...1) Online auctions: We believe it’s high time that we embrace the technology and make a transition to internet auctions. Develop an online platform through which growers can sell their products and buyers can purchase them. Both of them will be charged a 0.1 % of transaction amount. This will not only bring in additional revenue but also make the whole process of buying and selling a lot easier. These are the financials involved. We estimate that online portal will cost us around $3 million. With the revenue that we will generate from it, cost of portal will be covered in 341 days. 2) Service Customization As per the recent trend, many clients don’t want full range of auction services. Hence sometimes they bypass auctions and directly contact growers. Taking this into account, we have decided to offer clients what they want. Auctioneers will offer services in the form of bundles. Clients can customize their bundles as per their needs. 3. Situational Analysis 3.1. SWOT Analysis Strengths: * Rich heritage ( Considered America’s original motorcycle company) * Strong brand equity because of snowmobiles and off-road vehicles * Strong supply chain and distribution channel of parent company (Polaris): Polaris' marketing activities are designed to promote and communicate directly with consumers as well as to assist the selling and marketing efforts of its dealers and distributors. The company provides and advertises discount or rebate programs...
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...A Brief History of Indian Motorcycle America's love for the motorcycle began in 1900 with bicycle racer George M. Hendee and engineering wizard Carl Oscar Hedstrom. In 1901, the partners unveiled their first creation, the 1901 Single. The trade name chosen for their innovative machine would signify "a wholly American product in pioneering tradition". The name was Indian. 1910-1919 By 1911, Indian riders hold every American speed and distance record. In 1914, over 3,000 employees work on a 7-mile long assembly line in Indian's 1-million square foot Springfield, Massachusetts plant. Racing activities are suspended in 1916 as the company supplies the war effort with 41,000 machines. 1920-1929 In 1923 the company is renamed Indian Motocycle Company, dropping the "r" in "motorcycle". It's a decade of growth for the Indian model line, starting with the revolutionary 1920 Scout and followed by the 95-mph Chief, the even more powerful Big Chief, the lightweight Prince, the awesome 4-cylinder Four. The 1928 101 Scout becomes the machine of choice for "wall of death" stunt riders. 1930-1939 The Art Deco era hits the Indians adorned in a full range of Duco colors, two-tone designs, pinstriping, and decals. Two new lightweight models debut in 1932, the Motoplane and the Pony Scout. "Iron Man" Ed Kretz, aboard a Sport Scout, laps the entire field in his win at the 1937 inaugural Daytona 200. With the onset of World War II in 1939, the focus again shifts to providing the...
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...product line in Aahar by introducing North Indian snacks. What are the research objectives? To understand the customer profile of people in Manipal Acceptance of North Indian snacks amongst customers Impact and extent of possible cannibalisation of existing South Indian snacks What kind of research design do you employ to study the management objective? We will be employing an exploratory research design as that will help us in gaining a better view of the likes and dislikes in food habits of people in Manipal. After this initial stage we will employ a descriptive research. Is this a qualitative research or a quantitative research? This will be a qualitative research when we use exploratory research methodology and quantitative when we use descriptive research. Does this study require a FGD? In-depth interviews? If yes, prepare the questionnaire for FGD and in-depth interviews. FGD: To get an overall picture of the objectives, we should first conduct at least three Focus Group Discussions (FGD). FGDs should be conducted in groups of 8-10. Out of the three FGDs, at least two groups should contain students with apt representation of male and female students, North Indian and South Indians as well as International students (according to ratio of student representation in Manipal University got through Secondary data). The last group should comprise of people who live in the vicinity of Aahar, but not the University students. Questionnaire for FGD: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)...
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...school with the juniors or the newcomers or the first years. It is similar to but not same as hazing in the United States, it is not an initiation. It involves insults (simple or suggestive sexual, sarcastic and even physical), running errands for seniors, and many other complex activities. Highly reputed Indian colleges have a wistful history of ragging especially Medical colleges. It has become increasingly unpopular due to several complaints of serious injury to the victims and strict laws regarding ragging. Ragging is now defined as an act that violates or is perceived to violate an individual student's dignity. History Since Ancient times Indian learning institutions taught about mutual respect in a respectfull and peacefull manner such as Takshashila ,Nalanda,Vikramshila,Jagaddala,Puspagiri Mahavihara etc.But as the time went, it resulted in the introduction of canning (ragging)i.e ill psycological tendency of judging others by insulting ,inflicting pain and sometimes practicing mental and physical torture which results in physical and mental damage.Initially it started in english colleges and universities but slowly and steadily it spread and corrupted almost entire indian educational institutions. The excuse was to teach the social hierarchy in early career, and also learn other important values in life as if they were mature enough know anything about values and hierarchy. Many colleges such as AIIMS, Christian Medical College had an unpleasant history of ragging, with...
