...Case 12: Victoria’s Secret - Seeking for new business opportunities in the European lingerie market The Victoria’s Secret (owned by US Limited Brands, Inc.) sells women’s intimate and other apparel, personal care and beauty products and accessories under the Victoria’s Secret and La Senza brand names. Victoria’s Secret merchandise is sold through retail stores, its website, www.VictoriasSecret.com, and through its catalogue. Through its website and catalogue, certain of Victoria’s Secret’s merchandise may be purchased worldwide. La Senza products may also be purchased through its website, www.LaSenza.com. In January 2007, Victoria’s Secret completed their acquisition of La Senza Corporation. La Senza is a Canadian specialty retailer offering lingerie and sleepwear as well as apparel for girls in the 7-14 year age group. In addition, La Senza licensees operate independently owned stores in 45 other countries. The results of La Senza are included in the Victoria’s Secret segment The Victoria’s Secret segment had net sales of USD5.604 billion in 2008 and operated 1,043 stores in the United States and 322 stores in Canada, in total 1365 stores. At the moment it is not possible to buy Victoria’s Secret in European stores, except in a London store and on-line .The top-management has now decided that Victoria Secret’s should expand to the European market and if yes: Which markets should be penetrated and how? First some information about the international underwear...
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...needs of the team, strategic planning, resources, improving workflow and process and the development of team environments. Describe your project team’s culture if possible and your own personal culture My project team culture will be built on investing and building, thereby increasing team satisfaction and confirming overall organizational success. As I compare my company to the example given Figure 3.7, I recognize a few differences. Member identity, team emphasis and people focus are the same, as I feel it is important to focus on the organization and the group effort while maintaining a central focus on the task at hand by keeping a “heavy reliance on open and unrestricted patterns of communication.” (Larson & Gray, 2011) Unit Integration will definitely be interdependent, as it is important for the organization, its departments and sub-department to interact and be on the same page. I agree with the...
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...seems to be very addictive for those who play. I like this virtual world, but doesn’t seem to stick for those about 11. 5. Build-a-Bearville I might be a bit biased because I LOVE Build-a-Bear and this is the perfect continuation of the Build-a-Bear workshops into the online world. Best Virtual Worlds for Tweens: 6. Toon Town Toon Town USA is a website for kids from the Walt Disney Company. It uses familiar characters from Disney to interact with users. I think this is great because it lets kids do more with Disney Characters than just watch them on TV or see them at Disneyland. 7. Wizard 101 If your kids love Harry Potter, they are going to love this. I like that this virtual world is more than just “chat and play games” it has a cool theme and interesting layout. 8. BarbieGirls.com This is Mattel’s site for girls and their online Barbies. Although I loved Barbie, I am not sure how I feel about the image it portrays to young girls about how they should look. Also, I feel like half of the fun of barbie is braiding her hair…in real life, not on the game. Cool...
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...Championing Character Through Children's Literature List updated 12/17/09 | | |A Bad Case of Stripes - David Shannon (respect for differences) | | | |A Castle on Viola Street - DyAnne DiSalvo (citizenship, volunteerism) | | | |A Taste of Colored Water by Matt Faulkner (justice, equality, respect for differences) | | | |Agate by Joy Morgan Dey (celebrating differences, respect for self) | | | |Alley Oops - by Janice Levy (anti-bullying, respect, "wrestling" with good choices) | | | |America Is Her Name - Luis J. Rodriguez (compassion, empathy, confidence...
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...with a Black shoe porter who, he says, on one side of his mouth would belt yes mam’ed and yes sir’ed at the many white people who passed him (Baldwin remembers being the only other Black person in the terminal), and with the other side of his mouth, talked negatively about each white person who passed. This Black man, Baldwin says, had been already nearly destroyed considering the difficulty of maintaining one’s masculinity or personhood in such places as the Chicago, Brooklyn, or Birmingham during that time; and the reality of things, was that this man hated the white people who passed him, all white people for that matter, but they did not know this. There was no way they could. Baldwin ascertains that the difference between this man’s secret discontent and the militarization of Black people under the nation of Islam and other civil rights groups, which transpired years after his encounter with this man, was that: “for the first time the white population [was] confronted with the fact that Negros [had] been living in another country for four hundred years, and it is not because they couldn’t [had] known it before, it is because they didn’t want to know it.” Baldwin’s remembrance is an illustration of the larger premise that is the color divide that existed in the United States. But more than that, he illuminates a precarious nature of the black individual in that they have, by the societal pressures which they deal with outside their home, brought back to their houses and families...
