How culture affects the style of management in Mexico?
Case study - 28 pages - Management
How to deal with our new intercultural world? Is it possible to act in the same way with everybody? Should we try to adapt to each country to be successful? What would it involve for companies if it's not done? All these questions are current issues in the globalisation world. To do business with...
Can the development of online business activity weaken the influence of organizational culture?
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Organizational cultures have been a popular topic since the advent of the 1980s. At that time, the management literature began to popularise the claim that the ‘excellence' of an organization is seen in the ways by which its members have learned to act and behave. Using the label...
How firms use efficiency wages to raise employee productivity and how it explains wage stickiness in the labour market
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Some firms will attempt to increase their profits by improving their worker productivity by paying a wage that is above the wage paid by other competing firms. A well known example of the gains from this sort of wage setting is found in third world economies. At the market level wage, workers may...
Why do firms alter labour hours just before employment?
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The model of labour demand in terms of hours worked by employees assumes that firms instantly adjust their employment when the economic environment or business cycle changes. A firm looking to change the size of its work force will always find that it is costly to make spontaneous changes to its...
Technical Analysis Progress Report - Gold&Boys
Case study - 32 pages - Management
Inside the group, each person has the same "level? of importance. The three of us had a common objective in analysing as many stocks as possible. During the semester we analyzed between 30 to 50 stocks each. Concerning the decision-making, the stock was presented by the member who analyzed it for...
Technical Analysis Progress Report - The Lyon's Holding
Case study - 23 pages - Management
To start, we were always attracted to finance and more precisely to the stock market but we did not have the chance to study it in school. That is why we think it is interesting undertake a technical analysis to understand more about the market behavior. We choose to focus on four different...
Management and leadership II
Case study - 6 pages - Management
A chemist recently discovered an unsuspected highly toxic effluent, issued from the production of a new chemical product that the company dumps into the Mississippi which the actual filtration system completely fails to filter out. Let us find out the main alternatives to cope with the situation....
Daimler-Chrysler case study
Case study - 14 pages - Management
In the 1990s, competition in the car business industry increased dramatically. Companies tried to merge or acquire their competitors in order to remain competitive and strong enough not to be absorbed by other companies. This process is still prevalent today, and takes place in most of the...
Cross-cultural management
Case study - 15 pages - Management
In times of Globalization the role of foreign countries is more and more increasing. To be more competitive in the global market it is necessary to research international markets i.e. in order to increase growth opportunities, to reduce costs for production and distribution or to find new sales...
Intercultural management case study: cultural building insitutions in Iran
Case study - 15 pages - Management
Intercultural management case study: cultural building institutions in Iran: As future managers working in an international environment, we have to think about how to build relationships, especially at work, with colleagues from other cultures. Thanks to respect for the diversity, we must be...
Narcissist Leadership: Its traits and their impact on strategy implementation
Case study - 5 pages - Management
The mistakes that leaders make in the context of strategy implementation are often the result of a narcissistic behavior which denies the participation of subordinates in the strategic decision making. Narcissistic leadership refuses updating obsolete organizational knowledge, participating to...
Valuating transformation through net interest margin and asset-liability matching: The case of CFM
Case study - 9 pages - Management
Our thesis, entitled “Valuating transformation through net interest margin and asset-liability matching: the case of CFM”, proposes the optimization of the risk-adjusted performance of transformation thanks to interest risk management. The goal of our thesis is to evaluate the...
Your Art Gallery, project start-ups
Case study - 25 pages - Management
Everyone needs to work on evolving the environment in which he lives or works. It is the principle of our company, the "Your Art Gallery", to propose to you works of art, of artists of reputation as well as those less known. To find a work of art that suits particular needs, nothing is simpler...
Analysis of the Glissicon-Valley in the Southwest of France - the enforcement of a European competitiveness and the development of a Global excellence in Boardsports
Case study - 13 pages - Management
In our ?Innovation Systems and Regional Clusters' course, we had the opportunity to discover and study the field of innovation, and its patterns on international, national, regional and local levels. In this paper we will concentrate our attention on an interesting phenomenon taking place in...
Information system management: the Blackberry
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Information system management: the Blackberry The products of Blackberry consist of wireless solutions to provide e-mail and data bases wireless access. The company has targeted people, especially professionals (we will specifically talk about them in this work), and has access as an added...
