...alcohol is a personal choice and an expression of free will. Some of those people don’t consider how alcohol use affects anyone other than the drinker. By listening to alcohol advertising and watching actors in movies one would get the impression that alcohol gives people an increased social status; they become self-confident, sexually attractive, and fun to be around. Initially people start out drinking for fun; it can relax and reduce inhibitions but at some point and for whatever reasons some people become addicted and can’t stop. What often begins as a fun escape and great stress relief can become a habit that can destroy everything good in life. Eventually everyone becomes affected by alcohol use in one way or another. The purpose of this paper is to prove that alcohol affects people who don’t drink alcohol at all or those who drink responsibly. Research suggests that alcoholism is a societal disease that negatively affects everyone because alcohol abuse creates higher crime rates, alcoholics cause more accidents and create higher costs in the workplace, and alcohol creates an increase in health-related issues. There is a strong correlation between alcohol use and violent crime, which is how the phrase “mean drunk” came about. People that abuse alcohol are six times more likely to commit a violent crime and thirteen times more likely to commit a crime on property (McMurran, 1999, p.219). This statistic proves that alcohol plays a role in crime against innocent people. Alcohol has...
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...Psychoactive Drugs And Their Effects Abstract This paper discusses three different psychoactive drugs, one from each classification, and their general psychological and physical effects. Cocaine, a stimulant, Cannabis, a hallucinogen and Oxycodone, a depressant will be covered. Positive, neutral and adverse effects will be discussed as well as long-term use and withdrawal symptoms. Cannabis has a section regarding its medicinal use in society. Cocaine is a naturally derived central nervous system (CNS) stimulant and topical anesthetic that is extracted and refined from the Erythroxylum coca plant, which is grown primarily in the Andean region of South America. Coca leaf chewing has been around for thousands of years. The drug was first isolated in the 1850’s and had medicinal use through the late 19th century. Recreational use became a problem in the early 20th century and became illegal is the United States in 1914. The chemical name for cocaine is benzoylmethyl ecgonine; it is a bitter, white, odorless crystalline drug. Cocaine has multiple methods of ingestion; it can be insufflated, taken orally or intravenously. It can be smoked to some degree, but tends to burn rather than vaporize because of the high temperature required. Freebase cocaine vaporizes at smoking temperatures and creates a more intense high whilst using less product. Street terminology consists of coke, snow, nose candy, white, blow and soft, among others. Freebase is known as crack, rock and hard...
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...successful managerial problem solving is nothing other than understanding and analyzing the situation at hand, which is what research is all about. 2. To help students differentiate between research‐based problem solving and “going by gut‐feeling”, the latter of which might sometimes help to solve problems in the short term, but might lead to systemic long‐term adverse consequences. 3. To create an appreciation in students that research is useful for solving problems in ALL areas of business. 4. To help students develop an appreciation of the role of the manager in facilitating the researcher or the consultant’s work. 5. To stress the importance of skill development in research, as opposed to mere gathering of knowledge about research. 6. To emphasize that research and knowledge about research enhance managerial effectiveness. 7. To sensitize students to ethical conduct in business research. Discussion Questions 1. Why should a manager know about research when the job entails managing people, products, events, environments and the like? The manager, while managing people, products, events, and environments, will invariably face problems, big and small, and will have to seek ways to find long lasting, effective solutions. This can be achieved only through knowledge of research even if consultants are engaged to solve problems. 2. For what specific purpose is Basic research important? © 2009 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. www.wileyeurope.com/college/sekaran ...
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...BADM 320: Principles of Marketing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spring 2014 Class Location: 141 Wohlers Hall Instructor: Dr. Mark Wolters Email: mwolter@illinois.edu (badm320uiuc@gmail.com for TAs) Twitter: @woltersworld Mailbox: 350A Wohlers Hall – Professor’s Office: 10 Wohlers Hall Office Hours: Prof. Wolters Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-11:00 & 2:00-3:20 or by appointment. The day preceeding each exam the professor will be in the BIF Atrium answering questions, time TBA. Course Website and Social Media Sites: www.woltersworld.com follow the “Business Courses” link for BADM 320 Principles of Marketing for class slides, summary videos and course information. Additionally, course topic blogs will be posted here. www.youtube.com/woltersworld location of summary videos for class topics. Please subscribe in order to receive new class videos. www.twitter.com/woltersworld for weekly class topics, course updates, in class discussion facilitation, please follow in order to keep up with class room discussions. “Like” Wolters World on Facebook: Class videos will be posted as well as discussion topics and Frequently Asked Questions. The course has a Compass 2G page for slides, documentation and quizes. Lecture Times: Tuesday and Thursday 8:00-9:20. Teaching Assistants’ Information: Hyewon Cho: Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-5:00, Survey Building 202 Yaxian Xie: Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-3:00pm, Survey Building Room 202 Email for BADM 320 Questions:...
