A look at American Depository Reports
Thesis - 15 pages - Finance
Since 1980, the value of U.S.investment in non- U.S.equities has grown approximately 100-fold to $1.9 trillion .The first ADRs were introduced in the United States in 1927 when JPMorgan issued receipts for the British retailer Selfridges. Prior to the 1980s,ADRs primarily were used by foreign...
A brief look at the company L'oreal and some of it strategies
Thesis - 12 pages - Business strategy
Eugene Schueller a young French chemist developed an innovative hair color formula, Aureole. He manufactured his own products and sold them to Parisian hairdressers. The company was registered in 1909. The guiding principle from the beginning was research and innovation in the interest of...
Two centuries of economic growth: Europe chasing the American frontier (Robert J Gordon)
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
This paper deals with the gap between the economic developments of the United States with respect to the main Western European Countries in the last two centuries. In the mid-nineteenth century, Europe and the U.S. had similar GDP and productivity levels. However, over a period of time the...
American history: A chart on the causes and effects of the revolutionary war
Thesis - 7 pages - Modern history
Throughout the mid-1700's resistance to British control in the colonies grew as Britain tried to consolidate their empire through a series of ordinances after the Seven Years' War. Although the passage of the Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Sugar Act, and the Townshend Duties did not inevitably hurry...
Why ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) is good for America?
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, abbreviated ARRA, is a stimulus bill which was proposed and passed by President Barack Obama and the 111th Congress of the United States exactly one year ago. What better way to examine the effectiveness of ARRA than giving it...
Hershey Company
Case study - 21 pages - Management
Hershey Company, a United States-based snack food company has been looking to assume an international role for the past two decades. Founded by Milton Hershey over one hundred years ago, going international has proven to be quite a feat especially when it is chocolate that is the...
Miramax Company
Case study - 18 pages - Services marketing
The world of the cinema is a very peculiar one. And because it is a very peculiar one, I choose to study the most peculiar firm on this market: Miramax. This choice has been motivated by the fact that this firm had a very strange story which determines its strategy. While at the beginning it was...
Mexico and the USA - A recent history framed by the North American Free Trade Agreement : the borderless economy in a "Neo-Monroeist" order ?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represented a turning point in the relationship between Mexico and the USA and was considered likely to resolve key bilateral issues. NAFTA was thus a sort of promising frame to achieve the benefits of interdependence in a...
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its consequences
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
The agreement NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) defines a free trade area of 430 million inhabitants trained by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Signed by the presidents of these three countries on October 7th, 1992 in San Antonio (Texas), the treaty came into effect on...
Study of Latin American societies in the context of urbanization
Case study - 5 pages - Management
One way to understand Latin American societies is to examine issues that cause conflict. These are most common when management tangles with urbanization, this has become a central issue, particularly since the late 1980s that saw the emergence to the "urban crisis" [1] . The articles in...
Multi-field approaches of the company: Strategy of Adidas
Thesis - 16 pages - Business strategy
The choice of the international group Adidas has imposed itself. Indeed, we wanted to get better acquainted with the sports market since it has steadily increased over the past years. It still represents a certain future and substantial market share in the market of sporting goods. The...
American colonies
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The colonization of North America began in the early seventeenth century and was mainly carried out by Spain, France and England. British colonization was inaugurated in 1607 by the establishment of the first colony, organized around the city of Jamestown, Virginia. Throughout the century, the...
Memo on the dispute between Harrods Limited and Dow Jones & Company Inc.
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
First of all, service being of utmost importance to a lawsuit since it determines the legitimacy of the entire litigation, Harrods should have either ensured that Dow Jones International Limited (DJI) was authorized to accept service on behalf of Dow Jones & Company Inc. (Dow Jones), or...
Analyzing the strategies of a transnational company in a host country- Case of Toyota Motor Corporation
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
To further illustrate the key points of international business management, this paper aims to demonstrate how to prepare the situational analysis for a transnational company by establishing Toyota Motor Corporation's business in United States, one of its host-country nations, as an...
Parent/Child relations in American Literature
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Throughout American Literature, one can notice many writings focus on either mother/daughter relationships or father/son relationships. These relationships are described in various ways, but one very common way involves parental love towards sometimes unappreciative children. This...
