...Strategy Final: Is JetBlue's strategy conducive to sustaining profitability? Team: Grant Carter William DiSciullo Andrea Kalmans Professor McAfee April 9, 2002 1 Introduction In the April 1st, 2002 edition of Barron’s, a tag line in the “Marketweek” column reads, “Airlines and other money-losing companies.” 1 This tag line reflects the intense rivalry and the massive financial losses undergone in the airline industry in the past few months due to the economic recession and the 9/11 terrorists attacks. Amidst this airline industry malaise, however, JetBlue Airlines (”JetBlue”) launched service in February 2000 and generated over $41 million in profits in 2001.2 In this report, we explore the question, “Is JetBlue’s strategy conducive to sustaining profitability?” The answer is a resounding “Yes”. At the one thousand foot level, we believe that even in the unattractive airline industry in which companies try to differentiate on qualities other than price -- but in the end often compete on price -- JetBlue has a unique formula for success. It competes head-to-head with the majors, particularly Southwest Airlines (“Southwest”), on price, cost structure, features, and customer satisfaction. However, the company has carved a niche in which a “live and let live” strategy should prevail. Indeed, a rival attempting to bankrupt JetBlue may well cause more harm to itself than to its target. Airline Industry Overview Background At one time the airline industry resembled the utility...
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...Background………………………………………………………………………………..6 Statement of the Problem………………………………………………………………….8 Purpose of the Study…………………………………………………………………..…10 Research Question(s)………………………………………………………………...…..10 Chapter 2 – Literature Review………………………………………………………………...…11 Legal and Ethical Issues in Security……………………………………………………..11 Security Administration and Management………………………………………………14 Business Asset Protection………………………………………………………………..16 Emergency Planning………………………………………………………………......…17 Information System Security……………………………………………………….……18 Behavior Issues……………………………………………………………………..……20 Chapter 3 – Methodology…………...………………………………………………………..….23 Research Design………………………………………………………………………….23 Data collection…………………………………………………………………...25 Data Analysis……………………………………………………………………...…..…25 References………………………………………………………………………………………..28 Definitions and Terms AF: Air Force. AFI: Air Force Instruction. Adjudicative Guidelines: guidelines set by OPM used to evaluate whether a person is worthy of government employment and a security clearance or background investigation. AR: Army Regulation. Cybervetting: the use of the web to assess the...
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...Executive Summary MARKETING PLAN PRODUCT CONCEPT Baby Go Round, Maternity and Children’s Resale Shop’s mission is to provide a place for expecting mothers and their families to buy and sell clean, safe, gently used clothing and other pregnancy/children related items. Baby Go Round is a resale shop that focuses their attention on maternity and children. Pregnancy and childhood go by so quickly who wants to pay full price for these items? Baby Go Round provides families with an alternative to purchasing maternity and children’s clothing and maternity and children’s items at retail price. It also provides an outlet for families to sell their slightly used maternity and children’s clothing and items to the store, providing additional disposable income for these families. Currently, resale shops in this area do not provide the market with both maternity and children’s resale, they mostly focus on just children. Parents will be able to start shopping at Baby Go Round as soon as they find out they are expecting and remain a loyal customer until their child is in their early tweens. Currently, those living in the chosen location, Geneva, Illinois, either have to visit multiple retail stores or a children’s resale store and shop online (like Craigslist) to purchase used maternity clothes. Baby Go Round’s maternity and children’s resale shop provides a cheaper, more convenient and safer way to do both. If a pregnant mother wanted to purchase maternity clothes and...
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...Material Deprivation in Selected EU Countries According to EU-SILC Income Statistics Stávková Jana, Birčiaková Naďa, Turčínková Jana Abstract The article deals with issues of households at risk of poverty in relative conception. Income poverty means a situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty is based on identification and assessment of material deprivation factors, including: financial stress, housing conditions, availability of consumer durables and basic needs. Data sources are based EU-SILC dataset. Presented analysis is focused on selected EU countries, namely Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain and United Kingdom. The result identifies the problem areas that cause deprivation symptoms. Key words: EU-SILC, income, material deprivation, poverty 1. INTRODUCTION According to Delors and the EU (Marketing journal, 2011) competitiveness means a country’s ability to provide their citizens with a high and growing standard of living and employment to all who want to work. In the global definition of competitiveness, the three important and irreplaceable pillars are health, quality of education and the labor market, thus pillars dependent on labor force. Marketing and production oriented perceptions of competitiveness are based on the premise that consumers focus on competitive advantages of products in their shopping decision-making. Significant limitation to cosumers is presented by...
