Question Bank 1) Explain the term Operations Research. 2) Give the characteristics of OR. 3) Explain the phases of OR. 4) Write a note on methodology of OR. 5) Explain applications & scope of OR. 6) What is linear programming problem? Discuss the scope & role of linear programming in solving management problems. 7) Describe the limitations of linear programming in decision-making. 8) What do you understand by a linear programming problem? What are its major requirements
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MIS 201– Fundamentals of MIS Spring 2013 Sample Exam 1 Name: ___________________ ID: _____________________ Be neat. If I can’t read or understand your answer‚ I can’t give you credit Cheating will not be tolerated Be neat. If I can’t read or understand your answer‚ I can’t give you credit Cheating will not be tolerated Questions are based on the “RocketTheme: Thriving on the Web” case. A summary is given below. RocketTheme sells digital products in the forms
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these challenges. 2. Background Starbucks started out as a small coffee retailer in Seattle‚ Washington in 1971‚ growing exponentially over the next 4 decades. With over 17‚000 stores across 55 countries today‚ Starbucks stands as the leading specialty coffee retailer in the world and is one of the top 5 international coffee buyers (C.A.F.E. Practices‚ 2012). In 2012‚ Starbucks sold 4 billion cups‚ or 428 million pounds of coffee (Munson‚ 2013). Since then‚ Starbucks has diversified to offer a variety
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Keurig coffee machines are ubiquitous in office kitchens as well as homes around the world. Keurig’s signature “K-Cups” are found everywhere‚ ranging from supermarkets‚ convenience stores‚ and even online. However‚ the K-Cup has drastic effects within the environment‚ and a handful of companies and nonprofits have cracked down on K-Cups’ environmental sustainability. The lifecycle of a K-cup is important to analyze when considering its overall environmental impact. The plastic cup is produced from
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The Coffee Industry Analysis The gourmet coffee industry has continued to grow for the Great Cups of Coffee company since it began in the year 1997. It seems that gourmet coffee has become in great demand for the American workforce and for people who love it. Coffee shops can serve as place to relax‚ read‚ socialize‚ work and study. Some coffee shops even provide wireless hot spots. The current trend seems to be spending five dollars on a cup of gourmet coffee. Some coffeehouse competitors of
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Fair Trade Coffee: Ethics‚ Religion‚ and Sustainable Production Global Marketing Management International Summer University 2010- WU‚ Wien Table of Contents Introduction 3 Problem Statement 3 The Fair Trade vision 3 Background: The Fair Trade Foundation 4 Background: Fair Trade Labeling Organization International 4 Fair Trade Mark 4 Fair Trade Pricing 5 The Fair Trade Premium 5 Question 1. Why should Starbucks‚ Kraft‚ and Nestle create ‘ethical supply chains’? 6 Question
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Tea and Coffee are the favourite drink in India especially tea. A quiet cafe revolution is sweeping urban India with the explosion of coffee bars. That is bad news for tea - still the favourite brew for a majority of Indians -‚ which has been losing out to coffee in recent years. India is one of the world ’s largest exporters of tea and one of its biggest consumers. However‚ it is coffee drinking which is increasingly becoming a statement of young and upwardly mobile Indians. Moreover‚ coffee bars
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I. Introduction Trung Nguyen coffee serves as the biggest strategic business unit of the entire coffee market. There are other known coffee companies under the enterprise including Dick smith and Murphy. The Trung Nguyen coffee brand is young compared to the enterprise because it came into being in the recent years but the entire enterprise established in the year in the early 90’s. Trung Nguyen coffee brand is international and it has big stores in New Zealand and Australia and each branch containing
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Luc Brubaker Costa Rica Final Paper 06/21/13 LMU vs. Costa Rica The rich cultural and the many amazing traits that Costa Rica had in store for us‚ was only a symbol of the cultural and traits that fall within our team. It seems hard to believe that a country like Costa Rica and a small college soccer team can have so much in common‚ but along the trip I realized that in a lot of ways‚ we are the same. Reading the “Ticos” book could only teach each of us so much about Costa Rica and the Ticos
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Black Canyon Coffee Mohit Jain MGT 767 - 302 Missouri State University Company Background Black Canyon Coffee (BCC) is a Thailand based coffee shop which has grown to become the largest coffee shop chain in Thailand. BCC opened their first store in 1993 in Bangkok and since then company has experienced 15 to 20 per cent annual growth with very little debt. Though Thailand is a low coffee consuming country but with the help of strategic marketing BCC has been able to penetrate the market. Presently
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