...Team #4a Eric Steele Jaci Perluss Assignment #4 Market Characteristics The Bundled Communication market caters to varying customers. Ranging from families in the suburbs to singles in the country to restaurants and bars. The marketing for Bundled Communications tends to lean towards offering multiple services as a package deal to try and entice customers to buy their services. These items can include television service, Internet service, phone services, and cell phone services. They pitch the idea that the more services a customer adds-on, the better the savings. The companies tend to focus their ads and commercials on savings and add-on products, and do not focus on selling to one particular segment over the other. (Bundled Communications Services - US - November 2013) Having few direct competitors in the marketplace has given the satellite and cable companies a monopoly on the market. With existing companies already laying the groundwork and providing services, it is labor and cost intensive to try and break into the market as a new company. The segments with which the market targets are the following (Segment Explorer): ● Low-Tech Country: Lower-Middle Class, Mostly Homeowners without kids, Own 1-2 TVs with satellite connection, and 45-64 years of age. ● Big City, Small Tech: Low Income, Frugal Families with Kids, Opted for satellite cable for options, Mix of renters and owners, and Ages range from 25-44 years of age. ● Bundled Burbs: Upscale Middle Class with...
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...large swath of Americans...that a $10.10 minimum wage would have been enough to push more than half of the nation’s 10-million plus working poor out of poverty in 2011” (Berman Para. 5). The minimum wage that low-waged workers earn for a family of two is not even enough to support basic needs and living expenses. In fact a study from a July analysis from Wider...
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...made only rudimentary attempts to enforce the national building code, especially against politically well-connected landlords. With luck, the laws will now be applied, but nobody expects much. The spotlight is therefore on the multinational companies whose orders from local factory owners have led to the rapid recent growth of the garment industry in Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest exporter of clothing after China. Familiar brands now stand accused of exploiting poorly paid workers with a callous indifference to their safety. Two companies whose products were found in the rubble at Rana Plaza—Primark, a cheap British label, and Canada’s Loblaw, whose brands include Joe Fresh—have rapidly promised compensation to victims and their families. But it goes deeper than that. Clothing companies, after all have been to the fore in “corporate social responsibility” (CSR). Prompted by earlier scandals over working conditions in far-flung factories, firms like Nike and Gap have strived to deal with problems like child labour. Now the disaster in Dhaka shows how hard it is to claim that your products are “ethically sourced”. That is not just because...
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...Alex Vanarthos 11/26/2014 America's Most Successful Family Businesses Family businesses make up an incredible 34% of the S&P 500 Index, meaning over 170 of our nation's 500 largest companies are family owned (Caspar, Christian). To some, this figure is extremely surprising, as it shatters the commonly held misconception that family firms are simply "mom and pop shops." Although it is clear that family businesses are capable of incredible widespread success, exactly why this is the case is far less obvious. One way to gain some valuable insight into how and why so many effective family businesses exist is to closely examine the three in our nation that have had the most success: Cargill, Ford Motors, and Wal-Mart. In many ways, these businesses could not be more different; for instance, they operate in separate industries, and the levels and types of family involvement in the firms vary. Extensive analysis of these three corporations did, however, reveal that while no family, business, or family business is perfect, each company's achievements are directly attributable to its commitment to the common vision and identity instilled in the firm by the family. Cargill Cargill is a private corporation that works with "farmers, customers, governments and communities" to provide "food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services to the world ("Cargill:...
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...The Earth is Round and So are Americans Is it too late to fix America’s obesity epidemic? Ever since the 70’s Americans eating habits and lifestyle has changed. Fast food industries is the major reason why America has become one of the most obese countries in the world. Women rights also changed, this meant that women now were able to have a job which made a huge difference in families. Fast foods took advantage of this situation to target the kids due to the fact that women had less time at home to cook homemade meals. Ever since those years not only has fast foods become an everyday meal but is causing huge health problems in America. The most Epidemic problem is obesity and has increased over the years, and is killing thousands of Americans. Back in the 1970’s before fast foods, life expectancy of people was...
