Lessons from the Past The recent major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico‚ from BP’s Deepwater Horizon‚ has brought the use and effectiveness of bioremediation back into the news. Recruiting bacteria and other microbes to break down synthetic waste is an immensely appealing idea. Putting microorganisms to work in this manner is the crux of bioremediation (Alcamo‚ Weeks‚ 2008). The work to clean up the Horizon spill actually started in the 1800’s when night-soil men would go from house to house and
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McDonald’s: Polishing the Golden Arches Generic & Functional Strategies Overall‚ McDonald’s tries to operate on a cost leadership basis by offering low-priced goods with higher profit margins. Most of the functional strategies adopted by McDonald’s correlate with this strategy of low cost. McDonald’s management strategy involves a primarily decentralized delegation of authority. The CEO is responsible for making all the large company decisions and designing the processes
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SWOT Analysis Strengths McDonalds has built up huge brand equity and has large market share. Strong brand name‚ image and reputation McDonalds has strong supply chain to support their business. Good innovation and product development. Nutritional information of product available on packaging The McDonalds brand offers consumers choice‚ reasonable prices‚ quality product and great service Strong global presence and performance in the global marketplace Large amounts
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McDonalds & Hindu Culture Presentation of Facts: McDonald’s Corporation of the United States opens 4.2 new McDonald’s restaurants daily and by 2003 had 30‚000 restaurants in 121 countries that collectively served 46 million customers each day. While expanding into new regions‚ McDonald’s entered a new country for expansion‚ India. India offered a large customer base but also a cultural challenge to McDonalds. The local Hindu culture has revered cows for thousands of years and McDonalds is
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latter definition highlights the creative potential of communication to construct new possibilities for organizing. McDonald´s is a company who developed one of the most successful communication strategies and the first organization which was concentrating on families when constructing the eating facilities. Mission statement of the company McDonald ’s mission is to be the world ’s best quick service restaurant experience. Being the best means providing outstanding quality‚ service‚ cleanliness
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McDonald’s India was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary – McDonalds India Pvt Ltd (MIPL) in 1993. In April 1995‚ the wholly owned subsidiary entered into two 50:50 joint ventures. The first with Connaught Plaza Restaurants (Mr Vikram Bakshi) to own and operate the Delhi restaurants‚ and Hardcastle Restaurants (Mr Amit Jatia) to own and operate the Mumbai outlets. This marked the beginning of an incredible era in the international McDonalds timeline. It was the beginning of remarkable growth‚ lengthy
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Entertainment‚ Sports‚ Technology‚ U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. 14 July 2008. Web. 04 Nov. 2010. Hagerty‚ Curry‚ and Jonathan Ramseur. "Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Highlighted Actions and Issues." Congressional Research Service (2010): n. pag. Web. 23 September 2010 Hemingway‚ Mark Ivanovich‚ David‚ and Kristin Hays. "Offshore Drilling Safer‚ but Small Spills Routine |Business | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle." Houston News‚ Entertainment‚ Search and Shopping | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle. 28 July 2008.
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environment since the 1900’s and still occurs today is oil spills. The first major oil spill happened during World War II on the East Coast of the United States and spilled about 590‚000 tons of oil. The most recent oil spill happened last year in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico and about 190‚120‚055 gallons of oil leaked into the Gulf. Oil spills have affected our marine life‚ seafood industry‚ houses‚ health‚ and fossil fuels. Our world will never be the same after these horrifying spills that are destroying
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BP Oil Spill May 1‚ 2012 Abstract This paper is written on a current article that was recently published. The article is criminal justice related and about the BP oil spills that happened two years ago. The paper will be a brief summary of the article and what has happened since the oil spill. On Tuesday‚ April 24‚ 2012 at 7:40 P.M. Federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges in the Gulf oil spill‚ accusing a former BP engineer of deleting
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McDonalds Strategy McDonalds Strategy According to the McDonalds 2010 annual report‚ the company continues to remain in a good position for success because McDonalds applies the “plan to win” strategy (McDonalds‚ 2010-2014). The concept behind the “plan to win” strategy is not for McDonalds to be the biggest fast food chain but for the company to be the best fast food chain (McDonalds‚ 2010-2014). The plan to win strategy focuses on the core drivers of the business. The strategy utilizes the five
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