Risk management and the use of derivatives
Essay - 7 pages - Finance
This paper investigates the use of derivatives in Risk Management. Deriving the value from an underlying asset or an index representing assets, derivatives bear the ability to accelerate gains or losses for a small initial outlay thus assisting corporations to manage risk and return...
Interdependence of norms in budgeting
Essay - 7 pages - Finance
Key (1940) contended that there was a lack of "attention from the basic budgeting problem (on the expenditure side), namely: On what basis shall it be decided to allocate x dollars to activity A instead of Activity B?" (1137, emphasis in original) The literature of the era was concerned...
Leadership and personal power in organizations
Essay - 5 pages - Human resources
Leadership is a heavily studied element of organizations. Every organization has leaders, after all, but what can and what do leaders actually do to achieve results? Can these results be replicated, or is individual charisma and various other sources of power and success ultimately simply a...
Management decision making
Course material - 9 pages - Human resources
One of the main qualities employers look for, when they hire us as managers and leaders,, is our ability to make decisions. The decision making skill is not a quality found to equal measure among people, and the manner of deciding things varies depending on the personality and personal experience...
Investment management and modern portfolio theory
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
Various assets or types of investment (stocks, bonds and cash equivalents) held and/or managed directly by investors, constitute a portfolio. In order to build up a coherence between risk tolerance and the investing objectives, investors favor large cap value stocks based on index funds if their...
The Sony Corporation
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
The Sony Corporation is one that has become a household name in consumer electronics. Sony is one of the largest Japanese Multinational Conglomerates, with revenues of over $70 billion dollars last year alone. Sony is a maker of electronics, videos, communication devices, video game consoles, and...
Financial engineering assignment: CTA Fund
Essay - 15 pages - Finance
From the prices of the seven futures markets, we explore various ways of engineering the performance measurement and market and operational risk management for the Commodity Trading Advisor or the CTA fund. We assume a portfolio account size of $200 000. From trading limits, the portfolio is...
Intercultural management
Essay - 8 pages - Management
There has been significant growth in international companies during the latter half of the 20th century. Before the Second World War, the number of firms involved in international trade and foreign investment was small. Some of them operated overseas but the main focus was the domestic market. In...
The impact of external growth strategies on airline corporate branding
Case study - 35 pages - Business strategy
The deregulation and the overcapacity of many industries have led to a record level in external growth operations in the late 1990s (Doyle 2000). Nevertheless, development by acquisition tends to be selective in terms of industry sectors. In banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, airline and...
Cross culture management. Country case report: India
Case study - 21 pages - Management
India is one of the few countries in the world to have an ancient and diverse culture. Stretching back in an unbroken sweep over 5000 years, India's culture has been enriched by successive waves of migration which were absorbed into the Indian way of life. This variety is the special hallmark...
Business analysis & recommendations report:Southwest Airlines Co.
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
Southwest Airlines Co. was founded in 1967, but its first scheduled flight was delayed until 1971 due to lawsuits from competitors. The company began as a small, regional carrier with three routes. In its initial public offering in June of 1971, the company reported that the funds raised would...
The California wine industry
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
Wine is an industry built on status and reputation. As a relative latecomer, the California wine industry has had to fight an uphill battle in the world marketplace for wine. In the US, of course, California wine consumes the overwhelming majority of acreage and consumption, due partially to...
Multicultural management theory
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Cushner, McClelland, and Safford (1996) defined diversity as a notion needed to "to include differences based on gender, ethnicity, race, class, age, and handicapping conditions" (p. xvii). Diversity is not simply "a notion of "other" ... that all Americans are, to some degree, multicultural...
The Danone Case: can a firm combine profits and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
Case study - 70 pages - Business strategy
First, to hit the high degree of competitiveness, it becomes necessary for the firm to keep the competitive advantage by dealing with new concepts such as the environment, respect of human rights and social activities. Indeed, the traditional factors such as product, price, place, promotion seem...
Trading volatility
Essay - 15 pages - Finance
Traditionally, to make a profit, most individual investors and fund managers are forced to take a view on the direction of the price of something. The traditional or fundamental strategy is to study all the aspects of the market-place, all the factors affecting the price or that might affect the...
