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  • Assess the Claim That the Labour Governments of 1924 and 1929 Were Unable to Achieve Anything

    Assess the Claim That the Labour Governments of 1924 and 1929 Were Unable to Achieve Anything

    Assess the Claim that the Labour Governments of 1924 and 1929-31 were unable to achieve anything In 1924, for the first time the Labour government was appointed, headed by leader Ramsay Macdonald. At this time, a topic of much political debate was trade, Conservatives adopting a protectionist policy contrasting with the Liberal and Labour views in favour of free trade, and as the strongest free trade party it was asked to take office. Their main

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Bred
  • Discuss the Challenges Facing Multinational Corporation in the Management of Global Talent

    Discuss the Challenges Facing Multinational Corporation in the Management of Global Talent

    “The Jack Welch of the future cannot be like me. I spent my entire life in the United States. The next head of General Electric will be somebody who spent time in Bombay, In Hong Kong in Buenos Aires. We have to send our best and brightest overseas and make sure they have the training that will allow them to be global leaders who will make GE flourish in the future.” Jack Welch Discuss the

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    Essay Length: 2,891 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Max
  • Corporate Ethics

    Corporate Ethics

    Sometimes political leaders are elected because of the wrong assumption that they possess certain core values ranging from helping the poor, relieving citizen hardship, improving the quality of life of the middle class and saving the environment,. What is unfortunate is to see that values such as respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility that were previously taken for granted, are now strongly questioned. Many values are preached but no longer followed. History reported that when a corrupted

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    Essay Length: 1,437 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Janna
  • Nucor Corporation Case Study

    Nucor Corporation Case Study

    Nucor Corporation is constantly faced with obstacles and competition to overcome. This steel-making company whose name was formally adopted in 1972, has since been on a journey to join the ranks of the worlds leading steel companies. Although this is a highly profitable industry with a U.S. market of $94.9 billion, it is highly competitive and presents many bariers to entry. Three elements of competition in this particular industry include, 1.) Technology 2) Changes in

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    Essay Length: 862 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Steve
  • Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Burns Auto Corporation

    Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Burns Auto Corporation

    Running head: SITUATION ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM STATEMENT: BURNS AUTO CORPORATION Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Burns Auto Corporation Scott Watson University of Phoenix Professor: Murray Pyle MBA 510 Table 1 Issues Issues Issue: Increased inventory cost. • Details: Recent to an average of $360 million in vehicles in inventory on a daily basis; a cost of $10,800,000 to finance. Issue: No systematic approach in place to forecast sales. • Details: Richard Settle relies on manufactures

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Assessing Strategic Drivers

    Assessing Strategic Drivers

    Assessing Strategic Drivers I choose Amazon.com as my organization. Like the origin of the name, Amazon.com is the biggest Internet book store. Along with the development of high technology and other competitors increased, now consumers can purchase all kinds of products on Amason.com including commodities, foods, jewelry, and kitchenware. Being a totally Internet-based company, Amazon.com covers those drivers of Internet economy pretty much. But there are still certain drivers that are relatively more important than

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    Essay Length: 578 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Jon
  • Clerly Canadian Beverage Corporation - Inventories Anlysis

    Clerly Canadian Beverage Corporation - Inventories Anlysis

    Clearly Canadian Beverage Corporation Inventories analysis A. As a manufacturing company, Clearly Canadian Corporation, which produces and markets natural and flavored beverage products is expected to hold three kinds of inventories. These inventories are carried by Clearly Canadian in every phases (input, processing, output) in manufacturing the beverage. Inventories that are held by this company are raw material inventories, working in process inventories, and finished goods inventories. As we know, Clearly Canadian is a beverage

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    Essay Length: 1,178 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Corporate Compliance Report

    Corporate Compliance Report

    Running head: Corporate Compliance Report Introduction Technological advancements, an increase in the number of business failures and the widely publicized corporate scandals which have rocked the nation's confidence have forced companies to place more emphasis on internal control systems and audits. Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act requires public companies to include a report about the effectiveness of controls in their annual form 10-k. Internal controls consist of procedures used by management to ensure

