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09 Jul 2015
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NCAA Ethics Program

Case study - 5 pages - Management

The NCAA could have prevented the occurrence of the Scandals by encouraging a culture of self-reporting of the violation before they grew into scandals. At Penn State, Joe Paterno, the head coach notified the School officials of Sanducky's sexual violation towards minors. Further, the school...

09 Jul 2015
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Distributed Software Development Change Management - Literature Review

Case study - 12 pages - Management

As a result of globalization efforts, software development projects have been distributed geographically all over the globe, which characterizes Distributed Software Development (DSD). Global software development, a kind of DSN, is described by software development stakeholders who are globally...

07 Jul 2015
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Enterprise risk management (ERM)

Case study - 10 pages - Management

Enterprise risk management (ERM) is the modern way of looking at risk management and internal control. According to COSO (2004), ERM is a process adopted by the management, board of directors and other personnel and is used in strategy setting and all the enterprise activities to identify...

24 Apr 2015
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Evolution of lodging networks during the economic crisis: What happened to Airbnb and to budget hotels in the context of the crisis in the USA?

Case study - 25 pages - Management

The financial crisis started In September 2008, in the USA, with the bankrupt of Lehman Brothers. This financial shock led to a deep and long economic crisis. The USA has started to experience economic recovery in 2010 but the economic growth has still been low. The hospitality industry, with...

24 Apr 2015
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New Social Network App Reviews

Case study - 7 pages - Management

Technology has a far more reaching and fulfilling effect in making life easier for the common person. With the averments in technology, more apps are been created to help with the growing demand of wanting to stay in touch or being on top of things. These apps have created a shortcut for the...

24 Apr 2015
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Case analysis: Haier strategy in India

Case study - 2 pages - Management

In 2004, Haier opened operations in India with the aim of accessing the country's large market, gain from India rapidly expanding economy and push by Chinese government's push for Chinese companies to become multinationals after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. The...

22 Apr 2015
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Transport systems

Case study - 3 pages - Management

The Santa Catarina western colonization zones formed from the 1916 newly arrived immigrants of Rio Grande do Sul spent to develop a natural and market economy in their small farms. However, his problem was the disposal of surplus produced. So these small producers depended on the...

22 Apr 2015
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Tax incentives and business expansion

Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy

It was stated that in the period 1930-45, government of Santa Catarina was concerned with the implement a comprehensive infrastructure system that was able to support and facilitate economic modernization, via expansion and implementation of industrial activities in the northeast of Santa...

20 Apr 2015
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Negative externalities

Case study - 3 pages - Management

With that we are essentially engaged in a race between technology and the exponentially increasing demands of raw materials. The technology can: enable us to recycle waste, more usable resources of a quantity of raw materials, create new methods of production, and provide new sources of energy,...

20 Apr 2015
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The inflationary goal schemes and its impact on Brazilian consumption

Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy

In June 1999, after a sharp devaluation of the real and the consequent abandonment of the pegged to the dollar exchange, Brazil formally adopted a monetary policy framework based on inflation targeting. In this work we try to emphasize to what extent and in what manner the inflation target regime...

20 Apr 2015
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The Brazilian economy: Consumer X Interest

Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy

In the previous part, we have seen that, in theory, the consumer reacts negatively to an increase in interest rates. We will seek to verify this part of the chapter the behavior of interest variables, consumption and inflation in the Brazilian economy after the adoption of inflation targeting...

16 Apr 2015
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Immigrants and the development of small-scale market production

Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy

The Santa Catarina historiography describes the process of occupation of the western part of the state as a result of the signing of the "limits of agreement between the Paraná and Santa Catarina" in 1916 and the completion of the stretch of railroad São Paulo-Rio Grande (Cabral, 1970). The...

14 Apr 2015
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Tewkesbury Borough - Marketing Communications

Case study - 4 pages - Management

Tewkesbury Boroughis currently characterized by dropping rates of tourism compared to the rest of the country. The rates of tourism have been declining over the last few years in the entire country. However, Tewkesbury Boroughis affected more than the rest of the country. In addition, the rates...

14 Apr 2015
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Police Officer Should Not Carry Tasers

Case study - 2 pages - Management

Tasers, also called stun guns, are equipment that immobilize victims by interfering with the nerve impulses and therefore immobilizing the muscles of a victim (O'Toole, 2013). In recent times, their range of application has grown to include law enforcement. Many places are commencing police...

14 Apr 2015
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Media Ethics, Accountability Systems-Theory of Media Gate keeping

Case study - 3 pages - Management

This paper will show that the role of ethics determining the content of media outlets is dependent on social demands. Ethics are present in every social function. They dictate the modes of communication and their application based on the propriety and social structures. Media ethics are a...

