Business Essays

The paper tells that the 2006 revenue of The Gray Rider Real Estate Company has been approximately $ 5.9 billion and has over 30,000 people employed worldwide. The Company has an excellent record in creating shareholder value by providing value-added engineering, construction and service skills to customers for whom infrastructure quality, efficiency, and reliability are critical.

This paper also considers financial options available to BA specifically, in order to better understand how large corporations gain and utilize funds, especially in the critical areas of public accountability, financial disclosures, and shareholders’ interests. Determine long term financing and how this could impinge operations of BA.

According to the paper, Operations Management Master, the operations being highly decentralised, with most of them being managed by unit heads designated for each profit centre gives them the operational flexibility and also the confidence among the customers to involve into a long term relationship. 

As far as the marketing investments are considered, although 90 percent of the investments are accounted for by the investment in brand contacts, until now there hasn’t been any tool which allows the managers to identify, a consumer perspective, the most efficacious set of contacts in which to invest.

An organization that specializes in imparting such services is carrying on investment banking. While an entire entity may be devoted to investment banking, it is not unusual to observe investment banking arms within an umbrella banking setup. In the UK, the investment banking scenario has undergone a radical transformation in the last two decades.

It was only after 1977 that the plane was actually given a name and taken out from the development phase and put into the production plans of the company. This certainly shows the pragmatism of the firm with regards to its products in the sense that none of the products are rushed into production whatever the results these said products show on the testing phase.

The author states that failure to make payment when due will be considered as a breach of the contract and the Company may reject the whole contract without in any way threatening its right of payment for work done or money spent or its other legal rights. Fitlife’s quoted prices are based on the approved date of sending out.

The author states that Corporate Governance is the system of governing a business corporation, its functions, and functionaries, creating sustainable shareholder value and safeguarding the stakeholder’s interest. While on the other hand, CSR refers to the obligation that a business has towards the society for using it as a resource.

The study critically analyzes the theories of international relations. These theories can be divided into two. Positivist and the post positivist theories. The difference between these two theories lies in the fact that while positivist theories such as, realism, liberalism, and neo liberalism.

The national unemployment rate forecast by the CBO for 2005 is indicated at 5,2 % (n.d.,n.p.). For the 2006 and next few years in a row the figure stays the same. However, the Bank of Montreal Economics Department has a different perspective on the issue of unemployment dynamics: the decline of unemployment rate from 5,5% in 2005 (which is significantly higher than CBO's estimate) to 5,3 % in 2006 (which is still higher), is foreseen (Egelton, 2005, n.p.).

The political and economic factor: India has a liberal-democratic political system. The prices, output, demand, and supply are all decided in the market place. Though the government does not interfere in each and every aspect, it sets a regulatory framework in a few aspects of the market place and corporate behavior. 

In addition, the responses from industrial units, agriculture, and related sectors would also be included in the data analysis segment. The information collection would focus on the issues faced by the establishments on attracting the investments and also the current pattern of the choice of the investors.

The author states that due to the magnitude of such endeavor, one must be equipped with the right business plan, the entrepreneur’s blueprint, for this grand task. The business plan is designed to serve as a guide for the investor in terms of the business decision he/she ought to make. This road map aims to answer questions relative to the growth.

In the modern business world, an entrepreneur can be defined by a number of definitions based on past empirical analytics – an innovator, a leader, a manager, owner of an enterprise, coordinator of economic resources, resource manager, provider of capital, improvement of service levels, enhanced image of the economy on a global platter, and so on.

The ultimate goal of a company is to deliver total quality and 100 percent value to the end customer. This is the standard or benchmark of acceptable performance management that describes the optimum use of all resources. Business excellence is the outcome or measure of Performance which makes Performance Management a tool to achieve Business Excellence.

The author states that participation analysis - or stakeholder analysis as it is sometimes called - seeks to identify all persons, institutions, etc. involved in a project, in addition to the target group and the implementing agency, and speculates on their expected support or opposition to the program.

Labour markets of modern day and contemporary economies are going through unprecedented proportions of evolution spurred by the competitive conditions in the global information economy among other present-day labour market dynamics. As such labour market flexibility has become one of the salient aspects relating to labour market welfare. Flexibility has been used to characterize organizations, job content, people’s pay and the length of their working life.