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    Essay Length: 627 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Appalachia Culture

    Appalachia Culture

    Many people have different views on what Appalachia is, I grew up thinking that Appalachia meant people were dirty, poor, illiterate, inbreed and we also called them mountain people. As I grew up I realized that most of the things they went through and had a hard time with, I was dealing with the same problems. So what exactly is Appalachia? Well you will find out as you read on. Appalachia is no longer the

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    Essay Length: 1,506 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Anticipatory Logistics in the Corporate World

    Anticipatory Logistics in the Corporate World

    ANTICIPATORY LOGISTICS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD What is anticipatory logistics? It’s a system made of information which anticipates the requirement of customers needs so suppliers can provide adequate service production to meet their needs. Anticipatory logistics is part of the supply chain management which is how things get from the manufacturer to the customer, but it also is the raw materials that are needed in manufacturing. The U.S. Army uses Anticipatory logistics in their supply

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Corporate Governance Is Base for the Sound Economy

    Corporate Governance Is Base for the Sound Economy

    "Success is not the art of making mistakes when nobody is looking at, true success is the truthful expression of the performance when it is measured"* Who does not like the progress? Progress leads to success in terms of satisfaction of desires and expectations. When any individual compares his past performance with the present and when the graph is upward then individual appreciates himself or herself. The same is in the case of corporate or

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    Essay Length: 1,468 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Janna
  • Understanding the Vampire Myth in Slavic Cultures

    Understanding the Vampire Myth in Slavic Cultures

    In seeking to understand the vampire myth in Slavic cultures I found myself intrigued by the essay, Forensic Pathology and the European Vampire, exclusive to Alan Dundes's, The Vampire: A Casebook. Within this essay, an enticing and new interpretation of the vampire is offered by historian, Paul Barber. Uniquely, Barber approaches the vampire myth with the notion that " most if not all of the beliefs surrounding the vampire can be explained in terms of

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Edward
  • Assess the Extent That Malcolm X Achieved His Goals in the Civil Rights Movement’ in America

    Assess the Extent That Malcolm X Achieved His Goals in the Civil Rights Movement’ in America

    Essay Question: Assess the extent that Malcolm X achieved his goals in "The Civil Rights Movement' in America. (Consider the legacy Malcolm X left behind) Malcolm X aspired for justice and liberalisation for all African-American people during the late 1950's and early 1960's. He was a dynamic spokesperson and used religious concepts from the Nation of Islam to appeal to many African-Americans. Malcolm X was an activist for Black Nationalism and separation as solutions to

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    Essay Length: 334 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jack
  • Bellsouth Corporation

    Bellsouth Corporation

    Bellsouth BellSouth Corporation was formed in 1983 and employs about 63,000 people. The company has revenue of 20.5 billion, 40% of which came from Cingular Wireless. Their main goals are to provide the best telecommunication services to their customers. Its business strategy had three parts: to provide premium local service in the Southeast, to maintain its substantial wireless communications business across the rest of the country, and to continue to expand into the booming Latin

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Steve
  • Concept of Culture

    Concept of Culture

    Anthropology introduces culture as a means to perpetuate human existence, because without culture, we would not exist. Individuals are created biologically, while persons are created by social society. Anthropologists firmly believe that our existence is dependent on culture, because culture shapes the social roles people fill on a day to day basis. Without these social roles, people would not know how to express emotions or respond to any given circumstance because we understand everything through

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Victor
  • The Strategic Levels of Planning in the Waffle House Corporation

    The Strategic Levels of Planning in the Waffle House Corporation

    The Strategic Levels of Planning in the Waffle House Corporation Every corporation has to have strategic planning to keep on top of the competition and to be the best in their industry. Waffle House is no exception to this rule. A corporation has to first figure out what their strengths are, what they can offer that none of their competitors can. Secondly, they have to examine their weaknesses and try to find solutions to make

