Introduction Cruise industry is facing a downturn worldwide after Sep 30, 2010’s terrorist attack in Caribbean, experienced an immediate decline in bookings. A requested report to identify a strategy for Coast4Life (C4L hereafter) to remain profitable during the downturn is followed. Issue Identification The terrorist attack caused the decline in booking of cruise next year implies that the cruise revenue may shrink worldwide. C4L itself, although in the past three years has been growing fast
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archetypes of administrative heritage: • Centralized exporter=only exporting the standardized product, no activity in host country. • International projector=FSAs from home country copied, no development of new ones. • International coordinator=different parts of the production process in different countries. • Multi-centered MNE=does everything(produce, sell, etc.) in the host country. 2. Non-transferable or location bound FSAs. 4 types of non-transferable FSAs: • Stand-alone resources=linked to location
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able to be classified as a more developed country. In addition, it is known that the GDP index is the economic indicator for the development of a country. In the eventuality that a large part of the GDP derives from the exploitation of natural resources, this country can hardly be considered as developed. For example, Saudi Arabia's per capita GDP is almost higher than the U.S.’s, but Saudi Arabia is not included in the list of developed countries. The reason for that is the fact that the
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Has Increased Poverty Although the concept of globalization is very recent, it has existed throughout the history. Globalization began to take greater height from the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago in England which was the most developed countries in the world. Technological and political changes have changed the meaning of globalization. Today, the term globalization is defined as “the process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation
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In Denise Noe’s article on the similarities and differences between country-and-western and rap music, she points out and explains the different aspects of each genre. Both types of genres have a couple similarities and differences between them, for example, both country-and-western and rap songs are more based upon a personal story and what the artist has seen or experienced. On the other hand, country-and-western music is more stereotyped towards southern rednecks while rap music is more based
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Marketing Channel Strategies in Rural Emerging Markets Unlocking Business Potential By Benjamin Neuwirth Benjamin Neuwirth, Kellogg School of Management, bneuwirth2012@kellogg.northwestern.edu 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In his landmark book “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” C.K. Prahalad describes the profits that can be earned by selling products to “Bottom of the Pyramid” customers. While there is truth to this, companies face unique challenges when operating in the rural regions
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Scandinavia is part of Northern Europe and is mainly made up of the Scandinavian Peninsula that is located east of Greenland. Scandinavia is usually misconceived as one big country, but instead, is the cultural term used to sum up the five countries that comprise it. The personal experience that I have chosen to talk about for this paper is the Norsk Hostfest that occurs every fall in Minot North Dakota. I had heard of this festival many times, but never made it to Minot to witness it. My husband
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the history of the United States. There have been more important issues that the American public and government chose to address first. The issues concerning immigration are that many Americans are upset that foreign born people are invading the country and making themselves feel at home without giving the proper respect to the American culture (Huntington p.) Some Americans also feel that they are being robbed of their opportunities because the number of jobs immigrants hold in the labor force
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improvements in primary education, gender equality, child mortality rates and maternal health and finally work towards combatting HIV, AIDS and other diseases. From figure 4 we can see that each country is at various stages of achieving the goals or not in some cases. An example of a succeeding country is Brazil, which has achieved all but two of the 5 goals by 2007 and is very likely to achieve the remaining two by the 2015 deadline. In contrast India is doing not so well with the unlikelihood
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