Around The World Case Studies Samples For Students

Is internet a disruptive technology in the education industry?

With the boom of the internet, education also experience innovations brought about by the technologies. Traditional universities are hurrying to keep up with the trend of offering online education by offering full courses and short courses online. Big universities offer distance education where instructions and educational materials are sent through the net.

With this picture, it cannot be said that the Internet is a disruptive technology in the education industry. Although nothing can replace the actual classroom interactions in a traditional school, technology has changed most of the usual set-up of a school. For years, the classrooms remained what they are 100 ...

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Since the company has been founded in 2002, it has experienced substantial growth, and notoriety in the book world. It has gone from selling books in mainly stores to branching out to sell books online, competing with online sites such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. In the past decade the aims of the company have been to make a profit, the goals were fundamental to the overall success of the company. However, Better World Books embarked on social entrepreneurship where we have developed social objectives to promote literacy all around the world. Better World Books thrives on social responsibility ...

Question One

The sales of the Lego’s movie themed products keyed to popular film franchises, such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Spiderman are performing well according to the company’s main shareholder and the Chief Executive Officer Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen who has served the company from 1979 to 2004 (Lego). The increased sales can be attributed to the increased number of alliances with Walt Disney Company and Lucas Films, which is the creator of the popular Star Wars Series. According to my opinion, I think this was the right strategy for the company to adopt considering the ...

The Monsanto Company was discovered in the year of 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri by John F. Queeny and since then has dealt in the production of diversified products intended for the agricultural and consumer market. The Company has had a tremendous development and growth rate in the past century considering their operations in a diversified range of products. These included petroleum, fiber, agricultural chemicals and also the genetically modified (GM) food crops. The companies operation has also had and experienced a fair share of economical and ethical challenges of functioning over the many years of industrialization.
The ethical issues that ...

In business, organizations embrace broader strategies to counter competition. However, regardless of the strategies chosen, factors such as the target market as well as competitive advantage align the business towards countering any competition from rivals. Since its inception, Starbuck has employed a differentiation strategy. The firm has concentrated on a wider segment of the coffee market. Schilling (259) points out that since 2013; differentiation strategy has assisted the company remain the undisputed leader in the coffee business. According to Schilling (259), while embracing the strategy, Starbuck had accumulated over thirteen million dollars. Besides, it had over nine thousand branded ...

Do we have a duty to intervene in conflicts around the world? Why or why not? Use Kant/vices to answer this question.
Kant argues that human being has the capability of knowing what it right as well as the capability of willing to do it (Kant 149). Conflict around the world is not a good thing; however, intervening to stop is a good deed. As such, as a human being, we feel the urge to do what is right, which is to stop it. Additionally, stopping the conflict does not yield pleasure to the person doing it; nonetheless, they ...

Executive summary 1

Question 1: Environmental analysis of Severstal Company 2
Question 2: Severstal’s corporate and competitive strategies evaluation 3
Question 3: strategic recommendations for Severstal 4

References 5

Executive summary
Steel is one of the most widely used materials in infrastructure development. This is due to the quality of its products and the fact that it is relatively cheaper than other materials that would be used to make the same products. However, the steel industry has had its fair share of tribulations especially during the 2008 economic crisis that fell many giants in the business. The industry experienced operations ...

REDD+ in Kenya

Introduction

The prevalence of deforestation and massive degradation of forests from around the world are considered as one among the primary root of global warming. According to reports, the destruction of forests accounts for about 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions that occur globally (Forest, 2015), and it was found that deforestation are generally caused by factors that motivate people to clear the forests (Chakravarty, 2012). As a means to combat the problem on global emissions, the REDD+ was created with the goal to reduce the impact of the environmental degradation as well as to foster activities ...

Questions

Ethical egoism is an ethical theory which holds that agents should always act in their best self-interest. From the perspective of ethical egoism, the company executives are behaving ethically. They are putting their own interests and those of the shareholders and board members that appointed them ahead of those of the public by maximizing profit rather than focusing on reducing pollution.
The Kantian perspective in ethics is one which promotes the “categorical imperative” or “formula of universal acceptability”. According to this formula, the company executives are not behaving ethically. Were all water companies around the world, or even all ...

The Institutional Affiliation

Entering a foreign market is an important step in every company’s experience. International market expansion benefits the business in many ways. It is also challenging and requires thought out strategy supported by a successful local market performance. The Canadian based company, the Booster Juice, is a good example of difficulties and opportunities a business can face when expanding into international markets.
Indian market is quite different from the specificity of conducting a business in the United States, Canada, even Europe. Therefore, a company must consider the specifics of Indian culture, customs and traditions in order to win the ...

Abstract

Hong Kong Disneyland has been opened for over a period of ten years .It is beautiful and attractive place to visit. Being so famous it still has many problems till today. Below discussion describes the issues faced by the Hong Kong Disneyland.

