Flash Travel's business plan
Business plan - 12 pages - Business strategy
The main business activity of the company is transportation of people, and handling important merchandises and mails. Indeed, even if it could be exceptional to transport merchandise (like fruit, raw materials…) or mail (like political mails or parcel), because it is currently expensive to...
Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman: A book review
Book review - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Friedman's book Hot, Flat and Crowded motivates change and action for businesses, consumers, and political forces by increasing their awareness of trends, behaviors, and regulations that hazardously impact economic and environmental conditions. The book evokes a sense of urgency to preserve...
The control of water in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
Since the creation of Israel in 1948 and the massive arrival of Jews in the Palestinian territory, the conflicts between the Israelites and Palestinians have regulary taken place. In addition to the religious and political problems, there remains the issue of water as well. This point is...
Decathlon: A Competitive and strategic study to develop recommendations to establish a specific communication in the bicycle market for women and children
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Michael Leclercq established Decathlon in France in 1976. Decathlon was the first mass producer of sports equipment and caters to all a sportsman's needs whether he is an athlete or just a sports enthusiast. Decathlon is the leading innovator, producer and retailer of a broad range of sports...
Case study: Leadership and management of Starbucks
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Starbucks' CEO, Orin Smith, and the Board of directors play a central role in the organizational context of the company since they can arbitrate between the internal and external constraints and thus decide what organizational structures and policies have to be implemented. Mission and goals:...
The decision-making process of purchase of a solar panel at IDS Energy
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
We use hydrocarbon products in all areas of our everyday life, such as in the fields of transportation, production, clothing, and high technology. For the purpose of our study, we also include habitat and comfort. In recent years, the issue of sustainable development has been emphasized in order...
Mercedes: Should it introduce a small, 'clean' family car?
Market study - 5 pages - Services marketing
Mercedes Benz is a German automobile brand, distributed worldwide and known for its high-end vehicles. Like all other car manufacturers, it faces a severe economic crisis that has been particularly detrimental to the automotive sector. In this context, car manufacturers must innovate and artfully...
Fallen Leaves
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Environmentalism is a concept that has been long argued on many fronts. There is a large rift between those who scream for the need to protect our planet and those who could not care less. Now, with the planet moving closer and closer to possible biological peril, we find ourselves stopping to...
The History of Abolition: A Global Interplay of Events
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Historical phenomena such as the abolition of slavery cannot be explained by isolating them from the larger global context that created the conditions for their existence. In his chapter titled Whose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade, Seymor Drescher states:...
Environmental ethics
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
As a society, we strive for progress and we have come to view progress as a state of productivity and consumerism. Along this road of mass consumption and industrialization, we have negatively affected the environment; in the U.S. alone, 24 acres per person is consumed but only 4.5 acres are...
Market Research: The launch of a hybrid diesel engine by PSA group
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
In 2004, Toyota launched a hybrid car: Prius. The principle of this car is the addition of an electric motor to the traditional petrol engine. The objective is to request the electric motor with starting and low speed and to request the petrol engine at higher speeds. The goal of this technology...
Critical review of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work
Book review - 6 pages - Political science
In the 1970s, new representative institutions were created in the twenty regions that make up Italy. The Italian government wanted to bring governance closer to the people, so that 'the citizens of Seveso and Pietrapertosa were now directed to nearby Milan and Potenza rather than distant...
Employee welfare measures
Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources
“Welfare” is a broad concept referring to a state of living of an individual or group, in a desirable relationship with the total environment - ecological, economic and social. Labor welfare includes both the social and economic contents of welfare. Social welfare is primarily concerned...
Mathematical modeling for axial voidage distribution in CFB
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Physics
Kwauk proposed that the characteristic fine particle distribution in fast fluidization could not be accounted for by the one-dimensional analysis on accelerative motion of particulate fluidization, and presented a physical model for a gas-solid fast fluidization system. The average solid...
A survey on recruitment advertisements
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Human resources
Advertising is a phrase used for the announcements made by the seller to promote the sales of their products. Advertising refers to the mass selling techniques used when direct face to face selling is not possible or is too time consuming and expensive. It is different from propaganda, publicity...
