FIVE STAR TOOLS Five Star Tools is a small family-owned firm that manufactures diamond-coated cutting tools (chisels and saws) used by jewelers. Production involves three major processes. First‚ steel “blanks” (tools without the diamond coating) are cut to size. Second‚ the blanks are sent to a chemical bath that prepares the tools for the coating process. In the third major process‚ the blanks are coated with diamond chips in a proprietary process that simultaneously coats and sharpens the blade
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Return to Paradise Return to Paradise is a film that has a lot of meanings within the story line. But also has many ethical issues among the morals that are in today’s society. Three ethical issues in the film are capital punishment‚ drug use‚ and media treatment. Capital punishment is an ethical issue because it is highly opinionated. Some people believe that people shouldn’t have to die to pay for their crime‚ while others believe that death is the best way to pay for what they’ve done as a
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The worker complained of mismanagement of her return-to-work programme‚ including inappropriate exposure to the client that had assaulted her‚ physically unsuitable duties‚ and poor communication between staff who appeared unaware of her problems and needs. The worker reported constant and moderately severe central lower back pain that radiated up her spine to the dorsal back and down through the groin and core of her thigh on the right only. The report notes no lower limb neurological symptoms‚
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Return With Honor “Return With Honor” is a documentary about many brave Air Force pilots who were taken as P.O.W.’s (prisoners of war) in the Vietnam war. The documentary shows the viewpoints of the pilots as they were kept as prisoners in Honai‚ North Vietnam in the last 9 years of the Vietnam war. The documentary starts out with the pilots going through training camp. Each person has to take a class where they learn everything about the aircraft that they will be controlling and what to
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Introduction (ERP‚ company name) SMITS Company (ERP of San Miguel Brewery) SMITS Inc. is one of the leading Information Technology companies in the Philippines today and is responsible for the managing the IT operations of Southeast Asia’s largest food‚ beverage‚ and packaging company. The organization employs over 500 IT professionals and business process experts‚ offering IT consulting‚ implementation and support services to the San Miguel Group of Companies and select non-San Miguel clients. With
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Orbis Financial Corporation Ltd.‚ a custodian‚ works as an efficient stock market intermediary facilitating smooth execution and settlement of daily trades through sophisticated technology and systems developed in-house. Transparency and effectiveness of its functioning‚ is further enhanced due to its zero conflict business model‚ as a Non Broker‚ non-banker and Non Fund Manager with unidirectional focus on custodial services. The team at Orbis is a group of professionals which endeavors
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Background Conceptualized in 1946 as a manufacturer and supplier of photographic paper and related office equipment‚ Xerox is presently one of the biggest and oldest document-management company in the world. Xerox‚ initially known as Haloid‚ became significantly prominent in 1959 with the introduction of the world’s first plain paper photocopier dubbed as Xerox 914. Utilizing the process of xerography or electrophotography‚ Xerox 914 became an instant office item pursued by countless organizations
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DERIVATIVE CASES CASE STUDY II AMERICAN BARRICK RESOURCES CORPORATION: MANAGING GOLD PRICE RISK Group II - Cohort 5 American Barrick is the largest gold producer in North America. The implementation of the gold-hedging program differentiated the firm from other major gold rivals and improved its reserve and financial strength. In 1995‚ American Barrick ’s latest
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This memo is aimed to evaluate the overall television industry today and to provide a brief overview of one of the industry leading players - Comcast Corporation’s current business situation‚ specifically‚ to examine its internal strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats in the external environment. More importantly‚ the key challenges that the company is currently facing and the potential solutions to theses problem will be discussed. The current U.S. broadcast and cable television
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Case study 7.1 Employee Involvement Case Discussion Questions 1 For the case 1 “the sugar substitute research decision”‚ I will choose high involvement‚ which is let the subordinates to discuss the problems and identify a solution. So the entire decision-making process is handed over to employees‚ identify the problems‚ choose the best alternative and implement their choice. For the second case “coast guard cutter decision problem”‚ I will choose the low involvement‚ which is ask one or more
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