Business Essays

A capital market for equities is a place - it can be an actual location such as a stock exchange or virtual such as in a computer - where buyers and sellers agree to buy and sell stocks without the use of financial intermediaries like banks and insurance companies that direct the flow of resources from savers to borrowers.

The London 2012 Olympics would bring along a multitude of diverse opportunities for small scale businesses to flourish, in this paper we have suggested a campaign to apprise such businesses of this fact, to raise the awareness of such opportunities to these firms. Small scale companies need a lot of guidance.

I intend to pursue Computer Engineering and Science in this prestigious academic institution. Although I have not had the opportunity to work in the United States, my interest in the said field is honed by my stint as a part-time manager of a game shop in my hometown in Korea.

As supply increase due to more suppliers increasing their output, the market supply curve shifts downwards meaning that suppliers are willing to supply their products at a lower price. We analyze the demand for houses which is depicted by the number of households in each region.

Role of Marks & Spencer’s organizational culture in Fostering or impending paradigmatic change. Organization culture: It is the 'basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic taken-for-granted fashion an organization's view of itself and its environment'.

The company has offered services not only to people who want to buy a car but also to people who are willing to sell their cars or exchange them through Edmunds.com, it is one of the facilities the website is providing, which includes the thorough details about the car including its image and related information.

The industry that is doing well in the BRICK countries is the aluminium industry.  Challenges include competing against low-priced imports, healthcare costs, environmental concerns, labor costs, closings, relocation, the following of customers into new growth areas, and taking advantage of the market.

The author states that FedEx has set very high-performance standards to maintain quality service. Effective staff, good customer relations, proper tracking of orders, and other such measures have helped the firm stay at the top. The firm has often come up with performance standard programs, which help the staff meet certain performance targets.

 Operations management is an area of business where one is concerned with the production of his/her goods and the services s/he provides.  Operations management focuses on carefully managing the processes to produce and distribute products and services.

Rather what defines a global company is its need to effectively scale across multiple languages, countries, and technologies. Global companies need to work towards seamless operations between national and International offices leading to increased communication and productivity. These can only happen when they practice strategic management relevant to the situation.

Because firms supplant markets selectively rather than comprehensively, there is a need to ascertain the limits of firms. I ascribe these limits to bureaucracy, which places a differential burden on hierarchy. Also, the attributes of transactions that support self-enforcing contracts hence operate to the advantage of markets need to be worked up.

Viacom and QVC are engaged in the same businesses. Takeover is good because based on Excel Sheet 1, The current assets of paramount are 2.77 times bigger than the current liabilities. The market price is 33.5 per cent higher than the earnings of Paramount. Synergy means the sum of the combined force of two or more companies that merge.

The economic reforms of the Indian economy went into a super fast mode during the regime of BJP. The BJP government was found to be pro-reformist with measures taken by continued to follow the path initiated by the Narashimha Rao Government. This stand of BJP was in sharp contrast to what it had observed during the beginning of the reform movement.

By means of new product development, generation of ideas that are different and unique among competitors becomes possible. Thus, by means of new product development, industries are able to overcome cutthroat competition. Increasing the companies’ market coverage is yet another effect of developing new products for customers. 

The prime objective of this report is to find out the overall situation, the performance of Islamic (shariah-based) Banking in the banking industry as well as in Bangladesh. More elaborately this report will show the importance of Islamic Banking, a development model for a country through Islamic banking.

The paper outlines that the role of entrepreneurs today is not just for self-fulfillment but for contributing to the economies and helping to solve many of the problems in society. The role of Bill Gates to information revolution is one of the contributions of entrepreneurial that inspire the author of this paper.

Argued that the communication mechanisms between the financial systems of various countries often appear to be susceptible and weak which tends to minimize the influence of the calamities. Before we move further, there is a strict requirement for advancing the financial literacy source more than ever.

