Management
Essays

This paper looks at some of the dominant economists and economic theories that we have studied over the course of the semester. The paper examines how many of these thinkers overlap and where they differ and how those differences often manifest. Furthermore, this paper also looks at what my favorite and least favorite economic theories were and why.

This paper is about human resources, in particular the process of interviewing employees to create job descriptions. This process is important because it is necessary to effectively gather information about the jobs. There are three main categories – duties and tasks, qualifications (skills, training, etc) and special issues such as overtime and travel.

In most of the literature, China’s Cultural Revolution gets a bad rap. It is considered a time of social turmoil that eventually led to an economic disaster for the country. There are accounts of intellectuals being persecuted as well as violence in many communities. However, the author, Dongping Han, gives a different account of this period. In many cases, history is written by the winners. Therefore, the capitalistic model that eventually won the debate undoubtedly discredited the communist roots of the Cultural Revolution. In this sense, Han points out many of the accomplishments that China was able to produce during this period. As a product of the Cultural Revolution himself, Han is able to give many personal stories of the movement’s success.

This paper is about a few random subjects. First there is discussion about Google and antitrust issues, including the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, and how to define Google's industry. Then there is a question about a vague hypothetical scenario. Finally, there is a discussion about the role of management in enhancing the wealth of the shareholders.

This is a paper that concentrates on the education of patients with the aim of reducing the 30 days readmission levels that are currently experienced in several hospitals. It highlights various approaches by several writers on the subject matter and suggests the best approach to be used in making the readmission drop.

This paper is about the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. Mostly, it describes what the Fed does, what economic variables it is supposed to be managing, and the different policy tools that it uses to manage the supply and cost of money in the banking system, so open market transactions, discount rate and reserve requirements.

The topic for this particular paper revolves around the aspect of mergers and acquisitions. The paper identifies and uses appropriate perspectives to analyze this significant cross-border transaction and present an analysis of the motivations of both Ford and Tata and highlights the key post-acquisition challenges faced by Tata and discusses the actions taken to overcome them.

Data was found that showed the total number of players that was a player in the NBA as well as involved in the FIBA network from HoopsHype.com (HoopsHype.com). There was also data collected by the FIBA teams current rank in relation to the amount of points that they were able to earn based on the FIBA ranking system (FIBA). From these two data sources a composite of the data was combined to show the number of NBA players, the team’s total points and the team’s rank. From this condensed data set many insights can be gained. One that was initially apparent was that any team that had at least two active NBA players on their rooster was officially ranked. Many teams that only had one NBA players did not even achieve ranking status.

The Nestlé Corporation as we know it today was formed in 1905, when a merger combined two preexisting companies which were originally formed in 1866. The Anglo-Swiss Milk Company was created by brothers George Page and Charles Page, while Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé was the brainchild of Henri Nestlé. By combining the assets and expertise of two established, successful companies, the newly formed Nestlé S.A. positioned itself for immediate growth within the European continent, but the advent of two World Wars within a span of four decades forced the company’s upper management to explore expansion to markets in North and South America, Asia and Africa. A series of major mergers and acquisitions followed the conclusion of WWII, and Nestlé soon expanded through its purchase of competing firms like Crosse and Blackwell (1950), Findus (1963), Stouffer’s (1973), Carnation (1984), San Pellegrino (1997), and Ralston Purina (2002). What had begun as a simple purveyor of milk chocolate and condensed milk in the 19th century had flourished into one of the world’s true multinational conglomerates, with Nestlé know holding vested interests in markets such as bottled water, pet food, makeup and cosmetics, candy bars, ice cream, breakfast cereals, and dozens of other product lines (Rapoport, 1994, p. 3).

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