Taking Risks There come times in everyone's life when you're faced with a choice that involves risk. Perhaps you want to change careers, move to a different place, quit your job and start a business, begin a new relationship, have a child. Creatively, you may be faced with a choice of doing what you know is marketable or going out on a limb with your own vision, or giving up a steady job to follow your creative pursuits full-time. Risk is, by nature, scary. It's uncertain and unpredictable. You're
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PROFESSOR IN BUSINESS FRANCHISING Top 10 International Franchises of 2014 The results of Entrepreneur's 35th annual Franchise 500 confirm that franchising continues to rebound, with these top 10 franchises leading the way. Here we highlight their success strategies and plans for the upcoming year. 1 Anytime Fitness Some 50.2 million Americans belonged to health clubs in 2012, according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association. Today, about 1.9 million are Anytime Fitness members--a
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emerging technologies that UPS is implementing and employing to support the business strategy and maintain its competitive edge. OVERVIEW I nfrastructure, data and proprietary e-commerce software elements are the foundation of UPS’s technology success. These tools work together to support its e-commerce strategy, which in turn supports the company’s business strategy. The company’s ongoing investment and research in emerging technologies gives UPS its competitive advantage according to Tom Creech
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Tony Tyler Director General & CEO International Air Transport Association Annual Report 2012 68th Annual General Meeting Beijing, June 2012 Contents IATA Membership Board of Governors Director General’s message The state of the industry Safety Feature: What is the benefit of global connectivity? 2 4 6 10 18 22 26 30 36 42 48 52 Feature: How safe can we be? Security Feature: Do I need to take my shoes off? Taxation & regulatory policy Environment Feature: What is right for
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Date of Submission: August 24, 2015 Executive summary Although aviation is considered as the “global connectivity that ultimately strengthens productivity and economic growth as a whole” (J. Perovic, 2013), it is also affected by several macro-level and socio-economic factors such as rising oil prices, contagious crisis, concerns about the eruption of bird flu, Asian tsunami, etc. (International Air Transport Association, 2007). Vietnam Airlines (or VNA) which was originally established in 1956
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For the exclusive use of C. Calina, 2015. Journal of Information Technology (2007) 22, 432–439 & 2007 JIT Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. All rights reserved 0268-3962/07 JIT016 palgrave-journals.com/jit Teaching case Modernization of passenger reservation system: Indian Railways’ dilemma Shirish C Srivastava1, Sharat S Mathur2, Thompson SH Teo1 1 School of Business, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Centre for Railway Information Systems, Indian Railways, New
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NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY – LOUAIZE PALMA JOURNAL A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PUBLICATION Volume 11 Issue 1 2009 Contents Editorial New century, old story! Race, religion, bureaucrats, and the Australian Lebanese story Anne Monsour The Transnational Imagination: XXth century networks and institutions of the Mashreqi migration to Mexico Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos Balad Niswen – Hukum Niswen: The Perception of Gender Inversions Between Lebanon and Australia Nelia Hyndman-Rizik
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Business Models Of Popular Websites Business Essay The business model can simply be known as a working description that includes the general details about the operations of a business. Every business model consists of a number of factors. Some of these factors are expenses, revenues, operating strategies, corporate structure, and sales and marketing procedures. In general, anything that has to do with the day to day functionality of the corporation can be said to be part of the business model.
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Customer loyalty is both an attitudinal and behavioral tendency to favor one brand over all others, whether due to satisfaction with the product or service, its convenience or performance, or simply familiarity and comfort with the brand. Customer loyalty encourages consumers to shop more consistently, spend a greater share of wallet, and feel positive about a shopping experience, helping attract consumers to familiar brands in the face of a competitive
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