...Cuba & Kathy Engle WRITTEN ANALYSIS AND COMMUNICATION – I Assignment No. 1 A Report submitted to Instructor: Prof. Vijaya Sherry Academic Associate: Diti Rajesh Shah On 03-07-2010 By Arunkumar B, Section-E [pic] INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AHMEDABAD LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL To: Ms. Kathy Engle, Junior Executive Director, LEADER Richard Ivey School of Business University of Western Ontario London From: Arunkumar B, IIM-Ahmedabad Date: 3rd July 2010 Subject: Report on the analysis of expansion of LEADER to Cuba. Enclosed with the mail is the report on ‘Whether or not LEADER should expand to Cuba’. The report consists of the analysis of the present situation, options, measure of progress, recommendations and the action plans. Yours sincerely Arunkumar B EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LEADER is not expanding despite being in the society for 12 years. The reason is the lack of funding and it must choose among options for the expansion of LEADER. You may expand the LEADER to Cuba this year or in the coming years, or you may choose to increase the number of partner sites in Russia itself. The option should satisfy the LEADER’s objective, give experience to the volunteers and participants, and make a good relationship with the universities. It is recommended that LEADER should expand its project to Cuba by taking a few calculated risks and must provide real value to the participants from Cuba. Number of words: 109 TABLE OF CONTENTS: |CONTENT ...
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...Resolving Morale and Turnover Issues within a Vital Organization Tierzah Lyon 10662 Crystal Lake Rd. Farmersville Station, NY 14060 tierzahjane@yahoo.com Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry MGMT-591-20618 Leadership & Org Behavior Professor Joseph Neptune February 22, 2015 Abstract The organization discussed in this work of literature is Cuba Memorial Hospital, located in Cuba, NY. Cuba Memorial Hospital is named as a Critical Access Hospital through a federally supported program. This allows the hospital to choose which services best meet the needs of the community with 50+ employees. Cuba Memorial provides mostly long-term care treatment as the main bulk of their income. Like many other hospitals, Cuba Memorial Hospital (Cuba Memorial Hospital) went thru a significant downturn around 2008 due to fraud and theft of education funding and much more. Not only do they lose funding, but also they also almost get shutdown every six months due to not meeting regulations in controlling heat and air-conditioning, as well as having asbestos in the pipes, and a lack of food as they have maxed out their credits with many companies. It has been a roller coaster for many years. The main contributor for many issues among the organization is lack of morale and ethics within the company and this contribute to a very high turnover rate overall. Employees are not very good as well due to the lack of appreciation of everyone’s hard work...
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...------------------------------------------------- Week Two: Individual Reflection Paper Allscripts EHRs in Cuba Around the world, electronic health records (EHRs) are being implemented to improve patient care, reduce health care expenses, and fundamentally change the way in which healthcare providers practice medicine. Now that Washington has begun to dismantle its trade embargo with Cuba, new opportunities arise for Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Allscripts) to sell their products and solutions. Allscripts is health information technology (HIT) company providing physician practices, hospitals, and other healthcare providers with electronic health record and practice management technology, including electronic prescribing, care management and revenue cycle management software. An electronic health record is a digital version of a patient’s paper chart. It contains a patient’s medical history, diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, radiology images, and laboratory and test results, and more. One of the key features of an EHR is the ability to share health information across multiple health care organizations. Another key feature of an EHR is the ability to improve patient care, care coordination, practice efficiencies, and patient outcomes—most important, costs savings. So, what makes Cuba an ideal overseas market for EHR companies? Cuba is Interested In EHRs Cuba started building a national strategy for a universal health system using information and...
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...have chosen to propose two new products or services will be John Deere and the country I will focus my responses on is Cuba. In 1960, a trade embargo was imposed on Cuba by the United States, but on December 2014, the current United States President stated that he plans on lifting the trade embargo. Though an exact date has not been given “the initial surge of excitement among U.S. businesses after December 17 was palpable: Finally, an opportunity to enter a largely unexploited market, forbidden for half a century” ("Let's Make a Deal: Doing Business in Cuba," n.d.) This opportunity will allow John Deere to offer products such as their heavy farming equipment. The two products I have chosen that will be new to their market is heavy duty compact tractors and seeding/planting tractors. “John Deere tractors would enable local farmers to raise more crops many farmers work their fields with teams of oxen, and Cuba imports two-thirds of its food” (Cuban market could be boon to U.S. businesses. (n.d.)) A1.a Method The target market for the products are the farmers of the urban and organic farms in Cuba. The three different methods that will help me determine that there is both a need as well as an existing market include, focus groups, the internet search engines such as Google, and government sources. Since the web/the internet, and mobile access is rare in Cuba, I wouldn’t use methods that were dependent on technology. The first method I would use would be focus groups. The group...
