Category: Essays

Role of an assistant working for a firm of management consultants.

You should assume the role of an assistant working for a firm of management consultants. You have been approached by a manufacturer specializing in up-market products for family pets which is considering expanding by opening up a pilot store within John Lewis Department Store. This is a totally new venture as they do not, as yet, have any retail presence in a department store (see below for further details).
Students will create an individual critical success factor report based upon secondary research (NO primary research is required)

Discuss your views on the impact of the “Internet of Things” on Higher Education in the next ten years.

Discuss your views on the impact of the “Internet of Things” on Higher Education in the next ten years. (about 1250 words)
2. Consider airbnb (www.airbnb.com), the “community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodation around the world”. Visit airbnb’s Web site and do your own research and describe its business model. Identify its customer value proposition, its revenue model, marketplaces airbnb operates and who its main competitors are (hint: use of online marketplace analysis tools to illustrate competition trends), any competitive advantage you believe airbnb possesses and what its market strategy appears to be. Also try to identify information about the company’s organisational structure. Conclude your analysis by identifying and discussing the key competitive threats affecting airbnb. (about 2000 words)

What is the best method to measure competition in banking markets?

There are two questions, please write 1000 words for each question.

B1. Competition in the banking sector.
1. What determines the level of competition in banking markets?
In your discussion indicate the influences which have increased or reduced competition, making reference to both theory and past empirical assessments.

2. What is the best method to measure competition in banking markets? Within your discussion consider at least two different approaches used to measure competition in banking markets within the academic literature and critically discuss their relative benefits and failings.

What role does the banking sector have in this process?

Please write 500 words for each question

1. What are the relevant targets for monetary policy? Consider inflation targeting, price level targeting, monetary targeting and nominal GDP targeting.

2. How does monetary policy feed through into the real economy? What role does the banking sector have in this process?

3. Should central banks consider asset prices (e.g. house prices, equity prices) when setting policy rates? Do central banks do this in practice?

4. Should monetary policy be used to stabilise share prices / house prices? Do central banks attempt to do this in practice?

Financial management.

Financial management;

you are required to provide a review of the literature of how to conduct long-run event studies (examining performance more than 12 months following an event). A few articles will be provided on blackboard to start you off with the review but you must search for relevant articles yourself as well.