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...Everyone has a Weakness How Yuengling Started Out Yuengling is popularly known as brewing company. It was owned by Richard Yuengling, Jr and was started by his family. Most people have heard of this brand of beer. It is most widely known in PA where its headquarters is. It is actually the oldest brewing company in the United States starting back in 1829. This beer company sells an average of 2.5 million barrels of beer annually. According to Bloomberg.com, Yuengling passed Boston Beer Co. as the largest U.S. owned beer maker by volume sold. The company itself is valued around $1.8 billion. Now this craft beer company started off slow. The first year of production yielded only 600 barrels. Once the owners’ son stepped up and took ownership of the business, he slowly made it into what it is known as today, America’s best-selling craft beer brand. Yuengling wasn’t always sunshine and rainbows throughout its course. It was actually on the brink of extinction when prohibition took place. If Richard would have not opened a creamery during that time, we might have never known what this beer tasted like. By selling legal near-beer, the company stayed afloat. During WWII, when grain was being rationed, other big brands used less grain in their beers but Yuengling held their ground. This is when people started to like lighter beers which made Yuengling’s sales plummet. Yuengling stated, “We were out of business and too dumb to know it.” Richard and his father had some disagreements...
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...In Twenty-First Century, modern America one can trace the effects of various actions and decisions of past government leaders and ordinary citizens in the shaping of the America we see today. Throughout human society, the conflicts, issues, and divisions among peoples, which one observes at any point in time, are not matters of chance, but are products of history, and forces of human undertaking. Today, American society is faced with a residential, geographic phenomenon among urban and suburban communities that disadvantages African American citizens through the discriminatory denial of residential and economic freedom, a Constitutional promise that is guaranteed to all Americans. Modern America is confronted with a socially and geographically segregated society structured on the hierarchies of race, having the greatest consequences for African American communities, the most segregated racial group in American society. The Great Migration of the early twentieth century was a symbolic beacon of hope for African Americans leaving their homes in the rural South to a new land of promise in the urban North. While this migration created vast amounts of opportunity for African Americans that could have not existed in the Jim Crow-era South, the movements of these people would carry the racial divisions and hostilities of society to the level of a national plight. Northern whites implemented various practices in order to manipulate urban housing markets in the effect of restricting...
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...Fiat plays double or quits with Chrysler Introduction Below are two articles about the merger between Fiat and Chrysler. Please read these and analyse them in the context of TWO of the theoretical frameworks ( One from OS, One from HR) which have been reviewed and considered in this course. Your answer should include: A brief summary of the relevant theories, and any evidenced based critique of those theories You should then apply those three concepts to this case study, so as to illustrate how they apply, or may be contradicted, in the Fiat –Chrysler merger. From The Economist, 27 November 2010, P 73-74 IN JANUARY Fiat cars will be back on sale in America for the first time in 27 years. The tiny, retro-styled Fiat 500 will appear in the showrooms of 130 dealers across the country. It was launched at the Los Angeles motor show last week, alongside a revamped Chrysler range. Fiat’s return to America is the first visible result of what is intended to be an ever closer union with Chrysler, agreed on last year when the Detroit giant was in bankruptcy. The two companies are betting that the Fiat 500—designed by Frank Stephenson, the man behind BMW’s transatlantic success with the MINI—will also prove as popular with Americans as it has with Europeans. Returning to a country from which Fiat was driven out by poor quality—Americans used to quip that its name stood for “Fix It Again, Tony”—is a big risk. But the reward is to get back into one of the world’s largest...
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...solution and determine the impact on the appropriate stakeholders. Last, I will analyze how the economic policy proposed would solve the economic problem. Tax reform is the process of changing the way taxes are collected or managed by the government. Tax reformers have many different goals. Some seek to make the tax system more progressive or less progressive. Others want to simplify the tax system and make it more understandable or more accountable. In the United States, it is required for working citizens to pay taxes. Taxes are generated from an individual’s income or from sales. These taxes go towards the local, state, and federal government. The purpose of taxes is to fund the government, the military, and services to low-income families. Programs such as food stamps, housing, Social Security, public school, and healthcare are available due to taxes. The tax system is based on the “ability to pay.” As an individual’s income increases, so does their taxable income rate. The current economic situation of the United States can be blamed on a multitude of variables and is the fault of numerous politicians from the democratic and republican parties as well as some special interest groups with lobbying power, including several Presidential administrations. There are many benefits for the individuals, businesses, and government when it comes to tax reform. The benefits for the individual would be a simpler system, making paying taxes easier for everyone, and bringing...