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...International School of Management Paris 2009 Working paper nº 52/2009 2 globADVANTAGE Center of Research in International Business & Strategy INDEA - Campus 5 Rua das Olhalvas Instituto Politécnico de Leiria 2414 - 016 Leiria PORTUGAL Tel. (+351) 244 845 051 Fax. (+351) 244 845 059 E-mail: globadvantage@ipleiria.pt Webpage: www.globadvantage.ipleiria.pt WORKING PAPER Nº 52/2010 Janeiro 2010 Com o apoio da UNISUL Business School 3 The success of luxury brands in Japan and their uncertain future Ronald Jean Degen Ph.D. Candidate at the International School of Management Paris Vice Chairman of Masisa Chile Address: E-mail: degen@lomasnegras.com Phone: +55 41 9918 9000 Cabanha Orgânica Lomas Negras Ltda. Caixa Postal 95 Campo Alegre, SC 89294-000 Brasil Ronald Jean Degen is in the Ph.D. Program of the International School of Management in Paris, and the Vice Chairman of Masisa in Chile. He was a Professor at the Getúlio Vargas Graduate Business School of São Paulo where he pioneered the introduction of teaching entrepreneurship in 1980 and wrote the first textbook in Portuguese on entrepreneurship published in 1989 by McGraw-Hill. He just published a new textbook on entrepreneurship that was published in 2009 by Pearson Education 4 The success of luxury brands in Japan and their uncertain future ABSTRACT The Japanese are the world’s largest individual consumers of luxury brands and form the second largest market for...
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...Health Industrial organization Information International Labour Law Managerial Monetary / Financial Natural resource Personnel Public / Welfare economics Regional Rural Urban Welfare Lists Economists Publications (journals) Portal icon Business and economics portal v t e In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.[1] When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services. Consequently, inflation reflects a reduction in the purchasing power per unit of money – a loss of real value in the medium of exchange and unit of account within the economy.[2][3] A chief measure of price inflation is the inflation rate, the annualized percentage change in a general price index (normally the consumer price index) over time.[4] Inflation's effects on an economy are various and can be simultaneously positive and negative. Negative effects of inflation include an increase in the opportunity cost of holding money, uncertainty over future inflation which may discourage...
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...large company or organization changes its working methods or aims, in order to develop and deal with new situations or markets: Sometimes deep organizational change is necessary in order to maintain a competitive edge. EXAMPLE OF AN INDUSTRY BASED: THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS Industry associations pay significant roles in the newspaper industry at the national, regional, and global levels. They are particularly important to members because newspaper firms engage in little research and development on their own, have historically exhibited low levels of innovation, and generally do not have organized strategy or business intelligence offices. The industry is highly domestic with only a few international firms and few papers are exported (Picard & Brody, 1997). The industry is three centuries old, has undergone relatively few major technological changes in its history, and became extraordinarily profitable during the second...
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...time and place, and are often controversial. Economists have contributed to the evaluation of alcohol policy through empirical work on the effects of alcohol-control measures on consumption and its consequences. Economics has also provided an accounting framework for defining and comparing costs and benefits of interventions, including excise taxes. Outside of the policy arena, economists have analyzed alcohol consumption in the context of stretching the standard model of consumer choice to include intertemporal effects and social influence. Nonetheless, perhaps the most important contribution by economists has been the repeated demonstration that there is nothing unusual about alcohol in at least one essential respect: consumers drink less ethanol (and have fewer alcohol-related problems) when alcohol-beverage prices are increased. Important econometric challenges remain, including the search for a satisfactory resolution to the conflicting results on the effect of price changes on consumption by consumers who tend to drink heavily. There are also unresolved puzzles about the relationship between drinking and productivity; even after controlling for a variety of other characteristics, drinkers...
