Starting Your Own Business Contents List of illustrations ix Preface xi 1 Getting Started 1 What's holding you back? 1 Learning to handle success 3 Overcoming the mental blocks 3 Fighting back 6 Checking your readiness 12 Case studies 13 Action points 15 2 Finding Ideas 16 Looking right in front of you 16 Cashing in on change 17 Carving a niche 18 Acquiring commercial skills 20 Working on your self-esteem 20 Choosing a trading name 21 Checking your readiness 24 Case studies 24
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Gary Carter, Mary Feil-jacobs, Kevin Feldhausen, Michael Moore, and Steve Winard. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I first want to thank my collaborator, Collins Hemingway, for his help in synthesizing and developing the material in this book and for his overall management of this project. I want to thank four CEOs who read a late draft of the manuscript and offered valuable thoughts on how to make it more meaningful for business leaders: Paul O'Neill, Alcoa; Ivan Seidenberg, Bell Atlantic; Tony Nicely, GEICO Insurance;
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A HANDBOOK FOR VALUE CHAIN RESEARCH Prepared for the IDRC by Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris* We are grateful to colleagues in both our individual institutions and in the Spreading the Gains from Globalisation Network (particularly those participating in the Bellagio Workshop in September 2000) for discussions around many of the issues covered in this Handbook and also to Stephanie Barrientos, Jayne Smith and Justin Barnes. An Important Health Warning or A Guide for Using this Handbook
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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HOW TO RE-LAUNCH A PRODUCT SUCCESSFULLY SHREYA. S. PUNTAMBEKAR MBA- I MARKETING B ROLL NUMBER: 36264 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………..3 2. CURRENT SCENARIO………………………………………………………...4 3. THE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE………………………………………...……..6 4. THE MARKETING MIX AND ITS IMPORTANCE…………………...8 5. SO WHY RE-LAUNCH?...............................................
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1.0 Introduction 1.1 Origin of the Report The report has been prepared as a requirement for the completion of BBA Degree and course BUS 498, Project Work, SSM Sadrul Huda, course instructor, assigned to do an analysis report on “Promotional Activities of different private banks in Bangladesh”. For this purpose I, Mustafizur Rahman, ID – 2007-1-10-097 choose to prepare this report on Promotional Activities of 5 different private banks. The date of submission of the report is April 28, 2011.
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Executive Summary Industry and macro-environmental analyses of the international restaurant industry provides an overview of the industry and reveals the conditions that impact competitiveness and profitability of the industry’s players. The industry is split in two sectors: full-service restaurants (FSR) and limited-service restaurants (LSR). FSRs typically have a wait-staff; LSRs do not have wait-staff. The top five countries, in terms of total number of foodservice outlets, are: China, India
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LEAN HOSPITALS “Mark Graban’s book has documented what is now happening in hospitals all across America as we learn to apply the Toyota Production System methodology to healthcare. This book lays out the nuts and bolts of the lean methodology and also describes the more difficult challenges, which have to do with managing change. Graban’s book is full of wins—these are the same type of wins that are happening at ThedaCare every day. I wish I could have read this book six years ago, as it
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On Pepsi Cola International Nau-Bahar Bottling Company, Gujranwala Submitted To: HR Executive Mr. Basharat Zia Submitted By: Afnan Umar Khan Kashif Mahmood Salman Dar Syed Sajjad Haider Date of Submission: University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus Lahore School of Economics, Lahore Baha-ud-Din Zikriya University, Multan 28.08.2010 NBC, 38 S.I Gujranwala, Pakistan. University Of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus Page 1 Internship Report
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