Business Essays

Vodafone needs no introduction in the telecom sector. From a company of merely 300 employees,  spanning over a period of ten years, today it has grown into a family of over 60,000 employees, adding on another ten years of its existence. There shall be presenting an analysis of how well Vodafone’s HR policies have supported it as an organization through vertical integration. 

Building relationships is a challenge, especially when a firm has many, often millions of customers who interact with the firm in many ways. More recently, customer loyalty has been used in a business context to describe a customer's willingness to continue patronizing a firm over the long term, purchasing and using its goods and services on a repeated and preferably exclusive basis, and recommending the firm's products to friends and associates.

The Ryanair airline has a total stock of one hundred and sixty-eight aircraft plying all the routes the company operates. In the 1990s the company enjoyed tremendous success largely due to the thriving capacity of the low-cost business model. Unfortunately, in the last few years, Ryanair has come under increased media lambasting.

The moment an entity crosses the geographical boundaries of the home nation, they are bound to face foreign exchange (forex) risk; even within staying within a country, the vulnerability cannot be avoided. The institutions that trade in the global markets are, therefore as well, bound to the forex vulnerability. 

This section presents the strategic framework of CRM that shall be applied to the case of Sony Corporation later in this paper. The most common understanding of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) that it comprises of technology based customer related solutions like the sales force & customer service automation system.

Today, Kmart operates 182 stores throughout Australia and New Zealand and employs thousands of local residents. With our massive range of products, including men's, women's and children's wear; garden; home; health & beauty; outdoor living; entertainment; toys & sporting; camping & fishing; Kmart is sure to make any time a good time.

Risks are common to any type of investment or business. In financial markets, risks are due to market instability, variability and fluctuation in the market prices. This paper focuses on the concept of Quantile Hedging, its effectiveness and limitations. As a prelude to quantile hedging, the developments of hedging and option pricing models are also discussed.

This resort, through which the Thames river passes, will also act as a tourist centre attracting a large number of visitors from all over the world. Professional staff will also be hired in order to deal with the demands of the potential customers in the most effective manner.

While in this paper we have chosen Blackberry to base our research study and draw inferences, the exercise can be replicated for any other company of similar stature and repute with similar or slightly different products. The rationale behind the choice has primarily been to evaluate how a particular company performs across geography, head quartered in a specific location, in an industry that is fast growing and for a product that is widely used.

The author states that higher volumes help in reducing variable costs although the profit margins become low. Alert management can handle profit margins and variable costs so that getting voluminous orders to become a regular affair. Higher profit margins can be achieved by getting large orders regularly.

The family and the business are two systems in that the goals, needs and tasks of each are not identical. Because of the ambiguous nature of the interconnection, problems can and do arise.

Thus integrated design and production systems have been mixed with several technologies and built on the line of collaboration of the participants. Therefore it would be a successful approach if the participants shared their common goals and values to achieve particular objectives.

Legislation is important but only a small fraction of the whole story and though every manager must be able to work with present legislation, it is more important that they understand that hiring, firing, training, and leveraging the uniqueness of any corporation comes not from legislation but from the diverse employees that it has on its teams. 

Strategies are made in line with the long term goals and objectives of an organization. They help the organization to get economical benefits. Properly defined strategies help companies make their universal selling proposition and help them maintain this advantage for a very long time.

Back and Moreau depicted that potential benefits of information management can be maximized to increase the overall growth by removing all the boundaries within or among the enterprises. Price Systems reported IT is not getting used in the way as they were expected which resulted into incurring huge loss.

1). National governments have come to accept growing constraints on their sovereign scope for unilateral action even as they manoeuvre for competitive gains from global commerce. These changes supply both the building blocks and much of the driving force behind the emergence of "globalization" as a contemporary phenomenon.

Meanwhile, the people of Cuba have needlessly suffered and the U.S. has failed to capitalize on a potentially lucrative market right in its own backyard while other countries have stepped in to fill the void. When an approach to a problem fails to solve that problem for nearly half a century, it is simply unwise to take that same approach.

