...primary material of choice. The use of composites in the building industry is growing rapidly. Traditional benefits offered by composites are being recognized and utilized to address design limitations and can be used to reduce life cycle environmental and cost impacts. Learning Objectives • Define ‘Composite Materials’ and learn the history of composites in multiple industries and the factors that led the growth of composites in these industries. • Identify the design and performance attributes of composites used in other industries that are applicable to the building / construction market. • Review case studies that demonstrate how the inherent attributes of composites such as low weight, durability and low thermal conductivity, result in environmental and cost effective material options. • Explore web based education tools that offer case studies on the use of composites in construction and allow users to connect with composite fabricators that specialize in design, fabrication and installation of composite building materials. What is a Composite? Composite An engineered combination of materials that result in a finished material with better overall properties than the starting constituents. At a microscopic level, the constituent materials remain distinct within the finished structure. “Traditional” Composites Wood is a natural composite of cellulose fibers in a lignin matrix. Engineered wood is wood fibers, strands or veneers bound...
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...March Boston www.smartlabelsusa.com Welcome to Smart Labels USA 2006, informing and delivering the many applications of RFID smart labels. For enquiries contact Nicola Bateman n.bateman@idtechex.com or call + 44 (0) 1223 813703 www.smartlabelsUSA.com Now in its 5th Year Smart Labels USA - the must-attend RFID event of the year - is back in Boston, bigger and better than ever before. The Smart Labels world-series of events by IDTechEx provides renowned, independent, global-reach RFID information and solutions through conferences, masterclasses, seminars and trade expositions. The Smart Labels series address how RFID and allied technologies are developing and being used in the U.S and around the World. Smart Labels USA is the biggest global event uniquely drawing Executive Level Representatives from the LABEL, PRINTING, PACKAGING, CONVERTING and USER market, teaching; RFID impact on businesses across a wide range of applications such as retail, manufacturing, healthcare, airlines and airports, passenger transport, archiving… RFID implementation – experience from the experts Manufacturing RFID smart labels Cutting edge RFID smart label technologies RFID Market growth – what’s in it for you? In 2006, almost three times the volume of RFID tags will be sold than over the previous 60 years since their invention. Primarily this will be because retailers and military forces are demanding that suppliers fit tags to pallets and cases to save cost and improve service but many...
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...The Consequences of Eliminating Rock Mining in South Florida Carlos Socarras Professor – Karen Nead English-135 December 1, 2008 The reason I chose this topic for my research paper is because I feel that it is critical to help educate you a little on the importance of rock mining in South Florida and the consequences that we will endure without this local resource. Throughout this paper you will see me make reference to Titan Americas Pennsuco facility. This is mostly because I am currently employed by them and have been working in the Pennsuco cement plant for over nineteen years now, so I have managed to learn a lot of its history through time and experience. Another reason is the fact that as a fellow employee the ruling to eliminate rock mining in Florida directly affects me mainly because this decision would put me out of a job. I would first like to begin by giving you a brief history of the Pennsuco land and how Titan America acquired the facility, so that you can have a better understanding of the issues that we are currently experiencing. In the early 1900s, Pennsylvania Sugar Co., which is where the term “Pennsuco” came from was one of several companies that obtained large acreages and planted sugar cane on the drained “muck land” of the Florida Everglades. Operations were good until the Great Depression of the 1930s hit the sugar market. Today the Pennsuco cement plant is located on the former Pennsuco sugar Farms property. (Cement Americas, 2005) ...
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...FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MNEs, JVs, and M&As Osho Aquila Adeolu Student number: 2302887 Mergers and Acquisitions, Case Study: JP Morgan Chase &Co Oulu Business School 2013 1 Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 2 2 HISTORY AND THE M&A PROCESS ............................................................................................. 3 2.1 History .......................................................................................................................................... 3 2.2 The M&A process ......................................................................................................................... 3 3 MOTIVES OF M&A ........................................................................................................................... 5 3.1 Challenges and human side during the merger process ................................................................ 6 3.2 Strategy used by JP Morgan Chase in solving some challenges ................................................... 7 3.3 The success factor of JP Morgan Chase Merger ........................................................................... 8 4 CONCLUSIONS................................................................................................................................ 10 References ................................
