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- 171: Willy Loman’s Struggle with the American Dream
- ... standards. Willy’s life excluded the element of happiness; happiness being a component of the American Dream. The American Dream has many components. The components of the dream are: having wealth and success in the business world, having a status in the business world, having a functional family, and discovering happiness in each of those categories. Those components of the American Dream were not found in Willy Loman’s life. Willy’s life lacked happiness. The only time ... affair to the suicide thoughts, Willy Loman’s life lacked happiness. Willy’s unhappiness was not only an element itself, but his unhappiness surfaced from another subject, Biff’s failure. Biff could not stand the business world; he rather work on a ranch and work with his hands. “Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And its a measly manner of existence...This farm I work on, its ...
- 172: Japanese Capital Structure And
- ... because of the effect of government regulations, and the different ownership structure in Japanese firms (with institutional lenders being major equity holders). So, the higher leverage has been a consequence of the conditions that Japanese business face with a more pronounced effect (due to relationships) in companies which are in corporate groups known as keiretsu. These conditions were characteristic of the past. As the benefits of debt are well known in ... of the keiretsu are Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo, Fuji, Daiichi Kangyo, and Sanwa (the latter three are centered around Japan s largest commercial banks. Together, these six corporate groups account for a quarter of total Japanese business assets. History/Background Prior to the Second World War, several large monopolistic companies dominated Japanese industry. They were known as zaibatsu the dominant four were Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo and Yasuda. During the post-war Occupation ... Horizontal keiretsu are large groups of Japanese companies in a wide range of industries, organized around a commercial bank. Direct competition is avoided between member firms by only having one company in any line of business. The success of this type of keiretsu is attributed to their cross- shareholding and the availability of bank loans to their members. This is supplemented with personnel exchanges and consensus decision making between member ...
- 173: Cross-Cultural Ethics
- ... nations or multinational corporations (Gilbert 175). This definition of ethics includes several dimensions: the moral values or principles applied, the reasoning process, and the decisions and behaviors that result from the process. Ultimately, with international business ethics, the concern is with the level of agreement between two parties (individuals, MNCs, industries, nations) about the rightness or wrongness of certain actions governing cross-cultural interactions. The differences in cultures is largely due ... would, under similar economic conditions, regard the practice as permissible. Rule 2 states that when the conflict is not based on economic differences, a practice will be permissible only if it is required to conduct business successfully in the host country and the practice does not violate a fundamental international right, or Bill of Rights, as stated in the United States Constitution (13). Does Ethics Pay? Ethical behavior ought to be our ideal regardless of the economic consequences. A corporation is , however, created for the primary purpose of operating a business profitably and providing a sufficient return on the shareholder’s investment to justify their continuation of that investment. So the question about economic consequences of ethical behavior is a legitimate one. "Does ethics pay?" ...
- 174: Appalacian Regional Commission & Poverty In Appalachia
- ... of the governors of the 13 Appalachian states, and a presidential appointee representing the federal government. Grass roots participation is provided through local development districts- multi-county organizations with boards made up of elected officials, business people, and other leaders in the local communities. ARC undertakes projects that address the five goals identified by ARC in its strategic plan: 1. Developing a knowledgeable and skilled population; 2. Strengthening the region’s ... a dynamic economic base; 5. Fostering healthy people. To meet these goals, ARC helps fund such projects as education and work force training programs, highway construction, water and sewer system construction, leadership development programs, small business startups and expansions, and development of health-care resources. The way the ARC works is that each year Congress appropriates funds, which the ARC allocates to its member states. The Appalachian governors submit to ARC ... program will directly address the five goals of the ARC’s strategic plan. The ARC says that future projects will achieve goal objectives in at least of one the following areas: education, physical infrastructure, leadership, business development, and health care. The area development category also includes the distressed counties program, which provides administrative support funds to the Region’s 71 local development districts. The ARC has provided special funds for ...
- 175: Xyz Quick Lube Co.
- XYZ QUICK LUBE Co. The purpose of this exercise is to design a single user system, to solve the needs of a startup business. The business I chose is a service oriented, automotive oil change company. This system will need to satisfy the business needs of a small company, including database queries, inventory management, customer tracking, form generating, accounting, and many other functions. This must be accomplished in an easy to use, simple, single user format. This system ...
