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05 Feb 2009
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From good to great: How to turn good managers into great leaders

Essay - 4 pages - Management

Unlike conventional beliefs, leadership today is no longer a "born with it" phenomenon. Instead management and leadership gurus believe there are natural leaders and there are leaders trained to take up their roles to lead organizations, institutions and enterprises without genetic intervention....

05 Feb 2009
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Project plan proposal

Essay - 10 pages - Management

Company ABC Inc. is the leading provider of quality and performance management. As a small company we are in the enviable position of catering primarily to the fortune 500. While we offer a variety of services to help enhance their sales and customer satisfaction performance, all of our service...

27 Jan 2009
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Guide to becoming a top supervisor

Essay - 4 pages - Management

Many people have the misconception a manager is only responsible for taking care of unhappy customers and watching over his or her team. While this fallacy is usually the thoughts of customers, employees can also hold similar ideas. Often employees feel management is an easy job where all that is...

21 Jan 2009
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The impact of internationalization strategy on management control system

Essay - 16 pages - Management

In an increasingly global economy, corporations need to develop more and more efficiency and reliable management control system (MCS) in their home countries, but also in their subsidiaries abroad. This study analyzes the effects of an internationalization strategy on the management control...

21 Jan 2009
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New public management, which way?

Essay - 3 pages - Management

Through a metaphorical use of language, this statement highlights the shift from the traditional model of public administration's model of bureaucracy (an organization typified by formal processes, standardization, and hierarchic procedures and written communication) to the New Public Management,...

21 Jan 2009
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Hedging international risk: Renault and risk management

Essay - 10 pages - Management

Renault is a French vehicle manufacturer producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. The group is well known for its motor racing (through Renault Sport department), revolutionary designs (for example: Vel Satis, Avantime, Megane) and concepts (namely the Espace, the first monospace to be...

21 Jan 2009
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Organizational change and development

Essay - 7 pages - Management

Organizational change and development go hand in hand. Organizational occur as a result of an event, structural change, development of the business or simply there is a desire for change to meet the environment requirements. Organizational change initiatives are usually from within and companies...

21 Jan 2009
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Developments in management and organizational thinking

Essay - 4 pages - Management

In the era of the mass production from 1945 to 1980, companies were directed to produce identical products, with hierarchical structures, all in a stable environment. In the present “era of information”, companies must produce products with dynamic structures in a turbulent environment...

20 Jan 2009
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Sephora customer relationships management analysis

Essay - 10 pages - Management

The aim of this paper is to discover how Sephora has developed its power of attraction, the loyalty of its customers and prospects by setting up sophisticated and personalized customer communication strategies. Sephora is a division of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the world's leading...

20 Jan 2009
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Cultural differences in management

Essay - 31 pages - Management

As we have come to a world of economic globalization, more and more companies are working in an international approach. Globalization incites a multitude of situations and intercultural relations. The company is therefore faced with an assimilation of a lot of knowledge on the countries where it...

20 Jan 2009
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Strategy of cost leadership

Essay - 8 pages - Management

In a market where competition is at it's peak, companies perpetually seek to win over new customers, new markets and to generate strong profits. They have thus banked on a new strategy to be more competitive: cost leadership. The strategy of cost leadership aims at directing the objectives of...

20 Jan 2009
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Taylorism and the structural organization of Toyota

Essay - 11 pages - Management

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 - 1915) was an American engineer who used the scientific organization of work (OST), which is the basis of the industrial revolution of the 20th century. The principal idea is to break up the tasks, to time the movements of the workmen to improve quality, to reduce...

20 Jan 2009
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Corporate culture and intercultural management

Essay - 32 pages - Management

For companies, in a climate of increased international competition, it is important to anticipate the impact of culture on the economy. Indeed, cultures influence not only the individual behaviors but also and especially the designs of the company, the strategy, the right, finance and management....

20 Jan 2009
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Intercultural Management

Essay - 11 pages - Management

The globalization of markets, the internationalization of companies through operations of mergers, acquisitions, partnerships or alliances have created an economic landscape where the intercultural aspect has became a daily reality for many persons in charge. Companies are increasingly working...

20 Jan 2009
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Managing in a global context : How managers can overcome problems arising from cultural differences of employees?

Essay - 13 pages - Management

According to the United Nation Statistics in 2003, the globe constitutes of approximately 226 countries. All these nations have their own culture. this can be more or less similar from one country to another. However, it creates a multitude of differences between individuals that managers have to...

16 Jan 2009
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Business ethics: The moral and ethical aspect of the French strikes

Essay - 7 pages - Management

The American newspaper International Herald Tribune (Edition from Saturday and Sunday 17-18 November) decided to do its front page about the strike in France. That shows the importance of the strike and its paralyzed effects on the economy and on the well-being of the users. But that demonstrate...

