SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Presented by: Allan Abutin Rick Boone Peter Bond Bethany Lam Phuong Nguyen A. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Southwest Airlines has been serving its customers since 1971 and has focused its business on convenience‚ customer service and low-cost flights. From the outset‚ the two founders were dedicated to success and the company has taken many steps since then to accomplish this. Through the use of technology‚ strategic placement of travel routes and keeping the business person
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1. The number of people involved in the creation of “Inside Out” (2015) is approximately 500. Because of its complex nature‚ animated movies require a large number of personnel‚ from the director‚ to the storytellers‚ the producers and the animation team. 2. I would consider core personnel the director‚ the voice actors‚ the writers and the producers. That is because these are the people who have a direct influence on the film‚ they’re the decision-makers‚ they shape the product and make it what
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Model Concluding Arguments Concluding Arguments A discussion of the three models surrounding Corporate Social Responsibility A discussion of the three models surrounding Corporate Social Responsibility Outline Outline is profit the only business of business? is profit the only business of business? The Stakeholder Model‚ that was developed my R. Edward Freeman‚ and states that collectivist ends can be attained without collectivist needs. It is important to distinguish a stakeholder from
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2007 The key points underpinning the economics of a profit maximizing firm Neoclassical model of the firm states that organization will have the main objective of maximizing its profit within a given period of time. Maximum profit was achieved at the output at which marginal cost is equal marginal revenue. There are several factors which need to be considered when talking about the profit maximizing firm: 1. The assumption of the profit maximizing firm is that there is no segregation between
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* * LO1: Delivering Value to Customers * * The Marketing Philosophy and its Relevance to Corporate Culture * Marketing philosophy: holds that achieving organisational goals depends on determining the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions more effectively and efficiently than competitors. * Takes an outside-in perspective: * Starts with the well-defined market‚ focuses on customer needs‚ coordinates all the marketing
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activities a firm performs to deliver value to its customers. The value chain model divides the generic value-adding activities of an organization into primary and secondary activities. An advantage or disadvantage can occur within any of the five primary or four secondary activities. Together‚ these activities constitute the value chain of any firm. The model can be used to examine the development of competitive advantage. By identifying the potential value to the company of separate activities
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Board (FASB) an N.P.O(Non Profit Organization) is defined in terms of their characteristics that distinguishes them from a business entity as a contribution of significant amount of resources from resources providers who do not expect commensurate or proportionate pecuniary returns‚ operating purposely other than to provide goods or services at a profit and absence of ownership interest like business enterprises. Non-profit organizations (NPO) do
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Gross Profit Margin The Gross Profit Margin is used to measure the proportion of the gross profit to sales in order to determine the allocated amount for the operating expenses of the company. The Gross Profit of the Jolliville Holdings Corporation improved in the year 2015 and has declined a little in the year 2016 due to the decrease in Sales‚ specifically power and equity share in net earnings of associates. But still‚ Gross Profit Margin for the year 2016 is still a good indication of profitability
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The Prison System- A “Market” for Profits Joseph Hallinan’s analysis‚ “Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation‚” helps to discern that the insatiable drive for profit is the prevailing reason for continued growth of the prison industry in the United States. Public values based on this drive have been supported by the avocation of a “free-market” model and capitalism in the prison system: “According to this ideology every individual pursues his or her own personal interests and the result
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Comparison the Value Proposition of Dell and Hewlett-Packard Table of Contents Introduction ... .4 Part One .4 1.0 Analyse the value proposition of Dell and Hewlett-Packard ...4 1.1 Mission analysis . 5 1.2 Market definition 5 1.3 Market Segmentation .6 1.4 Market Attractiveness .6 1.5 Differentiating capabilities and Strategic
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