The core-satellite model revisited, tracking error control, ETF's and satellites possibilities
Essay - 13 pages - Finance
A core-satellite management consist in having a core portfolio made up of passive management vehicles (index funds, ETFs, etc.) with low management fees, and separately one, or several, very active satellites that are made up of funds with a strong tracking error, or even funds with no constraint...
What is communication in terms of organizational behaviour?
Essay - 3 pages - Communication
In any organization, communication is a strategic activity and is not just used to inform about the company's goals and objectives. The role of communication within an organization is to share information about the strategic framework and knowledge, to facilitate exchanges between employees...
International business strategy: international strategic alliances
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
According to author Charles Hill's views on Global Business Today, "Collaboration between competitors is fashionable; recent decades have seen an explosion in the number of strategic alliances". Indeed, the global economic system is nowadays so complex and the competition is too strong that...
Conceptual models in strategic management: The Boston Consulting Group growth / share matrix
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, in a stronger context of globalisation, companies have to face more and more complex challenges such as a higher international competition, emerging markets, many economic changes or new technological progresses etc. Strategic management decisions have to be completely successful in...
Corporate social responsibility: The example of Air France-KLM
Case study - 9 pages - Management
This group was created in 2004 through the merger of Air France and KLM and is now the world leader in terms of international passenger traffic. In addition, the financial results have been improved considerably over the last few years. But how is the airline group actually dealing with its...
How can a large global company like Coca-Cola manage its human resources efficiently? The example of the US divisions
Case study - 11 pages - Human resources
Coca-Cola is one of the most famous and successful brands all over the world. The Coca-Cola Company is a large multinational enterprise, operating in about 200 countries. This can be considered as the quintessential global corporation. We could more likely use the terms "multi-local" company as...
What are the main challenges for the international human resources management in the future?
Essay - 4 pages - Human resources
Human Resource Management has become a major concern in most companies as it affects the performance and thus, the competitive advantages of organizations. Nowadays, the competition is getting stronger and stronger, especially at the international level. The integration of HRM into the...
Organizational behaviour: optimal level of work 'related stress' does it exist?
Essay - 10 pages - Human resources
Work related stress is become an increasing problem in the current world. The new ways of conducting business (globalization, strategic alliances, advanced information technology) contribute greatly to the increased level of uncertainty and stress in all types of organizations. Considering the...
Strategic management: Robin Hood case study - publié le 01/09/2008
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Robin Hood and the Merrymen are facing the problem of not having enough supply of resources to meet the demands of their expanding organization. Their current strategy is to rob from the rich and give to the poor. They are looking at revising this strategy in order to find another way to get...
Codorniu analysis relating to a hire process
Case study - 5 pages - Human resources
The sector of which the company is a part has always influenced its recruitment and selection process. Indeed, the sector growth defines the company's requirements in terms of the number of employees, the kind of growth, and the profile of the people they need. Moreover, the company's strategy,...
Definition and analysis of different notions of advanced corporate finance
Course material - 12 pages - Finance
Investment management is the management of various securities as shares, bonds and asses in a professional way. The aim is to satisfy the investment aims and needs of the investors. Investors could be represented by insurance companies, pension funds, corporations that is to say by institutions...
Ryanair Case Study
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Ryanair was founded in 1985 by Tony Ryan and family (with a share capital of only £1 and 25 employees) in Ireland. The company is essentially dedicated to medium haul flights for the European continent (26 European countries are served by Ryanair) and the nearest areas like the Maghreb. This...
Risk management: Risk analysis of the company Gaudin Systemes
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
I have decided to focus my risk analysis on the company Gaudin Systèmes. The core of this analysis is to launch a new line of production in a foreign country, in Algeria. The best thing to do is to analyze the risk of failure in order to sue it. Moreover, the field of this activity is very risky...
Negotiation dynamics: Bouygues Vs Propriétés Privées
Case study - 6 pages - Management
To do this assignment I have chosen to take a case that I recently came across at my work. I currently work in a real-estate agency as a marketing manager. In my work, I am in charge of the marketing of the company and I am in charge of finding new partners for the company as well. For example,...
Change management: the CBC case
Case study - 8 pages - Management
For this assignment, I decided to use a company which I will call CBC, and in which I did an internship for 7 months. This Swiss Group provides chocolate-based products, is present in several countries, and generates a sales turnover of nearly 3 billion €. However, this company faced strong...