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...International Business » International Management Claire BODEL Professor Park, Young Ryeol 2016/05/09 Unilever returns to Cuba Summarize Unilever is one of the word’s leading suppliers of food, home and personal care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. It has 172 000 employees and generated sales of 48 billion euros in 2014. Intersuchel S.A. is a Cuban mechatil society with a long experience in the production and commercialization of personal care and cosmetic products and home care. This article from the Americain magazine « Forbes » caught my attention. It deals about the Anglo-Dutch multinational consumer goods company Unilever and Cuba’s economy. Indeed, Unilever has announced its return in Cuba through the creation of a joint venture « Unilever-Suchel S.A. » in the Mariel Special Development Zone. The Special Economic Development Zone of Mariel is a project directed to encourage the nation’s sustainable economic development by attracting foreign investment, technological innovation and industrial concentration while at the same time ensuring environmental protection. Cuba is opening up its economy to foreign investment with some economic reforms in the system. As a result, Unilever-suchel S.A. will build a new factory to enter the Cuban Market with international known brands such as Lux, Omo, Rexona, Sedal. The food and cosmetics giant Unilever will begin operations in Cuba in 2017 after communist officials authorized...
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...Crisis and the Limits of Crisis Management. RICHARD M. PIOUS. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2001 Academy of Political Science Nowhere do the constitutional prerogatives of the president seem greater than in the midst of national security crises; nowhere do we invest in the president greater resources of command. Although in the past half century presidents have surrounded themselves with a vast national security apparatus, consisting of intelligence agencies and the National Security Council, it is not at all clear that presidents have been effective as crisis managers. They often lack crucial information, use incomplete or misleading analogies to understand crisis situations, find it difficult to micromanage events, and are unable to project force effectively. Even when they are successful, it is often in spite of, rather than because of, the resources of the institutionalized presidency at their disposal. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 provides a case study of how John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev almost blundered into a nuclear war through the crisis management approaches of their advisory systems, but then managed to extricate themselves using personal diplomacy and old-fashioned political horsetrading. They did so without revealing to the world how they had defused the crisis, a decision to maintain confidentiality with far reaching consequences for subsequent presidential crisis decision making. The illusion that presidential crisis management can compel an adversary to submit...
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...the ripest for investment since it is the most liberalized it has been since the Communist government came to power in 1959. For the last seventy years, Cuba has been stricken by poverty and slow development despite its fairly skilled labor force. As Cuba has recently opened its nation for investments and economic improvements, the tourism industry has begun to flourish. Due to the educated population, low labor wages, and the government’s willingness to accept foreign capital, investment in Cuba’s hotel industry is a highly attractive prospect. I. Introduction Cuba, a nation whose communist government suffocated its economy for over half a century, promises profitable returns but requires the investment of pioneer businesses to regenerate the economy. After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, the dictator quickly acted to transform Cuba into a communist state. Castro’s government unfairly seized private land and companies, imposed heavy taxes on imports from the United States, and prohibited foreign companies from establishing businesses in Cuba. As a retaliatory measure for stealing American owned property without recompense, President Eisenhower imposed sanctions on Cuba in 1960 which evolved into a full economic embargo. Over the last 55 years of the American economic embargo, it has been estimated Cuba has lost approximately $117 billion. Since Castro’s rise to power, Cuba’s economy stayed...
