What skills does it take to "manage" cross-cultural M&A? - publié le 21/11/2006
Essay - 13 pages - Business strategy
Comment réussir des fusions-acquisitions "cross-culturelles"? Mergers and acquisitions continue apace in spite of an alarming failure rate and evidence that they rarely manage to benefit shareholders. Most completed takeovers damage one party: the company making the acquisition. Many studies...
Stock index futures (CME® S&P 500® futures)
Essay - 8 pages - Stock exchange
Stock index futures - The first stock index contracts were traded at the Kansas City Board of Trade on February 24, 1982. This introduction was followed (the same year in April) by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). These new contracts were based on the S&P 500 index. These two brand new...
Microfinance: the Challenge of Accessing Global Capital Markets
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
The main theme of this project is the facilitation and development of microfinance, which is the “provision of loans, savings, insurance, payments, and other basic financial services to low-income populations” . The project is dedicated to identifying and evaluating existing options for...
Microfinance: the Challenge of Accessing Global Capital Markets - publié le 15/11/2006
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
The main theme of this project is the facilitation and development of microfinance, which is the "provision of loans, savings, insurance, payments, and other basic financial services to low-income groups? . The project is dedicated to identifying and evaluating existing options for microfinance...
The tend offer on Marionnaud
Case study - 5 pages - Finance
Bernard Marionnaud is a family company. It is the history of Marcel Frydman (73 years old) who decided 20 years ago to buy a perfume shop for his wife with only 100 000 Francs. But he realised after a while that he was very interested in this shop and desired to buy some others to make more...
Operational auditing
Essay - 11 pages - Audit
According to the Institute of Internal Auditors, Internal Auditing could be defined as "an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organisation's operations. It helps an organisation accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic,...
Tourism in Nord-Pas-De-Calais: Evaluation and recommendations
Market study - 26 pages - Business strategy
The Nord-Pas-de-Calais is located in the north of France (Appendix 2) and is bound by three borders, the Sea, a border with Belgium and a border with the French area Picardy (Appendix 3). The surface of the territory is 12 414 km2 i.e. 2.3% of the French territory. Its littoral edge is...
Management Accounting Change in the French Public Sector: A New Institutionalist Perspective
Essay - 29 pages - Accounting
In the public sector management accounting change is often associated with the implementation of New Public Management (NPM) principles. This article uses the new institutionalist perspective to analyze the implementation of a new performance measurement and management system in a large French...
How does marketing communication build and maintain strong brand?
Essay - 12 pages - Communication
The challenge for a lot of companies nowadays is to adapt their traditional functions and operations to the new world. They have to integrate marketing. Today, it is important to build a relationship with the customers. This is the key to finding, developing and having loyal customers, so...
Internationalisation process of firms: theories; motives and influencing factors
Essay - 23 pages - Business strategy
In today's world, "globalization" is a very commonly used term but there are many ambiguities with respect to its definition, when the phenomena was born and why is it so important for companies? Although this term is imprecise, literature enables us to define it using two very distinct...
Danone global strategy
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Danone is one of the world leaders in the food industry. The group focuses on three worldwide business lines: Fresh Diary Products, Beverages, and Biscuit & Cereal Products. Its turnover in 2005 was 13.02 billion Euros. We have chosen this group because Danone seems to be a very dynamic firm. In...
Marketing communication plan of Smart
Case study - 14 pages - Communication
The formal launch of Smart was cancelled in 1998 due to safety reasons and errors in the process of marketing. However, after two years of continuously promoting and marketing Smart, the sales finally picked up. Overwhelmed by this success, Smart launched its other models that seemed as original...
"Networking within tourism destinations hinders innovation and freedom of choice." Critically discuss this statement
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
Tourism, like so many modern industries, is essentially an assembly process. In few situations does one organisation or company control all the components, or all the stages and decision-making processes in the creation and delivery of the tourism product. That is why in most industrial sectors...
"Networking within tourism destinations hinders innovation and freedom of choice." Critically discuss this statement - publié le 11/10/2006
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
Tourism, like many modern industries of today, is essentially an assembly process. Very rarely does one organization or company control all the components, or all the stages of decision-making with respect to the creation and delivery of the tourism product. Consequently, in most industrial...
Why using brand management in the tourism industry ? The case of destination branding
Dissertation - 45 pages - Management
Nowadays the tourism sector is one of the most important economic sectors. The globalization of our world allows for better, easier, faster, and cheaper travel, and the technological progress achieved has left almost no place unknown. We may observe that many destinations are now featuring in...
