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Financial Services in a Global Context

billion passed through the hands of currency traders in New York, London and Tokyo every day. By 1995 daily turnover had reached a...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

Music Industry Survival and Development

they actually have taken the time to learn how to play a musical instrument. One can see why the music industry is important. Peop...

UK Directory Enquiries Industry

(Ofcom, 2005). The market, which as we have seen was worth ?300 million for BT alone, was attracting the attention of othe...

Three Questions on Behavioral Finance

is made. Mayes cites 6 reasons that may impact on a rational judgment, these are overconfidence, fear of regret, cognitive dissona...

Banks, Risk Measurement and Risk Management

the profit is equal to the rate of assets less the rate for liabilities which are then multiplied by the assets less the costs. P...

Market Trends, Forces, and the Aerospace Industry

a discussion of what is likely to happen to this industry in the future. Though the literature is divided, most experts agree that...

Hospitals and TQM

instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...

Overview of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the United States

too many side effects are being released to the market. Pain-reliving drugs such as Celebrex, Naproxin and Vioxx have been thought...

Process Reengineering and Operations Management

of incoming goods. Rather than make them available to line workers, the material handlers should have the authority to take steps...

Tourism Industry and Employee Empowerment

more than likely to have positive things to say about an employee. In one instance, for example, on a cruise ship, a family found ...

Semiconductors and Silicon Valley

In this age of miniaturization, it should be possible to place two CPUs onto a single chip, making additional processing power ava...

Europe's Airline Industry

monoplane that flew across the English Channel in 1909 (AIAA, 2003). However, these were not yet able to carry passengers. In 1933...

Construction - Completing the Job On-Time

impossible to complete the project on time. I also contacted suppliers and materials were readily available for the start of the ...

Hospitality Marketing

- another Hampton Inn, for example, upon its opening 20 years ago, gave away several hundred rooms during its first year to parent...

The Importance of the Global Services Market

services, in general. Interestingly, the service sector is the fastest growing sector worldwide. It is the vast diversity of this ...

Commercial Market for MP3 Players

Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) (MP3-Mac, 2004). MPEG being short for Moving Picture Experts Group (MP3-Mac, 2004). In 1989 Frau...

Equations for Financing

answer is based on the assumption that the total of the funds received from the sale of the debt is greater than the dividends pai...

Different Types of International Finance Questions Answered

as in the larger markets it may be necessary to tailor operation or products to the national requirements of each market (Yip, 19...

Different Industries' Entry Threats

(2004). Any restriction creates a barrier. Government regulation, patents needed, assets as well as other things, all create barri...

Overview of Generic Pharmaceuticals

Competition became fierce with more than 1,000 applications for generic drugs in less than a year (Barr Pharmaceutical company, 20...

Hotel Industry and the Value of Efficient Customer Service

a guest that is tired, wants to book in, the reception em,ployees are talking to each other and slow to respond and then when the ...

Dell - A Case Study

U.K. and Canada, and the company is aggressively pushing into Asia and Europe (Gibbs 35). The role of formal knowledge in develop...

Harvey Industries Inventory Management

warehouse - in other words, inventory that has been ordered but not used during the past year. There is also the difficult...

Operation Mexicano Project and the Case of Carl Conway

PERT, which is used to determine time estimates. A key concept in project management is creating network diagrams using PERT/CPM (...

Issues in Fuel Cell Development

on hydrogen, something that is virtually inexhaustible and nonpolluting (2002). Essentially, the drawbacks of fossil fuels have to...

United Kingdom's Leisure Industry and Car Ownership's Impact

the US soon spread and cars became more affordable and used in a wide range of ways. Convenience was a major factor, and it was i...

Customer Service Orientation in the Healthcare Industry

and ties are the rule. The rules were relaxed for a short time in the nineties but management believes they were lowering their st...

Palm, Inc. Marketing Plan

Palm became the definitive name in hand-held devices, and until recently, has enjoyed being at the top of the heap of this particu...

Chemical Industry and the Effects of Information Technology

Dow Chemical officially takes the opposite view. As a matter of corporate policy, Dow Chemical conducts its business within the f...