...BRITISH AIRWAYS CASE STUDY BACKGROUND British Airways was formed in the 1970s as the result of a merger between BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) and BEA (British European Airways). Although the company’s strengths appeared to complement one another the merger was hardly an unqualified success as two companies with very different traditions and cultures were never fully integrated into a coherent whole. The end result was a company with a ‘bureaucratic and militaristic’ culture, in public ownership, and which by the late 1970s was experiencing some severe problems. Customer perception of BA was generally poor, and the epithet ‘Bloody Awful’ often used as a description of what the initials stood for. Furthermore, it faced pressure from low-cost operators on its prized transatlantic routes from Laker Airways and People Express (both of which have long since collapsed), and from a combination of recession and rising fuel prices. The combination of these factors led to mounting financial losses by the early 1980s, recording a single year loss in 1981 of 140 millions pounds. Predictably, the company responded by cutting costs, with staff cutbacks of 22,000 in the early 1980s, and with 14,000 in 1981 alone. These cutbacks were achieved with the help of generous redundancy packages but they did little to alleviate the deeper malaise afflicting the workforce. The cost-cutting exercise, though probably necessary, achieved little, with limited resulting improvements...
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...PRELIM ROUND Given our theme for inertia take 4 it is only fitting that we start off our journey basing and testing your knowledge by putting a new spin on an age old classic KARAN ARJUN. After the immense success of Krish 3, Rakesh Roshan has decided to revisit Karan Arjun and plans on makin a sequel and has already invested an upward of RS 75 crores in the venture. Miraculously Mr. Shah Rukh Khan has agreed to work alongside his alleged archenemy Mr. Salman Khan. The paparazzi have gotten wind of this fact and there was a full-‐page article citing the temporary arrangement and there are a lot of expectations from the film. Old timers are looking at it as a revolution of Indian Cinema in the modern era whereas die-‐hard fans of “The Khans” are looking at it as a duel to finally crown the king of...
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...Kanti Prasad Bajpai comes from an eminent family of Indian diplomats: his father, Uma Shankar Bajpai was a former Indian High Commissioner to Canada;[5] an uncle, K.S. Bajpai was a former Ambassador to United States; and his grandfather, Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, was Agent-General for India in the United States prior to India gaining independence.His all family enrolled to study at The Doon School. After leaving Doon in 1972, Bajpai obtained Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in British Columbia, Canada, and returned to Doon and taught there in 1981. Dr. Bajpai went to North America for PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois in 1982.[6] Career[edit] Bajpai returned to India in 1989 and taught at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda for three years, he went back to America to teach at Wesleyan University. In 1993 he returned again to India to the Institute of Contemporary Studies of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. In 1994 he joined Jawaharlal Nehru University as professor of international studies. In 2000, he was a visiting professor at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. He also worked as a researcher at the Brookings Institute in Washington,D.C. the same year. In June 2003, Bajpai was appointed eighth Headmaster of the Doon, where he taught courses in general knowledge and English. Bajpai left Doon in 2009 to join the School of Inter Disciplinary Area studies, Wolfson...
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...The Hariyo Ban Program The Hariyo Ban program is an initiative designed to benefit nature and people in Nepal with the financial support of $ 30 million from USAID for 5 years. It is being implemented with a consortium of international and national NGOs: WWF (lead), CARE, National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), and the Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal (FECOFUN). Government of Nepal is a key partner and beneficiary of Hariyo Ban Program as are local communities. The program also partners with other NGOs, academic institutions and the private sector. The program covers east-west Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) and the north-south Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape (CHAL) in the country. The program aims to reduce adverse impacts of climate change and threats to biodiversity in Nepal through three integrated objectives: 1) to reduce threats to biodiversity in targeted landscapes; 2) to build the structures, capacity and operations necessary for an effective sustainable landscape management, especially REDD+ readiness; and 3) to increase an ability of target human and ecological communities to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. Livelihoods, governance, and gender and social inclusion are three cross cutting themes of Hariyo Ban that has to integrate in all its activities. Hariyo Ban has three main components that are closely linked; Biodiversity conservation, Sustainable landscape, Climate change adaptation, livelihoods, gender and social inclusion are important...
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...The Municipal Council shall consist of the following members, each with voting rights: (a) President, First Vice President and Secretary(s). (b) Members of the Roshan Municipal Council directly elected by the Roshan Municipal Assembly, where the number of such members shall be set as follows: - For a municipality with a population of up to 10 000, up to 5 members; - For a municipality with a population from 10 000 to 25 000, up to 10 members; - For a municipality with a population from 25 000 to 50 000, up to 15 members; - For a municipality with a population from 50 000 to 100 000, up to 20 members; - For a municipality with a population from 100 000 to 200 000, up to 25 members; - For a municipality with a population of over 200 000, up to...
