...In Africa, work was vigorously executed; to pass by the agonizing hours workers combined folksong with worksongs. This expression of song was not favored by European bosses, and was punished severely. The people’s love for music only grew stronger, and they established the Gome genre in the middle of this outrage. At play or work time, Gome became very popular, and was even performed as goodbye songs during the funerals of good friends. Originating in Ghana, Gome songs are sung in the Ga and English languages typically by males. Barbara Hampton, an ethnomusicologist studying this Ga tradition stated, “(Gome) served as a bridge across ethnic boundaries among colonial subjects for the limited objective of recreation.” Gome surrounds the idea...
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...jewelry products and jewelry related services to customers in its targeted market. The Company was founded in 2009 by John Gomes. 1.1 Products and Services The primary source of revenue for the Company will come from the direct retail sale of silvery, gold, and platinum jewelry which may or may not contain precious stones. Mr. Gomes is currently sourcing a number of inventories from wholesalers so that the business will have an extensive collection to offer to its customer base. Jewelry Store, Inc. will also generate secondary streams of revenue from jewelry repair and customization services, which will be provided on site. This is an important revenue center for the business as the income produced from these services carries very high margins. The third section of the business plan will further describe the services offered by the Jewelry Store. 1.2 The Financing Mr. Gomes is seeking to raise TK.15,00,00,000 from as a bank loan. The interest rate and loan agreement are to be further discussed during negotiation. This business plan assumes that the business will receive a 10 year loan with a 9% fixed interest rate. 1.3 Mission Statement The Jewelry Store’s mission is to become the recognized leader in its targeted market for providing outstanding jewelry inventories and jewelry related services. 1.4 Mangement Team The Company was founded by John Gomes. Mr. Gomes has more than 10 years of experience in the jewelry industry. Through his expertise, he will be able to bring the operations...
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...Monica Torres SOCL 3030 15 September 2013 Sleeping Patterns and Academics: How Does This Affect College Students? Introduction College students' sleeping schedules have changed as they entered their college years of life. Sleep is very important to every student and without it they might not perform well academically. The amount of sleep is not the only important factor but the quality of sleep as well. This research will address the sleeping patterns of college students and how it affects their performance in their academics. Literature Review Walter Buboltz Jr. conducted research in order to view the sleep habits and patterns of college students. Sleep is vital to every human being, but Buboltz Jr. believes “this health need may be overlooked by college and university students in today's fast paced society” (Buboltz Jr. 2009:113). What Buboltz Jr. is attempting to answer with his research is why college students overlook the importance of sleep and how their sleeping patterns are affecting their daily routines. The sample that Buboltz Jr. used was 742 students, with 220 being men and 522 being women. He used two sleep questionnaires to ask his gathered sample of students; the first was the Sleep Quality Index and the second was the Sleep Habits Questionnaire. Both of these were included in a survey packet that were given to students in undergraduate psychology courses (Buboltz Jr. 2009:115). After collecting the data Buboltz Jr had the final result. About 11.5%...
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...Effective Communication in Crisis Holly L. Clerkin HCS/320 Abstract Today, you are the director of a regional Emergency Management Office. You begin receiving official reports that the public water supplies of several towns in the area have become contaminated with a life-threatening biological agent. Contingency plans must be addressed within the organization and with the public without creating a panic. The following paper is my plan of action. Effective Communication in Crisis It is absolutely essential, pre-crisis, to establish notification systems that will allow you to rapidly reach your intended audience using multiple modalities. The Virginia Tech campus shooting catastrophe, where email was the sole means of alerting students initially, proves that using any single modality can make a crisis worse. Some of us may be on email constantly, others not so. Some of us receive our cellphone calls or messages quickly, some not. If you use more than one modality to reach your stakeholders, the chances are much greater that the message will go through. (Bernstein, 2013) To have effective communication in time of crisis, our organization has implemented plans that allow us to effectively deal with the situation, the media and those that are effected. With the use of all forms of media, as well as documented known conditions we hold a strong belief that we can correct this current situation. It has come to the attention of the county and this office of the Emergency...