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...Volume 10, Issue 3 Fall 2010 No Double Dip On July 5th, 6th, and very early on the 7th of this year, I engaged in 70 minutes of rigorous stationary biking, a full cycle of weightlifting, and my daily stretching regimen. Oh sure, I had some hip pain and a sore knee, but at age 59, I was rocking and rolling. In this regard, I was not unlike the U.S. economy in 2005-April 2007, which was doing great in spite of some fundamental problems. Then in the course of a few hours on July 7th, I was unable to walk more than a few steps after having a hip replaced. Just like the U.S. economy in late 2008, my infirmity had taken me down a few notches! My subsequent recovery was remarkably similar to that facing the U.S. economy: a satisfactory recovery to unremarkable mediocrity. As I describe my recovery, bear in mind that the U.S. economy shed 8.4 million jobs and 4.1% of GDP in roughly 18 months. This is a lot of economic damage. On July 8th, I was able to walk twice a day for 20 minutes, bearing weight on crutches, lifting light hand weights, and doing simple leg therapy. By July 19th, I did not need any pills or a cane, and was able to walk an hour twice a day at a 23-minute-mile pace. By August 19th, I biked at full resistance for 50 minutes, walked 15-minute-miles for an hour, actively lifted leg weights, Thru Latest Available as of Sept 20, 2010 3.0 $420.5 20.5 1.9 960.1 $418 15.8 6.3 1,458.0 723.0 -50.0 261.0 681.0 15.8 4.5 20.0 93.9 -2.3 2.4 -190.2 $305.1 -$351.9 On the...
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...University of Hawaii at Manoa Service-dominant logic & Marketing audit report: Hanh Phat Consultancy NGUYEN Thanh Hanh – Vemba 9 Hanoi Table of Contents A. “Marketing” vs “marketing” concept and Service – dominant logic Concept Explanation ………………………………………………………………………….2 Implementation in my practical business……………………………………………………...2 B. Marketing Audit Report: Hanh Phat Consultancy Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Company Introduction………………………………………………………………………3-4 Mission Statement……………………………………………………………………………..4 Situation & SWOT analysis ……………………………………………………………...4-5 Customers Equity & Competition………………………………………………………….6 Portfolio Analysis using Boston Consulting Group & GE Matrixes……………………..6-7 Segmenting, Targeting, Positioning ………………………………………………………..8 Marketing Mix ……………………………………………………………………………...9 Product, Price, Place, Promotion……………………………………………………………9 Conclusion and Recommendations……………………………………………………….10-11 A. “Marketing” vs “marketing” concept and Service – dominant logic Concept Explanation In my viewpoint, the two ideas of Peter Drucker and S Vargo on marketing try to convey an important message in analysing the “Marketing” that is not only a sole activity to engage in the market with its own business strategy but also “marketing” with involving the whole business to finalize the result based on customers’ needs, wants and requirements...
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...GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual Edition 1.14, for GSL Version 1.14 4 March 2010 Mark Galassi Los Alamos National Laboratory Jim Davies Department of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology James Theiler Astrophysics and Radiation Measurements Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory Brian Gough Network Theory Limited Gerard Jungman Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory Patrick Alken Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder Michael Booth Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University Fabrice Rossi University of Paris-Dauphine Copyright c 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 The GSL Team. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being “GNU General Public License” and “Free Software Needs Free Documentation”, the Front-Cover text being “A GNU Manual”, and with the Back-Cover Text being (a) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”. (a) The Back-Cover Text is: “You have the freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual.” Printed copies of this manual can be purchased from Network Theory Ltd at http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/. The money raised from sales of the manual...
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...Master of Arts in Human Resource Management (MAHRM) STRATEGIC HR PLAN AT WELLS FARGO Jimmy Rios HRF7411-Human Resource Planning & Administration PROFESSOR: JIMMIE FLORES August 22, 2014 ONLINE SUMMER II, 2014 Summary The effective organization that I chose is Wells Fargo Bank because of my familiarity in having worked there for the last four years in different capacities. I will focus this paper on the functional HR Strategy towards staffing and retention at the consumer lending group and specifically on the division that I work in the automotive finance group and the Tempe, Arizona national call center. I will give a brief description of the history of Wells Fargo and its core products and services, detail the vision, mission and value statements and how they relate to the strategy that HR uses regarding its staffing and retention. I will delineate the system and metrics system used for their recruiting strategies and how the call center comes to a specific number to decide on how many people to hire. Company Background The Brand Finance Banking 500 in the February 2014 edition of Banker Magazine recognized Wells Fargo as the world’s most profitable bank. (Wells Fargo Tops, 2014) But they weren’t always on top. And to understand the high profit trajectory of a Bank like Wells Fargo, you have to understand their history and background. Wells Fargo has been in business since 1852 when it was founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo...
