Reputation Concerns of Independent Directors: Evidence from Individual Director Voting1 Wei Jiang2 Columbia Business School Hualin Wan3 Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce Shan Zhao4 Shanghai University of Finance and Economics This Draft: July 2012 1 The authors benefit from discussions with seminar and conference participants at ESCP Europe‚ EM Lyon‚ Grenoble School of Management‚ Reims Management School‚ the
Premium Board of directors Corporate governance Stock
Inventory Management of a Fast Fashion Fast-Fashion Retail Network Felipe Caro UCLA Anderson School of Management fcaro@anderson.ucla.edu 2012 KUMPEM FORUM ANNUAL RETAIL CONFERENCE Koç University May 18‚ 2012 University‚ 18 Caro: “Inventory Management of a Fast-Fashion Retail Network” Industry-Academia Collaboration • Felipe Caro‚ UCLA Anderson • Jé é i G lli Jérémie Gallien‚ London Business S h l L d B i School • Miguel Díaz‚ Zara CFO • Javier García‚ Zara • José Manuel Corredoira‚ Zara
Premium Inventory Warehouse Operations research
Global warming Global warming has been a hot topic in recent decades. According to the Climate Literacy‚ global warming refers to is a natural phenomenon whereby heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere‚ primarily water vapor keep the Earth’s surface warm. Human activities‚ primarily burning fossil fuels and changing land cover patterns‚ are increasing the concentrations of some of these gases‚ amplifying the natural greenhouse effect.. I had learned some basic concepts about global warming when
Free Global warming Greenhouse gas Carbon dioxide
Business Ethics Global Warming Table of Contents Objectives 3 Ethics of Global Warming 4 Corporate Social Responsibility 6 Innovations of Change 7 Citations 10 Business Ethics and global warming is now a leading topic discussed throughout the world today. How a business represents their image‚ as a green company is a major factor on how they are looked upon in the social media. Corporate Social Responsibility is now a major key factor in the image behind the company profitability
Premium Social responsibility Walt Disney Business ethics
Planning/strategic planning As for Whole Foods Marketing‚ Inc. having a strategic plan they are counting on a five strategic priorities to drive long-term growth as competition continues to grow and become highly competitive as mention in an online article. (Whole Foods details five drivers for growth) Their first priority in development where they are planning on opening their 500th store in 2017 and a long-term of 1‚200 stores in the United States. The second is that Whole foods is planning on remodeling
Premium Marketing Management Strategic management
1. Amazon.com‚ Peapod‚ Dell‚ and many furniture manufacturers use push-pull supply chain strategies. Describe how each of these companies takes advantage of the risk-pooling concept. To better understand the strategies used by the three (3) companies and furniture manufacturers‚ the definition of Push or Pull is established below: Push Strategies – when the manufacturer uses its sales force and trade promotion money to induce intermediaries to carry‚ promote‚ and sell the product to end users.
Premium Supply chain Wal-Mart Sam Walton
(FBE) Supply Chain Management Application & Strategy CASE 1 : Supply chain challenges at Leapfrog SCML 460: Supply Chain Management Application & Strategy Context: Introduction ………………………………………………. page 3 Questions ………………………………………………. page 3 Conclusion ………………………………………………. page 5 References ……………………………………………… page 6 Introduction: Our case study is about "Supply Chain Challenges at LEAPFROG". The term supply chain conjures
Premium Supply chain management Supply chain Logistics
Introduction Nowadays such term as fast fashion is far not new‚ it combines enhanced design and quick response systems. In 80th and 90th in order to get more profit brands shifted to the low-cost high fashion oriented on people who not willing to spend a lot of money however in love with fashion and instead of selling them two standard collections per year making them come back to shop and buy clothes every two weeks as collection changes and rarely repeated. Zara‚ H&M and Benetton are three of
Premium Fashion Supply chain Supply chain management
The Topic of interest in this essay is “Supply Chain” Definition: A supply chain is a network of suppliers‚ manufacturer and distributors which helps in transformation of raw materials into valuable products and delivering them to the customers at right price‚ right place and right time. The concept of supply chain applies not only to the physical products but also to services. In the case of services‚ suppliers become service supporter‚ manufacturer becomes service creator and the distributors
Premium Supply chain management Automotive industry Supply chain
1. Describe three different forecasting applications at Hard Rock. Name three other areas in which you think Hard Rock could use forecasting models. -Point-of-sale system (POS)‚ which captures transaction data on nearly every person who walks through a cafe’s door. The sale of each entrée represents one customer. They forecast monthly guest counts‚ retail sales‚ banquet sales‚ and concert sales (if applicable) at each café. -To evaluate managers an set bonuses‚ a 3-year weighted moving average
Premium Customer Linear regression Customer service