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PBS/Corp. Partnerships & Strategic Alliances

this trend, Austin points out that the "era of ever-bigger national government is coming to an end" (Austin, 2000, p. 7). In previ...

Stalingrad Operations

on 18 December 1940" (Shrier, 2006). It seems unlikely that even signing the pact would have saved Russia from invasion, since Hit...

Evaluating The Transformation Process: Italiano Pizza Company

sold in any given week, which can lead to either underestimating or overestimating the need for perishable supplies. The associat...

Afghanistan and Iraq: Military and Culture

different culture and a different military entity. An important element to note in the nature or culture of the Afghanista...

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...

Thingamajob

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

The Operations Managers’ need for Awareness of Changing Markets

adding value. The way in which the products and services are developed and the way fashions and sales of products, or serv...

Operations Management Questions

the development of the product or service, this may include potential suppliers, and the validation of requirement material s and ...

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...

Currency Risk Management at McDonald's

and deal in the commodities that the company uses, such as orange juice. Mr. Pfaucht explains that he has to fully understa...

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...

Amazon.com and Internet Jurisdiction

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

Motivating and Keeping Staff when Expanding into China

of strategic human resource management would be used in order to align the remuneration with the organizational goals. Schuler (19...

Organizational Issues for a Financial Services Firm

limited to car, property, life2 and commercial insurance policies. The firm acts as an intermediary, with packaged insurance pro...

CALTEX, SOUTH AFRICA AND APARTHEID

ask here is whether the Texaco/Standard Oil joint ventures presence is more beneficial to the local population, and what might hap...

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

and information technology were vastly different at one time than today. The initial functions of operations management, in fact, ...

AMERICAN CONNECTOR AND DJC

his vision, and this could spell dire trouble for American Connector. One case in point is the companys design and implemen...

Motivations for Multinational Companies to Pursue Forogen Direct Investment

labor thats may be more readily available, or available at a lower cost than in the companys home country. In many instances the p...

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...

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...

Paradise Lost - General Dynamics on Kava Island

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

Marketing Approaches and the Utilization of the Mass Media

is approached may be undertaken with a marketing originated approached; this has the potential to add value in the way that the pr...

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...

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...

Improving a Hotels Operations

customer. This is a tool that helps assess the differences between the expectations and perceptions of the customers, and the actu...

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...

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...

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...