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...
Project planning and management
Case study - 2 pages - Management
When planning a project there are many variables to consider. The first thing for consideration is whether or not the project calls for a project plan. Project plans take time and money to draft and execute, yet this depends on the scope and size of the project. Therefore, this paper seeks to...
Uncertainty management processes- (Collective cases from Hydro)
Case study - 115 pages - Management
Modern life is inherently uncertain - from the moment of our birth to the unknown moment of our death. Certainty has never been more elusive than in today's tumultuous times. In recent decades we have lived through shocks such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the...
Corporate labor and the sweatshop
Case study - 5 pages - Management
United States economist Michael Watts said in the film, The End of Poverty? that "capitalism cannot operate without free labor." The term free labor has evolved in meaning over the centuries. In Feudal Europe, free laborers were known as serfs who worked the land in return for protection. During...
The impossible trinity dilemma
Case study - 8 pages - Management
A trade off exists between interest rate policy (monetary independence), exchange rate stability (ES) and financial integration. Change in one is necessarily associated with a corresponding change in a combination of the other two components. Any pair of goals can be achieved by choosing a...
Quality management of Mozilla
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Quality management is very important to assure the quality of product, especially with Mozilla in the area of software program. Until now, Firefox is gradually becoming loser because of Google Chrome, therefore, improving its quality is essential demand of the company. This report will define the...
Cover letter for the position of Director of Channel Management and Product Management Sales
Sample letter - 1 pages - Management
I am writing to express my interest obtaining the position of Director of Channel Management and Product Management Sales at Titan Global Services. After conducting extensive research on Titan GS, I have been very impressed by the firm's outstanding reputation and culture. I am native to the...
A legal perspective on digital property: Laptops in United States customs and border protection - published: 11/12/2012
Case study - 20 pages - Management
In this paper we will strive to answer several legal questions regarding the search and seizure of digital property at the United States border by U.S. customs officials. In a hypothetical scenario, a defendant crossed the border with illicit materials such as child pornography saved in a folder...
Kompan from a supply chain perspective
Case study - 3 pages - Management
from a supply chain perspective and then asses the possibilities for innovation that arises because of this. •Benefits and challenges: we interpret these as to what extent the acquisition strategy creates benefits and challenges when aligning information and material flow as well as CSR...
Market research cover letter
Case study - 1 pages - Management
I am writing to express my interest in for a [Name of position] at [Company Name]. The firm's commitment towards insight and impact in its services makes it an ideal place to gain broad exposure to various industries. I am attracted to the value-driven and merit-based culture, which offers many...
Big Mac, case study
Essay - 3 pages - Management
McDonald's is the largest food chain of the world. It is present almost everywhere in the world. It has so wide global presence that decision makers often use the products of McDonald's to devise economic measures of well being. One such measure is purchasing power parity. BigMac index is used to...
Sample hardship letter
Sample letter - 1 pages - Management
This letter is to explain the current delinquent accounts that appear in my credit history. I am currently in the process of working with a credit repair agency to clear up some of these debts, because they do not belong to me. I do have three strong credit references that I have been paying, on...
Sample letter for service
Sample letter - 1 pages - Management
At XXX, we provide you with nothing but the best, quality writing. It is definitely not far fetched to say that we do it all. With two brilliant writers on staff, we are here to answer any questions you might have at any time. Of course, if you do not see something on this list, please feel free...
Follow up letter
Essay - 1 pages - Management
I mailed a copy of my resume to your personnel department on July 10th regarding an Architects position that had come available at your firm. I would appreciate if you could find the time to meet with me to discuss this opportunity further. I am enclosing a copy of my resume for your review and...
Cover letter for secretarial assistant typing
Sample letter - 1 pages - Management
I am writing you today in reference to the Secretarial Assistant Typing position that I saw posted on the WNJPIN website. I am very interested in this position and I appreciate you taking the time to review my application. To support my application I have included this letter of interest and my...
Environmental, economic and social impacts of Cruise ships in Stockholm
Case study - 20 pages - Management
Sweden is a country located in the Northern Europe. Its capital is Stockholm. The city is situated near the Baltic Sea therefore it is accessible to holiday cruise liners as well as other maritime traffic making the port one of the busiest in terms of traffic among other Scandinavian cities....
