Case Study

The Impact of Historical Processes in the Caribbean. Migratory movements and the establishments of patterns of settlements by different groups within the Caribbean from pre-Columbian times to the present. The development of systems of productions: Encomienda, Slavery, Indentureship and the plantation system. Responses of Caribbean people to oppression and genocide: resistance, development of peasant groups. […]

Novartis, a large multinational pharmaceutical company, recently diversified by buying Alcon, in a ? 24. 8bn deal. Alcon is a producer of eye care products such as contact lenses. Google has diversified by investing ? 124m in a wind power business. To what extent is diversification the best strategy to achieve profitable growth? Justify your […]

In 1791, astronomer, mathematician, and author, Benjamin Banneker, in his letter addressed to Thomas Jefferson argues about slavery. Banneker’s purpose was to persuade Jefferson of the injustice of slavery and alter his view on it. Banneker adopts a formal yet condemning tone in order to appeal to Jefferson’s sense of moral character. He also uses […]

To what extent has the Modern Conservative Party abandoned Thatcherism? In 1975, Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party. In the 1979 general election, she became Prime Minister until 1990. A Soviet journalist called her the “Iron Lady”, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she […]

Over the years, Apple has gained many benefits from internet marketing. Due to the internet’s high popularity, internet marketing has allowed Apple to promote their products effectively and efficiently which allows the company to create relationships with customers. This is important as Apple must retain their customers, which in the future benefits them as customers […]

The Montessori teacher plays a radically different role from more well-known roles in relation to children such as parent, babysitter, friend, primary grades teacher or traditional pre-school teacher. The vision we all have of a teacher, standing before the blackboard and giving a good lesson to the whole class, is very seldom a part of […]

A. For each of the following meetings explain which phase in CRISP-DM process is represented: a. Managers want to know by next week whether deployment will take place. Therefore analysts meet to discuss how useful and accurate their model is. This is the Evaluation phase in the CRISP-DM process. In the evaluation phase the data […]

What is a high performance work system? The components of such a system have been best described as “a group of seperate, but interconnected human resource practices that together recruit, select, develop, motivate and retain employees” (Zacharatos et al. 2005, p. 79). These systems of management practices see to raise the level of authorisation of […]

The A ‘case, a go / no-go project evaluation regarding improvements to a polypropylene production plant. The B ‘case, checked the same project, but from a higher level, where the executive is an either / or investment decision between two mutually exclusive projects. The goal of the two cases is to expose students to a […]

Norman Cousins once said, “Death is not the greatest loss in life, the greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ” In saying this, Cousins conveys the valid idea that our physical death is not as great of a loss as the the death of our dreams and characteristics throughout our lives. […]

As technology becomes increasingly important in education, schools are prioritizing its integration into their curriculum. They recognize the role it plays in teaching and learning. While initially focusing on the impact of computer use on student achievement, schools now acknowledge that technology encompasses more than just computers and can enhance student learning in various ways. […]

The Situational Leadership approach, developed in 1969 by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, is widely used. It highlights the significance of adjusting leadership style to various situations, acknowledging that each situation demands a unique approach. According to the Situational Leadership Model, there are four distinct leadership styles. Despite criticisms regarding initial studies lacking research and […]

Which theoretical explanation, or explanations, of FDI best explains Cemex’s FDI? Cemex’s foreign direct investment strategies and decisions were really molded by the nature of their industry/product. FDI yielded the most profitable and controllable option which they felt would stimulate the fast growth of the company. When looking at the theories of FDI, it is […]

A husband and wife come together to make their offspring. This statement was one of the core teachings the Jesus taught, and still stands as moral teaching for many today. However, there is not always a man and a woman. There are single females, homosexual couples, and infertile couples that still want the joys of […]

“There is not a same-sex equivalent to bride and groom. To insist that there are such equivalencies, and to act on this error, not only represents marriage as something it is not but also envisions salvation as something it is not.” Vigen Guroian is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia in […]

Evaluate and improve own performance in a business environment 1.1 Explain the purpose and benefits of continuously improving your own performance in your work environment. The purpose of continuously improving my own performance at work is to achieve personal goals which increase self-motivation and could lead to possible promotion which would in turn increase income, […]

1.What do you think are the sources of the information Jim and his team collected? They conducted interviews with key stakeholders inside the company and also worked with the marketing group to put together some focus groups made up of loyal customers. The intent was to get some ideas about what would be valued in […]

Semantics is the scientific study of meaning in language and deals with a lot of complex subjects, such as utterances and sentences, reference, sense relation or lexical ambiguity. Semantics often appears in other disciplines, for example in philosophy, anthropology, psychology and communication theory and it is closely connected with pragmatics. As already mentioned the study […]

Automotive Builders, Inc. (ABI) is a company that consistently changed its production lines and strategic goals relative to the needs of the times, starting out producing diesel engine parts for tractors in the 1940’s, switching over to the production of parts for military vehicles during World War II, and then, after the war, settling into […]

It is not difficult to mistake the differences and similarities between reality television and high school. Reality television is often about celebrities and the depths within their own lives while high school is something that everyone has to experience at some point in their lifetime whether you’re a celebrity or not. Both subjects come with […]

The Company Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. Starting in the mid-1980s, the company began to relocate to various low-cost and skill-abundant locations in the world in order to scale up its IT as well as BPO services. Accenture implemented the global delivery network (GDN) in 2001. This helped in […]

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is set in war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan during the reign of the Taliban. The quote “There had been a war going on in Afghanistan for more than twenty years” (13) indicates that this occurred between 1996 and 1998, during the early years of the Taliban’s rule. Parvana, an eleven-year-old girl who […]