...A 24-year-old psychologist working for the British government, Mr. Gyani was supposed to come up with new ways to help people find work. He was intrigued by an obscure 1994 study that tracked a group of unemployed engineers in Texas. One group of engineers, who wrote about how it felt to lose their jobs, were twice as likely to find work as the ones who didn’t. Mr. Gyani took the study to a job center in Essex, northeast of London, where he was assigned for several months. Sure, it seemed crazy, but would it hurt to give it a shot? Hayley Carney, one of the center’s managers, was willing to try. Ms. Carney walked up to a man slumped in a plastic chair in the waiting area as Mr. Gyani watched from across the room. The man — 28, recently separated and unemployed for most of his adult life — was “our most difficult case,” Ms. Carney said later. “How would you like to write about your feelings” about being out of a job? she asked the man. Write for 20 minutes. Once a week. Whatever pops into your head. An awkward silence followed. Maybe this was a bad idea, Mr. Gyani remembers thinking. But then the man shrugged. Why not? And so, every week, after seeing a job adviser, he would stay and write. He wrote about applying for dozens of jobs and rarely hearing back, about not having anything to get up for in the morning, about his wife who had left him. He would reread what he had written the week before, and then write again. Over several weeks, his words became less jumbled. He started...
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...five years of his life. Trusting Truman, Perry began to show interest in what he had developed so far, piece by piece Perry got to see this literary work from one interview at a time. Perry’s greatest objection was the title, the murder wasn’t committed “In Cold Blood”. Capote tied to explain to him that the title had a deeper and double meaning to it, but never shared it with Perry. Capote was with Perry and Dick so much he could tell when they both were lying. He would ask them both to explain a part of a story, and sentence after sentence when a detail was off Capote knew. Details were never Perry’s strength; he would thrive when telling him a conversation or a mood. Perry had a “lost puppy” quality that caused him to follow his “Vile” (Nytimes) friend to...
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...daerah nggris dan pusat data untuk NY times!"om dan #oston!"om! Pada tahun $%%& perusahaan 'uga memiliki beberapa siaran media, dan merk The New York Times diyakini men'adi aset perusahaan yang paling berharga! Pada eptember $%%&, NYTD telah mengembangkan dan mengoperasikan dua situs: NYTimes!"om dan #oston!"om! itussitus tersebut termasuk akses nternet untuk melihat isi lengkap dari The New York Times dan surat kabar #oston *lobe! NYTD 'uga bertanggung 'awab untuk mengelola +rsip Digital Perusahaan bisnis Distribusi, yang menyediakan konten untuk layanan pen"arian berita penelitian, seperti Dow ones dan -e.is Ne.is!/ereka 'uga berusaha menemukan "ara baru dan kreati0 untuk memaksimalkan penggunaan multimedia internet, termasuk tayangan slide, audio dan konten video, dan bagian interakti0 khusus, seperti "ontoh pada alt -ake 1ity $%%$ 2limpiade /usim Dingin! +kses gratis ke NYTimes!"om membuat pengguna diharuskan untuk menda0tar! Dan dengan n0ormasi Penda0taran NYTimes!"om tersebut digunakan untuk memasang iklan!trategi NYTD : NYTD selalu mengembangkan organisasi dengan selalu melakukan perbaikan struktur organisasi! Penda0taran online gratis untuk mengakses NYTimes!"om, namun pengguna harus menda0tar untuk digunakan! NYTD ingin mendapatkan pesan kuat bahwa kami adalah bisnis yang berbeda, sebuah perusahaan yang berbeda, dan budaya yang berbeda! elain itu NYTD berusaha untuk men"iptakan budaya eksperimental! 3ontrol birokrasi, prosedur, dan dokumen...
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...STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Global Marketing Management Spring 2015, UB.0064.001 Professor Eileen Fischer E-mail: efischer@stern.nyu.edu Office: KMC 7-100A; Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 12:30 -3.00 and by appointment Telephone: 646-591-8760 Teaching Fellow: TBA COURSE OBJECTIVE The purpose of the course is to examine the issues involved in developing a global marketing strategy and the challenges of implementing the marketing mix in individual countries. The course is designed to give students an understanding of: * the strategic issues surrounding global expansion and the strategic options for entering international markets * how to assess market opportunities on both Country macro and market related factors * the global competitive landscape that includes strong local competitors * balancing global and local considerations when developing the marketing mix with a focus on the tactical challenges of adapting to specific market needs * the rapidly changing challenges and opportunities in Emerging Markets My objective is to provide you with useful frameworks, tools and ‘rules of thumb’ which we apply to cases in virtually every class. Many cases will be only one or two pages and they focus on a specific question. Our longer cases will deal with multiple issues and will require the application of frameworks and concepts...
