Essays on Wall Street

[Submission Date] The Bank of America Corporation (BAC) is selected because it stands as the 11th largest organization by revenue in the world and 26th largest publicly held company in the United States by revenue. By assets, Bank of America Corporation (BAC) is the 2nd largest company in the United States. The Bank of America Corporation (BAC) is a multinational financial and banking organization which is selected for comparative analysis because its stock price per share has been appreciating since one year. Currently, the common stock of Bank of America Corporation (BAC) is being traded on the New York ...

In order to ensure peace and prosperity of a country, most governments have employed the use of stringent rules and regulations to govern people. However, some people stray away from the common perception of government and embrace anarchy. Anarchy is basically opposite of what the government stands for, anarchism is a political ideology (Carter, 1971) that holds the state undesirable and harmful while advocating for stateless institutions. The view of anarchists stray away from the commons masses and more often they tend to go extreme and cause social disturbance and unrest (Gage, 2009)as was the case of the ...

04 September 20XX

With regard to the question “should marijuana be legalized,” we conclude the answer is “yes.” This conclusion is made based on the economics of the issue. The existing system involves significant expense to local government with no appreciable result. Marijuana remains readily available virtually anywhere in the nation, decades of the war on drugs notwithstanding. That a demand for this product exists is undeniable. Continued criminalization will accomplish nothing beyond driving costs up marginally. The evidence is seen in the results. To continue to do the same thing and expect a different result is one classic ...

Current Event Article: Practical Application of the Concept of Elasticity

The applicability of different economics concepts occurs in the activities of business organizations, economies, and individuals’ decision-making. The concept of elasticity has wide application in the decision-making of an individual consumer, organizations, and the entire economy. This paper will analyze the elasticity article “Prospects for a U.S. Oil-export boom” published in the Wall Street Journal on 13th, January 2017, which relates to the feasibility of the United States to raise oil production (Strumpf, 2017). The article focuses on the capacity of the US to increase its oil production to improve its sale of crude oil in other countries (Strumpf, ...

The two thousand and eight financial crises resulted in significant economic turndowns. Before it began in two thousand and seven, prices of housing rose, new investment options emerged, and risk diversification increased. Following the crisis, house prices fell by huge percentages. It exposed economic weaknesses of the United States. Additionally, it led to an increase in the unemployment rate by ten percent (Mishkin, 2011). Approximately, nineteen trillion dollars of household wealth were lost. Lehman Brothers collapsed in two thousand and eight affecting the global financial system. Taxpayers had to bail out various banks to stabilize the system. This paper ...

Japanese Economy in the Recent Years

Introduction During the advent of economic downturns particularly in terms of financial crises or bubbles, the usual resort of the government is to rely primarily on its monetary tools alongside expansionary fiscal policies to stimulate the economy. Monetary policies are tools used to deal with inflation, budget deficits, unemployment, incomes, international economic relationships among others. Monetary policies have profound effects on our jobs, incomes, livelihood, and career choices. One of the considerations and is always on the watch in an economy is the behavior of prices of the goods and services. As the law of demand states that with ...

I was a team leader during my internship at the Wall Street Trading. The manager selected me to be in charge of all interns. I was tasked with providing direction to the team. Additionally, I organized meetings for all interns in Wall Street. My motivation stems from knowing whatever it takes to be successful. The supervisors, as well as chief executive officers, recognized my leadership abilities. My immediate supervisor requested that I should be given full authority over interns. He convinced the CEO of my suitability as a team leader. I became fully in-charge of interns. The additional responsibilities ...

Question #1

Article 3 emphasizes that pharmacy’s philosophy has changed over a period as it matured into a clinical profession, transforming from field of product selling to patient-oriented profession. The change is also evident in the enhanced roles and responsibilities of pharmacists. The future roles of pharmacists are forecasted to consist of leadership and management (Manasse, Henri and Zellmer). Article 4 (Reed and Singer) is a New York Times report that discusses the roles of pharmacists in the health of individuals. It considers the case of a person Eloise Gelinas who is a retired nurse and manages her diseases through ...

