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television, filmed entertainment, and theme parks make up the final 18 percent of the operating income. Therefore, Comcast is well positioned to continue to drive growth within each segment and add value for all shareholders. Firstly, the lower gross profit percentage of filmed entertainment and theme parks compared to subsequent years is due in part to Comcast’s recent acquisitions. Below is a list of these acquisitions and adjustments by business segments for 2015 and 2016. The most…

disloyalty to the company. In Ronald Duska’s article Whistleblowing II, he takes opposition to this stance. Throughout his article he makes three main points: employees have no obligation to remain loyal to a company, the primary function of business is profit, and the analogy between business and team is erroneous. It’s important to consider the types of groups where loyalty is appropriate. Bok says, “since (the whistleblower)…

lesser-known Bernard Mandeville. Each of these men sought to guide the will of their fellow citizens in terms of his or her use of their profits. Though both of the…

Introduction Ben & Jerry’s growth within the US has plateaued. Even though sales are in a good place, net profits are declining steadily and market share is decreasing. With much of the distribution channels in the United States exhausted, it is clear that any new growth must come from international sources. Efforts to expand into other countries have failed in the past, but we are optimistic about stimulating growth by entering the Japanese market. There are three available options to enter…

their own price. For example if a business owner buys a piece of land for building a house but he determines to use this land to make a bakery, he will face an indirect or implicit cost of this land to his bakery. As a result, he would earn a normal profit or loss at the end of the season, if he would not count the cost of his land as a cost for his bakery. His bakery’s economic costs are both implicit cost and explicit cost. Economic costs are very…

remain in effect today. The personal values of the founder were mainly guided by Christian ethics; including ensuring all stakeholders are served well, such as customers, employees and stockholders, which will ultimately drive increase productivity and profit (Sharplin, n.d.). As these values continue to show benefits, especially profitability, for all parties involved, the organizational cultural remains largely unchanged and never depended on a specific religious orientation (Sharplin, n.d.),…

assessing how well the organization has attained those goals. (pg 69) In this approach you are watching the businesses profitability, market share, growth, social responsibility and prodcut quality. Every business aims to be profitable. Making a profit is how the business…

decreasing profits, both companies also ventured out to new industries such as Pepsi with Frito-Lay and Coke creating new drinks and moving into international markets. This allowed them to increase margins in those areas. Towards more recent years both products have been through numerous product launches and have even started a premium product pricing strategy. Basically, as one company changed, the other has followed and tried to outdo the previous. This has created those fluctuations in profit…

Figure 8: Frequency of travel (Q1) Source: Own research This first question had two goals. The first one was to reflect the share of respondents that do not travel for vacation. After eliminating them from the further analysis, the second goal behind this question was to get an idea how many respondents travel twice or more than twice a year and how many respondents travel only once per year. The results presented in Figure 8 show that 8.33% of the respondents travel once a year, 67.93% travel…

1.) Buber describes itself as a technology company rather than a transportation company. It’s business model revolves around the idea of the sharing economy. The sharing economy is a new idea in which entails people sharing their time and resources. Hoover’s approach was to build a platform in which riders and drivers could connect rather than provide them with the physical transportation. In this way they can exploit a loophole in which their drivers would not be required to be properly…