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Same-Sex Marriage: Redefining Love

not take both male and female genitalia to create a loving, devoted relationship; rather, all it requires is the commitment from t...

Adidas—Will Restructuring Its Business Line-up Allow It to Catch Nike?

and moves from strength to strength as in 1996 the brand supplied a total of 6,000 athletes at the Olympics from a total of 33 cou...

Esteban Echeverria/The Slaughter House

to its "underlying political statement" and purpose, which is to underscore the brutality of the Rosas political regime. One of ...

Is It Immoral To Believe A Claim Without Evidence?

Of all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...

Daimler Chrysler Merger And Split

company retained its interest in the European aerospace and defense consortium (EADS), though, as well as other strategic alliance...

Microsoft's Bid To Buy Yahoo!

clearly represents the best way to deliver maximum value to our respective shareholders" (TelecomWeb News Digest, 2008, p. NA). Th...

Teaching Children to Read: A Research Guide

sound components of a word and so can break a word down by sounds (NRP, 2000; Kamii and Manning, 2002). The following is a classr...

Cultural And Gender Influences In Education And Organizations

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

Trends and Influences on the Pharmaceutical Industry

greater life expectancy increases the potential markets for treatments associated with the process of aging, from arthritis to hea...

HR Strategy for Interclean

the management. When management overhears these concerns there is an entrenchment of the separation between management and employe...

The Chevron Acquisition of Unocal

the acquisition, by acquiring Unocal, Chevron will have significantly better reserve levels seen those reserve levels, based on 20...

The Takeover Battle Between RBS and Barclays to Acquire ABN Amro

and mergers in the past. The offer made by Barclays was worth ?45 billion (US $91 billion) at the time (Investment Dealers Digest,...

Organizational Practices at Best Buy

2001 (a move that gave them immediate access to a broad upscale customer base), and continuing with the purchase of Future Shop (t...

The Changing Position of Gucci

may also be the potential for some vertical integration to add value. In addition to this the existing core competencies, such as ...

The Importance of Strategic Business Planning: Air Jamaica and Caribbean Airlines

in terms of the bottom line of profit has long been proven inadequate. Todays business professional knows instead that the cultiva...

Lenovo’s Acquisition of IBM’s PC Division

It was following this decision and an approach by IBM that the firm acquired IBMs PC division for $1,74 billion (Schuman, 2010)....

The Strategies of Cisco in Making Acquisitions

that market. The acquisition strategy targets small entrepreneurial, fast growing companies that were highly focused and were op...

Tools for Examining an Organization

a high level of congruence, with many of the same process, but aimed at different products, which are within the same markets, and...

Acquisition and Merger Strategies

It can be argued it is due to the search for cost advantage by way of economies of scale and scope as well as market share that le...

CSX Corporation's Capital Structure

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

PayPal IPO Behind the Scenes

a fire under the potential buyers, causing them to make a better offer (2001). In the end, it is a strategy that worked but not qu...

Good Match of Comcast and Disney?

but it should also be recognised although the subsidiary parks and investments have, in general terms be successful they have also...

Mergers, Air France, and KLM

the various airlines. Furthermore, until just recently, foreign ownership of most of these airlines has been prohibited, meaning M...

Acquiring Books-A-Million

Its $442 million in revenues in 2003 reflects a slight decline from revenues gained the year before. Proposed Acquisition Terms Pr...

Mergers and Value Creation

is likely that the acquiring firm may have management systems and abilities which are superior to that of the target which was acq...

Computer Vulnerabilities in the Energy Industry

Cyber security is an important issue within the energy sector. The Stuxnet targeting of Iranian nuclear facilities demonstrated th...

GE and Change

Thomas Edison founded General Electric (GE) in 1878 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He subsequently merged his company with another. Me...

Outputs at Skype

chargeable, and are a main source of revenue. In 2011 the organisation had a total of 663 million different registered users (A...

Skype - An Input Analysis

advantage, differentiation and focus. The strategy followed by Skype is not that of focus, as the firm is clearly seeking to appea...

Identifying a Suitable Organizational Diagnosis Model

assessed in the context of Microsofts acquisition of Skype. The first model to be assessed is the Force field Analysis of Kurt L...