Introduction The Virgin Group is one of the UK’s largest private companies. Virgin’s highest-profile business was Virgin Atlantic‚ which had developed to be a major force in the international airline business. Virgin Atlantic Airways has become Britain’s second largest airline serving the world’s major cities. On 20 December 1999 Richard Branson signed an agreement to sell a 49% stake of Virgin Atlantic to Singapore Airlines to form a unique global partnership. The cost of the transaction to Singapore
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DIVERSIFICATION The Virgin Group covers a wide range of industries But keeping the brand name in all of them is not a good strategy. This is because the brand Virgin originally stood for a particular set of products/services with its own brand image. But when it affixed it to every possible product/service that wasn’t necessarily related to the original product/service‚ it lost its value. The brand lost its brand image that it cannot deliver one particular message to its consumers as the products/services
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Critical Analysis of ‘Entrepreneurship goes Global’ The article “Entrepreneurship goes global” by Neri Karra and Nelson Phillips presents a new type of company emerging in the 21st century‚ namely entrepreneurships‚ which have at least 25 percent of their sales in foreign markets and do not concentrate on the domestic market where they have been founded. These entrepreneurships according to the authors of the article are different from their ‘old school’ counterparts by expanding globally from
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Entrepreneurship versus Intrapreneurship1 Veronica MAIER2 Cristiana POP ZENOVIA Abstract This paper provides a review of theoretical studies on the concepts of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship‚ pinpointing the similarities and differences between them. Entrepreneurship continues to thrive in almost all corners of the world. Entrepreneurs are reshaping the business environment‚ creating a world in which their companies play an important role in the vitality of the global economy. But there
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Scaling Social Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned from One Laptop per Child The cover image is by Svilen001 at FreeImages.com. 2 The Hult Prize is an annual international case competition for university students to solve social problems through social entrepreneurship. (Photo by author) 3 "Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words‚ we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success
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The Virgin Birth of Jesus Old Testament Fulfilled Prophecies The Virgin birth of Christ is an actual Historical fact. God came (in the sinless form of Jesus) into the earth "HE" created. No other event in the past has had so much impact out side of Calvary where Christ paid the price for our transgressions. Seven hundred years earlier‚ this was prophesied by the prophet Isaiah and it came about just as predicated in (Matthew 1:22‚ 23) In Isaiah 7:14‚ we take notice what the prophet Isaiah said
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NAME: NDUKA MARY C. COURSE: ENTREPRENEURSHIP MATRIC NO:126072034 History of Entrepreneurship in Nigeria Tradition is an inherited pattern of thought or action. It refers to a specific practice of long standing. It is also an established custom or tradition – a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some cultural … group‚ tribe‚ ethnic group‚ society‚ nation etc. Traditional means: when a practice consists of a method or procedure and this is derived from tradition. This
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List of Tables Page Table 4.1 Age Distribution of Respondents 46 Table 4.2 Marital Status 48 Table 4.3 Smoking Habits 49 Table 4.4 Alcohol Drinking Habits 50 Table 4.5 Chi-square test rests of knowledge of drug abuse 51 Table 4.6 Identification of commonly abused drugs 52 Table 4.7 Abuse of illicit drugs only 53 Table 4.8 Chi-square calculation of peer pressure a powerful influence in introducing Nigerian university students to drugs
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Employee Attrition and Retention: Exploring the Dimensions in the urban centric BPO Industry Synopsis of the thesis to be submitted in fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in MANAGEMENT By Santoshi Sen Gupta Enrollment No: 064009502 Under the guidance of Dr. Aayushi Gupta JAYPEE INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY‚ NOIDA A-10‚ SECTOR 62‚ NOIDA‚ INDIA TABLE OF CONTENTS S. No. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 3.0 4.
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Desk Calculator BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE‚ PILANI WORK INTEGRATED LEARNING PROGRAMMES DIVISION BITS-WIPRO Collaborative Programme: MS in Information Technology‚ YEAR-2012. Abstract: The project is to solve an infix expression using a desk calculator. Input is given as an infix expression and output is obtained in a text file. Method followed to solve the expression is‚ the input is fetched from
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