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...Julian tries to distance himself from his mother’s racist and prejudiced views by giving lip to social equality and integration. Julian’s mother comes from a distinguished, old-money Southern family and she is accustomed to the then social mores that mandate black inferiority and racial prejudice. Julian, on the other hand, a product of the Civil Rights Movement, college-educated and broad-minded, is aghast at his mother’s prejudice and congratulates himself for being a proponent of black-white assimilation and embraces the liberalism of younger Americans. In the beginning, when the mother questions her decision to buy an expensive hat (showing how poor his family is), Julian “raised his eyes to heaven…” (40) O’Connor’s use of religious language in the introductory paragraphs humorously demonstrates how conceited Julian is for thinking so highly of himself. Julian...
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...its Frozen franchise, spurred excitement for the upcoming sequels to the original Star Wars trilogy, and readied the opening of the new Shanghai Disney Resort. Furthermore, the media conglomerate continues to perform at a high level, despite facing constant pressure in its film and broadcasting holdings. Disney creates, develops, produces, markets, and distributes content through an unrivaled range of media platforms. The company derives its revenues from five operating segments. Media Networks (43% of companywide business in fiscal 2014) includes ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel, among others, and generates sales from affiliate fees, ad sales, and the distribution of television programs. Parks and Resorts (31%) operate the company’s internationally prominent theme park and resorts holdings, such as Disneyworld, Disneyland, and a number of international locations. Studio Entertainment (15%) produces and acquires films for international distribution through Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, among others. Consumer Products (8%) licenses Disney’s intellectual property to...
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...President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points 8 January, 1918: President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind. The day of conquest and aggrandizement is gone by; so is also the day of secret covenants entered into in the interest of particular governments and likely at some unlooked-for moment to upset the peace of the world. It is this happy fact, now clear to the view of every public man whose thoughts do not still linger in an age that is dead and gone, which makes it possible for every nation whose purposes are consistent with justice and the peace of the world to avow nor or at any other time the objects it has in view. We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secure once for all against their recurrence. What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this...
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...models of integration, opens the reader’s eyes to unexpected possibilities, beginning with the often combative regimes of faith and reason using Tertullian’s symbolism of Athens as the seat of reason and Jerusalem as the seat of faith; which is the basic ongoing battle between science and religion (Entwistle, 2010). What Entwistle addresses is his belief that integration of the disciple of psychology and Christianity is possible, each contributing to the whole allowing effective therapy, where the therapist becomes a type of shepherd that invites the client into the goodness of God and introduces Christ as his savior. Psychology attempts to understand, describe, and diagnose human behavior but Christian theology seeks to understand “what it means to be human” (Entwistle, 2010, p. 3). In the end Entwistle (2010) reoccurring theme throughout the book is that this integration is possible because “all truth is God’s truth” (p. 13). All the reasoning, precise measurements, and descriptives of psychology are possible because of God’s work in creation. Entwistle expands on the concept of worldviews and how each individual interprets everything around them. Each person will search for the truth but it will be biased according to the individual’s worldview. To understand these biases it is important for each individual to examine their own presuppositions because these effects the way the person interpret the world and the Bible. Entwistle (2010) expands on five models for integration: (1)...
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...Summary of Silas Marner by George Eliot Silas Marner, a weaver, is an eager and promising young member of a Puritan religious community, Lantern Yard. Marner's supposed best friend, Willam Dane, frames him for the theft of a pouch of coins. Marner suffers from cataleptic fits which leave him as insensible as stone and vulnerable to Dane's frame-up. The community of Lantern Yard draws lots to determine Marner's guilt or innocence in the crime. After the lots proclaim Marner guilty, he flees from Lantern Yard, utterly crushed, leaving behind his faith in God and in humankind. Marner eventually settles at the outskirts of Raveloe, a provincial village in the English Midlands. The villagers appreciate Marner's trade but find him strange and unapproachable. Marner seems to have supernatural powers--he is able to heal a local woman using herbal arts he learned from his mother--but the villagers of Raveloe do not know his background and thus find his knowledge diabolical and threatening. Marner, for his part, is content to live a life of almost total solitude in his simple cottage beside the Stone-pits. Marner has one joy in life: gold. The gold coins that he earns at his loom represent for him all the meaning that he has lost, and the faces printed on the coins serve as his only company. He spends as little as he can in order to save more coins, which he hides in two leather bags in a hole in his cottage floor. Meanwhile, Raveloe is the home of other wealthy citizens. Its...
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...Jinyang Sui UCOR 2100 Chapter 9 Abstract 2016/4/24 Abstract: Facing Death Thesis: “How did Jesus face and understand death when it closed in on him? Did he interpret his death in advance as the climax of his mission? Or did he experience panic and even succumb to the fear that ‘all might come to nothing’? We can glean some answers by taking matters in stages,” (147). I think this is the thesis because this chapter states how Jesus appear to have understood his death by exploring different “stages”. In each section, O’ Collins compares the differences in each Gospel and states his own points about each “state” in Jesus’ death. Methodology: Source: Mark, Luke, Isaiah, John, Matthew, Acts, the beatitude and the Lord’s Prayer, Paul, Exodus, Psalms, Wisdom, Maccabees, S. McKnight, R. Bauckham, Martin Hengel and M. Bockmuehl. Audience: In this chapter, O’Collins does not state what the audience is. It seems that the audience should be all religious followers. Argument and Summary of Main Points: What Jesus Said of Himself In this section, O’ Collins states that the Parable of the Vineyard and the Tenants (Mark 12”1-12) is the only parable in which Jesus spoke clearly about his own mission. In the parable, the vineyard owner is God, and the tenant farmers are the leaders of Israel, and the servants who try to collect the owner’s share in the produce are the prophets. However, the farmers mistreat these agents of the owner, and even kill some of them. Finally...
