Operations and Supply Chain Management
Case study - 4 pages - Management
In the below case study we are going to explore the operational criteria of an international food supply chain's new store opening near Sydney, Australia. It is crucial to plan the market entry and store layout correctly, and although the supermarket chain we have selected for the study (Costco)...
Case Analysis - Avon
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Avon is one of the most popular household brands in America, and with the business structure given, it has many opportunities to expand its operations even further. Avon products are well known all over the world, and the reputation of the company does allow the firm to recruit more direct...
Preparing Professional Development Plan (PDP)
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Success in any professional or academic undertaking requires an itinerary with goal setting as the basic step. An individual development plan is geared towards personal success which involves coming up with a plan to achieve the already identified goals. One should also stay motivated in order to...
Fly in Fly out Operation
Case study - 4 pages - Accounting
The findings of a 2011 census were that over 200,000 Australians are in occupations that require Long Distance Commutes (LDC). Of these, miners represent 25% or over 64,000 workers who commute long distance daily to their places of work. The mining industry is, therefore, one of the key...
Bangladesh Factory Collapse
Case study - 11 pages - Finance
In the recent past, organizations have increased their attention on corporate social responsibility (CSR). This follows numerous transformations in the contemporary society, such as globalization and technological differentiation. Therefore, as an ethical practice as well as a marketing strategy,...
Yahoo Analysis
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Yahoo is a global internet brand that was incorporated in 1995 and founded in 1994 by former Stanford PHD students. The company operates several online properties and services such as Yahoo. Advertisers and publishers access yahoo's a broad range of marketing solutions and tools that assist...
International marketing plan for a French car manufacturer
Case study - 12 pages - Business strategy
Our subject here is to set up an international marketing plan to export electric / hybrid cars from a French manufacturer to the US market. In order to have a reliable marketing plan, we will do a quick overview of the different main stacks of the hybrid/electric cars. The electric / hydrib cars...
Domino's Pizza: A case study in organizational evolution
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
In the early 1900's the Pizza was introduced in the United Sates. This was because there where a huge number of Italian immigrants who introduced the Pizza to the country. The pizza industry grew even more after the World War Second when the GI's returned of the US from Italy. At that time pizza...
Intel Strategic Analysis
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Intel is a semi conductor, microprocessors, and chips manufacturer. It is an industry leader in the market with competitor such as Samsung, ARM, ADM and Toshiba. Intel's strategy revolves around technological innovations, quality service delivery and maintains a platform that gives them a...
Case study: Bulgari a Diversification Strategy
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
First, we have to distinguish two different types of competitors. The luxury brands, whose core activities are jewelry, watches and other personal goods, and invest in hotels don't have the same objectives as brands for which hotels represent the principal activity. If we consider Bulgari, hotels...
Management Accounting
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
The wake of the 21st century brings with it more challenges than the long awaited relief amidst the corporate world. Even with the improvement and introduction of cutting edge technology, management issues still remain a hassle even with the best tools and the best brains in the trade. Problems...
Workaholics and time perception - Outline
Case study - 6 pages - Management
The challenge of workaholism is one that largely goes unnoticed and unexamined in many organizations and especially in the smaller and medium sized enterprises. This is largely because it is seen as a problem that affects high powered executives in highly competitive and large organizations....
Maximizing Profitability using Lean Logistics
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Lean logistics is a concept that outlines ways through which generation of wastes can be reduced in supply chain systems. The supply chain encompasses all the processes involved from production to consumption. Lean logistics principles aims at minimizing the cost incurred from waste generation...
Financial market
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
Recently, there are more and more financial analysts have dedicated their studies to the relationship and emerged trends between different financial markets such as studies of Dalkir (2009) and Savva (2009) on stock markets inner relationship, or relationship between bond markets and stock...
Career management: Objectives
Case study - 17 pages - Management
To have an overview of my personality and to look for the best environment for my future career, these are the areas that I need to assess carefully before making my career plan. The eight factors above can be grouped into three main types: personality type, occupational interests, skill and...
