Cultural Artifact Essay – Blue Jeans Introduction Blue jeans in the last thirty years have attained such world wide popularity that they have come to be considered an American icon. However jeans have not always been held in high stead‚ but rather have had a troubled history including its beginnings within the working class movement‚ being considered unsavory by religious leaders and also seen as a rebellious statement about ‘western decadence’. According to the University of Toronto
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container markets (see Exhibit 1). During those 20 years‚ Crown Cork and Seal had concentrated its manufacturing efforts on tin-plated cans for holding beer‚ soft drinks‚ and aerosol products. This case looks at the metal container industry. Crown’s strategy and position within that Industry‚ and the nature of the problems facing the company during mid-1977. The Metal Container Industry in 1977 The Metal Container Industry included 100 firms and a vast number of product lines. This section describes
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Strategic Management » Manage Decisions 03/12/2013 17:12 Home About Manage Decisions Compete‚ Thrive & Sustain with better business decisions Strategic Management Archived Posts from this Category Wed 27 Oct 2010 Google & Innovation Culture – Challenges ahead Posted by anil under Academic‚ Innovation‚ MBA‚ Strategic Management No Comments As Google gets bigger‚ it is going to be difficult to manage and keep up the innovation culture as it keeps marching on its path to success
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Name Institution Course Date Project title: Experiment and improvement on noise reduction and efficiency of gears in diesel engine Thesis: In most machines‚ the major requirements for gear transmission are low sound excitation character‚ a high-level load carrying capability and generally high efficiency‚ which is more vital with increased environmental awareness. This paper discusses and analyzes two main elements gear system efficiency improvement and sound excitation. The main reason
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Differentiate between the marketing concept and the selling concept. The concepts of marketing and selling are derived from 2 simple activities: marketing and selling. These two activities are very similar to a large extent similar though there are a few elements about each of them that differentiate them. Selling can be defined as a process of transferring a product or service to a buyer at a price regardless of his or her need whereas marketing is defined as a process of transferring a product
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Jean Piaget and cognitive development. Cognitive development is the study of a child ’s development in terms of factors such as information processing‚ language acquisition and conceptual resources. A part of both neuroscience and psychology‚ cognitive development is concerned with understanding how a child negotiates meaning when first faced with the world‚ and how that meaning changes as the child becomes more communicative on a verbal level with other individuals. Key questions in this field
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Jean-Louis Forain Jean-Louis Forain‚ the famous French painter‚ printmaker‚ and illustrator‚ was born on October 23‚ 1852. Sometime in the 1860’s‚ Forain and his parents moved to Paris where he started to study under Jacquesson de la Chevreuse‚ Jean Baptiste Carpeaux‚ and André Gill who were all great French artists. Forain had the opportunity to meet Édouard Manet because of his friendship with Edgar Degas. “In 1879 Forain was invited by Degas to join the fourth Impressionist exhibition‚ and he
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Megalomaniac “Erostratus” written by Jean-Paul Sartre is a story about a character named Paul Hilbert who throughout the story develops obsession with fame. Sartre‚ “one of the great philosophical minds of the twentieth century” and “a leading proponent of existentialism” (Sartre‚ 1000) borrowed heavily‚ as the title indicates‚ from Greek mythological story of Erostratus. The author enforces the character’s personality deficiencies with the historical inspiration for Hilbert’s actions through
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This paper will present and evaluate the impact of innovation and creativity on the organizational strategy‚ processes‚ products‚ and services of General Electric. Two unique innovative considerations will be identified and explained as to how these considerations apply to General Electric. Innovation and creativity is the driving force of General Electric’s organizational strategy. General Electric has been a leader of innovation and creativity for decades by providing products and services
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GUESS JEANS ASSIGNMENT DAVID DIEZ MAFED 2012 Sales (units) Mens Collection Kni ts Pa nts Swea ters Ja cket Shi rts Acces s ori es Total % sales Initial % cumulativ Styles e 39% 75% 88% 94% 99% 100% 69 78 33 42 32 11 265 SKUs Production Styles SKUs % on total Cancellation Cancelled Cancelled Units sold/ Units sold/ SKUs rate-SKUs styles SKUs style sku offered (%) 38% 26% 16% 9% 8% 3% 100% 15 24 7 19 11 3 79 133 264 57 142 100 22 718 27% 51% 27% 63% 58% 47% 43% 2294 2069 1605 718 762 509
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