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...Reverse Supply Chain Management -explore the feasibility to incorporate forward supply chain strategy into the reverse supply chain in the electronic industry Yin Wei Graduate School Master of Science in Logistics and Transport Management Master Degree Project No. 2011:72 Supervisor: Ove Krafft ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my enormous gratitude and appreciation to all those who supported me and contributed to complete this thesis successfully throughout the entire research process. My special thanks go to the Logistics and Transport Research Group within Graduate School, the University of Gothenburg, for giving me the great opportunity to commence this thesis in the first instance. I am also thankful to my supervisor Ove Krafft, whose stimulating suggestions, guidance and encouragement helped me all the time in the research and writing process of this thesis. Special appreciation is further devoted to all the respondents in the interviews, for their openness and patience in taking time to answer the questions and providing me with relevant and essential information for my study. Without their contribution, it would have been inconceivable to make this thesis a success. Particular appreciation goes to Suning Appliance. In additional I am also grateful to my classmates in Master Programme of Science in Logistics and Transport Management, especially those who opposed on my work and posed their constructive suggestions for further improvements of this thesis...
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...people in the country and has less than 2 physicians per 1000 people (Gomes, 2016). Because of this low rate of doctors, the Brazilian government has started a campaign to encourage doctors to work in Brazil and work in rural areas. According to Pablo Gomes, “The program aimed to take 15,000 doctors to areas that were short on health care professionals by importing doctors from other countries, especially Cuba, through that country’s “Medical Internationalism” program that sends thousands of physicians and health professionals overseas every year” (Gomes, 2016). The government thought a program geared towards encouraging doctors to migrate to rural areas would enable better health facilities. The diagram below shows the rate of physicians per 1000 people increased every year from 2004- 2013, in Brazil, but that there were still less than 2 physicians. Diagram 2 Source: The World Bank, 2016 Unfortunately, in 2011, only 4, 392 physicians out of 13,000, applied for the “More Doctor” program (Gomes, 2016). These doctors were needed across the country, especially in rural areas. Many of Brazil’s citizens are left without a physician nearby and must have an extremely long wait to seek aid. There have been many attempts to fi the issue including opening more medical schools and giving others the chance to gain education. This would allow more doctors to work across the country. According to Pablo Gomes, “...Federal Medical Council fears the opening of new universities, especially...
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...Introduction to Business Management BUSM 4151 Individual Assignment 2 * Executive Summary The aim of this report is to * Contents Executive Summary ii 1. Introduction 1 2. Aim 2 3. Issues 3 4. Conclusions 4 5. Recommendations 5 References i 1. Introduction Global vehicle sales in the start of 2013 have been soaring and have been at an all-time high since 2010 (Gomes 2013). This is greatly supported by the 30% increase in car sales in Asia (Gomes 2013). Colourful Corporation being a car manufacturing company would want to align our company vision of efficiency and profitability with the future prospects of expanding in Asia. Colourful Corporation has been approached by the Ford car manufacturing company to invest $200 million in one of its existing manufacturing plants in Asia as part of a consortium. This gives Colourful Corporation to further explore the prospects of the Foreign Direct Investment opportunity in Asia. * 1. Aim The aim of this report is to determine the vision, strategy and managerial issues in regards to a foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ford car manufacturing plant in Asia. This is Using theoretical framework and available resources, a research into the vision, strategy and managerial issues was conducted. In addition, research into how another Issues Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Asia for Colourful Corporation in this case looks at the investment of existing...
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...Table of Contents 1) Executive Summary 4 2) Company Background 4 2.1) Company Prospect 4 2.2) Market Leading History 5 3) Competitors Analysis 6 3.1) Industry Perspective 6 3.2) Market Leader -- Broadway (in 4P points of view) 6 3.3) Market Challenger -- Gome (in 4P points of view) 6 3.4) Company Review 6 4) External Environment Analysis 7 4.1) Geographical view 7 4.2) Demographical 7 4.3) PEST Analysis 7 a. Political 7 b. Economic Environment 8 c. Social Environment 8 d. Technological Environment 9 5) Consumer Review 9 Dissonance-reducing buying behavior 10 6) SWOT Analysis 10 a. Strengths 10 b. Weaknesses 11 c. Opportunities 12 d. Threats 13 7) Conclusion and Recommendations 13 7.1) Target Market and Positioning Strategies 13 7.2) Marketing mix programs 14 a) Product 14 b) Price 14 c) Place 15 d) Promotions 15 1) Executive Summary This marketing report is aimed to analyze the electrical appliance retailer, Fortress, and provide(provides) several recommendations to improve its market positioning that can achieve its targets and objectives. After investigating the current situation and external environment, it is suggested to launch a new promotion campaign that allows Fortress to gain more attention from consumers and succeed in the industry. It is found that the trend of collective purchasing is significant on the internet. Also, the number of marriage increased with the economy rebounded. In the...