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...AL 2012 ESTIV NA BY F BA R PORT ON RE E AV CE M AC C I S I NG P L A R E ST E ND I N TE A BY. I LOV NA EVALUATION REPORT 2012 BA R S& D U R I NG T E V E NT RE N . H E DI F F E T N OF F E R NS O H I BI T IO FOR EX ETHING OM Y HE RE IS S T R EAT WA –AG E RYONE L D! EV CLE SF I E AC TO SE E M S H R LUAT I OVED THE ATMOTPOFEMY E VA L EMEN IT RE A N D E XC NEED MO . WE HILDREN AS A C HERE W Y! T LT B A R NA B TOW N FE TH E L UZ Z A N D B E FESTIVA E. TH ORE ALIV NDS M S TH E BO HEN E STR E NGT AND SENS ITY COMMUN OVES OF . IT IMPR AGE IVE OF HERIT & CREAT RAL HE CULTU T ESFIELD MACCL .uk festival.org y ww.barnab w 1 Foreword It’s extremely gratifying that within just three short years this contemporary arts Festival has become a cornerstone of the Maxonian calendar. The town has taken enthusiastically to the idea of a revival of the midsummer celebration of its heritage, talents and interests. There was a latent hunger for a fuller cultural and community life - a hunger which helped secure the success of the Barnaby Festival. This evaluation demonstrates how the benefits to the town extend from the immediate economic impact to a more substantial social and cultural legacy. There is a widely held feeling that the Festival has been the catalyst for a growth in confidence and sense of identity, and has heralded a richer civic life in Macclesfield. Barnaby 2012 has again been a huge task for the team of volunteers and would have been impossible without the unstinting...
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...1. Ramada Demonstrates Its Personal Best In 1996 the latest D. K. Shifflet survey of customer satisfaction in the hospitality industry showed mid-tier hotels continuing their downward trend in perceived customer service, reflected by more and more respondents giving ratings on customer service in the 7 or lower range on Shifflet’s 10-point scale. While Ramada’s satisfaction rates held steady, “It was only a matter of time before we experienced the problem,” says Tim Pigsley, director of operations for Ramada Franchise Systems (RFS). Shifflet research highlighted three critical areas for study that could influence customer satisfaction: hiring (finding the best people to deliver Ramada’s brand of exceptional service), training (giving employees the tools to deliver exceptional service), and motivation (providing the impetus for Ramada employees to deliver exceptional service). Unlike some of its competitors, RFS is a totally franchised system. In such an environment, not only must headquarters contend with the variable human factor of all service operations, but additionally, RFS must contend with differing “exceptional service” standards among owners of the nearly 900 Ramada properties. “Due to the franchised system of property management, we needed for each management team and each employee to be committed to the change—to buy in to any new program—whatever shape it would take,” explains Pigsley. “We wanted to learn and borrow from the best so we started with Disney. In...
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...| | | | | La Trobe Law School | | LST2BSL: INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS LAW | | Subject Learning Guide Semester 12015Melbourne (Bundoora) and DandenongSubject Coordinator: Mr. N. Balu Rao | | ENQUIRIESMr. N. Balu RaoSenior LecturerLa Trobe LawLa Trobe UniversityVictoria 3083 | T 03 9479 2824E N.Rao@latrobe.edu.au | Table of Contents Subject Details 3 GENERAL DETAILS 3 ENROLMENT REQUIREMENTS 3 STAFF CONTACTS 3 SUBJECT DESCRIPTION 4 SUBJECT INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (SILOS) 4 FACULTY GRADUATE CAPABILITIES 4 LEARNING ACTIVITY SUMMARY 4 ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK SUMMARY 4 LEARNING RESOURCES 5 STUDENT FEEDBACK ON SUBJECT SURVEY 5 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY 5 Schedule of Learning Activities 6 Session Plan: 6 Learning Activity Details 7 Lectures: (Weeks 1-12) 7 Seminars: (Weeks 2-12) 7 Assessment and Feedback Details 8 Learning Resources 11 Readings 11 Academic Language and Learning Unit (ALLU) 11 Learning Management System (LMS) 11 Library 11 Student Support Services 12 Learning Summary 12 SUBJECT INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (SILOS) 12 FACULTY GRADUATE CAPABILITIES (FGCs) 12 Make the most of this subject 13 Work consistently 13 Practise legal problem solving 13 Participate in all the learning activities 13 Lecture notes 13 Allow sufficient time for study 13 Become a member of a private study group 13 Policies, Procedures and Guidelines 14 Academic Integrity 14 Special Consideration 14 Extensions, Late Submissions...