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...beverage, water. The roots of soft drinks extend to ancient times. Two thousand years ago Greeks and Romans recognized the medicinal value of mineral water and bathed in it for relaxation, a practice that continues to the present. In the late 1700s Europeans and Americans began drinking the sparkling mineral water for its reputed therapeutic benefits. The first imitation mineral water in the U.S. was patented in 1809. It was called "soda water" and consisted of water and sodium bicarbonate mixed with acid to add effervescence. Pharmacists in America and Europe experimented with myriad ingredients in the hope of finding new remedies for various ailments. Already the flavored soda waters were hailed as brain tonics for curing headaches, hangovers, and nervous afflictions. Pharmacies equipped with "soda fountains" featuring the medicinal soda water soon developed into regular meeting places for local populations. Flavored soda water gained popularity not only for medicinal benefits but for the refreshing taste as well. The market expanded in the 1830s when soda water was first sold in glass bottles. Filling and capping the gaseous liquid in containers was a difficult process until 1850, when a manual filling and corking machine was successfully designed. The term "soda pop" originated in the 1860s from the popping sound of escaping gas as a soda bottle was opened. New soda flavors constantly appeared on the market. Some of...
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...IDB WORKING PAPER SERIES No. IDB-WP-211 Macroeconomic Effects of China’s Fiscal Stimulus Pietro Cova Massimiliano Pisani Alessandro Rebucci September 2010 Inter-American Development Bank Department of Research and Chief Economist Macroeconomic Effects of China’s Fiscal Stimulus Pietro Cova* Massimiliano Pisani* Alessandro Rebucci** * Bank of Italy ** Inter-American Development Bank Inter-American Development Bank 2010 Cataloging-in-Publication data provided by the Inter-American Development Bank Felipe Herrera Library Cova, Pietro. Macroeconomic effects of China’s fiscal stimulus / Pietro Cova, Massimiliano Pisani, Alessandro Rebucci. p. cm. (IDB working paper series ; 211) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Fiscal Policy—Economic aspects—China. 2. Economic Policy—China. I. Pisani, Massimiliano. II. Rebucci, Alessandro. III. Inter-American Development Bank. Research Dept. IV. Title. V. Series. © Inter-American Development Bank, 2010 www.iadb.org Documents published in the IDB working paper series are of the highest academic and editorial quality. All have been peer reviewed by recognized experts in their field and professionally edited. The information and opinions presented in these publications are entirely those of the author(s), and no endorsement by the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the countries they represent is expressed or implied. This paper may be freely reproduced provided credit is given...
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...Review of Marketing Research Review of Marketing Research VOLUME 1 Naresh K. Malhotra Editor M.E.Sharpe Armonk, New York London, England 4 AUTHOR Copyright © 2005 by M.E.Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504. Library of Congress ISSN: 1548-6435 ISBN 0-7656-1304-2 (hardcover) Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1984. ~ MV (c) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CHAPTER TITLE 5 REVIEW OF MARKETING RESEARCH EDITOR: NARESH K. MALHOTRA, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Editorial Board Rick P. Bagozzi, Rice University Ruth Bolton, Arizona State University George Day, University of Pennsylvania Morris B. Holbrook, Columbia University Michael Houston, University of Minnesota Shelby Hunt, Texas Tech University Dawn Iacobucci, Northwestern University Arun K. Jain, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Barbara Kahn, University of Pennsylvania Wagner Kamakura, Duke University Donald Lehmann, Columbia University Robert F. Lusch, University of Arizona Kent B. Monroe, University of Illinois, Urbana A. Parasuraman, University of Miami William Perreault, University of North Carolina Robert A. Peterson, University...
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...PRICE INFLATION IN BANGLADESH PRICE INFLATION IN BANGLADESH Course : Economics Prepared for: Dr. Samir Kumar Sheel Assistant Professor Department of Marketing, FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES Prepared by: A.T.M. Golam Kibria Khan EMBA, 19TH BATCH, ROLL: 41119055 Department of Marketing FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA DATE OF SUBMISSION : August 02, 2011 Letter of Transmittal August 02, 2011 Assistant Professor, Dr. Samir Kumar Sheel Course Teacher: Economics Department of Marketing Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka Dear Sir, With great pleasure we are submitting our Term Paper on “Price Inflation in Bangladesh”. We have found this report as of informative, beneficial as well as insightful. We have tried our level best to prepare an effective & creditable report. The report contains detail description upon Inflation and the Price inflation in Bangladesh. Here we have gathered information through different sources. I honestly hope that this analytical assessment will identify the causes and impacts of price inflation of Bangladesh. Therefore we hope you will find this report worth all the effort we have put in it. Sincerely Yours, A.T.M. Golam Kibria Khan Executive Summary The current wave of inflation has been eroding purchasing power of the low and middle income people in Bangladesh, as they need to pay much higher bills for food grain and other commodities. The Exchequer of Bangladesh, which absorbs the petroleum price hike...
