Essays on Cards

Introduction

Nordstrom, Inc. is the company of interest in this discussion. Nordstrom, Inc. is an upscale retailer native to America that sells brand name and private label accessories and apparel merchandise. Initially, the founders started the company in 1901 as a shore store. Since then, the company has grown tremendously, and is now offering a variety of products and services beyond shoes including fragrances, cosmetics, and jewelry. Throughout this report, Nordstrom’s brief background, financial overview, business sector, target market analysis, business operations as compared to competitors, as well as strategies to sustain the business will be discussed.

Company Overview

Nordstrom, Inc. ( ...

Capstone Project [Phase]

Computer and Information Science Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology Literature Review Introduction The project aims to create a website for a restaurant that is yet to incorporate online applications into its functional operations. It is imperative for the restaurant to have a website for allowing customers to see all the foods and drinks on offer without necessarily going to the stores and also for allowing them to pay for their orders on online platforms using their credit cards. Additional advantages the ability to view pricing of varied items alongside the delivery times and pictures of the varied food items ...

Introduction

Proper presentation of data collected during a study is imperative to the credibility of a research. In fact, lack thereof compromises the interpretation embraced by the people relying on such information due to the possibilities of miscommunication in the presentation process. As such, researchers ought to follow a compelling approach whilst communicating the results of their study regardless of the research design followed. With this in mind, it is worth acknowledging the fact that there are multiple research approaches followed in the delivery of psychological research information. According to the Emergency Medicine Journal, the popular research designs include observational ...

Introduction

MasterCard Incorporated is a multinational financial services provider listed on the New York Stock Exchange. MasterCard provides electronic payment cards and other financial services for banks in the United States and around the world. This report will focus on the business environment within which MasterCard operates and how its internal and external environments interact to define its current status as financial service provider. This will include the company analysis which will be an inquest into the internal elements of MasterCard and its activities. The competitors and competition processes faced by MasterCard will be considered. Then the research will provide ...

ABSTRACT

Cloud computing employs the use of parallel and highly computed processors to virtually and remotely deliver services. This is an important factor forenterprises whose processing resources are limited and who suffer limitations on the manpower and data storage. This notwithstanding, cloud computing faces a serious threat in the area of data security. This is because the attackers have become very opportunistic and look for any slight loophole that will enable them to bypass the server securities within the cloud computing environment. It is thus important to come up with a systematic approach that can help in identifying the vulnerabilities ...

Response to Interview Question

1. Tell me about yourself? Thank you for the opportunity, I have close to over six years experience in professional customer service, I am fluent in three languages English, Russian and Farsi. I believe I am very dependable in meeting deadlines and I always keep time 2. Why a teller? I am interested in the position because I believe I can apply my customer service experience in the role. 3. Why work at RBC? RBC will offer me an opportunity for excellent career development as well as support from the leaders through coaching and managing opportunities. 4. What do ...

Payment methods and technologies have shifted a great deal over the years. Gone are the days where cash and check transactions make up the bulk of the give and take that occurs when people engage in commerce, travel and otherwise spend their money. Credit and debit cards have ruled the roost for a while but some new contenders are starting to emerge. The first major alternative to the conventional credit cards and other more traditional methods was PayPal (PayPal, 2017). However, smartphone-enabled technologies such as Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay are starting to dominate the commerce and ...

The use of cashless forms of money payments begun in the twentieth century. The entry of information and technology has taken this kind of transactions to a higher notch. A person can buy a car from the comfort of their home, pay for it using a credit card and get the vehicle brought to where they are. As such, the protection of such data is vital. A company mandated to transact using the credit cards needs to build secure network infrastructure. The organization needs to install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect the transactional data. The firewall will ...

Police officers are responsible for keeping peace in the country. They apprehend and pursue individual who breaks the law, solve issues of the community, enforce traffic law, arrest suspected criminal, investigate crimes and respond to emergencies. They are usually assigned to patrol particular areas to be familiar when inspecting suspicious circumstances. Training is significant before one becomes a police officer as it will expose him or her to a new situation to handle challenging tasks during the career life. I think the best education level of the police should be college degree level. The college degree level is ideal ...

