MBA Reports Samples For Students

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Summary:

- What the Paper is about
The paper is about John R. Graham and Campbell R. Harvey‘s analysis of their survey regarding the current practices of corporate finance. It looks into three main aspects: capital budgeting, cost of capital and capital structure :
The objectives of the research study are: (a) to serve as basis for development of new corporate finance theories, or to modify/nullify existing ones; and (b) for practitioners to learn from the findings, especially from cases where academic theories were not applied completely.
It is differentiated from earlier surveys conducted in ...

Introduction

Thus a corporation requires a “Global Strategy” which again is defined by Professor Lynch (2012) as a term that covers three areas (global, multinational and international) which is designed for an international organization to achieve its corporate goals as it operates in locations outside its location of origin. The online website Quick MBA defines the importance of Global Strategy (Quick MBA, pp 1). For the corporation, Global Strategy is important for the corporation because operating in a new country will is essentially a newly opened market that would drive both sales and profits. For many corporations that have “exhausted” the market or is competing ...

Table of Content

Definition of key terms
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Introduction
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Background information
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Factors influencing the purchase of footwear
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Personal characteristics
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Individual circumstances
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Social environment
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Components of attitudes influencing behavior
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Cognitive
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Affective
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Conative
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Definition of key terms
1. CEO-Chief Executive Officer
2. NIKE-A US based Footwear Company, that manufactures sportswear and other sports apparels
3. ADIDAS-this is a German owned sports ...

Introduction

In all moving parts of a machine, bearing failure forms one of the major causes of industrial breakdown for machines rotating at high or low speeds. The following paper provides a comparative analysis son the application of acoustic emission (EA) technique for condition monitoring of bearing element. The use of advanced signal processing and pattern recognition approach was established to monitor bearings conditions through automatic detection and diagnosis of localized defects in bearings. A short-time signal processing technique extracts two normalized and dimensionless features that establish linear discriminant functions used to detect defects on rollers of bearings and the outer race ( ...

Management

Executive summary
This report analyzes the logistics industry. The Australian based company Panalpina is selected for the reader to achieve an internal view of the operations of such companies. Specifically, this study focuses on the value added services popular in the industry. The value added services offered by Panalpina are analyzed and assessed to determine if they are up to standard in the global industry. The report shows that Panalpina is company that is worth of the global recognition that it receives since its services are unique and complementary to meet the needs of diverse customers. The general ...

I think that leadership is the ability to inspire and enable a group of people to achieve a common goal. However, even as a good leader allows group members to contribute in their own ways, he or she still remains responsible and accountable for the group as a whole and for providing the group with the necessary guidance that will enable them to cope with the changes that may occur as they try to achieve their goal (Farid Dadashev,2007, http://mba.yale.edu/index.shtml).

That said, leadership is something that should be taken seriously. Although it can be adventurous and fun to be a leader, it should ...