Sri Lanka, economic analysis of an emerging country
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
With more than 21 million inhabitants, Sri Lanka is an emerging country, with high-growth rates during last years. The key economic forecasts are good, with a positive and moderate inflation. However, debt risks remain real with a current account negative since 2011 and which should be negative...
To what extent could European culture, and more specifically German culture, be an element of resistance to the Walmart model in Germany?
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Walmart, a global "supermarket giant", is an American company created in 1962. In the late 1990s, this company was the second-largest producer in the world, behind the oil company ExxonMobil. However, from 1991 and under the pressure of shareholders, Walmart developed its activities...
The Wetherspoon Company
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
JD Wetherspoon is a national chain of public houses, bars and hotels across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was founded in 1979 in Muswell Hill, North London. The document is a financial analysis based on the company. It answers several questions which include investment, profitability, and...
Tourism attractions in Paris
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
As the fifth most visited city in the world in 2016, Paris attracts people from all other the world. The 2.9 million of French and foreign tourists generated more than 160 billion euros in 2017, which represents 7.2% of the GDP. This sector is a real motor for the growth, as its revenues...
Managing hospitality and tourism projects - Guest complaint follow-up procedure in Aster restaurant (London)
Case study - 12 pages - Management
Project management is a temporary action with a beginning and an end, which mobilizes identified resources (human, material, equipment, raw materials, informational and financial) during its realization, which has a cost and is therefore the object of a budgeting of means and a balance sheet...
Event Management - Taste of London
Case study - 26 pages - Management
Taste of London is an annual culinary event with multilateral issues. Commercial, political, economic, and cultural, are all dimensions that characterize this event. Like the Anglo-Saxon culture, Taste of London is a multicultural event in which the world's cuisine is found, and not only...
Business strategy in hospitality and tourism - The Ritz-Carlton group
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
The Ritz-Carlton group is an international high standard hospitality group which benefits from a strong brand and is the symbol of lux palace. Its strategy so far consisted of a good implementation, especially in the United States, Europe and the Gulf. On a most recent period, implementation...
Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
The document consists of three assignments which depend on the paper. The first assignment is to discuss a paper written by Dirk Lindebaum, Deanna Geddes & Yannis Gabriel, under the title 'Moral Emotions and Ethics in Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue', published in the...
Acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
This paper presents and analyze the acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft is the result of a USD 26.2 billion merger operation which resulted in the acquisition of all the data but also all the human resources of LinkedIn by Microsoft.
Assess the Online sales of fresh products in China - The case study of fresh products application (Freshippo)
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
With the popularity of the internet and the development of e-business, an increasing number of consumers tend to shop online. Fresh agricultural products also need to grasp this opportunity as there is a large potential market on the internet.
Brexit Analysis
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
The UK has always had a tumultuous relationship with the European Union, seeds of Britain's dissent can be traced all the way back to the EEC the precursor to the modern-day EU. Following WWII EEC was set up with the intent of bolstering trade relationships within Europe based on the...
Change: Factors contributing to an individual's resistance
Essay - 5 pages - Human resources
In an ever-changing world, it is inevitable to experience change in everyday life. Change may occur in diverse ways (either planned or unplanned). One's ability to adapt to change goes a long way in influencing the impact it creates on the individual and/or the organization. One change that keeps...
Evaluating revenue optimization for a real estate enterprise using Airbnb in Paris
Thesis - 13 pages - Startup, entrepreneurship
BK Realty is an enterprise specialized in high quality property management, whose main field of interest is the operation, sale, renting, control and oversight of real estate. We act as brokers on behalf of our clients, attempting to find the easiest and most efficient solution for their needs....
Carrefour's logistics strategy
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
The term strategy comes from the Greek -statos-, having as meaning -army- with -agen- which means -to drive-, and then from the Italian -strategia-. It is usual to associate this term strategy with an exclusive approach undertaken by the General Management of any company. There are many, and...
Managing diversity-related interactions
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Managing diversity-related interactions could sometimes seem awkward or uncomfortable to a person who has never encountered these kinds of situations before, according to Ghillyer (2018). This case study will analyze three different scenarios depicting diversity-related interactions and the...