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...BRAC University Summer'2013 BEXIMCO Group MIS Application Of Henri Fayol's 14 Principles of Management BEXIMCO Group MIS- Application of Henri Fayol's 14 Principles of Management Submitted to: Afsana Akhtar Assistant Professor BRAC Business School BRAC University Date of Submission: 13th August, 2013 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 13th August, 2013 To, Afsana Akhtar Assistant Professor BRAC Business School BRAC University. Sub: Submission of term paper for completion of course. Dear Madam, With high reverence we want to state that we have finished our term paper on the application of Henri Fayol's 14 Principles of Management in Beximco Group MIS in Bangladesh. While working with the term paper we got the first hand experience to learn about the applied management techniques in an organization. It helped us in gaining a new point of view on the significance of management theory like Henri Fayol's 14 Principles plays a role in effective and efficient performance of organizations such as Beximco Group MIS. We did some elaborate research and interviews and came up with sufficient resources to compile our term paper in a comprehensive manner. This term paper is valuable and a necessity to complete our course MGT211. In this term paper, all the team members contributed equally with sheer hard work. We faced some challenges in working as a team but due to everyone's collective efforts we overcame them and tried to produce this paper for you...
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...and do not necessarily reflect the views of AusAID. BRAVING IT and MAKING IT Insights from Successful Investors in Muslim Mindanao by Cielito F. Habito A joint publication of: ARMM Regional Board of Investments ARMM Business Council Management Association of the Philippines Through the support of the Australian Agency for International Development Edited by Ma. Salve I. Duplito Table Of Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 iv La Frutera: Reaping The Fruit Case Study of La Frutera Inc., Datu Paglas, Maguindanao Background 3 The Company 5 Peculiar Challenges and “Success Secrets” 6 Synthesis 10 References 12 Agumil: The Promise of Palm Oil Case Study of Agumil Philippines Inc. Investments in ARMM, Maguindanao Background 13 The Maguindanao Investment 14 Peculiar Challenges and “Success Secrets” 18 Conclusion 21 References 21 BJ Coconut Mill: Catalyst for the Sulu Economy Case Study of BJ Coconut Oil Mill, Indanan, Sulu Background 22 Company Operations 23 Other Business Challenges 24 Pointers for Prospective Sulu...
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...company locations in China, India, and Brazil. Harding was the senior vice president for Human Resources in the Global Services Division (GSD) of Global Information Systems, Inc. (GIS). GIS had 2003 revenues of nearly $90 billion (Exhibit 1). GSD accounted for about half of GIS’s total revenues and an equal fraction of its total profits. It also included more than half of the company’s 315,000 worldwide employees. Background A significant portion of GSD’s business came from customers outsourcing their business-process needs. GSD signed multiyear contracts with customers. Most of these long-term contracts were won through highly contested competitive proposals against firms such as Accenture, Ltd., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Computer Sciences Corp., and Perot Systems (Exhibit 1). The multiyear billings of some contracts totaled in excess of $1 billion. Pretax profit margins at the division level were close to 10%. In order to present the most attractive value proposition to potential customers, GSD sought to cut costs and improve performance by “offshoring” certain activities. The combination of huge capacity expansion and similarly large price reductions in telecommunications made it highly efficient to establish customer service/call centers, software development centers, engineering design centers, and back-office accounting centers in low-cost areas of the world that had been or were now developing politically and socially reliable infrastructures. In India...
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...FOREIGN TRADE UNIVERSITY --------o0o---------RESEARCH PAPER MAJOR: Business Administration SUBJECT: Integrated BusinessTOPIC: Are scientific management and human relation approaches still applicable to organization of the 21st century? Full name: Trần Võ Khánh Linh Student ID: 1301BF5024 Class: K52-BFB Lecturer: Mr. Trần Quốc Trung Submission date: July 20, 2015 | Introduction Management can have the most remarkable effects on organizations. Therefore, management has become an essential element of the organization. From the past, managers had to figure out the ways to manage different workers’ skills, workplace conditions, history background or even their emotions. Thus, the development of the method in order to carry out that crucial part of the managing job is required urgently. Throughout history, there have been various approaches of management theories authored by experts like Frederick W. Taylor, Elton Mayo, Peter Drucker... to basically give managers a guideline of how to control human labor. In fact, a number of management strategies can be observed with the passing of time, and two important ones that shall be mentioned here are Scientific Management - which was published by Frederick W. Taylor, and the Human Relations approach of Elton Mayo. Both theories are not hard to recognize within the modern day workplace, and these methods of working seem so commonplace and so logical to a citizen of the modern world - the 21st century - a century of innovation and sustainable...
