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Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (A): Achieving Dominance in the Video Rental Industry
Provides a comprehensive background of the video rental industry and home entertainment giant, Blockbuster Inc. Follows the life of Blockbuster Inc. from its first days under founder Wayne Huizenga to its most recent developments under 2003 CEO John Antioco. By looking at various strategic decisions... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Lamoiyan Corp. of the Philippines: Challenging Multinational Giants
A local Philippine toothpaste manufacturer, Lamoiyan Corp., faces the challenge of staying competitive against entrenched multinational giants. The company has managed to capture, at its peak, 20% of the Philippine toothpaste market and has become the number three Philippine toothpaste producer, aft... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (D): The Threat of Direct Digital Distribution
Examines the emergence of technologies for delivering video content to consumer homes via direct digital distribution and investigates the strategic options facing video rental giant Blockbuster Inc. as it tries to respond to the new technological substitutes. Examines the impact of personal video r... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (C): The Internet Changes the Game
Investigates how the rise of the Internet as a vehicle for renting and buying movies has disrupted the video rental industry and how market leader Blockbuster Inc. can and should respond to these developments. Explores how the emergence of e-commerce affects the degree to which consumers buy instead... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence
Argentine confectionery manufacturer, Arcor Group, seeks to implement an international strategy but in 2003, recovering from the Argentine financial crisis, thwarts globalization plans. Already Latin America's leading candy producer and an exporter to over 100 countries, Arcor analyzes how it can be... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence (Abridged)
Argentine confectionery manufacturer, Arcor Group, seeks to implement an international strategy but in 2003, while recovering from the Argentine financial crisis, globalization plans are thwarted. Already Latin America's leading candy producer and an exporter to over 100 countries, Arcor analyzes ho... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology Of Native Nations Poetry
United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Cyber Security Policy Guidebook
by Joseph Weiss • Jennifer L. Bayuk • Jason Healey • Paul Rohmeyer • Marcus H. Sachs • Jeffrey SchmidtDrawing upon a wealth of experience from academia, industry, and government service, Cyber Security Policy Guidebook details and dissects, in simple language, current organizational cyber security policy issues on a global scale--taking great care to educate readers on the history and current approa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Teaching Fairy Tales (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
by Gioia Timpanelli • Cristina Mazzoni • Allison Stedman • Ann Schmiesing • Jennifer Schacker • Prof. Nancy L. Canepa • Prof. Jack Zipes • Dean Donald Haase • Lewis C. Seifert • Prof. Anne E. Duggan • Professor Maria Nikolajeva • Prof. Cristina Bacchilega • Associate Professor Christine A. Jones • Julie L. Koehler • Kay Stone • Prof. Maria Tatar • Prof. Victoria Somoff • Prof. Gina Miele • Prof. Linda Kraus Worley • Prof. Faith E. Beasley • Prof. Charlotte Trinquet du Lys • Prof. Benjamin Balak • Prof. Suzanne Magnanini • Maria Kaliambou • Prof. Elio Brancaforte • Prof. William Moebius • Prof. Graham AndersonTeaching Fairy Tales edited by Nancy L. Canepa brings together scholars who have contributed to the field of fairy-tale studies since its origins. This collection offers information on materials, critical approaches and ideas, and pedagogical resources for the teaching of fairy tales in one comprehe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City
by Nicole Fabricant • Louise Parker Kelley • Sam Collins • Michelle L. Stefano • Lawrence Brown • Daniel L. Buccino • Michael Casiano • Shannon Darrow • Matthew Durington • Aiden Faust • Jennifer A. Ferretti • Leif Fredrickson • Robert Gamble • Marisela Gomez • April K. Householder • Jodi Kelber-Kaye • Emily Lieb • Jacob R. Levin • Teresa Méndez • Ashley Minner • Elizabeth M. Nix • Richard E. Otten • Eli Pousson • Mary Rizzo • Fred Scharmen • Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin • Linda Shopes • Joe Tropea • Amy Zanoni • Denise Meringolo • Robert Headley • Shawntay StocksNicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police officers for the murder of Freddie Gray, Baltimore has become a quintessential example of a struggling... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Paratuberculosis: Organism, Disease, Control
by Ian Marsh • Richard Whittington • John P. Bannantine • Rory O'Brien • Ali Thompson • David C Alexander • Angelika Agdestein • Christina Ahlstrom • Herman W. Barkema • Raul Barletta • Douglas Begg • Marcel Behr • Evan P. Brenner • Tim Bull • Ofelia Chacon • Paul Coussens • Ross S. Davidson • Justin L. DeKuiper • Kumudika De Silva • Berit Djonne • Karsten Donat • Shannon Duffy • Natalia Elguezabal • Susanne Eisenberg • Naomi J. Fox • Joseba M. Garrido • Irene R. Grant • J Frank Griffin • Murray Hines • Michael R Hutchings • Jamie Imada • Ramón A. Juste • Edward Kabara • Annette H. Kampen • David F. Kelton • Jennifer N. Kiser • Elise A. Lamont • Kari R. Lybeck • Colin Mackintosh • Glenn Marion • Holly L Neibergs • Søren Saxmose Nielsen • Karren M. Plain • Auriol Purdie • Govardhan Rathnaiah • Iker A. Sevilla • Fernanda M. Shoyama • Lesley A. Smith • Srinand Sreevatsan • Judy Stabel • Jaryd R. Sullivan • Adel Talaat • Girum T. Tessema • Christine Turenne • Chia-Wei Wu • Denise K. ZinnielParatuberculosis, also referred to as Johne's disease, affects principally cattle, goats, sheep, buffalo, deer and other ruminants. It is common worldwide and responsible for significant economic losses in the ruminant livestock industries. A timely follow up to the first book on Paratuberculosis, t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023