McDonald’s Assignment Question No 1: What opportunities and threats did McDonalds face? How did it handle them? What alternative could it have chosen? Answer: OPPORTUNITY: 1. He offered a limited menu of high-quality‚ moderately-priced food served fast in spotless surroundings. McDonald’s "QSC&V" (quality‚ service‚ cleanliness‚ and value) was a hit. 2. Food is prepared in accordance with local laws. For example‚ the menus in Arab countries comply with Islamic food preparation laws
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Globalization triggered most of the companies expanded their business around world. Teams are working from different location with this change and have common goals and work structure. Without the time‚ cost and hazards of travel‚ groups can now share information‚ chat‚ innovate and make decisions together. There are challenges‚ however‚ inherent in the virtual team concept. It is difficult to build trust and to manage conflict when team members lack the ability to interact face- to-face. Communication
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Critics of Scott Fitzgerald lend to agree that The Great Gatsby is somehow a commentary on that elusive phrase‚ the American dream. The assumption seems to be that Fitzgerald approved. On the contrary‚ it can be shown that The Great Gatsby offers some of the severest and closest criticism of the American dream that our literature affords. Read in this way‚ Fitzgerald’s masterpiece ceases to be a pastoral documentary of the Jazz Age and takes its distinguished place among those great national novels
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PHIL 1103: Ethics End-Term Exam Name:_____________________________________________ Class ___________ Date:____________ I. Identify the following kinds of theories of philosophical ethics. (1 point each for a total of 7 points) 1.) Moral goodness consists in the collective cultivation of the virtues‚ such as courage‚ honesty‚ justice‚ generosity‚ etc. in human agents. 2.) The moral goodness of acts (and their agents) is determined by the nature of those
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Cybercrime Cybercrime is a fast-growing area of crime. More and more criminals are exploiting the speed‚ convenience and anonymity of the Internet to commit a diverse range of criminal activities that know no borders‚ either physical or virtual. These crimes can be divided into three broad areas: Attacks against computer hardware and software‚ for example‚ botnets‚ malware and network intrusion; Financial crimes‚ such as online fraud‚ penetration of online financial services and phishing; Abuse
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Task 1: (P1‚ P2‚ P3‚ M1 and D1) Using the businesses that you have looked at in Assignment 1. You have been asked to write a report entitled ‘Business aims and objectives in different sectors’ to help the departments understand‚ you must include the following; Define aims and objectives. (What is an aim and what is an objective?) (P1) Describe the purpose for a business in setting aims and objectives. (Why do businesses set objectives? Think about the people in the business and why having
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Laura Halle International Business Hollywood’s influence on global culture 2/20/14 1. Factors that can affect national culture in Hollywood films can be cross culture risk‚ cultural metaphor‚ and Idioms. Some movies can come off as offensive to other countries by how they are portrayed. As Americans we may think one saying or gesture may be fine but other cultures can find it offensive. Ethnocentric orientation is when people use their own culture as the standard for judging other cultures
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How can HRM ensure high service quality in the Wedding palace? Research Questions: 1) Identify problems in the Wedding Palace. Describe shortly the problems occurring in the service and in HRM. The main problems occurring at the Wedding Palace company are concerning service quality as well as human resource management. Most of the time‚ these problems in service quality and HRM are directly related with each other‚ which will become clear in the following paragraph. One main problem being discussed
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Winslow Richardson Professor Sullivan English 101 11:00 6/4/14 Essay 1 Media There are so many different types of media of this day and age to choose from‚ the most popular being the internet. Most everyone worldwide has a computer‚ tablet or a smart phone in which to receive the internet. Society has virtually made the internet accessible everywhere. How the concept and inventor of the internet is still under debate according to a staff writer‚ Colin Wood‚ which works for a company named
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9 CASE Panera Bread Company in 2012— Pursuing Growth in a Weak Economy ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS 1. What is Panera Bread’s strategy? Which of the five generic competitive strategies discussed in Chapter 5 most closely fit the competitive approach that Panera Bread is taking? What type of competitive advantage is Panera Bread trying to achieve? 2. What does a SWOT analysis of Panera Bread reveal about the overall attractiveness of its situation? Does the company have any core competencies
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