Oct 21, 2009
Modern warfare has changed a lot over the years in terms of the technology it uses. The military is often a fore front for new technologies. Today, military engineers are trying to design equipment for the purpose of saving human lives. These new developments are aimed at keeping soldiers out of harm’s way. A new [...]
By Jerrett R. Thomason Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
“Singularity Summit Asks, ‘Are You A Believer?” By Priya Ganapati The Singularity Institute held a day-long conference in San Jose, California to explore the Singularity and intelligence explosion. They usually hold these rare gatherings of thinkers to explore the rising impact of science and technology on society. One of their most popular (as well as [...]
By TiffanyHart Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
How Bob Iger Unchained Disney For a few years now, since Michael Eisner was CEO, the Disney Company was filled with ego board members and workers, was a snake of a dog and was not what Walt Disney had imagined his company to be. For this to be known, we can see that the model [...]
By adam sulenta Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
Yahoo and Intel: Tech Sector Outcasts In today’s world, investors use the reports from Yahoo! (YHOO) and Intel (INTC) for guidance when it comes to the tech sector’s health. Yahoo! is one of the largest media companies on the web. Intel is the world’s largest creator of computer chips which indicates the demand for computers [...]
By GuadalupeGarcia Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
Why Coke Isn’t Buying Up Its Bottlers According to the article, PepsiCo introduced its plans to revamp its image by acquiring its two largest bottlers Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas. Coca-Cola which is naturally PepsiCo rival denies any information about it doing a similar thing. According to the chief executive of Coca-Cola Muhtar Kent, there [...]
By NicolePrieto Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
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By KyleBean Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
The article that I found introduces `Better World Books`. This is an online company that sells used books. The owner; Xavier Helgesen and his partners, Kreece Fuchs and Jeff Kurtzman were planning to sell used books from college campuses as well as libraries. The first time it was not easy to get a lot of [...]
By Sunghyun Bae Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
The U.S. Army has just recently spent $35.3 million dollars for robots to be used for military purposes. iRobot Corp has just received an order for 486 iRobot PackBot 510 with FasTac Kit robots that will perform some of the dangerous missions. The president of iRobot Corp. calls this the single largest order made by [...]
By Kong Her Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
Picture this; you’re relaxing on a nice afternoon as you hear your phone ring. You pick it up, say hello and there’s no response. Your first thought is maybe something’s wrong with my phone while you repeat hello, hello, and hello! You realize it’s not your phone after you hear, “If you would like to [...]
By Jacob Gonzalez Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
Have you ever received a call from an annoying robocall or telemarketing recordings? I have many times, even though I am on the do not call list, I still get these annoying phone calls. Whenever I answer and realize it is a recording I hang the phone up, it is just rude and inconsiderate of [...]
By SkylerThompson Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 20, 2009
Building trust in business can be difficult because everyone cannot just let go of their worries and trust someone to stick to their promise. Netflix is a demonstration of building trust. They trust their customers and employees to be loyal. The customers can keep the movie for as long as their want and employees have [...]
By Gabby Thao Category: Strategic Decision Making