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Dayton's Department Store
by Mary FirestoneDayton's department store, grand in scope and company spirit, enjoyed a century in the limelight as one of the nation's leading retailers. Its disappearance has been a challenge to the community, but it is a sign of the times, as many other urban department stores have shared the same fate. Originally called Goodfellows, the store got its start in 1902 when real estate investor and banker George Draper Dayton became a silent partner in the business. He soon took over the company but had to learn the ropes of retail as he went along since he had never intended to become a merchant. The early years were not without struggles, but Dayton's department store was nevertheless an instant hit with its daylight-filled aisles, generous return policies, and quality merchandise. The Minneapolis store became a vibrant self-contained community with a post office, newspaper, infirmary, laundry, bakery, and even a college. "Daytonians" worked and played together around the clock, in baseball and bowling teams, glee clubs, and orchestras. Over time, the reach of Dayton's extended far into the upper Midwest, with stores in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, including the development of the nation's first indoor mall.
Daytrading für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Ann C. LogueDer schnelle Handel mit Aktien, Währungen, Optionen oder Futures bietet riesige Gewinnchancen, birgt aber auch bedeutende Risiken. Ann C. Logue zeigt verständlich auf, wie Sie als Anleger die Möglichkeiten des Daytrading planvoll nutzen und dabei finanziell nicht zu viel wagen. Von der Auswahl der Basiswerte, der Auswertung von Charts über die Bestimmung der Positionsgrößen bis zum Stressmanagement beschreibt die Autorin, wie Sie professionell handeln statt zu zocken.
Daytrading für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Ann C. LogueDer schnelle Handel mit Aktien, Währungen, Optionen oder Futures bietet riesige Gewinnchancen, birgt aber auch bedeutende Risiken. Ann C. Logue zeigt verständlich auf, wie Sie als Anleger die Möglichkeiten des Daytrading planvoll nutzen und dabei finanziell nicht zu viel wagen. Von der Auswahl der Basiswerte, der Auswertung von Charts über die Bestimmung der Positionsgrößen bis zum Stressmanagement erfahren Sie, wie Sie professionell handeln statt zu zocken. Lernen Sie Ihre Möglichkeiten kennen, entwickeln Sie eine Strategie und beginnen Sie mit dem Traden!
DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome
by Ayelet Israeli David LaneDayTwo is a young Israeli startup that utilizes research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar (glycemic) spikes after meals. After a first year of trial rollout in Israel, CEO Lihi Segal and her team are devising a go-to-market plan for DayTwo. The team is considering several target markets ranging from people with diabetes to professional athletes, as well as several distribution strategies including selling direct to consumers or through partnerships with health-care professionals or insurance companies. These decisions affect DayTwo's costs, pricing, positioning, distribution channels, marketing efforts, and product development. <p><p>The case is designed to illustrate the challenges associated with bringing a new and complex product to market. It allows for a rich discussion of market segmentation and targeting, distribution channels, and business models. It allows for a debate around growth decisions, while considering the tradeoff of short term versus long term gains and success. The goal of the case is to come up with a go-to-market strategy for a new startup. Students have to analyze the company and its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its potential customers, collaborators, and competitive environment, and deliver a well-formulated action plan. This plan includes pricing, distribution, products, and advertising recommendation.
DBL Partners: Double Bottom Line Venture Capital
by Mark R. Kramer Shawn Cole Tony HeThis case explores the origins and current practices of DBL, a San Francisco-based venture capital fund and one of the first impact investment funds to achieve significant financial returns to scale. This case allows for a competitive analysis of DBL's investment strategy as it seeks to deploy $400m, as well as the opportunity to evaluate a specific investment in a solar power company targeting low-income consumers in Tanzania.
Los de adelante corren mucho: Desigualdad, privilegios y democracia
by Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra¿Por qué América es la región más desigual del mundo? ¿Qué explica esta injusta realidad? Todos somos iguales, ¿pero por qué algunos son más iguales que otros? En México -y de hecho en todo el continente americano- la desigualdad ha permitido a unos pocos miles de hombres (rara vez son mujeres) dominar las decisiones políticas y económicas. Las élites han modelado la historia para asegurarse el poder, el dinero y, con frecuencia, la impunidad. Hay momentos históricos en los que cambian las élites. La desigualdad permanece. ¿Cómo se conforman las clases dominantes y qué principios las rigen? ¿Cuáles son sus contradicciones? ¿Por qué se pelean y de qué modo se intercambian favores? ¿Cuándo se les imponen límites y cómo se relacionan con el resto de la sociedad? El examen profundo de las oligarquías exige poner bajo la lupa la idea misma de igualdad, para descubrir que es un concepto más problemático de lo que parece a primera vista. Definirla ya es un reto; determinar sus alcances, una labor con hondas implicaciones éticas y políticas. Esta obra acepta el desafío y explica por qué los de adelante corren mucho, y los de atrás...
