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Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and Lessons Learned From Them

a former assistant secretary of defense, in his report to the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee a dozen years ago....

Communication Audit; Coca-Cola

within the culture of control. The communication regarding strategy may be seen as supplemented with data collected from communi...

Are Payday Loans Legalized Loan-Sharking?

(Loan Shark, n.d.). There are two distinctions here that clearly separate payday loan businesses from loan sharks. The fir...

Quality and the Shop Floor Control System

sake. At first glance, it sounds like an oxymoron, but what is being relayed is the idea that sometimes speed and quantitative asp...

Corporate Culture: Impact Upon Customer Relations And Social Responsibility

is not something often at the forefront of modern day business dealings. According to Lena C. Pripp-Kovac, head of corporate resp...

Thingamajob

Thingamajob? Thingamajob Thingamajob is different from other on-line job services like CareerBuilder and Monster.com because empl...

Amazon.com and Internet Jurisdiction

have been forced to cease operations. Today Amazon maintains sites in Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United ...

Financial Services in a Global Context

billion passed through the hands of currency traders in New York, London and Tokyo every day. By 1995 daily turnover had reached a...

Business Franchise Selection

ownership in recent years (Franchising Basics), and previously unresponsive companies (i.e., McDonalds) have come to understand th...

Health Care and Free Market

insurance cost, 2004). The rising costs are bringing hardships to insured and uninsured alike; the single biggest cause for person...

Stewart Enterprises, Inc.

customers to see itemized price lists and to provide price information to the consumer over the telephone (Stone, 2000). Federal ...

Case Study of Overland Human Resource Management

groups of people an important element of the way in which HRM strategy can be spread. Originally Hofstede identified four ...

Gaming and Hilton Hotels

so much 1991 to 1994. This should not be surprising at all, however, as increased occupancy can be expected to follow a recession...

Palace Hotel of Guam and Activity Based Costing Explored

diverse industries during recent years. Despite "this trend in manufacturing, ABC systems have made few inroads in the services a...

A Case Study of a Fictitious Firm

and authors Deal & Kennedy (2000) warn that companies should consider the human factor when making changes. In the long run, it do...

The Impact on the Environment of BP Global

BP Global states plainly that its operations "result in the emission of various air pollutants" some of which can "have a damaging...

Local Government and Casino Tax Revenue Regarding Native Americans

the boundaries of their federal reservations without being regulated by state or local law. There have been several tests...

Doctor's Office and Scheduling Streamlining

all further appointments (Chase, Jacobs and Aquilano, 2004). The doctor always apologizes to the patients who have had to resched...

IT Consulting and the RFP

system. In turn, this subsystem can further be broken down into a more narrowly-defined set of components, which also may be able...

Resources and Competitive Advantage

introduction to Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski and Flowers (...

Logistics for an Online Grocery Store

as the entire chain from the sources of the raw materials though the collection processing, secondary process, logistics and suppl...

Branding for Sony in the International Environment

they are and how they compete. Sony was originally called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyp (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company), wo...

Do Leaders Make a Real Difference in an Organizations' Performance?

argued that leadership still has a key role in encouraging and promoting those who do spearhead success. In other words, is it myt...

BMW Logistics

a program that "automatically generates assembly line material call-offs based upon dynamic demand" (BMW South Africa, 2008). Ther...

Internet Gerocery Shopping and the Case of Webvan

an already low average operating margin (4%) * Need to build warehouses and hubs to * Less choice than traditional stores * Hi...

A Public Health Inspection of Apartment Housing and Public Swimming Pools

manufactured before 1978 are particularly likely to contain lead-based paints because it wasnt until that year that lead-based pai...

Starbucks Lost Sight of Its Principles

are about is high quality coffee beans (Starbucks, About us, 2009). In the 2007 Annual Report, Schultz wrote that the company had...

Detecting Oil Spills With Remote Sensing

GIS "not only helps with visualization but it is also a useful planning tool, allowing for identification of current problems and ...

Marks and Spencer 4 V’s and Operational Layout

amount of stock that is held indicates that there is the desire for a high level of sales. There are other indicators, with a larg...

SEMANTIC WEB 3.0

Microsoft Corp. has attempted to work through this with its just-introduced search engine bing.com. Most of those watching U.S. te...