Business Essays

Winston, G.C., & Zimmermann D.J. (2000, July). Where Is Aggressive Price Competition Taking Higher Education? Winston & Zimmermann (2000) examine the effects of price competition on colleges, concluding that this could be a “traumatic thing for higher education” (p.9). The authors find many pitfalls in price competition, searching for corroboration …

            American Motor Corporation (AMC) was an American Automobile Company that was formed in 1954 by the merger of the Nash Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company.  This was the largest Company to be formed by Merger in the history of US by this time.  When the merger …

Cooperative breeding is a social systems wherein certain group members put off their own reproduction, even as adults, and assist in caring for the young of a few breeding individuals. Cooperative breeding in birds takes place when more than 2 individuals provide care at a single nest. Normally, helpers are …

Modern management prac­tice emphasizes the need for effective conflict resolution practices and conflict management. The task for managers is there­fore not just to resolve or suppress all conflict, but to manage it so as to reduce its harmful effects and benefit from its good effects. The problem solving skills is …

Overview             Peter Terret, founder and managing director of RapidMap, is an entrepreneur by classic definition. Seeing an opportunity or an imperfection in the market in his area of competence, and going on to found and successfully manage his own business in this area. Identification of an imperfection or unmet …

     Locating the right employees for any organization can be a frustrating and costly element of running successful business.  Recruiting, hiring and training typically cost thousands of dollars per candidate for most organizations; therefore, when turnover reaches high level organizations must pay attention to their hiring practices by implementing extensive …

Introduction; On the morning of September 11th 2009, 19 terrorist affiliated with the Al-Qaeda group crashed four planes into the world trade center in downtown New York, into the Pentagon building in Washington D.C and a fourth plane crashed on a field Pennsylvania. These resulted in the deaths of all …

The current business environment is characterized by a considerable level of competitive rivalry and it is no different in the photography industry. In order to build and maintain a competitive advantage in this industry companies have to maintain the continuous improvement process. This is where the operations at Eastman Kodak …

International trade has been in existence since time immemorial. The only clear difference between ‘globalization’ in those days and now is the presence of large corporations nowadays operating in several countries. With blurring boundaries between nations, leaders of countries from the lower half of world economies are divided on their …

1.0       Introduction The development of computer and internet technology has speeded up the adoption of those technologies for business purposes. The emerging dotcom companies, at initial stage in the early 1990s, had changed the way corporations operate, which in turn encouraged many businesses to run e-companies. In 2000 alone, according …