“A diamond‚ is the symbol for love‚ commitment‚ and a joyful new beginning‚” said the TV commercial. Many of the world’s diamonds‚ are mined using practices that exploit workers‚ children‚ and communities. A million diamond diggers in Africa earn less than a dollar a day. Miners are dying in accidents‚ child labor is widespread‚ and corrupt leaders are depriving mining communities of funds badly needed for economic development. In extreme cases‚ diamond mining can cause entire ecosystems to
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essay By Ian Diamond (Synthesis of artificial diamonds) Everyone knows Diamonds are hard and beautiful‚ but there are less people known a diamond could be the oldest material. Diamonds are found may be 50 to 1‚600 million years old‚ the diamonds themselves are about 3.3 billion years old. This difference is because the volcanic magma that solidifies into rock where diamonds are found did not create them‚ but only transported the diamonds from the Earth’s cover to the surface. Diamonds also may be
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The rental car industries as well as other industries within the travel market are challenged with developing a pricing strategy that will maximize profits for the firm. In our analysis of three firms‚ Hertz‚ Avis and Budget‚ our team used qualitative and quantitative methods to develop an understanding of their pricing strategies. We wanted to determine which company has the best overall pricing strategy. Furthermore‚ these methods helped us develop recommendations involving segmentation and brand
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A Porter’s Five Forces Analysis explores five principal industry factors to determine the attractive of a given industry in a given market. In this P5F exercise‚ we look at the automobile industry in India. This is independent of any manufacturer. As such‚ it applies to every Indian car manufacturer. In any P5F analysis‚ one must examine the following: 1. The threat of new entrants 2. The bargaining power of buyers/customers 3. The threat of substitute products 4. The amount of bargaining
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r o v i d e s u s e f u l i n f o r m a t i o n t o t h e g e n e r a l p u b l i c ‚ c a r o w n e r s ‚ d e a l e r s a n d c a r m a n u f a c t u r i n g c o m p a n i e s i n m a n y w a y s . I A Consumer Stimul i b s t r a c t Car Industry: SWOT Analysis Dharmaraj C.‚ Sivasubramanian M. and Clement Sudhahar J. Mr. D h a r m a r a j C . ‚ A s s i s t a n t P r o f e s s o r‚ S c h o o l o f M a n a g e m e n t ‚ K a r u n y a U n i v e r s i t y ‚ C o i m b a t o r e - 6 4 1
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Assessing Porter’s diamond model to analyze the development of the Property Industry in Indonesia. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Abstract ------------------------------------------------- This study applies Porter’s diamond framework‚ which tries to identify the sources of international competitive advantage to Property in Indonesia
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Market Analysis: Car industry A market is a platform where the forces of demand and supply‚ essentially in the form of buyers and sellers interact. It is a switchboard that directs those with a commodity towards those who are in need of it. Since demand and supply exists for virtually all products‚ similarly a market for cars also exists. The car market globally is dominated by the Japanese after the decline in the American car makers after the World War II. This market today is dominated by names
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Diamond cut Diamond A merchant‚ after many years of poverty and hard work‚ moved to a distant region and grew rich. He decided to go home. A man told him that his road was beset by thieves‚ and the merchant left his box of jewels with him until he could get men of his own family to accompany him. When he returned‚ the man denied that it had ever happened‚ and threw him out of the shop. Koosby Ram saw him sitting on the road‚ and asked him what had happened. Then he told him to go back the next
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Porter’s Five Forces Model of Industry Structure An industry is a group of firms that market products which are close substitutes for each other (e.g. car industry‚ travel industry). Some industries are more profitable than others. Why? The answer lies in understanding the dynamics of competitive structure in an industry. The most influential analytical model for assessing the nature of competition in an industry is Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model‚ which is described below: Porter explains
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Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Michael Porter identified five forces that influence an industry. These forces are: (1) degree of rivalry; (2) threat of substitutes; (3) barriers to entry; (4) buyer power; and (5) supplier power. For more on this framework proposed by Porter‚ please see Appendix C. Like other industries operating under free market‚ capitalistic systems‚ viewing the automotive industry through the lens of Porter’s Five Forces can be helpful in understanding the forces at play. Degree
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