...Regulations Stifle Business Owners Smoking Preference Smoking related issues has become a very controversial topic. Some people may agree that cigarette smoking should be regulated while others may think that it is an individual’s choice to smoke wherever or whenever they want to. This makes smoking cigarettes an arguable topic. United States (U.S.) legislators, state governments, and local authorities have been increasingly restricting where consumers can smoke. Legislation has been further limiting smoking in public places which is causing businesses to lose customers. While it is plausible to control smoking in some industries, business owners of strictly adult only enterprises should be allowed to decide whether smoking or nonsmoking preferences help their business to be profitable. Lawmakers that have banned widespread smoking in communities may not understand the economic impact on businesses that depend solely on adult patrons. For many years, there were no regulations against smoking tobacco products. This allowed the tobacco industry to cash in on the profitable commodity. Smoking became a status symbol. “From the beginning of the 20th century, society[->0] considered smoking fashionable and a status symbol” (Zilli). However, by the 1990s, “The World Health Organization (WHO), seeing smoking as the most preventable cause of ill health worldwide, edged in 1994 a little closer to its objective of a smoke-free world” ("Tobacco"). Arguments that support smoking bans include...
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...systems are like organization, doctors, insurance companies, patients, and the lacking of technology. Doctors difficulties is that they have limited time and to take 20 hours of training to use the EMR. The United States government also plays a big role by having a short term goal that by 2015 that all medical facilities will be utilizing EMR. And patients have a concern of confidential information that will be stored in this system that can be read all across the United States. 3. The business, political, and social impact of not digitizing medical records are that doctors will not be able to have instant access to a patient’s medical records. And without digitizing medical records means that there will be the need for more paper work. Politically the 2015 goal set by the US government would also be impacted. Socially people would expect little error to this EMR system like correct dosages. And by not digitizing medical records has a greater risk of errors. 4. The business and social benefits of digitizing medical recordkeeping are when taken from paper and filing them to the EMR patient’s records will be easier accessed. And unlike filing cabinets a computer has extensive memory to store them all. And these medical records can be accessed by any other facility that is using EMR as well. Patients information can be accessed much easier and that could mean life or death. 5. Electronic medical record systems is a good solution to the problem of rising health...
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...propsal has an adverse affect on the stock of a certain species and if the data being collected cannot be found using non-lethal methods. The government can then issue the permit to a fleet, which they can revoke at any time, and set a catch limit on the whales. Three nations have objected to the moratorium, two of which still continue to hunt whales to this day. Norway and Iceland continue to whale in their exclusive economic zones, which are areas determined by the united nations that countries have exclusive rights to explore and take resources. Norway and Iceland both set catch limits and must submit information, number of kills and any scientific data to the scientific commitee of the IWC. Iceland began their own scientific research program almost immediatly after the moratorium was put in place in 1986. They left the IWC in 1992 until joining again under an oficial objection to the moratorium in 2003. Since the commercial ban, Iceland has killed 1,191 whales. In 2013 they killed 169 whales. 134 of which were fin whales, an endangered species. Studies indicate that about 95% percent of Icelanders do not regularly consume whale meat. Instead, most the meat consumed domestically are tourists who are sold the meat as an exotic icelandic dish while the rest of the meat sold is mostly exported to Japan. An Icelandic press report stated that domestic consumption of whale meat in Iceland had fallen so low that more than a third of the fin whale caught that year was dumped...
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...Date: Table of contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 3 Proposal 3 Findings 3 Strength 4 Opportunities 4 New Premises 4 Services 5 Facilities 5 Cost Breakdown 5 Benefits 6 Schedule 8 Risks and Management Plans 8 Conclusion 10 Appendixes 10 The analysis of the business 10 Customer Profiles 11 Focus Groups 11 SWOT Analysis 12 Strengths 12 Weaknesses 12 Opportunities 13 Threats 13 SMART Analysis 13 Action Plan 14 Activity Flow Chart 16 Project Costs 16 Stakeholder Analysis 17 Risk Analysis and Management Plan 18 The Project Framework 19 Executive Summary Chinese people attach great importance to “eating”. We can know it by the saying “Bread is the staff of life”. China's dishes highly stress on its color, aroma, taste, shape and meaning. As a result, many Chinese come to overseas and make their living by opening restaurants, which has become the fundamental settlement in the world. Similarly, opening various styles of restaurants in the domestic cities of the appropriate location is a great business opportunity. Based on this, a great business opportunity is to open a fast-food restaurant, named Qingyuan Fast Food Restaurant, between Southern Software Park and Zhuhai First Secondary Occupation Technical School in the Zhuhai City. There is no doubt that it has very broad prospects for development. If you ask a restaurant boss what is the most important factor for opening...