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...The Strategic Use Of Information Technology in Business – Best Guidebook Posted by Admin April 13, 2009 [pic] X Welcome Googler! If you find this page useful, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. You were searching forPosts relating to "strategic uses of information technology". See posts relating to your search »« Hide related posts • Information Security Technology We live in a world full of dangers. On one hand the world economy is going bonkers while on the... • fruITion Delivers a Novel Approach to IT Strategy Image via Wikipedia Around the world, an extraordinary new book about IT's ... • ShowClix Secures Series A Funding From Pittsburgh Equity Partners ShowClix, a Pittsburgh-based event ticketing company, today announced that it has secured an undisclosed sum of Series A funding from... • There is money in Internet Crime The BBC is reporting that Internet Crime is becoming quite the commercial activity. Apparently there is quite some money in... • So, there’s a nude font? This is a fun little thing I had to bring to your attention. It's a nudist font! Note... [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic]TEACHER: Hello, Student. What do you know about Information Technology (IT)? STUDENT: Well, I know that most software is full of “bugs”! By the way, why are these errors in programs called “bugs”? TEACHER: Computer “bugs” have been around since malfunctions...
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...FIFTH EDITION 2005 Transforming Real Estate Finance A CMBS Primer Primary Analysts: Howard Esaki Marielle Jan de Beur Masumi Goldman This book is an overview of the Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) market. The contents of this publication are over eight years in the making and include excerpts of research reports from as early as 1997. In this fifth edition of our primer, we have reorganized the chapters to highlight the different investment options within CMBS. New material since our last edition includes sections on the various types of AAA CMBS classes, total rate of return swaps, floating rate large loan transactions, and an updated version of the commercial mortgage default study. We hope you find this book useful and welcome comments so that we can improve future editions. FIFTH EDITION 2005 Transforming Real Estate Finance A CMBS Primer Primary Analysts: Howard Esaki Marielle Jan de Beur Masumi Goldman The Primary Analyst(s) identified above certify that the views expressed in this report accurately reflect his/her/their personal views about the subject securities/instruments/issuers, and no part of his/her/their compensation was, is or will be directly or indirectly related to the specific views or recommendations contained herein. This report has been prepared in accordance with our conflict management policy. The policy describes our organizational and administrative arrangements for the avoidance, management and disclosure...
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...Week 1 by covering our two most important TCOs: A and I. These will be foundational for the term. As TCO A is our ethics TCO and TCO I is our international TCO, note that both of these TCOs will be important under and inside each of our topical TCOs (e.g., contracts, environmental law, employment law, etc.) | | Business Ethics | | As we move through the course, each learned TCO should remain in the back of your mind. We will build on them while learning the law. As you will find, most of the TCO A ethical strategies include as a first question the following: Is the behavior illegal? A "yes" answer will (usually) lead you to decide automatically that the behavior is unethical, unless the law itself is unethical (as is sometimes the case). Therefore, as we learn what is and isn't legal, we will want to utilize that information in solving ethical dilemmas. When we move our businesses overseas or to Mexico or Canada, as many of our...
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...Apple in the digital age from the iPod to the iPad Apple Inc. The Case Study 2000 - 2010 Foreward John Ashcroft Welcome to this Apple case study. I have always been something of a computer geek. My first computer was a Commodore Pet in 1978. It had 8k of RAM and a cassette player for storage. Programmed effectively, a two dimensional pencil sketch of a rocket would take off and zoom off screen. Beyond that and a few simple games, I don’t recall it did much at all. My first experience of Apple was the Apple II in the early 1980’s. The combination of Apple and a Visicalc spreadsheet, greatly enhanced financial and business plan modelling. Business models were more easily produced and what-if simulations were available at the click of a button. It was a great step up from the pencil and calculator. Seven years ago, I abandoned Microsoft and converted entirely to Apple. Apple Macs, MacBooks, MacBook Air, iPods, iTouch, the iPhone and the iPad, I had to try them all and never looked back This is the case study of Apple in the digital age. The great era of the iPod, the discovery of the digital hub and Apple’s move into the mainstream consumer market with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. It has many great examples for enthusiasts of marketing, leadership, organization, financial analysis and strategic management. The story begins almost ten years ago. In 2001, Apple sales fell by a third and the company reported an operating loss of $350 million some 6% of sales. The company...