De Amerikaanse Zaken Startgids Voor LOCKSMITH
by Mark J. AllenOnze nuchtere, gemakkelijk toe te passen, stapsgewijze handleidingen voor het starten van een eigen bedrijf, zijn de snelste en gemakkelijkste manier om volledig operationeel te maken. We hoeven geen leer je hoe je een slotenmaker... maar bieden wij u de beste adviezen krijgen over hoe u uw nieuwe bedrijf… vanaf vandaag!
De becario a ciudadano: La leyenda de Ticio (El Jurista Enloquecido #Volumen)
by Abel Gende Adrián FernándezPreparad vuestros cuadernos, fotocopias y subrayadores. Jurista Enloquecido ha venido a contarnos una aventura increíble En su afán por recopilar las hazañas heroicas y las leyendas jurídicas más relevantes del sector, Jurista Enloquecido se pasea sin descanso por las facultades de Derecho y los tribunales de justicia en una búsqueda constante de testimonios que sirvan para la creación de una epopeya jurídica a la altura de La Ilíada, El cantar de mio Cid o La Divina Comedia. En este nuevo libro, Jurista Enloquecido nos relata la extraordinaria vida de Ticio, un esclavo-becario que tendrá que someterse a varias pruebas y retos divertidos para lograr su gran sueño: convertirse en un gran jurista.
De Beers: Addressing the New Competitiveness Challenges
by Sonia Marciano Michael E. Porter Alyson WarhurstTraces the development of De Beers and the diamond industry from its inception in the mid-1800s to the year 2000. Discusses De Beer's history and strategy as the industry leader and its role in industry development. Enables deep examination of the interdependence of companies and the locations and communities in which they operate and the role of a company in economic and social development. In 2000, De Beers faces critical choices about both its economic and social policies and how they interrelate.
De Beers at the Millennium
by Pankaj Ghemawat Sonia MarcianoAt the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being linked to growing inequities and human rights violations. This, in turn, had an impact on De Beers' reputation and consumer confidence in the diamond as a product that represented integrity, love, and commitment. In 2000, De Beers' sustainability depends on the ability of its leaders to shift the paradigm of both the firm and its context and embrace a distinctly different strategy.
De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. (A)
by Pankaj Ghemawat Toby LenkDescribes the problems facing De Beers at the start of 1983. De Beers had, since its formation in 1888, exercised a large measure of control over the world supply of diamonds. In 1983, the company itself mined over 40% of the world's natural diamonds and, through marketing arrangements with other producers, distributed over 70%. For 50 years up to 1983 the company had never lowered its prices and, overall, had raised them significantly ahead of the rate of inflation. However, in 1983 the company was faced with a series of problems that threatened the structure it had so carefully built. First, a large producing nation had stopped selling through De Beers. Second, new discoveries meant that the annual supply of mined diamonds would double by 1986. Finally, the industry was experiencing its worst slump since the 1930s, resulting in a significant deterioration in the company's financial position. Describes the structure and economics of the diamond industry and asks the student to decide whether or not De Beers should abandon the business strategy it had pursued for nearly a century.
The De Beers Group: Launching Lightbox Jewelry for Lab-Grown Diamonds
by Benjamin C. EstyIn May 2018, the De Beers Group shocked the diamond industry when it announced it was launching a new fashion jewelry brand of laboratory-grown (synthetic) diamonds. The reaction was swift as people sought to understand the company's motivations: was it a "huge gamble" or a "Machiavellian masterstroke"? What was the objective of the new product launch, would it succeed, and how would this new business affect the Group's core business of selling natural (mined) diamonds? This case is intended to be used in conjunction with and to follow a related HBS case: The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity (HBS #717-430). <p><p> This case illustrates the process of strategy development at one of the world's most iconic brands (De Beers). Along with the Diamond Reselling case, it illustrates how companies can use exploration and experimentation to develop positions in new markets. Within the diamond industry, it shows an attempt to differentiate products (the market for natural vs. synthetic diamonds) and to defend a core market by commoditizing a potential threat. Finally, it illustrates Bain & Company's strategic concept of using "adjacent" markets to achieve incremental growth and profitability above and beyond a firm's core market (see Zook and Allen, HBR 2003).