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...THE DECISION TO INVEST: A CASE STUDY © Rajan B. Paudel Krishna and Radha’s family consists of seven members – Krishna’s old parents: the father 85 and the mother 83; three children: Roshon, aged 23; Prakash 17; and Chadani, 15. Krishna is now 49 and Radha is 47. They were married some 25 years back and lead happy family life. Roshan is currently studying MFC at a Tribhuvan University. Prakash is in 12th and Chadani is in 9th grade in one of the schools in Kathmandu. Krishna completed B. A. from Tribhuvan University and joined government service as nayab subba (first-class non-gazetted employee) some 20 years ago. He was promoted to sakha-adhikrit (third-class gazetted officer) 10 years ago. Currently his salary is Rs 20,000 per month, but pockets only Rs 10,000 after deducting for provident fund and installment of home loan. Radha, an intermediate in commerce from Tribhuvan University, spent early years of her married life in looking after children and domestic chores. Radha started her job in a finance cooperative after Chadani was admitted to a school. Now she draws Rs 15,000 per month. Besides, Krishna’s family has rented part of their home at Rs 8,500 per month. So far, they have saved Rs 150,000 which they have deposited in Kumari Bank’s ‘Big Saving Account’. The Bank offered 10 percent interest annually at the time of opening the account some 5 years ago; but now offers only 4 percent. In addition, Krishna and Radha have some investment on shares of companies. Some...
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...Q-1: How has indian film industry evolved through ages? A : Indian Cinema has completed 100 years of its inception in this very year. In the last 100years, the cinema has evolved genre wise and also technologically from black and white and silent to coloured and with special sound effect. When we talk about Indian film industries, the current scenario is very different from past due to change in technology. Today Indian film industries playing an important role in Indian economy. We can divided Indian film industries into four major parts according to ages. 1. 1920-1950 (The early days of Indian cinema) 2. 1950-1960 (A golden age of Indian cinema) 3. 1970-1980 (The angry young man awakens) 4. 1990-2000 (Bollywood gains global popularity) 1- 1920-1950 Those days was starting days of Indian cinema. At that time in 1913 the first Indian silent film Raja Harishchandra´ was produced by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke who is known as Dada Saheb Phalke. The most remarkable thing that happened in Indian film industries was in 1931 ,when india‘s first talkie , Alam Ara ´,directed by Ardesh Irani was realesed. Ist colour film was Kisan Khaniya´ in 1937. 2- 1950-1960 All time most popular films was produced during this period like Rajkapoor’s Awara in 1951, Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa in 1957, Kagaj ke Phool in 1959. Also some most momentous films of this period were Mughaleazam, Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam, Guide, etc. 3- 1970-1980 This decade was dominated by artist like Rajesh...
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...e-Business There are two types of environments, open insecure, and secure. The web site will be one or the other. It either has security or it has no security at all. After searching the internet I was unable to divulge any web sites that provided information as to the benefits of an open environment. This leads me to believe that there are no benefits to it at all. After thinking about it the only benefit I could even conceive would be faster access within the web site from page to page. I feel that most people would trade this for the security of a secure site. Even home computers have security, such as firewalls, and virus protection on their computers. The consequences of having an open environment are important ones. Viruses can be placed on the system which can cause the entire computer system to crash. Hackers can get into the system and obtain personal information from the site that can lead to identity thief. Hackers can obtain email lists from the site and send spam mail which would appear to come from the web site. Hackers can also place viruses on the web site, or steal banking information for customers. The web site could not be accessed if hackers were to place a virus that caused a “denial of service”. An overly secure web site can have benefits if the site is only open for a select group of people. The Department of Defense for example has an overly secure web site. They have information on the web site, much of which is private, which has...
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...popular because professors can send lecture videos to students to watch when they are not in class. Twitter, on the other hand is a source one professor is using to communicate to students in a unique way. The professor lets his students know if class is cancelled, or he can put out a text link for students to read if it helps them in a assignment. Twitter is gaining more and more popular everything and when teachers begin to communicate with their students through here for educational purposes, it’s only going to help them in the long run because it will make school life a lot easier to learn and way for the classroom to stay connected. Lytle, Ryan. 14 July 2011. “Study: Emerging Technology Has Positive Impact in Classroom”. Professor Roshan had a lot of difficulty keeping her students engaged in the...
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...Fountain area is now at a higher elevation level Fountain vision increased from 1400 to 1800 Fountain attack range increased from 1100 to 1200 Fountain True Sight increased from 900 to 1200 Reworked terrain surrounding the Roshan area Reworked terrain around the Dire bottom lane Reworked terrain below the Top Radiant Tier 1 Tower Reworked the area to the left of the bottom Dire Tier 2 Tower Moved Dire bottom Tier 2 Tower back very slightly Added an alternate path to the north of the bottom lane Side Shop Added an alternate path to the right of the bottom Dire Tier 1 Tower Added a new ward spot near the bottom Dire Tier 2 Tower Added a new ward spot near the top Radiant Tier 2 Tower Added a new ward spot between Roshan and the Dire bottom lane Bottom Lane Dire creeps now arrive slightly closer to the Dire Tier 1 Tower Top Lane Radiant creeps now arrive slightly farther from the Radiant Tier 1 Tower Added a Bounty Rune [?] Two runes now spawn in the river every two minutes. One of them will always be a Bounty Rune Runes are replaced every two minutes if they are not picked up Denied creeps now give less experience [?] First Blood bonus gold decreased from 200 to 150 Reworked the bonus area of effect XP Reworked bonus area of effect Gold and Streak ending Glyph of Fortification cooldown is now refreshed whenever you lose a Tier 1 tower Tier 2 Tower's armor increased from 20 to 25 Tower bounty gold for destroying Tier 1/2/3/4 reduced from...
