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Essays 1981 - 2010

How Organizations Handle Change

Lewin describes way in which change materialises as the effect of driving and restraining forces (Lewin, 1951). The position of an...

Investment in Delta Airlines Assessment

difficulties, the 2001 figures were poor, the operating margin was -11.5% and the 2002 figure was a lower loss at -9.8% the twelve...

Overview of Internet Strategies

is a way of adding value greater than the cost of adding that value, making it different from the competition and stand out....

Technology and Visionary Design Systems

planning in the manufacturing sector. Product Data Management (PDM) was created in the 1980s as a means of storing CAD document...

Answers to Financial Questions

by selecting favoured shares. This is a theory that was developed for the most part at the University of Chicago, the theory is bo...

UK's IKEA

can be bought to transport goods home, and then when returned a full refund given (Ikea, 2004). Weaknesses may be seen in t...

Should Comcast Buy Disney?

to increase market share they will have to make acquisitions. Increasing market share in the same market also indicates horizontal...

Bubbles in Asset Pricing

fair market value. One author states that economists are not in agreement with what causes bubbles; Federal Reserve Chairma...

Environment of eCommerce

reached, especially into the US. In 2000 there were 300 million people in the world accessing the internet, and there was ...

Developing and Maintaining Customer Relationships Through Direct Marketing

Direct marketing must be fulfilling many goals as this s an area of rapid growth. This is one form of advertising that is easy to ...

UPS Analysis

that could not be delivered (UPS, History 1907, 2004). And, they did all this at prices almost as low as the post office (UPS, His...

Hypothetical Vodafone Acquisition by Virgin Mobile Telecom

All other facets of operation are similar to other cellular services providers; the primary difference with Virgins approach is th...

Finance Plan Creation Questions

the performance of firms holding "more than one-fourth of their assets in cash and cash equivalents" (Mikkelson and Partch, 2003; ...

Economics and Technology Transfer as it Relates to Cisco Systems

and Duffy, 2003; p. 1). Because they are based on a common source, there are no compatibility issues with these applications. Th...

Frans Hals and Rembrandt

(His own work 96). This produces a velvety-look to the players tunic, yet the instrument distinctly has the high gloss of polished...

What Could Have Been Done to Save Enron

Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...

P and F Industries and Black and Decker

of shares. In this company the CEO is the largest shareholder however, other directors also have large shareholdings. Sidney Horo...

Manmade Wetlands and Hog Farming

on site as is electricity. The site is of added attraction in that it is intersected by a major highway and thus transportation c...

Enhancing Customer Value

paper we will be applying the theory to a supposed service company that is a strategic business unit of a larger company. 3. Anal...

Overview of Employee Empowerment

matters and has an effect on the performance of the organization (Corsun and Enz, 1999). Meaningfulness also means that the employ...

Student Case Study on Southern Foods

this means not only in terms of operations, but also in terms of the staff. The level of motivations needs to be increased, and al...

Competitive Advantage, Organizational Structure, and Businesses

sorting out. In these examples, what elements of organizational structure are managers working with to enhance performance and com...

An Analysis of Walgreens

patients directly onto the system, as well as print off labels with instructions in a number of languages. At a different ...

Overview of Instant Coffee Industry

coffee beans and created a process for removing the caffeine from the beans (Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, 1994). That would be ...

Target, Sears, and Wal Mart Macroeconomic Forecasts

company expects a decline in sales for the current quarter. Lehman Brothers takes a much more in-depth look into Wal-Marts prospe...

Samsung's Innovation

working due to commercial and shareholder pressures. If we look at some company background this can appreciated. Samsung ...

Marketing Strategies and PDA Marketing by SONIC

course, that was in the days before PDAs became popular. Still, Sonic could certainly take a leaf from Palms book and work toward ...

Organizational Change at Boeing

not, however, at the time, disqualified herself from acting in her government capacity on anything regarding Boeing (Velocci et al...

United Kingdom Workforce Diversity Management

own racial, cultural, generational and socioeconomic circles. How to manage these factors has become a topic of management courses...

Crisis and Risk Management Nexus

can be anything from an unexpected financial set-back, a natural disaster such as a flood or an earthquake, the malfeasance of a c...