Environmental conscious companies are being increasingly aware of the perceived threats that their corporate activities are capable of causing to the immediate environment. Hence, greater care needs to be given to the production processes, especially in terms of producing tires and exhausts which may emit environmentally hazardous materials into the environment.

A project is a one-off process with a single definable end-result or product. Some examples include building a house, introducing new human resources practices, and developing new IT systems. The ever-increasing rate of change in the environments in which organizations operate requires them to transform themselves regularly.

The organization instead of its traditional expansion plans should focus more on its core and ancillary areas of business and tap more foreign markets available by capitalizing on its brand name and industry expertise and also sustain its growth rate in tapping a major market share of the US market. 

There are two popular methods of allocating costs that a service organisation in the United States and the United Kingdom use. The traditional costing method is uses only one or two cost drivers. On the other hand, the activity based costing allocates total costs using the different activities and processes in servicing a customer or groups of customers.

After putting forth the above views in favor and against Microsoft, it would be wise to conclude that Microsoft is the uncrowned king in the world of computers. Be it software, hardware, operating systems or state of the art yet to be released products, Microsoft will not be beaten. The company has an uncanny vision, an insight into customer needs.

The new economy as reconfigured by globalization increased the business risks all the more as companies were forced to align through networks, alliances, and partnerships in which operational and financial decisions interact heavily. In the global economy, the business risk factors go beyond the challenges of matching supply with demand.

In recent years the events of 9/11/2001, in which two planes were flown into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one into a field in Pennsylvania had a devastating effect upon the financial circumstances of the airline industry, an effect from which they have yet to fully recover ((/11 Commission, 2004) .

The organizations should adopt a definite framework which can be used to help them develop their vision and goals for the future in a tangible, measurable way. This framework should enable the organizations to identify and understand the systemic nature of their business, the key linkages and cause, and effect relationship. 

Organization under analysis is a HR department of SunDisk, a flash memory company. .The non-traditional benefit program will cover working mothers with small children from 6 month to 5 years old. Special benefits will be paid twice a month in order to support women and help them to overcome possible difficulties and health problems of their children.

Position of South Africa, as a diamond producing company. De Beers value alone without any direct government partnership mines nearly 95 per cent by value of all of the country's diamonds. De Beers is also involved in the cutting and polishing of diamonds in Namibia and Botswana.

Time or the lack of it is the basic factor that creates the urgency to provide information promptly, thus compromising on the presentation, formats, and style when communicating or transmitting a message. Reports that start with prefatory parts go to the introduction and lead on and on have become a thing of the past.   

The author states that the Blacks Leisure Group can vie for competitive advantage by adopting one of the four generic or the classical strategies, as per its business needs, but in order to develop a sustaining competitive advantage, which is the main goal of the company, it will need much more than a generic strategy.

For instance, the director’s report of Café Nero Plc contains an indication of the company’s financial results (profit) for the years 2005 and 2004. But Coffee Republic’s director’s report doesn’t show any information on the company’s financial results (loss). Every company as a mandatory requirement by the government prepares the auditor’s report. 

Marriott International (Marriott) prides itself on its global operator and franchiser of hotels and related lodging facilities. As of 2005, it has a wide range of lodging properties in the UK and Ireland, and internationally, accounting for more than 2,700 lodging properties. Its key business is the lodging business where the company develops, operates, and franchises hotels and corporate housing properties.

The author states that the KraftyKidz.com e-commerce project is the natural evolution for the KraftyKidz.com Internet presence. The site will market and sell selected toys, books, and software products. It will also produce Web products and Web applications that will increase market share, promote name recognition, and maximize efficiency.

Though Succession happens once in a few decades and needs a lot of time and issues to consider, a major part of the recent research was reported contributing many theories and models in the area all over the world. Though not very limited, the research in India is comparatively less, with few of the authors and publishers like Sudipta Dutta, and Radhakrishnan.

Today the difficulties confronted by the hospitality industry is due to the fact that despite setting a code of practice, guidelines are not followed which has transformed the tourism industry into an era followed by adversity. In these circumstances where hospitality and tourism industry is dying, it is difficult even to sustain these industries.