ISSUES FACED BY HONG KONG DISNEYLAND ARE AS FOLLOWS:

- With over emphasis on China market, Hong Kong Disneyland has focussed on China market for a long period. With the opening of Shanghai Disneyland this year, Hong Kong Disneyland predicts that they will lose 50 percent of tourist’s attendance.
- Brand image of Hong Kong Disneyland is diluting because it has created too many issues like ...

Terrorism

Forecast 1: The number of offenses reported to the police involving computers and electronic storage media will continue to increase substantially, requiring changing priorities for resource allocation, new training for line officers and investigators, new police specialties, and new knowledge for prosecuting attorneys and judges.
Electronic devices that store data are becoming varied and easily accessible. All of them are potential goldmine for investigators. At the same time their storage capacity is increasing; their size is getting smaller; and their prices plummeting. Against this background, modern criminal are using these devices in ways which are unfamiliar to investigators ...

In 2012, The New York Times published an investigative report on the violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by the top management of the Wal-Mart’s unit in Mexico. It came out that more than $24 million of bribes were paid to the Mexican government officials to obtain the permits for construction of the new stores.
Wal-Mart de Mexico, which controls more than 20% of Wal-Mart’s stores around the world, is a profitable business for the world’s largest retailer. The Wal-Mart’s former executive revealed in September 2005 that many senior managers were handing out bribes ...

Milestone 4

- Corporate Strategy: Business Diversification
Ford's Mission is One Ford - One Team, One Plan and One Goal. The organization is into related diversification since it is manufacturing different light commercial vehicles and cars for the people. However, they have been focusing more upon technology and quality parameters so as to sustain in the given increasing competition in the entire industry. The segment includes three car categories, which are the Sedans, SUVs, and the Hatchbacks. The target population for this organization includes young executives, businessmen, and small families.
There are different brands available of ford, and as ...

This video talks about the ever-growing effect of the human race on nature and on the resources that are available to the human race on this planet. First the video talks about how much resources are consumed to produce the everyday goods that people use, and this translates to a lot of trees, water, and other materials. There is special emphasis on the amount of candy and sugar people consume annually, and this also results in the use of an enormous amount of resources. The way goods travel around the world seems to be wasteful also in terms of resources. ...

1. The CEO of Haier stated that they are number three in the world for white goods and they want to become number one. Haier’s strategic intent for the future is to complete its internationalization strategy and work further towards winning its global competition challenge. For this matter, Haier should implement its differentiation strategy in service and product differentiation focusing on the personalization direction.
The most important fact for Haier to succeed is to have a good understanding of the local customer needs and to be able to provide unique products and services that are different from its ...

Introduction

This report will analyze the scope, prospects and challenges of Venice as a tourist destination in the 21st century and beyond. Venice, a city in Italy has been chosen for this report mainly because of its great historic and cultural importance in the eyes of tourists due to its symbolic museums, churches, architecture, recreational spots, scenic beauty, historic buildings, canals, bridges, etc. Moreover, this city has also been chosen for this report due to availability of various research journals and reports on Venice. The tourism mix of the city will give an insight into the seven P’s that dominate the ...

Senior Brand Manager at Proctor and Gamble, Isaac Santos

The interview with a senior assistant brand manager at P&G’s Cincinnati Headquarters’ Isaac Santos was done over the phone. He grew up in Ecuador and studied at the university of Goizueta business school. He came to the United States to further his education and better his life. He has worked his way up from various positions at P&G until his current position as a senior brand manager.

You: How did you join P&G?

Santos: I sent my application through my former school, the university of Florida and then Proctor and Gamble contacted me for an interview. It was done by one of the managers and had a ...

Introduction

There are key factors in business growth and sustainability. These factors are: reliability of the service offered, high product quality and management of the business operations. Undertaking the analysis of Starbucks reinforces the three concepts of control and quality management, providing reliable service and having efficient operations. Starbucks is a global American coffee company headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 1971. Starbucks one of the largest coffeehouse company, with approximately 23,305 stores spread in more than 63 countries around the world. The stores offer hot and cold beverages, whole-bean coffee, snacks, pastries, teas and ground instant coffee. ...

Ipv6 Deployment Case Studies

Figure 1: Graphical internet usage trend 9
Figure 2: IPv6 tunneling 11
Figure 3: Data routing 13
Figure 4: Internet protocol suite 15

Introduction

In the midst of the number of IPv4 addresses almost entirely depleted, the realization of IPv6 has become a prime concern for many organizations. However, it is not possible to, immediately, change the whole thing over to IPv6 without a few transitions. This Paper takes a look at the ways that can be used to successfully transit to IPv6 from IPv4 among other deployment issues.

Section 1: IPv6 deployment strategy

The global IPv6 deployment recently made a significant milestone on the internet. ...