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...SUGGESTED ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. Globalization and the Multinational Firm Suggested Answers to End-of-Chapter Questions 3 2. International Monetary System Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 12 3. Balance of Payments Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 17 4. The Market for Foreign Exchange Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 23 5. International Parity Relationships Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 33 6. International Banking Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 40 7. International Bond Markets Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 50 8. International Equity Markets Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 56 9. Futures and Options on Foreign Exchange Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 62 10. Currency and Interest Rate Swaps Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 70 11. International Portfolio Investments Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 78 12. Management of Economic Exposure Suggested Answers and Solutions to End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems 87 13. Management...
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...Walmart’s Strategy Walmart’s Current strategy In Walmart's thinking, there are three types of shopping trips (Depillis, 2013): The stock-up mission- this kind of shopping trip brings families to Walmart's 3,200 nationwide Supercenters. The basic grocery run- where shopping trip shoppers want to go someplace nearby, such as one of Walmart's 300 neighborhood markets. The "immediate access" stops - where shoppers head for the traditional convenience store. As of today, Walmart hasn't really touched the third segment, except for a handful of "express" stores in Arkansas. Bill Simon, Walmart’s chief executive, vision to put all three segments together on what he called “ecosystem”. Walmart believes that “tethering” is the key to make this system work. From tether hiring and back- office functions, to tether inventory distribution systems, and even online orders, for greater efficiency and quick response to demand. In other words, instead of having one huge store with endless goods, Walmart will offer three kinds of stores with most of those goods, at the time and place customers need them. Walmart’s current strategy includes more emphasis on smaller-format stores and more e-commerce. (Cheng, 2012). Competitive Advantage Walmart enjoys several of competitive advantages that are the source of the company’s market dominance. However, Walmart’s primary competitive advantage is low costs. Low cost culture and leadership initiated by the company’s founder, Sam Walton...
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...Managing for Corporate Value Creation Sixth Edition Chew The New Corporate Finance: Where Theory Meets Practice Third Edition Cornett, Adair, and Nofsinger Finance: Applications and Theory First Edition Cornett, Adair, and Nofsinger Finance: M Book First Edition DeMello Cases in Finance Second Edition Grinblatt (editor) Stephen A. Ross, Mentor: Influence through Generations Grinblatt and Titman Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy Second Edition Higgins Analysis for Financial Management Ninth Edition Kellison Theory of Interest Third Edition Kester, Ruback, and Tufano Case Problems in Finance Twelfth Edition Ross, Westerfield, and Jaffe Corporate Finance Ninth Edition Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, and Jordan Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications Third Edition Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan Essentials of Corporate Finance Seventh Edition Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Ninth Edition Shefrin Behavioral Corporate Finance: Decisions that Create Value First Edition White Financial Analysis with an Electronic...
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...What Corporate Training Professionals Think About e-Learning: Practitioners’ Views on the Potential of e-Learning in the Workplace WHAT CORPORATE TRAINING PROFESSIONALS THINK ABOUT E-LEARNING: PRACTITIONERS’ VIEWS ON THE POTENTIAL OF E-LEARNING IN THE WORKPLACE ! Allison Rossett and James Marshall San Diego State University ABSTRACT An exploratory study of 954 mostly veteran workplace learning professionals sought to determine why respondents adopt e-learning. The results indicated that they see e-learning was most valuable for delivering instruction governing familiar company tasks, such as providing information about products, fulfilling compliance requirements, and securing standardization. While the results were largely predicted by the investigators, respondents offered one surprising conclusion. Respondents believe that e- learning is useful in capturing and sharing best practices. They concluded that technology-mediated learning is less capable of providing instruction in tackling murky challenges, such as teaming, cultural understanding and passion for the work. KEYWORDS e-Learning, Corporate Training, Compliance, Globalization, Soft Skills, Corporate Training Professionals, Survey I. INTRODUCTION...
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