3M is one of the 500 Fortune companies with a 32.7 billion annual revenue, leader on industrial safety, health care, and worldwide used tape and glue. For the last twenty years, the company had a gross margin return of 51% and awarded by the U.S. government with the National Medal of Technology. (Govindarajan & Srinivas, 2013) With a modest beginning, 3M now is a giant … Continue reading Innovation and Success, 3M Case Study
By Victor Viruena Psychological and physiological response to specific conditions in the workplace that is highly disadvantageous to health is called occupational stress. Efforts to discover the origin of occupational stress arises the question from the perspectives of the workplace environment. Every job has likely different sources of stress, such as roles within the organization, relationships at work, organizational structure and or climate, career development, … Continue reading Occupational Stress and Leadership
By Victor Viruena Developing leadership skills in any organization will boost the employee’s motivation and will drive to better business outcomes. Leadership’s programs will inspire all company’s members to work to the best of their abilities and will reinforce their commitment, compromise, and teamwork spirit by fitting the leadership to the specific business necessities. Leadership programs offer useful learning experiences and strengthen the innate leadership … Continue reading Leadership Development for All
By Victor Viruena Global economy has driven companies to develop strategies, adopt and promote diversity as a core value in their organizations. The blend of ethnicity, gender, and age strengthens internal ties, boost productivity, creativity, and innovation. According to Esvary (2015), the sharing of best practices in the management and promotion of workplace diversity is intended to strengthen the application of diversity policies further. All … Continue reading Social Protests and Corporate Diversity
Within the past 20 years, the health care industry Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), experimented an exponential growth; driven by the high revenue obtained from the high fees to health insurance companies and the new payment system created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as “Obamacare.” The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the article Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital … Continue reading Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions.
A nadie sorprende la dureza de las acciones de gobiernos autoritarios como el chino o el paquistaní para castigar a los infractores de la cuarentena provocada por la pandemia de coronavirus, los pueblos de éstas naciones ya están acostumbrados a que la policía ejercite la violencia a discreción para hacer cumplir las órdenes superiores; la censura y la violación a los derechos fundamentales son práctica … Continue reading Coronavirus y la tentación autoritaria
The Technological Revolution brought E-Commerce and created new ethical challenges, like financial reporting, intellectual property, identity, and privacy policies. Governments and International Organizations are behind the technological innovations and are still not capable of delimiting the boundaries of companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, or Amazon, from using customers’ data. The purpose of this paper is to review the concept of business ethics, how this concept … Continue reading Amazon’s E-Commerce Ethics
The e-commerce is not limited to creating a website and selling products online; an efficient e-commerce business must cover product configuration, adequate infrastructure, logistics, secure payment, and supply chain management. Supply Chain Management is a new discipline that combines traditional managing techniques with a novel system like e-Commerce, e-Procurement, and e-Collaboration. Efficient supply chains must accelerate e-commerce processes to meet customer requirements This paper aims … Continue reading Optimizing Supply Chain Management for Online Businesses
Coronavirus crisis is changing retail market; many companies has been experimenting an exponential increase on their online orders; big chains and small business are rapidly adapting to a new reality that involves medical emergency and fearful markets. Millions of persons are in the process of changing their consumer habits from physical stores to online purchases, especially in sectors traditionally dominated by brick and mortar stores, … Continue reading Coronavirus crisis will lead to an e-commerce boom
In the past three decades, the approaches and issues on E-commerce have been radically changed, not only because of the technology disruption in the way to do business but for the new challenges for companies, governments, and international organizations to meet the consumer’s habits and necessities. This essay aims to compare and contrast four articles, two of them, E-Commerce: Impacts and Policy Challenges (Coppel, 2000) … Continue reading E-Commerce issues: a comparative study
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