Decade Case Studies Samples For Students

Thailand with a population of close to 70 million people and ranked 50th in terms of global land mass is a relative small country economically. On the brighter side of things it is the second largest economy in South East Asia, a member of the new tier. Over the last 45 years, the Thai economy has undergone a substantial transformation. Agriculture was the largest sector in terms of contribution to the GDP though there was an active contribution from the non agricultural sectors as well. The winds of change were seen during the early 1990’s when the Japanese took a labour intensive approach ...

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Geographically, Japan and China are separated by East China Sea. Although these two counties have close business and trade ties, their relationship is strained by the Japanese country failure of acknowledging the effect past wars between these countries. Japanese leadership has been making unpopular utterances on the impact of the past conflict on Chinese economic progress. In United Nation Security Council, China government has blocked the Japanese bid of having permanent seat thus alleviating the animosity between the two countries. There is also disagreement between the statuses of Taiwan between the two countries (Itoh, 2012). Japan views the status ...

Islamophobic Media in Case of Park51

The past decade has experienced an increased growth of disdain for Muslims in the west especially in America. It has been a period where the western people have not hesitated to voice their opinions and expressions about Islam. The growing disdain, especially in America has been due to the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. However, the proposal for the construction of an Islamic center close to the site of 9/11 terrorist attack provoked anti-Muslims activists who created a notion that the proposal was a scheme by Muslims in America to conquer the hallowed site of 9/11 ...

Introduction

Nigeria is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It is growing at a rate more than 8% for the last decade. But Nigeria also has one of the highest percentages of poor people in the world and the percentage of poor population is continuously increasing. The growth curve of Nigeria is unable to improve the lives of the poor and destitute. As it happens in many developing countries, the mainstream financial institutes in Nigeria completely exclude the poor population from having any access to the financial system. This makes their daily living a perpetual struggle with poverty as ...

Introduction

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid has been praised for his flawless and effective leadership techniques. As a leader in the country that is suffering from economic as well as environmental struggles, he managed to build a modern city that has impeccable infrastructure (Langton, 2016). Not only millions of tourists are now flooding the City of Dubai, but its own population has expanded significantly as well. While Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid is proud of his achievements, he remains modest about his leadership style. Therefore, the current paper will discuss the leadership style of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid based on the article ...

Rio Tinto was a prominent entity with market leadership in global market leadership until 2010. The company had been considered for offering sustainable management practices related to mining for more than two decades. Mr. Sam Walsh, the Executive Director and Chief Executive Director of Rio Tinto Iron Ore Group addressed Australian-Japan Cooperation Committee in 2009 regarding significance of climatic alterations in mining industry. Stating, that there is a need to take serious initiatives to reduce uncertainties and exploit opportunities. Moreover, it is a responsibility of Rio Tinto to offer industrial solutions regarding greenhouse gas emissions and usage of alternative ...

MacDonald’s earnings for the quarter of 2012 were beyond the expectation of many but the company was well aware that it will continue to face challenges in the coming years. In the year 2012, the world’s largest restaurant chain reported the greatest in nine years as a result of the turbulent global economy. This slide in performance was a big surprise to money investors who had keenly noted the firm’s robust performance for nine years from the year 2003 with the net effect being an increase in profitability as well as the stock price for the ...

Patient information

The patient under review is a 42 year old female Indian who is admitted into the emergency room presenting with acute gastrointestinal bleeding. Prior patient diagnosis reveals the patient had suffered from dental abscess and also a fractured tooth, which was subsequently treated with antibiotics. However, a tooth extraction procedure was carried out for the extraction of the tooth. Ensuing dental ache was treated with drugs purchased over the counter (OTC) including ibuprofen and acetaminophen before the medical prescription of Vicoprofen. The patient complains of nausea and headache in addition to vomiting copious amounts of a dark brown liquid ...

- What did you learn that was beneficial to you? Be specific (i.e. give specific examples and references). Why did you find this beneficial? How will you apply what you have learned to your personal lifestyle?

In this class I have learned that eating healthy does not necessarily mean consuming less calories, skipping specific food groups, or skipping whole meals; but rather, eating healthy means consuming all types of foods in a balanced way. What surprised me most was that healthy eating actually means consuming many calories, but they have to be beneficial; they cannot be so called “empty calories.” Foods that are considered high in calories but still healthy are dried fruits and avocados. Cereal is a good breakfast option because of the high percentage of fiber and calcium. While consuming many healthy calories is ...

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The Booming Twenties
This was a time of change. The ‘Booming Twenties’ or the ‘Roaring Twenties’ brought along a paradigm shift in culture, morality and economy. There was widespread social, cultural and ethical dynamism during this decade. It was a period of great economic prosperity across Europe and America. The twenties were also a time of parties and illegal practices. This kind of change affected the whole society – it affected how the people saw themselves, the importance they gave to morality, moral philosophy and professional ethics.
Before the ‘Booming Twenties’ the values of people in general were quite simple such ...