The author states that they expect the tawarruq system to aid business process and investment so as to further improve the economy. Other variables that may be affected in the process are interest rates, exchange rates, consumption and bank’s profitability. The three are macroeconomic variables while the last is microeconomic variables.

The full fare players constitute American Airlines, United, Delta, Northwest, Air France KLM, and British Airways among others. They try to satisfy the network needs of various long haul and short haul travellers establishing large global routes, fly a mix of long haul and short haul aircraft, and are generally expensive to fly.

These theories include the exogenous growth model as well as endogenous growth model. This paper will represent an examination of the viability of several governmental initiatives aimed determining the if certain policies will facilitate economic growth whereby a developing nation is able to catch up with already developed nations and to maintain a steady-state after catch up.

De Rome (2006) describes the environment as the surroundings where a person or an entity gets influenced. This means the circumstances that surround us are the environment. Same as we perceive the surroundings, the businesses get affected the same way. The environment is very important when we discuss the nature of the business and its location.

The depository bank then issues the DR, which may represent a multiple or a fraction of the deposited share. Owners of DRs have a legal claim on the cash flows of the deposited shares. The depository bank receives the dividends, which are then paid to the holder of the DR less a small handling fee.

Building strong relationships with customers can help reduce customer turnover rates, and thereby increase profitability. The financial investment of building and maintaining close customer relationships is a major reason that a growing portion of companies' marketing efforts is being devoted to relationship management.

The author states that sales dropped steadily that by the end of 1999 and by early 2000 the company was downsizing. This is part of Peter Salisbury’s move to reorganize and decentralize. His program “Return to Recovery Program” tried to centralize 77% of tasks in the UK for easy control and communication.

This document aims at identifying the required level and type of skills of knowledge, assess the actual skills and knowledge of the existing employee or skills and knowledge expected in the case of newly hired workers and analyse the gap between the two sets of information.

However of late, there has been an increase in the number of small businesses and entrepreneurial activities within the sector. Growing trend in the current global financial crisis, concern for green marketing, changing taste, cultural preferences and socio political situation of the UK have greatly affected the sector.

The story of Renault-Nissan is one of courage and determination to overcome all obstacles in the pursuit of financial success. It was also one of desperation as Nissan was steadily spiralling into bankruptcy. And like most stories, it has its heroes and Nissan had Carlos Ghosn.

Extensive market research has been carried out by the Marketing Manager of the company with regard to the various products that can be manufactured and marketed along with the pesticides. The marketing plan has considered a number of variables including Demographic, Geographic, Behavioural and Psychographic to identify proper market segments.

(Bodie et al, 2002). It is therefore necessary for an investment or security analyst to consider these differences before providing investment advice. According to the IMF World Economic Outlook (2008), the global economy remains on track for continued robust growth in 2008 and 2008 although only at a moderate rate than in 2007.

In an article that was published in the IDEA Fitness Journal titled "Gear Up For Growth", the author contends that the fitness industry has seen expanding growth and will continue to do so in the coming years. The author, Joy Keller, lists 10 important reasons that the industry should continue to flourish and examines each point.

Though the well-known marketing mix of the 4Ps (product, price, place, promotion) is a proverbial principle in doing business, it is product-led. The 4Cs model (customer, cost, convenience, communication) has better customer focus. As it is, communication is the final component of the 4Cs model, wherein the customer comes first rather than the product.

Telephonica can capture a larger share of an existing market for current products through market saturation and market pene­tration. Based on the present day situation it is possible to predict in the next ten years Telephonica will retain its dominant position as the top telecommunication company worldwide.

It studies the similarities and differences in goals between the joint venture partners, the potential of the Chinese market and its incentives, as well as the hurdles the market presents to foreign investment in the form of present laws relating to joint ventures in People's Republic of China(PRC), the cultural barriers, the influence of the bureaucracy, of labour situations and so on.

