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Oxford, HMOs and the Health Care Industry

types of bonuses that doctors can be paid for cutting costs (Eastman & Eastman, 1997). While they have a point, if regulators will...

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...

Toy Safety and the Fast Food Industry

customers, a position that most of the industry shares. McDonalds and Burger King have led the industry in ensuring the saf...

The Greek Shipping Market

market. Countries where the shipping industry is well established and a culture of shipping exist may have an advantage, but this ...

Markets and Healthcare

In six pages the changes within the healthcare industry's status quo are examined in terms of present jobs and advancement opportu...

Banking Regulation and Auditor Independence

In a paper consisting of ten pages this paper examines efforts to assure auditor independence through SEC rule S7-13-00 and the ba...

The Motion Picture Business and Its Impact on the Inventor Thomas Edison

Edison was more than an inventor. This paper explores the role the motion picture industry and the industry giant Eastman played ...

Product Development by Food Companies

In five pages this paper considers whether the development of products by food companies should be different than other industries...

Overview of the Automobile Industry

In eighteen pages the automobile industry is examined in an overview that includes industry changes, strategic growth, quality ass...

Overview of the Fast Food Industry

In fifteen pages the fast food industry is considered in an overview that includes history that commences with the 1916 opening of...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Banking Industry and Young Professionals as a Target Market

what risks would he be bringing to the bank? If he does go with risky clients, how might the risk be managed? To some extent, the ...

Cost Structure and the Airline Industry

In this way the more operating leverage an airline has, the greater its business risk will be. Despite the fact that many analyst...

Tourism Industry and the Impact of 911

report released October 25 (Lubetkin, 2002). And yet, the way the airline industry has rallied in the face of this disaster has ...

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...

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...

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...

Automotive Industry of Europe

factors into consideration when analysing their position and possible future (DAveni, 1999). Porter does not see these external fa...

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...

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 ...

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...