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  • Analysis of Starbucks Corporation's Disclosures

    Analysis of Starbucks Corporation's Disclosures

    Analysis of Starbucks Corporation’s Disclosures Upon reviewing the financial reports and disclosure notes contained in the 2004 Annual Report for Starbuck’s Corporation, it appears that the company uses basic accounting principles when preparing their reports. Their methods for recording and reporting cash and cash equivalents, inventories and receivables follow GAAP and are fairly standard. Starbucks Corporation reports cash and cash equivalents as one item on their balance sheet. There are several disclosure notes in the

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Culture

    Culture

    Cultures are always changing -- bit by bit, story by story. And there are segments of every culture that resist that change. In Spain some argue that siesta is important because long lunches build relationships. They don't like the idea of Spanish culture becoming more European (or, some say, more American). Then, there is cultural change that comes far too slowly. Last week I read a disturbing story from the Allai Valley region of Pakistan.

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Top
  • Intel Corporation Case Study

    Intel Corporation Case Study

    Introduction This analysis of Intel Corporation is to educate the investor about the company and provide them with useful information that will enable them to make a decision as to whether they should invest in the company. Intel primarily manufactures semiconductors or integrated circuits containing silicon that are used in computers as computer chips. The purpose of this paper is to provide the investor with facts regarding the company profile, global presence, environmental policies, competitors,

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Victor
  • Loctite Corporation

    Loctite Corporation

    Udara Bandara Written case analysis ?V LOCTITE CORPORATION Marketing Management 1. Product Policy Issues a. Positioning: Should the BAM be promoted as a dispenser for instant adhesives, anaerobic, or both? At the initial launch of the product BAM should focus more on anaerobic market as this market is the one that caters to the industrial users. Only 30% of the users are industrial users in the instant adhesives market and the product features and the

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    Essay Length: 2,170 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: David
  • Needs Assessment for Quality Improvement Paper

    Needs Assessment for Quality Improvement Paper

    RUNNING HEAD: Quality Improvement Paper Needs Assessment for Quality Improvement Paper Cliftina Gwilt August 13, 2006 MGT 449 Suzannah Radnay Quality Improvement Paper The No Child Left behind Act appears to be the primary force driving schools for quality improvement process, including the school I work where I am employed. Through this paper I will assess the need for quality improvement within the school system I work. The paper will include and “As Is” flow

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper

    Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper

    Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper Many companies are involved positive and negative risk that it takes. Enron was a company caused by poor corporate governance. It has also triggered a flood of legislative and regulatory changes and codes of conduct across the developed and emerging worlds to improve systems for ensuring that public companies are run properly in shareholders' interest (Good practice boost performance. Euromoney, [serial online]. September 2003). The situation Enron faced as a

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Toys R Us Corporate

    Toys R Us Corporate

    No more amazon: On May 21, 2004, we, Toysrus.com, LLC, our Internet subsidiary, and two other affiliated companies, filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com and its affiliated companies related to our strategic alliance with Amazon.com. The lawsuit was filed to protect our exclusivity rights in the toy, game, and baby products categories for the 13 online e-commerce site on the Amazon.com platform. The complaint seeks injunctive and declaratory relief, monetary damages and contract rescission against Amazon.com.

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Janna
  • West African Culture

    West African Culture

    Brief History From the 1500s to the 1700s, African blacks, mainly from the area of West Africa (today's Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Dahomey, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon) were shipped as slaves to North America, Brazil, and the West Indies. For them, local and tribal differences, and even varying cultural backgrounds, soon melded into one common concern for the suffering they all endured. Music, songs, and dances as well as

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Yan
  • Managing Efficient Corporate Discussions

    Managing Efficient Corporate Discussions

    If communication is the livelihood of any business, then meetings are the heart, mind, and soul. The place where we communicate our thoughts, sort them out, share our obsessions for better or worse, create original understandings and fresh directions. It is where agreements can take place or collapse, where plans are articulated and debated. Basically, it is where we engage with others. Meetings are essentially, people meeting with people. Almost all companies have business meetings

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: regina
  • Assessment of Consumer Satisfaction of Dhl in China

    Assessment of Consumer Satisfaction of Dhl in China

    1.Introduction. 2.Procedures. 3.Findings: a.Background and Brief Introduction b.The Service Range c. The Main Service Items d. The Service Coverage e. The Service Costs f. Competition g. Questionnaire Results 4.Conclusions. 5.Recommendations. 6.Appendixes:Questionnaire about the consumer satisfaction of services of DHL in China 1.Introduction As requested, this report is based on an market research on the consumer satisfaction of the services of DHL in China. This report gives an introduction of its services and reveals the benefits

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    Essay Length: 2,052 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Corporate Entrepreneurship

    Corporate Entrepreneurship

    Corporate Entrepreneurship Corporate Entrepreneurship can be seen as the process whereby an individual or a group creates a new venture within an existing organization, revitalizes and renews an organization ,or innovates. Zahra’s(1986) definition of corporate entrepreneurship suggests aformal or informal activity aimed at creating new businesses in established firms through product and process innovations and market developments,whereas sathe(1985) defines corporate entrepreneurship as a process of organizational renewal. Corporate Entrepreneurship has emerged as a much needed

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Top
  • Understanding the Cuban American Culture

    Understanding the Cuban American Culture

    Miami Florida has the biggest Latin population than any other city in the United States. The majority of Latin’s being of Cuban descent. Since the Cuban revolution there have been constant waves of immigrating Cubans to Miami. The result has been a Cuban American society that has created culture diversity within. In order to understand the Cuban American culture you must understand its ethnic origin, politics, and the varying times of immigration. CUBAS ETHNIC ROOTS

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Culture of Ireland as Influenced by British Rule

