Contributing Case Studies Samples For Students

a. What is the root cause(s) of the problems/issues occurring and what other factors contribute to them?
The root cause of the problem is the expenses incurred by Moonlight Hotel is rising energy expenses. Accordingly, it incurs too many expenses for its hotel lighting. However, it could not just remove all its lighting equipment or materials because that would hurt the hotel’s profit. There is possible solution, however, that communicated through the other hotel’s general manager named Bruce Cregg of Shining Star Hotel. The said hotel has replace its front-of-the-house incandescent light with florescent lights ...

Introduction

US Department of justice (2013), define domestic violence as a sequence and pattern of abusive behavior present in a relationship. Domestic violence can appear in forms of physical, psychological, emotional, economic, or even sexual actions. Vocalized threats are also considered as domestic violence. The behaviors that produce damaging effects on the victim are acknowledged as violent. Which includes threatening, controlling, degrading, isolating, terrifying, terrorizing, forcing, fragmenting, bullying, blaming, hurting, harming, or wounding someone in a relationship (Siemieniuk, Krentz, Gish, Gill, 2010).The motive behind abusive position is attributed to the perpetrator’s need for power and control over one’s partner.
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H.R. 1412, the Justice and Integrity Act of 2009

H.R. 1412, the Justice and Integrity Act of 2009
A Report from Rep. Steve Cohen (d-tenn.), Discussing Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System That He Can Use To Move This Bill Forward in Congress

Introduction

According to Research Advocacy for Reform (2013), male Americans of black descent are six times more likely to be imprisoned than white males. Additionally, they are 2.5 times more likely to be incarcerated that Hispanics. If this trend continues, it is clear that every black American born today should expect to go to prison ...

Effectiveness of the Strategic Leaders’ Role

As a strategic leader, Karen van Bergen, Porter Novelli’s Chief Executive Officer, having a rich expertize in client service and in marketing, communications and public affairs observed the potential of developing strong teams for serving the customers’ public relations plans. Investing in people, providing trainings, challenging and determining them to desire to learn more for finding their passion and use it in the benefit of the clients is one effective strategic leadership approach that van Bergen employs in her activity for generating performance.
Discussing about elective strategic leadership, Adair (2010) defines this concept as the determination of delivering the goods ...

Introduction

This case study is devoted to the analysis of the current position of the Capital One Bank. The Bank has recently faced problems connected with mortgage process flow caused by inefficient internal communication. The Bank even stopped taking applications because of negative impact on customers.
A detailed implementation plan will be developed to resolve the issues the Bank faced. The improvement of the processes will include several operations management techniques. The resources needed for implementation of the plan will be identified on the basement of analysis of actual data. Short-term and long-term implications of the operations techniques will ...

The European sovereign debt crisis dominated international financial markets during 2010-2012. Economies fell into recession and financial market volatility was high. Critically analyze how the government debt problems initially faced by a few relatively

Introduction

The European financial crisis has extended beyond borders and is now affecting other countries in various condiments. China and United States of America are the most affected nations because they depend a lot on European countries for exports. The world is facing a critical problem brought about by the financial crisis, and financial experts are yet to determine the solution to this problem. The global economic meltdown of ...

Introduction

The European financial crisis has extended beyond borders and is now affecting other countries in various condiments. The world is facing a critical problem brought about by the financial crisis, and financial experts are yet to determine the solution to this problem. The global economic meltdown of 2008 found the European Union struggling with the unshakable financial crisis that has been slowing the growth of European currency, the Euro. As the crisis enters its third year, the European and the whole world is worried whether it would end up affecting the world economy leading to world financial crisis (European Commission ...

Perrier, an iconic brand in the world of mineral water, started to experience some problems the year after it great success of 1989. The previous year it had remarkably sold 1.2 billion bottles of mineral water, almost half to the population in the United States. The reason for their remarkable sale can be attributed to the absence of potential competitors in the market. The people had no choice, and therefore, they had to buy Perrier’s bottled water. However, in the year 1990, a minute quantity of benzene detected in the bottle reduced its sale by almost fifty percent ( ...