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...Case Study - Acer's Growth Strategies In 2007, Acer Inc. (Acer) was the third largest computer company in terms of world-wide personal computer (PC) shipments. With 2.43 million units shipped, the company enjoyed a market share of 7.6%. Its growth rate stood at 31% against the 30% of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) and 21% of Lenovo Group Ltd. In the first quarter of 2008, the company sustained its performance and its market share grew to 9.5%. Its growth rate of 25.2% was higher than that of Dell Inc. (Dell) and Lenovo. Analysts felt that the company had come a long way since 1994 when it was the number eight player in the global PC market. According to analysts, Acer's rapid growth could be attributed to the restructuring efforts the company had taken up since the year 2000. Acer's restructuring enabled the company to realize lower operating expenses which provided the twin advantages of allowing it to price the PC aggressively and offer higher incentives to its channel distributors. Acer also refocused its marketing efforts from direct sales to indirect channel driven sales. The company opted for achieving growth through building strong relationships with its dealers, by offering lower prices to the consumers and providing unique product innovations. By 2007, Acer was the fourth largest computer company behind HP, Dell, and Lenovo. As a part of its growth and expansion strategies, Acer acquired Gateway, Inc. (Gateway) in 2007. This acquisition also resulted in...
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...Roshan Thapa MGT 495-02 Starbucks Background/Problem statement Starbucks Corporation, an American company was founded in Seattle, WA. Starbucks is a premier roaster, marketer and retailer of specialty coffee around world. Starbucks has about 200,000 employees across 17,000 Starbucks –branded cafes in 40 countries. Starbucks had total revenue of $14.89 billion as of September 2013. The strategic issue of Starbucks is to attempts for massive expansion and creating a new value innovation. Porter’s Five Forces Model 1. Rivalry (High) * Many competitors in the market. * Saturated market as it is in maturity phase of life cycle. 2. Risk of Entry (Low) * High experience and scale needed. * Only few competitors have met economies of scale and operational efficiencies 3. Threats of substitutes (High) * Low switching cost. * Can be easily replaced by energy drinks. 4. Bargaining power of suppliers (Moderate) * Large percentage of any individual supplier’s sales. * Large number of alternative sources in market. 5. Bargaining powers of buyers (High) * There are not as many suppliers of equipment’s such as coffee machines as there are for coffee beans. * Low switching cost for buyers. Integration From the Porter’s Five Force it is clear that energy drinks can easily replace Starbucks, therefore Starbucks should build up the growth opportunities in products such as Tea, Fresh Juice, and energy drinks along the same...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Issue proposal ------------------------------------------------- 14 June 2013 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Should Corporal Punishment Be Illegal? ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- By:Shada Roshan ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Punishing children is a popular method that most people use in order to discipline children. They see it useful and more effective as its response is quick. On the other hand some people do not agree because in their opinion punishment is more harmful as it can escalate to child abuse. So it is a controversial issue. There are basically 4 kind of punishmentI am going to talk about one of them which is corporal punishment. What is corporal punishment? ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Is corporal punishment an effective method of disciplining children? Why some people use it as a method to discipline children? Should corporal punishment be banned, and what are the other ways to discipline...
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...Name : Roshan Thrichelvam ID Number : 110033522 Topic : Outline for Ecotourism Essay INTRODUCTION : Thesis Statement : Ecotourism brings more benefits to the local communities such as conservation, government funding, booming of local business and cultural exchange. BODY : i. Idea 1 : Conservation is a term that is becoming increasingly more popular due to the gradual depletion of Mother Earth’s natural resources. * Ecotourism's principal objective is to neutralize the adverse effects of human development. * People who live in cities often choose to visit pristine jungles, mountains and beaches to enjoy their beauty. * As local communities begin to realize their natural resources as foundations of tourist income, the communities may work harder to protect those resources. ii. Idea 2 : Government Funding is one of the most fundamental ways to control, boost and stabilise an economy. * As ecotourism in an area matures, the local government often identifies the economic flourishing and seeks to sustain it. * Ecotourism's popularity led to the establishment of numerous national parks and reserves * Governments must have the capitals to preserve their parks and keep hunters, poachers and loggers out of them. iii. Idea 3 : Flourishing of local businesses will occur as more and more demand from the tourists grows. * Craftspeople, innkeepers and restaurateurs all offer facilities that help tourists discover native features. ...
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