Case Questions 1. What is meant by the statement that training is extremely "faddish"? In an effort to remain on the "cutting edge" of a particular industry‚ organizations often shop for the most recent gimmick in training programs in hopes that it will provide them a competitive advantage over other firms. As a result‚ training entrepreneurs spring up around whatever is new in training approaches (e.g.‚ sensitivity training‚ OD‚ behavior modeling) without much attention to evaluation of results
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Case: Shouldice Questions for Discussion 1. What is the bundle of benefits purchased by the consumer? In other words‚ what is the Shouldice value proposition? In what ways is Shouldice’s offering different from other hospitals? 2. What is the target group of customers‚ and what do they have in common apart from a hernia? 3. How are the benefits delivered to those customers—how does the production process work? You might like to think of this as a factory with people as the work in process
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The Village by the Sea The Village By The Sea (1982) is a novel written by the popular Indian American writer Anita Desai. It is based on the poverty‚ hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural community in India. {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Plot The Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul‚ which is 14 km (8.7 mi) from Bombay. Lila‚ the eldest child among the four siblings‚ is thirteen years old. Her twelve-year-old brother Hari is the only person with whom
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MY VILLAGE I have two villages‚ the one at Perak and at Pahang but the mostly dears in my heart is my village at Perak because I left so many sweet childhood memory of mine there especially during before the Hari Raya. My village located at Parit‚ Perak at a very country environment. Perak River was the backyard. As usual‚ early in the morning when the sun just a quarter shine‚ we had a full-hearted breakfast of Nasi Lemak and Kopi O and quickly me and my 8 siblings would rush down to take a tippy
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Preparation Questions for “Apple’s Challenges in the MP3 Player Market” Case Business Policy Please write 4-5 sentences in response to each question. Name_______________________________________ Section________________________________________ 1. Why would you say Apple was the runaway market leader in the MP3 industry? What were they doing that made them such a success? The IPod’s first-mover advantage and simplicity of use between sleekly designed hardware and Apple’s music/video
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Mediated Communication November 2004 Marshall Mcluhan’s Global Village and its relevance in today’s society Nicholas Jones 1960’s America was a time of challenging authority and established conventions. It was into this era that a Professor of Media studies at Toronto University rose to media personality status. Marshall Mcluhan is famous for introducing society to catchy aphorisms such as “the medium is the message”. Although his theories have always been contested‚ they were
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Comparison And Contrast Between Village Area And City Area People who live in the country might long to live in the city and those in the city may long for the peace and quiet of country life. However‚ country life and city life has several differences which may attract one person or repel another. Firstly‚ an elderly person might find life in the city to be better in the long run as there is better access to health care facilities and around the clock emergency services. However‚ the kind
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Decreasing Racism African American racial tension has decreased drastically‚ since the fifties our country has leaps and bounds towards equality. James Baldwin wrote Stranger in the Village‚ and he wrote about his experience living in a small Swiss village and how he was able to evaluate the American society and its issues of race. Baldwin specifically focused on African American racial issues. Baldwin makes arguments about how race is treated much different in Europe‚ he also argued how there are
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Discussion Questions for Starbucks Case The discussion questions below will be the focus of the in-class case discussion. Try to answer them with as much detail as you can. Write down your answers and bring them to the class for discussion. Starbucks operates in the retail coffee market. In the home‚ it has 4% share specialty coffee. In the food service channel‚ it has 5% share. In the grocery stores‚ it has 7.3% in the ground coffee and 21.7% in the whole beans category. 1. What is Starbucks’
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Scattered throughout India are approximately 500‚000 villages. The Census of India regards most settlements of fewer than 5‚000 as a village. These settlements range from tiny hamlets of thatched huts to larger settlements of tile-roofed stone and brick houses. Most Indian villages are small; nearly 80 percent have fewer than 1‚000 inhabitants‚ according to the 1991 census. Most are nucleated settlements‚ while others are more dispersed. It is in villages that India’s most basic business--agriculture--takes
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