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    George Mackee the manager of Ardnak Plastic Inc., a small plant that manufactured plastic parts for small equipment. The plant employed several hundred workers, which was a substantial portion of the population of Hondo. Ardnak Plastics Inc. had several small plants the size of Hondo’s, and George had a good relationship with Bill, his boss, in Austin, Texas. One of the problems George’s plant had was that the smokestack emissions were consistently above EPA guidelines. George received a call…

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    Starwood Case Analysis

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    Company Overview Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc is a well known largest leisure organization in the worldwide. Founded by Barry Stuart Sternlicht in 1980 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT. (Athwal et al., 2015) This successful firm is operating in nearly 100 countries and consists of about 1,200 properties. Approximately 180,000 of employees are managing these properties worldwide. As a fully integrated owner, franchisor of hotels and operator, residences and resorts under a few…

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    Burke-Litwin Framework: Wal-Mart Stores Inc Analysis Wal-Mart is a multinational retail corporation headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, United States. The company operates a chain of warehouse stores and discount department stores in 28 countries. Recently, Wal-Mart announced the decision to change its expansion strategy. In 2014, the company announced that it would cut back on store investments and spend more on e-commerce in order to improve customer experience and increase its sales…

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    Established in 1973, Seven-Eleven Japan open its first store in Koto-ku, Tokyo, in May 1974. In 2004 it was owned by the Ito-yokado group, which also managed a chain of super markets in japan and owned a majority share in southland, the company managing seven-eleven in the United States. Seven-Eleven Japan realized a phenomenal growth between the years of 1985 to 2003. The Competitive strategy of Seven Eleven Japan is to provide High-availability of a variety of reasonable products at reasonable…

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    Costco Wholesale Corporation, which operates as a membership retailer, which specializes in selling quality products at low prices was founded in 1983 by James Senegal and Jeffery Brotman, with both having a background in retailing and established the first warehouse in Seattle, Washington. In 1993, there was a merge between Costco and Price club forming Price Costco causing a double in size in comparison with the parent company, and in 2007 the corporation became the seventh largest global…

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    Phar-Mor Case Study

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    Phar-Mor was a drugstore chain that had 310 stores and over 25,000 employees. It was a young company that made prominent success in the span of less than 10 years. With this success, however, came issues that challenged ethical decision making by key stakeholders in the company. The key stakeholders in the case primarily involve Mickey Monus, the COO who made the initial decision begin the trend of fraud within Phar-Mor. His is driven by success – a character driven by ego with internal blinders…

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    Pickleball Research Paper

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    In the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, WA, three dads created what is now known as pickleball in an attempt to entertain their children. Since then, the sport has gained popularity among the US and Canada, as well as European and Asian countries, and is now growing internationally. The sport features a combination of tennis, badminton, ping-pong, and racquetball. It can be played indoors or outdoors on a Pickleball court, or on a tennis or badminton court converted into a…

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    Fast casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen is facing a class action lawsuit from blind customers and a Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (WLC). The lawsuit alleges the company failed to make its online ordering platform accessible to blind customers, thereby violating the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). The lawsuit alleges that blind customers had repeatedly lodged formal complaints to Sweetgreen over the past year about the lack of accessibility of its online…

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    Netflix

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    Long-run Business Decisions Report Compare the success of Netflix with the failure of Blockbuster discuss how the success of failure is explained due to the quality of management of a macroeconomic factor. Netflix Netflix’s IPO in 2002 was the first public company whose business plan focused on consumer experience and needs. When co-founder Reed Hastings had to pay $40 dollars in late fees for Apollo 13 he came up with a subscription model that removed this negative aspect. Initially operating…

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    The history of World Dairy Expo is pretty elaborate. It all began when a group of Wisconsin dairy leaders wanted to develop a new concept in the dairy world. The prominent dairy leaders of Wisconsin started planning 2 years prior to the coming of the event. In 1965 a group of individuals including, farmers, governmental and educational leaders and agribusiness heads created a corporation called “World Food and Agricultural Foundation” which would later become World Dairy Expo. They created a…

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