04 September 20XX

Markets work as the most efficient way to allocate scarce resources for which there are alternative uses. This is the theme carried through Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics. And this is the point that Becker and Elias offer in their Wall Street Journal article. They make the case that people are literally dying from a lack of organs that they need to survive. And they make the point that it is especially true in the case of kidneys. Live donors can survive perfectly well with one kidney. Such donations are becoming common, but usually among family ...

Introduction

I always loved working with numbers since I was a child. I remember a time in high school when the principal punished me for getting A in math and F in English. It was a devastating experience, but I later came to admit that I was wrong. I was spending 99% of my time trying out new and more complex evaluations. Therefore, when time to choose university came, I had no doubt that I wanted to study a math related course. I just was not sure which course exactly would fit my taste. At some point, Grandmother came to ...

a) Antitrust authorities at the Federal Trade Commission are reviewing your company’s recent merger with a rival firm. The FTC is concerned that the merger of two rival firms in the same market will increase market power. A hearing is scheduled for your company to present arguments that your firm has not increased its market power through this merger. Can you do this? How? What evidence might you bring to the hearing? In order to prove to the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) that the recent merger between two companies will not increase the market power, we will be ...

Company Overview

GasLog Ltd. is an international firm engaged in managing, operating, and owner of the LNG carriers that includes a fully owned fleet of 22 carriers (Reuters). The company primarily operating in the liquefied natural gas market by providing worldwide maritime transportation including technical ship management services to five of the LNG carriers owned by third-party subsidiaries. The company’s corporate office is located at Rue Du Ga, Monaco, and currently trading in New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GLOG after being incorporated in 2006 (Reuters). The discussion aims to analyze the GasLog Ltd. in terms of financial ...

Impact of Immigration on the European Economy

YOURSCHOOL Impact of Immigration on the European Economy In the weblog (blog) assignment Hűttl and Alvaro (2015) take the position that the economic impact of immigration in Europe is quite small. The blog article cites ten sources ranging from formal peer reviewed articles such as Műnz, Straubhaar, Vadean and Vadean (2006) to popular websites such as the Huffington Post. The overall conclusion of the assigned blog post, all sources considered, is that immigration is a net benefit and therefore, can be considered healthy for the economy. Labor impacts play an important role in the analysis of impacts ...

1. The Financial Crisis: Avoidable but Inevitable Theoretically, the financial crisis could have been avoided as investigation findings revealed . Under the circumstances however, the crisis was an inevitable consequence of everything that was going. The Federal inquiry concluded that the 2008 financial crisis could have been avoided. The crisis was the result of “widespread failures in government regulation, corporate mismanagement and heedless risk-taking by Wall Street”. It was the result of “greed, ineptitude or both” on the part of government and the private sector. Among the persons found responsible for the crisis included Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and, ...

Money laundering refers to the criminal activity in which money and funds that have been obtained illegally are used to fund or support legitimate and legal activities. In the process, the illegality of the original criminally obtained money and funds is, in essence, “washed” through its use in the legal activity. A more formal definition of money laundering defines it as, “the process through which criminals, hide, disguise, and legitimize the financial proceeds of their crimes” (FATF). There are a number of benefits that money laundering provides to criminals. First, by using the money to fund legal activities, money ...

This paper will look at the similarities and differences in the Presidencies of Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt became President during a trying time for America. The Great Depression was in full swing caused by the fact that Wall Street and the banks had collapsed causing millions of people or about 25 percent of the population. to be without jobs or financial security (Miller). When Roosevelt came into office he put together an economic package known as the New Deal in order to help alleviate the crisis and get men back to work. Almost seventy years later in ...

Numerous organizations are surveying the natural elements that can lead representatives to participate in exploitative behavior. A focused business environment may call for unscrupulous conduct. Lying has ended up expected in fields, for example, exchanging. A case of this is the issues encompassing the untrustworthy activities of the Salomon Brothers. Salomon Brothers existed as a Wall Street speculation bank, identified as a lump section organization. Established in 1910 by Arthur, Herbert, and Percy, alongside an agent called Ben Levy, it continued as an association until the mid-1980s. This is the time they were obtained by the item exchanging company, ...