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...Table of Contents Matthew Toenjes Professor Rowland BE 401‐004 Inside the Meltdown Review Page 1‐3 Excel Graph and Data Page 1‐7 Analysis of Data % Change Graph Page 8‐13 Attached Articles * I, Matthew Toenjes, certify that I have completed this project on my own. Matthew Toenjes 2/17/2015 BE 401-004 Inside the Meltdown Review The 2008 Economic Recession was devastating to many. Corporate greed and overconfidence in the housing market were the main culprits to the economic downturn. As the US economy crashed, Wall Street and investors began to panic. This widespread panic was for good reason as huge multinational firms began to fail. One after another, these firms were about to go bankrupt. As the panic spread, stock prices began to plummet. As the US government tried to turn the economy around, it plunged further and further down. The effects of the recession not only hurt the US economy, but sent “shockwaves” throughout the world. I did not realize how close our economy was to collapsing. Ben Bernanke said, “If we don't do this tomorrow, we won't have an economy on Monday." When I heard this, it sent chills down my spine. How did we get so close to our economy collapsing? Toxic assets are one of the main reasons for our economy failing. These were loans given out to un-creditworthy individuals and unlikely to be repaid. To add to the problem, banks were issuing many of these high risk loans and the market became flooded with...
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...Chapter 09 Segmenting, Positioning, and Forecasting Markets Multiple Choice 1. The affluent Asian adult survey by Synovate __________ individuals according to their different attitudes, media exposures and habits, and product consumption patterns. a) categorizes b) ranks c) isolates d) distinguishes e) promote Ans: a Feedback: The individuals are categorized according to their different attitudes, media exposures and habits, and product consumption patterns. Page: 241 Learning Objective: 1 2. What can be concluded about the affluent Asian adults from the survey? a) Marketers should focus their marketing efforts on all groups b) Marketers may use different messages to sell the same products to same group c) Affluent adults in Asia are a homogenous group d) Marketers will not seek to reach out to them in the same way e) All of the above can be concluded from the survey Ans: d Feedback: Marketers will not treat them as one group, and will not seek to reach out to them in the same way. Page: 242 Learning Objective: 1 3. Which of the following statements about the affluent Asian adult is true? a) “Luxury Loyalists” tend to purchase more of the digital products such as laptops and MP3 players. b) “Executive Warriors” have the highest penetration for the Internet and usage of e-mail and instant messaging c) The “HUMmers,” hungry, urban, and mobile individuals, make up the largest group of affluent Asian adults d) The “Gimmes,” younger adults between...
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...Vance Packard With an Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller PUBLISHING Brooklyn, New York Copyright © 1957, 1980 by Vance Packard Originally published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Introduction Copyright 2007© by Mark Crispin Miller All rights reserved. Printed in Canada Reissue Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher. Please direct inquiries to: Ig Publishing 178 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 www.igpub.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Packard, Vance Oakley, 1914The hidden persuaders / Vance Packard ; [new] introduction by Mark Crispin Miller. p. cm. Originally published in 1957 by McKay and reissued in 1980 by Pocket Books with a new afterword. ISBN-13: 978-0-9788431-0-6 ISBN-10: 0-9788431-0-X 1. Advertising--Psychological aspects. 2. Consumers--Psychology. 3. Advertising, Political. 4. Propaganda. 5. Control (Psychology) I. Title. HF5822.P3 2007 659.101'9--dc22 2007027043 To Virginia CONTENTS Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller 1. The Depth Approach PERSUADING US AS CONSUMERS Z. The Trouble With People 3. So Ad Men become Depth Men 4. ....And The Hooks Are Lowered 5. Self-Images for Everybody 6. RX for Our Secret Distresses 1. Marketing Eight Hidden Needs 8. The Built-In Sexual Overtone 9. Back to the Breast, and Beyond 10. Babes In Consumerland 11. Class and Caste in the Salesroom 12. Selling Symbols...
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