Abstract

Brazil has an economy that is ranked seventh largest in the world as per the 2015 statistics. A normal gross domestic product gives Brazil a high parity of purchasing power with an identification of being the largest economy in the Latin America. The growth of Brazil’s economy is however mentioned to decelerate at times and liquid growth often goes down. The service sector in the economy of Brazil is the largest component, and it is followed by the industrial sector. Agriculture is at 5.5% of the Brazilian economy with labor force estimated to be 10% of the agricultural occupation. ...

Abstract

JC Penney is one of the largest retail stores in the world. It has a century long history of success. JC Penney has seen many big changes over the last 100 years in its product portfolio. However, the last effort to change it brand image went horribly wrong. It lost almost 33% of its customer base within a year, biggest in the history of retail industry. However, it has now realized that it needs to stick to its tried and tested brand image and also the operational tactics that have succeeded for the last 4 decades. Once those are in place, ...

The music industry has undergone tremendous changes; the whole business model has been transformed and the internet has taken over each and every aspect of the business. Old competencies become irrelevant while it has become a necessity for the businesses to quickly adopt the new ones. The need for A&R staff has been eliminated by the concept of the MP3 to make the music in the digital format. Similar to the other businesses, the elimination of the barriers to entry has given rise to more competition and opened up more chances of innovation in the industry. The compilation and distribution ...

Poverty in its numerous forms has progressively attracted the attention in Brazil during the last decade. The government has made commitments extremely to reduce the misery from which many poor citizens suffer in their lives. The attention is an encouraging step, but the actual progress is yet painfully slow, even though the measures to increase the livelihoods of the poor are inexpensive. Poverty and inequality have walked hand in hand in Brazil for years since the country has been the most unequal country. Nevertheless, economic liberalization is the only way the country can implement to save its civilians. The ...

Introduction

Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD) have a long history. Carbonated soft drinks have dominated the non-alcoholic beverage market for more than half a century. Coca Cola and PepsiCo are the two main competitors in this industry. Over the period of last 50 years Pepsi and Coke have enjoyed duopoly in the CSD market. Apart from the exception of one Dr. Pepper product, Pepsi or Coke always filled up the top ten selling brands in the CSD business. Coke and Pepsi have battled against each other fiercely to gain market share and brand loyalty. If in some decades Pepsi succeeded, Coke succeeded in ...

Company Overview

Accenture Inc. is a management consulting and technology firm. It is the biggest consulting firm by revenue in the world. Accenture was formed when Arthur Anderson and Anderson Consulting split in 2001. After splitting from Arthur Anderson, Anderson Consulting in 2001 took a new name called ‘Accenture’. Accenture currently has more than 2, 66,000 employees working in 120 countries. Accenture has maximum number of employees in India (87,000) followed by USA (40000) and Philippines (35000). The headquarter of Accenture was in Bermuda for a long time but in 2009 it was shifted to Dublin, Ireland. Accenture generated revenue of around $ ...

Legacy Systems has been in use for the past number of decades. Their functions range from running financial transactions such as ATM systems to management information systems all over the world. COBOL the Common Business-Oriented Language is an example of a legacy system. However, the convergence of Computers, digital technologies and the innovations over the internet platform in the last decade calls for elimination of legacy based systems and substituting it with client-server or web-based systems. The information technology management curriculum should not include learning more about COBOL and legacy system software.
Old systems run by COBOL are found ...

There were several challenges faced by General Electric during and after the year 1981. Several issues which existed in the company were brought to light and prompted by CEO Jack Welch. Several competitors of Welch who left the job when he became the CEO were required to be replaced by the new management. The priority was to reduce hierarchical bureaucracy and communication barriers between managers and workforce to eliminate the elements which made acceptance of plans and proposals difficult for the managers. The workforce employed by the company was redundant with work and the efficiency that was achieved was ...

Introduction

The Tata Group started in the mid 1990’s as an integration of freely coupled firms. This case analysis will major its focus on the leadership of the then-newly elected Tata Group CEO, Ratan Tata and his rise to prominence. It will further analyze some of the strategies he used in an attempt to strengthen the much needed interrelationship among the companies in the Tata Group of companies at a time when most of his critics were proposing for the complete dismantling of the alliance. Ratan Tata has been described as a very honest professional and unfailingly ethical man who never ...

