Chinese Piracy of U.S. Products China, with a population of more than 1.3 billion, represents the largest consumer market in the world. Business interests in this market and the opening of China in the 1970s have lead to China's membership in the Wo Continue Reading...
And an owner could set his slave free as a reward for that slave's noble service, transforming this piece of property into a human being with a touch of the hands and a few words. Plautus depicts the absurdity of this legal reality with a humorous Continue Reading...
Abstract To understand the Russia / Ukraine Conflict one must understand how the fall of the Soviet Union created a power vacuum in both Russia and the former Soviet satellite states. Both Russia and Ukraine were looted by mob-connected busine Continue Reading...
Contributions of Mohamed Talaat Pasha Harb to Egypt’s National Development and Banking System Brief Biography Born on 25th November, 1867 in Cairo’s El- Gammalia, Mohamed Talaat Pasha Harb is considered one among the greatest personalitie Continue Reading...
Problem Statement #2 The Problem The problem with Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) vision of how to run a successful organization shifted dramatically in the 2000s, beginning with its plan in 2002 to outsource “PC manufacturing facilities worldwide Continue Reading...
.....ethical for an employer to use social media information as a factor when considering whether to hire an employee? What about monitoring social networking activities of employees while on the job? Use ethical reasoning in answering these question Continue Reading...
Gramm-Leach-Billy Act The History of the GLBA Elements of GLBA Privacy Protections under the GLBA GLBA & the State Laws With an aim to upgrade and modernize the existing laws in the financial industry, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 also Continue Reading...
Antecedents and Outcome of Russia's Currency Crisis Although the former Soviet Union has collapsed, losing much of its territorial possessions, Russia is still the largest country in the world and what happens to the Russian economy can have a profo Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime: The Influence of Societal Changes on Criminal Opportunities and the Nature of Crimes of Fraud The process of globalization, coupled with the advent of the information age has had a significant influence on the nature of crime. Fo Continue Reading...
Pony Botnet attack. Details about the attack, resolutions, and concerned parties will be studied. Background/Hacking Botnets can be loosely described as a collection of interconnected compromised devices, known as 'zombies', synchronously working Continue Reading...
Bretton Woods International Monetary System was invented and put in use from the end of World War II until the mid 1970s. In theory the system was designed to make banking more global and more streamlined. In fact, according to historians, "the Brett Continue Reading...
Banking Sample The banking industry, over the last decade has undergone significant change. Industry regulation such as Dodd-Frank, Basel 3, and international capital requirements have now made the industry safer and more transparent. However, due p Continue Reading...
Conclusion There are discrepancies encountered in conducting the valuation and risk of a private company. There arises these factors that if investigated can impact the process accordingly. The first research question that I suggest is investigati Continue Reading...
Innovation Ethic In Chapter 4 of Perils of Prosperity, John Sarno argues that American industry does not really have an innovation ethic, and as a result it has been very badly damaged by the system of global capitalism and free trade that the U.S. Continue Reading...
Leasing and Purchasing are two major options available to most of the organizations when it comes to acquisition of fixed assets especially capital resources. At the same time these decisions are tricky to be made and therefore require that not only Continue Reading...
Nike's Business Strategy in Rikert and Christensen's "Nike (A)" In the 1970s Nike developed a strategy that broadened its base from specialized athletic footwear to popular consumer-based fashion footwear. By the 1980s Nike foot apparel had dominate Continue Reading...
Surging Oil Prices on the U.S. Economy Although the lingering effects of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 continue to dissipate and economic growth resumes, volatile global oil prices remain a source of concern for economists and consumers alike. W Continue Reading...
Mill and U.S. Constitution None of the issues being raised today by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement are new, but rather they date back to the very beginning of the United States. At the time the Constitution was written in 1787, human rights a Continue Reading...
Banking and WikiLeaks WikiLeaks is a global non-profit media association that distributes acquiescence of otherwise unavailable documents from nameless sources and leaks. Its website, which was started in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press (WikiLeak Continue Reading...