Introduction

One of the outstanding collections of contemporary art is the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) which was founded in 1964 in New York City immediately after its founders Donald and Mera Rubell tied knot. Being one of the largest privately owned contemporary art collections, the RFC showcases its collections in a 45,000 square foot warehouse owned by former Drug Enforcement Agency. The museum of RFC comprises 27 galleries, a film and lecture theatre, a research library with more than 40,000 volumes, a media room, a gift shop, a book store and a sculpture garden. The collection which is open for public view since 1996 features ...

Introduction

Toms Shoes Inc is a company that was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie. It is based in Santa Monica, California and has a profit making subsidiary and another non-profit one called Friends of Tom (Binkley, 2010). The company majors in designing shoes and eyewear. The non-profit subsidiary is operated on the basis that for every shoe that the company sells another shoe is given to an impoverished child while a part of the proceeds from the sale of eyewear goes to eyesight treatments for people in third world countries (Lerman, 2011). This paper examines the presence of Toms on social media, ...

With the era of globalization in full blast today, it is necessary for international marketers to determine which countries are favorable investment locations. Although there are a lot of considerations in choosing the country to do business with, one of the main factors to be considered are the tax policies of countries. Table 1 below presents the income tax rates of some countries.

Note: From “Tax Rates Around the World 2013” by www.worldwide-tax.com, 2013.
Based on Table 1 above, one can conclude that on an after-tax basis, it is advantageous for companies to set up a business in Bulgaria because ...

RE: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., Case Study

Reader’s Digest – Executive summary
This case examines the New York-based provider of global services that range from the publishing of textbooks and other educational material, to providing financial market services, and the business information markets. The McGraw-Hill Company is in the business of providing credit ratings, publishing textbooks, and has a major rand in radio and television broadcasting. They operated in three distinct segments in the global market that include, Financial Services, Information & Media, and Education with companies such as, Standard & Poor’s, McGraw-Hill Publishers, McGraw-Hill Constructions, Aviation Week, S&P Capital and S&P Indices, J.D Power & Associates, and ...

The Methods of payments have moved from gold coins to cash to cheque to smart cards and E-payments. But still all methods have importance and existence, although some methods are not widely used and the ratio is changing every year. Statics show that even today in US nearly 50% of transitions are paper based payments while in 2003 it was 61% and in 1990 it was 81%. Technology is mainly reason behind rapid decreasing trends of paper payments. Technology has made possible for us to access our funds 24 hours and made E-payments 24 hours. Electronic payments were first ...

Introduction

Discrimination takes many forms in the society today. It involves a group’s interaction or reaction, restricting an individual or group from opportunities that are accessible to them, resulting in the exclusion of the entities or individual based on irrational or logical or decision making as for the individual persons profile is discriminated based on a logical or a bias reason. There have been many efforts around the world by organizations and governments to eliminate all forms of discrimination.

This essay focuses on sex discrimination at the work place, its challenges and possible solutions. Time has significantly changed towards gender equality in ...

Executive Summary

Coca-Cola, one of the most widely known brands in the world, is a prominent manufacturer, distributor and retailer in the beverage industry. There are certain properties that make it different from the competitors. The SWOT analysis is an important tool for the company that allows for keeping awareness of its core strengths that it has to develop, weaknesses that it should work on, its impending opportunities and threats that it should prevent in order to achieve high productivity and increase in profit. Coca-Cola is undoubtedly a leader in the industry, but it is necessary to remember that the key to success ...

1) As part of your environmental analysis, please identify the various components of the Global Diamond Industry (e.g., legal, regulatory, political, cultural, technological, and economic), highlighting the main trends affecting the future of this product market (up to 2 pages);

The global diamond industry consists of three major sectors: mining, rough diamond trading, including retailing and jewelry, and industrial diamonds (The Diamond Industry, p. 1). This industry structure includes both large and well-organized organizations and small, independent diamond operations. The industry has a work force of about ten million people globally. They include both those who are directly and indirectly ...

2. AGRANA has chosen a good strategy for growth from a local supplier to a global player. Having entered Hungary in 1990, AGRANA had taken a step towards further expansion into CEE, territory well-known for soil and natural resources. Other strategic destinations in this region include Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Russia and also other smaller countries with good potential to grow. Management board of this company successfully identified markets and companies where they could invest with an objective to go global and increase production. For instance, AGRANA entered Russian market in 2005 and is now occupying nearly 48% of the market, generating revenue over ...

Greg James, a global manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc (Sun), earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He then got a chance to work at Sun, where he could look into technological innovations as Sun represented a combination of opportunities. Sun also had the stability of a well established technology company which would nurture James’ professional growth and development. He started as an individual contributor of development projects and within four years, he was a team manager in the Data Protection and Recovery department, where he succeeded in his duties as a manager. After receiving the coveted Sun Outstanding Manager award ...