...When you wake in the morning, you could smell fresh sea salt, the stinge of rottin animals that were dumped on the seawalls and the stench of exhaust fumes from the vehicles on the high way. On the outskirts of a small metropolis and on the costal belt, a semi suburban Village called KITTY can be found. A part of the city of Georgetown. Kitty is known for its numerous Chinese restaurants, night clubs, a market and swinging night life. The Village is a hotspot was a hotspot for the young and idle, sitting on street corners until the wee hours of the morning is a norm. The Village is made up of ten streets running east to west and three running north to South. On many of these street corners, venders can be found selling from fruits, snacks, bread or cigarette. Whenever mum needed groceries we rarely went to the supermarket, we would climb onto our bicycles, and off we went, destined for the Kitty market. The market was located on the main road, it’s name Alexander Street. Alexander street ran from north to south, from the seawall to the Police Station and is about 0.75 of a mile long. All the action happens on Alexander Street, not in any of the access roads or the ally ways, but on Alexander Street. In the afternoon, after schools are out school children would line the pavements, although they were no schools on Alexander Street, kids from the neighboring school districts like Thomas lands or Campbellville would walk over to kitty, which wasn’t too far. They would...
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...1.Identify the primary ethic issue(s)in the case.Costco In order to improve competition,JIm Sinegel,the chief of Costco require Costco’s suppliers not to offer other retailers lower price than Costco gets,if suppliers do that,Costco will stop cooperation with this supplier.And in this case,Starbucks refuse to drop in coffee bean price,Mr.Sinegal warned that remove Starbucks coffee from his store unless it cut coffee bean price,these behaviors violation of business ethics,violation Principle of fair competition. 2.Identify the primary stakeholder,What are their stakes? Suppliers:Costco just sell a limited number of items,and each item include limite brand,consumers do not have much choice in Costco,but because Costco’s price really lower than other retailers,so consumers still like to pay here.Even though suppliers’s profit was depressed Costco,but less profit higher sales make up the loss. Shareholder: obviously it is the biggest stakeholder,Costco’s stock price has risen more than 10 precent in the last 12 month which bring more benifits to shareholders. employees:staff wages are always linked with the company‘s profit,in Costco,employees satisfied their get,and fell happy here. Consumers:Costco’s consumers include family and small businesses,low price let they love Costco very much.I became Costco consumer for one year,it was really good,you can get almost everything at here with low price but same high quality. 3.Identify 2-4 alternative approaches to the ethical...
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...As per your request, this memo provides an analysis of the Boeing 787 project and recommendations for the Boeing Company overcoming their challenges. The Boeing 787 is positioned to target airlines which wish to provide nonstop service on routes that required long range but did not justify larger airplanes. Since the 787 would be the first of its kind, it creates a potential market for the Boeing Company and avoids direct competition with its major competitor, the Airbus Company. Besides, with the supply of non-renewable sources of energy remained a major concern for the new generations, aircraft like the 787 that is more fuel-efficient may become a leading trend in the near future. Exchange rate in recent years also creates advantage for Boeing 787 orders as the US currency has been weak since the 2008 economic downturn in the US. In order to achieve its goal of minimizing cost, the Boeing Company has outsourced most of the components to its structural suppliers for the 787 project. By outsourcing, the company can avoid incurring unnecessary expenses such as stock up cost, wages for workers and the need of having a larger plant. Nevertheless, outsourcing would also create problems to the company. One of the major problems faced by the Boeing Company is the difficulty of ensuring the project could be completed on schedule as Boeing do not have as much control as before they outsourced. More technical problems may arise as the final assembly takes place as different components...
