Patagonia's Corporate Policy
Case study - 5 pages - Corporate social responsibility
The increased scrutiny of contemporary corporations by financial and social spheres calls for a balance between profits and responsibility for the welfare of the community and the environment. In particular, Patagonia, which is one of the leaders among the companies in that field, could be called...
Human resources: New vistas & challenges
Dissertation - 54 pages - Human resources
Human capital is not about describing people as economic units; rather it is a way of viewing people as critical contributors to an organization's success. It can be measured and managed more effectively in coming times as and when the human resource functions evolve with emerging trends in HR....
Validating Energy-Oriented CGE Models - Jayson Beckman, Thomas Hertel and Wallace Tyner (2011) - Book analysis
Book review - 3 pages - Economy general
The CGE approach constitutes an open framework for linkages to models from other disciplines, thereby accommodating the integrated assessment of sustainability issues.
Language and Me
Presentation - 4 pages - Linguistics & languages
As Michel Serres said, « Our bodies listen, shout and remember. » Without the exchange of energy and information, no organism - bacteria, algae, fungi, plants or animals - would survive. Before becoming human, communication characterizes living organisms as open systems: cells communicate with...
Corporate finance: Opening a retail music store
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
Friends Jane and Elizabeth have decided to open up a retail music store. They will open up a store in a large shopping mall, purchase CDs from the large music distributors, and resell them to the public. Their first decision is to determine if they can profit from this venture, therefore they...
Apple case study - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
Apple's designs are, well, elegant. There is no better word for it. Sony and Toshiba can come close at times, but, on average, Apple has the best designed hardware from an aesthetic's point of view of any vendor. It is amazing that, after several years, no one has been able to design a...
Intercultural management: Mc Donald's case
Case study - 9 pages - Management
The McDonald's company is a multinational firm well known in the world. The main activity of the company is to sell food quickly, what we call fast food. Nowadays, it has more than 30,000 franchises under the McDonald's brand, located in more than 120 countries. Born in the United States...
How do the French and Chinese negotiators process their thoughts in negotiation? Do different thought processes result in different opinions and solutions?
Essay - 13 pages - Management
In the context of globalization, models of businesses and management tend to be similar across the globe. Import-export is increasing everyday; for business purpose, people are flying from western to eastern countries and eastern to western countries all the time. However, some cross cultural...
Establishment of the "Easy Hotel"in Madrid
Case study - 19 pages - Services marketing
EasyHotel is a chain of ‘no frills' hotels run by the privately held conglomerate EasyGroup. We chose to base our research on such a hotel chain as we feel the low cost concept hospitality sector is an important growing sector. EasyHotel is a novel and exclusive concept; we have all been...
Spaces and Exchanges - To What Extent is Leaving One's Country an Enriching Experience?
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
I'm going to talk about the notion of Spaces and Exchanges. All societies are defined by geographical and symbolic spaces and how they open up these spaces to what lies farther away. The notion refers to all the movements and communications between different countries through culture,...
The development of teaching Nicolas
Internship report - 15 pages - Business strategy
The entry of Great Britain in the European Union in 1973 started the opening of the market of wine to a larger audience. This product became in a few years, a product of great consumption in England. It is on this report that the Castel group decides to make open stores in London. But the...
ELB International Trading & Sourcing Company, China June/ July 2008
Internship report - 14 pages - International marketing
China, 'The monster', 'The dragon of Asia', many names can define the perfectly economic, demographic, and geopolitic weight of this country in the world. Newly on the front of the international media stage due to the Olympic Games, China also speaks about it's economic...
Business Ethics: Dior
Internship report - 10 pages - Business strategy
Christian Dior was founded in 1905 in Normandy. In 1946, Dior opened his legendary home at 30 Avenue Montaigne. In February 1947, Dior launched his first collection called Corolle, where women were drawn like flowers. It was the beginning of the success story. Every fashion book said that the...
The British Council (2009-2010)
Internship report - 7 pages - Business strategy
My school HEM (High Establishment of Management) organized a special training that is scheduled in the middle of the academic year during 6 weeks for its student's, by choosing one of the institutes within or outside our country specialized in teaching English as a language that it's used in many...
SWOT Analysis - Veolia
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The core business of Veolia is of course the distribution of drinking water. The company offered various services in the area of water that flowed from this craft. With the acquisitions of competitors and suppliers (horizontal strategy), the company has consolidated its position in the water...
