competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way
Words: 233886 - Pages: 936
Consumer fire safety: European statistics and potential fire safety measures Versie: 431N8032/3.0, January 2009 This research study has been commissioned by the Consumer Council at the Austrian Standards Institute and was funded by the Austrian Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection. Netherlands Institute for Safety Nibra P.O. Box 7010 6801 HA Arnhem The Netherlands T +31 (0)26 355 24 00 F +31 (0)26 351 50 51 info@nifv.nl Consumer fire safety: European statistics and
Words: 19880 - Pages: 80
Journal of International Business Studies (2009) 40, 901–925 & 2009 Academy of International Business All rights reserved 0047-2506 www.jibs.net Why are companies offshoring innovation? The emerging global race for talent Arie Y Lewin1, Silvia Massini2 and Carine Peeters3 The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, USA; 2Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 3 Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Brussels, Belgium Correspondence:
Words: 17853 - Pages: 72
ABSTRACT India with its growing economy is becoming one of the most attractive nations for investments at present. The country’s most significant industry is the retail industry (Jain et al, 2009). It is currently the 5th largest retail industry in the world and the industry contributes around 12% to the country’s Gross Domestic Product, it is also expected to grow at a very healthy rate and contribute around 22% by the end of 2011 (Srivastava, 2008). However the dominant sector in the retail industry
Words: 19189 - Pages: 77
STARS WITHOUT NUMBER For Eden, who gave me a reason. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ..............................................................................................................5 Character Creation ....................................................................................................7 Psionics ...................................................................................................................25 Equipment ..........................................
Words: 143564 - Pages: 575
____________________________________________________________________ PROGRAMME HANDBOOK ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION GENERAL DEGREE ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ JANUARY 2016 INTAKE ____________________________________________________________________
Words: 20049 - Pages: 81
This text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee. Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org 1 Project Management in a Complex World Faster, cheaper, and better has become the mantra of not only profit-making organizations seeking to increase market share and profits but also nonprofits and governmental organizations seeking to
Words: 109859 - Pages: 440
To my mother and grandmother, whose engineering endeavors paved the way for my own. Copyright © 2011 by Gayle Laakmann. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States
Words: 72645 - Pages: 291
1. Introduction 1 1.1 Research motivation and objectives 1 1.2 Research contributions 3 2. Theory 4 2.1Trust vs. customer trust 5 2.2 Customer trust vs. online trust 8 2.2.1 Define customer trust in online shopping 8 2.2.2 The importance of customer trust in online shopping 9 2.2.3 Findings from past studies 9 2.3 E-business Vs E-drugstore 12 2.3.1 A glance of pharmaceutical industry & drugstore sector 14 2.4 Website factors that might affect the perceptions of customers’ online trust
Words: 16013 - Pages: 65
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION TOWARDS SERVICE QUALITY OF FRONT OFFICE STAFF AT THE HOTEL A MASTER S PROJECT BY ALIN SRIYAM Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Arts Degree in Business English for International Communication at Srinakharinwirot University May 2010 CUSTOMER SATISFACTION TOWARDS SERVICE QUALITY OF FRONT OFFICE STAFF AT THE HOTEL A MASTER S PROJECT BY ALIN SRIYAM Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Arts Degree
Words: 11542 - Pages: 47
