...------------------------------------------------- Plot[ edit] Billy McMahon and Nick Campbell seek employment after being laid off from their positions as watch salesmen when their employer goes out of business. Billy then applies for an internship at Google for the two of them, and they are accepted due to their unorthodox interview answers, despite a lack of relevant experience. They are the only interns not of traditional collegiate age. They will spend the summer competing in teams against other interns, also known as "Nooglers", in a variety of tasks, and only the members of the winning team will be guaranteed jobs with Google. Billy and Nick are teamed with other interns seen as rejects: Stuart, who is usually engrossed in his smart phone; Yo-Yo, a Filipino-American who was homeschooled by a stereotypical overbearing Asian mother; and Neha, an Indian-American who is an enthusiast of nerd-related kink. The team is led by Lyle, who constantly tries to act hip in order to hide his insecurities. Another intern, Graham, bullies Billy and Nick's team. Mr. Chetty, the head of the internship program, also expresses his doubts about the older men's abilities. Stuart, Yo-Yo, and Neha see Billy and Nick as useless during a task focused on debugging and send them on a wild goose chase to find the fictional character, Professor X. But later, during a game of quidditch against Graham's team, Billy rallies his team to a comeback that unifies them as a team despite ultimately losing after...
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...industry had matured from a Mom and Pop Shop in the local town or down the street to the business model that Blockbuster had implemented. Location, Location, Location was the model. Open more stores and increase your market penetration. Blockbuster had approximately 7,800 brick and mortar stores, each carrying approximately 1000 titles.1 These DVDs were owned by the store and the volume generated mainly came from recent release rentals and new movie sales. The market, outside of the Blockbuster market was fragmented, with several copycats of Blockbuster, and continued existence of smaller, possibly regional rental shops. No viable Internet distribution model existed when Netflicks was launched. The only movies being accessed through he Internet at this time were pirated movies, in various formats. Even in this environment, where for several years, Netflicks did not have a direct competitor...
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...How you got interested in film making? When I was ten years old and i have been youngest of five. I got interested in the activities they were doing and I eventually noticed that I am capturing their moment on my camera and viewing it externally. I was making scripts for my friends and brothers and we were playing this game and I would divide the members based on their characters and would make them understand their role. It was very interesting and at the same time very fun to do so. Then I begin to write scripts stories about different events about Afghanistan. How do you describe your experience so far? The best thing is about been the variety of work and 21 years in studio doing TV shows for Tolo and I direct TV shows for them. Film directors work full time, often with long hours on evening,weekends and holidays traveling to various locations for shoots. I have 21 years of experience in this field and I have also been closely working with cinematographer and actors. The nature of the film requires one to understand the knowledge of the film production process. Working in Afghanistan is very challenging with shooting and security because we cannot travel to provinces and beautiful cities in Afghanistan. So far It has been an exciting journey and I enjoy working in this field. What does the future look like for this profession? It has really bright future in Afghanistan, since its newly established and there is a lot of room for improvements. Youth have shown much...
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...Lego's Competitive Advantage Embed With colorful, plastic building blocks at its core, Lego continues to fulfill Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s mission to inspire creativity and innovation in children and adults. The company has come far since 1932, but, because its basic product allows for limitless imagination, there are still endless opportunities it can pursue. The ability to inspire infinite creativity is what sets Lego apart from any other toy retailer. Lego’s competitive advantage is a combination of four factors: its brand equity, merchandise assortment, pricing, and visual merchandising. As a toymaker that has prominent brand equity, opening themed brand retail stores gives its consumers an engaging in-store experience with its unique product. TWINCITIESDAILYPHOTO·3 YEARS AGO Since Lego has been successful in the market for a long time, its brand equity allows the retail locations to give long-time Lego consumers a nostalgic in-store experience and new customers an immersive brand experience. The stores’ visual merchandising and merchandise assortment allow this to happen, making each customer’s visit to the Lego store a unique one. It is this unique experience with the product that drives sales in the retailing industry. Maintaining this competitive advantage in an ever-changing marketplace is difficult. While stores like Toys “R” Us, Target, and Walmart are some of Lego’s competitors, it is interesting to compare Lego to another themed brand store like American Girl...