National airlines have become popular as vehicles for popularising tourism. A case in point, as shown by Tourism NT (NA), is that of the promotional campaign for Australia's Red Centre in which, Qantas, the Australian carrier, is offering attractive airfare to tourists from UK, USA and Germany.

Next, Rutherford is touched upon and it is found that he seconds DeBord's view of a mass consumerism that is sustained by the media to propel a hegemonistic force to power on the world stage. Giroux is touched upon next and he seconds all these views and adds that the worldview presently is much influenced by terrorism and its counter-measures that have since sponsored wide alternating bands of violence and fear in the spectacle - as DeBord defines the world view or even experience - a barrage of images and impinges upon the individual itself and draws it away from itself in the present and, thus, in the future whose past it is.

Capital structure is the structure of capital. That means in what proportion the long term capital of a company is made up of by using debt capital and equity capital. Bankruptcy code is a set of strict guidelines for protecting the interest of creditors when the debtor is unable to pay its debts. (Commercial Litigation Terms). 

Accounting informаtion is importаnt for vаluаtion purposes in Europe. This includes аudited аnd unаudited reports аnd both informаtion from the pаst аnd projections of the future. This is probаbly due to the fаct thаt investments in Europe аre much less tilted towаrds eаrly stаge investments thаn is the cаse in the US.

Kim Young Sam, like many people, students and business leaders during the 90s, may have been blinded by the ‘globalization hype’ in the media and academic institutions (Sharma 2003:184). Likewise, foreign investors and creditors also believed the “Asian Miracle” hype which may have encouraged them to issue more loans to Asian corporations.

First, we will take a look at Microeconomics from a general point of view. Then we will see the partial equilibrium model of supply and demand. Next, we will study General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics. All along the way, we will do our best to follow the advice of a very famous economist called Gerard Debreu (1991).

The paper further defines global repositioning. It identifies and researches on relevant subject areas such as the impact f globalization. It critically addresses specific dilemmas or issues that face the international manager. It illustrates the analysis with reference to appropriate models and theories as well as country or company examples drawn from course materials or other forms.

The company aimed to reduce the customer complaints that have been increasing due to the inefficiency in the operation of the helpdesk. The all employees of the infrastructure division who were reluctant in the ordinary work of supporting the PC helpdesk lacked initiatives to resolve customer complaints.

Employee motivation is one of the most critical essential functions of the HR department in ensuring the productivity of its workforce. The monetary benefit is considered the largest instrument to motivate employees. Psychological and even physiological rewards contribute to retaining good staff and encouraging them to work at their very best.

Interface that is online adapted makes it easy to interprets and share the data of the market. To any business strategy, purchasing habits and consumer attitudes are critical. Advertising campaigns and marketing strategy are the effective development foundation that provides reports for the marketing research.

For US Computer Systems companies, the major difference between doing business at home and abroad lies in a lowered predictability of foreign markets and,therefore, potential liability to incurring a greater costs than at home. The international/global marketing environment is more complex and varied than at home, adding considerably to the risks associated with international expansion.

Accordin gto the report the business of groceries is a favourite target for FGP because rural producers and urban consumers have traditionally been separated by more steps than usual for more durable and value added goods. TESCO pioneered FGP in the UK groceries business. Most other retail chains have followed suit.

The employees get to keep only whatever is balance in the ‘Plan Assets’ or the post-employment fund. The company doesn’t re-capture anything from the ‘Plan Assets’ and keeps it as it is for the employees. Employees give up their claim on whatever amounts were due to the fund earlier, i.e. excessive Projected Benefit Obligation as well as Unrecognized Prior Service Cost.

The furniture company Total Concept Furniture Company has 8 years of history and experience of producing furniture for the UK market. They are located in London (UK). They have about 125 employees working for them and have their own manufacturing arm. They are a medium-sized company.

The revenues in the online book business are $2.8 billion in the year 2004. And the market continues to enjoy a steady rise in revenue as consumers grow more comfortable with electronic commerce. Since 1998, the Internet has increasingly emerged as a viable alternative to buying books at physical retail store locations.

In today’s business environment, where strategies of each organization are not much different from those of others, it is difficult to develop big-bang strategies that will hit the gold mine. Organizational structure – how the organization is arranged to facilitate decision-making and execute its strategies, is what sets one business apart from another.