The Volkswagen Group : A study
Case study - 31 pages - Business strategy
As the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe and 5th in the whole world, the Volkswagen Group focuses on the automotive market and offers products and services along with an entire automotive value chain. With nine independent brands, the Group provides a unique range of models from the...
Supply Chain and Logistics Managements' evolution
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Globally, supply chain management (SCM) is the whole set of tools and methods that are used by managers in order to improve the supply chain of a company. Indeed, supply chain management is regarded as a process in which planning, implementing and controlling, allow the companies to satisfy the...
Why and how building multicultural team in a multinational company?
Dissertation - 30 pages - Management
Today, globalization has increasingly become a watchword by which companies swear by and they accordingly install subsidiaries on foreign markets and relocate resources. An important issue in this process is the question of intercultural management and human resources within the global...
FedEx strategic analysis
Dissertation - 32 pages - Business strategy
FedEx is the IT-focused market leader of the international express courier business and further offers supply-chain-management solutions. Indeed, this company was founded as Federal Express in 1971 by the U.S. Marine and Frederick W. Smith in Little Rock (Arkansas). FedEx has been chosen in...
Civil Society NGOs & Private Sector Com-panies: Towards Cooperation?
Essay - 14 pages - Political science
In 2005, DuPont, an American chemical company and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an environmental advocacy group, engaged in a partnership aiming at ensuring responsible development of a new high-tech domain, nanoscale materials. The project was also aimed at communicating with the global...
The Microsoft case
Case study - 19 pages - Economy general
When we talk about tying, it refers to the strategy of a firm that sells two different goods in a consignment. Thus the seller demands that when a consumer buys product A, he must also buy product B. With Windows 95, and especially with Windows 98, Microsoft has tied its Web browser, Internet...
Human Resource Management: E-Recruitment
Thesis - 12 pages - Human resources
This report offers an overall analysis and evaluation of the current recruitment scenario. It shows the current economic climate, and how it affects E-recruitments a whole. It compares traditional methods of recruitment with that of the fast growing domain of E-recruitment. The website review...
How well did the legal system of early modern England work?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
A legal system can be defined as the legislation enacted by the State institutions on the basis of tradition or law. In early modern England, the legal system was complex, relying on with overlapping institutions -local criminal courts, Church courts and royal courts-, on itinerant judges but...
Role of high frequency trading in modern financial markets, and Volcker Rule and its impact on proprietary trading
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
The financial markets play an important role in the financing of the real economies of the different countries of the world. It is important to note that the financial markets channel the savings as well as the investments. They also play an important role in the facilitation of the formation of...
Design of 2, 4 Shell & Tube heat exchanger
Essay - 23 pages - Physics
This project report presents the application of Kern's Method for the optimal design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers. A primary objective in the heat exchanger design is the estimation of the minimum heat transfer area required for a given heat duty, as it governs the overall cost of the heat...
Financial market
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
Recently, there are more and more financial analysts have dedicated their studies to the relationship and emerged trends between different financial markets such as studies of Dalkir (2009) and Savva (2009) on stock markets inner relationship, or relationship between bond markets and stock...
Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources amongst unlimited and conflicting end uses
Case study - 2 pages - Economy general
In this world that we live in, there exists a problem due to the conflict between the scarcity of resources and the unlimited wants of the people. Economics is concerned with dealing with this problem, as efficiently as possible. Why, then, are resources scarce? The problem of scarcity arises due...
The Hybrid Car
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
The hybrid auto, a concept introduced to the U.S. market in 1999, now accounts for 10.6 percent of the 8 million cars sold every year. Consumers and manufacturers alike have great incentive to buy and make hybrids because the perceived benefits of this auto—lower CO2 emissions and fuel...
How can the "crisis" of the Welfare States affect the policy of fight against poverty?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Since the end of the XVIIIth century, the disastrous consequences due to the Industrial Revolution and to “savage capitalism” on working conditions has been underlined through the rising resentment of the working class. That is why, in order to avoid social implosion and to control...
What does 'MNE'S need to be both "global" and "local"?' mean
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
Since the rise of liberalisation with the opening of markets in the mid 1980's, the business world has entered the era of globalisation where companies have dramatically expanded their business abroad. Indeed, the abolition of barriers of entry was one of significant opportunities for...
