INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA WORKING PAPER SERIES WPS No. 677/ August 2011 JUGAAD- Not just “Making do” but a Low Cost Survival & Coping Strategy at the Bottom of the Pyramids. by Ramendra Singh Assistant Professor‚ Indian Institute of Management Calcutta‚ Joka‚ Kolkata 700104 Vaibhav Gupta B.Tech Student‚ Department of Applied physics‚ Delhi Technological University‚ Delhi‚ India & Akash Mondal B.Tech Student‚ Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
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Understanding Business Research Terms and Concepts Quiz 2‚ Grunig Match the letter of the answers on the right to the questions on the left. Each answer can be used more than once. Questions AnswersWhich type of research design is appropriate for the following example A company wants to discover if changing from mail advertisements to TV advertising will increase sales at its furniture stores. ____Symmetrical relationship Longitudinal
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The Concept of Culture The article “European Lawmakers Reject Tight Restrictions on E-Cigarettes” by Andrew Higgins discusses the decision by European Parliament to abandon proposals by health officials that electronic cigarettes be regulated for medical use‚ supporting a hands-off approach to the sale and use of e-cigarettes. The European Union legislation did not address the issue of where smoking electric cigarettes can be allowed leaving that to national and local jurisdictions. The Food and
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Concept of Leadership Leadership - what is it? Many definitions have been offered‚ cultural stereotypes abound‚ numerous programs focus on leadership development‚ but the question remains. In fact‚ leadership is many different things to different people in different circumstances. When we think of leadership‚ we often think first of famous individuals. We may think of great political leaders: Washington‚ Churchill‚ Roosevelt. We may think of the leaders of social movements: Gandhi‚ Martin Luther
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THE CONCEPT OF LEARNING Kaplan University SS124-29 Professor Missy Madden-Schlegel September 26‚ 2010 Learning is defined as an experience that produces lasting change in the mind of the person receiving the knowledge. Learning can be conscious as in memorizing scriptures from the bible and unconscious as in something happening without any deliberate efforts (Schacter et. al.‚ 2009). From an education standpoint‚ learning can also involve helping people by giving information that
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that the role of the nurse is to meet the patient’s immediate need for help. (Orlando‚ 1961) Orlando realizing this‚ in 1961 developed‚ The dynamic nurse-patient relationship: Function‚ process and principles. Orlando’s paradigm believed that key concepts such as: Patient Behavior‚ Nurse Reaction‚ Nurse Action are dependent on a positive patient outcome.
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THE MULPLIER CONCEPT Multiplier shows how an initial change in consumption‚ investment and government expenditure brings a multiple change in income. Multiplier is the ratio of change in the National Income to a change autonomous expenditure. An initial change in income will lead to greater increase in the final level of equilibrium National Income. SIZE OF THE MULTIPLIER The size of the multiplier depends on how much of an increase in income is spent in an economy. The multiplier is the direct
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Describe your educational and career goals. I have not decided on a specific major that I would like to pursue in college‚ but I do know that I plan on attending medical school after college. As an adult‚ I would like to be a pediatrician. I have strongly considered majoring in neuroscience‚ because I find the discipline to be fascinating‚ but I have also considered other biology/chemistry/physics majors. When I was younger‚ I wanted to go into law‚ like my father. However‚ I realized as I got a
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The Concept of Globalization Globalization has become one of the common catchphrases frequently used by people all over the world. However many scholars referred the 1990s as the decade of globalization and like any other social phenomenon‚ globalization has brewed different interpretations since then. However there are varied definitions of globalization as reflected in the arguments below. According to Baylis‚ J.‚ et el. (2008‚ p. 16)‚ globalization is simply the widening‚ deepening‚ and speeding
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Rutgers Department of SCMS Xiaowei Xu Inventory Concepts 1 Rutgers Department of SCMS Xiaowei Xu Definition of Inventory • Inventory is the stock of any item or resource used in an organization and can include: raw materials‚ finished products‚ component parts‚ supplies‚ and work-in-process • An inventory system is the set of policies and controls that monitor levels of inventory and determines what levels should be maintained‚ when stock should be replenished‚
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