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Energy Crisis of the State of California

that SDG&E wound up contracting with a power plant at rates that were much higher than those of other energy distributors in Calif...

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES AND AMERICAN AIRLINES: A COMPARISON

to a destination (though there may be two or three changes in the meantime) rather than to a major city "hub," which then branches...

Hollywood and the Law

get away with it because at the time, the studios also owned the theater chains where the films were shown. The court held that t...

Leading Plastics Injection Molding Company

Sarbanes-Oxley and have achieved ISO 9000 quality standards (Butod, 2009). These quality standards make the operations of the comp...

Comparing 3 Logistics Companies

developed into a value chain and the expansion of this to the virtual value chain. The first of these systems was the COSMOS syste...

Miami Beach and the Russian Mob

Fontainebleau Hotel (Owen, 2003). In early centuries, Florida was home to smugglers and pirates, so it shouldnt come as a surprise...

Corporate Strategy and Information Technology

are the earliest know treaties on the subject (Goldenberg, 1997). His influence in business is strongest in Asian countries and th...

TGI Friday's and the Food and Beverage Industry

beverage operations, seen with firms such as McDonalds, Burger King and other restaurant chains and hotel chains (Mintzberg et al,...

Toyota and Johnson & Johnson - Doing It Wrong, Doing it Right

way. Instead, they put consumers ahead of profits (Rehak, 2002). First, they stepped up and took responsibility, then they pulled...

Paradise Lost - General Dynamics on Kava Island

The writer considers the kinds of strategic decisions, implementations and ethical considerations General Dynamics must make befor...

Implementing High Involvement Work Practices

Using two example case studies the writer looks at the way in which high involvement workplace practices may be implemented in ord...

Case Study of Processes at Mario’s

wait too long for their type of table to become available. It is notable that the restaurant appears to have insufficient capacity...

Failed Covert Operations In Evan Thomas's "The Very Best Men"

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

Covert Operations vs. the Traditional Military

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

U.S. Foreign Policy, Just War Theory, and the Persian Gulf War

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

Fluor's Dedication to Integrity

there are other outside influences. In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can aff...

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN ANALYSIS

Nigerian, with close to two-thirds of the employees coming from the Niger Delta region. Nigeria, however, is anything but...

IT at Zara

their store, and determining order levels. Other employees were also empowered with intellectual capitals used; different groups o...

Primary Care Surgical Clinic/Indigent Population

these surgeries can proceed more efficiently and effectively, and that case management results in cost savings, as well as improve...

Commissioning a Health Care Facility

few points of the requirements of HVAC design and execution in the new health care facility, but they demonstrate the complexity i...

PANERA BREAD - CASE STUDY

$511 billion, accounting for about 47.5% of consumers food dollar expenditures. It was predicated that, on a typical day, about 13...

Knorr Packet Soup in Ireland

and maintain the number one position they need to understand the market, the position within that market and the influences that a...

Toyota Supply Chain Management

is why Toyota adopted just-in-time (JIT) supply chain management many, many years ago. JIT is about having the right raw materials...

Fast Food Nation

environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...

Hutchison Whampoa Limited; Operations, Potential Expansion and Marketing Challenges

include any ship of the UKs largest port; the Port of Felixstowe, as well as Harwich International, Thamesport and a major interes...

Are the World Bank and the IMF Political?

the IMF which would consider issues such as the provision of short term finances, and help including the balancing of budgets and ...

Strategy for Panera

There are myriad social forces affecting the industry, not all of which are directly related to putting product into customers han...

The Nature Of Strategy In An International Context; The Case of Nissan

is also highly reflective of the Japanese culture. The automotive industry in Japan rose up after the Second World War. It reflec...

Organizational Culture And Cultural Diversity: The Meaning Of Culture

Being able to actualize, even if just in ones mind, the corporations ultimate goal when faced with adversity is instrumental in fo...

Inbound Logistics

chain management. Ultimately, the performance of operations is dependent upon having the right materials there at the right time (...