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Chief Executive Officer Myers Squibb
1,870 wordsCornerstone student in the College of Business Administration Introduction /Executive SummaryBackgroundProduct/Service Place/Distribution Promotion/Advertising Training and Development Compensation and Rewards Labor relations 10 Profitability and Cash Flow 10 Liquidity 12 Leverage/Capital Management 13 Conclusion 13 References 14 This document consists of an overall business review for the Pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb. Although by no means a complete summary of their 1998 business...
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Philip Morris Brand Loyalty
1,009 wordsproducts such as cigars, snuff, and chew are considered close substitutes to cigarettes. Cigar smoke is just taken into the mouth, but not inhaled like cigarettes. Snuff and chew do not even contain smoke, but are put on the skin for nicotine absorption Companies such as Imperial Tobacco, which produce a wide array of chew and snuff products, would be considered a company that provides substitutes to cigarettes. They would not fall in the cigarette industry itself. Situation Analysis Industry St...
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Blood Alcohol Legal Limit
1,151 wordsAlcoholic drinks, in todays society, have become an accepted part of social life. However, when alcohol is mixed with driving, catastrophic consequences can occur. In fact, 1 in 5 fatal accidents on our roads are directly related to alcohol. Is our government doing enough to deter people from drinking and driving? Each week, around 11 people die from driving above the legal limit, just under half of whom being people other than the drink drivers themselves. A further 300 people are injured. An a...
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Covering The North American Free Trade Agreement Nafta
2,156 wordsI. The Origins of NAFTA The underlying rationale not only of NAFTA, but of all free trade agreements is the belief that international trade is a win-win proposition. This belief is based on theories developed by theorists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo, who dismissed the mercantilist view that a country could only gain at the expense of its rival. In their view, mutual gains for all parties involved would be created if two conditions were met: 1. If each country specialized in producing an...
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Analysis Of How Microsoft Should Spend Its Cash
1,041 wordsMicrosoft has a nasty problem: figuring out what to do with $ 31. 6 billion in cash. We can picture a sleep-deprived Bill Gates and a red-eyed Steve Ballmer toiling away night after night, trying to get Microsoft out of this predicament. It must be tough. So we decided to help them out by making a few suggestions on how Microsoft should spend its cash hoard. We " re going to propose a variety of acquisitions. While the company hasn't historically had an acquisitive culture, that seems to be chan...
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Proposition 13 And The California School System
1,335 words... ut never deliver, Proposition 13 delivered as promised: about $ 7 billion in immediate property tax reductions. Proposition 13 was aimed directly at the financing of local government. It is among local governments that this change can be most visibly seen. The tax cut brought about by Proposition 13, along with an unsteady state economy and tight budgets, has resulted in a fiscal tightening of social and educational programs. Beyond the visible results of this tax cut- increased class size, ...
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Company Profile Of The Home Depot
1,661 wordsANALYSIS # 1 1. COMPANY BACKGROUND The Home Depot Inc. was founded in 1978 and is the worlds largest home improvement retailer and the second largest retailer in the United States. The sales for the fiscal year 2000 were $ 45. 7 billion, compared to $ 38. 4 billion in fiscal 1999. As of January 2001, the company was operating 1, 134 retail stores in forty-seven states, six Canadian provinces, Puerto Rico, Chile and Argentina. Home Depot stores sell a wide assortment of building materials, home i...
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Emotional Responses Billion Dollars
1,246 wordsMarketing issues, as they relate to business ethics, extend across a wide range of business activities that characterize a company's relationship with its customers (product manufacturing and integrity; disclosure, labeling and packaging; marketing and advertising; selling practices; pricing; and distribution). In recent years the scope of marketing issues has expanded, including new problems like an environmental responsibility, a firm's relationship to its competitors etc. Companies now are ex...
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Legalized Gambling Slot Machines
2,023 wordsGambling Just Gambling Research Paper 2 Gambling Just one more pull, only one more dollar. Anytime now this machine is sure to pay off big! This is an example of the chatter you may hear if standing along a row of slot machines, or one arm bandits as some like to call them. You might find yourself in the midst of a diverse crowd. There are people celebrating their birthdays, and couples celebrating retirement. You see anxious people putting nickels in slot machines, and you see others risking th...
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U S Military Military Spending
720 wordsSHOULD CONGRESS DOWNSIZE THE U. S. MILITARY BUDGET? SHOULD CONGRESS DOWNSIZE THE U. S. MILITARY BUDGET? The issue of defense of the country should be priority for every government. It is very good that American government created such strong army with the most modern machines and system of defense. The United States should be aware of conflicts and terrorists acts. It costs a lot of money, but safety of citizens should be provided in the first place. Every American feels, that he is his own coun...
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U S Department Trade Deficit
1,433 wordsNAFTA Five Years of Failure In December of 1992, Presidents Salinas (Mexico), Bush (U. S. ) and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The Mexican legislature ratified NAFTA in 1993 and the treaty went into effect on January 1, 1994, creating the largest free-trade zone in the world. NAFTA s promoters promised 200, 000 new jobs per year for the U. S. , higher wages in Mexico and a growing U. S. trade surplus with Mexico, environmental clea...
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Western United States Nuclear Waste
992 wordsYucca Mountain-Right or Wrong? As the United States nuclear waste buildup becomes larger, the need for a permanent storage facility becomes more urgent. One proposed site is in the Yucca Mountains of Nevada. This makes many Nevadans uneasy, as visions of three-legged babies and phosphorescent people come to mind. This is an unfounded worry, as many reasons prove. In fact, the Yucca Mountains provide an ideal site for a permanent underground nuclear waste facility in the U. S. While the Yucca Mou...
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Wal Marts Sam Walton
646 wordsCan Wal-mart get the magic back? In the four years since Wal-marts founder died of bone cancer, CEO David Glass has invested billions of borrowed dollars in businesses that have earned relatively low returns. Glass, age 60, seemed to be a good choice for CEO when Sam Walton, at 69, tapped him to take over in 1988. Investors have knocked down Wal-Marts market value by $ 7. 7 billion since the day Sam died. Sam built it from nothing to $ 59. 3 billion. In the past year, key executives, particularl...
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