Strategic management

Introduction Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a very common strategy that combines two or more organizations to become a new business. It is agreement between two companies’ to combine their different resources and run operations. In merger, one company is completely absorbed by other company. The merger and acquisition are changes in control of organizations that involve combining the operations of different entities into a single organization. The horizontal merger is a common method that exists between two organizations that are competing in the same industry such as energy sector. It can increase the market share and decrease the ...

In an article entitled, “One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society,” Kevin Roose reports on his experience of infiltrating a party for members of Kappa Beta Phi, “a secret Wall Street fraternity” (Roose, 2014). In writing a book about young Wall Street executives, the author was curious as to the behavior of older, successful Wall Street executives. When he learned of the exclusive fraternity for Wall Street executives, Kappa Beta Phi, he thought that he'd like to visit one of its meetings as a part of his research. This ...

An article by Dawson on the Wall Street Journal indicates that North Dakota has been a major source of oil over the past years. Statistics put its production at 1.2 million oil barrels a day. However, lack of proper infrastructure and the need to drill deeper in these areas have made it costly. Conversely, the prices have dropped to $50 a barrel, and the owners have considered selling the fields. The wells have been idle for some years and have been considered by new investors as a fortune. The fields are on hold for prices to balance in the ...

The Madoff Securities case was a phenomenal one, in terms of the sheer size of the funds involved, the duration over which the scam took place as well as the stature of the victims affected. In most comparable schemes, the victims are usually those who have a very limited understanding of financial products and such schemes mostly do not last very long. This paper will review the case by determining the regulatory oversight in place at the time of the scandal and reasons why this scheme was not discovered as well as delve into other aspects of the case.

Regulatory Oversight of the SEC

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Business News Research Assignment BAM107Winter 2016

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Trump Taj Bankruptcy left many contractors angry Summary of Article: The Wall street journal article evaluates the action of the Donald Trump as a business man filing for bankruptcy following the completion of the construction of the Taj casino in Atlanta in 1990. While it is not unlawful to file for bankruptcy in the U.S, Trump took advantage of weaknesses in the bankruptcy law to deny the various contractors that worked on the project the opportunity to earn an income. His action therefore raised ethical concerns. The article seeks to evaluate the role that ethics plays in the ...

Abstract

“Bartleby the Scrivener” is a marvelous short story of the American nineteen century that has been discussed greatly from various disciplinary perspectives over the last century. Bartleby has been seen as a revolutionary figure who intentionally disrupts the capitalist system and has been traced to numerous real people, including Thoreau, Emerson, and even Melville himself. Critics have attached numerous equivalences to the protagonist; therefore, it is important to study the historical, political, and cultural context to choose the proper one. “Bartleby the Scrivener” demonstrated not only allusion to specific people and conflicts in New York but also showed class ...

Organizations that behave ethically are more apt to earn the trust of their customers, employees, and stockholders and to have a reputation as successful, competent and responsible professionals. It is important that organizations follow strict guidelines aimed high standards of quality, reliable services, high professionalism, social responsibility and ethical behaviour it their activity – only that way they can bring benefits to their clients, staff members and shareholders. The main ethical principles that each organization must follow in its activity are decency (avoidance of illegal and unethical practices), honesty (the urge to be honest with themselves, team members, customers and ...

Performance Reviews were historically introduced to give the employer and the employee a fair idea about the kind of work being done by the employee, the target objectives and their progress and to inculcate a feeling of teamwork between different employees who share some common objectives. However, modern day performance reviews have become solely about numbers, the targets achieved, the targets missed and the resultant effect on pay raise. The broader goals have been lost over the years (Culbert, 2010). In my opinion, the most serious weakness of performance review process is that it neglects the individual employee strengths, ...

