Financial Innovation Essay: High Frequency Trading and its social impacts
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
A Financial Times article argues that HFT is beneficial for society, and that banning HFT from use would increase volatility. I agree with this point of view, as algorithms democratized trading by allowing a direct access to the markets and decreasing the costs of the transactions. Also,...
Sustainable cocoa sourcing strategies and supply chain - Mondelez International Inc.
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Foreign markets
Mondelez International Inc., the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world and in Europe has committed to cover 100% of its cocoa supply chain with its Cocoa Life Program by 2025 while investing at the same time $400 million in it. This program for sustainable cocoa sourcing is...
Fragmentation and inconsistency in international investment law
Essay - 5 pages - International law
It is a fallacy to think of international investment law as a general, coherent regime. The rules of law are splintered and fragmented, both in terms of their formal source and in terms of their application of particular disputes. What is more, there are no mechanisms in...
African Conflicts in International Relations - China in Africa : Political or Economic interests ?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
China's involvement in Africa cannot be reduced to only one dimension. It would be an oversimplification to label the Chinese interests on the continent as either political or economic solely: these two aspects often constitute two faces of the same coin. China's increasing engagement in...
Are manufacturing jobs better than service- International Business?
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Of late, there has cropped up many issues in the business world that were previously unheard of. The current competitive business world calls for numerous strategies. This has inspired change in decision taking and behavior of business enterprises. Sometime back, the manufacturing industry was...
Colon Free Trade Zone
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In recent years, numerous governments about the globe have sought to provide financial incentives to investors. These incentives are tailored to attract investment and the growth of trade and thus benefit the local people. One of the methods they are currently applied to attract investment...
Career strategy with an International Business master's degree
Business plan - 12 pages - Marketing theories
I am currently in my last year of the International master's program as a multi-skilled salesperson with the company BURDIGALA in Bordeaux. My missions in the first year were to take care of all the marketing and communication parts (creation of events, creation of flyers,...
French law of international commercial arbitration
Course material - 5 pages - Other law subjects
French law of international commercial arbitration is a course designed for fourth-year students at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis and doctoral students in law. In order to help students deepen their knowledge of the subject, a book has been set up called "International...
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...
How and why is International Law Binding on States?
Essay - 3 pages - International law
While the legal nature of the subject itself has been often discussed and debated, it is generally considered that international law has legal value, notably because of its binding effect. Indeed, international law is binding on states, with obligations based on both moral and...
History and impact of the illegal Cocaine trade by the Los Zetas Cartel
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Las Zetas forms one of the largest drug cartels in America. The group took control of cocaine and other drug trafficking activities in 1999. Illegal cocaine trade in North America dates back to 1947 when the initial legal business became illegal following its ban by the United States...
Cultural Differencies in International Business Negotiation: the Need for an Assessment of Influencial Factors
Litterature review - 14 pages - Management
With social conflict being ubiquitous, conflict management is a major challenge for humanity. Recently, researchers have advanced several theories and research on constructive solutions for conflict management. Negotiation is then proposed as the most effective way to do this according to...
How to synergize the works of internal auditors and external auditors to listed companies
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
Internal and external auditors have been used over the years to promote transparency and compliance with the accounting procedures in listed companies. The external and internal auditors have had separate duties in the audit process. However, conflicts have been witnessed between the internal and...
Core values of International Relations - Saudi Arabian national Constitution
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The Saudi Arabian national Constitution and concept of rule of law is based on the Qur'an, which identifies itself as the rule of law. The 1992 Constitution or the Basic Law of Saudi Arabia clearly states that the kingdom is a sovereign State with Islam as the religion of the nation. It is...
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...
How to reduce the turnover of a company dependent on a single supplier by developing a multi-supplier and international merchant site?
Dissertation - 28 pages - Digital & e-marketing
MANICO is an ESPRIT franchise. This type of contract creates a high dependency on a single supplier and eliminates any possibility of online sales. In order to reduce this reliance on ESPRIT, the company wishes to develop a merchant website with several French and foreign brands and to provide...
