Giant Case Studies Samples For Students

1. Did Giant violate HIPAA? Did Elensys? Why/why not?
According to HIPAA Health privacy rule, an individual’s private information can be disclosed to a business associate (a third party that provides services on behalf of the entity on contractual basis) and only needs customer approval in case of marketing communications. Given the fact that the partnership with Elensys was solely focused on prescription compliance and avoided any sort of DTP marketing communications, neither Giant Food nor Elensys blatantly violated the HIPAA. Elensys in this case does not represent an outside party but a qualified inside agent, therefore limiting further the ...

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Contract
Goliath productions, a producer and distributor of motion pictures signed a contractual agreement with Giant Theatres giving them exclusive rights on the five films produced for six months. Goliath acknowledged that Giant needs an integral inducement in the contract as the sole source without competition, for six months ending February 28th 2007. Giant Inc has 475 theatres across United States. The contract is silent on the area of jurisdiction. However, in the agreement, Giant only purposes to show the film in the 475 (approximately) theatres in United States and therefore, Giant cannot limit Goliath from entering into a contract with a ...

Stars can be considered as the most attractive and the most recognized object that can be identified in the galaxy. They can be easily distinguished through their bright-colored and shiny appearance whenever we try to look at it at night. Basically, stars are born within the clouds of dust scattered in different locations in the Earth’s galaxy. Generally, the larger the star, the shorter its life is.

Describe what triggers a star leaving the main sequence:

The general theory why stars prefer to leave the main sequence is that when the Hydrogen fuel core is being consumed, energy is being released; permitting the radiant energy to pass ...

Company Law

Question One
First, the issue in play is fueled by two elemental components. That is, the Beanstalk Ltd Company has a constitution that limits the sale of the agricultural products by the company in Queensland. In addition, the board of directors of the company implemented the policy that the board should approve all the transactions of the company over $100,000. Nevertheless, Jack, who is the managing director of the company, attended a trade fair in Victoria that saw him sign a purchase agreement worth $150,000 with Giant Ltd. This aspect has led to the disagreement of the viability of ...

The war between Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is bound to escalate on the search and hardware fronts. The software giants, Amazon and Google, are in competing in their attempts to increase their hardware products. This is in an attempt to increase their customer loyalty (Deghton&Kornfeld, 2013, p. 2). This move is also aimed at extending their control over the software services offered by these companies and the flow of revenues from these services. It has resulted to increased rivalry between the two companies with Apple responding by developing and building its own unique software. This is because it ...

Company Law

Question One
First, the issue in play is fueled by two elemental components. That is, the Beanstalk Ltd Company has a constitution that limits the sale of the agricultural products by the company in Queensland. In addition, the board of directors of the company implemented the policy that the board should approve all the transactions of the company over $100,000. Nevertheless, Jack, who is the managing director of the company, attended a trade fair in Victoria that saw him sign a purchase agreement worth $150,000 with Giant Ltd. This aspect has led to the disagreement of the viability of ...

The subject of King David has long fascinated artists, particularly with regard to his defeat of the Philistine giant Goliath. There have been many different sculptures and paintings representing this Old Testament figure, done in different artistic styles an with different areas of emphasis.
#1. This sculptor features David as he is about to fling the stone from his slingshot toward Goliath. The ability of the sculptor to provide balance is advanced, as the figure is twisting while standing on two feet. The musculature is realistically represented, as the young shepherd’s legs are visibly flexing and his ...

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 ...

Tony Robbins is a world-renowned speaker on behavioral modification. His books, tapes, videos, and seminars have affected the lives of thousands of people. Although Robbins does not hold a college degree, he has incorporated the work of multiple therapists and continues to evolve his theories on self-directions of behaviors. Robbins’ promotions involve psychology dealing with family, self, and organization; he states he helps people “find breakthrough strategies and solutions for overcoming the problems that confront us all.” (Robbins, 2015). He employs the use of neuro-associative conditioning, a technique similar to neuro-linguistic programming. By consciously addressing preferred representational systems and submodalities, an individual ...

BUSINESS STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION: Contextual Strategic Planning Tool Using SWOT Analysis

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Intel has been a giant in the computer market for so long. The company’s strong presence and momentum had enabled its elongated existence as well as its longstanding strategy that made the company outstanding in its performance and strengthening the productivity aspect at regular intervals over a period. The company apparently function based on Moore’s Law, which states that “in every 18-24 months, the number of transistors on a silicon chip must be doubled, dramatically increasing performance while dividing the real cost of that performance” (Dyer et al., 2016). The dynamics changed ...

Starbucks to Offer Brand Visa Card,” by Julie Jargon, WSJ, March 24, 2016.

Initiatives Starbucks announced at their recent shareholders’ meeting
In their recent shareholders’ meeting, Starbucks announced several marketing initiatives that would be adopted in a bid to enhance the business’ marketing competitiveness and customer attraction as well as retention.
The company announced the adoption of a new loyalty program by the introduction of a “Branded prepaid Visa card”, by the year end, that would enable the customers using it to earn reward points from the company coffee shops. The new card would be used at any retail outlets that accept such and the points earned would eventually be redeemable in ...

