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Banking Sector and Technology's Impact

In eight pages the impact of technology on banking is examined in an overview of talking teller machines, biometrics, and issues i...

Labor Relations' Environmental Changes and the United Auto Workers Union

be surprised by their recognition of the changes that have taken place, and what the future may hold (2001). II. About the UAW ...

Education and Computers

the all-time low of 5:1 (Poindexter, 2003). Critics continue to contend, however, that there is no credible large-scale research ...

Overview of 'Fannie Mae'

would otherwise be unable to qualify for a mortgage loan to do so (Hoovers, 2003). In short, Fannie Maes core mission is to make h...

Overview of Brain Prosthetics

1995). Through these two books, we see striking similarities to the possible repercussions of brain prosthetics (Foucault, 1995)....

eCommerce and Dell's Strategy

is the notion of both individual and company accountability, stellar service and support, and superior corporate citizenship (20...

National Air Space System Improvements

In five pages system improvements for National Air Space are discussed in a historical overview and consideration of WAAS and LAAS...

UMTS Political Pitfalls of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System or UMTS

First, the important technology to change the modern way of life, and render this a wireless world, began at the turn of the centu...

Trends in the Funeral Industry

mysterious or frightening (National Funeral Directors Association, 2003). In addition, stories in magazines abound about brave peo...

Smart Clothing and Wearable Computer Technology

between this system and: "passive reminder system (such as a paper organizer) or a context-blind...

Changes in Advertising and Technology

Technology and Advertising Many large corporate advertisers are looking for ways to reach larger markets and to demonstrate...

Defining Technology Due Diligence

of four teaching hospitals in San Francisco, UCSF Stanford Health Care abandoned the merger in large part because of the difficult...

Smart Car Marketing Plan

Analysis Smart has been available in Europe for several years, but it only now is coming into the US. There is a...

Fuel Hedging and Airlines - Are the costs Greater than the Benefits?

questions to be addressed with the research is to assess whether or not it is in the interests of the shareholders, assuming they ...

Should Airlines Hedge their Fuel Purchases?

the firm to the relevant stakeholders (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). When looking at the way airlines in particular operate prote...

MITIGATION PLAN: DECREASING USE OF FOSSIL FUELS/FOREIGN OIL

is quite likely. However, there are two issues pertaining to fossil fuels. First, as theyre not a renewable source, once th...

Sources for a Research Project Assessing Any Correlation between Firm Value and Hedging in the Airline Industry

Clark E; Lukas E, (2008, Nov), Hedging mean-reverting commodities, retrieved http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=12...

Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Method Proposal for Financial Research

the hedging category for the years in which undertook hedging. The results may be correlated to see if there is a snippet differen...

Research Design for a Financial Project

The writer looks at potential research designs to assess which would be most appropriate for research into financial performance o...

Airline Profability and Fuel Hedging: An Analytical Look

to the airlines: they have to buy the fuel at the agreed upon rate regardless of what happens to the actual market value of fuel. ...

The Effect of Fuel Hedging on Airline Profits

in a good position, because it will have hedged for a lower price than the fuel is now actually worth. On the contrary, if the pri...

Operations Management Calculations

too long to make an analysis of it viable when undertaking all the other tasks of everyday life and setting up a business. When ...

Climate Change

there is only so much oil and no more. When it will run out is a completely unknown factor. A report by BP suggested that oil woul...

US Economy, 2008

trillion as the forecast GDP in both February and March 2008, and a slight increase to $14.403 trillion in April 2008 (U.S. Gross ...

Oil Prices and Airline Budgets

of hedging and how the airline will fare will depend partly on the type of instrument they use (Flottau & Wall, 2008). This is a g...

Is There a Correlation between the Profitability and Practice of Hedging in Airlines?

of market conditions at the times airlines do not need to utilize fuel. Brooks and Carter et al. (2006) observed that hedging pra...

Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

The Results of an Investigation into the Impact on Hedging on Airline Profit

reviewing some of the important issues in the literature which have guiding the way that the data was collected and analyzed. Foll...

An Environmental Literacy Walk for the Preschooler

Young children know very little of their world. They have, after all, only been exposed to a limited...

Fuel Hedging and Profit

airline operating costs. Increasing costs can have a significant impact on the profitability of a firm; this has been particula...