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...Cuba Food Security World Food Program: Cuba, with a population of a little over 11 million people, imports about 80% of its domestic food requirements. A number of measures are being taken to increase food production, chief among which is the allocation of fallow land to private individuals and groups, as well as the reduction of the amount of land devoted to sugar cane cultivation, but the country’s vulnerability to hurricanes and droughts, coupled with the increase in global food prices and the financial crisis, makes the path to national food security difficult. The eastern region of Cuba – encompassing the provinces of Guantánamo, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Las Tunas, Holguín, and Camagüey — is the most vulnerable to food insecurity. Cuba’s education and health system are admirable and have put the country well on the path to achievement of four of the eight MDGs. The main public health problem is anaemia, with a prevalence in the east of 56.7% among children under the age of 24 months and 20,1% amongst those between the ages of 2 and 5. There are a number of reasons for this, the main ones being: i) inadequate food intake; ii) parasitic or infectious diseases; iii) dearth of iron-rich food; iv) difficulties in access to food; v) insufficient knowledge of anemia; vi) inadequate use of dietary supplements; vii) deficiencies in water and sanitation; y viii) inadequate hygiene practices, which inhibits iron absorption. Collapse and Revival In 1989, as a...
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...Suhaib Riaz wrote this case under the supervision of Professor W. Glenn Rowe solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2008, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2008-10-16 In recent years, The Coca-Cola Company (Coca-Cola) has seen a much lower rise in its stock price compared with the exceptional 5,800 per cent rise during the 16-year tenure of its well-known chief executive officer (CEO), Robert Goizueta. After Goizueta’s untimely death from cancer in October 1997, the company witnessed some tumultuous times, and Goizueta’s three immediate successors have not lasted for even half as long as his total tenure (see Exhibit 1). Coca-Cola’s CEO succession process was widely regarded as being ad hoc, and each succession story had its own...
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...Assignment 2: Case 5-1 “America's Cuban Conundrum” International Marketing 505 1.) Analyze the key issue that prompted the EU to take the Helms-Burton dispute to the WTO. The EU took the Helms-Burton dispute to the WTO because they felt that it violated international rules dealing with trade. The EU had a dispute with the U.S. regarding testing agriculture, trade and investments and biotechnology issues which were brought to the attention of the WTO found the following: The EU, concerned about the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), proposed a Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) in 1994, and the U.S.-somewhat reluctantly-went along. There was to be no TAFTA to complement NAFTA, however: only a renewed political gesture in the form of the 1995 New Transatlantic Agenda (NTA) ("EU/US Summit,”). Its main lasting effect was the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD), the first transatlantic lobby, which brought about agreements on testing and certification as a step toward defining a new trade agenda. It also envisioned the creation of a New Transatlantic Marketplace (NTM) within which trade barriers between the U.S. and EU would be largely dismantled.(Padgett,2009) Continuously diluted, in 1998 the NTM became today's Transatlantic Economic Partnership (TEP), a limited agreement slighting key issues, particularly agriculture, audiovisual services, and culture. This failure to develop substantive transatlantic regulations means reliance...
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...the most terrifying events in history for the people of the world. A very real threat existed for the crisis to escalate and create World War III, which would include the annihilation of countries and cause unimaginable damage from the use of nuclear weapons by the United States and the former Soviet Union. The conflict had historical roots in the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union, as well as in the history of relations between the United States and Cuba. The strife between the United States and Cuba culminated when Fidel Castro overthrew a government publicly supported by the United States, although political and military officials in the United States secretly welcomed the events. However, it soon became clear that the takeover of Cuba by Castro would result in escalating conflict between it and the United States, something that quickly became more evident in the Bay of Pigs invasion and Operation Mongoose; both designed to eliminate Castro from the political field in Cuba. The Soviet Union supported Castro’s regime and Cuba’s stand, and forced its hand with the placement of nuclear missiles on the island. The United States countered, and the two countries played out their hands to determine the fate of the world. In the end, the United States and the Soviet Union came to an agreement, both sides attempting to avoid a nuclear war. To this day, the way in which the threat was diffused remains an important model in studying how to avoid future conflicts...
