maintenance, and gas. This idea was pitched as an alternative to experiencing traffic congestion in a borough that has its share of congested streets. Ms. McNeal explained that the car sharing program is vastly different from LYFT or Uber but more like Zipcar or Enterprise car share. The car-sharing program allows drivers to purchase single rides or roundtrip. The single ride will allow drivers to pick up a car from one location and drop it off at another. The round trip allows drivers to pick up and return
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vehicle. According to Maynard (2015) the demand for public transportation is on the rise among baby boomers and millennials. In many cities new modes of public transit are in the works. She goes on to say that new technologies and companies, such as Zipcar, Uber, and Lyft make it easy and cheaper for people to get around. Remote working situations are more popular and common. Maynard says that car-sharing and bike-sharing programs in urban areas and at colleges are also becoming more commonplace. Safety
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4 The Impact of the Internet of Things on Business and Society · Ubiquitous services for connected consumers · Open source and collaborative business models · The optimisation of things: towards a truly sustainable development W ith the Internet of Everything, it will possible for everybody and everything to be connected at all times, receiving and processing information in real time. The result will be new ways of making decisions, backed by the availability of information. The option
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Hedge Fund Summary The Hedge Fund Project gave me an insight of what trading is like. In the beginning, I wanted to pursue this aggressively. It did not take long for me to realize I really had no idea what I was doing. I started to invest in large company stocks and waited. Returns were following the S&P and if I were to see results quicker I needed to risk more. I bought some small company stocks and realized they changed quite rapidly on a daily basis. I used a fundamental approach to picking
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The Journal of Applied Business Research – May/June 2015 Volume 31, Number 3 Collaborative Consumption And Sustainability: A Discursive Analysis Of Consumer Representations And Collaborative Website Narratives Anne-Sophie Binninger, NEOMA Business School, France Nacima Ourahmoune, NEOMA Business School, France Isabelle Robert, University Lille Nord de France-SKEMA Business School, France ABSTRACT In this article, the authors analyze the collaborative consumption model and its contribution to sustainable
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. David L. Kurtz University of Arkansas Louis E. Boone University of South Alabama BUSINESS 14TH EDITION Contemporary . . . at the speed of business “The 14th edition of Contemporary Business is dedicated to Joseph S. Heider, who brought me to John Wiley & Sons. Thank you, Joe.” —Dave Vice President & Executive Publisher Acquisitions Editor Assistant Editor Production Manager Senior Production Editor Marketing Manager Creative Director Senior Designer Text Designer Cover
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HBR.ORG For the exclusive use of Y. Chen, 2014. JULY–AUGUST 2014 REPRINT R1407E SPOTLIGHT ON THE NEW MARKETING ORGANIZATION Unlock the Mysteries of Your Customer Relationships Are you connecting with consumers the way they want you to? by Jill Avery, Susan Fournier, and John Wittenbraker This document is authorized for use only by Yin-Hao Chen in MARK-570_CONSUMER BEHAVIOR.SPRING.2015 taught by Rebecca Hamilton, at University of Maryland from December 2014 to June 2015. For
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The Business Idea We have come to a time in Singapore where the cost of owning a car has rocketed skyhigh. Just when people in Singapore are still dwelling on the exorbitant Certificate of Entitlement prices, moods were dampened further with the recent declaration concerning cars. With reference to the Singapore Budget 2013, the maximum loan tenures have been reduced to five years which will also mean that there is a possibility where
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The Florida State University DigiNole Commons Honors Theses Division of Undergraduate Studies Spring 2014 College Student Perception & Behavior Towards Sustainability: Results of A Campus Survey Heather Sadusky Florida State University, hms10@my.fsu.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/uhm Recommended Citation Sadusky, Heather, "College Student Perception & Behavior Towards Sustainability: Results of A Campus Survey" (2014). Honors Theses. Paper
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Lit Motors: C-1 Group #1 Executive Summary Today’s consumers seek quicker ways of travel at more affordable prices allowing them to reduce up to 50% off their commute time and giving them more time to spend with their families. The C1 motorcycle was designed for efficient high-speed travel, enabling you to slip through traffic easily. Once you arrive at your destination, you can park in the smallest spaces–even motorcycle-specific parking.Team 1 was selected to research, analyze, and
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