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...of the artistic ideal and the continual lure of easy success. He became a victim of the myth of success and money instead of the perpetrator. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald’s incredible prose style and beautiful talent shined through his tragic, disillusioned life and he was able to successful create a beautiful world for his readers to escape to. In the early 1920’s, Fitzgerald was accepted as a symbol of youthful sophistication. He became intensely aware of the strangeness and mystery behind the rich at a young age, and tried so hard to echo their actions through sheen curiosity and characterization. It was then that he established a rich and enduring symbolic value throughout his stories and was led into a dazzling world full of limitless opportunities. Fitzgerald also developed an unusually sharp eye for a character and a scene, an excellent ear for dialogue, and an uncommonly acute sense of time and place. The Last Tycoon shows how true and delicate Fitzgerald’s feelings for a scene, a character, a situation, and a moment really were. In the scene when Stahr,...
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...implementation has contributed substantially to a more efficient use of overhead resources, and therefore, has led to an impressive cost savings. Many service companies, in their experience of high overhead and high capital cost, have costs which are left untraced or are allocated arbitrarily. The resulting distortions may provide misleading information to the management and may lead to poor decision-making. A successful business usually starts with a vision statement that gives detail to potential opportunities of the organization. Managers must have the knowledge to understand the concept of choosing a strategy that can be beneficial to the business operation. Using the information provided by ABC, companies will be able to cut costs, review pricing policies and determine more profitable mix. This paper will evaluate how AOL- time warner can implement an ABC system, how the system can help maintain a competitive advantage, the impact the system has on online business sale. Company history Time Warner, as we know it today, is the result of many mergers and acquisitions. The company’s history can be traced back to 1922, when Warner Brothers was established. The company was later renamed to Warner Communications. Quantum Computer Services launched what would become America Online services 1985. In 1991 Quantum Computer Services changed its name to America Online, and went public in 1992. Meanwhile, in 1990, Time Incorporation merged with Warner Communications to form Time Warner...
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...MBA 5501, Advanced Marketing Colombia Southern University Why has Amazon.com succeeded online when so many other companies have failed? Amazon Inc. is an American international e-commerce business. It started by Jeffrey P. Bezos in the year 1994. It is a world’s largest online retailer, the company managed to survive and successful, while many other companies failed. Amazon.com success largely depends on its ability to structure its business model in unexpected ways (Business Insider) Amazon.com provides a massive volume of products from various retailers, giving consumers a variety of options to choose from at a twenty four hour, seven days and three hundred and sixty days in the year. Consumer, again have the option to shop at any time of the day and could purchase all items needed at one time without having to go from store to store. To make it easier for consumers, Amazon.com “creates personalized storefronts for each customer by providing more information and more choices than could be found in a typical neighborhood store. Amazon.com survival and success also depended on its different ventures and willingness to invest in the latest internet technology, which intend made shopping online faster, easier and more personally rewarding to consumers and retailers. The ability to position its self not only as a bookstore but also as a technology company has not only increase the success of Amazon.com but has also met the retailing needs of companies of virtually all sizes...
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...Systems utilized for internet activity 3 1. Information System 3 2. Transaction Processing System 4 3. 1-click purchase 4 4. Secure C/debit card payment 4 5. Recommendation System 5 6. Interactive searching System 5 7. Supply Chain Management (SCM) 5 8. Enterprise Resource Management (ERP System) 5 9. Customer Relation Management (CRM) 5 Part 2-Business strategies applied for internet activity 6 1. Smart Innovation Strategy 6 2. Customer Relation Management Strategy 7 3. Jeff Bezos 3 big idea 7 Page-1 A. Limitless inventory 7 B. Customer Care 8 C. High margin, lowest price. 8 4. Marketing and Promotion Strategy 8 5. Associate Program 8 Part 3- eCRM cycle Conducted for internet Activity 9 1. Customer Relationship Management 9 2. Electronic Customer Relationship Management 9 3. How amazon implement CRM 9 4. Customer Selection 10 5. Customer Acquisition 10 A. Customer account 10 B. Wish List, review system 10 6. Customer Retention 11 7. Customer Extension 11 Part 4-Recommendation for Amazon.com 11 1. Competing in the market 11 2. Innovation of new Product 12 3. Integration of New Technology 12 4. Customer Loyalty 12 5. Global Expansion 12 REFERENCES 13 Page-2 Background: For the last...
