Immigrants and the development of small-scale market production
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The Santa Catarina historiography describes the process of occupation of the western part of the state as a result of the signing of the "limits of agreement between the Paraná and Santa Catarina" in 1916 and the completion of the stretch of railroad São Paulo-Rio Grande (Cabral, 1970). The...
The analysis of the link between posttraumatic stress disorder, stress-induced cortisol production, and heart disease
Case study - 5 pages - Medical studies
A number of links between posttraumatic stress disorder, cortisol, and heart disease have been established, although the final synthesis has yet to be developed. The pure correlation between heart disease and posttraumatic stress disorder has become a standard conclusion. Recent studies have...
Microeconomics, main concepts for an economy study: capital formation, production, consumption, employment, credit multiplier, money demand, money supply, prime rate, Keynesian transmission mechanism, exports, imports and government expenditures
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Financial investment and interest rates have a positive relationship. Financial investment represents investment in bonds or shares or money saving in the bank. If the interest rate increases, the return of investment will be better. You will get more return on shares (or bonds) and earn more...
Comparison between traditional products and ULIPS in ICICI
Case study - 90 pages - Finance
With the largest number of life insurance policies in force in the world, insurance happens to be a mega opportunity in India. It's a business growing at the rate of 15-20 per cent annually and presently is of the order of Rs 450 billion. Together with banking services, it adds about 7percent to...
Business Cycles Analysis; The outlook for real GDP growth
Essay - 35 pages - Economy general
Nowadays, the real GDP growth seems to be the prevailing worry for every economy. We are going to analyze real GDP growth and employment in France in 2006-2007, in the context of the international economy. Our overall objective is to understand and to interpret growth forecasts for...
Major trends in the domestic mid - sized car industry in India
Dissertation - 38 pages - Business strategy
The global automobile industry is undergoing dramatic change in recent times. There has been enormous consolidation, both amongst vehicle manufacturers and component vendors to achieve economies of scale product synergies and strong and presence. By contrast, there has been little or no...
Analysis of LG products in rural marketing
Tutorials/exercises - 36 pages - Services marketing
After the liberalization policy introduced by the Indian Government, a number of Multinational Corporation(MNC) came into India. Among the major companies, which decided to spread its tentacle in India, LG was the leading one. The year 1997-98 has been characterized a stiff competition period,...
Consumer ethnocentrism and attitudes towards domestic and foreign markets
Thesis - 3 pages - Services marketing
We had asked a specialized group to read an article titled: “Consumer ethnocentrism and attitudes towards domestic and foreign markets” written by John J. Watson and Katrina Wright and summarize it later. The basis of this case study was to investigate the relationship between...
The productive forces of United States of America
Thesis - 32 pages - Economy general
The GNP of United States is the highest in the world, at $10,946 billion in 2004, substantially higher than the EU-25 ($9449 billion, including $1523 billion for France) and two and a half times higher that of Japan ($4390 billion). The GNP per capita remains the fourth highest in the world, with...
Domestic Violence - published: 03/09/2013
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Domestic violence is a serious problem that can occur to any person despite maturity, ethnicity, age, male, or female. Domestic violence dramatically affects the victim and the families of the victim, coupled with society. The account of domestic violence has left a...
Sales and distribution of the products of Hyundai and Tata Motors
Dissertation - 28 pages - Services marketing
The automotive industry is an extremely reliable indicator of economic growth; quite obviously, its growth boosts the economy's performance. The automobile industry grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22 per cent between 1992 and 1997, industry that was licensed, controlled and...
Marketing plan for Caudalie products in Saudi Arabia
Case study - 55 pages - Services marketing
Caudalie, founded in 1993 by two people: Mathilde Bernard Thomas and Professor Vercauteren, features products made from grape pips (from wine producer: Laffite), which are considered to be highly beneficial for the skin. Two years later, the duo launched their first range of...
How did the rise of mass production transform the role of the United States in the international political economy?
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
The early twentieth century saw one of the most dramatic shifts of power noted in the studies of international political economy. Preceding and throughout the Great Wars, the United States of America underwent such dramatic and influential changes in its domestic industries that it not...
Human rights and domestic violence
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Human Rights Watch has estimated that 12,000 women a year die in Russia because of domestic violence; Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reports close to 80% of women experience domestic violence; 49,280 rapes were reported in South Africa in 1998; and the CDC estimates at least...
