International Business Ventures
.... of it's
management. International management and organization-design expert Henry
Mintzenberg says every CEO has three essential duties: direct supervision,
development of the organization's strategy, and management of the organization's
boundary conditions. Top management's responsibility at and beyond the
organization's boundaries is largely a communication responsibility; however, no
commonly accepted model exists for decision, execution, and assessment of
communication opportunities. Within even so .....
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The Bubble Economy Of Japan
.... and Deutschmark can appreciate against
the U.S. . Since then the yen value began to appreciate, Japan was going
through a period of trade balance adjustment. While Japan is prepare to go
through a period of trade balance adjustment, it will also suffer a period of
recession, so the government strongly encourage business activities to
strengthen the economy in order to prevent backwash effect. It was this event
which boost up the GNP and raise the exchange rate. With this exchange rate
advantage it s .....
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Budget 97
.... Canada and puts the country's destiny back
into domestic palms. With this said, Martin announced no new tax increases,
although the raise in the Pension Plan could be considered a hidden tax increase.
Martin announced no new spending cuts in this budget although cuts made in
previous budgets are set to slash 3 billion more dollars this year. There was
some extra spending sprinkled into various areas. For starters, a new tax
benefit will be created in co-operation with the provinces, costing the Federa .....
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Business Process Redesign Or Reengineering
.... reengineer the company's plans to handle
its growth rate. After DACOM reviewed Hydrel's functional areas and the desires
of the top-level management, they concluded that the order management and
inventory control process had to be redesigned to meet the demands.
Then they comprised three teams: process, quality, and information. But
before the three teams could work separately, they had to go through a process
to determine if the team members were on the right team, and if they could work
together. So e .....
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Book Review Of Business Policy And Strategy: An Action Guide
.... the reason for continuing
with the remainder of the text. The next two chapters focus on the "field of
action," including the business environment and the business system. The fourth
and fifth chapters introduce strategic management (chapter 4) and the struggle
not only to survive, but to prosper using strategic management (chapter 5).
Chapters Six through Nine address specific functional areas (marketing,
accounting/finance, production, and engineering/research and development).
Chapters 10 and 11 intr .....
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Business Plan
.... how,
contacts, and confidentiality. Clients must know that working with Progrssive
Consulting is a more professional, less risky way to develop new areas even than
working completely in house with their own people. Progressive Consulting must
also be able to maintain financial balance, charging a high value for its
services, and delivering an even higher value to its clients. Initial focus will
be development in the European and Latin American markets, or for European
clients in the United States market.
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Canada's Unemployment Rate
.... under performing Canadian economy.
There is no single reason for the persistent gap in the unemployment rates of
Canada and the U.S., but rather a combination of the above factors.
"No society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part
of the members are poor and miserable." (Adam Smith) This is the theory behind
the creation of social services such as unemployment insurance and welfare
payments in many countries. The Canadian government provides a substantial
"social safety net" for .....
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Capitalism
.... growth of the Roman Empire prevented further
development of a private business class. As power over economic growth came
back to the people or lords during the Middle Ages, modern capitalism started to
evolve. (The Software Toolworks Illistrated Encyclopedia)
In the late Middle Ages, the medieval economy was based on MANORALISM.
This system said that peasants worked on the land that the lord's owned, but
everthing that was produced by them was kept in return they had to perform
servi .....
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Careers In Investment Banking
.... be the career.
Investment banking has been around since stocks have been issued and
bonds sold, but the field demanded little, if any new jobs before the 1980's.
This was due to the low complexity of the financial markets. Since then,
investment banking jobs have been significantly growing due to the availability
of complex securities and high-yield bonds, also known as junk
bonds.(Investment Banking,12) Now that the financial market has become more
complex, companies that didn't require and invest .....
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Soft Drink Industry Case Study
.... Summary of Suppliers 14
Buyers 15
Buyer Concentration versus Industry Concentration 15
Buyer Volume 15
Buyer Switching Cost 15
Buyer Information 16
Threat of Backward Integration 16
Pull Through 16
Brand Identity of Buyers 17
Price Sensitivity 17
Impact on Quality and Performance 17
Substitute Products 18
Relative price/performance relationship of Substitutes .....
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Chaos In The Currency Markets : Currency Crisis Of The EMS
.... and indirect intervening by
affecting macro variables such as interest rates.
2. What does the crisis of September 1992 tell you about the weakness of fixed
exchange rate regimes?
From European currency crisis of September 1992, it shows us that there
are weakness of the fixed exchange rate system. When exchange rate are tied, a
high interest rate in one country has a strong influence on interest rates in
the other countries. Funds will flow to the country with a more attractive
interest rate, which .....
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China's Economic Growth Due To Recent Foreign Policies
.... and optical fiber. Also, with all the
foreign investment China is receiving, the socialistic republic will only grow
more and more interdependent upon the world economy. However, the impressive
growth rate of China's economy is not without its shortcomings. Problems such
as inflation and inefficient state-owned enterprises plague the rise of the
Chinese economy.
The main goal for China's modern foreign policies is the development of
the Chinese infrastructure. The significance of improved c .....
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Chinese Economic Reform Under Communist Rule
.... income increased by only 100 percent" (Ma Hong quoted in
Shirk 28). However, attempts at economic reform in China were introduced not
only due to some kind of generosity on the part of the Chinese Communist Party
to increase the populace's living standards. It had become clear to members of
the CCP that economic reform would fulfill a political purpose as well since the
party felt, properly it would seem, that it had suffered a loss of support. As
Susan L. Shirk describes the situation in The Poli .....
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Classical Liberalism
.... big part of classical liberalism is that we are coldly calculating.
Being coldly calculating means that when a situation comes about we dissever
what will make us receive less pain and more pleasure. Although the human
motivation is by pleasure it is the decision that are cold, selfish,
dispassionate, and rational assessment of the situation to choose how to avoid
the pain and receive the pleasure. The emphasis on the importance of rational
measurement of pleasure and pains that forms the calculating int .....
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Clinton Administration's Proposal To Increase Taxes For Multinational Corporations
.... for goods, as people have less money to spend. The multinationals would
employ many people and with and increase in their cost (tax is a type of cost)
they would be forced to decrease the average amount of wages which the their
employees received. This may take the form of decreased raises, or the laying
off of some people. This would thus decrease aggregate demand for goods
Nationally (as Multinationals would employ people in the US). It would also
cause the companies to produce their goods in ot .....
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