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...Marketing Research FINAL REPORT ESTABLISHING A KARAOKE CLUB – RESTAURANT “OPERA HALLS” IN VIENNA. Completion Date: 31 January 2012 Table of Contents 1. 2. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................. 4 Statement of Research Purpose and Objective .................................................................... 6 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. Concept of the Karaoke Club-Raestaurant “Opera Halls” .............................................. 6 Marketing problem ....................................................................................................... 6 Purpose of Research Project ......................................................................................... 6 Research Method.......................................................................................................... 7 Secondary research ............................................................................................... 7 Qualitative research ............................................................................................... 7 Quantitative research ............................................................................................ 8 2.4.1. 2.4.2. 2.4.3. 2.5. Time schedule and Responsibility Matrix ...................................................................... 9 3. Research design and methodology .....................................................
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...on McDonalds [pic] A Project in Entrepreneurship Submitted To: Ms. Kishori Ravi Shankar Submitted By: Mansi Chanana & Udit Bhatia 4455 & 4447 BBS-III (M) Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies Acknowledgement Perseverance, inspiration and motivation have always played a key role in the success of any venture. It has been a privilege that Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies has given us the opportunity to work on business projects as part of the course curriculum. These projects serve as a stepping stone into the corporate world and to know it inside out. At this level of understanding it is often difficult to understand the spectrum of knowledge without proper guidance and advice. First and foremost we would like to express our gratitude towards Ms. Kishori Ravi Shankar, without whose support and guidance this project would not have been possible. Special thanks to all the people from the various segments explored for providing useful insights that have helped add value to this project. Mansi Chanana & Udit Bhatia 4455 & 4447 BBS- III (M) 1.0 Franchising: An Overview Franchising (from the French for free) is a method of doing business wherein a franchisor licenses trademarks and tried and proven methods of doing business to a franchisee in exchange for a recurring payment, and usually a percentage piece of gross sales or gross profits as well as the annual fees. Various tangibles and intangibles such as national or international...
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...in the release of the Foreign Investment Promotion Act in 1998. This opened up a passage for 99.8% of Korea’s industry for direct investment. This report looks at the successes and failures of FDI’s in South Korea referred to as Korea from hereon, and what business factors influence these outcomes. Global Business Project Lecturer: Enda Murphy Student: 1063289, 1602617, 1728607 No of Words: 6198 Why invest in emerging markets? To cash in where growth is today, and for the foreseeable future. But success is only possible if you have chosen the right entry modes to your market and understand the environmental, political and sociocultural factors of the chosen host country. This report analyses South Korea and demonstrates this emerging market is there for the taking if approached with shrewdness. The South Korean Government, after the financial crisis in 1997, decided it needed to make its country attractive for foreign direct investment, which resulted in the release of the Foreign Investment Promotion Act in 1998. This opened up a passage for 99.8% of Korea’s industry for direct investment. This report looks at the successes and failures of FDI’s in South Korea referred to as Korea from hereon, and what business...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Employees are the most important determinant and leading factor that determine the success of an organization in a competitive environment. This is especially true for service organizations that rely heavily on their good behavioural employees to provide friendly and courteous services to their customers in this competitive environment. Job satisfaction refers to “a collection of attitudes that workers have about their jobs”. These attitudes may derive from a facet of satisfaction or as an overall aspect of the job; however, the focus of the study is on job satisfaction in the most general term. It is very important to study whether employees are satisfied, because it is intuitively believed that workers who are more satisfied will likely exhibit more positive feelings, thoughts, and actions toward their job. Similarly, studying about whether employees are committed to the organization that they work for is important. By definition, organizational commitment refers to “an attitude that reflects the strength of the linkage between an employee and an organization” The purpose of this study is to analyse the job satisfaction. The study was conducted on Uday Samudra Leisure Beach Hotel Kovalam. Employee’s productivity is largely related to their level of job satisfaction and in fact, the turnover rate can be reduced with a higher level of organizational commitment. Altogether, fifty employees were surveyed for the study. From the survey it is clear...
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...The WACC Fallacy: The Real Effects of Using a Unique Discount Rate 1 Philipp Kr¨ ger u Geneva Finance Research Institute - Universit´ de Gen`ve e e Augustin Landier Toulouse School of Economics David Thesmar HEC Paris and CEPR First Version: February 2011 This Version: September 2011 We greatly appreciate comments and suggestions by Malcolm Baker, Andor Gy¨rgy, Owen Lamont, o Masahiro Watanabe, Jeff Wurgler and seminar participants at the NBER Behavioral Finance Spring Meeting, the University of Mannheim, the 2011 European Financial Management Association meetings, the 2011 European Finance Association meetings, the CEPR European Summer Symposium on Financial Markets and HEC Lausanne. Boris Vall´e provided excellent research assistance. Thesmar e thanks the HEC Foundation for financial support. Corresponding Author: Philipp Kr¨ger. Email: u philipp.krueger@unige.ch, Telephone: +41 (0)22 379 85 69. Augustin Landier, augustin.landier@tsefr.eu, Telephone: +33 (0)5 61 12 86 88. David Thesmar, thesmar@hec.fr, Telephone: +33 (0)1 39 67 94 12. 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1764024 The WACC Fallacy: The Real Effects of Using a Unique Discount Rate Abstract We document investment distortions induced by the use of a single discount rate within firms. According to textbook capital budgeting, firms should value any project using a discount rate determined by the risk characteristics of the project. If they use a unique company-wide discount...
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