The virtual Stock Exchange with Bull Shark
Case study - 20 pages - Stock exchange
The virtual Stock Exchange is a way to understand how stock trading works without taking any real financial risks. In fact, within nine weeks, The Bull Shark bought and sold real stocks by fictive money. Each of us started the game with 200 thousand dollars and our main goal was to yield a profit...
Advertising campaign - when demon by organics enters the Men Cosmetics Market
Case study - 12 pages - Communication
The cosmetic industry has known an amazing growth in the last fifteen years. According to an Euromonitor survey, on the global scale, this market had represented 110,3 billion in 2008. The European Countries and the US are still the most profitable ones. France has the second largest cosmetics...
Strategic Financial Diagnostic to Open a Retail Music Store
Financial analysis - 10 pages - Finance
We are going to analyze two entrepreneurs situations, Jane and Elizabeth. Both have decided to open a retail music store in a large shopping mall, purchase CDs from the large music distributors, and resell them to the public. Our goal is to analyze this project so that they can make strategic...
Oticon, a Danish Hearing Manufacturer, and the Human Resources Development - publié le 01/07/2010
Case study - 9 pages - Human resources
According Leonard Nadler , the Human Resources “refer to a series of organized activities conducted within a specified time and designed to produce behavioral change”. The main task of this function is to focus on employees within an organization: if the firm is able to create a good...
Business Statistics Methods - how to Organize and Manipulate the Data
Essay - 10 pages - Management control
In the business world, statistics is the main tool to identify, understand and summarize the current situation. In fact, it is the way for a company to change its strategy and to be able to know what it should improve to increase its sales or to answer better to the customers' expectations....
Research Methods for Managers
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Since the mid 1990s, research in business and commerce areas became more qualitative: instead of using strict guidelines, researchers decided to use new techniques such as participant observation and individual interview. Since then, research has been divided into two different methods: the...
Four Business Ethics Study Cases
Case study - 4 pages - Management
In the first part, we are going to study a case named 'my way or the highway attitude'. In the second part, we are going to study a case named 'the hidden gift'. In the third part, we are going to study a case named 'insider theft'. Finally, we are going to study a case...
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Business World
Essay - 6 pages - Startup, entrepreneurship
The post second world war era had seen the appearance of many variations in the environments of companies. The phenomenon of globalization which has started to emerge during this period has given rise to internationalization of companies. However, the involvement in international activities...
Corporate Governance & Business Ethics - BP Corporate Social Responsibility
Case study - 9 pages - Management
Corporate Social Performance (CSP) is another tool inspired from Carroll's pyramid which put light on interactions between actions of the company, its social responsibility, social responsiveness and outcomes of performance in its environment. The objective of this theory is to allow...
The role of conceptual models in strategic management
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Since many decades the corporate world has experienced significant changes. In order to remain competitive, companies must adapt themselves to the new changes. Strategic management is one of key success for competitiveness. To achieve the company's goals, strategic management models have been...
Operations strategy for Meryll Construction
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
Meryll Construction is a medium-sized construction company primarily engaged in water works: pipe-laying /rehabilitation, leak repair, water connections. It is in the Top 5 Contractors list of its sole client, Maynilad Water Services, Inc. It is currently experiencing rising project costs that...
Exporting Chuck Beer to Canada
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
Chuck is a limited company based in Isère, which makes special beer: beer nuts, pine and blonde. Chuck can export its products to Canada for two reasons: a) The flagship of Chuck beer nuts is a product that is heavy and is best drunk in winter. Canada, being a cold country, matches the criteria...
The link between professional and personal life
Thesis - 6 pages - Human resources
According to Anne Monjaret, author of The Feast and research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research, "A party held in the company is not an illusory phenomenon. Under the apparent frivolity attached to this concept lies a real and symbolic social efficiency. These parties play an...
Integration of parenting in HR policies: A challenge
Thesis - 6 pages - Human resources
In France as in most industrialized countries, major issues such as stress and equality between men and women highlight the difficulty in reconciling work and family life. This is particularly because of the emergence of new forms of organization of work and the increasing feminization of...