Controlling for more CEO pay-performance sensitivity and the feedback effects of firm policy and risk on the managerial compensation scheme, we find that higher sensitivity of CEO wealth to stock volatility implements riskier policy choices, including more investment in R&D, less investment in PPE, more focus and higher leverage.

Founded in January 2000, Walmart.com is a subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Our headquarters is on the San Francisco Peninsula near Silicon Valley, where we have access to the world's deepest pool of Internet executive and technical talent. But we think of ourselves, first and foremost, as a retailer.

Banks need to use financial management techniques in making investment and accepting new projects. Banking operations also account for major risks that bear capacity to affect a bank's cash flows, earnings and shareholder wealth. This emphasises the importance of risk management in the banking sector.

This characteristic is very important in a research paper since it reaches a wide range of audience and readers, and it could be that a lot of these people are not as familiar with the research topic as the authors. Although the topic of the paper - customer relationship management - is one of the more complex issues in business management, the methodology used by the researchers is very simple that a researcher who is just beginning in the field can easily follow.

This essay discusses that cashflow problems would definitely affect the firm’s dividend and reinvestment policies. Because of cashflow problems, a firm can even defer its dividend payments. Dividend payment and reinvestment are important aspects of a firm as they restore the confidence of investors and increase the firm’s returns respectively.

However, as the deadline for entry to the EU gets closer, Bulgaria is encountering difficulties due to graft, corruption, organised crime, and bureaucratic inefficiency that threaten to delay the country's admittance but also its efforts to attract more foreign investors.

Boun Ma Thout has long been considered as the centre of international coffee market for its growing expansion and booming development of coffee industry. Vietnam has come to succeed on coffee production after 1990s when World Bank, France's Agence Francaise de Development, and other international aid agencies jointly aided Vietnam helping surpass Colombia and rank its position after Brazil.

As David Maister (1997) emphasizes, marketing is about getting better business not simply more business. The caliber of a professional firm is measured by the type of clients it serves and the nature of the tasks on which it works. Volume alone is the measure of excellence, sustainability, and profitability.

The information provided in the tables concludes that two different hedging strategies can be deployed in this case of earning funds from in an international currency.Arbitration Hedging: In this case, the company can exploit the pricing in the international money market and the interest rates to increase its financial holding.

In understanding the differences between qualitative and quantitative methods of research one is first able to determine which method is most appropriate.  This can be done most effectively by examining the literature on the research topic and assessing how the data was collected for that body of research.

In order to attain ISO 9001:2000 certification, the most important thing is the quality assurance at different stages till meeting the customer requirements and continuously keeping the standard by efficient quality management system. This is mainly attained by being customer oriented and with Quality Management System (QMS).

Within the EU, competition policy is important, as it helps avert competition at the level of the EU. In addition, it also helps the member countries to be integrationists, with the result that a level playing field for the establishment of a Single European Market (SEM). Moreover, it also avoids power concentration to specific member countries.

Last January 4, it is reported that commodities are off to a good start as major commodities such as gold, crude oil, platinum, gasoline, palm oil, rice, and rapeseed show record level high. The increase in prices of these commodities is attributed to the continuous inflow of investment which also heightens the demand for these products.  

The author states that is located in the San Francisco Bay area means that if the marketing for Carraba is not properly focused, it will get lost. The Bay area is noted for its’ fine dining and Carraba’s menu does not appear to target that audience. However, it will appeal to younger families because of it’s’ menu and pricing.

She has been a different kind of persona is quite apparent from the way she pursued her studies. After joining Hewlett Packard she had a vision for the company with introduction of new ideas and strategies. HP has a long history of being a leading company in computing equipment.

But renting may justify another look right away. After 5 years in which rents have hardly shifted while house costs in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and in a different places in U.S have two folded, renting has turned out to be a astonishingly elegant choice for a lot of people who by no means would have measured it earlier.

The same act stipulates that Fair Value is to be determined as follows: 2. when there is infrequent activity in a market, the market is not well established, small volumes are traded relative to the asset or liability to be valued, or a quoted market price is not available- an estimate of a price for the asset or liability in an active or liquid market." (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority)