Bankers' bonuses : limit or laissez-faire?
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
Nowadays, we are facing the hugest crisis in history. To summarize the facts, the greediness of a few 'bankers' and the globalization of the economy are leading to many bankruptcies and redundancies. But are bankers' bonuses really a underlying cause of the current crisis ?
Le marché de l'immobilier français en 2010
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
The French Real Estate market didn't collapse in 2009 despite a very violent financial and economical crisis. Compared to the British and to the American markets, the French real estate market showed a good performance. Sales of new real estate properties had boom of 25% compared to 2008 whereas...
Case study : CSR policy and corporate governance, Casino group, annual report 2007
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Sustainable development can be defined as 'trying hard to answer to the present's needs without compromising the capacity to satisfy the future generations needs'. Sustainable development has three pillars, the social aspect, the ecological aspect, and the economic aspect. In fact,...
Alain Fronteau, Ronald Boucher et Michel Pouchelin, "Comprendre l'entreprise et son environnement", 2007
Book review - 6 pages - Management
“Comprendre l'entreprise et son environnement ” is the title of the second book I choose to summarize. This book was written by Alain Fronteau, Ronald Boucher, Michel Pouchelin and published in June 2007. These three experts had the goal to explain in this book the complexities of the...
Relations with employees - An assessment
Essay - 8 pages - Human resources
Assess the significance and merits of the Partnership, involvement and Participation models of Employee Relations in today's economic climate and in the modern commercial world. In our current economy, since the beginning of the recession, employees' spirits decreased with the...
Operations Management
Essay - 6 pages - Management
"There have been many significant changes in operation management during the past few years, involving such aspects as quality, reduction in inventory and costs, improving delivery and lead times.? Indeed, Operations Management is in a continuous evolution, always adapting itself in order to run...
The impact of the Fordism - Taylorism on Operations Management.
Essay - 4 pages - Management
If Charlie Chaplin could speak, he would probably have complained about the working conditions of the working-class at the beginning of the XX th century. He is, in his movie "Modern Times", making fun about the new organization of work in factories. Sure enough, two American engineers and...
A comparison of Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic and the Australian Qantas
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Sir Richard Branson is often termed as an entrepreneur who has always over achieved. He was born on 18 July, 1950 and is the man behind pioneering the Virgin Group to what it is today. Richard Branson studied at Stowe School, where he started Student Magazine which was his first venture when he...
Strategic analysis of Disney Company?
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
The end of the XXth century is the period of development of new markets all around the world. Emerging countries, like China for example, are spreading themselves and capturing more and more influence in world trade. The more important firms, with a worldwide influence, have the opportunity to...
Catherine M. Daily, Dan R. Dalton, "Corporate governance and the bankrupt firm: an empirical assessment", 1994
Text commentary - 5 pages - Business strategy
Porter noted that "the reason why firms succeed or fail is perhaps the central question in strategy". We would argue that corporate bankruptcy is a particularly important context for examining strategic management. Do board composition and board leadership structure impact firm bankruptcy? The...
Application of quality function deployment for the supplier selection process
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
The manufacturing organizations are facing the pressure of increasing competition due to the varied dynamic demands of the customers. In this competitive scenario, ‘voice of customer' gains importance. It needs to be translated into technical language. Quality function deployment (QFD) has...
Fuzzy expert model for order cost efficiency in capacitated two-echelon distribution chains
Thesis - 12 pages - Management
The supply chain researchers are commonly trying to optimize one or more decision variables under stochastic conditions. This paper considers a capacitated two-echelon divergent distribution chain facing stochastic demand and order cost fluctuations. The limited storage facility of the upper...
Risk Management - VarModel and Portfolio analysis
Essay - 8 pages - Management
The risk management process is definitely marked by several steps that have to be respected in order to avoid financial risk exposure. It actually starts with the establishment of the context for strategic, organizational as well as risk management criterion according to each evaluated risk. The...
Intercultural Management - the cultural differences between the U.S. and the Saudi Arabia
Essay - 2 pages - Management
In the international context, firms are more and more faced to labor with different culture and origins. The increasing exchanges and globalization of markets permit for the firm to know the differences in the cultures. The diversities in cultures can be an advantage or an inconvenience for the...
Le rôle des spécialistes et opérateurs boursiers au New York Stock Exchange
Worksheets - 2 pages - Stock exchange
The New York Stock Exchange is an organized securities exchange is a location with a trading floor where all stock transactions take place. Organized exchanges in the United States include the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as several regional...
