The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is a well established family of health benefits companies providing health services for 100 million Americans. Blue Cross insured approximately 12‚300 active groups as of October 1‚ 2005. The groups had a total of 47‚000 enrolled subscribers and 92‚000 members. This contrasts with 13‚800 groups as of January 1‚ 2003‚ with 58‚000 subscribers and 115‚000 total members. Nationwide‚ more than 96% of hospitals and 91% of professional providers contract
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who started the American Red Cross? Well you’re looking at the person who started it. My name is Clarissa Harlowe Barton‚ but people just call me Clara Barton. I was born on December 25‚1821 in North Oxford‚ Massachusetts to Stephen and Sarah Stone Barton. I had four siblings and they were Dorothy‚ Stephen‚ David and Sally. Also I wasn’t married and I did not have any kids. In my lifetime I was a teacher ‚ a nurse in the army and president of the American Red Cross. So before I was a nurse in the
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Chapter 13 The Impact of Globalization on Cross-Cultural Communication Lowell C. Matthews and Bharat Thakkar Additional information is available at the end of the chapter http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/45816 1. Introduction In a global environment the ability to communicate effectively can be a challenge. Even when both parties speak the same language there can still be misunderstandings due to ethic and cultural differences. Over the last decade‚ there have been countless examples from
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Cross Cultural Perspectives ETH 316 October 13‚ 2014 Cross Cultural Perspectives Multi-national companies from the U.S. hold a great advantage by working in and with other countries and cultures to make their products accessible to a much broader community. When multi-nationals gains access into or with other companies/countries‚ it may be an assumption that because everyone inside the business is working for the same purpose‚ they are going to automatically communicate‚ think and look
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Globalization and Cross-Cultural Issues in Project Management Dennis G. Ballow‚ Sr.‚ MAED‚ PMP’ Project Management Knowledge Transfer‚ Inc. Abstract With hot topics like globalization and cross-cultural opportunities in the Asia Pacific rim‚ one might think it would be easy to research the implications of cross cultural issues. Rather‚ what the writer found was a significant discussion all around the periphery but little in-depth analysis. Discussion prevailed on the socio-economic and technological
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Cross-selling stands for being able to offer to the existing bank customers‚ some additional banking products‚ with a view to expand banking business‚ reduce the per customer cost of operations and provide more satisfaction and value to the customer. For instance‚ when a bank is in a position to sell to a deposit customer (say saving bank or term deposit)‚ a loan product such as housing loan‚ credit card‚ personal loan or vice-versa‚ this would result into additional business and lead to low per
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Executive Summary This paper provides an analysis on the success of Samsung over recent months which has allowed the company to crush its long term competitor‚ Apple. Methods of analysis include Samsung’s unique quality management practices‚ supply chain structures‚ partnerships and financial performance. Results of the analysis show Samsung’s high quality methods on all its business processes‚ and the business model structure which has allowed it to gain an upper hand in the market. The report
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A war is started to settle an arousal of disputes over matters of territory‚ sovereignty‚ resource and ideology when no peaceful solution is available‚ utilized‚ or searched. By the word territory‚ we are pointing to the land which nations possess‚ and sovereignty refers to the authority power of the leaders of each country. Resource is the materials of which a country is able to produce with the availability of certain goods‚ while ideology is the system of ideas and beliefs of which humans possess
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I. Executive Summary Toyota is one of the world’s largest car manufacturers which have a better approach on developing their product and management’s quality‚ reliability‚ productivity‚ cost reduction‚ sales and market share growth‚ and market capitalization. It is one thing to realize that the Toyota Production System (TPS) is a system of nested experiments which operations are constantly improved also known as Kaizen. It is another from TPS to have an organization in which employees and managers
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1. Explain the possible problems in the ethical culture of the Red Cross that created the issues discussed in this case. Ethical culture can be viewed as the character or decision making process the employees use to determine whether their responses to ethical issues are right or wrong. Ethical culture is driven by top management. The problems began with American Red Cross when the organization started to see a high rate of turnover in the executive level. The frequent executive turnover significantly
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