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...new drug testing agreement that asserted the passage of pending congressional legislation. (NYTIMES). The agreement has been seen as a meaningful step in curbing the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional baseball and other sports. There have been several athletes who have been caught using steroids, so the Player’s Association had to make things more strict on athletes playing Major League Sports. Two athletes that I specifically feel had a deep impact on changing the way sports are played due to steroid use are Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds. Barry Bonds was drafted by the San Francisco Giants as a senior in high-school. (Bonds,Np). He was a magnificent player. Barry had seven MVP awards the most in history of baseball. That is until he ruined his career by getting caught using steroids. Bond’s was charge with perjury and obstruction of justice in the matter of his testimony in the BALCO steroid affair. Barry lost a lot of fans after this affair and people started to view baseball differently. People were regarding his all time league record. (Bonds,Np). Many hated Barry after this occasion, it was said that he ruined the sport and some fans said they would never watch baseball again. Boyd 2 Barry said, “ It is hoped in the near future that the reputation of baseball can be separated from the performance of enhancing drugs, in other words steroids.”(Bonds,NYTIMES). Now today in Major League Baseball and also in every sport in the world athletes have random...
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...Gasoline, Substitutes, and Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand: Long-run vs. Short-run Over the weekend, The NYTimes led with a story that as gasoline prices rise and are expected to remain high, many commuters are switching from driving to using public transportation. Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by. Parking lots at many bus and light rail stations are suddenly overflowing, with commuters in some towns risking a ticket or tow by parking on nearby grassy areas and in vacant lots.... Some cities with long-established public transit systems, like New York and Boston, have seen increases in ridership of 5 percent or more so far this year. But the biggest surges — of 10 to 15 percent or more over last year — are occurring in many metropolitan areas in the South and West where the driving culture is strongest and bus and rail lines are more limited.... The national average for regular unleaded gasoline reached $3.67 a gallon, up from $3.04 a year ago, according to AAA. If nothing else had changed, then a roughly 20% increase in the price of gasoline appears to have led to maybe a 10% increase in the demand for public transportation. The cross-price elasticity of demand appears to be approximately +0.5. But these numbers are for now. Remember when gasoline prices were so high shortly after hurricane Katrina? At that point, people did not expect them to remain high, and so there was...
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...The five points area had a very infamous reputation in 19th century New York City. The population was largely Irish and it was said to be the home of gang members and criminals of all types, and was mainly known as the home turf of Irish immigrant gangs. The five points received its name because it was the intersection of 5 streets, which formed five corners. The streets were: Mulberry, Little Water, Anthony, Cross, and Orange. Mulberry Street is the only street that still has its original name. While the neighborhood was predominantly Irish in the 1850s, there were also African Americans, Italians, and various other immigrant groups. The Irish were stereotypically described as criminals, violent and drunks. Unfortunately, the slum conditions and widespread crime of the Five Points only contributed to that attitude. The problems within the five points started with the five points area itself. The living conditions there were indescribably horrible. “See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly”(Doc. A). Tenements in the Five Points were made from wood and brick. The wooden structures measured about twenty to twenty five feet wide and twenty five to thirty feet deep, and stood two and a half stories high at most. These buildings were originally intended for shopkeepers businesses, and were meant to house their families and perhaps a few employees. By the 1850s, most of these shops had been made into small...
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...1. Outside of a paper-based subscription, consumers have several options to access New York Times content. New York Times provides unlimited access with subscription packages attached to their website. A consumer may have a digital subsciption intended for their smartphone device. With this subscription package, they'd have unlimited access to articles from any computer via "www.nytimes.com" and have access to the NYTimes App intended for Windows Phones, iPhones and Android-based devices. An alternative would be their tablet package which would allow devices such as the iPad or Android-powered tablets to access New York Times database and articles. 2. In terms of article content between the various options that New York Times provides, there is no difference. Each package allows unlimited access to the New York Times website giving the user the ability to view any article from 1987 to the present, while allowing the ability to view 100 articles from the period between 1923 and 1986 in their archives section of the website. The packages only between to differ when dealing with form factors. A smartphone user with the smartphone subscription would not be able to view content from an iPad or Android Tablet and vice versa. There is a subscription service that allows full digital access between all form factors, but it's the most expensive option between the digital subscription package. For those who have a print subscription to the New York Times, they would have free "All Digital...
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...Organizational Structure and Culture Both an organizations structure and culture are very important aspects of it, and can have a great effect on each other. According to Wikipedia, an organization's structure consists of activities such as task allocation, supervision and hierarchical lines of authority. Organizational structure determines what roles, responsibilities and power are assigned. In manufacturing for instance, there is usually a plant manager, shift coordinator, supervisor and then employees who work on the production floor. And the structure of the organization influences the culture that an organization may have, and vice versa. Like people, organizations also have culture which consists of its beliefs, values, customs and rules that have been adopted overtime. Culture can change as a company changes structure, or shifts its focus from one objective to another. And since structure determines things like decision making and the people that are hired, it affects company culture. The type of structure that a company has, such as centralized, decentralized, organic or mechanistic influences culture in areas like role assignment, employee involvement, and with dealing with customers. An example is a company like Starbucks, who uses a matrix organizational system set up to accommodate customer satisfaction (2012). Its business model is focused on customer service, and a corporate culture that values diversity and inclusion. For instance, when hiring...