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...9-701-017 REV: NOVEMBER 29, 2004 PANKAJ GHEMAWAT The Globalization of CEMEX Geographic diversification enables us to operate in multiple regions with different business cycles. For the long term, we are trying to ensure that no one market accounts for more than one third of our business. Yet we do not diversify simply to balance cyclic downturns and upswings. We do not see volatility as an occasional, random element added to the cost of doing business in an interconnected global marketplace. We plan for volatility. We prepare for it. We have learned how to profit from it. Lorenzo Zambrano, CEO of CEMEX.1 In 1990, Cementos Mexicanos was a Mexican cement company that faced trade sanctions in its major export market, the United States. By the end of 1999, CEMEX operated cement plants in 15 countries, owned production or distribution facilities in a total of 30, and traded cement in more than 60. Non-Mexican operations accounted for nearly 60% of assets, slightly over 50% of revenues and 40% of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) that year. CEMEX’s sales revenues had increased from less than $1 billion in 1989 to nearly $5 billion in 1999, and it had become the third largest cement company in the world in terms of capacity, as well as the largest international trader. Growth had been achieved without compromising profitability: in the late 1990s, its ratio of EBITDA to sales ranged between 30% and 40%—ten to fifteen percentage...
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...Professor Bob Branch Congress enacted the Fair Credit Reporting Act in 1970 because the improper use of credit records. The reporting agencies put in place procedures for meeting the needs of commerce for consumer credit, personal insurance, and other information in a manner that is fair to the consumer, which is confidential, accurate, relevant, and properly used (Maurer & Thomas, 1997). The fair credit report act even has an impact on how employers conduct outside investigations on employees. The FTC made an amendment to the Fair Credit Report Act making newly expanded disclosures notification and consent requirements to apply to employers who use the Fair Credit Report Act when making employment decisions (Morgan, Owens & Gomes, 2000). Employers are required to provide in writing to employee’s using clear understandable language, stating that a consumer investigative report may be obtained for employment purposes. Employer must give notice to employee separate from any other disclosures. Employer must also give written consent before he or she can investigate further. If an employer decides that an investigation is an appropriate action second notice disclosure must be given to the employee. The employer has three days to request an investigative report for an outside consumer reporting agency. A third notice must be given to the employee of the nature of the investigation only if the employee requests by notice. The employer must give a written description within...
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...companies where one corporation is completely absorbed by another corporation. The less essential company loses its identity and becomes part of the more imperative corporation, which retains its identity. A merger extinguishes the merged corporation, and the surviving corporation assumes all the rights, privileges, and liabilities of the merged corporation (Gomes, 2011). A merger is not the same as a consolidation, in which two corporations lose their separate identities and unite to form a completely new corporation. Federal and state laws regulate mergers and acquisitions. Regulation is based on the concern that mergers inevitably eliminate competition between the merging firms (Helms, 1996). This concern is most delicate where the participants are direct rivals, because courts often presume that such arrangements are more prone to restrict output and to increase prices. The fear that mergers and acquisitions reduce competition has meant that the government carefully scrutinizes proposed mergers. On the other hand, since the 1980s, the federal government has become less aggressive in seeking the prevention of mergers (Gomes, 2011). Mergers appear in three forms, based on the competitive relationships between the merging parties. In a horizontal merger, one firm acquires another firm that produces and sells an identical or similar product in the same geographic area and thereby eliminates competition between the two firms. In a vertical merger, one firm acquires either a...
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...A Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction It has been well documented that when people are asked where they would prefer to die, the most common answer is, "At home." The sad fact is that most people draw their last breath at a hospital or some other type of health institution (Gomes, Higgins, 2006). The hospital environment has not been traditionally known as a spiritual place that promotes a loving, pleasing and compassionate environment. Although, a hospital is known to provide a cure for many physical ailments, it is not an environment that adequately promotes the ability to deal with a patient's death or the patient's healing process. The differences between the healing process and a cure is that in the Western medicine philosophy, the intention is to eradicate the disease. The patient is seen as a series diagnoses and symptoms, while in the healing process, the intention is that the patient return to a state of holistic wellness and recovery (Gomes, Higgins, 2006). The following few paragraphs will attempt to describe a new concept that hospitals have adopted in order to promote a spiritual place that will effectively create an environment that allows a patient and their family to better deal with the death or the healing of a loved one. Most importantly the environment also includes components of healing and spiritualism that will help meet the demands of tending to their heart as well as their head. The challenges of adopting such a paradigm of healing...