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...The Diversity of the Mythological Creature Vampire Through Time and History It’s been a hundred years since Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and the vampire and its tales have swept the world in a whirlwind craze. Since, there has always been a fascination with the mystery of a vampire. Someone wearing plastic fangs, a cape, and black evening clothes will instantly remind you of the mythological creature. The much feared creature is and was portrayed in a number of ways. In the early days when they were just folklore, vampires were blood sucking predators and feared pale stalkers. In Vampire God: the Allure of the Dead in the Western Culture (2009), discussing the popularity of vampires in society, Mary Y. Hallab says that the folklore vampire is constantly compared to the other supernatural beings like witches and werewolf’s, and today’s concept is also a confused being, a zombie? A lover? Hallab states that “vampires are only those figures—folkloric, mythical, or literary—who are dead humans who are still capable of behaving as though they are alive.” Today, vampires have become a culture of their own, and are a huge part of mainstream pop culture. The Twilight Cullen’s and Sesame Street’s Count Dracula have a whole new appeal on adults and children. The appeal is not always good. According to Vampire Gothic, which is about vampire gothic cultures in United States, Teresa A. Goddu discusses a teenage vampire clan that was discovered in Murray, Kentucky, that was found...
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...professionals have found that the internet, e-marketing has become an essential aspect for growth and customer retention. To begin, the web address must be simple and easy to remember. It is recommended not to complicate customers with tricky spelling, or witty phrases as these tactics are possible deterrents. Placing a survey at inception, allowing customers to select the more preferred web address is recommended. This allows customers a sense of ownership. likewise, to remain competitive, smaller entities, such as Book Bunker are encouraged to use a web presence as marketing tools as it is very effective against larger book chains such as Barnes & Noble’s, and Powell's Books. In the same respect, with proper execution Book Bunker is limitless when combining online marketing with other strategies. Marketing via a website, promotes better budgets than television commercials and generates more interest than printed ads. Moreover, Book Bunker will be able to infiltrate untapped consumers and other markets that were otherwise difficult to reach through traditional print ads. When building the website, Book Bunker should keep in mind that the objective here is to build a relationship. The web presence should include personality and prove the atmosphere of the brick and mortar location. Avid readers are attached to a variety. Developing an affiliation with libraries or similar rare book collectors such...
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...Subject Code: APBL20045 | Subject Name: City Future | Student ID Number: 563013 | Student Name: Joel Madeira | Assignment Name or Number: Final essay | With reference to at least one work of fiction, critically discuss how science and technology feature in utopian or dystopian planning of future cities. The city of the future needs to change. With the population increasing at a rapid pace, more and more people favor to live in urbanized area. The result of the urban population explosion means that there is a need to change the physical dimension or space in cities, in order to cope with such a large amount of people. Cities will be dramatically restricted with the aid of science fiction and technology. This paper investigates how Ecumenopolis, the science fiction concept of city layout could be implanted or influence the future of cities, followed by how technology such as: transportation and telecommunication, could help satisfy social needs, which may again reshape the structure of cities in the future, finally by using examples from science fiction theme movies and novels to illustrate how humans could reshape their future cities and whether these advanced innovations would lead to a utopian or dystopian society. The most crucial element that cities of the future would face is in relation to the increasing population. It is unavoidable that for the next few decades, global population growth will escalate intensely. According to Vidal (2012), by 2050, 7 billion of...
