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...
The merger/acquisition of Air France-KLM
Thesis - 30 pages - Business strategy
The merger responds to a careful consideration of development opportunities. It must be justified by the creation of value. Air France and KLM agreed to merge in order to make a synergy primarily economic in nature. Indeed, the synergies in economy, business, by increasing their sizes, including...
Case study of intercultural management: Lenovo
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Lenovo is an innovative international technology company, based in the Chinese cultural environment. It was born from the acquisition of the IBM Personal Computing Division by the Lenovo Group. Today, Lenovo is headquartered in Purchase (NY), and its main activities are directed from Beijing,...
Strategic analysis of Renault
Case study - 20 pages - Business strategy
Renault is a globally renowned automobile group and car maker present in 118 countries with approximately 130,000 employees. The Renault group achieved a turnover of almost 41 million euros in 2007. The Company Renault Freres was created in 1898 by three brothers Louis, Marcel and Fernand. Marcel...
SABMiller: Strategy behind the success in a hostile environment
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
There are very few South African companies that can boast of a history of 100 years. Despite this situation, SABMiller crossed the twentieth century in a country whose political system has a disastrous influence on the development of the local companies. The strategy carried out by SAB enabled...
The secret behind the success of Michelin Tyres
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Michelin has been the market leader for tyres. Michelin equips vehicles like cars, motorcycles, aircrafts, etc. with tyres. Michelin also brings solutions for each different usage of tyres, which allows the vehicle to give optimum performance. The company constantly innovates in order to...
Strategic analysis - Study of the case Lafuma
Case study - 32 pages - Business strategy
In 1930, three brothers, Victor, Alfred and Gabriel Lafuma, each one more enterprising than the other, launched a compnay, based on their skills as tanners and saddlers, to manufacture and market all types of bags including back-packs, and and they named their company Lafuma. In 1936 the...
The Algerian company vis-a-vis the stakes of universalization
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Algerian companies often make the headlines of some national dailies and receive rave reviews because of the registration of their quality management system ISO 9001: 2000. From a strictly marketing standpoint, it is a good move for the company. However, it will pay close attention to comments...
Analysis of Porter's Five Forces
Case study - 2 pages - Services marketing
This document summarizes three marketing strategies, namely: cost leadership, differentiation and focus. Here is an excerpt regarding them: "Cost leadership is to impose more or less expensive prices than its competitors. The goal here is to reduce the cost incurred by the product, improving the...
Business of the information systems
Course material - 9 pages - Computer science
Internet, databases, networks, telecommunications, e-commerce, multimedia are all associated with the conduct of business. They prove the pervasiveness of information technology in the functioning of organizations. At a time when technological progress accompanies intense competition, management...
Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard
Thesis - 13 pages - Management
In 1993, Chemical Bank and Hanover Corporation concluded a merging process. The new larger banking company was better-positioned to compete with other major players in the market. Michael Hegarty, the head of the Retail Bank Division of Chemical Banking Corporation, wanted to transform the bank...
Michael Hammer's guide for management
Book review - 10 pages - Management
Michael Hammer, a researcher at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of the leading world specialists in business management theory. As a teacher and researcher, he also works with management teams of several large global companies and helps them anticipate fundamental...
Eight conditions to become a good manager/coach
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Although workplaces and management styles have changed dramatically in recent decades, the old attitudes of command and control management are still dominant in many companies. This management approach means that managers must tell employees exactly what to do, when to do and how to do the tasks....
Compensation: scales and seniority with the example of Randstad of Belgium
Case study - 4 pages - Human resources
Belgium has now banned the age criterion for wage scales. Tens of thousands of employers are under transition. Randstad had taken this step ten years ago. Not because Europe compelled it, but because it was an advantage for its own activities. The company specializes in advising temporary...
Analysis of the results of the Volkswagen automobile Company
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
The automaker Volkswagen's range of activities includes the design, manufacturing and marketing of automobiles. This division includes the brands Volkswagen, Bentley, Lamborghini, Scania, Audi, Skoda, Seat and Bugatti. The finance division is a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group and Volkswagen...