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Spartech Corporation: A Financial Ratio Analysis

    Spartech Corporation: A Financial Ratio Analysis

    Spartech Corporation is a leading producer of extruded thermoplastic sheet and rollstock, polymeric compounds, and custom engineered plastic products. Their annual production capacity amounts to more than 1.7 billion pounds produced in manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe. The company's financial ratios for 2004, 2005, and 2006 were analyzed and indicates that the company is not without problems. The current ratio for the company has been on a steady decline

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    Essay Length: 1,090 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Amway - Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

    Amway - Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

    Creating a corporate social responsibility strategy Introduction Amway is one of the world's largest direct sales organisations with over 3 million Independent Business Owners (IBOs) in over 80 markets and territories. It is a family owned company with a strong emphasis on family values. Its IBOs are mainly couples with many raising young families and therefore have a strong bond with children. These families are more than happy to be partnered with Amway, who as

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Skil Corporation

    Skil Corporation

    Introduction: Emerson Electric Company produced a broad range of consumer and industrial products such as electric motors, controls, drives etc. It had a strategy of producing low cost and high quality products. It had embarked on a program of acquisitions to meets its aggressive goals of growing sales 15% annually. It had acquired only financially successful companies. But in 1979, it acquired Skil Corporation, a financially mediocre performing company for $58 million. Skil was a

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Arthur Anderson Culture and Its Downfall

    Arthur Anderson Culture and Its Downfall

    1.1 Aspects of Andersen’s culture that would be signals of a dysfunctional culture. • Inability to question superior’s practices and incapability to suggest new ways of doing things in all areas of the firm. • Andersen’s organization, culture and practices were derived from the old structure, which were still seen as the best practices even if outdated. At the organization, new trends of the market and new competitors were not going to change any of

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: regina
  • Cultural Materialism

    Cultural Materialism

    When it comes to anthropological theory the combination of several established ways of thought often result in a completely new and independent way of thinking. Cultural Materialism is one of these children theories that resulted from a coming together of social evolutionary theory, cultural ecology and Marxist materialism (Barfield). The goal of cultural materialism is to explain politics, economics, ideology and symbolic aspects of a culture with relation to the needs of that society. From

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Singapore Culture

    Singapore Culture

    Singapore may have traded in its rough-and-ready opium dens and pearl luggers for towers of concrete and glass, and its steamy rickshaw image for hi-tech wizardry, but you can still recapture the colonial era with a gin sling under the languorous ceiling fans at Raffles Hotel. It is this carefully stage-managed combination of Western modernity and treasured Eastern and colonial past that makes Singapore such an accessible slice of Asia. Lying almost on the equator,

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Role of Stakeholders in Corporate Governance Process

    Role of Stakeholders in Corporate Governance Process

    Role of Stakeholders in Corporate Governance Process A corporate stakeholder is defined as a party who affects, or can be affected by, the company's actions. In addition, a corporate stakeholder is one who has a share or an interest, as in an enterprise or any party that has an interest in an organization, thus serving as an entity that can impact the attention or resources of your company (McRitchie, 2007). Their role in corporate governance

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Steve
  • Why Is Corporate Finance Important to All Managers?

    Why Is Corporate Finance Important to All Managers?

    Why is corporate finance important to all managers? Corporate finance is a specific area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools as well as analyses used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to enhance corporate value, without taking excessive financial risks. A corporation’s management’s primary responsibility is to maximize the shareholder’s wealth which translates to stock price maximization. Corporate finance provides the skills managers need

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Top
  • So You Want to Have a Positive Cultural Encounter?

    So You Want to Have a Positive Cultural Encounter?

    What would it be like to visit unknown relatives in the vast expanses of Africa? What would you do if you were stranded on an island inhabited by strange and unfamiliar Indians? How would you react if you were saved from starvation during a cold winter by friendly natives? Society today has been shaped by the cross-cultural adventures and experiences of history. What if you were able to have an experience like these and

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mikki

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