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Microsoft and Bill Gates

1973, while at Harvard University, Gates and friend Steve Ballmer, now Microsofts chief executive officer, developed a new version...

Examining Ancient Civilizations

extant of the distinctive grey geometric ware produced in Crete during this period. Towards...

Multinational Corporations and Ethics

culture or country? A Case Study: Talisman Energy Perhaps one way to outline Marys dilemma is to examine what other compani...

Dabhol, India Enron Project

the development of the local economy and create jobs (Vachani, 1995). If we look at the situation in India, there is a need for m...

Managed Care Research and Ethical Issues

majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...

Questions on Health Care Infrastructure

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

Organizational Conflict Theoretical Model and Rondell Data Corporation

and negative, as has happened with Rondell. Research, overall, demonstrates that conflict can be multidimensional (Amason,...

Overview of the Oracle Corporation

from other companies like Business Objects , BEA Systems and IBM (2003). Oracle has also moved into global markets and the compan...

Organizations and Currency Risk Management

of the world. It found a foothold during the early 1980s, however, and its record-breaking rise during that period resulted in an...

Culture and the Effects of Globalization

sweatshop conditions or child labor. One of the benefits is that globalization brings other perspectives into areas where they wo...

Emerging Market Investment Modes and Multinational Corporations

shortcomings when it comes to diversification and competition. 1. Factor Conditions : The nations position in factors of producti...

Foreign Employee Integration

she gives the impression that she would rather not be there. She is taking no initiative to assimilate into her new surroundings. ...

The Last Thirty Years and the Global Economy

(EuroRegion Network). It was in December 1991 that the Maastricht European Council reached the agreement about the Treaty establis...

A Strategy for Entering into an E-Commerce Business

only used where there is not alterative. The main exception to this is the historical data regarding the development of the intern...

Organizational Change and Management

state, Senge argues that this is cultural, and we are conditioned to resist change. However, although failure level may be high, s...

Conrail Bought by CSX

their services. Across the industry, operating ratio "(defined as the ratio of operating expenses to operating revenues...)" (Mil...

Hochschild, Berman, Marx, and Social Alienation

is specific to the job. There does not seem to be as much attention to the holistic consequences of alienation. Rather than being ...

Tutorial on Organizational Problem Solving

people rather than the car (Aaker, 1994). The student can also focus on how Saturn itself solved problems during its early...

State Role and Employee Relations

supply and demand, and as such equilibrium will be met with employees able to change employers if they are unhappy. In reality t...

Global Epidemic Prevention of Obesity

a false ideal body weight, there is an epidemic within the psychological world of those adolescents and indeed, people of all ages...

History and Implications of Medicare's Managed Care

cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care ac...

UPS' 1997 Labor Strike and Management Lessons Learned

general, as an organization grows bigger its organizational structure enlarges as well (Robbins, 1999). As the environment in whi...

Retail and the Significance of Managing Space

way as to appear almost odd, or too eclectic, the stores do make efficient use of space. They manage to get a wide variety of prod...

The Batch System and Allied Corporation

noted that these systems had small lot sizes, low levels of automation, general purpose machinery and low control of production (H...

Theory and Practice of Hedging

different companies. 1.1 The Definition of Hedging The first stage is to define what it is we mean by hedging. This is a tool t...

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Human Resource Management

The question then becomes, how does Company A merge its HR policies with Company B? How, for example, does a peer mediation proces...

Global Setting and Strategic Brand Management

commercial paradigms already in place. The choice will begin with a consideration of the way in which the brand will be propagated...

A Microsoft Subsidiary Analysis

Burgum. "With the commitment of our 2,200 global channel partners, more than 2,000 team members, and the tremendous people and tec...

At Home Employee Management

of how this has been done. Before discussing the actual process of managing telecommuters, it would be helpful to determin...

Korean Corporations and the Practice of Nepotism

Korean business - at one point, Hyundai, Daewoo, Samsung, LG and SK, the five largest chaebol, had hundreds of subsidiaries betwee...