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...1968-1973 – The Failure to Restructure the Old Regime The events of 1968 are crucial to an understanding of the background of the revolution The momentous occurrences in that year are – the selection of Marcello Caetano as new premier following the disabling illness of Antonio Salazar (and ultimate death in 1970), awareness that the colonial African wars begun in 1961 could continue indefinitely, acceleration of development in Portugal through increased foreign investment, and continuing emigration of Portuguese workers to Western Europe. For six years, nothing is resolved and Caetano proves to be an ineffective ruler. In Africa, guerrilla warfare increases but the regime is unwilling to accept the independence of the colonies. In Portugal, dissatisfaction with the dictatorship grows, as is evident by waves of illegal strikes, acts of violence and emergence of political opposition in the early 1970s. 1974-1975 – The Main Revolution TIMELINE January 1974 – The MFA (Movement of the Armed Forces) condemns the Caetano government as being responsible for the ills of the nation and calls for democratization of Portugal and independence for the colonies. Despite revolts from right wing generals and units from Caldas da Rainha, the MFA plans the coup. April 1974 – A successful revolt is carried out by a group of army officers and the Caetano government is toppled. General Antonio Rebeiro de Spinola becomes President. May 1974 – Severe demonstrations begin all over the...
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...MBA Class of 2013 Concentration in Finance and Financial Institutions Corporate Development: Managing Acquisitions and Partnerships (A Management Perspective) Professor: Maurizio Zollo E-mail: maurizio.zollo@unibocconi.it Office: Via Roentgen, 1 - 4-A1-09 Phone: 02 5836 2525 Teaching assistant Emanuele Bettinazzi emanuele bettinazzi@phd.unibocconi.it Learning Objectives: Acquisitions and partnerships have become fundamental tools to manage corporate growth. No company today can afford to rely exclusively on organic development processes to fill its strategic gaps. However, realizing the expected value through external growth has proved to be far from obvious: value is being destroyed just as frequently (and copiously) as it is being created. In this course, we will discuss the factors leading to success and failure in corporate development processes, focusing on four different but interdependent set of questions: • When should acquisitions be preferred to partnerships (or vice versa) in the implementation of a given strategy? • How should the value potential and the risks connected to a given development opportunity be assessed? • How can the potential be translated into actual value creation through appropriate design and execution choices in the post-transaction phase? • What are the barriers to learning how to manage corporate development processes and how to remove them to ensure a rapid development of the required capabilities? The course is designed to cater...
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...-Don Rodrigue, fils de Don Diègue et amant de Chimène. Cid est un surnom de guerre qui ne sera rappelé qu’aux actes IV et V et uniquement par le roi et l’Infante. -Chimène, fille de Don Gomès. -Don Gomès (le comte), comte de Gormas et père de Chimène. -Don Diègue (de Bivar), père de don Rodrigue. -Doña Urraque (l’Infante), Infante de Castille (secrètement amoureuse de Rodrigue). -Don Fernand, premier Roi de Castille. -Don Sanche, amoureux de Chimène. -Elvire, gouvernante de Chimène. -Léonor, gouvernante de l'Infante. -Don Arias et don Alonse, gentilshommes castillans. La scène se déroule à Séville. ACTE I Elvire, la gouvernante de Chimène, apprend à celle-ci que le comte (son père) approuve son choix d'épouser Rodrigue (scène 1). Elle tente aussi d'écarter les doutes de Chimène quant à son accès au bonheur. L'Infante de Castille qui est une amie de Chimène a contribué à unir les deux amants, mais elle avoue qu'elle aime Rodrigue, et ce malgré leur différence de rang social (scène 2). Le comte et don Diègue sont rivaux car le roi vient de nommer don Diègue gouverneur du prince de Castille. Don Diègue veut cesser de se quereller et évoque le mariage de leurs enfants. Une dispute éclate et don Diègue insulte le comte : "Qui n'a pu l'obtenir ne le méritait pas" (scène 3). Don Diègue est hors de lui, il doit se venger (scène 4). Il demande à son fils Rodrigue de le venger en combattant le père de Chimène (scène 5). Le dilemme cornélien apparaît avec la conclusion suivante...
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