The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds
by Benjamin C. Esty Daniel FisherIn May 2018, the De Beers Group shocked the diamond industry when it announced it was launching a new fashion jewelry brand of laboratory-grown (synthetic) diamonds. The reaction was swift as people sought to understand the company's motivations: was it a "huge gamble" or a "Machiavellian masterstroke"? What was the objective of the new product launch, would it succeed, and how would this new business affect the Group's core business of selling natural (mined) diamonds? This case is intended to be used in conjunction with and to follow a related HBS case: The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity (HBS #717-430). <p><p> This case illustrates the process of strategy development at one of the world's most iconic brands (De Beers). Along with the Diamond Reselling case, it illustrates how companies can use exploration and experimentation to develop positions in new markets. Within the diamond industry, it shows an attempt to differentiate products (the market for natural vs. synthetic diamonds) and to defend a core market by commoditizing a potential threat. Finally, it illustrates Bain & Company's strategic concept of using "adjacent" markets to achieve incremental growth and profitability above and beyond a firm's core market (see Zook and Allen, HBR 2003).
The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity
by Benjamin C. Esty Daniel P. Gross Lauren G. PickleIn September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the pilot program was to improve the consumer reselling experience and to enhance "diamond equity". Somewhat paradoxically, consumers typically received very low prices when they tried to sell diamonds (5-20% of the original retail price) leaving them reluctant to purchase diamonds in the future and making them into ambassadors of ill will. At a meeting scheduled for November 2015, the De Beers Executive Committee would have to decide whether to end the pilot program, extend it for another year to gather more information, or convert it into a new standalone business unit. Because De Beers had historically focused on producing rough diamonds (the "upstream" business), yet the new business unit offered an opportunity to enter and enhance the market for polished diamonds (the "downstream" business), the decision was particularly noteworthy.
The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity
by Benjamin C. Esty Daniel P. Gross Lauren G. PickleIn September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the pilot program was to improve the consumer reselling experience and to enhance "diamond equity". Somewhat paradoxically, consumers typically received very low prices when they tried to sell diamonds (5-20% of the original retail price) leaving them reluctant to purchase diamonds in the future and making them into ambassadors of ill will. At a meeting scheduled for November 2015, the De Beers Executive Committee would have to decide whether to end the pilot program, extend it for another year to gather more information, or convert it into a new standalone business unit. Because De Beers had historically focused on producing rough diamonds (the "upstream" business), yet the new business unit offered an opportunity to enter and enhance the market for polished diamonds (the "downstream" business), the decision was particularly noteworthy.
De botter
by S. Borkus Mevrouw L. Petersen Nicolien Van HalemZorgcategorie: Verstandelijk gehandicapten Setting: Leefgroep Korte inhoud: De leefgroep De Botter staat in de instelling bekend als een 'dynamische' groep. De groepsleden zijn jong volwassenen en het ontwikkelingsniveau varieert van midden tot hoog niveau. Het is een gemengde groep en bestaat, na de verhuizing van Rebecca, uit één meisje en vijf jongens. Naast epilepsie doen zich communicatie en gedragsproblemen voor, waardoor het accent in de zorg komt te liggen op intensieve begeleiding.
