“They’re real chill… I mean they would get me a lot more gigs than I could ever get on my own using my own contacts. It’s like they have a certain way with words that convince Venues that you’re worth the money. The owner of The State Theater in Harrah Oklahoma shares about her experiences working with Booking Agent Kym Johnston “...” How does one start their own Booking
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Management and Leadership Stephanie Stokes MGT/330 Mary Loggins-Davis June 27, 2010 Management and Leadership A leader is someone who inspires others to achieve certain goals. A leader goes above and beyond the call of duty to see that a task is completed. Some people are just natural born leaders while others acquire leadership through life learned lessons. Outstanding leaders are the ones that allow people to grow and to become exceptional contributors. Outstanding leaders
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MKTG101: Services Marketing Introduction Services Marketing can be centred on “the existence of a number of characteristics of services which are consistently cited in the literature: intangibility, inseparability of production and consumption, heterogeneity, and perishability” (Zeithaml, Parasuraman and Berry 1985). As such, services marketing do not refer to the readily transferable goods but instead it refers those intangible benefits that a consumer receives when purchasing a good. It is
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Human Resource Management –GBUS 403 Mid Semester Assignment Caesars Entertainment REPORT on issues related to Human Resource Management Summary: Caesars Entertainment Inc. is one of the world's leading gaming enterprise and has it's headquarter is in Las Vegas. Currently it owns 28 properties in five different countries. These properties offer casino gaming and resort facilities. This report is created to identify the major problems faced by the various properties of Caesars Entertainment
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Research in Brief Service quality and human resource practices: a theme park case study Jeffrey Hickman Guest Service Manager, The Disney Company, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA Karl J. Mayer Assistant Professor, William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Keywords Human resource utilization, Theme parks, Employee communications, Service quality Introduction In services management, the linkage between employee performance and the delivery
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Stem Cell Cloning Research Braden Harrah Marshall University Abstract The term cloning of stem cell is used by scientists to describe many different processes that involve making duplicates of the different types of stem cells. In different types of cases, stem cells are duplicated for scientific study and no new results were found during the experiment of trying to clone stem cells. This led to the experiment that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997. It used a cloning technique called
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Brian's Book Barn Sample Business Plan (Retail) Canada / British Columbia Business Services Society 601 West Cordova Street Vancouver BC V6B 1G1 Phone: 604-775-5525 In BC: 1- 800- 667-2272 http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca Fax: 604-775-5520 Sample Plan Business Plan for the period Starting May 1998 Executive Summary Business Description Brian's Book Barn is a new retail business venture due to begin operations on June 1, 1997. The business is a book and magazine store intended to serve the community
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THE NEW ECONOMICS in the SPECIAL ISSUE NEW WORLD The End of Rational Economics Your company has been operating on the premise that people – customers, employees, managers – make logical decisions. It’s time to abandon that assumption. | by Dan Ariely IN 2008, a massive earthquake reduced the financial world to rubble. Standing in the smoke and ash, Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve once hailed as “the greatest banker who ever lived,” confessed to Congress
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Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business Administration GS601-100 Strategic Information Fundamentals Spring 2012 Syllabus & Schedule as of January 3, 2012 Professor: Dennis Anderson Office: Smith 402 Email: danderson@bentley.edu Office Phone: 781 891 2238 Class Times: Section 100: Monday, 7:30 - 9:50 pm Office Hours: For quick/easy questions, send me an email. For tough questions, career advice and other matters, face to face is better,
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Beyond the Casino Floor: Economic Impacts of the Commercial Casino Industry I. Overview The commercial casino industry in the U.S. has without question undergone significant growth over the last 25 years. During this time, the industry has gone from operating only in Nevada and Atlantic City, New Jersey to operating 566 casinos in 22 states in 2010. Coinciding with this growth, large portions of the industry have also undergone an evolutionary shift that has led to an increased emphasis being
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