Supplier selection with social and environmental issues
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
Supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which is affected by several conventional conflicting factors such as quality, delivery, service and time. Recently government insists enterprises to take care of environmental regulation and social issues such as...
Growth optimal portfolio for the unobservable Markov-modulated markets
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The benchmark model introduced by Platen (2002) has not been well studied in literature for the case of incomplete information whereas the incompleteness of the information in financial modeling is usual in practice. Some of the factors that characterize the evolution of the market may be hidden....
A study of assembly line
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
Organization management is crucial to each type of organization because only through successful management of people, capital, information and materials, an organization can meet its goal. Operation management is a part of the production system. Production system is a collection of interrelated...
Sandberg Crosby and the launch of "Super Project "
Case study - 4 pages - Finance
In March 1967, a financial analysis conducted by Crosby Sanberg revealed a significant outcome: the principles that were learnt at business schools need not necessarily work practically all the time. The study was related to incremental analysis. Generally, some costs are considered to be not...
Starbucks's - Organisation and Management
Case study - 9 pages - Management
In 1971 the story began, three Seattle entrepreneurs started the Starbucks Corporation. They sold whole bean coffee in one store. After 11 years, their business had grown tremendously and they hired Schultz in 1982 to be the manager of retail and marketing. He had some ideas, he 'advised that...
La publicité, nécessité ou cauchemar ?
Worksheets - 1 pages - Communication
Techniques have diversified and became more and more aggressive, addressing to an increasing number of costumers and implying a higher number of companies, in fact, how could survive a company which doesn't make itself heard nowadays, but are they considered an advantage or rather a disadvantage...
Éthique des affaires - "Je n'ai jamais donné, reçu ou toléré l'usage d'une quelconque forme d'aide illégale"
Essay - 2 pages - Management
Many times in life one is faced with a moral dilemma. This decision is based on two options one must choose from. The first option is to fulfill one's moral duty. The second option is to fulfill one's desires. That is, one is based on what one ought to do and what one wants do. Unfortunately,...
La compétitivité entre Cadbury, Nestlé et Hershey : qui va gagner ?
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
The chocolate industry is today, an atomic market with many competitors. To many brands, products, the customer is overwhelmed by chocolate products. This industry has the following 2 subcategories: Chocolatiers and Cocoa production. In our case we will discuss about three main and key players'...
Marketing communication of Auchan
Case study - 8 pages - Communication
600 supermarkets, 300 hypermarkets and not less than 160,000 employees, is a brief summary of the winners of Auchan in the French market. This family business has been part of the French economy for over 40 years. This longevity can be explained by a sense of innovation and a constant attention...
The risk and returns
Dissertation - 63 pages - Finance
Rates of Return over Multiple Periods, typically quarters are expressed as: Arithmetic Average of the quarterly returns, is the total return divided by the number of quarters. It ignores the compounding effect. Geometric (time weighted) Average of the quarterly returns, is equal to the single...
Financial Intermediaries
Dissertation - 54 pages - Finance
Funds can move from lenders to borrowers via indirect finance involving financial intermediaries. Financial intermediaries borrow funds from lenders/savers and then provide funds to borrowers/spenders. If it is a commercial bank it acquires funds by issuing a liability to the public in the form...
Risk management - A study, financial, internal business, learning and customers
Essay - 12 pages - Management
This manual has for objective, to limit the risk in different areas of the company. Also, the other objective is to ensure that the right risk is taken and the unnecessary risk is mitigated. For each area treated, a risk committee was created in order to manage each project. This committee must...
Recommendations on employee involvement in Fiat in England
Internship report - 3 pages - Management
Three persons work everyday aiming to improve service and sales, to improve the dialog between financial divisions and car dealers and to gain the loyalty of customers if they buy another Fiat or another brand. Each goal or new mission is decided by the manager and employees are not involved in...
Invest consultancy report
Market study - 4 pages - Finance
In a few years, soft drinks became the symbol of our modern, globalized and standardized foodstuffs. These generally fizzy and very sweet drinks are made water-based, charged with carbonic acid, with fruit syrup or plant extracts. Regarding the soft drinks market, it is dominated by three huge...
The public relations department & its functions
Essay - 3 pages - Communication
The public relations (PR) department is a unit in the firm that manages items such as publicity and other communications with all of the groups who make contact with the company. Some marketing experts argue that public relations should be part of the marketing department, just as advertising,...