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...Name Business Prospects for The Seattle Mariners Institutional Affiliation May 27, 2016 Executive Summary The Seattle Mariners have been in the region since 1977 with the aim of entertaining and representing Seattle in the highest level of playing baseball. The present home of the Mariners is the Safeco Field in the SoDo area of Seattle. The team has won the league in 1995 and on 2001 the team set the league record winning the highest number of games for one season. The Mariners are one of the best-managed clubs returning profits even when the other big players are operating at a loss. Some of the reasons for its sustenance and success are attributed to firstly, the Nintendo group. The controlling owners bought the 55% stake when the company was experiencing difficulties in the maintenance of the former home necessitating a change of location. They brought the peace of mind and stability to the community. The other reason for the team's rise is because of the management that has made wise decisions regarding the present building and home of the Mariners. A SWOT analysis of the institution shows that the firm is in a good position to compete with other national league teams because it can increase its local support base as well as appeal to International market because of the presence of icons from other nations among the team members. The weaknesses are glaring but can be avoided by building a team that is very ambitious to win and reach levels that have not been reached...
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...In executing stage—A major portion of the project work take place. It is very important stage because it is the actual implementation phase. It will occur lots of problems that company need to change their project to solve it. This stage including: Status reports: In this case, it had lots of problem since the first airframe began. Boeing Company didn’t make particular status reports to clarify the reason and the time they need. Each department of company cannot coordinate, it may cause confusion and program delay. Changes and Control ( time , cost and specification) : At first, the project has suffered from multiple delays due to procurement, sub-assembly and among many other technical problems. After that, Boeing had 7 delays due to an in-fight fire on a Rolls-Royce engine during the testing phase. When the problem occurs, it is not in plan, so in this stage we need to make change. For example, we can change the technical section or supplier those who cannot support company as plan. Because of problems, Boeing has cost it billions of dollars in penalty fees and time. In this stage, Company need to control is everything in the plan, if not, they need to change or establish a solution. In Closure stage- After the project in the end, some activities still need to perform. Project director need to confirm whether all the things have been delivered to the funders, all payments have been settle and all invoices have been paid. Evaluation:...
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...chapter 4 Closing Case: Starbucks In 2006, Starbucks’, the ubiquitous coffee retailer, closed a decade of astounding financial performance. Sales had increased from $697 million to $7.8 billion and net profits from $36 million to $540 million. In 2006, Starbucks’ was earning a return on invested capital of 25.5%, which was impressive by any measure, and the company was forecasted to continue growing earnings and maintain high profits through to the end of the decade. How did this come about? Thirty years ago Starbucks was a single store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market selling premium roasted coffee. Today it is a global roaster and retailer of coffee with more than 12,000 retail stores, some 3,000 of which are to be found in 40 countries outside the United States. Starbucks Corporation set out on its current course in the 1980s when the company’s director of marketing, Howard Schultz, came back from a trip to Italy enchanted with the Italian coffeehouse experience. Schultz, who later became CEO, persuaded the company’s owners to experiment with the coffeehouse format—and the Starbucks experience was born. Schultz’s basic insight was that people lacked a “third place” between home and work where they could have their own personal time out, meet with friends, relax, and have a sense of gathering. The business model that evolved out of this was to sell the company’s own premium roasted coffee, along with freshly brewed espresso-style coffee beverages, a variety of...
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...Maziarulhana Marcella Mazlan Professor Sassan Barkeshli CIS10 Research Project 10/3/2011 Virtual Imaging On a New Level There are two technologies that are being presented in the video clip, which is called Photosynth and Sea Dragon. Photosynth is a software application that is jointly developed by Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington, and is powered by Sea Dragon, which is an acquisition of Microsoft. Sea Dragon is created to give Photosynth the capability of zooming smoothly and in more detailed with its high-resolution digital photographs. Regardless of the size and amount of image data, end users can navigate through an image smoothly by using Sea Dragon. On the other hand, Photosynth is a technology that takes a wide variety of images and fusing the images according to similarities to generate three-dimensional models. What I was looking at on the screen in the beginning of the clip are the collective of images on Sea Dragon and its feature of being able to access photos and data either remotely or locally interactive with numerous amount of images. The only way to limit the performance system is depending on the number of pixels on the screen of every end user. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, speaker for Photosynth demo, continues to introduce a project called Photosynth that connects two different technologies, Sea Dragon and computer vision research by a graduate student of University of Washington. An example model of Notre Dame Cathedral is shown...