Comparative international accounting systems and practices
Essay - 26 pages - Accounting
Undoubtedly, the Anglo-Saxon form of accounting can be distinguished from other accounting practices across regions such as continental Europe, Asia, Latin American, and many other parts of the world. This form of accounting pattern is particularly practiced in the United States and the United...
Comparative international accounting systems and practices - publié le 28/09/2006
Essay - 26 pages - Accounting
There is no doubt that Anglo-Saxon accounting can be distinguished from accounting in continental Europe, Asia, Latin American, and many other parts of the world. It is practiced not only in the United States and United Kingdom, but also to an important extent in countries where, for example, the...
The Centennial Olympic Stadium: a successful project
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
In 1996, a battle broke out between Atlanta and Athens. The battle arose due to a conflict on the organization of the last Olympic Games of the twentieth century. The choice was either Atlanta or Athens. It would have been a beautiful mythical moment if the games where celebrated in Athens where...
The Centennial Olympic Stadium: a successful project - publié le 19/09/2006
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
In 1996, there was a battle between Atlanta and Athens for the organization of the last Olympic Games of the twentieth century. It would have been a beautiful mythical moment if the games where celebrated there where the story began, one century ago. But the gods of Olympia were not enough...
Multicultural management
Essay - 12 pages - Management
As workforces become increasingly multicultural and businesses continue to expand overseas, the homogenous workforce has become a thing of the past. Managers today have to ensure that they are understanding and being understood across cultural boundaries. This situation implies that managers...
The Aircraft company Airbus
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
This document attempts to answer the various questions that hover around the minds of businesses worldwide. Some of the pertinent queries that arise are: 1. Where is the organization headed to in terms of strategic direction? 2. How is the organization performing so far in relation to the...
The battle over leadership in the sport industry: Adidas vs. Nike
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
According to public opinion, sport is undoubtedly related to pleasure, relaxation and physical activity. However the reality is in fact poles apart from this simplistic landscape and sport is above all a colossal industry, which represents a billion-dollar market. The recent acquisition of Reebok...
Analysis of the development strategy of Societe Generale in Europe - publié le 21/08/2006
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Achieving an integrated market for banks and financial conglomerates is a core component of the European policy in the area of financial services. Even if the banking market seems to remains mainly national, the free movement of capital, the adoption of the euro and the progressive harmonization...
Analysis of the development strategy of Societe Generale in Europe
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
In the area of financial services, achieving an integrated market for banks and financial conglomerates is a core component of the European policy. The banking market seems to remain mainly national, but the free movement of capital, the adoption of the euro and the progressive harmonization of...
Strategic management: Mercator Dolenjska
Essay - 18 pages - Management
In this case study for strategic management, we will analyse the company Mercator Dolenjska. The reason we do that is to look how the future of the company could look like, taking into account its advantages and disadvantages. For that we made an analysis of the company, it's internal and...
The SKF group
Case study - 115 pages - Business strategy
The SKF Group is the leading global supplier of products, customer solutions, and services in the business of rolling bearings and seals. SKF Group's main competencies include technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring and training. The Group also holds an increasingly...
How do companies maximize the return on corporate philanthropy? - publié le 27/07/2006
Essay - 36 pages - Business strategy
Corporate philanthropy has been common for the last 50 years. After the mid 1990's companies started to align their philanthropy programs with the business interests. This results in a convergence of social and economic objectives: strategic corporate philanthropy. But what is the return on the...
How do companies maximize the return on corporate philanthropy?
Essay - 36 pages - Business strategy
Corporate philanthropy has been a common phenomenon for the last 50 years. After the mid 1990s, companies began to increasingly align their philanthropic programs with their business interests. This resulted in a convergence of social and economic objectives, introducing the practice of strategic...
Fair Value Implications for the Asset Mix of a Pension Fund
Essay - 86 pages - Finance
Pension funds serve to collect and manage an amount of capital, sufficient to make all payments to which participants of the fund are entitled based on the pension plan. The Akzo Nobel Pension Fund (APF) is responsible for the provision of pensions for all employees of Akzo Nobel in the...
Fair Value Implications for the Asset Mix of a Pension Fund - publié le 27/07/2006
Essay - 86 pages - Finance
Pension funds serve to collect and manage an amount of capital, which is sufficient to make all payments to which participants of the fund are entitled, based on the pension plan they have chosen. The Akzo Nobel Pension Fund (APF) is responsible for the provision of pensions for all employees of...
