Over my four-month summer break my goal was to get my hands on as many books as possible. One of the books that I came across was called “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. After reading this book on my flight to Asia I fell in love with the book and admired the author. His writing was organized in a way where it was easy to comprehend and he was able to support his evidence with research and statistics. Although there are a lot of scholarly terms that is used to support his study‚ he uses a more simplified
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When I grow up I want to be a computer software engineer or a computer hardware engineer. How I made the choice to be a computer engineer out of all the computer jobs because an engineer is more hands on than most computer related jobs. People who helped me make this decision are my parents and my classmates. I admire Bill Gates because he made Microsoft. Steve Jobs is another person I admire because he was one of the founders of Apple. Bill Gates is the person I admire more because he does more
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For the last 20 or so years‚ rap has been the most dominate influence in music and culture. Rappers like Eminem and P. Diddy have made millions and millions of dollars off their music; Kanye West‚ Macklemore‚ and countless other rappers have won Grammys every year; Dr. Dre recently sold his brand Beats to Apple for one billion dollars; Rap motifs and quotes appear in pop culture every day. Needless to say‚ hip hop is one of the most successful and popular genres in all of music. So‚ what makes
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MARKETING TASK 3:Explain the elements of the marketing concepts and processes and evaluate the costs and benefits of its current marketing orientation. Marketing is the administration procedure through which goods and services move from idea to client. Apple items are created to incorporate enhanced applications and system are set at various costs relying upon how much capacity the client wants‚ and are sold in places where other items are sold. (businessdictionary‚ 2017) Following are some of
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Manager of Danshui plant number 2‚ Wentao Chen‚ has to form viable strategies and decisions without losing much time to catch up with their production schedule to meet Apple’s requirements. A few potential strategies that hopefully will help speed up the plant’s production of Apple’s new iPhone 4 will be discussed below. A strategy that Chen can consider is to train his workers to full knowledge regarding the assembly of the new iPhone 4. Before Danshui accepted the manufacturing contract with Apple
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Who makes the Apple iPhone? BA 3320 – 102 International Business (Tuesday and Thursday 12.30 – 1.45 p.m.) Elyse Vlastuin - A00125261 1. What are the benefits to Apple of outsourcing the assembly of the iPhone to foreign countries‚ and particularly China? What are the potential costs and risks to China? The benefits to Apple of outsourcing to foreign countries is that labor costs are sometimes lower there‚ especially in China. Moreover‚ Chinese subcontractors are able to respond very quickly
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1. Read the case entitled “Who Makes the Apple iPhone?” on page 33. 2. Answer the following questions in three pages. 1. What are the benefits to Apple of outsourcing the assembly of the iPhone to foreign countries‚ and particularly China? What are the potential costs and risks to Apple? Lower labor cost is one of the most basic reasons but as the case points out‚ that was only a small consideration. Apples ability to scale production up/down very quickly and even with short based on demand
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Scholars like Berkelaar(2012)thinks that punishment can prevent employees from loaf on the job. It is a great way to monitor the behavior of employees. In addition‚ Foxconn’s goal is to realize the profit maximization‚ which means that overworking and behaving like a robot are a good method to increase the efficiency and output. Nevertheless，whether a company can obtain long-term development should be pay more attention. Placed Foxconn into today’s greater economic and social environment‚ China
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Computer‚ Inc. changed their name to Apple‚ Inc. They made this change because they shifted their focus from only producing computers to producing other products for industries such as entertainment and mobile telecommunications. BCG MATRIX iPod iTunes iPod iTunes iPhone iPad iPhone iPad Mac Mac QUESTION MARK Mac * The Mac software in the Question Mark category shows their potential to either gain market share or degenerate to the Dog category. In both
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1. Introduction Apple Inc.‚ is known to be one of the world’s most valuable companies. It is a multi-national company with a worldwide presence; approximately 72‚800 employees and total net sales of $156 billion in the year 2012 (Apple annual report‚ 2012). Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak‚ both college dropouts‚ founded this corporation in 1976 - “Steve Jobs‚ helped to transform the way in which the computer is used today through his creation of the first computer processing unit and his creative
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