Summary of Burton Malkiel’s “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”

Burton Malkiel authors the book “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”, highlighting several investing strategies, truisms, myths, and axioms. According to the book, Malkiel seems to have his central premise that index funds are better investment options to an individual than other strategies used for selecting stocks. This piece provides a summary of four chapters divided into two parts: part 1 having chapters 1 and 2, and part 2 having chapters 4 and 14.

Chapter 1: Firm Foundations and Castles in the Air

In the first chapter, Burton starts by defining random walk as an instance in which future occurrences cannot be predicted based on the past occurrences ( ...

Chapter I. Firm foundations and castles in the air

The chapter focuses on the two investment theories, the castle in the air and the firm foundation. According to the firm foundation theory, investing involves knowing the real value of the investment and make decisions based on the real value. One of the examples to explain the concept is investing in Coca-Cola Corporation wherein investing in the company’s stocks requires determining the actual value of the company. In terms of the castle in the air theory, the concept implies that investments should be a response to what others are doing, and the returns for such investment can be ...

Marketing Mix

Product positioning The Silk Almond milk positioning is based on the benefits, ingredients and size. It is meant to offer more calcium than the dairy milk in addition to being an excellent vitamin E source. Further, it has low calories with 60 per serving, no saturated fat or cholesterol, no added artificial flavors, colors, free of soy, dairy, casein, egg, lactose, gluten and MSG. Finally, it is also non-GMO verified. In that view, it is meant to address the consumers’ health concerns (Silk, 2016). Regarding the ingredients, the original silk almond is rich in almonds and filtered water, Sea ...

Introduction

In this essay, reference is made to Dow Jones and Company that is a large publicly traded news corporation for which I would like to work. The company is one of the largest and most prominent companies that provide business and financial news in the world. Dow Jones and Company was established in the year 1896 by Charles Dow, Edward T. Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The same trio also founded The Wall Street Journal, which is among the top most influential publications on business issues in the globe (Investopedia Staff, 2005).

The Impact of the Company’s Mission, Vision, and Primary Stakeholders on its Success

The mission of the Dow Jones and Company ...

Individual Reaction to the Advent of Artificial Intelligence

Introduction Through advancements in science and technology, human beings have managed to create machines that work more or less in the same way as the human brain, performing tasks like mathematical calculations and language translations. This is what has come to be known as Artificial intelligence (AI) which is the kind of intelligence that machines exhibit when certain manipulations and programming is done to them. Some of these machines like the IBM computer, Watson, are capable of mimicking or performing certain cognitive functions that are normally associated with the human brain only. Artificial intelligence research thus deals with problems ...

Introduction

In late 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at a record low. Stock markets around the world nose-dived alongside the DJIA. Turbulence in the sub-prime segment of the US housing market, paralysis of the credit markets, excessive lay-offs in organizations, steep decline in investments etc. were all some of the indicators that the world was heading for a massive credit crunch. In the words of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, head of IMF, “Intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest U.S.-based and European financial institutions have pushed the global financial system to the brink of systemic meltdown” (BBC ...

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to assess the impact of Airbnb, the company that makes it possible for people from different countries to hand over their property to strangers, on the hotel industry. It is known that Airbnb is the third by cost value private IT-company in the world as its value is $25.5 billion. It is estimated that flow of orders of rooms for the night to Airbnb may increase from 79 million in the current year to 500 million over the next five years (and up to a billion within 10 years). In general, from a ...

In Jack Nicas’s Wall Street Journal article, “Google Wins Java Copyright Case Against Oracle”, he explains that the software giant, Google, owned by Alphabet, Inc. prevailed in a lawsuit initiated by Oracle (Nicas). Oracle accused Google of copyright infringement because Google uses small parts of computer code called APIs in its Android Operating Systems (Nicas). The federal court ruled in favor of Google, citing “fair use” of already-copyrighted material (Nicas). This issue could have huge ramifications for the tech industry. For example, by allowing Google to utilize parts of another company’s product, this sets a precedent in ...

Article Review

The US economy is well known for the wide range of detailed data that is available through various organizations like the Fed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Affairs and many others. The world’s largest economy has a high reputation on the quality and reliability of the data that it provides. Though the data provided by the government organizations have a high degree of accuracy the data is not a real time one. This is because the organizations need updated statistics on the various macroeconomic variables. For this reason there is a time lag in ...