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...HOW SUCCESSFUL LEADERS THINK Leaders have the predisposition and the capacity to hold in their heads 2 opposing ideas at once. They’re able to creatively resolve the tension between those 2 ideas by generating a new one that contains elements of the others but its superior to both. This process of consideration and synthesis can be termed integrative thinking. It is this discipline that is a defining characteristic of most exceptional businesses and the people who run them. Not every good leader exhibits this capability, nor is it the sole source of success for those who do. But integrative thinking tremendously improves people’s odds (possibilitats). Many great integrative thinkers aren’t event aware of their particular capability and thus don’t consciously exercise it. Opposable Thumb, opposable mind Red Hat faced what seemed like 2 alternative paths to growth. AS Red Hat looked to grow beyond its $1 million in annual sales, it could have chosen one of the 2 basic business models in the software industry. 1. classic proprietary-software model sold customers operating software but not the source code. These companies had wide profit margins because their customers, lacking access to the source code, were essentially locked into purchasing regular upgrades. 2. Free-software model: suppliers sold CD-ROMs with both the software and the source code.--> Prices were modest; and suppliers made money each time they assembled a new version from the many free updates...
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...Nazi Propaganda: Selling Social Policy How was Hitler able to use social policy and propaganda to manifest support for the National Socialist Party Hitler’s radical antisemitism? by James C HIST2** Professor: Judith S****** The name Adolf Hitler, will be forever synonymous with one of the most oppressive and destructive eras in human history. Often regarded as the worst anthropological disaster in history, World War 2 was responsible for the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians alike who. This would mark “...the first [war] in which civilian populations became systematic, strategic targets.” (Merriman page1049) Driven by his intolerance or perhaps hatred, towards the Jewish people Hitler was able to turn a largely personal vendetta against Jews, into an issue of public policy, and ultimately one of the largest genocides ever documented[1]. How did one mans ideas, Hitler’s anti-semitism, evolve from the hurtful words of Mein Kampf to anti-Jewish laws in Nazi Germany and ultimately the biggest recorded savagery in the History of mankind? Although the blood of over 6million Jews stains his hands, Hitler was not alone in his actions; he required support. This essay examines various theories regarding the conception of Hitler’s antisemitic values and asks how Hitler was able to use social policy and propaganda to manifest support for his would be genocidal Nazi regime. Central to comprehending policy decisions made by Hitler, is an understanding of his...
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...lessons in the actions of great leaders. We should instead be examining what goes on in their heads – particularly the way they creatively build on the tensions among conflicting ideas. How Successful Leaders Thınk by Roger Martin 60 Harvard Business Review 1179 Martin.indd 60 | June 2007 | Alex Nabaum W E ARE DRAWN to the stories of effective leaders in action. Their decisiveness invigorates us. The events that unfold from their bold moves, often culminating in successful outcomes, make for gripping narratives. Perhaps most important, we turn to accounts of their deeds for lessons that we can apply in our own careers. Books like Jack: Straight from the Gut and Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done are compelling in part because they implicitly promise that we can achieve the success of a Jack Welch or a Larry Bossidy – if only we learn to emulate his actions. But this focus on what a leader does is misplaced. That’s because moves that work in one context often make little sense in another, even at the same company or within the hbr.org 5/2/07 8:11:11 PM _ / / / g g hbr.org 1179 Martin.indd 61 | June 2007 | Harvard Business Review 61 5/2/07 8:11:25 PM How Successful Leaders Think experience of a single leader. Recall that Jack Welch, early in his career at General Electric, insisted that each of GE’s businesses be number one or number two in market share in its industry; years...
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...passively watching movies and actively looking at movies. ✔ understand the defining characteristics that distinguish movies from other forms of art. ✔ understand how and why most of the formal mechanisms of a movie remain invisible to casual viewers. ✔ understand the relationship between viewers’ expectations and filmmakers’ decisions about the form and style of their movies. ✔ explain how shared belief systems contribute to hidden movie meaning. ✔ explain the difference between implicit and explicit meaning, and understand how the different levels of movie meaning contribute to interpretive analysis. medium. With so much experience, no one could blame you for wondering why you need a course or this book to tell you how to look at movies. After all, you might say, “It’s just a movie.” For most of us most of the time, movies are a break from our daily obligations—a form of escape, entertainment, and pleasure. Motion pictures had been popular for fifty years before even most filmmakers, much less scholars, considered movies worthy of serious study. But motion pictures are much more than entertainment. The movies we see shape the way we view the world around us and our place in that world. What’s more, a close analysis of any particular movie can tell us a great deal about the artist, society, or industry that created it. Surely any art form with that kind of influence and insight is worth understanding on the deepest possible level. ✔ understand...
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