Webvan Q1. Describe the Webvan business model and then analyze it using the value chain and competitive forces models. What were the assumptions that drove this business model? Ans: Webvan’s Business Model used the following Points: 1. Revenue in relation to capital investment and margins. 2. Margins in the US grocery business. 3. Obtaining customers at affordable cost. 4. Gross margins compared with cost structure Analysis: 1. According to Webvan huge upfront investment was to be considered Adequate
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AM {""r*s EEG-OI/BEGtr-I BACIIELOR’ S DEGREE PROGRAMME (BDP) ASSTG]\MENT (for July‚2013 & January‚ 2tll4 Sessions) EEG-01/BEGElO1 ELE‚CTIVE COURSE IN EI{GLISH WiY‚HtrH School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhio New Delhi-l10068 O1 Elective Course in English From Language to Literature (EEG-01/BEGE-I 0l) Programme: BDI Course Code: EEG-01/BE(;E-1 01 Dear Studento You will have one assignment for the Elective Course in English
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I. Bipolar Disorder A. Definition B. History 1. Origin C. Society and culture 1. Prejudice 2. Social Stigma II. Signs and Symptoms A. Episodes 1. Maniac Episode 2. Depressive Episode 3. Hypomaniac episode 4. Mixed Affective Episode III. Diagnosis A. Subtypes 1‚ Bipolar I & II 2. Cyclothymic disorder B. Treatment 1. Medications 2. Therapy Bipolar disorder which is also known as the maniac depressive disorder‚ it is a brain condition
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During the Elizabethan era there were a lot of different life-levels of power‚ authority‚ and responsibility assigned to different people. Like the lords‚ ladies‚ adolescents/teenagers‚ nurses‚ friars‚ pages‚ servants. But the lords and ladies were very well-known and was specially chosen to be a lord for the king. Also there were many different types of life-styles‚ that would be difficult for us now if we lived back in those days because we have technology and more tools to work with also a more
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Will the cloud have as big an impact as many predict? A complex question. Cloud computing is available now; it’s already changing the manner in which IT and business services are delivered and managed. But as is often the case with new technologies‚ organizations may overestimate the short-term effects while simultaneously underestimating the long-term benefits. Without understanding the larger wave of IT developments of which the cloud is just a part‚ companies may invest in capabilities that will
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Q1. Discuss Gray as a transitional poet with special reference to ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. The period 1730-1770 marks the beginning from a movement from one distinct phase of English poetry towards another .The poets were getting gradually exhausted with the neoclassical ethics of clarity‚ reason‚ sophistication‚ and etiquette‚ its economic wording‚ ‚rationale and wit. In the literary circle can be perceived the advent of The Romanticism which however customarily began with the publication
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Subject: Interpersonal Communication Author: Milushka Lok Teacher: Benoit Verplancke Topic: Validation Strategies Date: 01-21-2013 Validation Strategies Abstract: Understand what this topic talks about and what is referring to. Try to make the reader understand without any doubt and can easily apply this topic into his or her life‚ improving the way of communication. Keywords: Experiences‚ people‚ feelings‚ understand acceptance and respect. This topic is furthermore better
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generated serious concern and skeptism on whether SME can bring about economic growth and national developments in Nigeria. The concern is even more disturbing when comparing SME in Nigeria with other countries particularly where SME has become harbinger of economic reconstruction and transformation (Ihua‚ 2009). In the case of Nigeria‚ SMEs have performed at very abysmal level. This low performance has further exacerbated poverty‚ hunger‚ unemployment and low standard of living of people in a country
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Historical development[edit] Difficulties arise in tracing the history of management. Some see it (by definition) as a late modern (in the sense of late modernity) conceptualization. On those terms it cannot have a pre-modern history‚ only harbingers (such as stewards). Others‚ however‚ detect management-like-thought back to Sumerian traders and to the builders of the pyramids of ancient Egypt. Slave-owners through the centuries faced the problems of exploiting/motivating a dependent but sometimes
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These two passages‚ page 60-61 and page 162-163 from The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea (The Sailor)‚ respectively‚ demonstrate the recurring conflict throughout the novel between the traditional views and modernity. The first passage (lines 1-23) is at the end of chapter five of the first section‚ Summer‚ in which Noboru performs some kind of ceremonial surgery on a stray kitten to prove his strength of manhood in the audience of the group of nihilistic boys. In the second passage (lines
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