stakeholders of Staples Inc.‚ an employee‚ a customer and a stock holder‚ to find their relationship between them and the firm. Then‚ I will use this information to suggest how the firm should proceed and continue to have a better and more beneficial relationship with its stakeholders. The Corporation Staples Inc. is the largest retail office supply chain which operates world wide with almost 2000 stores operating in over 10 countries and several more via catalog and delivery order1. Staples offers
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delivery service (Staples Direct)‚ outstanding customer service (Staples Easy Tech) Weaknesses Easy to imitate‚ needs a local partner for business ventures in European countries Opportunities As a low priced company – it does not have to fight so hard for market share; the start of developing its own products; Eastern Europe needs office supplies since there is a boom in small business nowadays. Threats Competitors (price wars); might be growing too fast; In 2008‚ Staples was caught out supplying
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Brent Staples demonstrates how a stereotype on race and sex can intervene with one another. Each point‚ whether a narrative or remark‚ can have positive and negative outcomes on the audience Staples is trying to enlighten. His thesis‚ the ability to alter public space through racial stereotypes‚ affected him as well as many other persons of his stature and skin color. It not only influenced lives of people like Staples‚ but infringed onto the "victims"� of Staples and others like him. Staples explains
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Prejudices in Our World Both Brent Staples in “Black Men and Public Places” and Judith Cofer in “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” seem to be illustrating the prejudices some people have. They both explain how the way they look gets them treated by others. Brent Staples‚ because he is black in perceived as a criminal; Judith Cofer is a Latina and is mistaken for a waitress. Both stories give numerous examples of prejudice. In addition‚ each writer has a larger purpose
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............... 1 Executive Summary The world’s largest office superstore‚ Staples‚ has paved the way in marketing for the office supply chain industry. With the current largest market share and over $24.5 billion in sales‚ Staples continues to grow as a strong financial investment and great marketing leader. After the implementation of the “easy” campaign‚ where Staples emphasized the convenience that only Staples Incorporated could offer the earnings per share sky-rocketed to more than double
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military type hierarchy for good reason and the purpose of this is to explain the structure‚ operation‚ and importance of a hotel restaurant kitchen and its employees starting at the top from the Executive Chef down to the dishwashers and cooks. A chart showing this hierarchy follows. The Executive Chef and the Executive Steward are at the top of this pyramid and together they rule the kitchen and oversee its operation. First‚ the Executive Steward his/her responsibility is to maintain sanitation
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web‚ I found out some very informative information about the life of Brent Staples. Brent Staples was an intelligent man‚ not just an ordinary man from Chester‚ Pennsylvania. He earned various degrees as different universities and colleges like a BA from Widener University in 1973‚ and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1977. He was a professor of psychology at various universities in the states. Writing is one of Staples’ specialties and he has been a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and the
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BACKGROUND Staples Inc. founded in 1985 by Thomas G. Stemberg and Leo Kahn in Brighton‚ Massachussets. It is headquartered in Boston and employs 89‚000 employees worldwide. Staples sells office supplies at more than 2‚000 stores as well as through its catalog and call centers‚ the internet site‚ and contract sales force. In additional to typical office supplies‚ stores offer computer hardware and software‚ furniture‚ art and school supplies and printing and copy services ( Staples 10k‚ 2012).
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Brent Staples wrote an essay about “What Adolescents miss when we let them grow up in Cyberspace.” In the beginning Staples describes the father of his 10th grade heartthrob. He insinuates that he is a fearsome steelworker who struck terror in the hearts of 15-year old boys. Whenever they would talk on the phone‚ her father would cut the conversation short. Now he has to make a choice to give up or show up at the front door. This is the first sustained encounter with an adult outside of his family
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different than Americans are use to‚ they automatically stick some sort of stereotype to them. Stereotypes are strongly displayed in the media; stereotype can be based of someone’s color‚ culture‚ religion‚ or sex. In Black men in public spaces by Brent Staples‚ and in The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the authors talk about stereotypes based on their gender and ethnicity and the experiences they both encounter because of their ethnicity and gender which have
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