1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Working on this report has been a rich and rewarding experience‚ thanks to the camaraderie‚ generous guidance and encouragement of our teacher Syed Mateen Ahmed. Our sincere gratitude to the Naseer Ahmed‚ Controller Purchase – Berger‚ we interviewed for this term report‚ for his generous time and insights‚ especially for granting us the permission to collect first hand information about the company itself and allows us to carry on with our research on their business strategies
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Benihana ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- 1. ------------------------------------------------- What is the Benihana concept? Benihana restaurants are traditional Japanese hibachi steakhouses‚ which feature the Japanese cooking method known as teppanyaki. There are key attributes that separate Benihana from other restaurants. One is true Japanese authenticity. Every
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The 2nd Doctoral Colloquium Bridging the Gap between Theory‚ Research and Practice : IFRS Convergence and Application Faculty of Economics Universitas Indonesia Bali-Indonesia‚ 27 - 28 Oktober 2010 TAX01 INFLUENCE OF BOOK TAX GAP TOWARDS EARNINGS PERSISTENCE AND FIRM VALUE FOR THE PERIOD OF 1999 – 2007 Dwi Martani Universitas Indonesia (martani@ui.ac.id) Debby Fitriasari Universitas Indonesia (dfsari@yahoo.com) Yulianti Universitas Indonesia (yuli.a@ui.ac.id) Field of Research
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Renault-Nissan Alliance By Po-Chien Chung Department of International Management International Business Dr. Roger Strange 18th March‚ 2010 2930 Words 1 Introduction “The Renault-Nissan alliance‚ currently heralded as one of the most successful in the business‚ represents the combination of two very different organizations‚ structurally and culturally” (Rugman & Collinson‚ 2004). Renault-Nissan alliance is based on trust and reciprocal respect. Its organization is
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Introduction to Key Issues Dennis Shaughnessy is the senior vice-president for corporate development and Charles River Laboratories (CRL). He prepared a presentation to the company’s board of directors which request to invest up to $2 million in a Mexican joint venture (JV). They need to decide whether to do a joint venture between ALPES and CRL. Some other issues came out at the same time‚ Jim Foster‚ the CEO viewed the proposed joint venture as a potential distraction as his company continues
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LearnRite.com offers e-commerce service for children’s edutainment products and services. The word edutainment is used to describe software that combines educational and entertainment components. Valuable product information and detailed editorial comments are combined with a wide selection of products for purchase to help families make their children’s edutainment decisions. A team of leading educators and journalists provide editorial comments on the products sold by the firm. LearnRite targets
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What is the Benihana concept? Rocky Aoki developed the Benihana concept by modifying the normal American dining experience from a job shop operation to a communal dining batch processing operation. The processing model is designed to make the process as efficient as possible‚ reduce scrap‚ minimize wait times‚ and wait times in queues and between processes to effective parts of the process itself. A customer enters the restaurant and is placed into the queue in preparation for processing.
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Chapter 1 Introduction Background to the study A motivated employee works hard and effectively because of the satisfactory feeling of fulfillment. In business management‚ motivation is an important research field. Over the years‚ there have been many motivation theories developed. One of the most famous theories is on the basis of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow (1954) argued that individuals have a hierarchy of needs‚ and true motivation is achieved by fulfilling higher level of needs
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the play Romeo and Juliet. They both encompass many of the same themes of love. Love is prohibited‚ true‚ lustful‚ and desired. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lysander demonstrated the overriding theme of both plays‚ "The path of love never did run smooth" (1.i.14). The two plots revolve around two couples that are in love with each other‚ yet cannot be joined together because of family members who prohibit the lover’s love. The endings are very different‚ but with a few changes both could have resulted
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I. Introduction Comparing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Middleton’s The Changeling seems to be a very unusual topic for the first sight. The earlier is a festive merry comedy and the latter is said to be a revenge tragedy‚ moreover‚ is claimed to be a later transformation of Shakespeare’s Othello. Certainly‚ if we look at the structure of The Changeling on the surface we see a plot of a conventional drama of revenge‚ but as we observe closer it becomes evident that The Changeling
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