Airline Strategy: A Comparison of Southwest, Delta, United, and American Airlines
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A 5 page discussion of the factors influencing airline success and failure. Identifies Southwest as standing head and shoulders above its competitors in term of market share. Notes that this success revolves around Southwest’s emphasis on being a short-haul company; one that doesn’t pretend to offer many of the amenities of the industry icons like Delta, United and American Airlines. Its emphasis is getting from point A to point B in as expedient and efficient manner as possible. The author asserts that while the other airlines wouldn’t benefit as much from changing their route structure they would benefit from a greater concentration on efficiency and less on customer amenities. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Airplane Crash: A Case Study and Analysis
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This 5 page paper provides a case study regarding the aerospace industry and the use of quantitative analysis. FTA as a mode of analysis is explained in depth. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Aligning Operations with Company Goals
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A 12 page paper discussing the history of and the decline of quality in the "Quality is Job 1" company. Ford Motor Company had the highest number of recalls in the industry in 2000, and its recent replacement of former CEO Jacques Nasser has unleashed a wealth of management problems. The paper reviews the Firestone debacle, includes recent financial information and recommends that Ford assess quality within itself in the same manner that it does vendors. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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ALLIED CORPORATION AND THE BATCH SYSTEM
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This paper examines Professor Joan Woodward's theories of the batch system in terms of manufacturing science, then proceeds to disprove these theories. The example used for doing this is Allied Corporation, as written about in the book Manufacturing Consent, by Michael Burawoy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Alpha Personal Dental Care Systems (Case Study Analysis)
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This 12 page paper provides an analysis of the case study. Various sections discuss issues such as management and marketing. A SWOT analysis is included as well. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Alternative Solution for a Potentially Compromising Business Situation
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A 5 page solution to a situation facing a new-hire at a company which manufactures therapeutic medical devices. The new-hire has been instructed to misrepresent their volume needs to an outside provider with the intent of canceling the order after the smaller volume which is really needed had been obtained. Although the supervisor sees this as the only means of obtaining the small quantity of specialized tool upon which company survival rides (a volume which the outside firm could not feasibly produce with any profitability for themselves), the new-hire recognizes that misrepresenting his company’s intentions to another company would not only be a sure way of gaining an even worse industry reputation than what his new company already had but quite possibly immerse the company in a costly and counterproductive legal proceedings. The new-hire figures out an alternative approach which preserves both his personal ethics and his company’s reputation. No sources are listed.
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America and the Self-Made Man
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This 9 page paper discusses the way in which entrepreneurs have lived and thrived in America. Larry Schweikart's book is extensively referenced. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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An Analysis of Federated Department Stores
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This 4 page paper provides a SWOT analysis of FDS. The evaluation also includes an overview of the company as well as a look at its future. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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An Analysis of Michael Porter's Works
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This 7 page paper evaluates From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy, and What is Strategy. The works are critically discussed in a practical manner. Total Quality Management is discussed and Porter's critique of the model is duly noted. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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