Security challenges in wireless sensor networks
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are wireless ad hoc networks of tiny sensor nodes. As a result of advances in sensor technology and wireless communication, sensor networks have emerged as an indispensable and important new tool for multiple civilian and military applications, including patient...
Idea of progress - Can the new generation change the world?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I am going to ponder over the notion of progress. So, before all, let me introduce it. The idea of progress concerns a forward movement permitted by eventual actions or prowess. It's something which can concern a lot of subjects as politics, technic, or even sciences. But the type of progress...
Sustainable construction management
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
As Canada continues to grow, and needs of the environment are becoming increasingly apparent, it is time for construction management to embrace sustainable practices more than it has ever done before. Building is something that is essential to sustain and maintain growth. The construction and...
Porter's Five Forces - The Body Shop
Case study - 5 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
The organic sector has taken on great importance over the years. Indeed, more and more consumers want to eat properly and want to use better products for their health. In the space of ten years, food was no longer the only one affected by the organic trend. Household products and cosmetics have...
Why a chewing gum dropped off on the floor constitutes a public nuisance? How could we solve this problem
Thesis - 14 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Ecology is today a very important subject in our lifestyle, in the context of sustainability. Pollution has become a scourge and we must find solutions to counter it, but there is one type that doesn't have real and durable solution: the one caused by chewing gum. Chewing gum is present...
Impact of agroforestry and social forestry on wildlife: birds and smaller animals
Case study - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Most modern systems of raising animals separate animals from their natural environment. In these systems, many of the cycles of nature which are beneficial to both animals and their environment are broken. The use of animals can be a controversial topic. In many situations, especially in the...
Marketing mix - The tourism
Case study - 11 pages - Tourism marketing
Tourism marketing is a term used to refer to the business discipline by which visitors are drawn to a particular place, which may be a state, city, particular heritage site or tourist destination, hotel or convention centre. The place can be anything that has the potential to attract a tourist...
Selection of salinity plant in some of the pulse crops
Dissertation - 117 pages - Biology
In many densely populated countries the average size of farm holding is becoming small. Further in most of the developing countries agriculture often encounters various biotic and abiotic stress namely diseases, pests, drought, nutritional disorders, salinity, temperature extremes, and...
International marketing plan for a French car manufacturer
Case study - 12 pages - Business strategy
Our subject here is to set up an international marketing plan to export electric / hybrid cars from a French manufacturer to the US market. In order to have a reliable marketing plan, we will do a quick overview of the different main stacks of the hybrid/electric cars. The electric / hydrib cars...
Implications for the future
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
The basis of stress management is the need to eliminate stressors, create new ideas, and implement guidance to assist individuals change or adjust behavior in regards to stress. There are numerous environmental stressors such as noise, crowds, and weather. When an individual exercise methods to...
International management: Grupo Bimbo
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Since the end of the Second World War, the international exchanges took an increasing scale and continued to develop in all the domains: goods, capital, knowledge, technology and culture. All the continents became interdependent and the ecological problems which touch the whole planet contribute...
The Audi company and its launching of a model of cross-country vehicle
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
The Volkswagen Group of France SA is a subsidiary that was created in 1960. Today it is the largest importer of cars in France. This company holds a significant market share in France, and accounts for 10.2% of it. In 2006, it achieved a turnover of 4.5 billion Euros. The group holds five brands....
The consumption of the nutritional complements in Russia
Thesis - 3 pages - Services marketing
The market for nutritional complements (CN) is developing dynamically in Russia. Nevertheless, their share in pharmaceutical sales is only 4%. The consumption growth of CN is due to the unfavorable ecological situation and poor structure of the power and the relative ease of recording and...
Grant Application Report
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Childhood discrimination, as well as, aggressive offending can be too widespread and fundamental social troubles that cautiously continually confront the present society. The current findings contain four vital goals: to record the pervasiveness of criminal behavior, grown up criminality together...
What are the main institutions and actors that decide on, influence, and implement EU foreign policymaking vis-à-vis Morocco?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The main priorities of the European Union's external relations concern its extension to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and its relations with the countries of the Mediterranean region which are not members of the European Union in the will to pursue a coherent action. As far as...