Stevey is very opinionated, honest and open-minded about legalizing marijuana. As he gives his opinion as to whether or not marijuana should be legalized, he confesses to having been a user at some point in his life. He continues by saying that even as a user, marijuana did not affect him and he is one of the smartest people. Credit cards are issued by the bank to enable an individual to buy goods or pay for services. They make life easier but if they are wrongly used they can make one to be in a massive financial debt. However, ...

DESIGN PROPOSAL

1.0 PHYSICAL NETWORK DESIGN This design implementation must be on LAN systems because it is located in within the same building that has no structured facilities that aid data transfer from one network to another. Use of proper network topology helps in structuring the network with advantages such as cost reduction and less power consumption. The network nodes and connection lines are supposed to be designed in such a way that it reduces complexity and utilizes the available space properly. Currently, there are both physical and logical network topologies [3]. The physical aspect is defined as the actual geometric ...

The Mendelsohn elements, in theory, include portal quest, immersive, intrusion and liminal that helps in classifying the antagonists in the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘The Midsummer Night's Dream.' The protagonists and antagonists from both pieces of fantasy literature have various character traits that are similar and different. Fantasy literature has been used to refer to an imaginary universe that uses magic as well as other supernatural elements. Therefore, the authors have created the characters according to imaginary creatures to fit the overall genre of the story. In most fantasy literature stories, there is a happy ending for the protagonist ...

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Introduction

Projects are carefully planned and designed works, either individually or collaborative, that, are intended to achieve a particular aim. Projects have life cycles and aren’t meant to last forever that’s why detailed planning with, schedules, timeline, tasks, tasks dependent on those task, resources, and etc. are clearly very important. Determining what breaks down into these life cycles is how projects are successful or not. Beginning with conceptualization, the development of the initial goal and technical specifications, then planning, or the cycle where all the detailed specifications, schedules, etc are developed. Then comes the ...

Description of Business

Starbucks is a chain of coffee houses that operate both in United States, the mother country, and on other international markets around the globe. The corporation was founded in 1971 with the flagship coffeehouse in Seattle, Washington. Although the corporation is famous for its coffees, it also sells blended beverages as well as teas. The revenue of the company totaled to 21.1 billion dollars in 2015. The corporation has 22,557 stores around the globe. The corporation is very popular in the United States of America where it has a market share of 42.4% (Statista, 2015).

Description of Industry

The production of ...

Learning Activity # 01

In the contemporary business settings, the purpose of marketing is to make your product available where your customers are. Apparently, your target customers are dispersed everywhere due to the emergence of several information transmitting mediums. Modern business requires a holistic marketing approach, which facilitates reaching the target market customers by all means while ensuring that the right message is communicated to the right audience. Nowadays, people have advanced technological gadgets like smart phones, tablets, and laptops, and have greater accessibility to information. Therefore, apart from newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, they are also frequently using social media, web pages, ...

Budgeting is the process of calculating monthly expenses from one’s income. Developing budgets allows individuals to know in advance, whether they would have enough money after paying for all expenses to spend on the things that they want to do like going to the movies or going on holidays. Budgeting helps individuals to keep their priorities straight. With budgeting, they can focus on and prioritize the list of things to do and spend their available budget accordingly. In lament terms, budgeting stop individuals from wasting their money on unnecessary things that they do not need. Keeping a monthly ...

Introduction

Networks and computer systems are imperative to establishments in the present age. They have managed to simplify sending and receiving of information and colossal data processing over very short time periods. However, they are always facing threats and attacks from hackers. Dangers to the computing environment, network, and the database comes from everywhere. In such a high stake facility, it is critical to ensure that the main threats are identified and mitigated. The major threats can come from three areas: the physical installation, the users, and malicious attacks. The five top threats to the new network will be the ...

