Business Essays

British Airways contributes to economic growth in the UK as it is part of a transport infrastructure on which many other parts of the economy depends on. Better transport links between cities have expanded markets, allowing for economies of scale, increased specialization in areas of competitive advantage and stiffer competitive pressures.

The example of Xerox Corporation shows how competition strategies can cause failure and loss of market shares. It should be noted that competition in the 1990s was cause by globalization processes, economic integration, removal of barriers to business on the global scale.

It is essential for every organization to conduct market research when making decisions about their products and services. Research provides a better understanding of what the consumers want, where the products and services currently stand and what product decision should be made in order to make sound business decisions. 

The subject can be best understood beginning with such questions as - Why are interest rates often excessively high on local lending markets in Third World countries Why do people who want to buy a good used car turn to a dealer rather than a private seller Why do rich landowners not bear the entire harvest risk in contracts with poor tenants (Ibid).

The nature of the relationship between each service-oriented facility and the end consumer is based on separate transactions that can occur continuously, that is, a client can buy or sell an item through eBay and Amazon at any time, but each physical sales transaction is a singular event.

As the real estate industry adopts a global perspective for local market activity, real estate academics and practitioners across geography are making deliberate efforts to understand the views of their international colleagues on important real estate topics including basic professional practice and ethics associated with the profession.

This paper deals with the strategic management of Walmart. The two basic aspects that are relevant to Walmart’s strategic management here are marketing and HRM. The Walmart company shifted its strategy from mass marketing to product variety market and then to target marketing so as to cater to the growing market for its range of products.

Ethical and environmental policies and practices have undergone radical changes. Around fifteen years ago, companies assumed that environmental and ethical policies only adherence to legal standards. However, things have taken a turn for the better; businesses have now become more vigilant about environmental compliance and business ethics.    

The use of credit cards was popularized primarily by the Bank of America and Chase Manhattan in the 1950’s in cooperation with hotels. Capitalizing on the post-war economic boom and the growth of commercial consumer markets, credit cards are ascribed to be one of the major growth drivers of US.

As the report stresses by glancing into the economic sector, it would appear that most of the decisions in molding the economy are dependent on the consumer and producer interaction. On the other hand, it could also be observed that in the US, the contribution of the government is effective in the building of the country’s economic standing.

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) in the UK began operations effective from the first of January 2007 and right now have charted their own growth momentum path with an ever-increasing investor portfolio of diverse dimensions. Property investment in the UK financial markets has changed considerably since then.

The inspiration behind the YMCA healthy eatery being proposed is derived from a combination of theoretical frameworks relevant to rural economic development models. Using paradigms that investigate the role of nonprofit organizations in improving the health and economic well-being of individuals in low socioeconomic environments, the paper will illustrate how business models can use market principles to advance nonprofit mission in challenging environments, while simultaneously improving nutrition and fostering local agriculture.

Much of the behavior of an individual in an organization is an expression of his place in the group to which he belongs. These groups tend to develop persistent patterns in their relations to each other. Because members identify with their own groups, they may express fairly uniform attitudes toward other groups.

This research will begin with the statement that in 2004 the UK clothing market reached £37 billion, including sales tax, representing a 4.2% growth on 2003. It would seem that deflation is also set to continue, partly due to the weak dollar and the abolition of quotas from China, but also due to the downward pressures on price which consumers have come to expect.

Career Education Corporation has more than 95,000 students worldwide and is made up of a number of different, well-recognized, and widespread brand names of colleges, schools, and universities. Their main specialty is offering career-oriented degrees to their students in a short period of actual classroom time.

River Island is a UK based modern brand, spread over continents if not over centuries. It deals with everyday life in different ethnicities with diversity in cultures. It also considers the popular demands of its customers through this brand is wise enough to consider all aspects of cultural influences.

The range for a data series is calculated as the difference between the largest and smallest value in the data series. In this series, the highest value is 1016 and the lowest is 32. There fore the range is calculated to be: As the data describes sales for each season for a particular year, with no sign of any multiplicative or exponential jump, therefore the additive model should be used to analyze the data.