Summary

In the article presented, there were two large-scale international companies involved: the Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) which is based in Kuwait, and Dow Chemical Company (DOW) which is based in the United States involved. Both were internationally-recognized companies in the manufacturing industry as Ethylene Glycol suppliers (EG), which is an industrial material commonly used in the production of coolants, and other industrial commodities, commonly used in the automotive industry. These two big international companies set up a joint venture which they named MEGlobal. One of the major agreements in that joint venture is that the two companies will split whatever ...

Abstract

In the current global economies, organizations aim at achieving competitive advantage given the intensified competition in the global market. This can be related to the story of Under Armor Inc from 1996, where the founder Kevin Plank aimed at making superior T-shirts. The idea originated from the fact that he was a former student and football player in University of Maryland.

Under Armor Strategic Management

In the current global economies, organizations aim at achieving competitive advantage given the intensified competition in the global market. This can be related to the story of Under Armor Inc from 1996, where the founder Kevin Plank aimed at ...

Business

Qstn 1: What Political factors explain Indonesia’s poor economic performance? What economic factors? Are these two related?
Indonesia which is the fourth largest country in the world is arguably among the worst economies of the century. President Suharto’s three decade dictatorial regime could be held responsible for the struggling current economic status of the country. Despite his exit from power in 1997, the country has not been able to recover from the mess left by the past dictator. The countries currency has lost more than 70% of its value (Wahyuni & Ng 2012). In addition, most financial ...

Risk management cycle and strategy of disaster

- Introduction
Recent studies on the climate have linked global warming to the occurrence of earthquakes. Even though it does not seem real that climate change would affect plate tectonics movement, scientists have managed to identify a probable linkage between the movement of plate tectonics and global warming. This provides in depth insight into the recent occurrence of strong earthquakes such as the 2010 earthquake in Chile, 2004 in Indonesia, and the 2010 earthquake that ripped Haiti. The past decade alone has witnessed three of the strongest earthquakes to ever hit the earth. Therefore there could a link between the movement ...

Nursing Older People: Dementia

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) defines dementia as (1) a syndrome that is caused by a chronic or progressive disease of the brain, that (2) causes multiple disturbances of higher cortical functions, and (3) is characterized by impairment in memory without impairment in consciousness. Dementia affects all areas of the brain and can occur at any age but is more common in people over 65 years of age, affecting 20% of those aged over 80 (Gulland, 2012).
A clinical diagnosis of dementia is made when a patient develops cognitive impairment severe enough to ...

Abstract

The emergence of virtual teams has changed the marketing ball game as well as strategically placed organizations in such positions that they are able to improve their innovation stance by employing professionals to their projects that are geographically disperse. Virtual team has in the last decade gained popularity with more intense research works being carried out to enable faster execution and communication during the whole project phases involved. As a matter of fact, virtual teams have been found to be useful in gradually decreasing costs associated with physical infrastructure as well as the risks associated with working under the same ...

Sandy most likely has Rheumatoid arthritis. The signs of arthritis that Sandy has include early morning stiffness of the small joints of the hands and the recent swelling up of both her knees.

The erythrocyte sedimentation rate at 23mm/hr is high and indicates an on-going inflammation. Also the Rheumatoid factor is positive. Most patients with Rheumatoid arthritis have a positive Rheumatoid factor assay.

There is actually no test result that is pathognomonic of rheumatoid arthritis. Diagnosis is made using a combination of clinical features, laboratory investigations and imaging features.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can be prescribed. One type is the non-selective Cyclooxygensae ...

Introduction

Verizon Communications is one of the greatest leaders that provide wireless and broadband services to wholesale, government business and mass market, headquartered in New York the company boasts to be serving almost hundred million customers. Apart from being wireless network and Internet service provider Verizon Communications is also into the provision of communication, information and entertainment services which are provided through a huge fire optic network and is efficiently providing its services to both domestic and commercial markets across the world.
The company has grown by many folds since this is establishment on June 30, 2000 with a $ 52 billion ...

Executive Summary

Organizations operate in an environment that is highly uncertain and that is largely beyond their control. Environmental analysis not only feeds the marketing process but is the backbone of any planning process of an organization (Comeford and Callaghan , nd). For any organization to have successful business strategies it is imperative for the external environment to be analyzed. This paper will therefore explore the environmental factors that affect the business operations of the California Pizza Chicken-USA, hereinafter referred to as the CPK. To conduct the external environmental analysis the paper will explore the macro- environment (PEST analysis) and the micro-environment ( ...

Progressive is an insurance company that specializes in car insurance and other types of vehicle and property-based insurance. Progressive’s business relies on the idea of getting the money to its customer as quickly as possible, by getting compensation to the customer faster than any other insurance company. This methodology shows the customer that they will get the best protection and care from Progressive, thereby making them the obvious choice to invest their money in. It works, too, as 20% more Progressive customers stayed with the company last year than the year before. It is simple economics – who provides ...