Purchase power parity is often used to describe the relationship of exchange rates between economic and national boundaries. This theorem relies heavily and implicitly on the concept of relative pricing. Exchange rates are, however, not only defined by the theory of relative pricing but many other factors. This hypothesis is based on the law of one price.

The author states that Vanderslius put forward useful guidelines that should not be overlooked in a stage-gating project such as clear definitions of phases, documented set of deliverables, gates staffed with an odd-numbered committee rather than an individual, and “setting ‘out of bounds.’

Amazon.com is distinguished by a number of strategic options in almost all areas of its business activity. Through partnerships and acquisitions, it has managed to create, in a sense, a content portfolio and a portfolio with a significant number of shares of Internet companies, which are distinguished in their field.

Recent decades have witnessed a tremendous expansion of global trade, premised largely on free trade associations such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization. These developments have brought about a global economy from whose cycles of expansion and recession no single country is completely insulated, whether it be Third World or fully developed.

In its rapid transition to a modern economy, China is undergoing dynamic change in all of its business sector and industries, a situation that presents features unique to Chinese culture and China’s economy. This dissertation focuses on analysis of the portfolio risks utilizing Value at Risk (VaR) in the context of Chinese Stock Market.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has a systemised process that serves as an industry standard to do such projects. TechWatt shall use it starting by doing our Value Study (this Study) during the Headquarters briefing stage preparations. Assuming the Value Study validates that it is a good idea to follow through and do our HQP.

The fast-moving Carwash Marketing has started by entrepreneurs might be expected to see more easily the potential of high-performance work practices. Carwash Market's vision statement, shown below, sets out fairly comprehensive objectives for a high-performance organization. If there is one omission from the vision, it has to do with learning.

Advertising and market research now also make a big part of the cost of the car manufacturers as the companies now try to understand and woo the consumers to their brand because the main source of revenues for automobile companies is consumer sales. Therefore, consumers and their changing demands for the industry become an important consideration. 

In this research study, the Oil Market Report by IEA is analyzed. The oil market is one where small changes to the supply or demand cause large changes to the clearing price. In economics jargon, both oil supply and demand are "inelastic" - they show only a minimal short-term response to changes in price.

Unfortunately, Refco is not satisfied with Fabtek’s delivery time and occasional delays, leaving little hope for long-term deals unless Fabtek enhances its delivery services. Pierce-Pike brought in business worth 3.9 million dollars in 1991 and comes in second in comparison to Refco. It seems unhappy with its current sources.

The booklet will provide guidance and explanation on a range of research techniques that could be employed in the specified research area. At least two named and distinctly different epistemological approaches must be considered. For each epistemological approach, the booklet should identify which research questions might best be answered using each epistemological approach?

This report calculates the prospective value for the target companies using different valuation methods. It critically evaluates the valuation methods applied in and recommends the acquisition choice and derives the price to be paid. It critically evaluates the possible sources of finance that Rozana plc may use to finance the acquisition.

In order to keep abreast with the challenges posed in the apparel industry, it is important for Zara to innovate itself. When establishing a re-birthed marketing plan every aspect of the marketing plan must be critically examined and thoroughly researched. This consists of examining market research, auditing business, and the current situation.

The business proposed is an offshore engineering services company specializing in cable installations, etc. to offshore telecommunication projects. The business started as a private company that proposes to designate itself as Thalatech Pvt. Ltd. It is intended to be placed in Portland, UK as it is more favorable to companies of this type in terms of accessibility to skilled and unskilled workers.

In addition to product the arguments put forward will need to clarify where young people are most likely to respond to these marketing techniques; whether on the internet by way of website and blogging advertising, through the medium of television, in shops or from billboards, leaflets, or via text messaging.

Bramham (1994) states that human resource planning or workforce planning refers to the organisational activity of assessing and evaluating employee issues to ensure that the organisation would be capable to have the needed worker calibre in future. Taylor (1998) suggests that planning is done in an organisation to ascertain the availability of best suitable employee at best suitable position when the organisation needs it.