Popularity of tattoos growing in American culture
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
The word "tattoo" stems from the Tahitian word tatu, meaning to mark or color [the skin] (Webster, 1913). A tattoo is the placement of pigment within the skin to create a picture or design. The process of tattooing is produced by deep puncture wounds in one's skin....
Jurgis and the American Dream
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
In Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, a Lithuanian immigrant named Jurgis Rudkus experiences the hardships and emotions of life in the meatpacking district of Chicago, otherwise known as Packingtown. Jurgis's story begins very tranquil as he is getting married to a sixteen-year-old...
The American Myth
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The American dream and the nature in which so many Americans struggle to achieve it is an omnipresent theme in Happy and Biff's journey throughout Death of a Salesman. While the brothers both struggle to achieve the American dream, their techniques in handling this struggle...
Mexican- American War
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The conflict also known as the Invasion of Mexico was an armed war between the United States and Centralist Republic of Mexico that started in April 1846 to February 1848. The conflict came on the wake of the United States annexation of Texas which Mexico regarded it as its own territory even...
Written Company Report: Performance of Abercrombie & Fitch
Case study - 19 pages - Business strategy
Over the years, the retail industry has seen remarkable changes arising from the need to withstand the pace of the dynamic customer preferences, tastes and awareness in the wake of global interconnectdness. A definite revelation of the trend is that of the success story of Abercrombie & Fitch...
The legal process of entering into a joint venture with the Cuban water utility company
Essay - 16 pages - International law
This paper examines the legal process of entering into a joint venture with the Cuban public water system through a joint venture in a Post-Fidel Castro Cuba. Although Fidel is no longer at the helm, the Cuban Communist party is still in power. Since Cuba has a state planned economy, we place...
Patrice Lumumba: American foreign policy and cover-ups
Thesis - 6 pages - International law
Historically, the foreign policy of the United States has been such that one event has integrated itself into effecting the majority of events to follow. The case of the United States foreign policy in the Congo and, specifically, the assassination of Patrice Lumumba is no exception. This...
Marketing and branding strategies of consumer durable companies in India
Dissertation - 37 pages - Services marketing
The Consumer Durable industry is huge! Think of a typical day then you wake up to make coffee that has been brewed by your-controlled coffee maker. You pop a couple of slices of bread into your electric toaster, grab some juice from the refrigerator and throw a load of laundry into your washing...
The Coca-Cola Company on a strategic level
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays more than ever, with this financial crisis that does not seem to end and creates more and more losses every day, it is very crucial for companies to not only settle for a long term strategy but also a back-up strategy to face problems such as the ones they could face during those times....
Maverick Energy Group: Company profile
Thesis - 18 pages - Business strategy
Maverick Energy Group, is a rapidly growing US independent currently positioned to benefit from the current rise in both oil and natural gas prices. Declining production and depletion of existing reserves within the United States is causing increased pressure on state and federal agencies to...
American marriage and family: The final
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
In The Mommy Tax, Ann Crittenden discussed the fact that, unlike countries like France, America has no real infrastructure to protect women workers. While some countries view producing good children as a contribution to the nation, America doesn't measure things that way: France...
Like the rich and poor together: Gender relations revealed through class differences in Italian American literature
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
Since the early Italian American experience is largely polarized between the worlds of labor and the family, consequently, the role of class and gender are not easily avoided in Italian American literature. In the memoir Rosa, the Life of an Italian Immigrant, and Pietro DiDonato's...
Case study: American home products
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
American Home Products manages diverse business ranging from packaged drugs, food products and household products. The company believes in aggressive marketing strategy which has helped company cloak phenomenal growth over the years. Being the consumer product company,...
American business in the age of the modern corporation: Government, infrastructure and the corporation
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
When analyzing the history of the American corporation, it is tempting to believe that the cause of the rapid rise of large, hierarchical corporation, in a highly concentrated industry is over determined. Historians have advanced theories that explain this corporate revolution...
Gender in American English: How women are socially muted through speech
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
This paper will explore the theory that women as a minority group are socially muted through the prevalent use of masculine and male created language in American English to describe common activities at home, work place and in the society. The research was started with the question,...