What is the reason why social movements appear? The term “social movement” implies the creation of large groups of people that share common views on various social and political issues and act to defend their views and to cause a social change. The worldwide peak of social movements was seen in the 1960s, but even after its passing, the idea of social movements continued to be challenging for society. Della Porta writes, “The excitement and optimism of the roaring 1960s may be long gone, but social and political events . . . have hardly rendered the investigation of grassroots activism any less ...

Nowadays, many people will stipulate that the Great Recession of a few years ago was just as bad, if not worse, than the Great Depression. There are similarities and patterns, to be sure. The effect globally was indeed worse this time around, because the world’s banks are far more intertwined and globalized now. People experienced a hard time getting back on their feet, and we had (and still have) a congress that is completely ineffective, throwing money at problems rather than actually fixing the regulations that allowed such a tremendous recession to take place. On the other hand, ...

Wall Street Journal,

New York. Dear Sir, The article by Thu Lam Vo and Zumbrun on May 11, 2016, on the nature of jobs added to the U.S. market since recession points out some peculiar features in the USA economy regarding the amplifying income inequality. The quality of jobs available and remuneration determine the economic mobility of the citizens. The authors opined that since the recession period, the low wage companies have been increasing while the middle-wages industries shrunk. More people work part-time or for minimum wage than a decade ago. It is this problem that is amplifying income inequality. Rakesh Kochhar ...

APPLICATION IN MARKETING - SAMSUNG

Abstract Samsung is listed in the Fortune 500 and is considered one of the most recognized brands on a global level in multiple categories. With Mobile devices leading the product category, Samsung has also been able to develop world class product lines, in Television and Audio and Video, Cameras, Information Technology, Home Appliances and Memory and Storage. Samsung products cater to a wide variety of consumer segment and this makes the company unique in terms of carving in a profitable business niche. Samsung’s aggressive strategy in the emerging market is a key way forward to maximize revenues and ...

The book brings to the attention the growing culture of job insecurity in the Wall Street. The dream of every competent American is to have the best job as well as the best pay for their services. Such dreams are often shattered by a culture that tends to lean much on the short-term returns rather than long-term aggrandizement. As a result, investment bankers have adopted a culture of constant worker layoff even in times when there is no crisis. In the view of the author, the building culture of the short-term boom as a model of success in the ...

The 1920s was known as the Roaring Twenties in the American history because of changes in the social norms, and the country experienced a strong economic boom (Kennedy: 2). During the time of widespread economic gain, the application of fair value in accounting and lack of regulation in security markets left the investors at great risk. That is the reported figures of stock prices had no information justifying their values. Similarly, financial institutions such as banks were lending recklessly with no guarantees to their clients. Consequently, the gap between the rich and the poor in America increased steadily (pbs.org). ...

Introduction

There may be different views about the influence of social media on the people’s lives, but it is absolutely evident that in the contemporary world the types and modes of communication became sophisticated due to the rapid technological process. The launch of the social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Reddit might have been one of the greatest technological breakthroughs in the 2000s. In 2006, Time magazine recognized the importance of the social media and wrote the following phrase on the cover of the “Person of the Year” edition: ‘You. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome ...

Yes, with the current tensions between the US, Russia, Iran and Korea which are considered major political heavyweights in the global arena, I believe that nuclear war is an inevitability. As a matter of fact, it is no longer a question of whether, but when. This position is also buttressed by the fact currently; there is no strong international legal framework that prohibits countries from manufacturing, storing or using nuclear weapons. The countries that represent the biggest nuclear threats in the world according to Conca include Russia, Pakistan, Israel, China, Cuba, France and Korea (4). The country most likely ...

PART 1:

Using the draw tools in Word, show what happened to the demand for housing by drawing the demand for housing in 2005, 2006, and 2009. This means you draw lines for the demand and supply of housing in 2005, 2006, and 2009 to the supply and demand graph and match what happens to the price in those years with what is show in the chart. Explain what caused demand to change over this period.

