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In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
17,334 Essays on Business. Documents 7,711 - 7,740
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Improving Customer Service
Running head: IMPROVING CUSTOMER SERVICE BAKER COLLEGE CENTER FOR GRADUATE STUDIES On-Line Masters of Business Administration Assignment for course: BUS 576 Training and Development Submitted to: April Flanagan Submitted by: Chieoma Shabazz Location of Course: On-Line Date of Course Meeting: December 11, 2006 Date of Submission: December 11, 2006 Title of Assignment: Improving Customer Service Certification of Authorship: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in
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Improving Hr Strategy
Improving HR Strategy With employee turnover costs high, a company must take steps to keep their best folks. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of making leadership development, team building, and diversity fundamental parts of a company's human resource management strategy. These initiatives help promote belonging, loyalty, and employee development, key factors in retaining quality people. A case in point is Aramark, a leading provider of outsourcing services. The company has
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Improving Management Styles and Their Function
Improving Management Styles and Their Function In the article When the Problem is Management, author Lawrence Sawyer takes a look at the different styles that managers have in their practice, how they can better perform their functions and how they relate to the four basic functions of management. As an internal auditor, Mr. Sawyer provides some insight to these managers in helping them and their departments make better use of the tools they have and
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Improving Non-Verbal Communication
Improving Non-verbal Communication Executive Summary Hotel Srdiecko has noticed customer complaints about their personnel that they are rude and the clients did not feel welcome and comfortable in the Hotel. Srdiecko must not only handle these complaints, but also find the cause and solve the problem. The external specialist from Thermal Wellnes Hotels, which Hotel Srdiecko is a member of their international chain, Matus Eperjesi, found out that the cause lays in the lack of
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Improving Organizational (or Personal) Productivity
James St John WA3 BBA355, Spring 2015 WA-3 Page: of Assigned: 02-01-2015 Student Name: James St John BBA-355-01 Spring 2015 Submitted: 02-08-2015 email ID: js2699@nau.edu Improving Organizational (or Personal) Productivity Abstract: Technology is a very fast moving field in which I’m attempting to gain more knowledge. This report will develop the notion that drones, which are an emerging field, could help productivity in a business. I learned that currently drones are only used by a
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Improving Trade Visibility While Reducing Costs
Improving Trade Visibility While Reducing Costs Neiman Marcus adopts an on-demand visibility solution to expedite imports throughout the global supply chain. Business Challenges The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc., a leading national retailer, includes Neiman Marcus Stores, Bergdorf Goodman and the direct marketing segment, Neiman Marcus Direct. Neiman Marcus needed to get better, faster product and shipping information from suppliers, freight forwarders and carriers, so it could provide data demanded by U.S. customs prior to products
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Improving Utilization of Eap’s
Employee Assistance Programs Employee’s mental and physical wellbeing is an important factor if a company wants to be successful and enjoy annual growth and profits, but there are many factors that can distract an employee from performing their duties to the best of their abilities. Many employees suffer from problems such as alcoholism, drug use and rehabilitation, depression, financial and family issues as well as many other others that can affect their behavior and performance
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Improving Your Leadership Skills
Improving Your Leadership Skills The role of leadership and supervision in American business is gaining increasing recognition. Just as society looks for a leader to define its purpose and lead it forward, business is concerned with the selection and development of people who can successfully invent, make, sell and provide services to set their enterprise apart from its competition and solve the many perplexing problems that confront them. Management techniques of the last several decades
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In Search of Excellence: Review
In Search of Excellence is a book dealing with many different principles of economics and what makes big business' excellent. The first idea that Peters discusses is his chart of the McKinsey 7-S Framework. The graph is very simple but the ideas are fairly complex. In their research, they found that their philosophies were too hard to explain and easily forgettable. They made this Framework to deal with strategy, structure, style, systems, staff (people),
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In Search of Excellence: Review
In Search of Excellence is a book dealing with many different principles of economics and what makes big business' excellent. The first idea that Peters discusses is his chart of the McKinsey 7-S Framework. The graph is very simple but the ideas are fairly complex. In their research, they found that their philosophies were too hard to explain and easily forgettable. They made this Framework to deal with strategy, structure, style, systems, staff (people),
