Date: 11 Oct‚ 2010 Financing Small and Medium Enterprises Introduction: Cash is like the blood in human body for all companies. So‚ the problem of financing is one of the most important issues in company operations. Appropriate and healthy sources of capital is the primary issue for an enterprise‚ especially for the SMEs. As policy‚ the reasons for their ideas‚ and SMEs’ own flaw‚ so that the financing channels for SMEs is relatively narrow‚ a shortage of
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Private Standards Unfolded The Perspectives of Coffee Farmers in Northern Nicaragua La Virgen Estate‚ El Tuma-La Dalia (certified farm) Master Thesis Cand.merc.int (Business and Development Studies) Copenhagen Business School Authors: María Virginia Dundas Hvidesten & Marta Maireles González Supervisor: Peter Lund-Thomsen Number of taps: 271‚042 February 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES ..............................................................................
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How can you tell if your company is really more than the sum of its partsl CREATING CORPORATE ADVANTAGE BY DAVID J. COLLIS AND CYNTHIA A. MONTGOMERY M OST MULTIBUSINESS COMPANIES ARE the sum of their parts and nothing more. ^ Although executives have become more sophisticated in their understanding of what it takes to achieve competitive advantage at the level of individual businesses‚ when it comes to creating corporate advantage across multiple businesses‚ the news is far less encouraging
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orientationCreating a Market Orientation JOHN C. NARVER* Professor‚ School of Business Administration‚ University of Washington‚ Seattle‚ WA 98195 STANLEY F. SLATER Professor of Business Administration‚ University of Washington‚ Bothell‚ Bothell‚ WA 98021 BRIAN TIETJE Doctoral Student‚ School of Business Administration‚ University of Washington‚ Seattle‚ WA 98195 Abstract A market orientation is a business culture in which all employees are committed to the continuous creation of superior
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Creating a Brand Enigma – Starbucks’s Unique Business Strategy In early 1991‚ just three years after Howard Schultz had acquired‚ Starbucks‚ a fledgling coffee company based in Seattle‚ the company’s most valuable coffee house was unglamorous and sloppy. The restaurant was located in a dilapidated building at a busy intersection on Robson Street in Vancouver‚ British Columbia. Back then‚ it was ludicrous to envision that the cafe in that small room with musty old spaces would become one of the leading
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financial services provided to SMEs‚ is shrinking. SME banking appears to be growing the fastest in emerging markets (low- and middle-income countries) where this gap has been the widest. More and more emerging market banks are developing strategies and creating SME units. IFC’s committed portfolio of investments in SME financial institutions has grown dramatically over the last five years — by 271 percent — totaling $6.1 billion as of end of FY09. The SME market has been perceived in the past by banks
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1/29/2015 Creating Customer Value http://eproduct.hbsp.harvard.edu/eproduct/product/cc_8176/content/OPS/html/print.html 1/22 1/29/2015 Creating Customer Value This reading contains links to online interactive illustrations and video‚ denoted by the icons above. In addition to using reader controls in the navigation bar‚ you can also use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate between pages. Sunil Gupta‚ Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration‚ Harvard Business School‚ de
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B2B Marketing Assignment 3 Connecting Business Marketing Research & Practice: Innovative product concept Tata Motors: The Tata Ace For our topic of innovative product concept we chose a case study of Tata Motors from Harvard Business Review‚ Jan. 2008. It will be simply referred to as ‘the case study’. By that time the company was introducing its new innovative product – the Tata Ace and thus creating a new segment on the car market in India. We included additional information (web site
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Creating brand Awareness DMS Electronics Word Count 6510 words Project Management in Marketing CIM Member 12354592 Assignment/Project Front Sheet CIM/CAM Membership : 12354592 Unit Title : Project Management of Marketing Level/Award : Professional Diploma in Marketing Accredited Study Centre : Strategy Business School By submitting this assessment I confirm that I understand and abide by the CIM’s plagiarism and collusion regulation. I hereby give consent for my assignment/project
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Introduction Lease financing is comparatively a new concept in the financial sector and has got recognition as aninnovative source of finance for accelerating the pace of industrialization as well as economic growth of Bangladesh. Leasing companies have registered substantial growth in lease financing during the year 1985through 1994. Since 1995 to date‚ growth in lease market has significantly slowed down because of sluggisheconomic activities‚ withdrawal of incentives by the government‚ imposition
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