Modern business organizations such as retailing businesses are faced with the challenge of competing in crowded markets.  Any modern business must keep in step with new business trends.  Any modern business keen on remaining on business must keep on reinventing itself in terms of product and service development. 

With the advent of new forms of technology and electronic-based information and data, the nature of organizations in the business environment is also gradually changing. In addition to changes in the mode of production and the products and services generated, there is also increasing diversity among the members of the organization.

This research attempts to gain an insight into the value of loyalty programmes to businesses and more specifically examine the value of loyalty programmes to hotels. Review of secondary data is applied to understand the value of loyalty programmes to businesses while a survey among hotels is conducted to examine its value to the hotels.

Through the involvement of the business organizations in making more balanced and stronger societies through their organizational set-ups, the goals of globalization in creating a better human society could be met in the end. The application of ethics could help in the process of the global progress of humanity.

‘Educating’ the customers, however, is very urgent – it must be done soon. This is so because the financial markets we have right are becoming more and more sophisticated. New and never heard of financial products and services are being offered everyday and price setting or interest rate clustering for these new products is inevitable.

Oxfam also predicts that the failure to tackle the crisis in the world's coffee market may result in the consignment of millions of farmers and their families to extreme poverty. There is a glaringly huge difference between the incomes of farmers in developing countries and the rising fortunes of retail chains and multinationals.

The policymakers need to keep in mind the fact that the distortions would be completely corrected leading to the state of economic nirvana, in case of implementation of a foolproof government policy. The next best option would be the birth of new equilibrium conditions, in case the distortions are not completely done away with.

It is important to determine the safety needs of an organization and all those who are involved. If a need is not considered, then when an issue, or situation, arises, it is difficult to know how to handle it.

Over the years many experts across countries have attempted to study the behavior of house prices and developed appropriate models to suit the diverse needs of various stakeholders. However, models that are relevant at a time point need not be applied at another time point as there might be several changes in the macroeconomic variables that determine the price.

The Information Strategy is concerned with all forms of information, independent of the medium. If implemented fully, it usually yields the following benefits: information will be easier to access, duplication of information will be reduced, time and cost will be saved, competitive intelligence will be improved.

This report provides an analysis and comparison of two companies i-e; Tesco Plc and Somerfield, both from the retail industry. The report demonstrates the use of an appropriate range of ratios in order to compare the companies from the management, investors and lenders’ viewpoints.

With growth in time and competition, managers of financial firms do introduce different new services for their firm but still fail to aware the customers for their services. With the implementation of different marketing techniques, I will elaborate the key successes that can be achieved with marketing campaign in financial firms.

The questions that guided the study purpose were “Is IBM a multinational enterprise? Is it global? How does contract manufacturing fit into IBM’s strategy? Using the integration and national responsiveness matrix, in what quadrant does IBM’s strategy fall?” Critically, the author related the question directly to the study purpose.

Cadbury UK division has diversified chocolate products including Cadbury’s drinking chocolate, Bournvita and Cadbury’s Éclairs Flake, Crunchine, sweets, Éclairs, Creamy White Buttons and Chocolate bars.

There are several cases where it is efficaciously delineated that consumers are shifting to more price-focused retailers. The new-fangled environs seek supplementary attention to keeping costs under strict regulation. Top-line development, nevertheless, is all set to call for something different.

The author states that this great success of Korea started from a very humble beginning. “The major issue facing the Park regime in the early 1960s was the grinding poverty of the nation and the need for economic policies to overcome this poverty. A critical problem was raising funds to foster needed industrial development.

RS Components is a company which is specialized in the distribution of electronic, electrical, electromechanical, and industrial components all over the world and was founded in 1937. Its worldwide business is facilitated by more than one million engineers. Thus the company has its operating companies based in twenty-five countries.