1) What are Virgin Group’s distinctive resources/capabilities?The Virgin BrandFirstly‚ the Virgin brand is valuable in the form of brand equity‚ where ’Virgin’ is one of the most recognised brand names in the UK‚ and is also well-known in other important markets including Europe and the U.S.A. Based on 1990s research‚ the Virgin brand was recognised by 96% of UK consumers (Case‚ p.685). Secondly‚ it is rare for a brand to have such positive consumer perceptions; which include value-for-money‚ fun
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Negotiation about Virgin conflict A brief summary This was a dispute conflict between Virgin Airlines and its pilots about the delayed pay in 2011. Although the government intervened this case‚ pilots in Virgin Atlantic was not able to reach agreement with the airline on an overdue pay and conditions settlement. In fact‚ the increasing pay did not found since 2008. The representatives demonstrated that it would ballot Virgin Atlantic members on possible strike action. The company promised to pilots
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Assumption of the Virgin is a masterful and imposing piece of art‚ spanning almost 7 feet in width and standing over 13 feet tall. The work was commissioned by the church of the Cistercian convent of Santo Domingo in Toledo to be the central panel of the church’s high altar‚ thus it should be imagined in its original form not as a single piece but one flanked by other religious artwork and alters including paintings of individual saints and the trinity. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary ascending
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Virgin and child with Lilies Currently situated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston‚ Luca della Robbia’s Virgin and Child with Lilies is a sculpture created in relief to give the impression that it has been raised above the background plane. This fine piece of art has been sculpted from terracotta‚ a glazed clay-based ceramic and along with clear religious aspects; the work of art is given a hard realism via individual techniques of the artist. The relief shows colors such as blue‚ white‚
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Objectives 2. eCommerce Business Models and Concepts • • • • Identify the key components of eCommerce business models. Describe the major B2C business models. Describe the major B2B business models. Describe business models in other emerging areas of eCommerce. • Explain the key business concepts and strategies applicable to eCommerce. Alexander Nikov 2-2 How popular is Tweet Tweet: What’s Your Business Model? • What characteristics or benchmarks can be used to assess the business value of a company
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SPD 3147 Business Finance Semester 1‚ 2014/15 (Full-time) Group project Group: A02C Company name: Café de Coral Group (0341) Name: CHENG‚ Chi Fung (14062897S) LEUNG‚ Wai Han (14064891S) MA‚ Kit Man (14016174S) WONG‚ Chun Yin (14011688S) WONG‚ Chui Yi (14064750S) Introduction Café de Coral Group is the largest Chinese fast-food restaurant chain in Hong Kong which was founded in 1968. It has over 140 restaurants in Hong Kong with more than 14‚000 employees. The company slogan
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GROUP A MODEL ANSWER Brafman et al.‚ Five New Zinc Sulphide Polytypes: 10L (8 2); 14L (5 4 2 3); 24 L (5 3)3; 26L (17 4 2 3) and 28L (9 5 5 0). Acta Cryst. 22‚ 347 - 352 (1967). DO NOT PLAGIARISE THIS MODEL ANSWER Paragraph 1 ZnS exists in two polymorphs‚ namely sphalerite and wurzite. Analysis of its symmetry and crystal structure using ATOMS will be used to deduce its possible polytypic stacking sequences as well as the orientation relationship between these two structures. Sphalerite is
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Entrepreneurial decision making and the effect on business models. D o entrepreneurs take decisions based on gut feeling rather than on facts? Marijn A.W. Mulders Clemens P.J.A. van den Broek Avans University of Applied sciences‚ Breda‚ The Netherlands March 2012 Entrepreneurial decision making and the effect on business models. EFMD‚ European Foundation for Management Development Paper for Entrepreneurial Activities and Support of Entrepreneurs \march 5th and 6th 2012 Table
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Analytical Essay The poems I chose to compare/contrast will be by Andrew Marvell‚ who was an English metaphysical poet‚ satirist and politician‚ and Robert Herrick‚ who was a 17th century English lyric poet and cleric. In the poems To the Virgins‚ To Make Much of Time‚ by Herrick and To Coy His Mistress‚ by Marvell‚ they both have the similarity of the importance of time passing‚ but also the theme of Carpe Diem and taking the time to enjoy sexual activity. I claim that Marvell’s poem seems to
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"To The Virgins‚ To Make Much of Time" is one of Robert Herrick famous poems that express the philosophy of carpe diem. Carpe diem is a Latin word that means to "seize the day." The poem is a lyric composed of sixteen lines arranged into four stanzas. It is written in iambic meter with four stressed syllables in the first and third lines‚ three in the second and fourth. In the opening stanza‚ Herrick articulates the carpe diem principle that urges one to "seize the day." In the second stanza‚ the
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