Corporate Strategy: Chop Chop Analysis of Total Group
Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy
Total is France's largest corporation as well as the fourth largest publicly-traded integrated oil and gas company in the world. Total is involved in three major segments: downstream, upstream, and chemicals. In the following report, we carefully analyzed these three business segments to...
The role of the TARGET system in the European financial integration
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
When Euro was introduced in 1999 as the European single currency, a large value payment system was also set up. The so-called Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) system was expected to be the basis of both financial integration and European Central Bank...
From dust to steel? State building in Afghanistan
Essay - 15 pages - International relations
One month after the attacks of September 11, 2001, in October 2001, the United States decided to invade Afghanistan in order to capture AlQaeda mastermind Ossama Ben Laden and to withdraw the Taliban regime. The “operation enduring freedom” was led by the US, with a majority of forces...
The core-satellite model revisited, tracking error control, ETF's and satellites possibilities
Essay - 10 pages - Management
A core-satellite management consist in having a core portfolio made up of passive management vehicles (index funds, ETFs, etc.) with low management fees, and separately one, or several, very active satellites that are made up of funds with a strong tracking error, or even funds with no constraint...
A study on inventory management at the bulk activities division of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd
Case study - 44 pages - Services marketing
Materials are equivalent to cash and they make up an important part of the total cost. It is essential that materials should be properly safeguarded and correctly accounted for. Proper control over material can make a substantial contribution to the efficiency of a business. The success of...
Effect of change in Basel standards in the banking industry
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
As the deadline for implementing the Basel-III norms in Indian banks has arrived they are still preparing to solve the enigma of risk management for insuring more transparent and risk-free financial bases. According to the Reserve Bank of India, its association with the Basel 'Committee on...
Performance appraisal system of eMorphosys
Case study - 36 pages - Services marketing
Appraisal of one individual by another individual is a continuous process and it is a natural phenomenon in beings. This is constantly done, consciously in our day today interaction, ether in family life or in a social setting or in an organization for that matter. While the individual or a group...
Recruitment and selection
Thesis - 33 pages - Human resources
Recruitment and selection techniques” is a GUI based application that automates the recruitment and selection activities for better functioning and providing accurate information time. It is a computerized solution for organizations that often undergo the process of recruitment for...
Management information system
Thesis - 12 pages - Management
The plethora of Information in today's world, makes it imperative for us to depend on Management Information System, as the socio-technical tool to handle the overloading of Information and take decisions in a quick manner. The project work is done with the intention of studying the Management...
Importance of patterns for managing companies, study of the product life cycle
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
The best way to manage a company is to be competitive. The competition is growing due to the globalization, which has caused the arrival of so many new emerging markets such as China. This is why companies are looking for an efficient management for both staff and marketing mix in order to be...
Are customer's management softwares and quality customer service key elements to gain customer's satisfaction and build loyalty?
Thesis - 24 pages - Management
Nowadays, companies possess lot of tools in order to gain customer's satisfaction and build loyalty. They understood that they have to focus on customers in order to increase profit more than before. Indeed, by focusing on customer's satisfaction they build loyalty and a long-term relationship....
Suitable area for Paris to get a French global city region
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
As Saskia Sassen well defined it, a global city region is a region that “overlaps the global city” . Today, it can be admitted that Paris has a lot features that make this city close to a “global city”, such as the central corporate functions, and the “highly specialized...
Communication strategy & plan: Cif case study
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
Cif is a very old brand in its sector of cleaning product and has a very strong image, but is too much associated to restrictive and occasional use. As a communication agency, I was asked to think about a new communication strategy which could make Cif appears as more usable, more easily and in...
Industrial network: Providing specifically adapted products for customers
Essay - 3 pages - Services marketing
The economies of scale, defined as the reduction in cost per unit resulting from increased production realized through operational efficiencies, constitute one of the key goals for firms to improve their competitiveness. But this productive model seems to be in the same time contradictory to the...
Managing people in a cross-cultural context
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
My company, REN, is a small company headquartered in Copenhagen. It is a new Japanese owned event company. It employs 50 people. The company has experienced problems with team building during its previous events because of the multinational nature of the teams. The cultural factor had not been...