Business plan on exporting redgreen (Danish chic sportswear products) to Brazil
Business plan - 7 pages - Business strategy
Brazil has become one of the most promising emerging countries besides China and India and counts a very large population, whereby extreme poverty and extreme wealth coexist. In this context Redgreen, a Danish company specializing in high end and high quality sportswear outfits considers...
How do you determine the "right price" for tourism products?
Case study - 29 pages - Business strategy
The tourism industry currently is a rapidly changing sector. I saw it last year when I worked for a small tour operator in South Africa, African Eagle. Although the organization was quite small and rather upscale, we were looking for providers on a daily basis who offered their services at the...
The presidency: Where foreign policy and domestic politics collide
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Political scientists have long sought to discover where the foreign and the domestic spheres of the presidency connect. Presidents, it is assumed, must balance military needs with political needs, whether those political needs entail gaining domestic support for the president's...
Domestic Violence
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Domestic and intimate violence is a subject with deep historical roots. It is only recently, however, that an understanding of how much abuse actually takes place has been uncovered. According a report by Huang and Gunn, “The National Violence against Women Prevention Center (NVAA)...
Experiences of and responses to domestic violence
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Domestic violence is a complex and problematic matter, one that poses many questions for the criminal justice system, victims, perpetrators, and enforcers and creators of policy. “Compared to other victims of violent crimes, victims of domestic violence can moreover face...
Examining how reducing America's presence in the international community could benefit the process of globalization and the domestic development of the United States
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The process of globalization is one that has carried with it a high price for the United States. While the US has been able to extend its overall reach into the international community, not all countries in the international community have been receptive of America's presence. The United States...
The response of the Republican administrations of the 1950s and the Democrat administrations of the 1960s to the domestic problems they faced
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
Burning bras, rebel “teenagers”, rioting black Americans, burning cities, angry students and happy hippies are only a few amidst a veritable panoply of symbols of an exploding and ebullient young America struggling to find itself throughout the vibrant fifties and sixties, an era of...
How US domestic policy influenced the Cuban missile crisis?
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
It is a well known fact that United States and Soviet Union came close to nuclear war due to the Cuban Missile Crisis. President John Kennedy's diplomatic efforts helped to resolve the crisis in the peaceful manner for which he received international acclaim. President Kennedy's popularity soared...
Europeanization of politics and society: Domestic change and the question of a European Social Model
Essay - 5 pages - European union
Europeanization is an elusive concept because of the variety of meanings it refers to. Scholars such as Featherstone (2003, 6-12) often distinguish several usages according to various outcomes of European change, for instance the emergence of new forms of governance or the process of national...
The market of the organic products in Germany
Market study - 14 pages - Services marketing
Germany is the largest European market with 30% of the total European market in 2005 and is the second in the world behind the U.S., for organic products. Organic products accounted for a turnover of 4 billion euros or 2.9% of food consumption in 2005, which is an increase of 1.7...
How and to what extent do domestic factors affect the nature of U.S. relations with other democratic states?
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
The manifestation of the American hegemony since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 has created a new pattern for international relations in which the United States is the ‘hyper power' everyone has to take into consideration before acting. France, once one...
Strategy of Apple's new product of IPAD
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
For many people the ipad is a UFO in the hi-tech market. If we account for all those interested in this product, it is undoubtedly the United States whose output has made the most noise. The initial feedback was both positive and negative. Indeed, in launching its digital tablet, Apple...
The growth of organic products in the United States and in China
Market study - 8 pages - Services marketing
An organic product is a product of organic farming, i.e. it claims the total non-use of chemicals. It must contain at least 95% ingredients from an organic production method by implementing agricultural practices and friendly livestock and natural balance of environment and animal...
The product life cycle
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
The Product Life Cycle is a cycle in which every product goes through at different rates over a period of time. I believe that this theory is still relevant today as it helps the business to make key decisions based on where each product is on the stages of the life cycle....
Review the process for development of new products. Analyze why most new products fail. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Mullins and Walker (2010) state that greater attention must be given to new products and one of reasons why so many products fail is because not enough people want to buy them (p. 265). For this reason, there are systems in place to analyze ideas before proceeding to production. As...
Collaborative product development in the context of product life cycle management
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
Enterprises across the globe engaged in product design and manufacturing are experiencing pressures as never before. Forward looking companies are actively pursuing the 4th dimension of success that is ‘Innovation' and adopting fast, collaborative product development technology...