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...mangers and policy makers of motorbike industry,helping them to analyzing the factors which are affecting while driving their industry to different countries of the world. Throughout the last few year,the acronym PESTLE has been suffering a numbers of changes,but it seem to be the most important factor which is helpful for decision-makers of royal-Enfield to analysis the current situation of the that country where industry expands.There are six factors which are influencing PESTLE analysis. Political factors include areas such as taxation policy, law labor of law,transportation problems and stable political environment. Furthermore, governments have great influence proposal that limit number of motorcycles being sold in the country because Indian currency changes everyday with the comparison of UK pounds.The changes of currency means the changes of price of products and demand of product like royal Enfield are also changes which means recession are enter into the market so UK government take some steps to solved the this problem.Royal Enfield sales would affect by this issue.Furthermore UK consumers pay higher pre-tax prices for Motorbikes than anyone else in the Europe.Government is keen to attract foreign firms to invest in UK. Economical factors include economical stability,rate of interest,currency rate[market Recerch report{2013}] . These are factors which puts impacts on the operation of business and accrucul decisions. This is because the rate of interest and the currency...
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...INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS APPLICATION FORM FOR ICCR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-15 Please tick Scholarship Scheme for which application is being made: | | | |( ) |General Scholarship Scheme (GSS; formerly known as General Cultural Scholarship Scheme or GCSS) | |( ) |Scholarships under bilateral Cultural Exchange Programmes (CEP Scholarship) | |( ) |Scholarships for students from Commonwealth Countries (ICCR’s Commonwealth Scholarship Plan) | |( ) |Scholarships for students from African Countries | |( ) |Scholarships for students from SAARC Countries | |( ) |Scholarships for students from Mekong Ganga Co-operation (MGC) Countries | |( ) |AYUSH Scholarships to study Indian Traditional Medicine Systems such as Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha...
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...INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT KOZHIKODE POST GRADUATE PROGRAMME OFFICE Time Table for End -Term Examinations PGP 17 : Term - III DATE March 25, 2014 Academic Year : 2013-14 SUBJECT TIME - 9.15 am Financial Management-II SUBJECT TIME – 2.00 pm Environmental Management March 26, 2014 Marketing Management-II Human Resources Management Strategic Management Business Information System Management Operations Management-II The Indian Economy March 27, 2014 March 28, 2014 Note:- All Examinations will commence after 15 minutes of the reporting time. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT KOZHIKODE POST GRADUATE PROGRAMME OFFICE End-Term Examinations (PGP 17, Term-III, 2013-15) Seating Plan Course Venue C2 C3 C4 FM-II OM-II CC1 CC2 C1 A1 A2 Section-A 01-15 16-27 28-38 39-62, D/205,219 Section-B 63-77 78-87 88-97 98-125 D/180,238 Roll Numbers Section-C Section-D 126-139 140-149 150-160 161-188 D/324 189-209 210-224 225-238 239-250 357-359 Section-E Section-F 251-270 271-284 285-298 299-304 360-361 FPM 2-5 305-324 325-338 339-352 353-356 362-364 FPM 8-11 Venue CC2 C3 EM MM-II IE C4 A1 A2 C1 C2 CC1 Section-A 01-33 34-48 49-62 D/205, 219 Section-B 63-95 96-111 112-125 D/180 Roll Numbers Section-C Section-D Section-E Section-F 126-146 147-167 168-188 D/111 189-210 212-232 233-250 357-359 251-271 272-304 360-361 FPM 2-5 305-325 326-356 362-364 FPM 8-11 Venue CC1 C4 C3 HRM C2 C1 A2 A1 CC2 Section-A 01-30 31-41...
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...for everyone, if students of a certain race fail or pass standardized tests more consistently than others. Is it a problem with the education, the teacher, or the student? Last year, Hispanic and African American high school students scored at substantially lower rates than Asian and White students on the ACT. For example, the score of White graduates who were college ready in English at 77%, was twice that of African American students 35% (Snyder). Unfortunately, evidence of such academic achievement gaps—as measured by College Readiness Benchmarks—is...
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...Critical Review of the Article “The changing body of students - A study of the motives, expectations and preparedness of postgraduate marketing students” The fact is that the body of postgraduate marketing students, who decide to study in UK, has become much more different during the last few years. It means that British marketing educators are facing big challenges as well as great opportunities. In order to help the educators keep up with the pace of the change, researches about the postgraduate marketing students have been conducted. According to Liu (2010), the article - “The changing body of students - A study of the motives, expectations and preparedness of postgraduate marketing students” aims at finding out the possible implications for the educators by evaluating the motives, expectations and preparedness of the postgraduate marketing students in UK, and through this, the marketing educators could design their programme better. This paper will try to analyse the article and give a critical review for it. Even facing with the challenges from counterparts such as American universities and Asian domestic universities (Liu, 2010), the trend is that numbers of the postgraduate students in UK including those, who major in marketing, have still increased dramatically. More students choose to take a postgraduate programme in UK, particularly on taught programme (Liu, 2010). Taylor (2002) states that comparing with undergraduates, numbers of postgraduates increase more...