Terrorism and cyber terrorism become one of the main global threats to the humanity of XXI century. Nowadays cyber terrorism is the inherent part of the modern terrorism. So we can not discuss the question of terrorism without taking into account the cyber terrorism. Both terrorism and cyber terrorism carry a threat to various states, organizations, groups of people and etc., but when the terrorism uses as a battle-field all accessible variants, cyber terrorism is only in the network. There is no doubt that cyber terrorism and terrorism have similarities but it also has a lot of differences. The ...

The informatics solutions help the organizations to manage data of the process, clients, providers, payment methods, and supply chain. The informatics solutions work as networks from centralized data centers in several countries in the world as United States of America, Canada, Ireland and Iceland. There are companies that store their data centers in their warehouses under their maintenance and surveillance, but most of the corporations of the world give that responsibility to a third company that provides the hardware, maintenance, and security service. The data centers while they are connected 24 hours and 365 days a year to the ...

Psychological testing was developed to examine the cognitive and behavioral aspects of a patient. A variety of tests have been created to evaluate the individual to determine either the diagnosis of the individual or simply to attain an assessment or evaluation of the individual. Each test discussed below can provide advantages to the forensic setting. The validity and reliability of these tests have been extensively evaluated and are discussed. 1. Mental Status Exam The Mental Status Exam (“MSE”) is used to evaluate a patient’s mental functions and behaviors. The MSE was created as a tool for clinical psychologists ...

Articles Summary

The main point in the current article is to develop an attitude towards the savings at the early age. The sources of finance at the early age are very limited and it is very important that the individuals must plan their important needs accordingly. According to the article, the important needs such as higher studies, important assets and the good credit history must have a proper financial plan. The planning must cover all risks, including recessions, inflation and the time value of money. The idea of savings from the early life can help anyone in achieving the goals such ...

1. The book begins with a historical portrait of Ruth McBride Jordan. The author reveals that Ruth has had some name changes. Explain each name change and its significance. The change of Ruth’s name indicates the changes that she has undergone since her birth. She was born in Poland as Rachel Dwanra Zylska and as the name indicates she was born into an orthodox Jewish family. The first name change happens in her second year when her family immigrates to America. It is here that she gets her second name Rachel Deborah Zylska, which was ‘an American version ...

In January 2009, Heartland Payment Systems announced that it had encountered a breach in its security system the previous year. The breach had compromised data of more than 130 million credit and debit cards transactions as the transaction data was being transmitted in an unencrypted form within its internal processing platform. The company was certified Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant and had implemented all the required controls, but could not avert the breach. This paper examines if compliance with standards is enough to ensure data security. The paper will suggest the approach to be taken ...

Milestone I

Apple Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, which makes it 40 years old. There is something to say about a company that has been around for that long; they must be doing something right. There were three different kinds of computers starting with the Apple I, Apple II and the Macintosh. The Apple I had a typewriter like keyboard with the ability to connect to the TV for the screen. These were all built by hand. The Apple II arrived in April, 1977 and with this came color graphics and a tape based machine. Then in 1984 Macintosh ...

The chapter under consideration is the Chapter 5, Financial Services: Savings Plans and Payment Accounts. The chapter gives to the reader five important aspects that contribute to the understanding of the personal finances. 1. The first aspect is the selection and use of the available financial services in the market and the factors that influence the decision to select a specific financial service. The selection of the financial service depends on of the needs of the client and the convenience of fees and conditions. One of the financial services is the availability of cash. The cash is the most ...

Introduction

Learning a foreign language is a slow and progressive effort which requires constant and responsible practice. Independent study is absolutely necessary for progress, and the hours spent in the classroom are not nearly enough in order to achieve fluency. This is particularly true for languages which are considered difficult to master, such as Mandarin. In recent years, Mandarin has become one of the most important foreign languages studied in schools throughout the United States of America. Mastering Mandarin challenges students to a great extent, even though many of them choose to study this language. Consequently, many teachers use the ...