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...changes in the family make up, economics, violence, and personal crisis. Homelessness is not a local issue; instead, it is an international public health crisis that costs billions of dollars in tax dollars, and social issues, not to mention healthcare and public health issues. In King County (Seattle, Washington area), statistics indicate that there may be as many as 10,000 individuals living daily without adequate food and shelter. Most statistics, in fact show there are about 8,000 to 10,000 individuals living in Seattles King County without shelter each and every night (Heim, 2009). In fact, in the larger range of King County, many of the homeless have chronic health conditions to include diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and mental health issues. Many of these issues are based on alcohol and substance abuse. At least 25% of the homeless have some form of mental illness. Many have developmental disabilities, and at least 10% have HIV (Ten-Year Plan, 2011). Analyze four (4) policy choices of Mayor Schell that were made as part of the strategy for the homeless. There were numerous options that Mayor Paul Schell could have used to address the issue of homelessness in Greater Seattle. For instance, the King County Community Homelessness Advisory Council had already developed strategies that Schell could use to combat the problem. While the city would not increase the number of shelters it could preserve the existing shelters capacity. This strategy took into consideration...
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...only fresh-roasted, gourmet coffee beans in a small store to making every kind of drink that you can imagine all over the world. Howard Shultz, the chairman, President and CEO, changed Starbucks forever in 1983 when he had a vision to bring the Italian coffeehouse tradition back to the United States and came up with the Starbucks mission-“to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time.” It wasn’t always easy from 2000 to 2009 as they struggled and didn’t know how many stores they would be able to keep open. Starbucks used all its money made in 2009 to pay off the company’s debt to a zero balance. Although Starbucks has had its ups and downs since it first opened at Pike Place Market in Seattle Washington over 41 years ago, it has grown to be one of the world’s top chosen places to get coffee and now you can find them in 61 different countries. With 150,000 employees and a market cap at 42.11 billion, Starbucks will double if not triple if they continue going in the right direction. Having stocks in Starbucks from the beginning to now, an individual could have a nice nest egg built up so they could retire or be close to retiring. With new and improved equipment, free wifi, couches and chairs, and a nice and inviting atmosphere, Starbucks will continue to out sell other competitors and in 5 to 10 years I believe they will be the only place that people will go to get coffee. The only way to really know how Starbucks coffee is...
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...Unit VI Research Project (Starbucks) Angelo R. Jones BBA 3201-Priciples of Marketing Columbia Southern University Promotion Starbucks company concept began by trying to bring the Italian coffee bistro experience in the northwest. Its owners believe that if they can “inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time” (Starbucks Corporation, 2016) they can continue to grow their business successfully. This is their mission statement which drives their marketing concept as they focus on the following points: a. The perfect cup of coffee – the company primary focus is to provide the best cup of coffee to their customers. They want to provide an upscale experience that captures the exquisite taste, fine smell and complete richness the finest coffee beans can possibly bring. b. Third Place – by embodying the mission statement they create an environment to where costumer will make the Starbucks coffee the third place they want to enjoy a cup of coffee aside from the office or home. c. Customer satisfaction – Providing great service is of the utmost importance next to taste. A great marketing tool is the word of mouth publicity thy obtain by ensuring they have a satisfied customer base. d. Creating a Starbucks Community – Starbucks utilizes their website to create a social media experience with their customers. They go as far as participating in the dialog of experiences, sort of how celebrities interact with their fans...
