Brief History K-Swiss‚ Inc. is a shoe company founded in 1966 by two brothers from Switzerland‚ Art and Ernie Brunner‚ who moved to Southern California in 1960. The two brothers were former top skiers‚ and took a heavy interest in tennis when they moved to the United States. Finding the current canvas style tennis shoe to be disappointing‚ they decided to construct and sell their own high performance tennis shoe. This shoe featured all-leather material‚ a shock-absorbing insole‚ a one-piece
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Team D Summary of Discussion Patricia Clark‚ Salea Davis‚ and Jeffrey Heffron MGT/230 September 22‚ 2014 Professor Jack Geer Team D Summary of Discussion After critical evaluation of Team D’s discussion of the video used to explain the necessities of a complete focus for the management and functions of an organization‚ it has become apparent that CEO Anne Mulcahy used her experience of 24 years in Xerox to exemplify the organizational structure and focus on maintaining the original goals of the company
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Mozart’s K 333 Sonata in B-flat Major was composed in November 1783. It was written in Vienna while Mozart was there for a period. He wrote this in his "early phase" while he was in Vienna. This sonata was not really written into a group of sonatas‚ but could be grouped with the other nine sonatas that were written in this early phase in Vienna. All of these ten sonatas were written and published between 1783 and 1785 in Vienna. However‚ these sonatas were not written as a group (Kirby 101). My
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I plugged my Beats headphones into my laptop and streamed A$AP Rocky’s‚ “L$D‚” on Spotify. The song begins with a series of notes played on what seems to be a guitar. Right away it creates a hazy and mellow mood. The three notes are repeated on a slow tempo‚ slowing down the ambience that the song creates. These three repeated notes are panned mainly on the right side. This unevenness disorientates the song‚ unbalancing the mood‚ the notes have not yet kicked in and taken over both ears. With the
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Movie production and TV networks are run by whites. They have control over what is presented on TV. The media makes money off make inaccurately discerptions of people and their backgrounds. In Helen K. Ho the discussion of the way Asian Americans are portrayed in the media is very offensive. Asian are looked at as weak and nerdy. When played in a movie/TV character‚ the Asian Americans are looked at as some kind of overly Asian Kong Fu character. Same inaccurate descriptions can go the same for
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Capturing Requirements Meeting Customer Intent: A Structured Methodological Approach Markus K. Gröner Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Applications Approved: _________________________ James D. Arthur‚ Chair __________________ J.A.N. Lee __________________ Richard E. Nance __________________ Linda H. Rosenberg __________________
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the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm (or k-NN for short) is a non-parametric method used for classification and regression. In both cases‚ the input consists of the k closest training examples in the feature space. The output depends on whether k-NN is used for classification or regression: • In k-NN classification‚ the output is a class membership. An object is classified by a majority vote of its neighbors‚ with the object being assigned to the class most common among its k nearest neighbors (k is
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Learning & Development – Assignment 1 1. Taking the example of the organization you worked for‚ use the Assessment Tool given on page 5 of the article‚ and assess the depth of learning in your organization. For scoring the criteria given therein‚ you may use any of the measuring scales you have learnt in your earlier course. This exercise has been done for Deloitte & Touché and the External Audit service line. The scoring for the questionnaire is as follows (per the document) - 7
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1. What is the cause of B&D 9% share and Makita ’s 50% share? 2. Describe buyer behavior of tradesmen. 3. Analyze the competitive situation. 4. Choose the action from the action plan on page 10 1. Although Black & Decker is famous for providing power tools to consumers‚ they are not as successful to all segments. They have successfully captured the Consumer and Professional-Industrial segment with high market share‚ yet failed to do the same for the Professional-Tradesmen segment
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Case: HBS Case 595-057 Q1. Why is Makita outselling B&D 8 to 1 in an account that gives them equal shelf space? (Opening paragraph) Ans. Perception of Quality - Makita have positioned themselves as a premium product in the profession power tool segment. B&D‚ as a result of its market leadership with 50% market share in consumer market segment‚ is considered an inferior brand to Makita as tradesman believe that the brand is more geared towards amateur than professional. The consumer and professional
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