Across his journey of fifty years as an artist, Pinkney has succeeded in viewing the world from a different and better perspective and coming up with outstanding images that reveal his love for life, race, community and culture. His works of art offer a significant proof that good acts, no matter how minute are never a waste when displayed in beautiful images (Llanas 45). Initially created for product advertisements, greeting cards, covers and pages of periodicals, postage stamps and well-travelled historic sites, Jerry’s have also been displayed in more than one hundred illustrated books. One of the most ...

Analysis2

E-Commerce in Retail Sector.3 Customer Information..4

Improved Marketing Techniques5

Security Issues7 Conclusion8 References..10 E-Commerce & Retail The emergence of the internet and of computing technology in general over the last generation or so has had drastic and dramatic effects on all of society including both the personal and business realm. Indeed, these new technology has made it easier to spend money, work and so forth in a way that makes one’s home life and work life blend together in many ways. However, this report will focus more on how e-commerce has come into its own as part of this new technology and ...

Statement of the Research Problem

Currently, there are a vast number of reported cases of online fraudsters who tend to break into people's systems without their consent. The threat of online fraud has an impact on operations of business in the hospitality sector. The adoption of technological advancements improves the efficiency of firms such as the hospitality industry that can guarantee them more advanced customer service and consequently tremendous profits. However, the increased use of the internet makes the hospitality industry prone to fraudsters. For instance, the Marriot Milwaukee Downtown which is a major hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, faces the threat of fraudsters mainly ...

The reason for carrying out this work is to identify the problem of credit sales fraud with our principal focus falling on Milwaukee Marriot Downtown. The primary objectives of this chapter are to come up with a descriptive survey method to collect data from business enterprises in Milwaukee Marriot Downtown regarding the issue of credit sales fraud, describe the sample selection, explain the procedures utilized in designing data collection instruments, and lastly identifying the statistical methods for analyzing the collected data. For this research, the best descriptive research method to use to gather information is the questionnaires. The polls ...

Abstract

The paper describes a test and an activity conducted to check convincingly whether there is gender discrimination amongst bank employees and to demonstrate how randomization techniques can help determine whether there difference between proportions is statistically significant in a given case. The test yields a position wherein 35 out of 48 bank supervisors recommend an application for promotion, wherein the applications are varied just by gender and yields 21 male and 14 female recommendations. The test result is put to test using a randomization technique. The original sample is resampled 100 times and with every resampling a different composition ...

Summary of the Decision Situation

Just like any other company venturing into a new business, Uber is facing both marketing and pricing challenges. Uber has placed various services into use to ensure that it beats its competitors in providing ride-sharing services in the United States and other parts of the world, such as Europe, Asia, and Africa. Lyft is the main competitor Uber is facing in most of the United States cities. In the international platform, Uber faces a bigger competitive challenge more so in the Chinese market from companies such as Didi Kuaidi. Some of Uber’s services include charging their customers based ...

Personal Financial Planning

Personal Financial Planning

Develop a workable operational budget Make payment to credit cards Formulate a savings plan Long Term Financial Goals for John and Beth Formulate and implement an investment plan Make payments to an investment plan Complete loan repayment Time Frame for Accomplishing Long-term and Short-term Goals Many economists believe that the time frame for accomplishing long-term and short-term goals should be between one and two years (Kaplan & Atkinson, 2015). In the case of John and Beth, the adequate amount of time that shall be required to formulate a workable financial operational budget shall be 2 weeks, while ...

During this week, I was posted back to the customer service section where I worked in week one. However, besides the normal duties that I performed in regards to customer service, I was allocated other new duties. Since I had already worked in this section, I did not encounter any difficulties because I was already familiar with staff members in this section. Furthermore, I would easily apply the knowledge that I acquired in the first week of my training.

Training Completed This Week;

Filing; during this week, I was given the duty to handle customer information files (CIF). CIF contained personal and account ...

