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Caroline Barnes and Simon Jackson This paper offers a critical reading of Robin Boyd’s narrative of the Australian nation created for Australia’s pavilion at Expo’70. The critique offered is from an environmental perspective, using this example to lead into a broader reflection on Australian design history’s ‘modernity problem’. We argue that although the examination of Australia as a socio-cultural context for the practice of design continues to engage scholars, the will to profess the existence
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Tourism is not only the largest industry in the world but also the number one online segment, accounting for 11% of overall sales on the Net in 1998. E-business on tourism accounted for $13 billion in 1999 (Forrester Research 1999). The online travel market is experiencing explosive growth, and is projected to go to $30 billion this year. It is already estimated that by year 2003 over 30% of online sales will be generated by online travel alone, including actual travel products as well as advertising
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Every firm (small or large), cafe, restaurant are the active microeconomics households, which influence the situation of the whole ,market. It is possible, that a single small firm can produce high-quality wares which are praised by people and very soon other firms, which produce similar wares but of lower quality will possible bankrupt being unable to compete with that one (Howson, Cindy, Successful Business Intelligence 2013). With the run of time that small firm can turn into a great company or
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transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business. In the months since my biography of Jobs came out, countless commentators have
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LEVEL 5 LEADERSHIP THE TRIUMPH OF HUMILITY AND FIERCE RESOLVE What catapults a company from merely good to truly great? A five-year research good to truly great? A five-year research project searched for the answer to that question, and its discoveries ought to change the way we think about leadership. The most powerfully transformative executives possess a paradoxical mixture pf personal humility and professional will. They are timid and ferocious. shy and fearless. They are rare -- and unstoppable
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Introduction McDonalds is one of the best known brands worldwide. It is a fast food restaurant that primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and deserts. Many people just don’t have the time to sit at a restaurant for hours and order food that will cost them a fortune. Everything in New York City cost money and is expensive, opening a McDonalds restaurant in Times Square will give many customers the option of going to
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Social responsibility and managerial ethics You may be wondering, “Why should I care about corporate social responsibility or managerial ethics or whether or not my employees have health care benefits? Aren’t these the types of issues philosophers worry about?” To answer this question, you only need to pick up a recent newspaper or business magazine. Everything from Wall Street trading scandals to accounting frauds at AIG, Lehman Brothers, Enron, Parmalat, Satyam, WorldCom, Tyco, and Global
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work life balance practices; to see whether employees felt that existing practices met their needs; and to provide a baseline against which future surveys could be compared. Changes were made in the survey’s methodology between the first baseline study conducted by IFF and the second survey of employees (WLB2) conducted in 2003 by MORI, and fieldwork for the 3 Second survey was conducted prior to the introduction of the right to request flexible
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Chapter 9 Monopoly As you will recall from intermediate micro, monopoly is the situation where there is a single seller of a good. Because of this, it has the power to set both the price and quantity of the good that will be sold. We begin our study of monopoly by considering the price that the monopolist should charge.1 9.1 Simple Monopoly Pricing The object of the firm is to maximize profit. However, the price that the monopolist charges affects the quantity it sells. The relationship
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