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...and implementation of organizational strategies. (Major Capstone course.) Prereq(s): CH 201; ENG 102; FIN 301; MGT 323; SCM 352; junior or senior standing. Course Overview The theme of this course is the development and implementation of strategic missions, plans, objectives and tactics. You will develop strategic plans and engage in strategic management. We will integrate the knowledge you have acquired to this point in order to develop an understanding of how an entire organization functions and give you an opportunity to develop and exhibit your management and leadership abilities. Prerequisites: IS 301, FIN 301, MGT 323, SCM 352, and MGT 325 or ACC 460 Course Learnings Objectives MGT 496 is a University Capstone Course and will also serve as the coordinating course to satisfy the Ethics component of the Silver Core Curriculum. As such this course will satisfy the following three Core Objectives (CO): * CO12 Ethics: Students will demonstrate understanding of the ethical principles in general or in application of specialized knowledge, results of research, creative expression, or design processes. Students will demonstrate an ability to recognize, articulate, and apply ethical principles in various academic, professional, social, or personal contexts. * CO13 Integration and Synthesis: Students will be able to...
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...are colleagues, patients, the families or carers of patients”. There are eight Principles of nursing practice such as; Principle A: “focuses on dignity, equality, diversity and humanity” Principle B: “focuses on ethical integrity, legal integrity, accountability and responsibility”. Principle C: “focuses on the safety of all people (patients, visitors and staff), the environment, organisational health and safety, management of risk, and clinical safety”. Principle D: “encompasses themes of advocacy, empowerment, patient-centred care, and patient involvement in their care”. Principle E: “focuses on communication, handling feedback, record keeping, reporting and monitoring”. Principle F: “focuses on evidence-based practice, technical skills, education, training and clinical reasoning”. Principle G: “encompasses themes of care and treatment, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, and co-ordination, integration and continuity of care”. Principle H: “encompasses themes of leadership contributing to an open and responsive culture”. Confidentiality is define as keeping patient’s information private but this can be disclosure when appropriate Oxford dictionary for nurses (2008). NMC (2008) define...
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...Response Paper on GI units 1,3 and 4 Through out the assigned Global Issues units certain themes seem to keep coming out that are vital in the world of international business. The emergence of the B.R.I.C is a key ingredient in understanding and planning for the future of international business. Also important is the growing population and the resources needed to sustain these numbers of people. We must also realize the effects that international business has had on the environment and what those effects will mean for us in the future. Finally and probably most all encompassing is the idea of the world evolving into one cohesive unit, better known as globalization of industry. BRIC is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China that are deemed to all be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development. Goldman Sachs argues that the economic potential of Brazil, Russia, India, and China is such that they could become among the four most dominant economies by the year 2050. These countries encompass over 25% of the world's land coverage and 40% of the world's population and hold a combined GDP of 18.486 trillion dollars. On almost every scale, they would be the largest entity on the global stage. These four countries are among the biggest and fastest growing emerging markets. Now that we have properly defined what the BRIC is, we must now step back and view this on a global stage. From a global business standpoint we cannot...
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...MBA Class of 2013 Concentration in Finance and Financial Institutions Corporate Development: Managing Acquisitions and Partnerships (A Management Perspective) Professor: Maurizio Zollo E-mail: maurizio.zollo@unibocconi.it Office: Via Roentgen, 1 - 4-A1-09 Phone: 02 5836 2525 Teaching assistant Emanuele Bettinazzi emanuele bettinazzi@phd.unibocconi.it Learning Objectives: Acquisitions and partnerships have become fundamental tools to manage corporate growth. No company today can afford to rely exclusively on organic development processes to fill its strategic gaps. However, realizing the expected value through external growth has proved to be far from obvious: value is being destroyed just as frequently (and copiously) as it is being created. In this course, we will discuss the factors leading to success and failure in corporate development processes, focusing on four different but interdependent set of questions: • When should acquisitions be preferred to partnerships (or vice versa) in the implementation of a given strategy? • How should the value potential and the risks connected to a given development opportunity be assessed? • How can the potential be translated into actual value creation through appropriate design and execution choices in the post-transaction phase? • What are the barriers to learning how to manage corporate development processes and how to remove them to ensure a rapid development of the required capabilities? The course is designed to cater...
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