De Bow's Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South (New Directions In Southern History Ser.)
by John F. KvachA study of the nineteenth-century magazine from the American South, its editor, and influence on the region.In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to match the North’s infrastructure and level of development. Recognizing the need for regional reform, James Dunwoody Brownson (J. D. B.) De Bow began to publish a monthly journal?De Bow’s Review?to guide Southerners toward a stronger, more diversified future. His periodical soon became a primary reference for planters and entrepreneurs in the Old South, promoting urban development and industrialization and advocating investment in schools, libraries, and other cultural resources. Later, however, De Bow began to use his journal to manipulate his readers’ political views. Through inflammatory articles, he defended proslavery ideology, encouraged Southern nationalism, and promoted anti-Union sentiment, eventually becoming one of the South’s most notorious fire-eaters.In De Bow’s Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South, author John Kvach explores how the editor’s antebellum economic and social policies influenced Southern readers and created the framework for a postwar New South movement. By recreating subscription lists and examining the lives and livelihoods of 1,500 Review readers, Kvach demonstrates how De Bow’s Review influenced a generation and a half of Southerners. This approach allows modern readers to understand the historical context of De Bow’s editorial legacy. Ultimately, De Bow and his antebellum subscribers altered the future of their region by creating the vision of a New South long before the Civil War.“Kvach fills a surprising gap in the history of the nineteenth-century South with this elegantly written biography of the enigmatic J. D. B. De Bow. The work represents an important contribution to a growing historiography exploring the presence of a middle-class commercial culture in the pre–Civil War South and challenging long-held views of a static socioeconomic world of planters and plain folk.” —Bruce W. Eelman, author of Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880“An insightful, original, deeply researched work of scholarship. Examining not only the career of journalist J. D. B. De Bow but also the readers who responded enthusiastically to his call for economic diversification, John F. Kvach helps us see the nineteenth-century South in a new way, undistorted by the stark, artificial line so many historians have drawn to separate the so-called Old South from the New.” —Stephen V. Ash, author of A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year after the Civil War“DeBow was the antebellum South’s most prominent advocate of economic modernization and industrialization, and one of its most vitriolic secessionists. John Kvach explores this seeming paradox, and gives us as well a careful description of DeBow’s subscribers and followers.” —J. Mills Thornton, University of Michigan
De-Bug: Voices from the Underside of Silicon Valley
by Raj Jayadev Jean MelesaineNo shuttle buses here: De-Bug, a new collection of true stories from the social justice organization of the same name, shows a side of working in Silicon Valley that you won't read about in the business section. As tech moguls land the cover of Forbes, the South Bay's working class is making ends meet as metal scrappers, factory workers, club bouncers, hairstylists, rickshaw drivers, ice cream cart pushers. The stories in De-Bug are poignant, often very funny accounts of bootstrapping in the land of angel investors and thought leaders. A construction worker predicts which of his customers are about to strike it rich and which are on the edge of bankruptcy based on the states of their swimming pools. A “secondhand hustler” travels the garage sale-flea market circuit in search of treasures to resell online. A temp worker at a medical device manufacturer sells his blood, at the company's request, to test the equipment. These storytellers are frank when discussing their own flaws, but are equally up-front about the rigged system in which they operate.
De burger de baas
by Willem Wansink Eeke van der VeenDe democratie staat onder druk, de zorg ook. Het wantrouwen van burgers in de overheid en maatschappelijke instituties neemt toe. Mensen voelen zich buitenspel staan, elke misstand in een ziekenhuis of verpleeghuis wordt uitvergroot. Betrokkenheid is de basis van de samenleving. Valt die basis weg, dan dreigt het recht van de sterkste de overhand te krijgen. ‘De burger de baas’ is een aanmoediging om dat te voorkomen. Dit boek wil de burger zijn zorg teruggeven. Het is een pleidooi voor betrokkenheid en creatieve veranderingen van binnenuit. Daarvoor is kennis nodig. Kennis van het reilen en zeilen van de gezondheidszorg. Kennis van de keuzes die worden gemaakt. Nu kiezen en beslissen anderen te vaak voor u. ‘De burger de baas’ is vanuit persoonlijk engagement en jarenlange ervaring geschreven door twee kenners van de zorg: oud-politicus Eeke van der Veen en publicist Willem Wansink.
De compras con él y ella
by Elizabeth PaceVenda más y mejor conociendo a su cliente.La ciencia es muy clara: los hombres y las mujeres usandiferentes partes de su cerebro y por lo tanto se comportan de manera distintaen muchísimas situaciones, incluyendo la manera en que vamos de compras,compramos y consumimos productos y servicios. Como profesional de ventas,publicidad o mercadeo, entender estas diferencias es la clave de nuestro éxito. Paraaumentar las ventas, usted debe comprender lo que de manera singular impulsa asus clientes, masculinos o femeninos, y maximizar sus opciones para comunicarsecon ellos. Ya sea que venda productos tangibles como autos y casas o productosintangibles como servicios financieros o soluciones de negocios, De compras con él y ella le ayudará aentender las inherentes percepciones, motivaciones y emociones específicas delos cromosomas X e Y. Estas perspectivas son la manera más poderosa paraaumentar los ingresos.