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...Apple in the digital age from the iPod to the iPad Apple Inc. The Case Study 2000 - 2010 Foreward John Ashcroft Welcome to this Apple case study. I have always been something of a computer geek. My first computer was a Commodore Pet in 1978. It had 8k of RAM and a cassette player for storage. Programmed effectively, a two dimensional pencil sketch of a rocket would take off and zoom off screen. Beyond that and a few simple games, I don’t recall it did much at all. My first experience of Apple was the Apple II in the early 1980’s. The combination of Apple and a Visicalc spreadsheet, greatly enhanced financial and business plan modelling. Business models were more easily produced and what-if simulations were available at the click of a button. It was a great step up from the pencil and calculator. Seven years ago, I abandoned Microsoft and converted entirely to Apple. Apple Macs, MacBooks, MacBook Air, iPods, iTouch, the iPhone and the iPad, I had to try them all and never looked back This is the case study of Apple in the digital age. The great era of the iPod, the discovery of the digital hub and Apple’s move into the mainstream consumer market with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. It has many great examples for enthusiasts of marketing, leadership, organization, financial analysis and strategic management. The story begins almost ten years ago. In 2001, Apple sales fell by a third and the company reported an operating loss of $350 million some 6% of sales. The company...
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...socioeconomic force and topic of debate in the twenty-first century. While Chapter One examines the forces and criticisms associated with the globalization process, Chapter Five focuses upon the impact of foreign direct investment on home and host countries. Following an explanation of the balance-of-payments effects of FDI, a series of ethical issues concerning the social responsibilities of MNEs is explored. The cultural and legal foundations of ethical behavior are examined, and the challenges of global warming, pharmaceutical sales, and child labor are highlighted. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the need for corporate codes of ethics. Chapter Outline OPENING CASE: ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES FOR NEWMONT MINING IN INDONESIA [See Map 5.1.] This case illustrates the effects of the changing and conflicting attitudes of the national and local Indonesian governments toward foreign direct investment. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Newmont Mining is the second largest producer of gold worldwide. Nonetheless, Newmont has decided to close one of its two Indonesian mining operations, Minahasa Raya on the island of Sulawesi. As Indonesia evolved politically, Newmont faced an uncertain political and increasingly aggressive legal landscape. Local groups and courts demanded major investments in social responsibility programs. Further, Newmont...
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...Apple in the digital age from the iPod to the iPad Apple Inc. The Case Study 2000 - 2010 Foreward John Ashcroft Welcome to this Apple case study. I have always been something of a computer geek. My first computer was a Commodore Pet in 1978. It had 8k of RAM and a cassette player for storage. Programmed effectively, a two dimensional pencil sketch of a rocket would take off and zoom off screen. Beyond that and a few simple games, I don’t recall it did much at all. My first experience of Apple was the Apple II in the early 1980’s. The combination of Apple and a Visicalc spreadsheet, greatly enhanced financial and business plan modelling. Business models were more easily produced and what-if simulations were available at the click of a button. It was a great step up from the pencil and calculator. Seven years ago, I abandoned Microsoft and converted entirely to Apple. Apple Macs, MacBooks, MacBook Air, iPods, iTouch, the iPhone and the iPad, I had to try them all and never looked back This is the case study of Apple in the digital age. The great era of the iPod, the discovery of the digital hub and Apple’s move into the mainstream consumer market with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. It has many great examples for enthusiasts of marketing, leadership, organization, financial analysis and strategic management. The story begins almost ten years ago. In 2001, Apple sales fell by a third and the company reported an operating loss of $350 million some 6% of sales. The company...
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