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General Electric's Transformation

General Electric. He had been there for two decades and he turned the company around. It was faltering when he took over and flour...

Corporate Expansion Through Non-Traditional Means

with a problem: after years of slowly built success filling a niche market in consumer resource marketing by creating a helpful an...

No Surprises for Truman

The writer argues that President Truman knew that the Chinese would assist North Korea in their attack on the South, and used that...

Military Suicide Rates: Why Are They on the Rise?

sources indicate that suicides within the military are becoming increasingly common. The motivating factors for such a fact are qu...

The Presence of Transaction Costs in the Decision to Outsource

Firm", and defined transaction costs as " the cost of using the price mechanism" (Coase, 1988, p38). However, this is a rather amb...

Change at Nissan

change is likely to see resistance and the potential for failure increases. It is only when resistance to changes overcome that a ...

Jet Blue Airlines: A Case Analysis

to pull itself out of the mire that constitutes the greatest economic recession since the fabled stock market crash of 1929, nearl...

Risk Management in the Case of Infant Abduction

lost revenue, and a need to internally overhaul security procedures. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, there were only a total of 104 ...

Financial Goals and Planning

time job more difficult. At the current time I do not have plans to start working while at university so I can concentrate on my s...

Do Management Theories Develop As Management Problems Arise?

were broken down into the smallest components which would acquire the issues give or training. John Childs describes this as the t...

MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP AND ROLES

other hand, achieves the leaders goals through allocating jobs and using the skills of other people (Leadership 501, 2006). ...

Southwest Airlines in 2008

Airlines Co., 2008) Threats * Uncertainty in fuel prices * Intense competition and competitors concessions gained in bankruptcy * ...

Is an IT Strategy Focused On Maintaining Cutting-Edge Technology the Most Effective Way to Support Any Kind of Overall Business?

business strategies (Deloitte Consulting, 2004). The problem is that although there may be benefits of IT gaining alignment...

COCA-COLA AND THE MARKET

in 200 nations (Murray, 2008). Ironically enough, the company doesnt do its own bottling, though it does own 35% of Coca-Cola Ente...

Strategic Advice for Robin Hood and His Merry Men

the rich to give to the poor. Then there is the Sheriff and his soldiers. In stories, Robin is continually making a fool of the m...

Marketing Plan for the World Wildlife Fund

the unsustainable consumption of the worlds natural resources" (WWF, 2008). The goal is to protect the environment by infl...

To What Extent Can Decisions About Operations Really Be Strategic From The Firm's Point Of View?

For example, operations management may be able to help determine the right location for a factory, by looking at the available sit...

Boeing And Airbus Competition

in any major airport but Airbus can only land in the very large airports. Boeing has marketed their Dreamliner as the future of a...

Friedman and Corporate Social Responsibility

standards is not specified and therefore, one must assume that the moral demands which are made by society or more important than ...

The Performance of Yahoo! 2007 - 2008

by January 2008 this had reduced to 19%. Bu feburary there was an even bigger falls as Yahoo! market share fell to 17.6%, they ar...

Selling Clothing Accessories in London; Research Results and Financial Plan

this market. The London market is one of the areas where there is still demand, it is a focal point for regional...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

Managing Change; The Chemical Industry

be effect the change must be permanent (McCallum, 1997). For a chemical manufacturing plant there have been numerous change...

Arctic Mining Consultants - Case Study

in the staking, including the amount of brush the men encountered. Furthermore, they were being transported by helicopter to their...

Leon Trotsky

Davidovich Bronshtein). Martov "won the vote ... but Lenin was unwilling to accept the result" (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein). He and...

STRATEGIC ISSUE COMPARISON: WAL-MART, COSTCO & TARGET

above, are being threatened by the sub-prime fall out (Datamonitor (c), 2008). Costco is in a somewhat different boat, be...

Blue Nile Inc.

of Porters Five Forces model can be used to assess the industry and the firms ability to compete in that industry, the way the fir...

Has IBM Slipped into Mediocrity?

with the strategic alliance which was undertaken with Microsoft who provided the operating systems, DOS and then Windows at a late...

On Your Mark's First Annual Stockholder Report For Its' Stakeholders

In the coming years the firm will be pursuing an aggressive growth strategy to acquisitions and/or new products are likely to be s...

The Communication Process

complex levels in the communication process. For practical purposes, we might say that communication is achieved when a message is...