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?
Dissertation - 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?
Dissertation - 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...
International professional experience, IPEX, Brant lake Camp, program ICCP YMCA
Case study - 15 pages - Management
From the 6th of June to the 24th of August I was working in Brant Lake Camp as a kitchen staff. Brant Lake Camp is located in New York's Adirondack State Park about four hours driving time north of New York City. Brant Lake Camp is located on a 6-mile long, crystal clear lake, nested in New...
Beta Management
Course material - 19 pages - Management
The first step of a core-satellite approach is the beta management i.e the strategic asset allocation decision. The goal is to implement a quantitative process for the management of the European equity portion of portfolio. To design the efficient benchmark, we have used the static approach (risk...
Alpha Management
Case study - 12 pages - Management
For each individual manager, we have estimated the risk-adjusted performance. We have measured the returns for each manager and the risks taken by each of them owing to volatility, skewness and kurtosis, VaR and downside risk. Based on the above analysis we can see that three of the five managers...
A construction project: The Millau Viaduct
Case study - 23 pages - Management
The project of a viaduct over the Tarn Valley and the city of Millau in Southern France was a major issue for many years among the French population and the Ministry of Transport. It aimed at providing a solution for the severe traffic jam that occurred every summer, and its by-product,...
Corporate entrepreneurship as a winning strategy
Essay - 13 pages - Management
To survive and to enable continued growth in today's fast changing environment, large corporations need to continually renew themselves through new products and new businesses. In some instances this involves dealing with advanced technology. To illustrate this adaptation, I chose as an example...
Corporate culture
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Culture appears for many managers as a quite simple deal: it corresponds to what the company stands for, its “identity”, being widespread in the organization, easy to manipulate and to embed, a tool for making all the stakeholders going in the same direction. It's labeled the...
New Venture Creation
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Starting a new business requires (for any entrepreneurs) time and efforts in preparing the launch of the business. These days' businesses should have a solid foundation in order to be the efficient and profitable. Entrepreneurs determine every characteristic of their projects and understand...
Information System Management: M-System
Case study - 11 pages - Management
M-System is an Israeli based company founded in 1989 and has for core business in the production of Innovative Data Storage products based on Flash memory for embedded systems, mobile computers, ruggedized applications and Telecommunications. Since 1989, M-systems is the leader and the innovator...
Culture Shock (Case study)
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Moving to a new country is not as simple as it might seem. In a world where it has never been so easy to move from a country to another, it is important to understand the parameters that can interfere with our original culture, values, beliefs and customs. Quite a few authors had already tried to...
Leadership: Jack Welch, CEO of GE (1981-2001)
Essay - 13 pages - Management
The last decade has witnessed the rise of some very charismatic leaders. One of them, Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric (GE) from 1981 to 2001, was among the most admired and respected leaders. Named in 1999 by the Fortune magazine as ‘Manager of the century', Jack Welch was more than a...
Valuing Common Stock (Case study)
Case study - 8 pages - Management
The valuation of common stock has been a subject of broad interest for more than a century. If you buy a stock with an increasing trend, you will make profit. There is an obvious approach to buy stocks that can help you make money. Identify stocks that are undervalued. Then, buy these stocks...
Management: Apple Inc.
Case study - 12 pages - Management
Apple is one of the most renowned names in the history of PC industry. It has pioneered the direction for innovative products in contrasts to its competitors in the industry these days. Apple has had a history of both dominance and irrelevance in the computer industry, excessively marked with ups...
International management: McDonald's
Case study - 15 pages - Management
McDonald's is a multinational company present in 121 countries. The company owns more than 30,000 franchises of fast food restaurants. The company also heads other brands of restaurants, as “Aroma Café,” “Boston Market,” “Chipotle Mexican Grill,” “Donatos...
