schemes to the exporters for earning valuable foreign exchange...