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... We can also see other deciding factors such as admission requirements. Finally this study provides a recommendation for an MBA program in the Asia-Pacific region. Please note Table 1.1 listing the study’s programs with their correlating graph ID. Table 1.1 Business School | Graph ID | Lahore University of Management Sciences | LUMS | Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) | IIMC | University of New South Wales (Sydney) | UNSW | Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) | IIMB | Curtin Institute of Technology (Perth) | CIT | Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand) | MU | University of Queensland (Brisbane) | UQ | University of Adelaide | UA | Monash Mt. Eliza Business School (Melbourne) | MMEBS | Melbourne Business School | MBS | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | RMIT | Macquarie Graduate School of Management (Sydney) | MGSM | Asian Institute of Management (Manila) | AIMM | National University of Singapore | NUS | De La Salle University (Manila) | DLSU | Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (Bombay) | JBIMS | Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang) | USM | Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) | IIMA | Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) | NTU | Chinese University...
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...Long-standing Australian social prejudices against Indian are mostly a thing of the past. Old concerns about racism can for the most part be put to rest. Surely, our political leaders should be mature enough to call a spade a spade and start challenging the views that should hold no place in a modern and tolerant democracy like ours. Only if we do this, can we rightfully market Australia as a prime destination for international students and visitors. MELTON Insp Greg Payne says any officer found to be racist towards Africans should be discharged from Victoria Police. Insp Payne said it was important to send a strong message to everyone in the force and the community that racism was unacceptable in any field. “We work in closely with our diverse and growing community and it is an expectation (in Melton shire) that everyone is treated equally,” he said. “If any allegations of racist behaviour by member of the force are proven, then that person should no longer be welcome as part of the force.” “Victoria Police will never tolerate racist behaviour.” There is only one solution to racism: develop policies that support diverse employment, to break up the closed shops and to make sure that organizations truly reflect the wonderful and diverse make-up of our rainbow nation. Australian was treated people friendly and politely. Many international students went there for study. Most teachers are generous. They teach every student friendly, although there has different race...
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...Kothari commission (1964-66) says “the destiny of India is being shaped in her class room”, for teachers play a crucial role to mould the students. Due to the low enrolment and high dropout, the quality and the future development become a serious problem confronting the country’s education system. However, the teacher believes they can make difference, change is possible and it is essential to develop an accurate understanding of the factors that influences the dropout of rural students at college level. Christenson & Thurlow (2004) and Dweck (1986) reveal that student dropout is an outcome derived from multiple factors that encompass student, institutional and socioeconomic aspects. Dweck (1986) also found that students perceive dropout as...
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...Open Doors Study Abroad Fast Facts I find it very interesting and cool that the amount of new international student enrollment has been increasing every year. From 2013 to 2014 more than 20,000 more students studied abroad. I also find it surprising that the foreign government and university is only 7.7% for the primary source of funding. I would think that the government would be funding more of the study abroad programs taken place. I also find it extremely surprising that how much more white people study abroad than any other race. In 2003/04 83.7% of white people study abroad compared to 5% of Hispanic or Latino (a). A whopping .5% of American Indian or Alaska natives studied abroad that year. I find it interesting that the U.S students...
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...``Push-pull'' factors influencing international student destination choice Tim Mazzarol Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia Geoffrey N. Soutar Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia Keywords Students, Decision making, Learning, Country of origin Introduction Why do students choose to study overseas? Demand for education, particularly higher education, has traditionally been driven by expectations of its ability to raise the economic and social status of the graduate. For people in less developed countries, limited access to education in their own countries led to a significant rise in the number of international students studying overseas. Between 1960 and 1970, the average growth in international student flows was around 9 per cent, and continued at about 6 per cent from 1970 to 1980 (Hughes, 1988). While there is some evidence of a slowing in the overall flow of international students during the 1980s and 1990s (Kemp, 1995), a global industry has been created. The global pattern of international student flows may be explained by a combination of ``push and pull'' factors that encourage students to study overseas. ``Push'' factors operate within the source country and initiate a student's decision to undertake international study. ``Pull'' factors operate within a host country to make that country relatively attractive to international students. Some of these factors are inherent in the...
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...study on the Information Literacy competence of the final year undergraduate students at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria; identifying that information needs and ability to satisfy such needs, exposure to information literacy programmes and the challenges faced. Questionnaire method was used for data collection. The study found that the majority expressed dissatisfaction with their present status of information availability, accessibility and usage. Many considered that they have difficulty in identifying their needs, subscription requirement, as challenges; hence their low level competence. The study recommended that the...
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