    The Culture of Ireland as Influenced by British Rule

    The beautiful, lush green vegetation of Ireland is often a lasting memory of the country of Ireland. However, after some time, the absence of trees is noted by many. In a sense, that positive and negative side of the physical landscape of Ireland is analogous to Ireland's experience of being ruled by Britain for hundreds of years. In 7,000 BC, during the stone-age period, hunters from Britain settled in Ireland. Thereafter, around 3,000 BC, farmers

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Hip Hop Culture

    Hip Hop Culture

    HIP HOP CULTURE Music. It seizes to amaze me how this five letter word has the immense power to influence, change, and identify someone’s entire persona. It’s like an adrenaline rush that overcomes your entire body, thoughts, and emotions. While standing in a crowd at a concert, you are completely succumb to the music in which you fail to realize the make-up, which was once perfectly set, is now completely sweated off, or how the

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Vika
  • Corporate Social Responsibility in Peru

    Corporate Social Responsibility in Peru

    CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY (CSR) IN PERU Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Peru is still poorly developed. There is no real consciousness among individuals and organizations about what CSR means and why it is important for society. There are just a few companies that have a truly 360 degrees CSR policy. Even though Peru's economy has been growing fast in the last decade, Peru is a country with many tasks pending. Poverty levels are still high,

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Victor
  • Corporate Network Security

    Corporate Network Security

    ABSTRACT Corporate Network Security is one of the most underrated considerations within today’s business world. This spotlight’s, on a more fundamental level, where management teams struggle to align their Information Technology infrastructure with business goals, business objectives, business practices and procedures. Successful management teams are cognizant of two things. First, they are acutely aware that technology is integrated in most every facet of business. As a result, secondly, they realize the importance of having an

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Loewen's Corporate

    Loewen's Corporate

    INTRODUCTION After decades’ dramatically expansion, the Loewen Group Inc, the second largest death care company in North America, went downhill abruptly in 1998. Compared with those in 1997, its net income decreased from $42.7 million to $599 million in deficit, meanwhile, its long-term debt due in one year increased by more than 2000%, from $43.5 million to $874.1 million, and total liabilities exceeded the total assets by $326.8 million (in US dollar). Because Loewen could

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Vika
  • Facts on Corporate Governance

    Facts on Corporate Governance

    How do we fix recent corporate governance breakdowns? Cross Currents Fall 2005 - IT Excellence Governance The pervasive nature of IT as a business enabler obscures some harsh realities about IT performance. Contrary to conventional wisdom, technology- driven increases in productivity have been meager relative to total expenditures. Lackluster IT performance is manifested in failed or aborted projects, missed deadlines, budget overruns, and poor returns on investment (ROI). Increasingly, these indications of low IT

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Corporate Ownership of Mass Media

    Corporate Ownership of Mass Media

    Corporate Ownership of Mass Media It is my opinion that there is bias in mass communication due to corporate ownership. We as a population cannot trust media sources to fully educate us due to the roles and biases that large corporations play in mass popular media today. If there are larger corporations running things, there may also be ulterior motives for disclosing or not disclosing information. An example is the power of General Electric over

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Spanking Issue: The Ethical Dilemma of Corporal Punishment

    The Spanking Issue: The Ethical Dilemma of Corporal Punishment

    The Spanking Issue: The Ethical Dilemma of Corporal Punishment This issue of corporal punishment is a current issue that many people have on their minds. The issue strikes an emotional chord for many whom were or were not punished by spanking during their own childhoods. The issue generally focuses on the effect that spanking or other discipline methods will have on children. I will specifically be exploring the question: is it ever appropriate to

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Permanent Impact of the Counter-Culture on Today's American Society

    Permanent Impact of the Counter-Culture on Today's American Society

    “What is not illusionary is the reality of a new culture of opposition. It grows out of the disintegration of the old forms, vinyl and aerosol institutions that carry all the inane and destructive values of privatism; competition, commercialism, profitability and elitism…It’s not a “youth thing” by now but a generational event; chronological age is the only current phase”. The previous quote was written by Andrew Kopkind in Rolling Stone on the Woodstock festival

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Intel Corporation

    Intel Corporation

    1 Introduction Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, their initial strategy was to develop semiconductor chips for mainframe computers and minicomputers. Through the years this strategy has been adapted to some changes in the environment. They started with producing DRAM, now almost 30 years later they developed, and produce the Intel Pentium Processor. Almost everybody is familiar with Intel because of their marketing campaign Ў§Intel InsideЎЁ. They started this

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Organizational Culture

    Organizational Culture

    Three general types of organizational culture—constructive, passive-defensive, aggressive-defensive: The organizational cultural inventory measures 12 sets of normative beliefs or shared behavioral expectations associated with three general types of cultures, Constructive, Passive-Defensive, and Aggressive-Defensive. Constructive cultures—in which members are encouraged to interact with others and approach tasks in ways that will help them meet their higher-order satisfaction needs, are characterized by Achievement, Self-actualizing, Humanistic-Encouraging, and Affiliative norms. Constructive styles strongly associated with satisfaction and low stress

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Cultural Competence

    Cultural Competence

    The American Academy of Family Physicians website defines cultural competence as: "A set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together as a system, agency or among professionals and enable that system, agency or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. The word "culture" is used because it implies the integrated pattern of human thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values and institutions of a racial, ethnic, religious or social group. The word competence

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jack
  • Comparative Culture

    Comparative Culture

    Abstract In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the role of religion in the cultures in the United States and an Arab nation of Egypt. Comparative Culture Essay The roles that Religion have played in developing the cultures of the United States and the Arab nation of Egypt have many similarities and differences, such as beliefs, laws, and social norms. I am going to start by talking about the history of religion in

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Victor