and sell over mobile phones. Nearly 23 million Grameenphone users can buy any agricultural product, such as rice, fish, or chicken, as well as large-scale purchases like an apartment, land, or car, and consumer goods such as a television or refrigerator. People can also offer services, like tutoring, house rent etc. The service is run by the customers: they post items for sale, delete items after they are sold, adjust prices if items fail to sell, and do much more besides. Initially started working
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Marketing Elements and Customer Analysis MBA 6110 Dr. Ted Framan February 27, 2011 [pic] The Motorola Xoom is very new to the market. It was introduced to the consumer market on February 22, 2011. For working on the go, the Motorola XOOM provides constant connectivity - including connecting to Gmail or Exchange e-mail; opening and editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations; and viewing calendars and sending out appointments or meeting notices
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International Business (Dalhousie, Canada), and MS in Marketing and Ph.D. in International Business with focus on International Marketing—both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have worked at a managerial level in a large multinational enterprise. I have taught a wide range of courses--International Business, International Marketing, The Global Village, Self-Marketing, Marketing Internship, Principles of Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research, Seminar in Marketing, and Marketing
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Acknowledgments It is necessary to know the relevance between theoretical and practical knowledge. So a student can only claim himself as a student of true knowledge by virtue of preparing such kind of internship report. It is time to thank all who helped me to complete this project successfully. First of all, I offer my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to Almighty Allah who has given me the learning power in the earth. Shibli Noman Khan, School of Business, Independent University Bangladesh, is my
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opportunities the process of opportunity evaluation F r e d ma nag e d t h e service department of a large automobile dealer of Japanese cars. With five years on the job as manager and many more as a mechanic, Fred understood the economics of the auto service business, and he saw what might be an opportunity. “We’re selling more and more hybrid engine cars,” he told his brother at a family gathering. “The
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Chapter – 1 Introduction to Accounting Origin and history of Accounting can be traced back to some 10,000 years ago. The population in the area known as Mesopotamia, later Persia, and today the countries of Iran and Iraq had an active trading between towns and cities up and down the two rivers started the accounting concepts. At that time there were no letters or numbers. The merchants had to ship their merchandise up and down the rivers. They have to trust the boat man with their goods
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equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) were preparing a final bid in pursuit of the largest and most complicated deal they had ever undertaken. For more than three years CD&R had patiently pursued an acquisition of The Hertz Corporation, the global car and equipment rental company owned by Ford Motor Company. A three-firm consortium led by CD&R made a preliminary bid in July 2005, as did two other interested buyers. In late July they began conducting due diligence and working on a complex financing
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Saturday afternoon in the summer of 2010, Gazmend Haxhia (Gazi), President of Albanian Center of Management Services and Avis Rent a Car Albania, together with Anila his business partner and wife of nine years were sitting in their office in Rogner Hotel in Tirana and contemplating the future of their multiple businesses. As Licensee Proprietor and President of Avis Rent A Car Albania, Managing Director of the OPEL General Motors Albanian Representation, Co-Chairman of Albanian Center for Management
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Financial Economics 84 (2007) 330–357 www.elsevier.com/locate/jfec Politically connected CEOs, corporate governance, and Post-IPO performance of China’s newly partially privatized firms$ Joseph P.H. Fana,Ã, T.J. Wonga, Tianyu Zhangb a The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong b City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Received 19 August 2005; received in revised form 31 January 2006; accepted 6 March 2006 Available online 24 January
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challenge but to spark the next industrial revolution as well. Most cars spend more than 95 percent of their time sitting in garages or parking lots. When in use, the average occupancy per vehicle is well below two people, even though most cars have five seats. Roads are likewise extremely inefficient. Freeways can operate at peak throughput (around 2,000 cars a lane per hour) only when they are less than 10 percent covered by cars. Add more, and congestion lowers speeds and reduces throughput. Most
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