Is "Al-Dar Islamic Fund", created by Pictet, a Geneva based Private Bank, Islamic compliant?
Essay - 10 pages - Finance
Who has created the ?Al-Dar Islamic Fund'? Is it Pictet which is a Geneva based Private Bank which is in compliance with the Islamic culture? The answer to this buzzing mind boggling question is ?No'. As confirmed, the contained shares are not Islamic compliant and secondly the targeted...
Strategic marketing plan for Caroll (the French "fashion house") in China
Market study - 10 pages - Services marketing
Today, with the globalization, companies have to establish in other countries than their origin country, to be more competitive and to resist in the market, especially in the clothing retail market. So, the main part of companies opens new subsidiaries in other countries and more on emergent...
China's beer wars South Africa Breweries. SABMiller case
Market study - 31 pages - Business strategy
1. General information on the company A. SABMiller historical B. Important figures C. International policy 1. The main international events 2. The case of China 3. Analysis of the SAB International policy 2. Analysis of the Chinese beer market A. Characteristics of the Chinese beer market B....
Music, emotion and Zipf's law
Essay - 59 pages - Linguistics & languages
The hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifesting itself in Zipf 's law and modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e in a signal-object reference matrix, gave rise to the idea that maybe the elements in music that elicit our emotional...
Ports Design Limited - strategic management
Case study - 16 pages - Management
PORTS Design Limited is a fashion company which is vertically integrated. It is commonly known as an, international fashion company. The main activity of PORTS is being engaged in the design, manufacture and the retail of high-end fashion garments and accessories for men and women.The brand...
Learning team behavior and processes
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Prioritizing tasks may prove to be quite a tough feat when an individual has too much on their plate. Determining the difference between urgent tasks and important tasks may aid in the fight. Author Stephen Covey has developed a matrix the he described in his book, First Things First....
Fuzzy QFD for optimizing the engineering characteristics of a casting product
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
A casting may be defined as a metal object obtained by allowing molten metal to solidify in a mould, the shape of the object being determined by the shape of the mould cavity. Defective castings, even at advanced foundries, account for 2 to 5% and sometimes from 10 to 25% of the number of...
Marketing plan for Caroll in China
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
In this document we will present a brief marketing plan for Caroll. The firm would like to have a foothold on the Chinese market. As tool, we will use some common instruments such as B.C.G. Matrix, Ansoff Matrix or the well-known 4P's as well as Porter's five forces. An overview of...
Aquatic habitats in forest ecosystems
Essay - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
There is a wide variety of aquatic habitats found in forested areas ranging from water-?lled tree holes through to large rivers, lakes, and inundated forests. This article initially reviews the classi?cation of aquatic habitats and some of their important geomorphological, physicochemical, and...
The development of a customer-focused organization
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Flow management, flat organization, project management, re-engineering processes - the theme of the integrated enterprise management is the quest for better coordination between organizations and entrepreneurs which has had a major impact on business and change management in the recent past....
What are the challenges of rebranding?
Case study - 3 pages - Services marketing
When do companies feel they need rebranding? Are their earnings going in deficit or have they started undermining their profits. Is it the less number of customers coming to them or they are making less profit on their earnings. Has the product gone in to a “Dog” stage of BCG...
A presentation on marketing management
Presentation - 61 pages - Services marketing
This presentation will start with marketing environments and systems. It will explore environments like the economic, competitive, technological, socio-cultural environments, etc. The presentation will then progress towards market oriented strategic planning. It will also talk about the BCG...
Strategic analysis of "Yahoo!"
Case study - 20 pages - Management
There are more Yahoo! Mail users around the world than two times the population of Mexico” (Yahoo! Website, 2008). One cannot deny the success of Yahoo! over the last decade. However, the reason why Yahoo! is catching a lot of media attention today does not lie in its success but more on...
Organisational approach of Mintzberg
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The traditional concept of regulating the behaviour of employees in an organization dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. This was chiefly due to the works of Henry Fayol, Max Webber, Frederick Taylor and their contemporaries. These approaches are consistent with the concept of the...
Public relations services agreement
Standard contracts - 7 pages - Other law subjects
Recitals: The purpose of this Agreement is for the Company to retain an experienced and qualified public relations agency to provide a range of public relations and communications tasks for Company. The Parties Agree: 1. TERM: The term of this Agreement is for one year commencing on (Month, Day...
