BUS101 International Business Environment Small Group Assignment for Spring Semester 2008 Table of Contents 1. Terms of reference 2. Procedure 3. British Petroleum 3.1. British Petroleum (BP) 3.2. Background 4. British petroleum SWOT analysis 4.1. What is SWOT analysis? 4.2. Strengths 4.3. Weaknesses 4.4. Opportunities 4.5. Threats 5. BP Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 5.1. What is Porter’s Five Forces
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Executive Summary Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) prevailed in 2009 regardless of the state of the global economy and competition from larger companies. Focusing on long-term growth‚ Occidental aims to increase production and profits by acquiring local and global oil and gas reserves. They maintain their competitive advantage through the development of strong relationships with both local foreign counterparties. This is typically a difficult feat when faced with potential commodity
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rich‚ but what about the poor people or so called middle class. What will they do if the prices are too high to afford? Petroleum is something that we all need to go from place to place‚ anyways most of us do; four to five years ago‚ when I first came to Canada‚ the gas prices were quite low‚ but in the past 2-3 years‚ it is still increasing up to date. Prices of toasters and petroleum etc shouldn’t increase because we are getting our taxes cut and on top of that our level of price for the gas has increased
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Sustainability Consulting – Key Trends 2012 By David Sherry By David Sherry Tables of Contents Sustainability Consultancy Pg 2 The Wave of Green IT Pg 3 Shareholder Activism Pg 4 Supply Chain Transparency Pg 6 Employee Engagement Pg 8 Water risks becoming a new reality Pg 10 What is next? Pg 11 Bibliography Pg 13 Sustainability Consulting “There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed” Mohanda K Gandhi M anagement consultants occupy
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Memorandum To: Richard Warner‚ CEO iWave Computers CC: Kathy Smith‚ CFO From: DSS Consulting Firm Date: 4/19/2031 Re: Production Plan Recommendation Our consulting firm has exclusively prepared two profitable computer assembly production plans for your next 12 calendar months. We have meet your policy constraints‚ including workforce‚ inventory‚ overtime‚ hiring‚ firing‚ and demand. We have valuated all your cost including and find that these to plans have a very profitable outcome. According
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ETHICS IN CONSULTING Ethics is not just a vague theory but a working concept that can have an important and real effect on your consulting practice. Ethics is not simply a matter of obeying the law; it goes much beyond this. You will also see that the ethical problem is not simple‚ and yet it is one you will face frequently during your work as a consultant. Ethics defined Ethics are about moral evaluations of decisions as to whether they are right or wrong on the basis of socially/culturally
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Throughout the duration of this course‚ you will be performing literature reviews and presenting findings on the topic of petroleum. For this specific assignment‚ please do the following: Identify a topic or a problem faced by the global petroleum industry. Once the problem has been identified‚ your goal is to solve it. Provide an overview of the problem and a solution that is supported by current research. Tips for Selecting a Topic or Problem What subject within the global oil and gas industry
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decided to boycott British goods‚ and make their own clothes at home. Usually the colonist loved to dress British‚ they felt a sense of pride dressing like them‚ but ever since the boycotting began‚ you were honored more if you were wearing your own homemade clothes‚ looking as if you were poor. Even the upper-class colonist stopped buying luxurious goods from the British‚ and began living a cheaper lifestyle. 2) The Boston Massacre was an incident on a cold night in Boston‚ MA‚ on March 5
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The Boston Massacre was and is still a debatable Massacre. The event occurred on March 5‚ 1776. It involved the rope workers of the colonial Boston and two British regiments‚ the twenty-ninth and the fourteenth regiments. Eleven people were shot in the incident; five people were killed and the other six were merely wounded. The soldiers and the captain‚ Thomas Preston‚ were all put on trial. All were acquitted of charges of murder‚ however the two soldiers who fired first‚ Private Mathew Killroy
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“The Boston Controversy” March 5th‚ 1770 marks a day in American history where an event took place known as the “Boston Massacre”. This notable moment in American history was a spark in the colonies that eventually led to the American colonies taking up arms against England. The “Boston Massacre” was the iconic nickname of a riot in Boston that led to British soldiers firing upon of colonists on March 5th 1770. The major controversy debated is whether or not the British officer
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