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Companies and Strategic Alliances

synergy, where there is an agreed level of co-operation that does not involve mergers or equality purchases, but will create an in...

Philip Morris' Marketing of Marlboro Cigarettes

to car companies. Marketing Activities The images of the Marlboro man were for so long the focus of the campaigns, with the i...

Health Care Crisis and Economics

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

Energy Policies of the European Union

has been declining, the level was only 50% of the budget in Framework Programme I that took place between 1984-7, which amounted t...

Highway Use Taxes and Trucking Companies

20 cents per mile (American Trucking Association, 2002). This is clearly double taxation because truckers already pay highway usag...

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

Pediatric Burn Care and High Acuity Nursing

or other special attention to the wounds caused by burns. Each day s/he spends in the hospital is creating another reason for the...

Triple Bottom Line Focus of Dow Chemical Company

established by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in first divesting other businesses before the FTC would give final approval for...

Questions on Health Care Infrastructure

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

Computer Information System Design

the file specifies the rest of the information in arbitrary order. Each piece of information is specified by that information foll...

Overview of the Crack Babies Problem

why they cost the state so much money. If mothers have the babies, and continue to use drugs, these babies who need additional att...

Food and Beverage Management and Operation Performance Monitoring

Food cost is perhaps one of the most important expenditures a restaurant manager can pay attention to because it is typically the ...

Contracts, Obligations, and Risks

if a project is delayed due to weather or even a union strike of employees? These are all risks that contractors take into account...

Airlines and Macroeconomics

different prices for it. Then there is the difference between First Class and Coach - for thousands of dollars more, a select grou...

Economic Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Industry

(or at least to help reduce the side effects of this immune deficiency disease). The reality of the situation is, however, ...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

Retrieval and Computer Aided Process Planning

and resources, constituting a luxury that organizations no longer have. The current business environment is such that busin...

A Case Study of Airlines Cutting Dangerous Corners

net cash flow for each year for each option, it should be understood that depreciation increases a companys operating cash flow be...

Warranty and Advertising in the Automotive Industry

2001). The Japanese manufacturers allocate larger percentages to local spots - Nissan put 35 percent into spot TV, Honda put 33 pe...

A Diamond Industry Study

considered the jewels of the extremely wealthy - diamonds and mink go together, it seems, much like coffee and milk. In short, whe...

Aspects of Community Corrections

eligible traffic offenders choose the bracelets over a short jail term. Rather than spending up to a year behind bars, they are pu...

Steroid Testing in the Major League

has a bill in place that would require all sporting organizations wishing to play in the state require drug testing (2002). Such...

Training in the Information Technology Industry

employees need to have mastery of basic skills, but business is much more specialized now than in decades past. Effective ...

Fuel Hedging and Profit

airline operating costs. Increasing costs can have a significant impact on the profitability of a firm; this has been particula...

The Issue of Poor Communication in the Workplace

scale and scope of the problem can increase exponentially (Cook, 2008). To assess the way bad communication impacts on an organiza...

Replace or Retrain

the prospective employer could have the applicant demonstrate certain skills. Small companies face these and other challenges. Th...

Increasng Sustainability of Medicaid and Medicare

It is public knowledge that the Medicare and Medicare programs are going broke. They are not sustainable with current expenses. It...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Questions on Business Economics and Finance

a buyer may walk around before making a choice looking at the different suppliers and their prices. As the product is one provided...

Should a Firm Open a New Facility Abroad?

The writer considers the benefits and the challenges associated with expanding production facilities internationally. Issues such ...