Business

The basic fact and the main fact about this case is that the Broken Hill Proprietary
Company Limited (BHP) is causing the environmental pollution from their operations in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Other important facts are that the BHP is contributing and compensating the effecting parties and contributing in the GDP growth of the PNG. However, the important fact is that the BHP is still working and disposing their wasters under the Interim Tailings License Act which was passed in the year 1984.
The main ethical issue at hand at the moment is that the government of PNG is ...

The U.S army has for a long time used the Standard Army Retail Supply System (SARR) in its logistical planning. Stakeholders have, however chosen to make changes, with the army now employing the Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) for its logistical and supply needs. This is a considerable change to the organization and possesses a challenge as to how the change can be managed effectively. This paper looks into the best possible approaches for the U.S army when adopting this change in logistics and supply.
The U.S Army reports to the department of defense. The army is organized into ...

Background: The rising prevalence of obesity in children is a serious public health concern. Obesity is like a silent killer, and can predispose the child to a number of lifelong disabilities and chronic diseases. Obesity is negatively linked to life span. A child with obesity has higher amount of adipose tissue deposition, when compared to a normal weight child. The excess calorie that is not utilized for work or growth, is deposited in the form of adipose tissue and stored in the body. Adipose tissues are made of adipocytes or other called fat containing cells.
Obesity occurs from factors ...

In this case study the main research objective is to find the most appropriate plan for launching a national Italian sausage brand for the Saxonville Sausage Company. The company intends to use this market launch as a strategy to achieve their profit objectives in the fiscal year. The company’s main source of revenue has been from two branded products,the bratwurst and breakfast categories contributing 70% and 20% revenue respectively. These two products have reported zero increase in volume for 3 years and show no expected increase.This trend is what has caused the company management to seek professional help in ...

Question 1:

Cost-based pricing is rather self-explanatory. It basically mirrors that costs that a company has faced while manufacturing a product in addition to the packaging, and might be a bit more, but never less than that. This method of pricing will beneficial to Cowgirl, for products such as Spicy Chocolate Truffle and even the Muslin bag because they form a majority of the revenues, 50% and 16% respectively. This entails that the demand for these products is relatively high and even if they’re highly priced based on their costs, customers will still purchase them. However, where competitive pricing lacks is that it doesn’ ...

Introduction

India is a country of multiple ethnicities, religions, and races. Its diversity is not only seen in terms of its people, but also geographically. Despite its diversity in ethnicity and geography, India is able to exist in harmony and peace. After the country got its independence in 1947, different parts of India were at different developmental levels. Through the implementation of Five Year Plan, the Indian government has successfully bridged most of the developmental gaps between states and regions. Although all the Indian states are not doing as good as Punjab and Gujrat economically, but at least each state has ...

Question 1:

The term stakeholders are defined as and related with those people, organizations or groups that pose some concerns and interests in the company or organization. The organizations have the potential and tendency to affect the stakeholders and also get affected from them (Bourne, & Walker, 2005). Both the parties get influence of each other from the objectives, actions, policies and procedures they acquire and practice. For an organization, there are many stakeholders who have concerns with it. These stakeholders include internal and external stakeholders. Internal includes the directors, shareholders (which are the owners of the organization), and employees of the ...

Implementing Solutions to Deal With Negative Comments from Customers in the Commercial Food Service Industry

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Implementing Solutions to Deal With Negative Comments from Customers in the Commercial Food Service Industry

a) What is the root cause(s) of the problems/issues occurring and what other factors contribute to them?
The possible root causes of the problems or issues occurring which initiating the negative responses from the customers of Harrington’s are the following: lack of communication amongst staff members; inadequate of inspection of surroundings and improper sanitation; and improper training which lead to lack of attention to detail and prohibiting the staff from anticipating the customers’ needs.
The possible ...

