hands of an excited new bunch of first year management students. The goal of this magazine is to inform the readers about what’s hot and happening in the consulting world‚ engage them in engrossing case studies and contribute to their consulting knowledge base. The last month marked a great success of Conflux‚ the November 2012 edition. It was an intra college case study challenge. We are delighted by the overwhelming participation from both junior and senior batches. We look forward to organizing
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The End of History? – A Reconstruction of Fukuyama’s Thesis. In the closing stages of the Cold War in 1989‚ Francis Fukuyama declared that we were witnessing the end of history. This did not mean the end of events; rather the end of mankind’s ideological evolution. In other words‚ the search for the optimal political and economic system. Fukuyama draws largely on G.W.F. Hegel‚ as interpreted by Alexandre Kojève. For Hegel‚ ‘history’ culminated in an “absolute moment” in which a final‚ rational
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2012 Presidential Election The United States presidential election of 2012 is scheduled for Tuesday‚ November 6‚ 2012. It will be the “57th quadrennial presidential election‚ in which presidential electors‚ who will elect the President and Vice President of the United States on December 17‚ 2012"(2012 Presidential”). Incumbent President Barack Obama is running for a final term during this election. Who will be more than likely running against Obama is Mitt Romney? There are several candidate
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PROBLEM SET 1 Name: ______________________________________________ Problem Set 1 is to be completed by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 2. 1. Based on the information provided for the market for video games‚ answer the following questions. PRICE Q DEMANDED Q SUPPLIED $50 5 9 $45 7 7 $40 9 5 $35 11 3 $30 13 1 a.) Draw and properly label the demand and supply graphs (this means you must label the axes and any lines you include on the graph). b.) What is the equilibrium
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In “Cheer up‚ it’s just the end of the world” Ira Chernus explains how the unpleasant thought of apocalypse brings hope along with the fear. He tells how the idea of apocalypse transformed from the world ultimately ending and new world beginning‚ to a sudden end of the world with nothing being reborn. Chernus states that when climate change was recognized they labeled it apocalyptic even know the word had never meant a slow end to the world. With this in mind‚ he reveals that American culture
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The End of Privacy Imagine a time where a new communication device came out whether it’s a new smartphone or a new computer. Better ways to communicate are just over the horizon and humanity has never been closer. Consequently‚ as humanity gets closer‚ privacy becomes a distant memory. As humans rely more on technology for everyday life and for communication‚ more ways open for a person anywhere on the world can access someone else’s information. By using a computer‚ the user opens their house to
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Europe during the 1300s. Barbara Tuchman’s This Is the End of the World: The Black Death illustrates just how deadly the black death was. In her book Tuchman explains that a very high number of people were killed because of this disease. Tuchman goes on to list how many people were killed in different towns and countries. Tuchman describes that because the disease was so
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The War to End All Wars‚ a very misleading name‚ considering the amount of people against each other. Those countries did not fight separately‚ they were well allied. Alliances are unions formed for mutual benefit‚ associations made between countries‚ organizations‚ or individuals. While many alliances were made public and other countries knew who stood behind who‚ some were secret affairs. Certain alliances in World War One were an important cause of expanded conflict between nations. Many people
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Third World Countries Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet‚ consectetur adipiscing elit. | Amapola Bulusan‚ Franchette Torres‚ Maxine Lee2BLM‚ (2nd Semester‚ 2012) Ma. Jesusa Avila Bato March 6‚ 2012 | Chapter 1: Background: For the longest time the United States of America is considered as the capital city of the world. They stayed on top in terms in terms of politics‚ business infrastructures‚ technology and economics. Almost everyone outside America especially those who live in third world countries
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Apple Inc. in 2012 [Group] Case Study Prepared By: Aman Chahal Edward Abeleven Ruchi Badhwar Steven Mathews Uttara Jadhav Students of: Marketing Management 6215 California State University – East Bay Prepared For: Lan Wu Professor of: Marketing Management 6215 California State University – East Bay October 11‚ 2012 Table of Contents Introducing Marketing and Apple Inc..........................................................................1 Understanding
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