International Engineering Management - Toyota
Case study - 9 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
There are numerous strategies that lead Toyota to first place in the automobile industry. This report will provide an opportunity to better understand the company's history, recognize the main factors that bring success to the business, and analyze cultural analysis between China and South...
International finance distribution of currency of AUD and USD
Worksheets - 4 pages - Finance
The distribution above conforms to the features of a normal distribution in terms of skewness, kurtosis, and tails. The mean-mode-median of the distribution is at the center. The mean is the arithmetic average of all the scores recorded, mode refers to the fact that the mean appears near the most...
Multinational Corporations and their Consequences on the International Economy
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Multinational corporations are those businesses that have a direct ownership of assets, which they run in more than one state outside their country in which they are built-in, and also they generally retain their headquarters. It means that these corporations have roots in their state. However;...
International Advertising
Case study - 6 pages - International marketing
According to Assael (1987), culture refers to the set of norms, beliefs and habits acquired in a social environment and which determine the patterns of behavior common to all individuals. It includes rituals, heroes, values, religion, language, history and education of a given human community....
Theme of the lost generation- International Relations, Analysis
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
The lost generation is a term that has spread out its roots into the ages of history between 1500 and 1950, during and after the World War 1. Following the pressure and the need for state and individual freedom globally, young and energetic men found themselves in the battlefield, armed for war....
The European Union and its International Role - Towards a European Federation? (From the European Conference in The Hague to the Rome Treaties, 1948-1957)
Course material - 6 pages - Modern history
Already during the war, many Resistance groups asked themselves how to stop the cycle of recurring European wars. After 1945, many groups and associations suggested going back to the European ideas of the 20s, which included the concept of a European Union (Briand Plan of 1930). They stressed...
North Korea internal affairs and the response of South Korea and the United States
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
North Korea is considered one of the world's secretive societies and one of the remaining countries under communist rule. The country's nuclear determinations have intensified its continual isolation from the rest of the world. The end of World War II saw the emergence of North Korea in 1948 with...
International Companies and their Strategies
Case study - 10 pages - Management
As a result of the globalisation that we are witnessing for more than twenty decades, the smallest of companies could cross seas and establish business in foreign lands, as a consequence of that, many names have been given to these companies that succeeded in doing business abroad. The three main...
International Finance and Investment-The Greece Debt Crisis
Case study - 21 pages - Educational studies
Human fallibility ripped off Greece the dignity accorded to its rich history as the economy has been marred with endless conflicts, whose effects spreads beyond its national frontiers. The events revealing themselves in the Greece economy have caught the entire Eurozone in denials and bargains of...
Comprehensive Analysis of Sea Change International, Inc.
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
Organizations operate in a business environment characterized by high uncertainty influencing the link existing between their strategies and overall performance. This arises from the turbulent world, where each day appears to bring along the dawn of a new environmental era. Assuming that the...
Fair Trade: Evaluating the model's success based on its workability as a market-based model
Thesis - 4 pages - Services marketing
In order to create a niche market, a quantitatively significant group of consumer in developed countries must be willing to purchase Fair Trade agricultural products instead of mainstream products. Consumers' role in international trade is to create demand for a given...
Is Fair Trade a tool to appease the conscience or a political lever?
Thesis - 9 pages - Political science
Fair Trade is an approach based on precise criterion of sustainable development; relations of exchanges of long duration and direct relations removing the intermediaries. According to these criterions, the Fair Trade organizations of North thus begin to buy these products at a just...
A research proposal for the Masters Thesis; Environment and Trade in the Word Trade Organization
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The global environmental issues include climate change, ozone depletion, marine dumping, deforestation, and biodiversity. However the objective of my thesis is not to provide detailed scientific treatment of the nature of the major environmental challenges facing the world , but rather to explore...
How does trade globalization affect women working conditions in South America?
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The international trade agreements have important impact on people living in poverty. But these impacts operate at different levels. In some cases, trade can stimulate the development of these countries, help the economic growth, help employment, give access to local...