The graph below shows the demand of housing in 2005, 2006 and 2009 and how the price fluctuates. The demand for houses rose rapidly during ...

The Qatar Stock Market

Before discussing Qatar’s stock market, let us gain some relevant information about the country itself. Qatar is located in the continent of Asia and covers over 11,000 square kilometers of land which makes the country the 168th largest nation when looking at land area. Qatar became an independent state in 1971 gaining its independence from the United Kingdom with a population of 1,951,591 people in 2012. The currency is the Qatari Rial (World Atlas, 2015). When viewing the stock market, there is information that every investor should know about Qatar before investing in the market ...

Summary of the WSJ article

The article by the Wall Street Journal illustrates the drop in oil prices over the years in the United States and the global market. According to the article, the oil market is not attractive to investors all over the world due to the dropping prices of fuel over the years. Oil prices have dropped significantly to settle at very low prices per barrel. The US economy currently regards oil as one of the worst performing commodities in the country which is unlike the previous years where oil was one of the most profitable investments. According to the article, the ...

Born on November 19, 1909 in Vienna, Peter Drucker was well known for his writings in the field of economics earning the moniker “the man who invented management” from no less than the Business Week. Drucker was born in a family of intellectuals that normally played host to renowned personalities in the field of economics, politics, music, and science. Drucker considered this background his first education. He went on to study admiralty law in the 1920s and had to move to Germany in the process. He enrolled at Hamburg University and later on at Frankfurt University. He also worked ...

The year 2008 marked a massive economic catastrophe that hit the US since the End of the Depression that the world experienced in the 1930’s. This economic meltdown began in 2007 when the prices of homes in the United States began to fall and this quickly spread to other financial markets overseas. Before the Economic crisis began, the price of owning a home was way beyond the reach of many Americans. This was characterized by high mortgage interest rates that persisted in the United States prior to the Economic meltdown of 2008. Before the start of the economic ...

Financial crisis of 2008 was caused by one of the biggest managerial mistakes, and some people think that the crisis is not over yet. The financial crisis of 2007-08 was caused because many wrong decisions were made by the top managers of Wall Street banks and institutions, and government officials that tried to support the shadow banking system. Before the crisis, Wall Street banks and funds were trying to maximize their revenues, and they found some gaps in the existing regulations, which helped them trade high-risk securities with almost no limitations. Some banks and funds have invested billions into ...

Introduction

It is eminent for a business to adapt to change. The global pacing of the market has been drastically changed over the time. This can be accounted to the change of the environment, enhance transportation and advanced high technology. These factors have given an easy task for the market to grow immensely bigger than ever before. From the start of human civilization trading is hindered by transportation hence the market is exclusive only for a certain area. Nowadays, with availability of the resources everyone can do business. However, this increase in productivity doesn’t always have a positive impact ...

Ladies and gentlemen, it is common for economists to advise us to save money. Many times, this sounds like an issue affecting few people, but the reality is that in America, the number of people not saving is significantly highly. According to Sparshott, one of the Wall Street Journal economist, nearly one in every three Americans is saving no money. Besides, the number of the people who set aside some money for future use has reduced from 73% in 2010 to 68% in 2015. Clements, also a Wall Street Journal economist contended that although to some extend savings might ...

The most important element of a PR Management team is to understand the environment and the business dynamics that the company, and to be able to proactively create communication and interactions that create a positive image of the company and in essence avert a crisis situation in an amicable manner in a business changing environment or any social issues that may hamper the image of the company (Hill, 2016). In an article by Peters, M. & Silverman, E. R. (2016), on the Big Business Speaking Up on Social Issues, in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), clearly showcase a PR issue ...