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...Case 5: Adopting International Accounting Standards Intro to International Business – 1. Both business enterprises and investors can benefit from the adoption of international accounting standards because they do not have to worry about losing money due to different exchange rates. In regards to business ventures, it will help in the long run with a systematic way to compare prices. Although the process is held up slightly for United States entrepreneurs, the process is still great. According to an article published by the NYTimes, “American companies must use rules established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, a group chosen by the S.E.C., and foreign companies that do not use international standards must reconcile their statements with the American rules before their securities can trade in American markets.” 2. Overstating a country wealth is one of the potentially negative risk associated with investing in a foreign country. A country could be worth 20 billion dollars according to their standards however, when invested in, it is only worth 10million American dollars. Such as when you are an internal user at a firm, you can easily access all correct financial data that is made available to investors and executives. External parties have to rely on information given to them by the company which could be falsified in regards to their financial statements. 3. The United States would cause revisions to the IASB accounting standards because they have general accepted...
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...THE EUROPEAN UNION CURRENCY: THE EURO ACCOUTING I The euro, in application of the Maastricht Treaty, entered circulation on January 1 2002. It is the official currency of 16 of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). That union is made of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. The euro has become the second largest reserve currency and the second most traded currency after the U.S dollar (wikipedia). The creation of a single currency born out of a political concern turned out to be a good and strong monetary decision. According to the European Commission (website) the euro has provided many advantages and benefits over the previous situations where each member state had its own currency. Not only are fluctuations risks and exchange cost eliminated and the single market strengthened, but the euro also means a closer cooperation among member. Others assets are more choices and stable prices for consumers and citizen, a greater security and more opportunity for business and markets, an improved economic stability and growth, more integrated financial markets and a tangible sign of an European identity, a stronger presence for the E.U in the global economy making the euro a rival for the dollar. With all those benefits the euro is not without its critics. They were those who feared a lost of national identity because they had to relinquished their...
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...save the one on the child’s heart and mind. The various forms of maltreatment for 2005 fall into the following categories: Neglect 62.8% Physical Abuse 16.6% Sexual Abuse 9.3% Emotional/psychological 7.1% Medical Neglect 2.0% Other 14.3% The listed percentages equal over 100% as children are not always the victim of just one category; regrettably, children may be the victim of both physical and emotional abuse. Studies into the cycle of abuse has shown that a person abused as a child becoming abusive as an adult, reveals “about one-third of people who are abused in childhood will become abusers themselves” ((NYTimes, 1989, pg. 1). Research has also revealed that abused children are more likely to have issues as an adult with depression and alcoholism, along with sexual maladjustment, and mental illness of multiple personality (NYTimes, 1989). The cycle of abuse needs to stop for the child, the parent, and society’s future. The children of today are the future of tomorrow and need to be able to grow both emotionally and...
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...this assignment was made by asad and co. freelancers asadnayyar@live.com | | | | |Assignment Task | | | |Name of the Student | | | |11/10/2013 | | | | | Essay Introduction The targeted industry on which the effect of globalization will be studied is the garment industry, and the two companies which we will study in this regard are Zara and H&M. All the top garment industries notability Zara and H&M are doing a fine job in the garments industry as they have adopted well-defined quality standards. There is a diverse research made on the garments and fabric business as they do change with respect to the trends and fashion. Both...
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...extraction of 33 pounds of minerals, 79 gallons of water, and 100 kilowatt hours of fossil fuels which results in 66 pounds of carbon dioxide (ProCon). Enforcing the use of laptops in schools requires purchasing not only laptops for each and every student, but also a Wi-Fi infrastructure; in addition to, training all teachers to use the software (Pro Con). Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran 6th-grade teacher in Greensboro, North Carolina, expressed she wanted nothing to do with laptops being in her classroom. After two days of training with tablet computers, Sally determined, “I don’t want this thing to take over my classroom”, as she shook her new tablet computer in the air. Instead of them being a productive learning tool, they wind up as a toy (NYtimes). However, supporters say that laptops are nice to have in the classroom, and that they improve education and efficiency. While this may be true, laptops create many distractions and can be very rigorous to deal with. Instructors are forced to compete with the internet for a student’s attention due to the temptation of online games and videos drawing the students away from the lesson being taught. Concerns about the cost of a laptop for every student can lead to questions about whether they are necessary to have for daily use in the classroom. Since not every student has access to a secure internet connection once they leave school, homework can be rather challenging (Bico). By eliminating the use of laptops in the classroom, students all...
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