Mary Louise Pratt: “Arts of the Contact Zone”

Pratt continued the assertion of the baseball card experience, as an excellent way of learning, by using examples of real world texts that were common to the baseball cards, and what she quotes as “new visions of literacy” (486). This was a quote from comments made by Tony Sarmiento at this particular conference (the Pittsburgh conference on literature). In many ways, her article is based in the original thought of how Sam learnt to communicate, and become literate. She mentions the letter, written by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, with text as well as images. This ...

According to the Greenberg website, the company has been owned and run by the Greenbergs for three generations, and it is more like a family tradition rather than a business. Sam’s mother, whose husband converted Turkey smoking to a business venture, treats the Turkey Smoking place as her late husband’s shrine. The business has been able to grow its client base over the years at a rate of 5-7% annually (Underwood, 2003). The customer base growth can be attributed to the fact that the Greenbergs have been able to maintain old clients, and the same time, acquire ...

Chapter 1

Introduction Pepsi-Cola Company is a packed food and beverage company that is known globally for its quality products. It mainly targets young consumers, teenagers and adults. The company focuses mainly on the young generation because they are daring, fun loving and full of energy. Pepsi has come up with sports, music, social media platforms, taglines, slogans and other fun activities in the form of advertisement to gain popularity and attract more customers for their products. The paper gives a brief history of the company and the advertising strategies that it uses. The information will help in analyzing and learning ...

Report No:

Training completed in the week Printing and Handling of cards This week I have learnt about printing and handling cards in the cards centre of the bank. I have learnt that the forms from customers for printing cards can come from 3 places, which include

Forms created from the customers from different branches

Forms created from Section 1 , i.e., from Customer Services from the same branch At the end of the working day, the employees ensure proper counting of the cards. They count the number of cards that are applied and cards that are printed, and they should be equal to the cards in inventory. I also ...

A visit to the local small supermarket which does not belong to the big chains that have the last invention equipment for preventing from fraud shows multiple possibilities of performing small crimes that, if they persist, can cause big damages to the owner. There are five departments in the store: food (fresh and frozen) department; fruits and vegetables department and department for different house wares. The biggest is the food-staff department which occupies about three thirds of the place of totally 600 sq. m. At the exit gate there is a small kiosk for cooked food and sweet shop. ...

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The process of globalization makes many companies worldwide think about becoming international. There are many reasons for it, such as going to the international markets, increasing sales, reducing costs of manufacturing and research & development by means of outsourcing, engaging skills and talent from other countries, increasing company’s revenues, and etc. Lewis Globalworks Co., Inc. has been working in the market for many years and now would like to expand its activities to the other countries in order to optimize its operations and financial results. This research paper is focused on evaluation the possibilities and ...

Progress Report of Research Paper on Credit Card Payments

The aim of this online credit card payment systems in modern times study is to review challenges of credit cards as a means of payments in online shopping. This study appreciates the overall online websites as well as shopper’s perceptions that drive the use of credit cards as an electronic payment method that is secure, can be trusted, convenient, cost effective and anonymous just like traditional methods of payment. This paper is a progress report that details the main activities and findings that were made in the literature review chapter of the study as well as detailing the ...

Internship Experience Qatar National Bank

During this week, I have acquired several new skills, and become aware of several things related to the Bank by getting information. I also faced some problems, got feedback from supervisor, and also made little contribution to the Bank.

The training completed in this week is Customer service in Card Centre of the Bank. This week, I worked in the card centre of Qatar National Bank in which Mr. A works for customer services and Mr. K is the branch manager. The card centre in which I worked comprises of two sections, in Section 1, customer service is provided ...

Introduction

Auditing is one of the most important elements in any police department. Both the law enforcement and individual offices should always be held responsible and accountable for their own actions. Effective auditing procedures are very vital if all the policing departments are to achieve their set objectives and goals of legitimacy and lawfulness as required by the national policing authority (National Council, 2004). Lawfulness alludes to consistence with the formal prerequisites of the law, including statutes and court choices. Legitimacy alludes to the recognition that police behavior is both legal and reliable with open desires. Responsibility is acknowledged through ...

