Month: August 2012

Essay: Trade and Integration-

Integration elements such as cross-border investment and international trade are important factors that lead to the interdependence of countries, characteristic of globalization. International trade has expanded tremendously in the last few decades and the effect has been the provision of varied and less expensive products to the people of the United States (Kohut, 2008).

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Essay: Threats to Panera

The continuing slump in the economy of the United States decreases the amount of purchases made consumers. Although Panera’s products are basic needs that consumers will still buy even in harsh economic conditions, the bad economy could increase costs incurred in the production of its products, thereby affecting profitability.

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Essay: The Legal Enforcement Action of the FAA

For the purposes of protecting the safety of the traveling public as well as furthering public interest, the FAA has the power of issuing an emergency order to forbid a pilot from operating a specific flight if the aircraft has a particular pilot or pilots or to suspend the certificate of a pilot so as to maximize the safety of flight of civil aircraft. This can be achieved either verbally or in writing.

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Essay: Target Market Decision

One of the decisions the retailers have to make is the target market decision. They have to define its target market for the ZENN cars and decide how the market ought to be positioned. This is very important for ZMC, because the other marketing decisions for example the pricing, promotion; product assortment and place all support the position according to the market segment. Having a well defined target market enables the retailers to avoid the costs incurred when they try to please everybody to an extent of not even knowing how the car will impact consumers. They also have to make the target market decision to avoid conducting wrong positioning. The decision would help the company, for example, to avoid wasting resources trying to market the car to target markets such as children or teenagers.

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Essay: Target Customers Range

Panera should broaden its target customers range from the 25 - 50 people that earn between $40,000 and 100,000 a year to 18 to 70 year old and people that earn more than 100,000 a year. This is recommended because Panera’s high brand equity has enabled it charge premium prices for its food products and the strategy has been successful in the past.

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Essay: Growth of Financial Institutions

The growth of financial institutions as well as that of the microcredit bodies is attributed to the efforts of global institutions which offer support through the MDGs. With the objective of eradicating poverty through collaborative efforts and global partnerships, these bodies work hand in hand with organizations like the World Bank and the international monetary fund to find sustainable solutions (UN, 2005).

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Essay: Ethics in the organization

In the organizational contexts, organizational communication is considered as a field that reviews, analysis and censures the responsibility of communication in an organization. This paper evaluates humans’ reaction towards information that is required to make rational decisions. In an organization, individuals are required to behave in coherent ways to evade making unrational decisions.

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Essay: Early Centres

These early centers were an interesting conglomerate of Christianity, Islam, and Jew religious, cultural, political, and economic views. The existence of these rich centers was often destroyed by overzealous leaders who used cultural, political, and religious views to advance their own interests and consequently led to the emergence of religious wars.

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