History of Yellow Cab Yellow Cab Pizza Co. is a chain that retails fast food‚ primarily pizza. Founded in 2001‚ the chain operates in the Philippines‚ the United States‚ Guam‚ Malaysia and Qatar. In 1908‚ Albert Rockwell‚ (founder and General Manager of the New Departure Manufacturing Co. of Bristol‚ Connecticut) traveled to Europe to evaluate their taxi systems‚ hoping to develop a similar one in Washington‚ D.C. ’Wyckoff‚ Church and Partridge’ had a number of orange-yellow colored Rockwell taxicabs
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Case 7-2 Icelandic Enterprises As I comment on International Cosmetics’ policies on the basis of “as reported” earnings‚ the calendar between the year 2001 and 2002‚ Icelandic Enterprise’s annual sales volume rose from Ikr 8.2 billion to Ikr 14.6 billion while earnings doubled. When translated to dollars at average exchange rates prevailing during this period‚ Icelandic’s sales increased from $328 million to 462 million. Dollar earnings increased by 112 percent. Based on “as reported” earnings
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SWOT With Enterprise‚ the customer always comes first. This is a major strength that the company has capitalized on in order to separate itself from the competition. Their "We’ll pick you up!"� slogan is the primary focus of the company’s customer service aspect. After the customers‚ the focus is on employees. Good customer service comes from only the best employees and Enterprise wants all of their employees to be happy with their jobs. By offering a sense of ownership and incentives to advance
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Case study: Apple iPhones - Not "Made in America" 1. What is meant by the globalization of human capital? Is this inevitable as firms increase their global operations? The globalization of human capital refers to the fact that employees are now spread out across the world by their employers. This including‚ the companies‚ employed‚ unemployed‚ stockholders‚ consumers‚ contractors‚ supply chain‚ firms and economies. Companies branch out because labor costs are cheaper and productivity is faster
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traded company to have independent members on their board of directors and committees. SEC also requires publicly traded companies to have their audit committee’s filled with independent directors. Per the letter of the law‚ this clearly was not the case.
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Wal-Mart Case Study Introduction 1. Brief History of Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is “the giant chain of discount stores‚ the second largest company in the world‚ with over $400 billion in revenue and 2.1 million associates.” (Philip and Kevin‚ p94) Wal-Mart began its business in 1962 when Sam Walton‚ the owner of Wal-Mart‚ opened up his first discount store in Rogers‚ Arkansas (Philip and Kevin‚ p94). In the next two decades‚ Wal-Mart expanding its scale rapidly. Since 1990s‚ Wal-Mart started to opened
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Sense of Change Management‚ 2nd edition Case studies – text and questions Contents Case study 1: Aster Group 3 Case study text: Aster Group 3 Introduction 3 History‚ culture‚ orientation 4 Drivers for change 6 Leadership 8 No shotgun wedding 9 The transition period – one year on 11 Project management 12 Organizational development 13 Developing management and leadership capacity and capability 14 Case study questions: Aster Group 17 Individual
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Summary: The project studies the various aspects related to rural retail in India. It proposes an ideal model for retail format. The business plan studies the market potential‚ customer segmentation‚ and various challenges faced in the operation of sustainable rural retail business chain. These is followed by summary of our understanding about Indian Rural sector their needs and wants and prevalent retail industry. Finally the KRR model is proposed and explained. Product offering‚ retail mix
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Enterprise Risk Management In the 21st Century‚ the news of corporate scandals involving corruption enormously spread across not only the country but across the globe also. Accounting firms‚ investors‚ lenders‚ corporate managers and innocent bystanders were all embroiled in the chaos with the extent of corporate malfeasance being indeterminable. Collateral damage inflicted by scandals involving corporations such as Enron‚ Arthur Andersen LLP‚ WorldCom‚ Adelphia Communications‚ etc‚ was shocking
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be able to finance as many projects as otherwise would have been the case. (b) Granularity: This refers to a situation where the risk grading system at banks does not have the requisite capability to discriminate between good and bad risks. The consequence is tightening of Y. Srinivas (The author is Manager‚ Compliance Group at ICICI Bank. He can be reached at srinivas. yanamandra@icicibank. com) Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a very significant role in the economy in terms of balanced
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