- 176: In Process Randd
- ... the amount of purchase price allocated to an in-process R&D write-off. Effects on Future Periods Current and future results can be affected significantly by the allocation of the purchase cost of a business. When the acquired company is involved in research and development for products not yet developed, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) allow the acquirer to allocate a portion of the purchase price to IPR&D. If IPR&D were an asset, it would have to be subtracted little by little from future earnings. Amounts paid in the business combination are written-off immediately as purchased R&D. A large up-front write-off avoids future amortization and depreciation expense. Since the rules are not yet clear, and there is still some question as ... process research and development ( IPR&D ) have increased dramatically both in magnitude and frequency over the last decade (http://www.sec.gov/offices/account/aclr1009.htm). "Researchers at New York University's Stern School of Business found no more than three business combinations where purchased R&D was written-off during the 1980 s. But in only the first seven months of 1996, the researchers identified 147 such instances. By ...
- 177: Computers Not The Greatest Invention Of The 20 Th Century
- ... six weeks with Hollerith's machine. In addition to their speed, the punch cards served as a storage method for data and they helped reduce computational errors. Hollerith brought his punch card reader into the business world, founding Tabulating Machine Company in 1896, later to become International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924 after a series of mergers. Other companies such as Remington Rand and Burroughs also manufactured punch readers for business use. Both business and government used punch cards for data processing until the 1960's. In the ensuing years, several engineers made other significant advances. Vannevar Bush developed a calculator for solving differential equations ...
- 178: McDonaldization Of Society
- ... to dominate more and more sectors of America society as well as the rest of the world” (Ritzer, 1996, 1). Nearly ever aspect of today’s society has been affected by McDonaldization including the restaurant business, education, work, healthcare, travel, leisure, dieting, politics and the family (Ritzer, 1996, 1). I observed three East Side Mario’s Restaurant’s establishments while the dinner menu was being served on Saturday evenings between 6pm ... With the diversity of locations I was able to observe, I compared and contrasted many angles of the East Side Mario’s concept. East Side Mario’s Restaurants Inc. is one of the millions of business’ that has implemented the four principles of McDonaldization, which are: efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. With the assistance of Bernard Platt, Vice President of Marie Callender’s Pie Shops, Inc., former Vice President of East Side Mario’s Restaurant, Inc., I will offer a condensed presentation of East Side Mario’s history to get you familiar with the business. East Side Mario’s Restaurants, Inc., is a wholly owned division of Marie Callender’s Pie Shops, Inc. In 1987 a partnership of restauranteurs developed the ESM (for the remainder of this case study ...
- 179: International Business - Coca~
- ... Cola it has to be said that in general it is not just simple for MNEs to invest and enter foreign markets as regulations and restrictions differ from coutry to country and hence ifluence international business negotiations to a great extend. Therefore MNEs investigating in foreign markets have to either adopt to those condition given by the host country government, which of course to a certain extend has to be negotiated ... it is stated in the above text there have been a common feeling among non-India companiew that India competitors can and do use a great deal of influence to prevent foreign competition meaning Indian business leader co-operating tightly with political leaders, which is the case of Parle Export. The head of Parle Export was an ally of Prime Minister Moraji Desal and Coca Cola executives were close to Indira ...
- 180: Analysis On Electronic Data Imaging
- ... potential into viable and manageable market segments. From initial exploratory research using primarily secondary resources we have developed the following overall market analysis: Digital Imaging Conversion Services Much to the dismay of many in the business world, the arrival of the "paperless office" has been slow coming. Even though the technology exists to almost eliminate paper documents, many businesses have never heard about it. This technology is collectively known as Document ... has evolved out of the necessity for businesses to manage the ever-increasing amounts of information(Porter- Roth Associates, 1996). The following statistics are evidence of the massive amounts of paper that exist in American business today: Over three trillion documents are currently stored in corporate offices in the U.S. alone and 95 percent of those are in paper from. One billion pages are generated a day in the United ... equivalent of five filing cabinets of paper. This same executive also spends more than 150 hours a year searching for misplaced documents. The average missing file cost $120.00 in lost productivity. 80 percent of business documents are generated by computers and 60 percent of that is keyed right back into another computer-based system. Only seven percent of the most crucial information used to run organizations is stored on- ...
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