Entrepreneurial Skills and Business Management
Essay - 3 pages - Management
Entrepreneurial leadership involves the emphasis placed on the use of design thinking, corporate social responsibility and business ethics with an aim of providing suitable solutions to problems. Business ethics focuses on the creation of long term organizational cultures by determining the right...
Single source supply chain management case study
Essay - 2 pages - Management
In the case study, a Navy contracting officer, Lieutenant June Early experiences difficulties in a sole source negotiation. This is with Trustworthy Equipment Company. The Company is the only supplier of a machine that the Navy needs. Lieutenant Early meets overhead rates that the company...
Big Mac, case study
Essay - 3 pages - Management
McDonald's is the largest food chain of the world. It is present almost everywhere in the world. It has so wide global presence that decision makers often use the products of McDonald's to devise economic measures of well being. One such measure is purchasing power parity. BigMac index is used to...
Follow up letter
Essay - 1 pages - Management
I mailed a copy of my resume to your personnel department on July 10th regarding an Architects position that had come available at your firm. I would appreciate if you could find the time to meet with me to discuss this opportunity further. I am enclosing a copy of my resume for your review and...
Critically analyse gender roles and other factors surrounding family businesses
Essay - 8 pages - Management
Family firms have played and still play a significant role in European economy. Most small businesses are family owned (Boissevain and Grotenbreg, 1987), and the importance of this type of business has experienced a significant development during recent decades. As Sampson (1982) indicated, the...
What future does the French public hospital hold?
Essay - 165 pages - Management
Within ten years, the French public hospital system's organization experienced several structural reforms. New managerial concepts coming from the industrial for-profit field spread into the public hospital sector, and outcome-oriented rationales replaced the unconditional answer to the...
Logistical evaluation of Igeho Basel 2011
Essay - 8 pages - Management
IGEHO is the International Exhibitions for Hotels, Catering and Extra-domestic consumption. IGEHO offers an overview of a humongous range of products and services and also provides a great platform for networking to anyone who is professionally a part of the Food and Hotel industry. IGEHO till...
Brand management in a business strategy of an enterprise
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Disney CEO Michael Eisner said: when the choices have become vast, the only things that will matter are brand names. So in the context of free play of market forces and rude competition in the world economy of today, an efficient management of brand is a key factor in a business...
Discussion of employee motivation - Different theories
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Motivation comes from the Latin word movere, to move (Kreitner, 1998) and is defined in organizational context as the willingness to exert high levels of efforts towards organizational goals, conditioned by the efforts' ability to satisfy some individual needs (Robbins,...
Analysis of General Motors
Essay - 6 pages - Management
General Motors Company incorporated in 1908 is a multinational car manufacturer with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. In this case study, GM intends to offer products with either less energy consumption or consumption of new fuel, with new design. Actually, General Motors possesses rich...
Google: a full presentation of the company, its activities and strategies
Essay - 18 pages - Management
Google is a firm which operates in the high technology sector, especially in the Internet field. The two founders started with "Google" website, an Internet browser which gives people the possibility to research on the web. But the firm also offers all kinds of web services like "Street view",...
Strategic marketing management: Debenhams
Essay - 40 pages - Management
We shall assume that we are Debenhams' , a well-known department store in the UK on the clothing market. The aim is to put in place a future marketing plann with a clear strategy. But before that, a rather weighty analysis is necessary. Concerning the external audit, we observe that political...
The impact of smart phones on business and private life
Essay - 90 pages - Management
Since few years, mobile phone market is changing radically and many new mobile phones, called smart phones or intelligence phones are entering on the market and have produced a boom. Before, those intelligence phones were only dedicated to professional persons, but mobile manufacturer felt that...
AMD: A Customer-centric approach to innovation - published: 28/11/2011
Essay - 9 pages - Management
AMD was founded in 19691 by Jerry Sanders, formerly of Fairchild Semiconductor. The company started to focus on microprocessors in the mid 1970s. It designed and manufactured microprocessors for the computing, communications, and consumer electronics market. The company employed 9,000 employees2....
Returned management at Hilton Worldwide
Essay - 9 pages - Management
In the large hotel sector in 2009, there is an arrival of the fifth star. Its arrival was eagerly awaited by professionals because it allows hotels to align French foreign competition and to attract new high-end clientele, and often business with France has a strong power attraction. However,...