Strategic management: Celerita Inc. case study
Case study - 13 pages - Management
Celerita is a leading firm in the enterprise network optimization industry, offering solutions for businesses to accelerate and enhance the existing computer network. Celerita has always been in the top 6 leaders on the market, but its position become more and more uncertain. In fact, because of...
Critically analyse gender roles and other factors surrounding family businesses
Essay - 8 pages - Management
Family firms have played and still play a significant role in European economy. Most small businesses are family owned (Boissevain and Grotenbreg, 1987), and the importance of this type of business has experienced a significant development during recent decades. As Sampson (1982) indicated, the...
Analysis of the toy industry
Case study - 9 pages - Management
In the current economic situation, the lexical field declines through many adjectives such as unemployment, or crisis. The world is in an uncertain climate for the economic part but the social part too. It is during the Christmas period that we can forget theses bad news. The magic of Christmas...
Analysis of the Days Inn Worldwide Franchise Program
Case study - 2 pages - Management
Days Inn is an American motel chain that was founded in 1970. Part of the Wyndham Hotel Group, the main aim of the chain is to provide good accommodation at the best possible price. Days Inns motels are not only situated in America. There are Days Inns in other countries such as Argentina,...
Risk management: Danone
Case study - 15 pages - Management
Risk management is about choices and decision-making. Choices and decision the company makes are totally dependent on its risk profile. Its risk profile can be risk averse, risk neutral or risk seeking, it depends on the company strategy in terms of risk management. Risk management consists in...
What future does the French public hospital hold?
Essay - 165 pages - Management
Within ten years, the French public hospital system's organization experienced several structural reforms. New managerial concepts coming from the industrial for-profit field spread into the public hospital sector, and outcome-oriented rationales replaced the unconditional answer to the...
Instructions to draft a contract on behalf of Compuservices
Standard contracts - 2 pages - Management
Your client, Mr Evans, has come to you to draft a contract for him. He explains that he has just started his own business, called Compuservices, which provides computer maintenance and technical assistance to his clients. He is the sole proprietor of Compuservices, which has its office at 76...
Changes to ISO 9000 in the 2008 revision
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Organizations need to respect standards in order to “do the right job”, i.e. manufacturing their products or services in a way that customers will agree with. That is why the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) has been created, on 23 February 1947. Its headquarters are...
Logistical evaluation of Igeho Basel 2011
Essay - 8 pages - Management
IGEHO is the International Exhibitions for Hotels, Catering and Extra-domestic consumption. IGEHO offers an overview of a humongous range of products and services and also provides a great platform for networking to anyone who is professionally a part of the Food and Hotel industry. IGEHO till...
Case study: Green Kitchen
Case study - 8 pages - Management
What is distinctive with respect to alternatives on the market? -Reduce environmental impact: smart and eco-efficient appliances, interconnection between the appliances allow to avoid water and energy wastes. -Save up money and time: for example time with the handy-dandy ressource assistant to...
Brand management in a business strategy of an enterprise
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Disney CEO Michael Eisner said: “when the choices have become vast, the only things that will matter are brand names”. So in the context of free play of market forces and rude competition in the world economy of today, an efficient management of brand is a key factor in a business...
Discussion of employee motivation - Different theories
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Motivation comes from the Latin word “movere”, to move (Kreitner, 1998) and is defined in organizational context as “the willingness to exert high levels of efforts towards organizational goals, conditioned by the efforts' ability to satisfy some individual needs” (Robbins,...
Strategic management analysis: Puma
Case study - 45 pages - Management
“The environment is what gives organizations their means of survival. It creates opportunities and it presents threats. The future can never be predicted perfectly, it is clearly important that entrepreneur and manager try to analyze their environments as carefully as they can in order to...
Analysis of LVMH
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
The LVMH (Moet Hennessy Luis Vuitton SA) luxury brand has the following shareholder capital structure described in Figure 1-1 below. The main shareholders are the Group Arnault with 47% shares in personal property. 28% of the shares are held by foreign institutional investors and 17% are held by...
