Equity Equity means social justice or fairness; it is an ethical concept‚ grounded in principles of distributive justice.39–[->0]42[->1] Equity in health can be—and has widely been—defined as the absence of socially unjust or unfair health disparities.1‚[->2]6[->3] However‚ because social justice and fairness can be interpreted differently by different people in different settings‚ a definition is needed that can be operationalised based on measurable criteria. For the purposes of operationalisation
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This summary will focus into IDEO’s five-stage framework for designing and piloting radical innovation service. The summary will also explain augmented service offering model. Today‚ the marketplace is constantly evolving. Innovation is the name of the game. There is a constant need for organisations to keep on innovating but rarely do you see any innovative new service in the marketplace. Why are these innovations rare? Lack of ideas isn’t a problem cause they are in abundance. The main problem
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The article‚ “Offerings at The Wall‚” by Don Moser gives the reader a better understanding of why John Wilson leaves a gift at the wall each summer in honor of his friend‚ Leon because the article talks about how tons of different people bring offerings to their late loved ones and why they do such a thing. This quote from the short story‚ “Zebra‚” by Chaim Potok discusses about The Wall and what John Wilson did with Zebra’s drawings: “The photograph showed John Wilson down on his right knee before
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execute the IPO. Lastly‚ Facebook’s recent IPO will be used to help delineate some of the concepts of an IPO. A company uses an IPO because once its stock is listed on the public stock exchange all the money from the sale of its stock in a primary offering goes directly to the company‚ as well as‚ to the company’s early private investors who opt to sell all or portions of their stockholdings as part of the IPO. In this way‚ the investors have the chance to monetize their investments. The ability
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Starbucks 1 Starbucks Service Offerings Shiloh Newbound Srv 301 Alex Hosch December 28‚ 2013 Starbucks 2 Starbucks Service Offerings Starbucks was established in 1971 and is now a multi billion dollar a year company. Their mission statement is “To inspire and nurture the human spirit-one person‚ one cup of coffee and one neighborhood at a time” (Smith‚ 2013). This
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capture a significant share; already‚ it is high on the top-ten list of travel Web sites. After a brief period of diversification into name-your-price sales of groceries and gasoline‚ the company has refocused on its core travel and financial services offerings‚ including airline tickets‚ hotel rooms‚ rental cars‚ and mortgage loans. The company guarantees that a Priceline.com mortgage is the "lowest-cost loan on the market" and backs this up by paying $300 to any customer who finds a better price. Visit
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REI Product Offerings Fundamental of Marketing and Sales Women’s Fleece Jacket For this exercise‚ I chose a women’s Fleece jacket offered by both REI and its competitor‚ Patagonia. It is curious that in their catalogue‚ REI offers products‚ (clothing) designed and manufactured under the brand name of Patagonia. This can be viewed as industry confidence in REI’s ability to compete‚ or a respect for the quality of product produced by Patagonia. Similarly‚ in both stores‚ the Patagonia clothing
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Netscape’s Initial Public Offering 1) Why has Netscape been so successful to date? What appears to be its strategy? What must be accomplished if it is to be a highly successful going concern in the long run? How risky is its current competitive position? 2) Does Netscape need to go public to satisfy its capital needs? What would you estimate might be the magnitude of its capital needs over the next 3 to 5 years? What sources other than the public equity market could be tapped to satisfy those
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Brand Equity A brand represents a “name‚ term‚ sign‚ symbol‚ or design‚ or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition.” Without a recognizable brand‚ a product is but a mere commodity. It’s more than just a name‚ term‚ symbol‚ etc. – a brand is everything that one company’s particular offering stands for in comparison to other brands in a cate-gory of competitive products. As the value
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Brand equity Brand equityis a phraseused in the marketing industry which describe the value of having a well-known brand name‚ based on the idea that the owner of a well-known brand name can generate more money from products with that brand name than from products with a less well known name‚ as consumers believe that a product with a well-known name is better than products with less well known names.[1][2][3][4] Another word for "brand equity" is "brand value". Some marketing researchers have
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