fastest-growing -- and most controversial -- sectors of the industry: for-profit colleges and universities that cater to non-traditional students‚ often confer degrees over the Internet‚ and‚ along direct quote taking out of the College Inc. PBS. In College‚ Inc.‚ a man named Martin Smith investigates the explosive growth for-profit colleges such as The University of Phoenix‚ now the largest college in the US with total enrollment approaching half a million students. Its revenues of almost $4 billion
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CHEMALITE‚ INC. | Financial Report | Period of January‚ 2003 1 to June 30‚ 2003 | Financial report of Chemalite‚ Inc. for six months period ended June 30‚ 2003 is to include cash transaction‚ income statement and balance sheet. This report will also to include comment on Chemalite‚ Inc’s actual loss for the period. | In early 2003‚ Chemalite‚ Inc. was established by Bennett Alexander to market his invention‚ Chemalite‚. During the first six months‚ Chemalite‚ Inc. was preparing for initial
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Summary Priceline.com is an e-commerce site which when founded in 1998‚ brought forth a new angle to conduct business. Traditionally marketers scan the market to determine which prices purchasers are willing and able to pay for products or services. The sellers then offer their product for a price which meets their internal criteria. With priceline‚ instead of the seller setting the price‚ the buyer makes an offer of what he or she is willing to pay and sellers compete for the buyers business
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Case Study: Infosys Infosys is a Global IT service company based in India. It was founded in 1981 by 7 mid class men with a capital of $250 borrowed from their spouse. In 2008 the company is employing 85‚013Software Professional and 6‚174support employees. The value of the company was summarized by one of the founder in the sentence: “ professionally owned and managed‚ with good corporate governance‚ good employee management and good ethics.” The company saw an exponential growth coming from
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Executive Summary: Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that was founded in 1945 from the result of the postwar healthcare system. The company both developed their brand name and earned a majority of their initial revenues from the manufacturing of drugs such as penicillin. Their former CEO‚ Thomas E. Finn‚ led Vyaderm to financial success with a business strategy focused solely on earnings per share. The main issue with the earnings per share approach in
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stakeholder expectations‚ and voluntary acts flowing from corporate values and business strategies. Corporate citizenship involves actual results and the processes through which they are achieved” (Lawrence p.68). By definition alone‚ I believe Gap Inc. has demonstrated global corporate citizenship. The following paragraphs will address the actions the company has chosen to embrace including identifying the problem concerning human rights violations‚ analyzing the issues through various studies both
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There has been little awareness and understanding of food in America until the film Food Inc which helps show us how our food is produced‚ packaged and sold in our native stores. Our nation’s food supply is being controlled by a few amounts of corporations that often put their income ahead of customer health. It’s time that the truth is heard about what we are putting into our bodies‚ and what is being hidden from us by the food industry. The United States has grown so much in the food industry
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HARVARD GRAD STUDENT HOUSING SURVEY Understanding the process of questionnaire designing MM – II Case Presentation Group 5 • The real estate price hike threatening the student recruitments at Harvard – leading to 2001 survey • Harvard attempting to understand the consumer market for its housing complexes through new 2005 survey • Allston Initiative The Case in Brief Deciding the new research design for 2005 survey Analysing & drawing insights from the 2001 survey Merits/
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any stress on the company. You have successfully made a brand of the product setting price beginning at $100. This allows you to achieve margins of 50-60%. This company has continued to be profitable with high margins and no debt. Strategy Dansko‚ Inc. trains employees by what they call a “Home Schooling” approach. You have typically hired younger motivated people with little to no business experience‚ let alone footwear industry experience. Time is taken to mentor and train the employees and give
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and software products. It was established in Cupertino‚ California on April 1‚ 1976 by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne‚[1] and incorporated on January 3‚ 1977.[2] The company’s hardware products include the Macintosh line of personal computers‚ the iPod line of portable media players‚the iPad line of tablets‚ and the iPhone line of mobile phones. Apple’s software products
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