Google has become a giant company with many innovative ideas that are regularly introduced to the public. However, not all ideas are successfully realized and the company is sometimes criticized for being ineffective. For example, Project Loon is one of the recent controversial projects that received a lot of criticism especially from the investors that do not realize fully the goals of Google’s revolutionary innovation. So the innovation strategies at Google should be assessed more deeply in order to understand why Google sometimes presents the ideas that are very difficult to realize in the real life.
Google used ...

Chinese FDI in the United States according to data of 2015 is the highest in history, standing at $15.7 billion, a figure that represents 30% rise from 2014 (Rhg.com). The stock of China in the USA according to the latest data stands at $45 billion. China ranks third in FDI outflow in the world behind the United States and Japan.
The FDI flow from China to the USA is bigger than that of the USA to China. Recently, the tide of FDI flow has changed from the USA to China, and it is now China to the USA. Individual ...

Google has been developing many various technologies that can improve human life and make it easier and handy to use. The company has been present in the market a long time and has so far provided many interesting and useful technologies. With the evolving of sophistication of information technologies the more complex systems are being built for individual usage. Almost everyone on this planet in developed world has the access to the internet or the communication tolls that are sometimes needed in the rear to use the google technologies. The research paper will examine five Google technologies implemented or ...

Improving large format printing in Marketing Advantage

Introduction
Marketing advantage is a private company (family owned), based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The major activities of the company include vehicle wrap which is mainly vehicle sales advertising, contract printing done on behalf of external marketing companies which involves customized printing on small marketing type items and lastly , large format printing done on behalf of local companies and national resellers which include printing of flags, banners, signs, tents, giant inflatable and tradeshow displays. All the operations of the company currently takes place on a 19,000 square facility and a total of thirty employees who are both full time ...

Enterprise Resource Planning

Introduction
Two teenagers with only a hundred dollars launched United Parcel Service. It is the perfect example of ingenuity, hard work, and dedication to fulfill the American dream. Jim Casey 19, and Cloude Ryan 18, had one bike for the operation. Since there were no phones in the early 1900’s, telegraphs had to be delivered by hand (Hiskey 2010). The two saw the opportunity and focused on this to be their area of expertise. They also delivered lunch for office workers. After a few years, the two merged with a rival company known as the Merchants Parcel Delivery and in ...

Operational strategy of Google with Google Glass is exceptionally brilliant as well as unique. As estimated by experts, although Glass will take a while to shape up to emerge as the next generation ‘iPad’, the company is aware that connected eye gear and eye wear hold tremendous potential for ushering in a new age of wearable computing to be able to control household devices. In other words, Google Glass takes home automation to the next level. Google Glass was being chiefly employed for outdoor applications. But now with intelligent integration, many devices in a home can be automated and used on voice ...

Introduction

The current case study details about the manner in which Wal-Mart discriminates against women. It provides a plethora of facts and details out the manner in which women are discriminated. This is despite the fact that Wal-Mart’s policies propose equal pay and promotion opportunities for men and women. However, in reality women are denied promotion opportunities and are paid far lesser than their male counterparts in this store. The case study further reveals that compared to its competitors females are not adequately represented in Wal-Mart. The plaintiffs further maintain that the retail chain has continued discrimination against women as a ...

Question One: Remote Environment

McDonald shares its stories of growth right from the moment when Ray Kroc began the franchising and leasing trademark in 1955 (Ruggless, 1998). The company having developed a loyal domestic reputation among the folks saw a quick growth in the industry through diversification in the foods they served. For instance, Ruggless (1998) notes that the divesting model of the company change from ordinary production of hamburgers to serving of other fast foods like salads, coffee, fruity juices, crisps and other foodstuffs that were in high demand from the consumer base. There was also the idea of collecting royalties of the members ...

The current paper is committed to the analysis of Lululemon athletica. When conducting this analysis, a conclusive situational analysis of the organization is made. To help analyze both the internal and external environments of the organization, its SWOT analysis is undertaken using the information presented in the case study. This then leads to the development of the problem statement, and available alternatives. The paper ends with a recommendation where the author suggests the best alternative as well as the best plan of implementation.
Headed by Chip Wilson, Lululemon athletica was founded in 1998 by a group of athletes. Since its inception ...

Abstract

Mergers and acquisitions (M & A) is a topic that has over the years generated much heat due to the surmounting number of cases of failure. Some critics have argued that failure can be attributed to misconceptions prior to mergers, wrongful strategies and tactics while others inability of most employees to acclimatize to the changes. For example, it is presumably argued in Sbeit that every worker gets affected when changes are effected in an organization. In some cases, the employees are quick to adapt to the changes that may potentially lead to great success in the merger while on the other ...