The roles of a manager: A comparison between theory and business reality
Case study - 4 pages - Management
This practicum field project is the result of an interview conducted with the Investor Relations & Strategic Development Director of Citigroup in Athens, Greece.* The goal of this project is to compare the views of a prominent executive with the theoretical approach provided by famous scholars...
Characteristics of effective leadership A comparison between theory and business reality
Case study - 4 pages - Management
This practicum field project is the result of an interview conducted with the VP Corporate Communications in Alcatel-Lucent, Paris, France.* The goal of this project is to compare the views of a successful executive with the theoretical approach provided by several scholars about the...
International Management - Entering a new market: India or China? The case of Caroll
Case study - 22 pages - Management
International Management: Entering a new market; India or China? The case of Caroll: The fashion industry is one of the most profitable industries of the world, as well as one of the most competitive. Helped by the effects of globalization, clothing multinationals such as Nike, Gap, Zara or H&M...
Mary Kay Ash: the sustainable instinctive management (2007)
Case study - 9 pages - Management
Today, the notion of leadership has a fundamental significance in preserving sustainability, and acquiring this position embraces certain perspectives beyond conventional business management techniques. This research will strive to understand the 20th century innovative leader, Mary Kay Ash and...
Atendia Management: The Businnes Plan
Case study - 14 pages - Management
The objective of this business plan is, first to present our hedge fund start-up strategy and policy, then to obtain an authorization from the AMF, and finally to raise capital from investors. Our hedge fund, Atendia Management is a start-up. We plan to launch it on September 1st, 2008. We...
The Asian cosmetics market: The "Looks.com" case study - publié le 18/04/2008
Case study - 3 pages - Management
By the way of listing its products for sale on the website LOOKS.COM, a manufacturer will get various advantages, and also some disadvantages. Obviously, the aim for LOOKS.COM is that the advantages overcome the drawbacks, so that the manufacturer will be likely to list its products in that way....
Oracle Systems Corporation - publié le 17/04/2008
Case study - 5 pages - Management
In 1990, the CEO of Oracle Systems Corporation is facing increasing pressure from analysts about the aggressive revenue-recognition policy. As a result, the stock price is plumbed and the CEO is worried about the cost of new equity capital to finance future growth and the firm may become a...
The issue of delays in the delivery of the Airbus A380
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Since 2005, Airbus, one of the two world's biggest airplane manufacturers, has encountered huge delays in the delivery of the new model called A380 to its customers (see appendix 5), mainly passenger air carriers, across the world. This study analyses the characteristics of Airbus and the way it...
Fixed income analysis and risk management
Case study - 5 pages - Management
As the ten OAT have the same anniversary dates, in other words the different cash-flows are paid at the same dates (25-Apr-08, 25-Apr-09, 25-Apr-10,), then we used a direct method of calculation of the spot rates, through two steps. Using a polynomial interpolation, we can recover the yield...
Managerial accounting coursework: petvets ltd
Case study - 5 pages - Management
In the year 2000, a group of veterinary practitioners got together and formed a company called ?Petvets Ltd.' This Company is composed of fifteen separate practices in various locations and is mainly concentrated on the treatment of household pets. Further, this company has also established a...
Comparison of Canadian and US-American Management Methods
Case study - 5 pages - Management
The management methods and tools of the US (American) have always had a worldwide impact. It is to be noted that US management tools and techniques have had such a grave impact and influence on the European management behavior. To quote an example, high potentials of European companies have spent...
International professional experience, IPEX, Brant lake Camp, program ICCP YMCA
Case study - 15 pages - Management
From the 6th of June to the 24th of August I was working in Brant Lake Camp as a kitchen staff. Brant Lake Camp is located in New York's Adirondack State Park about four hours driving time north of New York City. Brant Lake Camp is located on a 6-mile long, crystal clear lake, nested in New...
Alpha Management
Case study - 12 pages - Management
For each individual manager, we have estimated the risk-adjusted performance. We have measured the returns for each manager and the risks taken by each of them owing to volatility, skewness and kurtosis, VaR and downside risk. Based on the above analysis we can see that three of the five managers...
A construction project: The Millau Viaduct
Case study - 23 pages - Management
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,...
New Venture Creation
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Starting a new business requires (for any entrepreneurs) time and efforts in preparing the launch of the business. These days' businesses should have a solid foundation in order to be the efficient and profitable. Entrepreneurs determine every characteristic of their projects and understand...