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...the peace and safety in the United States. This statement became known as the Monroe Doctrine. Its aim was to limit European influence in any part of the American continent as well as the Caribbean. The Platt Amendment, which was contained in the new Cuban constitution in 1902, gave the United States the legal right to intervene in Cuba in order to protect ‘life, property and individual liberties.’ The terms of the Platt Amendment included: - Restricted Cuba’s ability to make treaties with other countries - Gave the United States the power to intervene in Cuban affairs - Gave the U.S the right to buy or lease land for military use - Guaranteed the right to use land indefinitely The Platt Amendment effectively placed Cuba under American control. Majority of middle class Cubans were frustrated by its lack of political power and influence. Many Cubans were fed up of being ruled by big countries and wanted independence. Another factor that led to the Cuban Revolution was the ruthlessness of the Batista government. The Batista regime became increasingly unpopular because: - The Cuban economy depended on the U.S demand for its sugar - Cuba had become a playground for the U.S with gambling, prostitution and large scale corruption flourishing and the American Mafia an increasing presence - The sugar industry, although provided well-paid employment, would only offer seasonal work for...
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...one, but Batista honored the idea of democracy when he was beaten in the 1944 selection, and quietly passed energy over to his competitors. He had partners to US companies (and is alleged to have had partners to organized criminal activity, just like in Godfather Aspect 2). In 1951 he joined the competition to become President again, but when a study revealed him in last position he organized a second hen house and seized energy again. After the 1952 hen house Batista experienced large community disapproval and municipal disobedience, along with a revolt cause by Fidel Castro which was mashed (don't fear, Castro becomes essential again later). The US had many linked with Cuba, which legalized betting in and create an effort to woo United states travel and leisure. Prostitution also became very typical. Cuba encounters large extensive hardship because Batista put all the nation's sources into offering vacations for the wealthy Individuals in america he did company with. He announced an election in 1954, but with himself as the only lawful applicant. Student demonstrations and road riots became very typical and Batista organized energy only with the aid of an army that many suspicious was funded by the United States. Gradually Fidel Castro's put back together army dislodge him and in 1959 Batista left to Individuals from France, which was then a fascist dictatorship under Oliviera Salazar, and also remained for a while in Italy, which was also a fascist dictatorship, under Common...
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...Marriages in 20th Century Cuba Katie Wang UCLA Professor Wright-Dixon I. Introduction Coalitions through marriage is a long understood concept. Kingdom alliances through marriages are ones that first come to mind. Often fictional portrayals of real pressures for pressures to gain resources or military alliance for a capital or imperial need involve young princes and princesses who are forced to marry. However, in a nonfictional example for this paper, Chinese indentured laborers or former indentured laborers and African slaves or former slaves married in 19th century Cuba both romantically and strategically. I argue that there needs to be further research around Afro-Chinese marriages in Cuba and a recentering on women. I had originally planned to center this paper around African slave women who married Chinese men in Cuba in the 19th century but was not able to because of the lack of literature available. However, I aim to focus on a reading against the grain for indications of women’s agency and voice in this set of literature. My personal stakes in this topic are two-fold. First, my mother’s side of my family lived in Cuba for a few decades from the late 1920s to 1960 as a part of an entrepreneurial endeavor and as refuge from persecution from the Communist Party of China. Because of my personal tie to Chinese in Cuba, I seek to uncover untold stories and hidden transcripts. Second, this paper is a part of a larger project on Chinese in Cuba in the 20th century, specifically...
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...Exports: Lenin’s prophesy: “The capitalists will sell us the rope we need to hang them” I. National Security and Foreign Policy Issues A. Nations restrict exports of goods and technology for three basic reasons: 1. To protect national security – restricting the exports that could make a significant contribution to the military capabilities of any other country that could be detrimental to the U.S. 2. To implement foreign policy – nations may grant or deny trade privileges to further foreign policy objectives See p. 411 for a list of reasons - As of 2010, the US had strict foreign policy trade controls, as well as restrictions on investment and travel, relating to 4 countries deemed to be “state sponsors of terrorism” = Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria - Pres. Bush took North Korea off of the list - Libya was also taken off the list after renouncing its attempts to possess weapons of mass destruction 3. To limit the sale of strategic goods and raw materials in short supply - Could apply to food, medicine, basic metals, or natural resources B. Effectiveness of Trade Sanctions - Opponents and Proponents w/no clear consensus - However, to be effective, sanctions need universal cooperation II. History of U.S. Export Laws A. The Rationale - U.S. concerns about technology and weaponry falling into enemy hands Therefore, it regulates the export of arms, technology, commodities with military applications, and other strategic commodities including...
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