Intro Background story: On March 25‚ 1931‚ seven young white men entered a railroad stationmaster’s office in northern Alabama. They claimed that while they were riding the rails‚ a "bunch of Negroes" picked a fight with them and threw them off the train. The stationmaster phoned ahead to the next station‚ near Scottsboro‚ Alabama. A Scottsboro deputy sheriff made deputies of every man in town with a gun. When the train stopped‚ the posse (group of people legally authorized keep the peace) rounded
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INCEPTION OF BRETTON WOODS The Bretton Woods system is commonly understood to refer to the international monetary regime that prevailed from the end of World War II until the early 1970s. Taking its name from the site of the 1944 conference that created the Bretton Woods Institutions namely‚ International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) - often simply known as the World Bank‚ the Bretton Woods system was history’s first example of a fully negotiated
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Bretton Woods Conference Location: Hotel Complex Bretton Woods (New Hampshire - U.S.) Date: Between 1 and July 22‚ 1944. Participants: Forty-four countries were attending‚ half were underdeveloped‚ twenty were from Latin America‚ besides India‚ Iran‚ Iraq‚ China‚ Egypt‚ Ethiopia and the Philippines. Attended Eastern Europe Soviet Union‚ Czechoslovakia and Poland. Fees: On a total capital of 8‚800 million USD‚ the U.S. will be for a fee of 2‚740 million (equivalent to 31.1%)‚ the United Kingdom
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DRAFT MARKETING CASE INTERVIEWS 1. Frameworks 2. Market –sizing 3. New Product Launch 4. Competitive Defense 5. Key Measures 6. Advertising 7. Interview Questions CaseQuestions.com CQInteractive.com Frameworks Case questions have been popping up in marketing interviews for years. While there are many similarities between
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Case Analysis Executive Summary: As the population of cats in North America increases‚ so does the ownership of them as pets. Omega Paw’s novel and unique litter box‚ self-cleaning with a closed top‚ has tapped into the market with customer satisfaction and positive reviews. The company looks forward to reflect this positivity with an increase in sales and profit levels. Introducing the product in grocery stores would result in weekly sales of $126‚000‚ highest among other alternatives. With direct
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Hurry Date‚ a small & privately owned company‚ is one of the America’s leading provider of speed dating with a strong brand recognition. It’s an online version of traditional round-robin speed dating. It operates a website HurryDate.com to screen singles looking to mingle. The range of service it provides are‚ online match-making‚ personal browsing and event hosting. It does this by hosting round-robin meeting event for potentials dating candidates. This is where they make money by charging
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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specialist vocabulary where appropriate. Advice You are advised to spend about 20 minutes answering Question 1. (JAN10BUSS101) G/K46670 6/6/6/6/ BUSS1 2 Read the case study and then answer the questions that follow. Love Wood At school‚ Padma developed and patented a technique for joining different woods together to create a patterned effect. This patented process improved efficiency allowing Padma to produce more cheaply than competitors. A large company offered to buy the patent
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When does a person go from a stranger to a best friend? Professor McAdams (1995) has conjured up two imperative levels to distinguish relationships. In the movie Sweet Home Alabama (2002)‚ Melanie Smooter/Carmichael‚ displays these two imperative levels. Melanie lived a double life from the Civil Wars reenactment daughter to a big city fashion designer. The beautiful‚ insecure character has her brain all over the place. In her new life she is full of openness‚ but back home she’s known around town
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situations‚ across domains and industries‚ using quantitative and/or qualitative analysis techniques. B. Instruction Methodology: Case Discussions. The students are advised to go through the specified cases along with the study material required for that case. C. Suggested Titles (Text and Reference): 1. Research Methodology (concepts & cases); Deepak Chawla & Neena Sondhi‚ Vikas Publishing (prescribed) 2. Business Research Methods: William G. Zikmund‚ Thomson South
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