Essays on Scarborough

Charlotte Supplements is a small-scale organization operating in Charlotte North Carolina (NC) selling over 6,000 products. The portfolio of the company includes supplements for vitamins, minerals, herbs, and sports edibles. Due to its scale, the company does not interact with the audience digitally regarding product information such as prices. Moreover, the company operates for a limited span each week (CS, 2017). The purpose of this paper is to propose a business model and a competitive strategy for overcoming this small-scale but a potential competition. The paper will explain the core concept of strategy briefly prior to the proposition. ...

This research is devoted to consideration connected with similarities of some national cultures. Geert Hofstede’s studies have greatly contributed to the understanding of the differences and similarities of national cultures and, correspondingly, in peculiarities of organizational cultures. With globalization, social and business processes connected with it, it is critical to be aware of the differences and similarities between different cultures, hence the importance of Hofstede’s research. His model characterizing national cultures emphasizes five dimensions. Each of them defines attitudes towards certain state of things in the society, of course, culturally reasoned. These dimensions are Power Distance, Individualism ...

Introduction

This paper evaluates how entrepreneurs can interpret and utilize different business ratios to the advantage of their business. The four vital rations include leverage, operation, profitability and liquidity ratios (Scarborough, Wilson, and Zimmerer 250).

How an entrepreneur can construe and utilize different business ratios

Business ratios are fundamental in determining the financial status of a company at a given time. There are twelve financial ratios, some of which appear on a company's financial records. However, both small and large entrepreneurs use four important ratios. The liquidity ratio exhibits a company’s capacity to settle its short-term debt commitments (Vasiu, Nicolae and Iulian 188). A high ratio displays that the ...

Human life and survival are connected with the environment. With the changes in the environment, human surroundings appear to undergo an adjustment or modification to continue the life. More probably, some climatic changes tend to interfere with the human life from several corners. These could be lethal or life threatening. For example, climate change might modify the occasional examples and plenitude of irritations and illnesses; in turn, this may influence the use of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. Reactions will vary in the middle of harvests and between geological areas. There are studies that use of these pesticides within the ...

Nowadays the issue of information sharing among different low enforcement agencies of the United States has become vitally important for the effective prevention of terrorism threats and other possible dangers that can cause damage to a large number of people. The events of September 11, 2011 revealed that the lack of cooperation between various intelligence structures can lead to the coordination failure, thus exposing the whole country to the high risk of terrorist acts. Therefore, the US government decided to improve the network of connections between police and national and military intelligence in order to stimulate the process of ...

22nd of April 2016

Globalization of information processes based on the latest technologies has changed many forms of human existence, but the biggest transformation has occurred in the structure and media system. The main source of information for most people have become electronic media and mainly - TV. All of them now propagate pop-culture. Popular culture has many scientific definitions. However, they all agree on one thing: pop-culture is a unity of widespread cultural elements in any society. Pop culture now includes music, film and animation, literature, the media (including comic books and the Internet), fashion, cooking, advertising, sports, tourism, and many other ...

The Impact and Effects of Power Politics of United States, China, & Japan Arising from South China Sea Conflicts on the Sovereignty and Socio-Political Fabrics of Philippines

Introduction

The South China Sea (SCS) is a partly enclosed body of water that connects the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is marked with several island attributes which are grouped into four island bodies-- the Pratas or Dongsha Islands in the northeast, the Paracels or Xisha Islands in the northwest, the Spratlys or Nansha Islands in the south, and the Scarborough Shoal or Zhongsha Islands to Paracels' southeast (Hayton, 2014). It is teeming with ...

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The One-Minute Manager, when it was released, presented the world with a hypothetical blueprint for engaging employees appropriately and effectively. Not all effective managers have to behave in the way that the hypothetical effective manager from the text does; however, the authors do note that most effective managers display many of these key features in their day-to-day experience with their employees. There have been scores of texts written about what makes an effective manager, and not all these texts agree; however, this particular book has been wildly successful since it was written; it closely examines the features of a ...