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...Karra Bryant ENG 1020-011 Mrs. Shiner-Swanson Final Research Paper The Sale of Human Organs In the US recently the issue of human organ trafficking has become a bigger and bigger problem. When people hear that human organs are being bought and sold on the black market, they think that kind of thing only happens in third world countries, but it is quickly becoming one of America's biggest issues. People spend years of their lives on the transplant list waiting for a life saving operation, and they think that if they just buy whatever they need, it will solve all their problems. What most people don’t understand is how corrupt and dangerous organ trafficking is. The sale of human organs either facilitated through a doctor or on the black market, will soon be a huge problem in the near future. People on one hand are becoming so desperate for life saving transplants, and on the other hand people are looking to make a profit from buying or stealing organs and selling them on the black market. Organ trafficking is already an issue in third world countries, and will become a problem in the United States before we know it. The history of human organ transplant dates back further than most people would think. The curiosity of transplant dates back before modern medicine, in 9th century BC where individuals sewed animal parts together. In 4th century BC, Chinese texts describe Tsin Yue-Jen, a surgeon who switches the hearts of two people. This is the first documentation...
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...due to changes to both federal and state sentencing policies. These changes have increased the proportion of the individuals who are charged with felonies and sentence to lengthy jail and prison sentences” (Van Ness, 2008). In addressing any problem area, one first must define the terms or operational definitions. “The United States Supreme Court on November 30, 2010, heard oral argument in Schwarzenegger v. Plata about whether a federal court in California properly ordered the release of 40,000 prisoners to relieve the severe overcrowding in the state's prisons that has led to inadequate medical and mental health care for prisoners” (“U.S. Supreme Court Reviews Prison Overcrowding And Horrendous Conditions Of Confinement,” 2010). “America’s prisons now hold more than 2.3 million people, and many of the facilities are overcrowded, with serious implications for both health and safety. Since the mid-1970s, the prison population in the nation’s largest state has risen by more than 750%, from about 20,000 to more than 160,000” (“U.S. Supreme Court Reviews Prison Overcrowding And Horrendous Conditions Of Confinement,” 2010). California’s prison system is among one of the worst in the system and...
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...the latest and greatest gadget to do things more easily, rather old-fashioned hard work and application of common principals. Daily Life On an average day, Stephen will spend a morning inside his comfortable furnished flat sipping on coffee (what coffee does he drink) and writing content for his future publications and checking in on the latest American political chatter and events. He ventures out to the beautiful city lined with parks and plazas and colonial-style architecture that takes you back in time during the afternoon and returns home before dark most days. “I’m pretty much on a sun-up-to-sun-down routine, which fits perfectly into the routines of the locals that open shop fairly early in the morning and make it home to be with family early...
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...Ehrenreich wrote Nickel and Dimed to demonstrate the desperation of the jobs that an unskilled worker has. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? Erenbeich decided to find out by actually living the life that people would have under these circumstances. She traveled to three different cities in which to work. The first was Florida, the second Maine and the last Minnesota. To make everything realistic she spent only money from her wages and nothing from her savings. While there, she lived in the cheapest housing and accepted work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She also found out that even the humblest livelihoods require strenuous mental and physical effort.. In a capitalistic society, where "unskilled workers" struggle to make ends meet, big companies continue to exploit their labor. The idea of reification also plays well into this story, where the amount of money received in wages is not an equal representation of the worth produced by the laborer, and the laborers act as if they can't change the system. Since reading Nickel and Dimed, it is evident that hard work, contrary to popular belief, doesn't always lead to success and advancement in today's society. The old motto of if...
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...taxes. Thus, anyone wasting a few minutes doing chores worth such a cost. The next famous way of outsourcing as an individual is owning a personal assistant. Anytime someone mentions personal assistant everyone can think of either a super efficient person, or the “poor chomp” being picked on by his unruly boss. In turn bosses may grow to rely on such assistance too much, which may cause for later pitfalls in the relationship. One example is when bosses start to have excessive reliance on an assistant’s help the bosses start to lose responsibility in their own personal matters. A real life peek at this by Steinsson and Nakamura in Outsource Your Way to Success where they had “hired someone to spend hours going through thousands of old family photographs to figure out which are the “good ones”(1).” Personal assistants themselves are great, but are they really helping or hurting their bosses is the question that needs to be answered .It’s great when a boss has time to focus on very important matters in their job and his assistant takes care of meaningless tasks like an unfinished paper. Yet, if the boss begins to make the assistants help all the time and without pressing matters the boss losses the efficiency he was to gain by hiring an assistant.Taking an overall perspective of having a personal assistant is similar to having a secretary than anything, in which if a boss has such amount of work is to be already provided with one. A person shouldn’t need a personal assistance...
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