De-Convergence of Global Media Industries: De-convergence Of Global Media Industries (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies #47)
by Dal Yong JinConvergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications. Yet while convergence among communications companies has been the major trend in the neoliberal era, the splintering of companies, de-convergence, is now gaining momentum in the communications market. As the first comprehensive attempt to analyze the wave of de-convergence of the global media system in the context of globalization, this book makes sense of those transitions by looking at global trends and how global media firms have changed and developed their business paradigm from convergence to de-convergence. Jin traces the complex relationship between media industries, culture, and globalization by exploring it in a transitional yet contextually grounded framework, employing a political economic analysis integrating empirical data analysis.
De Escravo a Empresário Como criei a minha própria empresa
by Franklin A. Díaz Lárez José BatistaAprenda de uma forma agradável a montar um negócio e a criar uma fonte de rendimentos própria, através deste relato em primeira mão de alguém que o conseguiu fazer. Esta é a narrativa autobiográfica do caminho de um homem desesperado em busca de soluções para os seus aflitivos problemas financeiros. Depois de um longo processo de reflexão e autocrítica decide abandonar o seu posto de trabalho e criar a sua própria empresa. Consegue-o, mas não sem antes ter de superar dezenas de obstáculos, dificuldades e contrariedades. Um livro escrito em forma de narrativa autobiográfica, por vezes cómica, que descreve a epopeia do autor para se tronar empresário. Sem recurso a tediosas descrições conceptuais, normativas ou académicas, relata antes uma insólita estória em que o protagonista vai superando obstáculos enormes e dificuldades aparentemente intransponíveis, até atingir finalmente a sua tão almejada independência financeira. Aprenda de uma forma agradável a montar um negócio e a criar uma fonte de rendimentos própria, através deste relato em primeira mão de alguém que o conseguiu fazer. Dedicado a todos os que desejam libertar-se para sempre do jugo das formas contemporâneas de escravidão laboral, e da cruel e dramática incerteza do desemprego.
De Facebook politici en de traditionele politici.
by Wael El-Manzalawy Paula Hendrayani-PaulissenVoorwoord De wereld zag miljoenen Arabieren op de revolutionaire pleinen demonstreren. Een revolutie die op Facebook en Twitter begon. Zoals op bijvoorbeeld "We zijn allemaal Khaled Saeed pagina." Zij waren het die de eerste demonstratie in de Egyptische revolutie organiseerde. Dit boek is een poging om het fenomeen van de Facebook-politici in het Midden-Oosten te analyseren. Mijn ervaring als Facebook-politicus gaf me de kans om het fenomeen van binnenuit te analyseren en te bekritiseren. Facebook is niet alleen een medium dat sommige politici gebruiken om hun ideeën te verspreiden. Het is een virtuele wereld die haar banden met de werkelijke wereld heeft. We worden nu met een zeer belangrijke vraag geconfronteerd: Zijn de Facebook politici virtuele of feitelijke politici? U kunt het antwoord tijdens het lezen van dit boek vinden, maar u moet begrijpen dat de Facebook-politici zich tussen twee werelden verplaatsen: de virtuele wereld en de werkelijke. Misschien hadden de grondleggers van Facebook niet verwacht dat de Facebook-pagina's effectief genoeg zijn om revoluties tot stand te brengen. De grondleggers van Facebook zetten de zaden die de Facebook-gebruikers lieten groeien tot de vruchten van de revolutie konden worden geoogst. De Facebook revoluties waren zeer inspirerend. Vele miljoenen demonstranten protesteerden tegen de tirannie. De tirannie van de heersers in de Arabische wereld was verschrikkelijk, de revoluties waren verbazingwekkend. De wereld van de Facebook-politici heeft speciale karakteristieken. De vergelijking tussen de Facebook-politici en de traditionele politici is een hele interessante. Een ander probleem dat in dit boek wordt besproken is de toekomst van de Facebook-politici.
De familie Yilmaz
by S. Schippers N. Van Halem Arno Goedhart G.W. de Nooijer-JanseZorggericht De familie Yilmaz.