Section 1

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is world-known multinational corporation, which possesses chains of large-scale department stores, where the majority of goods can be bought at discounted prices. The success of the business model, developed by Wal-Mart, is determined by wide range of factors, which form the combination, which allows Wal-Mart to have competitive advantage in the rivalry with such competitors as Kmart and Target in the USA and CostCo in Canada.
The first and most important factor of corporation’s success is the fact that Wal-Mart makes best possible use of price-based differentiation. Selling products, which are used by great ...

I. Executive Summary
The present memorandum details an analysis and suggested response strategy to the recently disclosed American military activities within the Abu Ghraib detention center in Iraq. In forming the analysis, I provide a discussion of the major causative factors of the situation and an overview of the authorizing environment in place. The recommended response strategy details a five-step program to address the crisis in a way that acknowledges the issues and provides concrete actions to remedy the damage. Finally, this memorandum closes with a review of the lessons to be taken forward from this situation with the ultimate goal of ...

BUSINESS BOOKLET QUESTIONS

- Define the term secondary sector
Secondary sector is defined as a particular section of the economy that deals with manufacture of finished goods. It includes several industries that use machinery to transform the products extracted by the primary sector to come up with finished goods and services that are more appealing and more useful to the final consumer.
- Define the term production:
Production is defined as the process of transforming raw materials and other resources through incorporation of manpower’s ideas and knowledge to goods and services that are appreciated and utilized by the final ...

A gunman killed six people Tucson, Arizona and in a similar incident, 12 people died after a shooting in Colorado. This is in addition to multiple school shootings, which captured the headlines in the country, and point to even bigger underlying problems related to gun ownership laws, punishment laws, gang culture and partisan politics. The gun-related murders reach as high as 16,000 annually, with more than five million crimes involving guns (Rogers 1). The self-defence and constitutionally enshrined rights to own crimes have for centuries been pitted against the need to create a gun-less society, which is thought to be multiply ...

Colony collapse disorder refers to a phenomenon which entails a sharp, unusual decline in the number of bees in a colony. This phenomenon has raised great concerns in the USA in the recent past given that honey bees are a significant part of the US economy. Honey bees are involved in pollination therefore contributing to about one third of the US diet. Several causes have been identified as triggers of the phenomenon; most of which are under investigation. Among the causes identified are: genetically modified foods, pathogens, pesticides and antibiotics. Pesticides in particular are deemed to be a leading cause since pesticides such as ...

Critically discuss why principles-based standards require a conceptual framework and how the principles-based approach can enhance the quality of financial reporting: Financial reporting depicts the present condition of the organization while bringing in use the various relevant financial statements and communications such as annual reports, management forecasts, news releases etc (Bragg, 2011). A conceptual framework can be understood as a consistent system of interconnected goals that is potential of creating an unswerving standard. Such framework basically ensures the adherence to the laid guidelines rather than just sticking to rules.
At a certain echelon, a conceptual framework can be perceived as an attempt ...

Degrading Nature: Rising Sea level in Caribbean Sea

Lately, rising sea level is among the contentious environmental issues and has become more challenging in environmentalism. Rising sea level has various impacts on both the natural environment and human populations, more especially those living on islands and the coastal regions. It is estimated that the sea level rose by about 1.8 yearly in 1950-2010, and this rate keep on increasing with time. There are a number of factors that are associated with the rising sea level. The Caribbean sea-level rise serves as a good illustration of how the sea-level rise is an environmental challenge (Gallagher, 2006). This paper seeks to ...

Question 1: Why does L5 incur higher manufacturing and logistics costs than L6? Identify costs incurred by L5 and not by L6. Identify any costs incurred to only L6 and not L5.

For better understanding of the question, I will describe both levels of supply. On level L5 motherboards and chassis are manufactured in China in two different factories. Then motherboards are brought to supplier logistics center by air freight and chassis are shipped by sea. Then third party integrator is assembling these parts and further they are sent to Dell manufacturing. On level L6, motherboards and chassis are built in China in two different factories, then assembled in the same country and then shipped by sea to supplier logistics center, from which they are redirected to Dell manufacturing. There are ...