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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Corporate headquarters"”.
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Development options for a corporate headquarters in the Chicago area
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Redesign, redeploy, and re-envision urban corporate headquarters : Amazon's Seattle campus case study
Corporate headquarters have tremendous impacts on cities and the built environment. As companies expand, downsize, and adapt through the business cycles and industry transformations, the size of corporate workforce and real estate holdings are in constant flux, resulting in a dynamic urban system …
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The Portland World Trade Center : a case study on the conversion of a corporate headquarters facility to a world trade center
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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The Corporate-Level Allocation of Resources in Multi-Business Firms
… an understanding of the ‘inner workings’ of the corporate headquarters in the context of resource allocation. This conceptual paper involves a case study based on interviews with the strategy team in charge of managing the corporate-level resource allocation process at one of Europe’s largest …
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Transition to a focused factory of the future : a case study of an organization's cultural change
… were:1. Conflicts with the organization's corporate headquarters who held an opposing interpretation as to the extent to which the organization should focus.2. Costly delays resulting from machine vendors not meeting their delivery dates.3. Time pressures resulting from deadlines …
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The function and organization of a bank holding company in Japan
… play to create value. It considers research on corporate-level strategy and draws a parallel between the role of corporate headquarters in a diversified company and the role of the bank holding company in a diversified financial services company. Chapter Two analyzes the organization and …
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Audio Mastering as a Musical Competency
… working in isolated rooms at a record label's corporate headquarters. In fact, as Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer (2013: 2) explain, nowadays “all musicians and engineers, to a lesser or greater extent, have to actively engage in the mastering process.” Thus, this dissertation clarifies …
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Design and process solutions for decreasing vendor defects
… complex and dynamic organization that has both a corporate headquarters as well as a regional fulfillment centers. In distributed organizations like this, successfully implementing network-wide process improvements can be critical to the success of the business. Consequently, Amazon is constantly …
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Sustainable livelihood development: A case study measuring social capital and its role in sustainable livelihood development in Zoucheng, China
… working departments (e.g. electricity, and the corporate headquarters of the local biggest mining company) in Zoucheng city, Shandong Province, China. OLS regression models used the household survey to generate associations of variables, such as human capital resources for respondents, length …
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CEO and CSR: business leaders and corporate social responsibility.
… manner is undermined by the lack of standards in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) legislation, auditing, indexing, and reporting. Moreover, CSR research is fragmentary and often missing empirical corroboration. It lacks synthesis, uses CSR concepts and terms ambiguously, and is inconsistent …
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‘Oil that harvests culture’: state, oil and culture in petrosocialism (Venezuela, 2007-2013)
… Space. Consequently, PDVSA’s definition of its corporate headquarters as a centre of oil extraction conceptualises Caracas as an oil field absorbed by the Oil Social District to enable PDVSA La Estancia (the cultural and social arm of PDVSA) to override municipal authority and embark on an …
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Pricing Decentralization in Customized Pricing Systems and Network Models
… and improving pricing decisions in the case when corporate headquarters set a list price for all products but local sales force is given discretion to adjust (or negotiate) prices for individual deals. This form of pricing is called list pricing with discretion (LPD) and it is commonly found in …