Business Essays

Sin Tax is a tax levied on products or activities, which are considered sinful or harmful and considered as objects of social disapproval, such as liquor and tobacco. Sin tax or sometimes called sumptuary tax is meant to reduce the consumption of those products or services by taxing them, aside …

SM Investments Corporation, SM Investments or SMIC is a holding company with interests in shopping mall development and management, retail, real estate development, banking and tourism. The SM Group was founded by Henry Sy, Sr. it has become one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines. RETAIL SM Retail reported …

A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a feature phone. The first smartphones mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a mobile phone or camera phone. Today’s models also serve to combine the …

In the period 1972 to 1993, why do you think Snapple flourished when so many small startup premium fruit drinks stayed small or disappeared? Snapple started up with a mission focused on advertising a health-conscious product that was targeted for young professionals. They first grew the business from Boston distributors …

Certain processes play divisive or disintegrative roles in the social life of individuals or groups. These are called dissociative processes. Conflict, competition and mutual opposition are called as dissociative processes. Many thinkers say that antagonistic or decisive process also strengthens the process of social solidarity. Adam Smith defined the role …

* Sole Proprietorship A sole proprietorship is a business owned and operated by single person. The big numbers of businesses owned by sole proprietors indicate the popularity of this ownership type. This is so because of certain advantages unique to sole proprietor. * Advantages 1. ease and cost of formation …

Sport Obermeyer started to make firm commitments for producing its 1993-1994 line of fashion skiwear with scant information about how the market would react to the line. Inaccurate forecasts of retailer demand had become a growing problem at Obermeyer: in recent years greater product variety and more intense competition had …

How I love the smell of a fresh cup of Starbucks coffee to get the day started. As a coffee lover, I often venture to Starbucks to meet my caffeine needs. Starbucks began as a single storefront located in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. As of July 2012, the company has …

In order to do a strategic management plan, management must understand what it is that the surrounding environment needs in order for a company to succeed in another country. This is done by environmental scanning. Environmental scanning is as it sounds, scanning the environment for trends, events, and relationships with …

Read an article in the business press about a major action taken by a corporation. Be prepared to briefly describe this action to your professor and to name the key strategic management terms that the author used in the article. 2. In what ways do you think the subject matter …