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...Labor Laws and Unions Shadi Haddara HRM 531 November 19, 2012 Danielle Lombard Sims UPS The first and largest competitor to the United Postal Service, USPS, is the United Parcel Service, UPS, starting in 1907 in Seattle Washington. Today UPS ships 6,500,000 packages in a single day and employs 408,000 Worldwide. UPS today competes with Federal Express, Fedex, and USPS for market share and benchmark new services of off their competition. One of the most concerning legal matter UPS will be dealing with is the negotiation of the union contract, which expires July 31, 2013. But negotiations have started in preparation for the new agreement. This will cause UPS to potentially face serious obstacles such as strikes and a drop in service. This can also lead to losing market share. Depending on the approach that UPS will take in handling this matter, it might perform actions against federal, state or local laws. The organization will try to meet minimum law requirements during the negotiations in order to maintain competitive advantage. In general, these negotiations will be generalized for the international union across the nation. This means, depending on he state where each facility exists in, it might violate some state and local laws. References ...
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...than four hundred stores in the United States and abroad1. Jim Sinegal is the CEO and co-founder of Costco Wholesale Corporation. He was born on January 1, 1936 into a Catholic working-class family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Helix High School in La Mesa, California, where he dreamed of going to medical school. However, due to his mediocre grades, he was advised to attend San Diego Junior College, where he earned an associate's degree in 1955. While at school Jim met his future wife Jan who he would later marry in 1962, together they have three children: Michael, David and Suzanne. Michael is currently head of Costco’s Japanese operations and could be seen as Jim’s replacement sometime in the near future2. Since moving to Seattle in 1983, following the birth of Costco, Jim and Jan have been well known contributors to various community and...
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... | |Ref: | | My recommendation to the board of 2V/ACT is to initiate the close down of the organization. Our organization has experienced tremendous success in the past as we have strived to fulfill our mission to empower youth to make positive changes in their community. We have set ourselves apart as an organization that offers comprehensive service and building meaningful youth-adult partnerships. However, in the environment in which we have thrived in the past has changed and it seems that with the growing number of youth organizations in the Seattle area, our services have become commonplace. This along with both staffing and funding problems has led us to our current broken state. In an effort to combat this, we have explored several different program scopes and initiatives, including a temporary close down, which have left us struggling to decide where our niche is. In short, our organization’s identity crisis, the resulting funding problems, and staffing issues have left us in a place in which...
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...Seattle is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, with a prospering economy and several high scale employers, yet also has high percentage of professionals that struggle with maintaining a healthy work/life balance. Many Seattle area residents suffer from a lack of social life and interests outside of work, and dedicate as many as 50-60 hours a week to their career. To help such individuals gaining a more balanced existence we have created Fulcrum. So you might be thinking, why exactly is there a need for such a business? A study done by Sharecare, a health and wellness website found that Seattle is one of the most anti-social cities in the U.S. People living here have no strong social ties and usually live alone, and without friends. Single people between the ages of 18-34 make up one third of Seattle’s population. And one person households comprise 41% of Seattle households (Department of Planning and Development, 2010). Zillow.com provides the US census data; it also covers of whom the population consists of in Seattle. The site states that the majority of the population is university students (at UW Seattle and Seattle Pacific U) and upper-scale working singles. Those working singles will be the target market in the fact that they are the ones who don’t socialize while also working away their days. For every year since 2003, the time spent socializing outside of the internet has been generally decreasing according to the American Time Use Survey issued by the...
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...Standing on Top of the World: The Time I Was at the Top of the Space Needle Seattle, Washington: home of the Space Needle. The Space Needle is one of my favorite places in the world. It made me feel as though I was at the top of the world, when in reality I was just a mere 520 feet off the ground. But that 520 feet really makes a difference, especially when looking out over the Emerald City. From 520 feet I could see all the mountains that separate the city skyline from the sky and the bay that the ferry sails through. On a clear day there’s a chance that Mount Rainer could be visible from atop the Space Needle, however, my mom and I were not fortunate enough to see Mount Rainer due to the fact that it was pretty cloudy when we went up....
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