Business Essays

 Weasel Words: The Art of Saying Nothing At All- William Lutz Cut out a magazine ad that uses “Weasel Words”, beneath it write a letter to the people/person who may be interested in this advertized product. Your job is to warn them, in one way or another, that the ad …

Convergence – In the telecommunications industry, convergence refers to the integration of voice, internet, broadcasting, and other telephony servers into one mega-industry from their traditionally separate industries. Companies such as Telstra are an excellent example of this, as Telstra now offers an abundance of products such as, Fixed Phone, Mobile …

Introduction ‘The period we are entering is one of unconventional thinking and unprecedented change, one where all those ideas debated during the previous decade – climate change, GM, consumer behaviour, the impact of web 2.0 on our retail landscape – finally come home to roost,’ says Martin Raymond, co-founder of …

TESCO is a company that was founded in 1919 by JACK COHEN. It is presented usually as a big international retailer which is based essentially in Great Britain but also in China, Republic Czech, Hungary, Japan … It means this firm is as well in Europe, Asia and the United …

A successful company is an organization of leaders who take charge by being firm, fair, industrious, friendly and cooperative—who work for the good of all. You, our supervisor, managers, and assistants, may be chosen because you can displayed these traits and have shown your ability in current or past careers …

1. How would you characterize Black & Decker’s international expansion during the 1950s and 1960s? What strategy was the company pursuing? What was the key feature of the international organization structure that Black & Decker operated with at this time? Did Black & Decker’s strategy and structure make sense given …

Caterpillar was a low-cost manufacturer in the construction equipment industry until the beginning of 1980’s, but in 1982, competition from the Japanese biggest construction equipment manufacture i.e Komatsu, Kubota, and Hitachi, threatened its position. Caterpillar’s functional approach was outdated, and structural changes were needed to remain globally competitive. To this …

The listing of a company’s common shares on a different exchange than its primary and original stock exchange. In order to be approved for cross-listing, the company in question must meet the same requirements as any other listed member of the exchange, such as basic requirements for the share count, …

1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to tie together various existing material on negotiation, and propose a quantitative framework, based on existing research concepts, for carrying out negotiations. In addition to developing a framework and the associated mathematical theory, we perform simulations to explore the efficacy of negotiating …

From the introduction of the first public company by Francis Cabot Lowell in 1814, the principal – agent conflict between stockholders and managers has existed. The Greed Cycle offers an exploration and analysis of the agency problems that exist between stockholders and managers as well as some of the mechanisms …