My father has 3 sons 1 daughter. I am the biggest son and was born on 26th of August, 1988. I was born in Hong Kong so that I can be a Hong Kong resident. I studied in Hong Kong but I am different with the native Hong Kong children because I always Continue Reading...
The Uruguay round would designate that the WTO, through its primary role as a mediator, negotiator, and monitor of international trade policies and disputes, serves by design as a gatekeeper of international trade, offering the structural condition Continue Reading...
This presented the troubling consideration that many of the current standard-bearers for physical excellence were the product of performance enhancing drug use. Moreover, this cast a dark shadow on what have been regarded as some of the game's great Continue Reading...
On March 14, 2008, Bear's stock dropped nearly 40% in the first half-hour of trading, effectively tolling the death-knell of Bear's existence as an independent entity (Boyd 2008). Only a temporary loan from J.P. Morgan Chase and the Federal Reserve Continue Reading...
The reason that the subject lends itself to natural resources or real estate is that there will be some information available in those areas, making the valuation less difficult than in innovative areas. The pessimistic approach is characterized by Continue Reading...
The process would take centuries, but by Elizabethan times it had surely begun. Serfdom had all but disappeared from England, and money rents and wages had largely replaced other forms of compensation and exchange. The new importance of trade contri Continue Reading...
Ashley, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI relates that in 1991: "...the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles charged 13 defendants in a $1 billion false medical billing scheme that was headed by two Russian emigre broth Continue Reading...
The enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has brought exponentially higher costs of operating to every organization that must comply to its requirements. As many organizations are already quite lean in terms of headcount to minimize costs, many outsou Continue Reading...
A good market segmentation can reduce operational costs by efficiently allocating the resources to the most suitable segments, while taking under careful consideration the differences across different cultures (Hofstede et.al., 1999). The main alter Continue Reading...
The examples cited by Thomas and Smith (1997) are the political concern with discrimination in insurance pricing, leading to numerous papers on underwriting; and proposals to change accounting standards for pension costs, leading to a flurry of effo Continue Reading...
This fact will allow the company to now grow its operations in the target locations while some competitive companies would have to concentrate on generating more income to cover the financial liabilities, rather than to make more capital expenditure Continue Reading...
Management Styles Fool-proofing a service operation. In the banking industry, a significant service industry in any country, optimized operations are essential to ensure that the public has maximum confidence in the operators of this industry. Bank Continue Reading...
When inquired to share their views whether it is going to be encouraging or damaging in case China assumed to be "considerably having more potential on the economic front compared to today, " in sixteen nations nearly the majority of 11 nations or a Continue Reading...
Cod: Fish That Changed the World Environmental science is not just one science and is not concerned only with the environment. Instead, environmental science covers a wide variety of topics from several different areas. The additional areas also go Continue Reading...
leadership problems presented in the film? Refer to the models of leadership from organization behavior. The seductive appeal of Gordon Gekko's credo "greed is good" has proven so persuasive with audiences that it is easy to forget about the organi Continue Reading...
" Hence, images of children are often used to "reproach the rest of the adult world for its misdemeanours"; and in presenting that picture, children connote "both the future and a moral voice of the 'good self'..." Burman generalizes that the "unive Continue Reading...
International Channel Management The Japanese Distribution System has been under a lot of scrutiny and assessment and analyses by foreigners, and these analyses have attempted to find out the reason behind the absolute 'no go' principle that they fi Continue Reading...
Inflation and Deflation: The Issue of Price Stability Maintaining relatively stable prices is one of the major concerns in all capitalist economies. History shows us that left to its own devices; the capitalist economies undergo frequent "business c Continue Reading...
jobs going out of the U.S.A. Thirty years of developing computerization, as well as global rivalry have cut down the requirement for physical work in America, as well as increased requirement for a diverse sort of labor, a supplier of services and Continue Reading...