The current financial crisis compared with the 1929 crisis
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
The growing number of newspapers and magazines citing similarities between the 1929 crisis and the current crisis raises questions about the relevance of these comparisons. Since the 1930s, the world has experienced other crises, but the magnitude that one is now experiencing, explains the key...
Analysis of team charter
Essay - 2 pages - Business strategy
Groupthink is essential to productivity in the workplace. By implementing workgroups or a team building conducive atmosphere, the simple brainstorming one person would do on his own can blossom into new, innovative ideas that can be achieved only by working together. When a team is first...
Informational presentation on Dracunculus medinensis
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
Imagine that, one day, you develop a blister on your foot. After a few more days, the blister bursts, causing excruciating pain. You are unable to walk on the foot. The lesion persists for more than a month before finally going away, and the pain finally subsides. A few months later, a similar...
Which extension is possible for Europe and and with what consequences?
Thesis - 18 pages - Economy general
"A day will come when all the nations of the continent will merge strictly in a superior unity and will constitute the European brotherhood" it will have been necessary more than a century so that this premonitory speech of Victor Hugo pronounced in 1849, pass from utopia to the reality. The...
Analysis of the Zara company
Case study - 15 pages - Services marketing
Dismantling of trade barriers: Socio-cultural trend: The consumer demand for branded goods at low prices. Today, we must consider the fact that more people are sensitive to fashion trends. Environmental trend:Today the focus on environmental pollution is steadily increasing with depth research to...
AXA Group - An Analysis on the 9th largest financial provider in the world, its acquisitions and Global Operations
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
"The Global Financial provider provides financial services throughout the world. It deals in various forms of insurance like life, health, etc. It also provides investment management solutions. Strictly speaking, the company operates in five departments. They are Life & Savings, Property &...
Are company stress management programs effective?
Case study - 16 pages - Psychology
France has very specific characteristics on stress at work,problems such as suicide are much more frequent than elsewhere. Ironically, France is a country where firms are trying to reduce stress problems. The French case is a good example to study in the current context.The question is:what firms...
To what extent can Britain's relatively slow industrial growth between 1870 and 1914 be blamed on the failings of entrepreneurs?
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
In the late 19th century Great Britain was still one of the world's leading and growing economies. The Great British economy was mature with a relatively small agricultural sector and a large service sector. However, historians have often debated the reason as to why such an advanced economy was...
Using examples identify and assess why it can be difficult for the multinational firm to behave ethically
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Over the last half decade, businesses have evolved tremendously. Their productivity has improved, new production areas have appeared, borders between countries have opened up and with this, new problems have also arisen. As companies grow in size and importance, so does the criticism and...
Employers access to employee's emails, Ethical or Not?
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
The arrival of new technology has raised a number of new issues for managers and leaders. One of these concerns is the surveillance of employees to check for disciplinary infringements. During recent years, employers all over the world have implemented a number of programs and initiatives...
Analysis of an ecologically sustainable development
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
An Ecologically sustainable development is a development that uses, conserves, and enhances “the community's resources so that ecological processes on which life depends are maintained, and the total quality of life, now and in the future, can be increased” (Cwth of Australia, 1992)....
Case study: Vestas vs. Gamesa
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Interpretation: In order to benchmark Vestas and Gamesa the report starts with a brief description of the companies' business model and value proposition. In addition, the 2 companies are compared form a financial point of view by analysing strategies, productivity, profit, risk, but also...
Embracing corporate diversity
Case study - 2 pages - Management
While employees should accept diversity regardless of race percentages, and continue to be productive; managers must also embrace diversity in order to lead effectively. Why? For one, understanding diversity helps prevent division among co-workers. Two, it helps avoid liabilities stemming from...
How information systems act as agents of change
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
In many organizations, employee- employer relationships are critical components which ought to be natured and subsequently stressed. Indeed a wide body of knowledge point to the fact that such a cordial relationship is not only a boon to the employer but also to the employee. In this case the...
The social process of joining an organization
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The standard perception of ‘The social process of joining an organization' studies the behavior of an individual, the relationship within groups, how the public develops and interacts. Moreover, how these relations can change their behavior within a business. Frederick Taylor (1911) believed...