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In Todays Society, Most Students Goes to University So That They Can Achieve a Goal
Introduction: In todays society, most students goes to university so that they can achieve a goal Introduction: In our current society, students attend university in order to pursue their goals in life and to enable them to get a great job afterwards. University can be the most exciting thing that ever happens in life as it is another chapter in life and prepare oneself for one’s future career. However, university is different from high school
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In Which Countries Are Stock Exchange Disclosure Regulations Most Stringent
1. In which countries are stock exchange disclosure regulations most stringent? less stringent? What are the reasons for this? Stock exchanges disclosure regulations are more stringent in most developed countries such as the U.S., UK, Germany, etc. It is because there are trillions of capitals involved and numerous cross-border transactions in the companies on those stock exchanges. One tiny issue in terms of disclosure of those companies may cause tremendous loss for the investors. Therefore,
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In-N-Out All Over the World
In-n-Out All Over the World My father and I just rented a red Chrysler Sebring from the LAX airport in California. We were very hungry for we had been in an airplane for over 6 hours with nothing to eat but honey roasted peanuts. While exiting the airport we spotted a fast food restaurant that had a large sign printed in Mcdonald's colors that stated "In-n-Out" burger. It was around 1 pm and there was
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Ina’s Bean Crisis
DEFINITION AND JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROBLEM The problem that Mr. Hugo Gomez is facing is how to commercialize INA’s bean stock. He has to decide what is the best alternative to sell the bean supply. Accumulated bean supply has grown a lot in the recent years, and it is important to Mr. Gomez to find out what to do to commercialize the excess of stock. ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIROMENT The problem that Mr. Gomez is
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Incentives Paper
1. From first glance at the metric system that Hiram used I thought that things for Rainbarrel were looking really well. Then it made sense to me that what he was seeing were just numbers. Sure they were showing improvement in all categories, but the employees weren’t buying into the strategy implementations that were done over the year. From the lobby conversation in the case I could tell that the employees were only concerned with
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Incidents When Clients Pick Food Items in Refrigerator/pantry
Incidents when clients pick food items in Refrigerator/Pantry Client: DS Day/Time 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thurs Fri sat "one eye is weeping." He must escape to keep his sanity; yet he must return to keep going. He wants to push "[t]oward heaven" to the limits of earthly possibility, but to go
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Income and Expenditure Statement in Globe Pharmaceuticals Limited
Chapter: 1 1. Rational of the study I am a 6th Semester of MBA Student. I am working in Globe pharmaceuticals Group Of Companies Ltd. as a Jr. Executive Accounts & Finance Department. I have acquired required knowledge about GPL’s Accounts & Finance related activities that will help me to perceive a common picture about Accounts & Finance related activities in all similar companies in Bangladesh. I can identify my lacking and prepare myself for
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Income Elasticity of Demand
Income Elasticity of Demand The Income Elasticity of Demand measures the degree to which consumers respond to a change in their incomes by buying more or less of a particular good. The coefficient of income elasticity of demand is determined with the formula: (% change in quantity demanded) / (% change in income) (McConnell & Brue). Income elasticity of demand is used to see how sensitive the demand for a good is to an income
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Income Tax Research
Facts The facts of this case are that Joe Johnson, age 62, suffers from a severe case of degenerative arthritis. His doctor has prescribed him to swim in a swimming pool at least one hour per day as treatment and to prevent any further muscle deterioration. Mr. Johnson has no swimming pools in his neighborhood so he decided to build one at his home. He also had the bottom and the sides tiled in his
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Incorporating Professional Ethics Throughout an Accounting Curriculum - Ethics Article Review
Ethics article Review The article chosen to review is, “Incorporating Professional Ethics throughout an Accounting Curriculum”. This article discusses how many accountant programs struggle to ensure that ethics is set into the business curriculum of a student. Accountant students are training to enter an establishment based on code of conduct and code of ethics. Therefore, accounting programs should accentuate why ethics is a necessary part of the business studies. The assigned reading which is Accounting
Rating:Essay Length: 695 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: March 8, 2010 -
Increased Cost Savings and Revenue
M1A1 - 1029450 COAST4LIFE Inc. M E M O R A N D U M To: Board of Directors From: Pat Brown , Controller Subject: Increased cost savings and revenue Date: September 26 2013 Introduction: Coast4Life Inc has successfully grown its business from a $9.4 million company in 2002 to $55.7 million company in 2012. Unfortunately due to a terrorist attack in September 2012 on another cruise line the industry as a whole expects bookings
