Essays on Hines

Identifying Risks

The Hong Kong International Airport is connected to over 100 destinations through over one thousand daily flight by over 100 airlines. In order to fulfill the future demand until 2030, the Airport Authority of Hong Kong (AAHK) planned for the expansion of HKIA into a three- runway system to provide support to the present runways through the introduction of the Master Plan 2030. The 2030 Master Plan of HKIA has two alternatives in its considerations. The preparation of the master plan ensures that there is transparent, unbiased process of planning and professionalism. Consequently, the Airport Authority of Hong Kong ( ...

Background

Successful modern business marketing lays emphasis on meeting the needs of the customers. This focus is a departure in the opposite direction from the traditional business whose major concern was selling its products or services. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one way of meeting not only the direct customers’ desires but also the needs and expectations of all the stakeholders of a business (Ortenblad 2016). Unethical profiteering practices of large companies and customer awareness due to free flow of information have forced many companies to make CSR a key strategic focus in their conduct of business. Besides enabling a ...

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Hong Kong International Airport: Discussions

Ever since it’s opening in the late 1990s, Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has grown to become one of the busiest air terminals in the world. At least 90 airliners have services to and from Hong Kong as well as other destinations on the mainland. Noted for its architectural design, efficiency, and service quality, the terminal has over the years have received numerous awards and citations from international organizations. Not only is the HKIA is a centerpiece transport infrastructure for Hong Kong, it is a global air transport terminal that provides significant revenue for the state. ...

Factors that Influence Purchasing Relationship in Automobile Industry of China

Introduction The USA, Western Europe, and Japan markets for the automobiles are almost stagnating causing an increased attention and concern to the world automotive industry. They have turned their interest in China market for cars. This is associated with the fast growing economy in China unlike that of European nations and the USA. The Chinese market for cars is indeed the turning point for all auto companies. The environment is conducive to start production in China to supply the potential markets and then export from there to other world markets. This literature will focus on the purchasing relationship in ...

Recycling of copper is an industrial procedure that has been done over the centuries. Copper is recycled to prolong its use and improve its importance. Recycled copper has been smelted into electrical wires, heat exchangers, and even copper tubes. Recycling of copper minimizes the loss that would be incurred by just throwing them away. Upcycling, on the other hand, is the reproduction of copper wires to their initial beneficial state and even better. (Hicks, Dietmar, & Eugster, 2005). When copper wires are disposed of, they are placed in landfills. Over the years, the disposal has led to the landfills becoming ...

Reflect on your Own Cultural Competence and your Current View of Your Culture as Well as Other Cultural Groups

I live in the developing state of the USA, known as Dallas Texas. My roots belong to White Americans who share the most common culture. From a religious perspective, I am Protestant, unlike, the other Americans who follow Catholic, Muslim or Jewish practices. As I am White American, so my spoken English is quite clear than Latin Americans living in the same region. White Americans share a common culture, unlike the Black American people. My parents got separated when I was a child; my mother is a single parent who rose me up. As America is comprised of different ...

The supply chain strategy is informally used and always confused with supply chain management. However, supply chain strategy is controlled for cost reduction purposes. Supply chain strategy is usually broad, and it provide the definition for the operation of the supply chain for it to be complete. Moreover, supply chain strategy is an iterative process that assesses the cost-benefit tradeoffs of the operational components (Hines, 2004, p. 57). The strategy of any business involves leverage of major competencies of the organization in achieving its defined and high-level objective. It also involves the analytic and process of decision making that ...

We live in a world where toys are color-coded blue for boys and pink for girls. TV commercials for certain products food included are focused on men on one hand and others target women. Women have been cultured to be fond of “chick flicks” which are predominantly romantic comedies whereas men are meant to watch action movies and soccer. Roles and plays have been highly gendered. These cultural assumptions have been in existence since time immemorial. Therefore, the thesis by which this paper is guided is two-fold: there is a direct causative relationship between the cultural assumptions on gender ...

There is no service or manufacturing organization that can work alone or in isolation. It always needs suppliers and a supply chain in order to function in an effectual manner. Nowadays, realties as well as trends that are prevailing in the global economy are compelling the organizations to ensure management of supply chain as an essential element of business strategy. In recent years, most organization have started relying on external supply sources, by using outsourcing in order to reduce the cost, and utilize major competencies. Supply chain perspective of operations management has become important because of the role that ...

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The meaning of life is the motive of human life, the future, in which person lives. Search for the meaning of life is like finding like-minded friends: for someone it is important to find one real friend, someone has some true friends. No animal needs to understand the meaning of life. A desire to understand the purpose of his coming into the world distinguishes a human from animals. A human is the highest of living beings, it is not enough for him only to eat and reproduce, therefore, he tries to understand the meaning of life. ...

Strategies for Declining Market

In business, marketing a brand or a commodity, there are challenges experienced at some point in time. Among some of these elements is this major one; the decline in the market. When this happens, formulation of marketing strategies are critical solutions in countering the same. The strategies must be efficient, reliable, and sustainable in combating holistically the decline in market concern. Ideally, the following examples will greatly aid in this battle. Maximization of short-term cash flow, sustaining share in the short term even if it means cutting margins due to sacrifice. Others include the inevitable share increase in declining ...

What it will take for Webvan to make returns

Webvan is a Foster City based grocery firm, which intends to start using an online business model to carry out its activities of supplying groceries to its customers more profitably. To make returns by using the new online business model, the company will have to take practical approaches to solve some of its problems that it had experienced by using the earlier business model. To make a return, the company will have to make sales higher than its break even point.

For the company to make a return, it will have to make annual sales in excess of $150.380 million (Ashiya ...