socio-cultural environment. It is a travel book but it is not only confined to non fictional narrative of travelled places. The book is a mixture of geographical portraits‚ historical events‚ interviews‚ letters‚ newspaper articles‚ speeches‚ poems and so on. Phillips decides to visit the three points of triangular trade that linked America‚ Africa and Europe. He juxtaposes the stories of past with his own present experiences. The book presents a personal insight into history and culture. The Atlantic Ocean is
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Corporate Case Study: Apple Inc. Article One: Apple’s Secret Plan for Its Cash Stash In 2012‚ Forbes Magazine published an article that discusses what Apple Inc. plans to do with the large amounts of money it has acquired over the years. The sum reaches up to $100 billion‚ making the company one of the most profitable in history. However‚ the company has around $64 billion of their cash stuck oversees. If Apple were to choose to move the money back to the United States they would be hit with a
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Case Analysis 1 - Apple Computer: Research how Apple managed to reinvent itself over the years. 1. What were some of Apple’s biggest successes and failures? Describe why. To their credit‚ however‚ and with the aid of distressing financial figures resulting from such a misreading of the market‚ Apple realized that it had to change its approach to the market and to the technology. Given Apple’s widespread reputation for innovation and trendiness‚ its failure to anticipate the importance
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Apple Inc. 2010 Case Study Case Summary: Steve Jobs and Steve Wazniak started Apple over 30 years ago. Over that time span‚ Steve jobs was fired from Apple and rehired. It was essentially Jobs that save apple with superb vision and creative innovations. The first innovation was like a fashion statement. The iMac was an innovation that put 2 products into one. The desktop was built into the screen. Then‚ Jobs tackled the world of portable music by inventing the iPod. He shortly followed
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Cross Cultural Management Chapter Case #1 1. Australia and New Zealand have a very different culture from pretty much every other country in Asia‚ especially when it comes to how business is done. Even though Indonesia has many business opportunities that other countries could take part in‚ such as‚ agribusiness‚ the automotive industry‚ business and financial services‚ construction and infrastructure‚ information and communication technology‚ e-commerce‚ education and training; environmental
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Unit 1 Case Analysis: Apple‚ Inc.‚ 2008 Background Apple Computer‚ Inc. was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in April 1976. It started as a computer software and hardware manufacturer. Apple Computer‚ Inc. is famous for having one of the largest and most loyal customer bases that have helped to make concrete consistent growth for the company (Yoffie‚ Slind‚ 2008). In 2007 Apple Computer Inc.‚ became Apple Inc. to mirror its expansion into the consumer electronics market while still
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Apple When one thinks about Apple what comes to mind is simple elegant‚ sophisticated‚ advanced and user friendly. Now the question here is whether the same kind of image apple portrays when it is the question of how they treat their employees who are contributing to the company’s success. No doubt these unique feature of simplicity and advanced technology has played to the success of Apple but one shouldn’t forget that it wasn’t possible without the effort of its employees. Steve jobs talked a
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The poetry of Philip Larkin possesses a unique characteristic that has drawn the attention of many readers from 1945‚ when his first book was published‚ up until the modern day. His writing contains unique characteristics because he was not raised with the normal life that many writers today have and often write about. One of Larkin’s most prominent characteristic used was the idea of humor. The objective of this paper is to display factual evidence that Larkin was using humor as a way to further
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Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis 10e Chapter 1 - The Development of Accounting Theory What is Theory? Webster defines theory as “Systematically organized knowledge‚ applicable in a relatively wide variety of circumstances; a system of assumptions‚ accepted principles and rules of procedure to analyze‚ predict or otherwise explain the nature of behavior of a specified set of phenomena.” Why is the development of a general theory of accounting important? The development of a general
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Apple Inc. Case Report Carlos Castro Luis Guzman Zuchytil Padilla Sergio Smith I. COMPANY BACKGROUND Apple INC‚ was founded on April 1‚1976 in a garage by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak‚ and Ronald Wayne. ‘The young entrepreneurs brought different strength to their fledgling company. Jobs had a flair for conceptualizing products‚ while Wozniak had the technical know-how to make them happened” (Washington Post Economy‚ 2012). At first‚ they only focused on personal computers but are now stationed
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