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Ecuador and Texaco

including a primary pipeline that extends 280 miles across the Andes. To build the roads, forests were cleared and Indian lands bu...

Using Probability to Help with Decisions under Uncertainty

to evaluate collective costs. The calculation will need input that is representative of the physical results of the current action...

Using Monte Carlo or a Decision Tree

contract where there is a monthly payment of $125,000 a month but the bonus, using the same discount rate gives a total contract ...

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...

Then and Now: Children’s Pastimes in the 1980s and Today

the Internet with other on-line players. The single-player, individual experience has replaced the community. But todays children...

Overturning Duverger’s Law

districts). There are several problems created by this "winner-take-all" method of voting, which are reflected in Duvergers formu...

Balancing the Risks of Using Malathion to Reduce the Occurrence of West Nile Virus

When making decisions regarding risk reduction, potential risks will need to be assessed from all potential actions. The writer us...

Dispersion Analysis

The dispersal is the way in which the data is distributed. Dispersal may be assessed with a range of measures; these include range...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

Formal Decision Making Processes

friend and I in particular had what we viewed as a stellar business idea. It had been suggested to us that we might prefer to stri...

International Business and the Implications of Religion and Ethics

Heres where we get onto more of a sticky situation. Ethics is something else that is societal, but it can change from society to s...

Coca Cola's Capital Structure

short-term loan. The most recent long-term financing decision was in 2003, when the company issued debt in the form of "lon...

Organizational Behavior, Technology, and Ethics

boiled. Whether this is an observation of something true is debatable, but whether it physically occurs or not, it is useful in m...

An Analysis of a Print Merger

emotional intelligence is. Emotional intelligence, in its most basic form, understands that people are motivated by intelligence a...

Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, and War Leadership, Perceptions, Judgments

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

The Snapple Acquisition

sales later and become long term sellers or may fail. The iced tea was a star due to the product and the...

Analyzing the Film Adaptation of The Rainmaker by John Grisham

tradition of good vs. evil, the inexperienced novice is cast in the role of David facing off against Goliath, the legal dream team...

Decisions at Virgin Atlantic

high level of publicity, sing both Branson himself and many other well known names (Virgin, 2007). There were initial prob...

Information Needed by HCHE

The first consideration is who the companys customers are or should be. Markets are segmented and the company do not know who thei...

Why Samuel P. Huntington's Paradigm is Accurate

Civilizations, Huntington (1998) provides a great deal of insights. He writes: "The weakening of the states and the appearance of ...

Difficulties in Constructing Robust Legislation to Impose Enforceable Health and Safety Duties on Directors of UK Companies

a particular person responsible especially when the company also has a legal identity and can be seen as a defendant. However, alt...

Research on Ovarian Cancer

is an article that illustrates perhaps how little the medical community really knows about the condition. In trying to understan...

Harley Davidson ERP Case Study

This 6 page paper is based on a case study provided by the student. The paper assesses the decision making process followed by Har...

Balancing Cash Flow and Profit

break even or payback period is reached. During this time there will be other costs that the company has to pay, both overhead cos...

Decisions in Paradise; Part Three

that the local resources are available, but to consider the cost of accessing those resources. If the resources are able to be acc...

iTunes; Porters Five Forces Analysis

only two years after launching the firm was making it different for the competition, as by July 2005 5 million tracks had been dow...

Ethical Decision-Making: Confidentiality

This research paper/essay pertain to ethical decision-making and confidentiality issues. Drawing on an episode of ER broadcast in ...

Project Failures and Successes

To become a project manager it is necessary to understand why projects fail, as well as why they succeed. The paper starts by exa...

Investment Concepts, Tools and Theories

concept is that the portfolio of investments is one that will match the needs of the investor, taking into account different aspe...

Redplato Fiscal Analysis

Sales Between 1990 and 2004, market share for Redplato has averaged between 38 and 68 percent. IV. Recent Thing Tank Marketing S...