The Business of International Business is Culture

-Geert Hofstede

Views on the International Business Perspectives

International communication has been the research topic of various scholars and disciplines for several decades. The phenomena of globalization brought upon internationalization and growth of businesses, thus resulting into practicality and necessity of it. Due to the increase in business opportunities’ number beyond the borders of their own country, numerous organizations choose to extend their activities abroad frequently without understanding that the prospective financial growth can result into disastrous conditions because of the inappropriate communication with the individuals from the other countries. One of the typical misconceptions among the executives of the enterprises is that business communication ...

Introduction – History & Background3

Operations in the Emerging Markets4 International Strategy7 Acquisition of Household International7 Expansion of Financial Services in Rural China8 Challenges Affecting HSBCs operations in China11 Conclusion13 References14 Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies and governments of different nations. It is a process that is driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, culture, prosperity, human well-being and economic development all across the world. The global strategy covers three important areas of global, international and multinational strategies that are specifically designed to enable a particular ...

1. American Express’ objective for use of social media is to engage closely with existing customers through promotional events and generate new customers by providing positive perception of the company’s customer service. American Express has fewer cardholders than Visa or Mastercard but the average annual transaction size per Amex cardholder was nearly three times that of the other two. Unlike Visa and Mastercard, whose primary focus was settlement between banks, issued cards and managed merchant transactions through various banks. Amex, however, issues its own cards and performs all other functions as well. The company actually tracks customer and ...

Introduction

The strategy is the purpose and direction an organization takes to get to its future and achieve long-term goals. It involves motivating trustees in the organization to engage meaningfully with the external environment. The organization, thus, matches its diverse capabilities with the needs of the stakeholders. An organization and in this case the MacDonald has a strategy that determines how the business relates to the outside world. It also determines how the organization will take every opportunity to innovate, improvise as well as make improvements. MacDonald should have a strategy that concentrates on priorities, making sure that the organization’ ...

Brand Audit

Tandem Bank Tandem is a digital banking start up company, led by Azimo Group. Founded by Ricky Knox and Matt Cooper, the organization successfully drawn its path to th challenging financial market environment in the United Kingdom. The Tandem Bank aims to offer breakthrough innovation into the banking sector, by comprising the market offer whih competes with the giants of the UK banking industry through the digitalized solutions and mobile-centered technology. The Tandem is a fighter from the initial stages of its existence, going after external financing and winning this challenge by attracting over £100 million in investment. In ...

Marriott Hotels: Strategic Analysis

Words Count: Executive Summary Marriott International Inc. is a leader in the global lodging industry. Marriot has more than 4,400 properties spread across 87 countries. The company has also done well over the last 90 years and has transformed itself from a root beer stand in Washington D.C to a hotel behemoth. According to the 2015 survey conducted by American Customer Survey Index (ACSI) on hotel brands, Marriot is the most liked hotel brand in the world along with Hilton with a score of 81 (ACSI, 2015). Hotel industry was hit hard by the sub-prime recession in the ...

Amazon in emerging markets

The Amazon Corporation is one of the largest and most influential in the world. Started as a book vendor in 1994, it is transformed into “a global “customer-centric company serving consumers, sellers, and developers with operations in twenty-two countries” ( WDI Publishing). Nowadays, it is one of the world leaders in e-commerce. This fact is proved by the Figure 1 (Osawa, J., Mozur, P., and Winkler, R., 2014). Figure 1 Comparison of Selected Electronic Commerce / Technology Companies According to business dictionary, emerging markets are “new market structures arising from digitalization, deregulation, globalization, and open-standards, that are shifting the balance ...

Introduction

Customers and businesses have realized that flexibility in communication is among the best ways of reaching out to each other. The need for improved relations has contributed to organizations changing the way they do business in efforts to accommodate interactive platforms for responding to customer inquiries in real time. Online marketing is key to promoting effectiveness and efficiencies of how goods and services are offered to customers in ways to improve brand and customer loyalty. Among the major benefits offered by online marketing is the ability to easily reach out to global markets without incurring many costs in advertisements ...

