people were suffering in these two states due to hurricane Matthew. At the beginning of this stage‚ about two dozens of Airbnb properties were provided to make the people stay in their spaces‚ all the spaces were provided for free of cost. This is one of the best activities taken by Airbnb. Airbnb provides the opportunity to make use of the disaster response program at the times of need. The company is taking steps to collaborate with agencies like FEMA across the
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job retired) and degrade the cluster throughput (the number of jobs completed per second in the cluster) significantly. This problem is handled via speculative execution—slow task is backed up on an alternative machine with the hope that the backup one can finish faster. Google simply backs up the last few running map or reduce tasks and has observed that speculative execution can decrease the job execution time by 44 percent [1]. Due to the significant performance gains‚ speculative execution is
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Marks and Spencer: Summary Report of the Case Study Introduction Marks and Spencer (M&S) is a leading UK retailer selling clothing‚ food‚ and housewares. In 2007‚ the company put sustainability at the heart of its business. In order to succeed‚ it would have to change the attitudes and the behavior of its shoppers. As a result‚ it launched Plan A which set out a five year plan involving 100 social and environmental commitments that were expected to shape the future of the company. Plan A would
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between 10 to 15 pages excluding table of content‚ introduction and appendix. The content includes two parts: A. 1 Page summary of the case Summary significantly longer than 1 page will lead to grade reduction. B. One of the following question set Group 1‚ 3‚ 5‚ 7‚ 9 – Question set 1 Group 2‚ 4‚ 6‚ 8‚ 10 – Question set 2 QUESTION SET 1 If Banc One wanted to manage its interest rate exposure without using swaps‚ what could it do? Specifically‚ how could it move from being asset-sensitive
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Q1) Comment on the forecasting method being used by Yankee? Suggest changes that you feel are justified? Ans1) Yankee presently is using the qualitative method for forecasting future demand. Qualitative method as we know is subject to experts’ intuition‚ experience‚ and opinions. So each person according to his/her past experience‚ forecasts the demand for the future. For example‚ Phil Stanton who is in the operations makes his decision of producing in the future on the basis of demand forecast
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My reflections on this case involve the actions of Mark Siegel‚ teacher and Ms. Petersen‚ parent. It seems to me that Mr. Siegel has not set up a partnership with his parents at the start of the school. I believe that teaching/learning involves partnering of all parties involved‚ teacher‚ student and parents. I feel that if Mr. Siegel established this relationship from very early on in the school year that some of these issues could have been resolved and dealt with quickly. At the beginning
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be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright owner. ABSTRACT Cranfield Formula 1 Team is a group design project composed of five students‚ each of them being responsible for the design of one part of the vehicle. The present thesis deals with the front wing design. According to the time allowed to do the thesis and to learn the relevant software to use‚ three models were built: one is quite simple and is the basis of the two others. The aim was to design these three models
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6.0 Recommendations Acid Test Ratio The acid test ratio shows that Muhibbah have less liquidity which indicates that they holding low amount of cash but high level of inventories .They may have difficulty paying its current liabilities on time. Business is relying on turnover of stock to meet obligations. Here‚ we recommend that Muhibbah should consider level of their accounts payable or paying off their liabilities and ensure the cash flow of the business is optimal meaning that the company must
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The Case Interview • What is a case interview? The Case Interview • What specific skills does it assess? • How to prepare for a case interview? • An interactive example. What is a “Case Interview” anyway? The Case Interview Simulation of a business problem. Similar to what our associates encounter every day. Series of open-ended questions. They’re designed to stimulate your conceptual‚ quantitative‚ analytical and – most importantly – creative abilities. The Case Interview There are
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INDIAN (3 recommended restaurants) Restaurant Name: Kebab Bistro offer Cost: 35 AED What to order: - Bistro Parsi Dishes (Dhansaak. Sali boti. Papeta ma ghosh. Curry chaawal. Pulav dal. Khichri kheemo. Vindaloo. bhaji daana ma ghosh. khichri patio. Dhan dal patio) - Bistro eggs plore (Sali par edu. Tamota par edu. Kheema par edu. Egg chutney pattice. Resa par edu) - Bistro parsi starters (Patra ni macci. Mutton pattice. Mutton cutlet. Chicken cutle. Chicken farcha) - Bistro parsi pareji - vegetarian
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