Fernando Mata General Management March 8th, 2015 Assignment The Economist - Written Assignment 1. Why has The Economist been so successful despite the terrible results of its competitors? The Economist has been able to succeed for different reasons. One of them has been the increase number in its target audience. The market's increase demand for sophisticated and challenging information has led this magazine to increase its subscribers and readers throughout the globe. Another reason, and
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Schumpeter: A guide to skiving | The Economist 10/23/14, 3:56 PM Schumpeter A guide to skiving How to thrive at work with the minimum of effort Oct 25th 2014 | From the print edition THE best way to understand a system is to look at it from the point of view of people who want to subvert it. Sensible bosses try to view their companies through the eyes of corporate raiders. Serious-minded politicians make a point of putting themselves in their opponents’ shoes. The same is true
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The Economist, 10/17/2009 ------------------------------------------------- Battle of the clouds The fight to dominate cloud computing will increase competition and innovation THERE is nothing the computer industry likes better than a big new idea--followed by a big fight, as different firms compete to exploit it. "Cloudcomputing" is the latest example, and companies large and small are already joining the fray. The idea is that computing will increasingly be delivered as a service, over
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SYNOPSIS OF DEAR UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST INTRODUCTION The book offers witty, charming and at times caustic answers to our most pressing concerns all through the lens of economics. Does money buy happiness? Is the one really out there? Can cities be greener than farms? Can you really dress for success? When’s the best time to settle down? The book provides brilliant, hilarious, unexpected and wise answers to these and other questions. It lends an outrageous, compassionate and indispensable perspective
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Advance Auto Parts, Fiscal Year 2011 John Ware Accounting 100 12-01-12 Comparable Operating Results 07 | $4,844 | $3,261 | $2.28 | 08 | $5,053 | $3,368 | $2.64 | 09 | $5,413 | $3,420 | $3.00 | 10 | $5,925 | $3,563 | $3.95 | 11 | $6,170 | $3,662 | $5.11 | | Sales(in millions) | Number of Stores | Earnings per Diluted Share | Number Operating Results7 Performance Measures 09 | $1,595 | $142 | 15.1% | 10 | $1,697 | $168 | 17.5% | 11 | $1,708 | $184 | 19.5% | | Sales
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While the Israel Manufacturer's Association and a coalition of exporters have long complained that Israel's currency is too strong, they got an unlikely endorsement on Friday from McDonald's. More specifically, The Economist released its latest Big Mac Index, a simple, lighthearted and popular indicator of whether currencies are valued correctly. The idea, according to the newspaper, is this: The price of a Big Mac captures a lot of what's going on in a given economy, from labor to rent to the
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terminology serves society by allowing economists to discuss economics with each other and with society with clarity so that other economists have a better understanding of what an economist is saying. A common terminology also serves to divide insiders from outsiders. For outsiders, for example economic students, who do not have a clue what these terms mean, economists’ terminology is exclusionary. It makes economists the gatekeepers of economic ideas. Economists’ terminology serves as a barrier to
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Curse of the ethical executive Why “corporate social responsibility” is not a welcome fashion The Economist, Nov 15th 2001 | From the print edition IT IS more than 200 years since Adam Smith observed that people enjoy their daily bread thanks not to the benevolence of their baker, but to his selfish pursuit of profit. In that observation and its implications lies the case for market capitalism. In their economic lives, people behave as though they had no regard for the public good. Yet the outcome
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The following 5 questions are based on this information: An economist claims that average weekly food expenditure of households in City 1 is more than that of households in City 2. She surveys 35 households in City 1 and obtains an average weekly food expenditure of $164. A sample of 30 households in City 2 yields an average weekly expenditure of $159. Historical data reveals that the population standard deviation for City 1 and City 2 are $12.50 and $9.25, respectively. City 1
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Sex and advertising: Retail therapy | The Economist 18/10/2012 22:28 Log in Register Subscribe Digital & mobile Events Topics A-Z Newsletters Jobs Thursday October 18th 2012 Search Multimedia Print edition World politics Business & finance Economics Science & technology Culture Blogs Debate The World in 2013 We use cookies to support features like login and allow trusted media partners to analyse aggregated site usage. Keep cookies enabled
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