De Beers case In the few past years‚ the industry of diamond evolved a lot. Even if De Beers was the juggernaut of this industry‚ it has to evolve has well to keep its competitive position. What used to be its unique resources and distinctive competences and how De Beers decided to make it evolve? First of all‚ let’s studying the physical resources of De Beers. The company used to have the monopole of rough diamonds : it owned 80% of the world production 15 years ago but now it produces less
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The life cycle is a major subject of literature as old as perhaps humanity itself‚ with each society having a different view or expectations regarding trials and acceptance. “Lanval” by Marie de France is an allegory for the stages of life‚ beginning with conception and ending in death. These stages are exemplified through Lanval’s evolution from a lonely knight into a popular and generous member of society. The trials of adulthood are seen in his controversy with the court and king due to Lanval’s
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In The Lais of Marie de France‚ poet Marie de France illustrates many different kinds of love. The main themes being marriage and extramarital affairs. From reading the lais‚ Guigemar and Bisclavret‚ I believe that Marie has a traditional view of marriage. I can assume that Marie believes a marriage takes two to work. I also can assume that Marie believes that either partner can cause a marriage to fail. In her stories she does not put the blame of a failed marriage on just the husband or the wife
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France is the second-largest trading nation in Western Europe and because of that it welcomes more and more foreign investment from many developed countries such as Germany‚ US or UK. Why ? Because France has a stable and reliably safe business atmosphere. The French government devotes significant resources in terms of financial helps and/or laws to attract foreign investment‚ through policy incentives‚ marketing‚ its overseas trade promotion offices‚ and investor support mechanisms. France´s law
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Case De Beers Strategy 2011-2012 Martijn Hartog 308693 Question 1: What functions does the CSO perform as a global intermediary? How do these functions help expend the economic pie in the diamond industry? The CSO operates as preferred (primary) buyer of rough diamonds all over the world. These rights are contracted with countries and mines for a period of five years. This in order to dominate to dominate and regulate the world rough diamond industry. This by adjusting the amount of supply flowing
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Executive Summary De Havilland is a Canadian aviation company that is in the process of determining how to contract out the supply of its flap shrouds and equipment bay doors for its Dash 8 aircraft. Its current supplier‚ Dollard Plastics is believed to be charging a large premium over market price and for that reason‚ a completive tender was issued to test De Havilland’s hypothesis. After receiving bids from 9 companies‚ a strategic review of De Havilland’s options and alternatives was conducted
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The power of love causes individuals to react in many different ways. In the Lais of Marie de France‚ each story of love produces a different outcome. For a story’s relationship‚ whether it involves lovers‚ siblings‚ or parents and children‚ there is one similarity hidden beneath the facades that make up each story; love. The characters involved make drastic changes to their lives in order for their relationship to survive. Throughout many of the tales‚ the protagonists succumb to the pain of
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Amanda Villanueva Lais of Marie de France World Literature Paper In Lais of Marie de France‚ the author‚ Marie de France‚ uses symbolism to portray human experience through inhuman things. Lais of Marie de France is a collection of short stories that tell about the different kinds of love and chivalrous knights around the medieval times. Marie uses animals like a werewolf and a swan‚ objects like an arrow‚ a ship‚ and a knot to portray human experiences like selflessness‚ unconditional love‚ selfishness
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In the story of “Lanval” by Marie de France‚ the titular knight of King Arthur’s court falls in love with a beautiful‚ otherworldly maiden‚ a maiden who warns Lanval that he must keep their affair a secret if it is to continue. Anytime he wishes to see her‚ he merely needs to think of a pure place and she will join him there. When approached in lust by the Queen and accused of homosexuality‚ Lanval reveals that he is in love with a woman more beautiful than the Queen. By revealing the secret‚ he
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Is there such a thing as a negative assemblage? In Marie de France’s Equitan‚ we see how the love affair between the king and his seneschal’s wife is wrong and will have terrible consequences for them in the end. Marie is clearly subverting the courtly love virtues of the time (like ones espoused in Guigemar for instance) in her cynical (rather than sincere or straightforward) presentation of the love affair. In the courtly love tradition‚ love was not really love without pain and suffering. Truly
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