Free Software in the Bank of Brazil: Case study
Case study - 5 pages - Finance
The Bank of Brazil in accordance with the Migration Project of the Federal Government, migrated your old proprietary system to the open source system. Mainly aimed at savings hardware, computers were becoming obsolete for use with proprietary software and would be destroyed and part of his pieces...
Critical Analysis- The writings of esteemed national Bahamian
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The article talks primarily about the dissertation of roles by agencies in the Bahamas. The agencies have taken into deceitful ways of performing-or creating the illusion of performing- the mandates for which they were formed. It also points out how the Bahamian society in itself has also veered...
Crowdsourcing - Hypothetical Designs
Case study - 2 pages - Management
A popular, large-scale data processing technique that has been extensively utilized in recent times for tasks that need directhuman input is crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing, according to Howe and Robinson (2006), refers to a novel online business model and problem-solving technique that utilizes the...
Conflict between Israel and Palestine
Case study - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The conflicts between Jews and Arabs are wells published. These conflicts have historical roots and seem to never end. Though there have been efforts to mediate between the two parties, these efforts have often produced limited results and after a short duration of peace, the conflict reemerges....
Dunkin Donuts - Marketing Arrangement
Case study - 2 pages - Services marketing
Dunkin Donuts is an American franchise that was established in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts (ROSENBLOOM, 2013). The brand was initially best known for donuts, hence the presence of the term ‘donuts' in the franchise's title. William Rosenberg, the founder of the franchise, opened his first...
Unit and Standards That Students Are Expected To Meet In Education
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
It is simple for learners to get disappointed in a class of blended capability. Stronger students may feel kept down weaker people may feel compelled. The instructor may feel focused. The best answer for this is to have an open-class talk about the classroom circumstance - to guarantee the best...
Business Plan for a Coffee Shop in Morocco - Agora Coffee Shop
Business plan - 7 pages - Business strategy
The business we propose is called 'AGORA Coffee Shop'. In our opinion, a coffee shop is not only a place of entertainment, it can also be a crossroad where people (students, professors, professionals, ...) can share ideas or debate on actual phenomenons. Therefore, inside the coffee we...
SWOT Analysis - Total
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
The Total group was founded in 1924, and it is one of the six largest companies in the petroleum sector in the world. Its main competitors are British Petroleum (BP), Chevron, Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips and Shell. The energy market has changed significantly in recent years. Indeed, Europe has...
The Sikh rites
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Sikhism dogma is centered on the reading of the Adi Grant ("First Book") which are compiled the teachings of Nanak and his successors. It was begun by Guru Arjan in 1604 and completed by Guru Govind Singh in 1705. This concludes the revelation. This is a compilation of about 15,575 divided into...
Economic analysis of Singapore
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
A highly developed and free market condition is prevalent in the economy of Singapore. Detailed economic analysis done on the Singapore economy indicated that the open and corruption free market condition with stable prices prevail in the economy of Singapore. Export of consumer electronics,...
The concepts of accelerated learning and mind-body enhancements
Case study - 34 pages - Psychology
How did Bulgarian Ivan Barzakov bring the roots of Superlearning to America? Answer: Ivan Barzakov wanted to escape the yoke of the Communist oppression in Bulgaria and go to America. This entailed swimming for seven miles in the open, cold, shark-infested waters of the Adriatic sea and onto the...
The evolution of communist China from 1921
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
China has always been a vast and powerful empire, but when the 20th century opens, this country is only a shadow of itself. The first half of the 20th century placed China under foreign domination and civil wars, leading to growing discontent among the population which configured the country for...
The importance of Siegried Sassoon's letter in 'Regeneration', by Pat Barker
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
First of all it's important to know that this letter has actually been written by the real Sassoon. He was a poet and even if his first poems were kind of romantic, he is mostly famous for his poems about war. In these war poems, he describes the horror and the barbarism of war with gruesome...
Analysing suspense sequences - Blackout and It Follows
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Film studies
Blackout is set within a medium-sized apartment, with the main locations we see being the bedroom, the kitchen, and a storage room. The bedroom is small, the bed in the middle with a small amount of space on either side. Bedside table with a lamp, some books and a framed photo of a person. The...
Comparison of Generalized Linear Models and Machine Learning Techniques in Context of Motor Insurance
Thesis - 50 pages - Finance
The concept of insurance finds its roots back to the Antiquity period (2,500 years BC) among the Babylonian civilization where the first insurance transaction has been observed in the form of a loan. As carved in the code of Hammurabi, a bottomry or a bottomage represents an arrangement between a...