Knowledge management and decision making: Uber case study
Case study - 9 pages - Management
Decision-making is an intellectual process taking the assessment to a collection of a course of activities among dissimilarities. Making decision creates a last choice; therefore, in terms of recruitment and personnel selection the outcome is the successful applicant (Timar and Balas, 2007)....
Merger and acquisition - Buffett's bid for Media General's newspapers
Case study - 21 pages - Management
The U.S. Newspaper industry has faced, since the late 1980s, significant challenges due to competition of other source of news and information, and saw a progressive and constant decline of daily circulation. Media General Inc., a company that entered the newspaper business in 1850, is no...
International finance distribution of currency of AUD and USD
Worksheets - 4 pages - Finance
The distribution above conforms to the features of a normal distribution in terms of skewness, kurtosis, and tails. The mean-mode-median of the distribution is at the center. The mean is the arithmetic average of all the scores recorded, mode refers to the fact that the mean appears near the most...
New product report of SOOTHE Inc.
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
SOOTH Inc is an American company that is specialized in the massage therapy business. This new product management report indicates the extent to which this company can increase its profitability and gain a competitive advantage if it penetrates the new Markets of Asia, Middle East and Europe. Two...
Megacorp's Crane Manufacturing company (CMC) operations analysis
Essay - 7 pages - Business strategy
Megacorp's CMC manufactures cranes which can be used for different factory and process line operations in various factories. They manufacture small and large cranes which are able to hoist different rectangular containers. For fifty years, the company has been relatively successful in the...
Organizational behavior - Payment as motivation
Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy
Motivation, which can be defined as a psychological feature that drives an individual to act toward desirous goals, is a major topic of organizational behavior. With the increasing importance of work efficiency, more managers start to realize the existing issue of employee motivation. According...
Case analysis - Ust Inc. Debt Policy
Case study - 10 pages - Management
UST Inc. is the dominating smokeless tobacco company in the market with over 75% of market share and 90% of sales coming from their tobacco products. Their declining market share poses a problem for the company. As a premium and leading brand, the company ignored lower priced competitors. After...
The O.M. Scott & Sons Company - Financial analysis
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
From 1955 to 1961, the O.M. Scott and Sons Company experienced an exceptional growth in sales, stock price, and expansion. O.M. Scott and Sons (the company) increased sales by 231% from 1957 to 1961. The rapid growth can be explained by the company's management in expanding to new locations,...
Ford Motor Company versus Subaru of America
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
When asked the question, "Who are the most profitable corporations in the world?" Ideas that come to mind may be pharmaceutical companies, banks, oil manufacturers, airlines, software companies, real estate corporations, but what about automobile manufacturers? The automobile sector for the US is...
The price of the dream: subprime mortgages in the African-American community
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
Let us first say that the financial disaster which has just recently occurred has effected the entire world, regardless of race, color, or creed. It is perhaps a testament to the new levels of equality and interconnectedness that what may have started out primarily among certain populations can...
Financial anomalies and behavioral finance
Presentation - 25 pages - Finance
A market in which prices of all securities quickly and fully reflects all available information. OR The market operating on the hypothesis known as Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) that states the securities markets are efficient with the prices of securities reflecting their economic value.
The subprime loan crisis
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
There is always debate during an election year whether there is too much or too little government intervention in the social or economic realm, but whatever a person's personal beliefs are, the truth is that government regulation is a fact of life. The topic of this paper is the role that the...
Corporate governance, ethics, and success in business
Essay - 2 pages - Management
When seeking to define exactly what corporate governance is, it is likely that an individual will come across a number of terms and ideas all in a single sentence. For example, one website defines it as "a term that refers broadly to the rules, processes, or laws by which businesses are operated,...
The importance of planning in business management
Business plan - 3 pages - Management
Within any large or small organization, planning is usually an essential step towards ensuring that organization's long-term success. There is a famous saying that suggests the importance of planning: "When you fail to plan, you plan to fail". In other words, planning, especially formal planning,...
The success and strategy of Dell Computer
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
Dell Computer, founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, has experienced major international growth in recent years, and it continues to expand. The business model of the company is unique in that it was the first company to build computers and sell them directly to consumers, cutting away the middleman....
