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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Product sales"”.
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Analysis of marketing strategies and advanced retail sales processes to improve Company A’s position in the segment
In recent years across the United States, product sales have seen a downward trend when compared to the robust sales figures posted around the 2010 time period across the major players in the product manufacturing space. Due to depressed commodity prices, large product sales have caused a lot of …
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Pricing and licensing of software products and services : a study on industry trends
The software product business reached the $150 billion mark at the end of 2005. The pricing and licensing of new products, maintenance services, services and service maintenance have become an important strategy to deliver smooth and steady revenue growth. The main objective of this thesis work is …
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Determination of economic shelf life of spent nuclear fuel
… are uranium recycle with and without fission product sales and uranium and plutonium recycle with and without fission product sales. UO₂ and MOX spent fuel assemblies discharged from a nuclear reactor from 1977 to 1990 are modeled for a period of 19 years. Four key results of this study are: …
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Inflow and outflow knowledge/communication strategies in open innovation: essays from new product development and consumer engagement perspectives
… marketing such as advertising to increase new product sales. First, this dissertation reveals that for inflow knowledge management, it is important to take an integrative approach to align knowledge and network assets in open innovation. The results show that network depth-knowledge breadth and …
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New product forecasting of appliance and consumables : moving average model
… goal of this project is to forecast their new products, including appliance and consumable pods. The forecasting tool should serve as a systematic demand planning tool to generate the product sales forecast in a strategic and operational level throughout the different stages of the product …
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The Impact of USDA Reports on U.S. Dairy Market Volatility
… lagged volume, NDPSR, WASDE, Cold Storage, Dairy Products, and Milk Production. Milk Production had the strongest impact, significantly increasing price volatility in all markets but Class III. National Dairy Product Sales Report (NDPSR) was found to significantly decrease volatility in all …
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Using web data and services : technology, theory and evidence
… and social media Word of Mouth (WOM) drive product sales when commercial websites disclose the sales data in real-time on the product pages and integrate with social-networking platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter). Using a panel data set consisting of about 500 deals from Groupon.com, the …
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The effects of tobacco policies in the Dominican Republic
… the effects of government policies on tobacco production. Nominal (Direct and Total) protection rates (NRP) and effective rates of protection (ERP) were estimated for tobacco, corn, and fertilizer. The results indicated that tobacco was taxed at an annual average rate of 9 percent while corn …
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Financial Services: A Taxonomy of Consumer-focused Selling Activities and Sales Positions
… These regulatory changes impact the way a salesperson interacts with customers in the banking industry. Currently, the financial services industry accounts for almost half of the country’s nonfarm, commercial profit. No prior sales taxonomy has been conducted for individuals in the …
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Co-ordinating flows across supply chains in the low volume gas turbine industry
… upon technical performance and time to market. Product sales are limited by the ability of the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to coordinate manufacturers and assemblers to deliver turbines to customers in a timely manner. The company's logistics and supply chain systems have evolved from …
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Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/
… situation, customers may opt to buy alternate products at either higher or lower price (buy up or buy down), postpone the purchase until the product is available (postponed sales), buy the product from a non-authorized distributor (sales lost to the open market) or buy a non-Intel product …
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Essays on Martech: Learning to Design, Deliver, and Diffuse Interventions
… causal effect of influencer video advertising on product sales. A summary statistic, motion-score, or m-score, is proposed to capture the extent to which a product is advertised in the most engaging parts of a video. Pixel-level product placement is located with an object detection algorithm and …
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Case study in rapid product design and development
This thesis explores a new strategy in developing products quickly, cheaply and efficiently, with the hopes to redefine the paradigms behind the product design process. This was carried out through the development of the product "flatRat", a commemorative MIT novelty ring. With this product, we …
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Aspen Plus® simulation and techno-economic analysis of condensation and fractional distillation of plastic waste pyrolysis oil for sustainable aviation fuel production
… of the SAF fraction of PDO and accompanying side-products displayed improved profitability compared to solely producing crude PDO or gasoline/diesel fractions, as well as showing superior profitability compared to producing SAF from biomaterials. With the assumptions of a $430 per kg feedstock …
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Potential commercialization of a collagen-GAG scaffold for liver regeneration
… the collagen-GAG scaffolds. A manufacturing and product sales business model was chosen due to the fairly low level of market competition and moderate barrier to entry. The intellectual property landscape is described and analyzed in terms of problematic existing patents and the potential for …
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Economics of end-of-life materials recover : a study of small appliances and computer devices in Portugal
… on by the increasing complexity of electronic products, and the criticality of the materials these devices contain, present an opportunity for maximizing the economic and societal benefits derived from recovery and recycling. Small appliances and computer devices (SACD), including mobile …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
… between Price Review Strategies and Product Sales Pricing (beta = 0.282). The findings also revealed a direct positive relationship between Price Decisions and Price Review Strategies (beta = 0.539) while Market Structure was found to have a direct positive relationship with Price …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
… between Price Review Strategies and Product Sales Pricing (beta = 0.282). The findings also revealed a direct positive relationship between Price Decisions and Price Review Strategies (beta= 0.539) while Market Structure was found to have a direct positive relationship with Price …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
… between Price Review Strategies and Product Sales Pricing (beta = 0.282). The findings also revealed a direct positive relationship between Price Decisions and Price Review Strategies (beta = 0.539) while Market Structure was found to have a direct positive relationship with Price …
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