A critical perspective on volunteer tourism
Case study - 7 pages - Management
The special interest tourism segment has been the new tourism of the 1980s and 1990s. According to Knowles and Curtis (1999), mass tourism will be replaced by a ‘more responsible and more realistic, variety of mass tourism, where price is no longer the critical factor'. Uncontrolled mass...
US quantitative easing
Case study - 9 pages - Finance
Through 3 phases of QE implementation, QE1, QE2 and QE3, more than 1 billion dollars has been flood out to the market by Fed. Although the effects of QE are still somehow confusing, the QE application in the US proves a positive situation in financial market. Over-using of this method may pose...
Coca Cola as a Global Organization
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Coca Cola is national known to a global organization that has business all around the world. This research paper are going to detail facts such as current global economy, professional cultural competence among personnel and planned process for global human resource functioning. We will...
The Assessment and Strategy of Global Human Resources
Case study - 3 pages - Human resources
This research paper is about the assessment and strategy International global human resources take when an organization deals with Attracting employees, recruiting employees, hiring, training and developing different employees for positions in a global firm. In this research were going to view...
HRM in companies: Ryanair, IBM, Google, IKEA
Case study - 12 pages - Business strategy
The best-fit approach underlines the importance of assuring that HR strategies are performances. This takes into account, through the circumstances of the organization's culture, operational processes and external environment. Thanks to that, HR strategies consider two points, the organisation...
Key success factors in retail industry
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
The retail industry is today a huge market where competitors are a lot. In order to overview the market of the retail industry, we will list the main actors in the world: Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Ahold, Kroger, Metro group, Target, Albertsons, Kmart and Tesco. However in order to seize more deeply...
GMO food labeling
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Following the failure of California's Prop 37 proposal that advocated for labeling of GM foods, a good number of American citizens, have never been demanding to be informed of the content of the food they consume. About 92% of the citizens have been calling Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to...
An opportunity for entrepreneurship within Antoniou Restaurant Industry
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Antonius restaurant industry located at Cabo San Lucas in Mexico generated over $1.34 billion in sales in 2012. Cabo San Lucas is one of the most beautiful cities in Mexico with several tourism sites. Due to its increasing significance as the spa destination with a great variety of sites of...
E-business as a support of an emerging business model: collaborative consumption
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
Last few years, information technology (IT) has known an important development that places it as an essential tool in our world functioning. In developed countries IT are everywhere. The place that takes the new technologies has become more and more important and it is now a strategic factor for...
Unemployment Situation in France
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
France has a high rate of unemployment since the 1970s, although the unemployment figures began to increase in the 1940s. Unemployment existed before, but its low level was not one an important part of social debates and economic life of the country. With the oil shocks of the 1970s, which...
Overbooking at Global Airlines
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Any business organization has various challenges in its operation, therefore, the organization, through the management should make sure that the organization operates towards the objectives of the organization. One of the organizations that face such challenges is the Global Airline Services,...
Research method for manager
Case study - 13 pages - Management
Using the conservative approach, the solution that seems to have the lowest risks is to outsource the production to an outside vendor in Taiwan. The profits forecasts are more homogeneous by choosing that option. Even if this option cannot lead us to the highest profit possible, the profit will...
The French ADEO group: Case study
Case study - 100 pages - Business strategy
Just a few volumes have been dedicated to private labels and all of them focused on the marketing side only. A brief part of this work also aims at describing the way private labels are marketed in DIY retail stores. Here, the description of the marketing side is a simple link to get to the real...
The International Space Station
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The International space station is a globally established exploration facility constructed in a low- world orbit. It is the biggest space station ever assembled. Construction of this station began in the year 1994, and it is anticipated that it will be completed in the year 2012. It is expected...
Starbucks case study: Its current situation
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
This paper looks at the history of Starbucks as well as the current situation of the company. The focus of the paper is on the principles on which the company was created and this is tackled in the background section of this paper. Besides the background, this paper identifies that Starbucks has...
