Wal-Mart Strategic Development and future Becoming Wal-Mart- The Past: Overview Wal-mart was founded by sam Walton in 1962. The idea behind was to bring discount shopping stores to rural America. It grew rapidly with huge popularity. Today it has 3708 Wal-mart U. S. Units‚ 569 U.S. Sam’s Club and 4112 International units. It toppled GE and became No.1 in Fortune 500 Company list with annual revenue of 405 Billion USD and employs about 2 million associates. It has presence in multiple sectors
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Improving Quality of Development: Perspectives from Operations Management 2 Improving Quality of Development: Perspectives from Operations Management 1 Introduction According to the United Nation’s global development network‚ UNDP‚ an organization advocating for change and to help people build a better life‚ the Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary composite index that measures a country’s average achievements in three basic aspects of human development: health‚ knowledge‚ and income
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Wal-Mart is a US-based multinational corporation. Critically discuss the likely costs and benefits of its takeover of Asda‚ a UK-based company Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer with over 8400 stores worldwide employing 2 million people. It serves more than 200 million people with global sales exceeding £291 billion. (Basker‚ 2007) Wal-Mart is globally organised so that it can respond quickly to changing markets and cost conditions in its international locations. The UK is one of these locations
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Valuing Introduction Currently Wal-Mart serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week. Wal-Mart operates under 69 different banners in 27 countries. With fiscal year 2012 sales of approximately $444 billion‚ Wal-Mart employs 2.2 million associates worldwide. In 2005 for this case the sales were approximately $285 billion and operated 4‚000 stores worldwide. Valuations Dividend Discount Method (DDM): The DDM is a procedure for valuing the price of a stock by using predicted
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------------------------------------------------- The Gupta Empire (Golden Period of ancient India) * After Greek Empire in India‚ the Empires of Northern India belonged to invaders who came from Central Asia. * In 4th century AD‚ there rose a pure Indian dynasty‚ the Gupta Empire. * In about 320 AD‚ Chandragupta‚ an Aryan prince made a matrimonial alliance with a Nepali queen. The queen’s army was very powerful and her warriors helped by Chandragupta’s skill in leading them‚ quickly conquered the land and built the Gupta Empire.
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Samudra gupta[citation needed]‚ ruler of the Gupta Empire (c335 – c375 CE)‚ and successor to Chandragupta I‚ is considered to be one of the greatest military geniuses in Indian history according to Historian V. A. Smith. He was called the Napoleon of India because he wanted to conquer more and more. The Allahabad inscriptions or the Prayag Prashashti composed by his court poet. He was the second ruler of the Gupta Dynasty‚ who ushered in the Golden Age of India. He was perhaps the greatest king of
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Gupta Empire The Gupta Period of India was not characterized by enormous material wealth or by elaborate trade activity. It was defined by creativity. Flourishing arts‚ fabulous literature‚ and stupendous scholars are just a few of the things that marked the period. In 185 B.C.E.‚ the Mauryan empire collapsed when the last of the Mauryan kings was assassinated. In its place‚ small kingdoms arose throughout India. For nearly 500 years‚ the various states warred with each other. In the northern
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* How did Rajat Gupta‚ who belonged to the highest echelons of corporate America‚ the golden boy of Indian Americans‚ get convicted of insider trading? How did Rajaratnam get tips on companies like Intel? * Rajat Gupta’s impending journey into the federal prison system for criminal insider trading ends a remarkable success story and punctuates his swift fall from grace. * A native of Kolkata‚ Mr. Gupta‚ 63 years old‚ moved at a young age to New Delhi. His father‚ Ashwini‚ a disciple of Mohandas
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Gupta Empire The Gupta Empire (320 CE to about 500 CE). It dominated northern India. People were happy during the Gupta period‚ the "Golden Age" of ancient India. They had religious freedom. They were given free medical care‚ which included simple surgery. Rewards of money were given to writers‚ artists‚ and scholars to encourage them to produce wonderful work‚ and they did. Very few of the common people were educated‚ but the Gupta Empire had many universities. Students came from as far away
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Before the Modern Era‚ most empires were ran through a religion. That is called a theocracy. Today‚ only a few stand like Iran‚ Saudi Arabia‚ and Pakistan. The Islamic Caliphates and the Mauryan/Gupta empires were two main empires before the 1200s. There were a lot of differences and similarities between these two. The Islamic Caliphates were located in the modern day Middle East. The word Islam means submitted to god‚ the religion was started by the prophet Muhammad in the city of Mecca
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