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Increased Cost Savings and Revenue
Chad Maycumber Ms. Camp SRC 9th 2/4/2011 2011 “Johnson! Johnson!” echoed the sergeant in an attempt to wake me from my deep sleep. As I drifted back into reality the pounding of the helicopter blades flushed into my ears. “Johnson are you ready?” yelled Sergeant Brown over the helicopter. Quickly glancing down at my weapon and inspecting the body, I glanced back up and responded with a confident, “Yes.” “Well yo-” Before Brown could finish
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Increasing the Supply of Cost Effective Housing Products
CONTENTS 1.0 The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brief 3 2.0 The Housing Affordability Crisis 3 3.0 Scope of the Issue 3 4.0 Economic Context and Background 4 5.0 Key Factors 5 5.1 Property Taxation 5 5.2 Land Supply 5 5.3 Development Application 6 6.0 Summation 6 7.0 References 7 1.0 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN BRIEF The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is Australia’s largest and most enduring business
Rating:Essay Length: 1,948 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: May 13, 2010 -
Independence Analysis
Individual Assignment #1: Independence Analysis Prepared for: Dr. Jacquelyn Moffitt Prepared by: Kayla Boudreaux March 3, 2011 Ethics 7401 I have neither given nor receive any unauthorized aid on this assignment, nor have I observed or heard of anyone else doing so. Kayla Boudreaux 3/4/2011 Key Facts: After graduating from college, Marie Jones began her career at a regional public accounting firm located in Kegan, Arizona called, XYZ CPA firm (XYZ). Additionally, she obtained
Rating:Essay Length: 3,905 Words / 16 PagesSubmitted: April 26, 2011 -
Independent Medical Examination
Dear Dr.: is the authorized representative of in all of its workers’ compensation matters. The purpose of this file review is to determine whether the alleged condition of lumbar sprain is causally related to the claimant’s work activities. This claim has been allowed by the BWC for a sprain lumbar region following the claimant’s allegations that he felt back pain after slipping on ice while opening a gate at work. The claimant presented himself to
Rating:Essay Length: 425 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: March 14, 2010 -
Indesit Company Marcom Plan
The Indesit Company: Launch of Audio Visual Range Marketing Communications Report Table of Contents Main Sections 1 Introduction………….……………………………………………………………..3 2 Executive Summary……………………………………………………………….4 3 Analysis of Marketing Situtaion......................................................................5 3.1 Market Analysis………………………………………………….5 3.1.1 SWOT Analysis ……………………………………….6 3.1.2 PEST Analysis ………………………………………..6 3.2 Targeting and Segmentation…………………………………..7 4 Marketing and Communications Objectives……………………………………8 4.1 Marketing Objectives…. .......................................................8 4.2 Communications Objectives..................................................8 5 Strategy………..............................................................................................9 6 Tactics……………… ...................................................................................10 7 Action Plan...................................................................................................11 8 Conclusions, ……………………………………………..................................12 List of Appendices APPENDICES 1: Poster..................................................................................13 APPENDICES 2: Celebrity Endorsement.......................................................14 1.
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Index Calculation Primer
Index Calculation Primer Roger J. Bos, CFA Senior Index Analyst Standard & Poor’s roger_bos@standardandpoors.com July 17, 2000 Roger J. Bos, CFA - Standard & Poor's Quantitative Services 2 What is an index? • An index is a single descriptive statistic that summarizes the relative change in an underlying group of variables. • In an equity index, such as the S&P 500, the underlying variables are stocks. • The main differences among indexes is the types
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Index Number and Indexes
Introduction Index numbers are a statistician's way of expressing the difference between two measurements by designating one number as the "base", giving it the value 100 and then expressing the second number as a percentage of the first. or A measure of the value of a variable relative to its value at some base date or state (the base period). The index is often scaled so that its base value is 100. Such an index
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Indexed Mutual Funds
INDEXED MUTUAL FUNDS In a world of complex investment products, one of the easiest to understand may also be appropriate for a variety of individual financial objectives. The appropriateness of an investment depends on personal goals but many individual and institutional investors have turned to index investing, a strategy that attempts to approximate the performance of a broad market index. As an investment strategy indexing began in the early 1970s in the United States, when
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India
India is the second most populated country in the world, with an estimated annual growth rate of 1.7%. Estimated at 950 million, India's population is expected to breach 1.15 billion within the next four years. The country's three largest states ( Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal) located in the North. Although cities such as Greater Bombay and Delhi are home to more than 10 million persons each, the majority of the population lives
Rating:Essay Length: 529 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: March 5, 2010