Similarly, Libya, an important nation situated at the centre of the North African Mediterranean coast, is also in the news for couple of years for a variety of reason. The Arab Jamahiriya of Libya, encircled by Algeria and Tunisia in the west, Egypt and Sudan in the east and Niger and Chad in the south has not been viewed as an attractive destination for investments in the past.

Mediterranean Shipping Company has resource manpower. The primary strength of the company is its people. The workforce of the company is technically and managerially qualified and trained. The workforce of the company has exhibited a flexible approach, and in certain cases has compromised upon their personal affairs for the sake of the company's prosperity and progress.

The author states that straight rebuy is a buying situation in which the purchasing department reorders on a routine basis. Often, straight rebuy is a purchase from an “approved list” of suppliers which satisfactorily met the standard. In order for the suppliers to maintain their relationship with the business buyer, it maintains its product quality.

To omit these ambiguities from mind, a detail research will be held on Information Technology and its different projects. Reasons for the project failures and their sufficient deeds for its avoidance are kept in focus while discussions and consultations with project managers and other resources likes books and Internet.

This issue is increasingly important in this age of information technologies development and Internet prevalence in all spheres of our life. Many people believe that there is no need in wide use of data protection and privacy laws, but these people overlook the fact that the Internet proposes wide range of methods and means of e-commerce, marketing and management strategies for successful business conducting.

The author states that the marketing field has grown drastically and is presenting lots of career opportunities for the graduates as there are numerous options to select. The best job options in the field of marketing are advertising, product development, brand management, global portfolio management, business to business marketing.

These factors make companies today experience ethical dilemmas and ecological issues. However, business ethics is important to these companies, as their adoption of frameworks of ethics helps to address their ethical and ecological dilemmas. There are different types of ethical frameworks, which companies can adopt.

Shortly after that, in the mid-1820s the Shakers who were a religious order changed the design of Dickenson's broom and turned it into the flat broom that we know today. In the 19th century the U.S. broom industry was so developed that it started to export brooms all around the World.

The key objective of an organization's marketing efforts is to develop satisfying relationships with customers that benefit both the customer and the organization. These efforts lead marketing to serve an important role within most organizations and within society.

In the past twelve months, two new bowling lanes have opened in the centre of London both to make the sport rather cooler than it has been in the past. Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, located underneath the Tavistock Hotel in Tavistock Square opened in July 2005, offering eight lanes of bowling, as well as a diner, bar, and two karaoke rooms.

The psychoanalytic theory has been introduced by Sigmund Freud and it is still considered one of the most authentic ways to interpret the behavior of a person. According to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, the personality of an individual is like the nucleus and around this nucleus their systems are revolving, the Id, the Ego and The Superego.

Foster Ltd. has gone through rapid expansion over the two years that make up the subject matter of this report. Overtrading is a likely cause for the Company’s current unfavorable situation. This refers to the fact that the Company has expanded its sales revenue quite rapidly without securing the additional funds necessary to support it.

Customer service in like what it is stated means the services provided to the customers. Retail business success depends a lot on customer satisfaction, and this does not rely on the quality of goods and price solely. It is, in fact, more complicated than that. Customer services are made up of many elements.

A popular theory of exchange rate determination called the portfolio balance theory may be used in estimation of foreign exchange intervention. This theory was founded by McKinnon and Oates (1996) who modified the Mundell-Fleming model. In McKinnon and Oates specification capital flows are caused by adaptations of the market to the changes in financial assets.

According to the author, the economic variables that are commonly stationary not in levels but in the initial distinctions; this usually calls for the application of the Augmented- Dickey Fuller test which offers the assurance that the likelihood organization of the variables are steady for consequential regression expression.

Cultural differences may, however, compromise the goal of marketing the same product in the same way in different markets. In order to effectively evaluate these challenges, this essay will use the scenario of Louis Vuitton entering India. Louis Vuitton is a luxury fashion and leather goods company headquartered in Paris and France.

The subject of change in organizations and their myriad effects is one that is central to any successful business strategy. This has become of importance with the rapid advances in Information Technology that occurred in the last decades. The tools used in a company may change in a few years, and job titles and responsibilities may be similarly affected by the implementation of a new IT system.