Catholic religious orders in Europe
Thesis - 3 pages - Philosophy
Monarchism started in Egypt during the IInd century and may have its roots in the forms of some Jewish sects. Saint Antony (236-347) created next to Alexandria what we call anachoretism. He organized a hermits' life. These men gather in communities called anchoret. They live alone but meet on...
Technology Industry in India
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
To begin with, we will talk about the history of India but without going too far back in time because what we are interested in is the part of the history that still has a significative impact on the current socio-economic situation which leads the Technology Industry in India including IT...
The evolution of Chinese and French women since the nineteenth century: Differences and similarities
Thesis - 17 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the two last Centuries, French women and Chinese ones have realized, little by little, their emancipation. What are the matrixes which have participated to the positive evolution of the condition of the Chinese and French women? Under which form has it taken place, and at which moments in the...
Human resources final case study assignment British Petroleum
Essay - 11 pages - Human resources
We will analyze the case "British Petroleum: Transformational Leadership in a Transnational Organization". During this analysis, we will explain how different management styles are practiced in this company. Two different CEOs, Robert Horton and David Simon, succeeded this British oil company. We...
Media and terrorism: new challenges for freedom of expression?
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Benjamin Cardozo, an American jurist of the 20th century, used to say that "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom?. As such, freedom of expression was recognised, as early as at the end of the 18th century, as a fundamental...
Global Youth Culture: A Cross Border Market
Thesis - 13 pages - Services marketing
I think it may be useful to remind that however we are acting on a domestic or a global market; we always have to keep in mind that according to Wedel, M. and Kamakura, W A. (1998) an efficient segment should be: Identifiable, Sizeable, Accessible, Stable, Responsive and Actionable. Masaaki, K....
Marketing plan for Caudalie products in Saudi Arabia
Case study - 55 pages - Services marketing
Caudalie, founded in 1993 by two people: Mathilde Bernard Thomas and Professor Vercauteren, features products made from grape pips (from wine producer: Laffite), which are considered to be highly beneficial for the skin. Two years later, the duo launched their first range of products. Keeping in...
Transformational Change at British Petroleum : one goal two different leaders
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Before Robert Horton took over as CEO and Chairman of British Petroleum (BP) in 1990, the company's situation was difficult in terms of the lack of clearness of mission and strategic policy within the top 150 managers surveyed at the beginning of 1989. This survey revealed the managers feeling in...
EADS : A cross cultural merger
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
Since the early 1980s, mergers and acquisitions have been developing in Europe and worldwide. After the dramatic increase in the number of mergers and acquisitions in the second half of the 1980s, the 1990s leaves its mark by rapid cross-border connections and increased significant value of...
Strategic analysis of Microsoft France
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
Today, the market share for Windows is 93% of the number of positions in the world, against 4% for Mac OS or Linux 1%. The Microsoft group, which sells the Windows operating system is the group known in the global market for computer software. Thus we will examine the strategy of this global...
Mintzberg's approach to the organizational system
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Traditional conceptions that regulated the behavior of organizations in the late nineteenth century were based on the works of Henry Fayol (from France), Max Weber (from Germany), Frederick Taylor (from America) and their contemporaries. Their approaches was consistent the ‘top-down...
Controlling organized crime paper
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
Although the amount of information available to investigators on organized crime has increased due to the increasing number of crime activities, crime has also evolved significantly,and the law enforcement units have a large amount of information to keep. The significant collection of information...
How did HRM allow Alcatel to adapt to changes posed by the changing market?
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
We were on the lookout for a company that was willing to provide us with the information for our investigation file. We had a consultant in our midst, who put us in contact with several companies like Bouygues, Dassault and Alcatel. We wrote several letters explaining the purpose of our approach...
Market research: L'Oreal
Case study - 83 pages - Services marketing
The market potential represents the number of persons likely to consume in a given geographic area. The market potential for the cosmetic brand L'Oreal extends to the entire world population, since the number of countries where its products are distributed and the number of segments available to...
Porter's five forces contribution to the SWOT model
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
The SWOT model, abbreviation of “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats", is a strategic tool, defined in 1971, for helping a company to analyze its internal context (strengths and weaknesses) and its external context (opportunities and threats), which have an impact on its...