A Smartphone is a mobile phone with highly advanced features derived and similar to computers. A typical smartphone is made up of the following components: Processor, RAM, Display, Touchscreen, Battery, Camera, Removable Storage (MicroSD cards), Bluetooth, and WiFi. Smartphones run on popular and recognized mobile operating systems which currently include: Android, Symbian, iOS, Blackberry OS, and Windows Mobile. The mobile operating systems give the smartphone to use sophisticated applications ranging in wide operations. Retaining its feature as a mobile phone, smartphones still use SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) and Micro SIM cards for call and text usage. More advanced smartphones ...

Internal Analysis of McDonald’s Corp.

Introduction McDonald’s is the biggest chain of hamburger fasts food cafes around the world with over 50 million consumers. The corporation was started in 1940 by two brothers in San Bernardino, California (McDonald’s. com, 2016). Today, McDonald's is the leader in global food service retail with around 35,000 locations in more than 100 nations. However, most of its worldwide restaurants are owned and operated by independent local business people. Additionally, the alignment strength in McDonald’s is its franchisees and suppliers. This system has been the reason for the long-term success of the corporation. In the ...

Check Your Understanding

What is Buy Nothing Day trying to change about society? The main purpose of the Buy Nothing Day is to change the culture of consumerism. The day is marked as the day where people cut out their credit cards to promote anti-materialism. Why have some people proposed changes to Buy Nothing Day? What are the changes, and which ones do you think would be more effective? They feel that it does not do enough to change the consumer habits of people. As a result, they are proposing for a longer span of “Buy Nothing” such as Buy Nothing Christmas. ...

Introduction

There is always a question as to how to encourage students to listen, pay attention, and interact within the classroom environment. Too often it is seen that those who excel by choice are at the forefront of the classroom while those who are either not as adept at the given subject or are less interested fade into the background. Professor Dylan Williams and his ideas on how to better engage the entire classroom are both innovative and simplistic enough that students of all skill levels can participate and feel relatively equal. To teach effective equality within the classroom it ...

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 ...

Who are we? The National Bank of Canada is an incorporated group that offers an inclusive financial service to clients. Its customers are small, medium-sized firms and big corporations that are in the major market of the bank while providing special services elsewhere around the globe. The NBC offers a full range of services such as corporate, and investment banking in this sector. Moreover, it is considered as an active player on the world markets. What do we do? The bank participates in the brokerage of securities, management of wealth, the mutual fund and the retirement plan arrangements as ...

Data breach is the act of viewing or acquiring ones secure data or confidential information without the authorization of the authorized user and releasing it to an untrusted environment. This is mostly done by hackers who get this type of information and sell it to willing buyers. The kind of information that suffers this kind of menace is financial and personal information on credit and debit cards. When applying to get a credit or debit card, one has to offer their personal data and their account details so that the companies involved can keep track of the transactions. In ...

Government regulations and rules in the Chinese online market

The fact that the Chinese market is a key market for global firms provided a chance for eBay to begin its operations in China. The rapidly expanding middle class and the fact that the economy was booming suggested that eBay could gain from the higher purchasing power of the consumers. However, the case was not to be as eBay withdrew its online auctions business from the China market. The Chinese market is massive but without a strategic plan, it is impossible to make a significant and sustainable presence in such markets. The Chinese culture is diversified when it comes ...

Personal Computer Purchasing Project

Personal Computer Purchasing Project. 1.0 Introduction: When purchasing a personal computer for home or business use, buyers are faced with a myriad of options to choose from in the market based on brands, technical specifications, pricing, quality, and reliability. In this case, it is important to conduct significant market research, read customer and technical reviews, and make your own comparison before deciding on the PC to buy. Some of the major considerations include the intended usage i.e. for home entertainment, business or gaming, etc. There are considerations to be made with regard to software such as operating systems and ...