Does which country a seller or bidder firm operates in affect mergers and acquisitions?
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Does which country a seller or bidder firm operates in have such a big impact on mergers and acquisitions? My aim is for this paper to answer that question by analysing the differences between the UK/US system of corporate governance and the continental European system of corporate governance. I...
An Analysis of Okun's Law
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
Introduction: This essay is split into three sections. In section 1, Okun's law will be examined, by looking at both of its forms. In section 2, the Okun's law coefficient will be analysed with particular reference to the factors which can affect the coefficient. In section 3, Okun's law will be...
The Falling Leader: An analysis of Sony's decline in the games console industry
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
The Sony Corporation is a Japanese conglomerate, focusing on sectors such as electronics, media, and entertainment. Their Playstation games consoles are produced by their Sony Computer Entertainment division. In 2005, Sony's position as the dominant player in the video games industry looked...
Joint venture
Thesis - 3 pages - Finance
A joint venture is the long-term commitment of funds, facilities and services by two or more legally separate interests, to a combined enterprise for their mutual benefits. A joint venture need not be a separate legal entity or company. Other forms of joint ventures include an agreement to work...
Conference and Exhibition Management in Berlin
Essay - 11 pages - Management
Conferences and related events are developing sectors which represent a significant part of the tourism industry. Generally, the type of venue can be divided in six parts, (BACD, 2006): •Hotels (53%) •Unusual venues (19%) •Conference / training centres (10%) •Multi-purpose...
General Motors: Strategic Management
Case study - 19 pages - Business strategy
General Motors is a 100 year-old company which has built a big holding that owns many different car manufacturing brands distributed all around the world. During this century, GM has become the biggest car manufacturer in the world, with a turnover of more than a hundred billion sales in cars and...
Transversal case study - Montefiore Medical Center
Case study - 12 pages - Management
With more than 70,000 admissions per year, Montefiore Medical Center is one of the largest healthcare institutions in the United States and is the most dominant hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City, which is apparently one of the country's poorest neighborhoods. It has two major...
Bringing emotions to work should be a pleasure, but in practice it is often a pain
Essay - 3 pages - Human resources
Companies have become aware, over the last several years, that emotions conveyed by employees, in facing customers, constitute key components of success. They determine the customer reaction. They influence his emotional state (fear, confidence, sympathy), and his will to buy. They determine the...
American Airlines vs. Southwest Airlines
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
The Airline market is facing problems across the years. Before, national companies were leader in their countries, but with the opening of the airline market, the deregulation of the industry and the globalization phenomenon thousand of new airlines have borne. What does it mean? Traditional...
Oticon, a Danish Hearing Manufacturer, and the Human Resources Development
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...
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...
Financial Analysis of Carrefour
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
This report is the financial analysis of a EU-listed consolidated group, the Carrefour group. This company, operating on the retail sector, seemed to be an interesting company for us to analyze. Majority of the companies in this industry are characterized by a negative working capital requirement...
Human resources final paper
Book review - 3 pages - Human resources
The business problem that we are going to discuss concerns the differences in treatment regarding gender. Actually, in the work environment, women and men are considered, paid and hired differently. This has always been the case and even if we can see improvements, there are still big gaps in...
Introduction of the " Company ' L ' Occitane en Provence " on the U.S. market (2008-2009)
Case study - 18 pages - Business strategy
Beauty and skin care products in the American market represent a huge market where the competition is very strong and dominated by multinational leadership groups. But we can find niche segments in this market and it's an opportunity for small and medium sized French companies. Indeed, the...
Logistics Management- Tesco's Supply Chain
Case study - 6 pages - Logistics
Tesco is one of the most important grocery and general merchandising retail chains in the world, and the largest British retailer. It was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen in East London. The company had a turnover of 59.4 billion for 2009. During the three last decades, the group has increased its...
Logistics planning technique and applications
Case study - 12 pages - Logistics
Exercise 1: We have to solve a linear programming system, concerning a cost transport optimisation. To minimise the total transport cost, we have to use the linear programming mathematical model. Exercise 2: We have to find an appropriate place for a new distribution centre by using the Gravity...
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,...
Risk Management
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...
Starbucks - 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...
The key success factors for "Overnite Express" company.
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Entrepreneurship is a mindset or a way of thinking that is opportunity-focused, innovative, and growth-oriented. We will examine some key success factors required to start a company and how these can be linked to Overnite Express company. Rob Ukropina learned a good deal about entrepreneurship...
Corporate Finance - comparison between "McDonalds" and "Burger King", two leading fast food chains
Case study - 11 pages - Finance
The two companies have been present in the fast food market for a long time and they produce different types of food. The turnover of Burger King amounts to US$2.234 billion and that of McDonald's amounts to US$ 22.79 billion, which reveals that both the companies are very important and powerful...
What are the impacts of advanced supplier quality assurance implementation on automotive lighting overall business performance?
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
Innovative company of automotive lighting industry, automotive lighting (AL), daily develops strategies which play a leading role in insuring its competitiveness. For this reason, AL's purchasing division targets to reach Purchasing Excellence. To assure this target, AL's purchasing...
Public Relations
Essay - 4 pages - Management
The term 'public relations' is recognized and widely used by many people. However, it is often misused and misunderstood. It is sometimes confused with press release and publicity. A career in public relations is wrongly perceived as the perfect job for people who enjoy parties and...
The public relations department & its functions
Essay - 3 pages - Management
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,...
Strategic management of EDF - Electricité de France (in 2010)
Case study - 35 pages - Management
From production to distribution, Electricite de France (EDF) is one of the world's largest producers of electricity. Its story has naturally propelled the company as a leader on the French market through a monopoly related to nationalization. Indeed, the law of April 8, 1946 regarding the...
Human resources in Europe
Essay - 10 pages - Human resources
For the last three decades, the liberalization of the exchanges and the development of the Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) led the globalization of the economy. The flows of the FDI with the amount of 648 billion dollars in 2004 are sixteen times today than at its being in 1950 . The growth of...
Transportation and strategic distribution
Essay - 11 pages - Logistics
Urban logistics is a major issue for both the logistics industry and transportation systems. The noise in cities is becoming a real issue, especially for people living in bars or shopping areas. Why today, more than never, we hear about people complaining about noise. Several reasons could...
Goals and planning of Starbucks Coffee Company
Case study - 6 pages - Management
This paper examines strategic management, which includes business decisions and actions that define the organization's missions and objectives, determine the most effective utilization of organizational resources, select best ways of action to achieve its goals and missions, and seek to...
Ryanair, a European pioneer of low-cost airline
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Ryanair was founded in 1985 by the Ryan family. At inception, the airline was a full-service conventional airline, with two classes of seating intended to provide scheduled passenger airline services between Ireland and the United Kingdom. However, over the years, the airline has changed...
A report on the market "Sukuk"
Market study - 9 pages - Finance
Global capital markets have long been functioning without Islamic components. Only recently have they been subject to the emergence of a new dimension: the sukuk (Islamic Bond) market. The sukuk market has experienced a spectacular growth since 2001 in the Middle East, supported by ultra-high...