Human resource management (HRM) at IBM
Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources
Stress has become an integral part of business life today. Tension, pressure and constant anxiety are a few of the occupational diseases detected at PSA, Renault, EDF and IBM. These occupational diseases and cardiovascular diseases have been on the rise lately. To develop this subject, facts...
The ABC of assets
Thesis - 7 pages - Accounting
Companies own assets of varying descriptions. They require the services of these assets for their everyday activities. An asset can be simply defined as an item which is owned by an individual or a company and that which has an economic value and is convertible to cash. Depending on the nature...
The road ahead for Spanish cars
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Business strategy
This article elucidates my internship in the Spanish company, Zanini. The internship was spread over a period of six weeks. This family business, located in Parets del Valles in Barcelona suburb, specializes in the development and manufacture of plastic components for the automotive sector....
A different approach to training
Thesis - 8 pages - Human resources
Every government has an underlying duty to protect its citizens. Nevertheless, there are problems faced by the developed nations to bring in 100% employment rate for its people. As the ill effects of unemployment range from property crimes to national dissatisfaction, governments seek ways to...
Setting up a business: A report
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
We will examine both the formal and the informal aspects of an entrepreneurial exercise. The formal aspect deals with the creation of laws and the economic approaches to the standard financial and commercial profile of the contractor. The informal aspect is more subjective and refers to the...
Analysis of organizational boundaries: A case study of the automotive industry
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Until the sixties the French automotive industry was operation on the principle of industrial integration. Gradually, however the industry was be inclined to break this mode of operation in light of the transformation of the market and the pressure it brings with it. Automobile manufacturers...
The role of the works council in the company's internal communications
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Business strategy
The Works council was established in 1945 with the aim of involving the employees in the running of the company and establishing cooperation between employers and employees without undermining the authority of the entrepreneur, and thus increasing competiveness. The purpose of the works council...
Innovation: An advantage for companies
Course material - 7 pages - Business strategy
Innovation is the application of a new invention in a way that provides new technical, organizational or commercial benefits to a business. It aims to add value or provide an additional benefit to the company. Innovation is the foundation of entrepreneurship, since an entrepreneur need to be able...
Prevention of psycho-social risks at work
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Management
France is a dangerous country! This sentence might seem shocking, yet the surveys and studies conducted by various international and European institutions show that the highest numbers of deaths occur in the country. The indicators on stress and suicide rates are in red. If the figures presented...
The golden rules for an internship
Course material - 3 pages - Human resources
Through electing to do so or mandatorily, a company is obliged to accommodate young people to enable them to complete their theoretical training. The intern is not an employee. To avoid confusion, the employer must ensure that the cooperation of the student is not reclassified as a contract of...
Review of Michelin's financial statements (2005)
Case study - 5 pages - Accounting
This study presents the financial statements of Michelin, which is a listed company in Paris. To obtain data for this analysis, we rely on the annual report of Michelin. This document has been prepared after careful consideration of the company's financial statements. It draws from the...
Strategies used by companies to attract young employees
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Recent years have seen the inclusion of new management practices in the recruitment process. These changes, are a sign of awareness of the company's awareness of the strategic aspect of recruitment, and derive from an increasingly competitive labor market. HR marketing: This concept is then...
The role of a cultural development manager
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Management
France is a country famous for its cultural influence around the world. Culture permeates all aspects of French society. Even as youngster, I was involved in presenting or choreographing shows with my family. As I grew older, I chose to associate with the theatre in pursuit of my ambition. My...
The relationship between taxation and accounting in France
Course material - 4 pages - Accounting
The relationship between accounting and taxation is critical for determining the tax on the profits of French companies, but understanding this relationship is difficult because of constant changes taking place accounting policies. Accounting is defined as the systematic recording, reporting and...
Hybrids incorporated into Jaguar's inventory?
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
These days it is no longer the cost of the vehicle and the insurance that cause people to be weary when purchasing a car. Now there is another variable taken into account, skyrocketing gas prices. In order to ease the pain of affording a car, a new adjusted automobile is gaining a place in the...
Participative management
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
Following the crisis of the Taylorist system and the advent of the new challenges of competitiveness (quality), the interest in participative management has grown. Today, a successful business must be able to motivate its employees to respond as accurately and as quickly as possible to varied and...
