Under Tito Yugoslavia ran a budget deficit that was financed by printing money. This led to rate of inflation of 15 to 25 percent inflation per year. After Tito the Communist Party pursued progressively more irrational economic policies. These irrational policies and the breakup of Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia now consists of only Serbia and Montenegro) led to heavier reliance upon printing or otherwise creating money to finance the operation of the government and the socialist economy. This created the
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AT&T‚ T-Mobile Merger On March 20‚ 2011‚ AT&T announced that it would purchase T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for a staggering $39 billion dollars. The now second largest wireless distributor AT&T would become the largest over its competitor Verizon wireless by acquiring the 30.8 million subscribers that T-Mobile currently holds. This would not be the first time a merger took place between Wireless providers‚ in 2004 Sprint and Nextel merged and in 2009 Alltel merged with Verizon. So it came as
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Introduction Company: Deutsche Post DHL Category: Express Air Shipping / Supply Chain(3PL) / Global Forwarding Sector: Transport‚ Shipping & Supply Chain(3PL) Slogan: Excellence Simply Delivered USP: World market leader in Sea and Air mail Segment: Global‚ regional & local customers who need express logistics and 3PL services Target Group: Price conscious customers who require a reliable level of service DHL exist in over 220 countries across the world
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An Introduction to Car-sharing & Zipcar Back in 2000‚ in lieu of overcrowding in the US car rental market‚ Zipcar implemented a blue ocean strategy and established its car-sharing business as the dominant alternative to car ownership. Compared to car rentals firms that charge users on a per day basis‚ Zipcar offers users the flexibility of deciding the number of hours and distance of car usage. In addition‚ unlike car rental firms which require customers to pick up the cars from their offices
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Introduction Since we need to figure out the affection of stakeholders to an organisation‚ we should firstly take into consideration about the category of stakeholders and consecutively find out what do these individuals and groups enforce to influence organisations’ activities. Subsequently‚ we will also acknowledge what could organisations do to understand and control stakeholders. Classification of stakeholders We assume that the organisation we are talking about is a firm. So that we can
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How can Vodafone derive increased value from its international portfolio of businesses? Are there any businesses that Vodafone should divest? GUIDELINES How do you view these two lists of telecomm. cos: Vodafone China Mobile Telefonica AT&T Deutsche Telekom Verizon Wireless Hutchison Whampoa Telecom Italia Orascom Telecom Telstra which is it better to be? Which would you prefer to be‚ a wireless telecom provider with $10 billion of revenue from a single country‚ or a wireless telecom provider
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Consumer Behaviour in Automobile Purchasing What is Consumer Behaviour? Consumer behaviour can be defined as the acts of consumers directly involved in obtaining‚ using and disposing of economic goods and services‚ including the decision process that precede and determine their acts. The study of how and why people purchase goods and services is termed consumer buying behaviour. The term covers the decision-making processes from those that precede the purchase of goods or services to the
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Managing Global Competitive Dinamics Sethykun Hong Michael Shimp Tatyana Andreyeva Strategy as Action • In 2004 P&G cut prices of Ariel and Tide by 25%-50%. Hindustan Lever(HUL) responded in similar price cut. • In 1934‚ Pepsi cut price and introduced 12-ounce bottle against Coke’s 6-ounce. • Samsung’s Galaxy vs. Apple’s iPhone. • High speed trains and planes in China’s price war • Mac vs. PC campaign. • Amazon vs. Wal-Mart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FOcE9kpzus) Prisoners’
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important observations‚ it was not still enough to call sports psychology as a new scientific discipline. It was not until Dr. Carl Diem‚ chief organiser of the infamous Hitler’s Games‚ established the world’s first sports psychology labarotary at the Deutsche Sporthochschule in 1920 that the eastern european countries concentrated in making sports psychology as a new scientific discipline. In the former USSR‚ from the 1920’s onwards both Avksenty Cezarevich Puni and Piotr Roudik helped and and played
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What are Financial institutions? International financial institutions (IFIs) are financial institutions that have been established (or chartered) by more than one country‚ and hence are subjects of international law. Their owners or shareholders are generally national governments‚ although other international institutions and other organisations occasionally figure as shareholders. The most prominent IFIs are creations of multiple nations‚ although some bilateral financial institutions (created
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