13 Apr 2015
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Mongolian empire - Slavery

Case study - 3 pages - Management

People were owed by other people legally in the age of slavery. Slavery was a common aspect I many cultures, slaves had no rights and were forced to work for their owners with no payments and they were the lowest orders of the social classes. Development of slavery was dependent on the social...

13 Apr 2015
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Strategic Management - Critic of management models

Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy

Porter's Five Forces model is designed with a focus on factors that built up the competitive advantage of a firm within the market (Afuah, 2003). It has achieved significant success in analyzing the industry in general and forms a very useful tool for assessing a company's own stability through...

13 Apr 2015
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Production and Delivery of Five 800-Seater Aircrafts Model 702

Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy

The virtual management system will require that each firm have teleconferencing equipment that is also functional. Due to the time differences between the locations of the four firms involved in the overall production process, there will be need for stretching the day hours in other regions so as...

13 Apr 2015
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O&O Consulting - International Business Strategies in Action

Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy

O&O Consulting is a major human resource firm within the local and regional market extending to cover the United States, Canada. We pride ourselves in providing excellent and relevant strategic, managerial solutions to our clients who range exclusively of medium sized firms to multinationals. We...

10 Apr 2015
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Tesco Plc Financial analysis

Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy

The first requires an identification of Tesco's capital structure. Other than that, it requires the type of finance raised by the company from one of Tesco's balance sheet and comment on the balance sheet using the financial ratio based on Tesco's capital structure. Tesco is well known of...

10 Apr 2015
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Communication strategy for Audi

Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy

In the recent past, UK's car market has expanded quickly and is rated amongst the worlds competitive. With the addition of automotive competitors in the market, from the entire Europe, a brand of a car requires a deeper understanding of its customers to help it in the development of communication...

10 Apr 2015
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Ways couples can seek to reduce taxation liabilities on investments and savings

Case study - 5 pages - Finance

The need for financial security and independence are a predominant concern for most citizens globally. In its very definition the ability to earn and willfully spend one's income is at the core of maturity as defined by social norms. This is also the case for governments and institutions. So the...

08 Apr 2015
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Use of Business Terms, Statutes, and Laws to Lorax, Fictitious Story

Case study - 3 pages - Management

The story of the Lorax is a famous children's literature written by Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), who argued that his inspiration to write the book was as a result of the fret he had as a result of having read a lot of dull things on conversations that had a lot of preaching and statistics. The...

08 Apr 2015
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Reflective Report on Business Law

Case study - 4 pages - Management

This business law assignment required that, in a group of 3 or more, we carry out a research on a topic in business law and prepare a PowerPoint presentation that we would later present. We had a maximum of 4 weeks to do the research and prepare the presentation. Initially, we were 4 members in...

08 Apr 2015
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Console Applications - Making Soft wares

Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy

These applications are command oriented. They allow users to see and read characters from the application console. The console applications also allow users to write application code characters in the console, which are then executed in DOS(Rippee). Console applications are coded and supported by...

07 Apr 2015
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Human Resource Policies Influence on Performance of Medium Sized Manufacturing Firms

Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy

Globalization has created a paradigm shift in the ways by which firms conduct their business. The convergence of world economies has minimized-and in some cases eliminated-both legislative and geographical barriers to international production and sale of goods and services. The flip-side of this...

06 Apr 2015
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The Chinese dragon and its influence on Christianity in China

Case study - 2 pages - Management

Generally, dragons have held positive connotations in culture of the Chinese since the time of the Song dynasty, in AD 960-1279. The Chinese made prayers to the dragon for rain. In Chinese culture, the dragon has been used as a symbol of imperial power; in fact, the emperor wore a dragon robe,...

06 Apr 2015
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Saudi Arabia - Trade elasticity

Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy

As a result of the spike in prices of oil in the 70s together with an increase in the production of oil and high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) averaging to more than 11 percent in a year, the Saudi Arabian economy grew tremendously. However, in the 1980s, oil pieces began to fall leading to an...

30 Mar 2015
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Campaign Funding- Presidential

Case study - 3 pages - Management

There is a hot contest in the nation about the ability of corporate to finance presidential campaigns in the country. The issue of campaign funding is not new; it has been a source of concern since the turn of the century. In addition, other countries have experienced the same problems and had...

30 Mar 2015
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Article review-Simple Rules for Making Alliances Work

Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy

Alliances are very important in businesses. According to Hughes and Weiss, they contribute more than a third of financial gains to businesses. Despite the increasing rates of alliances, there are concerns over the rates of failure, which stand at a range of between 60-70% (Hughes & Weiss, 2007)....