SKYPE Student Number: 10012274 Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation on defining Skype’s core business following eBay’s sale of the business. Methods of analysis include an external analysis compromising of consumer and competitor analysis as well as an internal SWOT analysis. The research draws attention to the fact that while Skype has the ability to reach critical user mass‚ it finds itself in a situation where it is no longer serving the needs of an e-commerce
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Helen Thomas is a 90-year-old widow who is currently in a nursing home after suffering a stroke nine months ago and fell and broke her hip three months ago. Since‚ her health has been declining rapidly and she needs extensive care. Consequently‚ her 68-year-old daughter‚ Karen‚ feels obligated to be there for her mother every day to assist her. This has caused Karen’s already poor health to decline rapidly as well. Karen requested volunteer helpers to assist her mother and help relieve her‚ but
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Case #2 – Volkswagen: IT Budget Volkswagen AG is the parent company to Volkswagen of America (VWoA) and therefore sets the budget from which IT projects are funded by. Managing which IT projects are given funds and when is a very important business decision because only projects linked to the corporations’ strategy and goals should be given any support. An important process in judging which projects are funded is by prioritizing them into specific categories; however all the more important “Stay
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prepared for it. The balance of power theory states that nations will continually strive to accumulate power for themselves‚ resulting in a balance of power among nations. This results in an environment where war becomes less likely due to all parties not being tempted to initiate war for lack of confidence in a positive outcome. A core aspect of this theory is the expectation for weaker states to ally with one another in order to collectively meet or exceed the powers of more powerful nations‚ thus
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a mess of the lead crisis. Michigan Governor’s office was informed in March about the Legionnaire’s disease outbreak‚ which sickened more than 80 people and killed 10 in flint‚ was linked to river water. However‚ this information wasn’t made public for months and hence no one took precautions. Now‚ Harrington‚ plans to have a liver biopsy to see how much lead he may have absorbed‚ and determine if he has been poisoned by the lead contamination of water. The Flint water crisis are a result of Flint
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The Euro Crisis- A Case Study By Subhayan Mukherjee: The economic and political success of the United States of America‚ since the end of the Second World War had prompted their cousins across the Atlantic to dream of an entity that could be called the United States of Europe. But between this vision and its implementation lies a plethora of political‚ linguistic‚ financial and nationalist borders that cut up and divide Europe into small nation states‚ many of which are similar in physical
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Thomas Paine “The American Crisis” Analysis Thomas Paine was famous for his political writings advocating the revolution. His rhetorical document The American Crisis was very persuasive and influential. Some of Paine’s political ideas were praised and some were argued‚ and his views on religion made him an outcast. The American Crisis was a valuable work informing the American people that they owed no loyalty to Britain and would only survive if all ties were to be severed completely
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3. Explain what the leverage effect consists of‚ relating it to the credit risk market development previous the crisis (see Exhibit 1 in “The financial crisis of 2007-2009: the road to systemic risk”) Leverage is the process of obtaining money with loans or financial instruments. This debt may be used to acquire assets or develop a project‚ financing its CAPEX and being payed later with the respective cashflows. And that is the point where risk enters: if the expected cashflows happen to be below
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Case study number 1 Question 1: Which company orientation (product‚ production‚ selling or market) can best describe McDonald’s activities? What makes you think so? In the case of McDonald’s activities the company orientation is selling and I will explain why. In first I’ll explain what is the selling orientation‚ and in second why it’s the McDonald orientation. If we look at the definition in the book “Marketing Management” the selling philosophy or orientation is “a focus on making sales
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Green energy is energy that is produced in such a way as to minimize its negative impact on the environment. Traditional energy sources‚ most notably fossil fuels‚ produce greenhouse gases that are believed to be the primary cause of an effect known as global warming or climate change. Sources of green energy‚ such as solar‚ wind‚ geothermal‚ and hydro energy‚ are developed and promoted as alternative sources that make little or no contribution to climate change. Even nuclear energy is sometimes
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