GRADUATE SCHOOL MASTER IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DECISION MAKING & BUSINESS POLICY FORMULATION A Case Study: Salvatore Ferragamo‚ SpA I. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY This case describes the history and present dilemma facing Wanda Ferragamo and her six children‚ all of whom are involved in the family business. The House of Ferragamo‚ a Florence-based maker of high quality Italian clothing and leather good‚ was founded by Salvatore Ferragamo. Throughout his 57-year career‚ he achieved
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to take on the world. Beauty salon and spa business has grown rapidly over the past decade. Latest extrapolations from U.S. census data place the salon and spa service industry at over $35 billion annually. And that figure doesn’t include the retail sale of professional beauty products which is at least another $7 billion annually. While traditional barbershops‚ hair salons and nail salons have experienced moderate growth‚ high end beauty salons and day spas have seen significant spikes of revenue
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The EPA: Can It‚ Will It Save Our Environment? Pollution of our environment is an issue that concerns each and every one of us. "The threat of environmental degradation now looms greater than the threat of nuclear war." Patrick Henry said‚ "I know no way of judging the future but by the past." In the past man has trampled on the environment. "The word ’ecology’ means ’a study of home.’" It means discovering what damage man has done‚ then finding ways to fix it.The Environmental Protection
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wellness and spa 3 1.2 Development in the last 50 years 4 2 Main activities undertaken in the spa/wellness sector 5 3 Influence of seasonality 7 4 Most famous and popular areas for wellness tourism 8 5 Main target groups and their characteristics 10 5.1 Target groups in the Netherlands 10 5.2 International target groups in the wellness sector 10 6 Spa/wellness in the tourism industry 12 6.1 Tourism industry 12 6.2 Spa/wellness industry 13 7 Jobs in the spa/wellness industry
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Natural Gas‚ Pollution‚ and Our Environment In today’s society there is a great need for environmental protection. Things that happened during our parents and grandparents age have caused a great concern for our ozone‚ our air‚ and our environment. You constantly hear about the many sources of pollution‚ but we hardly ever hear about the solutions. In this paper I will present one possible solution to the air pollution problem that has been caused by too many automobile emissions being released
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Case Presentation Barilla SpA Introduction Company & Industry background • World’s largest pasta producer in 1990 • Pasta Share - 35% in Italy and 22% in Europe Channels of Distribution • Products divided in 2 categories – “Fresh” and “Dry” • Fresh Products had 21 day Shelf Lives • Dry Products had Long ( 18 to 24 Months) or Medium(10 to 12 weeks) Shelf Lives • Retail Outlets – Small independent The Issue • During the late 1980s‚ Barilla suffered increasing operational inefficiencies and
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FIVE WAYS TO SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT We can all make a difference when it comes to helping save the environment. Global warming and all the other environmental issues we are facing took some time to build up and to get our of these messes it is going take a lot of work‚ but this doesn’t mean we should get discouraged because it’s more than the big things that are going to make the difference‚ it’s the little things that make the biggest impact. Here are some simple changes you can make in your everyday
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Environment is what sustains the life of all the living things that exist in the world. This is the reason why the environment has to ne conserved by all the people irrespective of their social‚ economic‚ color of skin or religion. All the people in any given society have an obligation to make sure that the environment is well taken care of. Failure to take care of the environment means that the entire populations will not have a place to live in the future. The entire populations of all the species
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The Effects of Affluenza on Our Fragile Environment _Introduction_ Imagine a world where the impacts of pollution have caused global warming to get to such an extent where it causes the ice caps to melt. This problem will cause the sea levels to rise and as a result thousands of homes will be underwater never to be lived in again. Affluenza is usually described as an endorsement of the flow of wealth that causes a division of classes‚ and loss of financial‚ environmental and emotional balance.
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Are electric vehicles really good for our environment? An electric vehicle is a vehicle that runs on renewable resources instead of gasoline. In the early 1800’s‚ innovators in the United States‚ Netherlands‚ and Hungary began to experiment with the concept of a battery powered vehicle and created some of the first small-scale electric cars. Electric cars grew popular in the 1900’s because it didn’t have any issues with gasoline‚ it didn’t produce any smelly pollutants‚ and it was easy to drive
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