A JOINT STUDY OF THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK INSTITUTE Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific ISSUES PAPER Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific Issues Paper April 2013 A Joint Study of the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute © 2013 Asian Development Bank Institute All rights reserved. Published 2013. Printed in Japan Printed using vegetable oil-based inks on recycled paper; manufactured through a totally
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1. Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex Brand after the patent expired. What activities can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed during the patent protection phase? Once the main patent on the Gore-Tex fabric expired, the company lost all rights to its invention, and it opened the door for other companies to offer comparative products at a lower price. Many companies make waterproof membranes now, and some have advanced past Gore-Tex in terms of durability and function
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Kaoru Ishikawa: One Step Further Kaoru Ishikawa wanted to change the way people think about work. He urged managers to resist becoming content with merely improving a product's quality, insisting that quality improvement can always go one step further. His notion of company-wide quality control called for continued customer service. This meant that a customer would continue receiving service even after receiving the product. This service would extend across the company itself in all levels of
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UNIT 16 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Introduction I have been asked to write a report describing the procedures that Midshires Hospital might use to identify and then satisfy its human resources requirements. This report is to be submitted by 11th May 2012. ASSESSING THE CURRENT WORKFORCE The human resource department of Midshires hospital is the function within the hospital that deals with issues like recruitment, administration and training related to people such as their employees so they have in
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Project Report on “A study on segmentation, targeting and positioning strategies of Kosmo products at Spacewood Furnishers Pvt.ltd.Nagpur” Submitted to SHRI RAMDEOBABA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, Nagpur In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) 2014 In specialization Marketing Submitted by Project Guide SHRI RAMDEOBABA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, NAGPUR CERTIFICATE This
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other and they could use it to meet, chat, share tips and strategies etc. Within one year, it’d reach to over 1 million monthly active users after its first launch and expanded its presence to various countries such as Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and the CIS
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Colegio de San Juan de LetranCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesIntramuros, Manila 1002, PHILIPPINES | Date Completed: March 16, 2013Signature of the Proponent:_________________________________ | Capsule Research Proposal | | BalcosSioting | CziannicaVhieJennyvyl | PolintanMaglantay | | Last Name | First Name | Middle Name | Field of Specialization | Communication | Research Attributes | Research Approach | Mixed Method | | Research Method/Design | Descriptive | | Corpus of
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AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE EXPORT POTENTIAL AND STRATEGIES OF BEXIMCO PHARMACEUTICALS LTD. [pic] [pic] [pic] AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE EXPORT POTENTIAL AND STRATEGIES OF BEXIMCO PHARMACEUTICALS LTD. Submitted To: Professor Golam Mohammed Chowdhury Chairman Internship and Placement Program Supervised By: Mr. Ridwanul Huq Lecturer Submitted by: Md. Shoeb-Bin-Mananan MBA 38th Day Roll-38D Institute of Business Administration
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Academic Research International DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTERIZED ENROLMENT SYSTEM IN A RURAL-BASED HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM Christian Le Marjo A. Caipang College of Industrial Technology, Western Visayas College of Science and Technology, Iloilo City, PHILIPPINES. 1 clmacaipang@gmail.com ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to design a computerized enrolment system for a ruralbased higher education institution and to find out its acceptability in terms of construction design and functionality. The computerized
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ARMY AVIATION OPERATIONS IN LOW INTENSITY CONFLICT Introduction “Foot slogging” by infantrymen has been most important and fundamental to address an insurgency; however, there are limitations to their mobility. To increase their versatility, the Portuguese introduced two contrasting means, the helicopter and the horse. While there were other, more conventional solutions to the mobility problem, such as trucks, jeeps, and light armored cars, these vehicles required at least crude roads, had
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