Wall Street Journal Essays

Three authors of The Wall Street Journal wrote on 11 December 2015 an article titled "Worried about Your High-Yield Bond Fund? Devise an Exit Strategy", that article is a warning to all individual and corporative investors that have important positions in Mutual Funds with previous performances over 10% in 2014 and 2015. Those mutual funds represent a risk for the current investors that have positions in those high-yield bonds. Those bonds have positions in China and other emerging markets that are slowing their growth for 2016 and affront problems in cash flow and currency depreciation (Maxey, Krouse, and Zweig). ...

Chinese health and the effects fast food has made over the last 20 years.

The inevitable process of globalization is undoubtedly accelerating the movement of humanity towards progress. A good example – the Asia-Pacific region, where until recently many millions of people lived in absolute poverty. And now, in terms of welfare, the region approaches North America and Western Europe. China is the most obvious example. In 1981 there were 84% of people who lived from hand to mouth (The Wall Street Journal). In 2012, according to Gallup the number of people living below the absolute poverty went down to 7% (Kravtsov). Those millions of people entered the category of the “new Chinese”. This ...

Abstract

Many companies across the world are experiencing challenges that are derailing the operations and management of the institutions. Some of the challenges are managerial while others are operational. Some of the challenges are deliberately caused by the management of a company. For instance, the company that exists in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street is characterized by many challenges and problems which need to be addressed. The paper shall discuss the problems in the company and the possible recommendations that can resolve the problems. The film is a controversial one which has been banned from airing in many ...

The hierarchy of politics is a complex subject of principle. At the start of human civilization it is inevitable that the existence of politics is needed. The basic structure of society needs leadership. Politics is there to serve as the science of governance. However, there are many different views on how to govern a certain society. Moreover, there are also different views on how to perceive democracy. It has been one of the hottest topics nowadays. Obviously, it is intertwined with the view on what to do with the current situation of politics. Conservative and liberal are one those ...

Introduction

The growing cost of college education has raised debates about how viable a college degree is. These debates are further fueled by required knowledge and skill sets required for current job market. Given current unemployment rates (coming in heel of an unprecedented economic recession), investment in college education has not only become a financial burden long after graduation but is also becoming, critically, less rewarding from a job prospect perspective. Indeed, "overeducated" college graduates – particularly ones completing an undergraduate or a higher degree in software engineering or digital media majors – are experiencing particularly painful job experiences, particularly during early ...

Glocalizaton concept and its relation to standardization-adaptation debate in marketing literature review

What is glocalization Glocolization is a term that was introduced in early 90s by Robertson, it comes from combination of two words; globalization as well as localization. The globalization refers to the flexibility that is brought about by countries allowing the international forces to have impact on their local market environments, so as to attain some economic growth. Furthermore the term localization refers to the reiterating that is brought about by regions in order to maintain and protect some local culture and local conditions from them being carried away completely by the globalization forces. Therefore, glocalization attempts to balance ...

White collar crimes are the crimes of the rich- committed by the rich in order to defraud others out of their money. Today, the methods of corruption and white collar crimes have altered and become more sophisticated than ever which makes it more difficult to catch the culprits. Although non-violent in nature, white collar crime is still damaging for the financial set up of society as it involves the top-most officials, government professionals, and business experts to carry out illegal activities involving money. In 1939, it was Edwin Sutherland who defined the crime as one which was committed by ...

Executive Summary

A strategic analysis of Amazon is employed in this document in order to highlight the major problems that must be considered by the management. The company is considered a leader in electronic retailing globally, however facing a stiff competition from its counterparts as bricks and mortar companies as they are emerging in the contemporary corporate setting and establishing their online presence. Amazon is engaged in finding ways to adequately address the contemporary challenges in the global marketplace in order to maintain its competitive position and subsequently attain a greater share of profits from the international market.

Introduction

Amazon is deemed ...

Personal Finance Essays

The Wall Street Journal on April 8, 2016, the author Jason Zweig says the government is not responsible for the retirement savings of the people. The government since the great depression in the middle of the 20th century created the social security system which guarantees (in theory) a pension and retirement funds to all the people that are over sixty years and serves more than thirty years or more, depending on the institution or company (Zweig). The welfare state created by the government and emulated by other countries in Europe and America works similar a pyramidal scheme. The new ...