16 Jan 2009
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Job analysis: Marketing manager

Essay - 5 pages - Management

It's very hard to describe a job because the reality doesn't sound with the basic description. By orienting our career to marketing, we thought that it would be a good idea to analyse the marketing manager job. Direct firm's overall marketing and strategic planning programs, related with...

16 Jan 2009
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The international executive across cultures - France and India

Essay - 12 pages - Management

India's official name is the Republic of India and its capital is New Delhi. It measures over 3 million square kilometers for a population of around 1.1 billion inhabitants. India is located on the Indian sub-continent and can be divided into 4 topographical regions: the Himalayan region, the...

16 Jan 2009
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Commercial strategies and management policies of Lagardère

Essay - 16 pages - Management

Lagardère SCA is a French media and high-technology company. The Company, headquartered in Paris, operates through two business segments: Lagardère Media, which constitutes the core of its activities, and the high-technology division, EADS, in which it holds a 14.98% share. Lagardère Media is a...

16 Jan 2009
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Rezidor SAS: CRM in the hospitality industry

Essay - 8 pages - Management

It's a key issue for Rezidor SAS to know who its customers are and what are their needs and expectations in order to align the best strategy in order to target them and to make them more loyal. Moreover, it will allow determining who customers are the most profitable. The CRM vision of the...

16 Jan 2009
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L'Oreal crisis scenario (2006)

Essay - 19 pages - Management

This summary has been provided to allow top managers and executives at L'Oreal a rapid appreciation of the content of this report. Those with a particular interest in the crisis scenario management and communication may read the report to take advantage of the more comprehensive description of...

16 Jan 2009
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Brand management of Innocent Drinks

Essay - 10 pages - Management

“Involving ‘yes' and ‘no' bins at a festival” (Growing business: 2007) (1) It's the way that Richard Reed, Adam Balon, Jon Wright started their business in 1998 just after their course in Cambridge University got over. Innocent was designed to be a 100% natural brand,...

16 Jan 2009
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Corporate governance - What are the arguments for and against agency theory as a basis for understanding corporate governance?

Essay - 4 pages - Management

Corporate governance and the theory of the firm are two of the fastest growing topics in modern economic theory. Berle and Means argued that modern corporations were so dependent upon professional managers that a managerial economy had emerged, characterized by the separation of ownership from...

16 Jan 2009
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Change management: Oticon

Essay - 10 pages - Management

This assignment is a case study of a small Danish company called Oticon and shows how changes in the organization environment and personnel completely revolutionized the company. I have chosen this company because we have studied it in a previous course in November (Human Resources with Professor...

16 Jan 2009
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Information systems in Amazon.com

Essay - 11 pages - Management

Business managers are moving from a tradition where they could avoid, delegate, or ignore decisions about IT to one where they cannot create a marketing, product, international, organizational, or financial plan that does not involve such decisions. There are as many ways to use information...

16 Jan 2009
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US management and leadership: Steve Jobs

Essay - 9 pages - Management

The aim of this assignment is to consider the leadership style of the Apple's CEO Steve Jobs through the analysis of the articles and works connected with his business activity. Steve Jobs is the current CEO and co-founder of Apple, Inc. Steve Jobs also was the CEO and majority shareholder of...

16 Jan 2009
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Conceptual models in strategic management: The Boston Consulting Group growth / share matrix

Essay - 9 pages - Management

Nowadays, in a stronger context of globalisation, companies have to face more and more complex challenges such as a higher international competition, emerging markets, many economic changes or new technological progresses etc. Strategic management decisions have to be completely successful in...

16 Jan 2009
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The core-satellite model revisited, tracking error control, ETF's and satellites possibilities

Essay - 10 pages - Management

A core-satellite management consist in having a core portfolio made up of passive management vehicles (index funds, ETFs, etc.) with low management fees, and separately one, or several, very active satellites that are made up of funds with a strong tracking error, or even funds with no constraint...

16 Jan 2009
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Analysis of SNCF's information system management

Essay - 8 pages - Management

The first interest of analyzing SNCF 's ISM is that SNCF is, above all, a production business. Moreover, what interests me is the Customer Relationship Management concerning the travelers part of SNCF (not the commercial one). Although in France it is difficult to imagine that a production...

16 Jan 2009
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Analysis of the main organizational changes in Carrefour and the role of Informational Technology in this organizational change process

Essay - 6 pages - Management

Contrary to their considerable growth in terms of number and value, the operations of mergers and acquisitions reveals, for more than one operation out of two, a failure from the economic and organizational point of view (McKinsey 2000; Mercer Consulting 2001, 2003). The insufficiency of the...