The corporate culture
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Today, companies need to create and develop their corporate culture to transmit an image and identity. It permits to build a stimulant and attractive environment in the company and the employees feel the affiliation to a group. In this way, firms are more effective, productive, efficient and...
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...
Risk Management: Analysing exposure to risk and determining how to best handle this exposure
Template letter - 14 pages - Management
Risk Management involves analyzing exposure to risk and determining how to best handle this exposure. The DV01 is a measure used to describe how a basis point change in yield can affects the price of a bond. It is also known as the "price value of a basis point"(PVBP). In fact, the DV01...
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...
How do we allocate time to manage risk ? - 'Resource Response Time'
Essay - 25 pages - Management
How do we allocate time to manage risk? Risk management began in companies through the evaluation of insurance. It has evolved through time, evolved till it emerged as what is now called Enterprise Risk Management. This is now described as a real competitive advantage for a company to handle its...
Could training and education help people to become innovative and entrepreneurial?
Essay - 2 pages - Management
Can training and education help people to become innovative and entrepreneurial? The topic on which I have been instructed to expound, is "training and education could help people to become innovative and entrepreneurial". However, before agreeing with the sentence, I am going to discuss it in...
Tim Costello - Self made millionaire
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Tim Costello is the owner, founder and creator of the business ?Baby Elegance', which is the only Irish manufacturer of baby clothes and accessories. I consider Tim Costello an entrepreneur for many reasons. The first reason is as an obvious one, as I have already stated that he is the...
"The seven habits of highly effective people" by Stephen R. Covey: a summary
Book review - 2 pages - Management
Among the seven habits that are supposed to help a person achieve true interdependent "effectiveness", I have chosen to highlight three that are of interest to me as a sales manager: - Being proactive and acting or re-acting on things in a responsible way, in contrast with being reactive and...
Cultural Misunderstandings, The French- American experience
Book review - 18 pages - Management
The French-American Experience was originally published as Evidences invisibles in French in 1987. Since 1988, It has been published by The University of Chicago Press in english. This book was written by Raymonde Carroll and translated by Carol Volk. Its aim is to show us the differences between...
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...
Managing Ethics
Essay - 14 pages - Management
Consumers growing societal and ethical concern has lead them to primarily focus on a company's social performance, when deciding which one to favour with their spending. Managers, of a growing number of western large scale organizations are aware of this consumer position towards their...
Corporate Social Responsibility How far should it go?
Essay - 16 pages - Management
Corporate Social Responsability, how far should it go? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is 'the policy and practice of a corporation social involvement beyond its legal obligations for the benefit of the society at large'. CSR aims to make any negative impact small or non existent,...
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....
Profile of Mrs Sofia Augousta - A South African woman leader
Essay - 12 pages - Management
M other of two children, Mrs. Sofia Augousta (Sofia) is working in the top management of a family business in Bloemfontein (South Africa): DMN Family Trust, well known under the name N. Georgiou Business Consultants. Because people see her like a “housewife”, she is glowing with energy...
Military Efforts to Meet Soldiers Needs Faster
Essay - 5 pages - Management
The following essay compares the Lean Six Sigma and Uniformed Army Scientists and Engineers (UAS&E) transformation efforts of the United States military. This analysis will identify key factors which led to the transformation as well as, policies which were enacted in order to effect this...
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...
Human Resource Development in the Law Enforcement Field
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Law enforcement is a unique field which is highly dependent on human resource development (HRD) but is often times lacking in individual training and support. Regardless of the type of law enforcement officer (LEO), individuals in this field take numerous risks and may witness disturbing actions...
Security versus privacy information technologies: is Big Brother watching us?
Thesis - 69 pages - Management
The emergence of Information Systems brought about some problems linked to the notion of privacy. If the computerization of data was generally considered to be a progress, it was sometimes accompanied by fright, or even by fantasies nourished by Big Brother, about possibility for other people or...
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...
Corporate strategy and the role of HRM
Essay - 15 pages - Management
Throughout “The Thirty Glorious Ones”, HRM started adapting to strategies. Indeed, this period is defined by a spectacular economic growth in which products are uniform and in which customer's needs are the last preoccupations of companies. Thus, the Taylor-Ford model finds in this...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act - publié le 12/04/2008
Essay - 3 pages - Management
On July 30, 2002, President Bush signed into law a revolutionary Act: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act. In the wake of many financial scandals, this law establishes new accounting and control requirements on U.S. publicly owned...
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...
Creative tension in learning organizations and the role of leadership
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Learning organizations develop and sustain an environment, which stimulates the power of learning in all organizational members, allowing organizational flexibility and adaptability. Successful organizations use the power of learning in order to produce the maximum benefit for the organization,...
Why and how building multicultural team in a multinational company?
Thesis - 30 pages - Management
Today, globalization has increasingly become a watchword by which companies swear by and they accordingly install subsidiaries on foreign markets and relocate resources. An important issue in this process is the question of intercultural management and human resources within the global...
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...
Are the French rail strikes ethical?
Essay - 11 pages - Management
What are ethics? The definition of the dictionary is the following: “a set of principles of right conduct”. It is linked to morality too. We can find this concept in a lot of aspects of life. It touches the social environment. A good person is someone who follows an ethical and moral...
Construction and management of a portfolio
Practical guide - 6 pages - Management
The objective of the essay is, to construct and manage an equity portfolio that delivers an annualized return of at least 15%. As part of a UK-based fund management, to avoid international interest rate risks, I will only invest in companies quoted in GBP. I decided not to invest in bonds as the...
