homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/socnet Tastes‚ ties‚ and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com Kevin Lewis a‚∗ ‚ Jason Kaufman a ‚ Marco Gonzalez a ‚ Andreas Wimmer b ‚ Nicholas Christakis a a b Department of Sociology‚ Harvard University‚ United States Department of Sociology‚ University of California‚ Los Angeles‚ United States a r t i c l e Keywords: Internet Network data Facebook Culture Race/ethnicity Higher education Tastes i n f o a b s t r a c t Scholars have
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Work Culture Preferences Work Culture Preferences Work culture preferences are an important part of a competency assessment because it gives the user suggestions as to where they will achieve the highest level of potential in a work setting. Knowing your ideal work culture can help in developing strategic and operational plans to achieve your organizational goals by illustrating how you perform as a manager. So‚ for instance‚ if the skeleton of a manager is represented best by the
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creditors and preference shareholders are paid. As such ordinary shares are riskier than bonds or preference shares. Ordinary shares are also referred to as ‘common stock’. What is Preference Shares A preference share contains features of equity and debt as the dividend payments to preference shareholders are fixed. The types of preference shares include cumulative preference shares – in which dividends including those in arrears from past terms are also paid‚ non-cumulative preference shares – where
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Did I really Eat That? While reading the excerpt‚ Why the Fries Taste Good from the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser‚ one finds themselves on a journey of the evolution of the french fry. At the beginning of the excerpt‚ Schlosser writes about a young boy named J.R. Simplot who built a potato empire from nothing and how his many advances in the potato industry made the frozen french fry available to fast food chains everywhere. Schlosser then investigates the many “natural” and “artificial”
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of the Passenger Car Market by Doctor Marvin Cruz Submitted to Doctor Danilo Te Conjoint Analysis was the statistical technique used by Doctor Marvin Cruz in determining preferences of passenger car buyers. Conjoint Analysis is a type of multivariate statistical technique that examines how respondents develop preferences for products. It is used in marketing research to determine how different features of a product affect the buying behavior in the consumer’s mind. The objective is to determine
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to the customers to meet those needs. The market now determines what the manufacturer produces or the retailer sells and information collected from customers provides the basis for the focus for all organisational activities. Do not make assumptions about customers and their needs‚ ensure that you identify just who your customers are and what their needs are. Communicate with them often and regularly. Go directly to your customers for the information you need for information on customers priorities
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Tongue Sensitivity and the Sense of Taste There are five senses which people are able to possess; the sense of seeing‚ hearing‚ touching‚ smelling‚ and tasting. The sense of taste may be the weakest of the five senses‚ but it is very important‚ as it helps us to perceive flavors and distinguish what it is we taste. A series of taste buds and nerves in the tongue help by sending messages to the brain which helps us to recognize the taste of food and drinks. Taste buds are located on the tongue as
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An Analysis on Customer Care Strategy of the General Electric Company Table of content 1.0 Company Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------------------2 2.0 An Outlook of the General Electric Company’s Customer Care Strategy ----------2 3.0 Development of GE’s Customers Care Strategy ------------------------------------------3 4.0 GE’s standards in details ------------------------------------------------------------------------6 5.0 Ways
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serving in the military can only receive a veterans’ preference based on their dates of active duty service‚ and if they are discharged under an honorable or general discharge. Some would think that this preference is given to any who have served but then again for those that do not meet the qualifications they are not given the privilege. The veterans’ preference is remarkable to have since its benefit after serving to assist in finding a job after being separated from the military
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Overview This chapter looks further into key customer-driven marketing strategy decisions—how to divide up markets into meaningful customer groups (segmentation)‚ choose which customer groups to serve (targeting)‚ create market offerings that best serve targeted customers (differentiation)‚ and position the offerings in the minds of consumers (positioning). Target marketing is dividing the total market into different segments based on customer characteristics‚ selecting one or more segments
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