Strategic Management of General Motors
Essay - 3 pages - Management
What are the general environmental factors that have an impact on General Motors? General Motors (GM) has experienced very hard times since 2000, just as much as any other company in the car industry. That is why GM had to reduce its hourly workers, which means that 35,000 jobs were eliminated....
The role of ethics in the company (2006)
Essay - 62 pages - Management
The place of ethics in the company raises many questions: What areas are covered by corporate ethics? Is it an element of corporate reputation for external use? Does it create a new social climate within the company? However, a major problem has been presented from the beginning of this work. It...
Strategic management of De Beers
Essay - 18 pages - Management
In 1888, De Beers Mine appeared following the emergence of global monopoly of De Beers over 90% of the prevailing world market for rough diamonds for over a century. In 1933, Ernest Oppenheimer founded the Diamond Corporation Ltd., which includes most of South African producers and the Central...
Pettigrew and operational changes
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Most large companies currently operate in rapidly changing environments. This observation led organizations to examine the levers that could speed up or slow down the deployment speed of change within it. We'll see which are the concepts of Andrew Pettigrew in the field of business change....
Tata Motors: Current and new business strategies
Essay - 11 pages - Management
With USD 8.8 billion revenues in 2007-08, Tata Motors is the largest Indian automobile company; it holds a very good place on the Indian market because it is the leader in commercial vehicles and among the top three in passenger vehicles. The company is also the world's fourth largest truck...
Execution of a public relation plan for Adidas
Essay - 4 pages - Management
The company, ComCom is an agency of council in communication which was established in 1992 and worked mainly with famous brands of sports. The work consisted of developing the public image of what is being chosen and to create a relationship of trust, of regard and adhesion on the behalf of this...
Advertising campaigns geared towards Seniors
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Declining fertility, increased life expectancy and later arrival of the first generation of baby boomers are all factors that combine to explain the aging of the French population. The number of seniors in the French population should reach 35% in 2010 when it was only 27% in 1980. One French...
The truth behind surveillance monitoring: An employee perspective
Essay - 3 pages - Management
Imagine that your employer is watching you eight hours a day and constantly checking What you are doing?' throughout the day. Does your boss have the right to do so? Or do you have privacy rights? Through modern technology and advancement in the field of surveillance monitoring, it is...
Quality Control in Michelin
Essay - 10 pages - Management
As part of my internship for my 1st year Master of Project Management, I worked for the French Manufacturer of Tyres, Michelin. During this internship, I developed solutions to reduce waste materials in a sector of workshops and procedures of production of machines. The missions...
Change management: The difficulties in applying change processes
Essay - 8 pages - Management
When a company witnesses an important growth or change period, the entrepreneur and the executives needs to manage the changes and adapt the organization to its new expectations. They have to adapt the company to the new demand and ensure this expansion without damaging their global service and...
Conference and Exhibition Management in Berlin
Essay - 11 pages - Management
Conferences and related events are developing sectors which represent a significant part of the tourism industry. Generally, the type of venue can be divided in six parts, (BACD, 2006): Hotels (53%) Unusual venues (19%) Conference / training centres (10%) Multi-purpose...
The role of conceptual models in strategic management
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Since many decades the corporate world has experienced significant changes. In order to remain competitive, companies must adapt themselves to the new changes. Strategic management is one of key success for competitiveness. To achieve the company's goals, strategic management models have been...
Risk Management
Essay - 8 pages - Management
The risk management process is definitely marked by several steps that have to be respected in order to avoid financial risk exposure. It actually starts with the establishment of the context for strategic, organizational as well as risk management criterion according to each evaluated risk. The...
Public Relations
Essay - 4 pages - Management
The term 'public relations' is recognized and widely used by many people. However, it is often misused and misunderstood. It is sometimes confused with press release and publicity. A career in public relations is wrongly perceived as the perfect job for people who enjoy parties and...
The public relations department & its functions
Essay - 3 pages - Management
The public relations (PR) department is a unit in the firm that manages items such as publicity and other communications with all of the groups who make contact with the company. Some marketing experts argue that public relations should be part of the marketing department, just as advertising,...