Essays Tagged: "conglomerate"

What is Love?

ieved frustration in trying to explicate it. In Scott Peck's book The Roadless Traveled there are a conglomerate of avenues that are explored within the topic of love. It is here that some insight is ...

(6 pages) 234 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Case study: Outback Goes International

Outback Goes InternationalExecutive SummaryAs a conglomerate, Outback must be able to overcome the complexity of expanding into international market ...

(9 pages) 791 1 4.5 Dec/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Workplace Observation Paper - MGT 331: Organizational Behavior; Describe perceptions of organizational climate, focusing on communication, culture, conflict, technology

ing in over $9 million in monthly revenue for the HAP-LA facility alone. As a small part of a large conglomerate corporation, HAP-LA's climate is defined by a long, historical Japanese tradition and w ...

(4 pages) 1723 1 4.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

For an organisation to succeed, there needs to be not too great a gap between the managerially espoused and the 'actually prevailing' sets of meanings, values and norms.

ganisations can be any size, from a joint venture or partnership between two people, to a sprawling conglomerate mass such as a multinational. Whatever the size of the organisation however, it is impe ...

(9 pages) 284 2 4.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Unethical and Illegal actions of Enron.

bankruptcy after restating their earnings report for the pasttwo calendar years. Enron, the energy conglomerate had to restate its earningsbecause of severely inaccurate book keeping of nine billion ...

(6 pages) 750 0 4.9 Jul/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Business studies GCSE coursework 1 Types and styles of business's

ore than one country. A multinational that makes and sells a number of different products is called conglomerate. Multinationals normally have their headquarters in one country. Multinationals must ha ...

(3 pages) 59 0 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Mergers.

cing the same product mergeVERTICAL MERGERS: firms at various stages in the production process mergeCONGLOMERATE MERGERS: firms poducing intirely different products mergeASSESSING MERGER GAINS:* Motiv ... he standpoint of the original shareholders. Further analysis suggesterd that firms engaging in pure conglomerate type mergers grew most rapidly, while firms engaging in pure internal growth grew most ...

(10 pages) 419 0 2.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Workplace Observation at MDB Coporation MGT 331 Describe your perception of the current organizational climate of your company.

f the organizational environment is based on a small group contributing to the balance of the large conglomerate corporation.CommunicationCommunication within MDB consists of emails, productivity appl ...

(3 pages) 318 0 4.2 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Charateristics of Strategic management with examples

s and the world's leading distributor of credit cards tied a knot with Travelers Group, a financial conglomerate that offered insurance and investment banking services. The merger between the two crea ...

(8 pages) 436 1 3.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Comets, meteors, and asteroids: their origin, properties, and geology

abolic orbit around the sun. When a comet is far from the sun, it consists of a dense solid body or conglomerate of bodies called the nucleus, made up of frozen gases with particles of heavier substan ...

(3 pages) 83 0 3.9 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Summary and Opinion of Sidney Sheldon's "Master of the Game"

Merwe, but with his wits and bravery defeats his ex-partner and with his money builds up a massive conglomerate. Bantu tribes murder his son, and he suffers a stroke, leaving his wife to head the com ... ads the company, but it is his daughter Kate that is as driven and passionate as him and builds the conglomerate into an even larger one. She is a shrewd business woman and manipulates the lives of he ...

(3 pages) 38 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Comet

d in 1949 that the nucleus, containing practically all the mass of the comet, is a "dirty snowball" conglomerate of ices and dust. British astronomer Edmond Halley proved the comet of 1682 to be ident ...

(2 pages) 47 1 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

My Interpretation of Simple Plan's "Perfect"

btrusive town. You see, my name is Johnny Mason and I'm the top manager of a large conglomerate called T.J.'s Steel and Metal Co. My name has been continuously splashed a ...

(6 pages) 103 3 4.2 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

A brief essay on mergers

the merger agreement. Mergers are generally classified as horizontal mergers, vertical mergers and conglomerate mergers.Horizontal mergers occur when two or more companies in the same type of busines ... uld participate in a vertical merger in order to reduce costs of producing the companies' products. Conglomerate mergers occur when two or more companies who produce unrelated products or services. Re ...

(2 pages) 143 0 2.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Success of Wipro (Executive Summary)

A decade ago, Wipro was an anonymous conglomerate selling cooking oil and personal computers, mostly in India. Today, it is a $930 millio ...

(4 pages) 117 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Book Report: "The Island Walkers" by John Bemrose

Bannerman's mills, the largest employer in Attawan, Ontario, are taken over by Intertex, a textile conglomerate with an eye for cost cutting. After the first round of layoffs, a union organizer comes ...

(2 pages) 22 0 4.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Clout of Media Giants. Describe the power of "The Big Five" in controlling the teen-pop culture.

ntrolling separate aspects of the media business. However, since the late 80s and early 90s massive conglomerate corporations have formed that entirely control not only one, but several aspects of the ... states in his PBS frontline interview, "The entertainment companies--which are a handful of massive conglomerates that own four of the five music companies that sell 90 percent of the music in the Uni ...

(4 pages) 36 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The case of the furniture sector in China

business in foreign countries. Founded in 1963, Hong Leong Management is one of Malaysia's largest conglomerates, with have companies in different sectors such as financial services, property, manufa ... ifferent sectors such as financial services, property, manufacturing and infrastructure. Though the conglomerate has already obtained success through its intensive business operations in different cou ...

(15 pages) 271 0 5.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Ben Stein for President

politicians' stiff smiles crinkling of their plastic-like faces. Now, from the cauldron of a media conglomerate, comes the consummate presidential candidate: Benjamin J. Stein. Ben has the perfect re ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Commericals.

ge involves stakeholders, with vested interests, providing essential financial backing to the media conglomerate. For example, a network or newspaper owner with a stake in or ties to a large industry ...

(2 pages) 11 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media