Innovation is considered as one of the key functions of entrepreneurship as a process and Peter Druker went on to suggest that the “Innovation is the specific function of entrepreneurship… It is the means by which the entrepreneur either creates new wealth-producing resources or endows existing resources”.

A financial budget is a set of revenue and sales projection at various production or sales volumes. Cost allowances for each expense vary as sales or production vary. It is a vital management planning and control tool, as it is designed to change as the volume of output changes. Hence it is useful in times of fluctuating activity levels.

The nature of banking is strongly related to the management and control of risks, and dangers that certain unpredictable contingencies may occur,  resulting in randomness in cash flow. To manage efficient functioning in such an environment, a bank has to meet capital adequacy requirements and maintain a healthy positive ratio between its assets and liabilities.

Last few years IT (Information Technology) rapidly has developed and explored the needs of business fields, as a result, today almost every organization are making the IT department as a major part for their business. Within the IT sector, Servers and Networking paraphernalia are a huge part for the costing in an organization.

For Mr. Sampson, drawing out the plan to position FluMist as the only non-invasive vaccine available, while he awaits Mr. Mott’s strategic efforts at efficacy promotion and cost control, will allow the marketing and sales departments at MedImmune and Wyeth to get busy so that the doses the company does have on hand for the current flu season fly off the shelves.

Yorkshire Radio Station is a target radio station broadcasting popular music, phone in sports show and live football commentary of Leeds United AFC games. It is owned by Leeds United AFC. It supports Yorkshire as a region but focuses on Leeds. For carrying out the marketing analysis to prepare a marketing strategy for Yorkshire Radio Station, we have to decide on the Main Aim of the exercise, to formulate the objectives, to make an assessment of the current position of the organization, make quantitative and qualitative market research, analyze the data, and finally make our suggestions.

Customer loyalty deals with the behavior, attitudes and perceptions of customers. Customers are considered to be an asset for any business as they can provide good ratings, testimonials and evaluations to different products and services, which are available in the market (Reinchheld, 2006, 56).

The aim of this paper is to explain the strategy of an organization towards the public sector. The paper also looks into the characteristics of the organization strategies with respect to the different stakeholders including the public sector. Finally, the paper discusses the weaknesses of the strategy.

Coca-cola Company is one of the most successful companies; it is the leading manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of non-alcoholic beverage in the world. It owns more than 500 hundred brands including water, juice drinks, coffees, teas, sports drinks, energy drinks, diet beverage, and many others.

The major issue that confronts the housing managers is in establishing the safety of the residents and also to respond quickly to the complaints raised by the occupants. On the safety aspects, the occupants have been exposed to routine safety drills and refresher sessions on some of the precautions that need to be followed.

Researchers have studied bankruptcy since the work of Beaver (1966,1968) and Altman (1968). Previous studies have used either accounting ratios or market ratios based measures. Artificial intelligence models have been devised, leading to the development of so-called neural network techniques whereby computers are used to stimulate thought processes and identify behavior patterns.

The present section will discuss the assessment of the various risks that can affect the value of a real estate property in Italy. First & the foremost, the recent boom in real estate investment is due to the fact that their euro has been trading strongly in comparison to the dollar. This has also been attributed as one of the prime advantages of getting a mortgage loan.

The author states that the evaluation of performance can be carried out at various levels such as evaluating the whole human resources system, evaluating the specific subsystems within the human resource, team performance and individual performance. A good performance strategy entails a good competitive strategy.

The war negatively influenced investment outlook as one of the main economic indicators. Also, the beginning of war coincided with recovering of the US economy and unstable economic situation inside the country. For instance, economic indicators show that: "In the fourth quarter of 2002, the US economy increased at an annual rate of 1.4 per cent, much slower than the 4 per cent of the [last] quarter"

The constant expansion in the services industry, particularly in hotel and restaurant management, had brought managers and business owners whose specialty is providing service-oriented fields to acquire practical and depth understanding about the industry.

Change from routine or innovation in the working atmosphere always brings enthusiasm, new vigor, and zest to life. Human beings always thrive for a new discovery that can revolutionize the entire world and provide a new paradigm to life and evolution. This revolution could be related to any part of life, medicine, environment, technology, agriculture, or food.