The impact of smart phones on business and private life
Rapport de stage - 90 pages - Management organisation
Since few years, mobile phone market is changing radically and many new mobile phones, called smart phones or intelligence phones are entering on the market and have produced a boom. Before, those intelligence phones were only dedicated to professional persons, but mobile manufacturer felt that...
Intership Report - Rocky Springs station
Rapport de stage - 25 pages - Management organisation
This year, I spent 12 weeks on Rocky Springs Station: a cattle farm in North Queensland. I met people who helped me to understand a new way of farming in a different environment. North Queensland is a wild area with a very strong climatic pressure where it is very difficult to breed...
Rapport de stage commercial : école de langue
Rapport de stage - 34 pages - Linguistique & langues
This report deals with the methods of a language school. First and foremost, we will focus on how work a language school, and its features so different from the French system. In a second part, we will concentrate our review on the impact of Communication within a company. Eventually, the...
Event Merchandising Limited (rapport de stage 2006)
Rapport de stage - 17 pages - Management organisation
Event Merchandising Limited develops and markets merchandise to a world-wide audience. It works closely with new and established brands. From blue chip corporate requirements to selling at live events, from setting up licensing programme to running online shops. Whether the requirement is...
Container Link
Rapport de stage - 10 pages - Management organisation
On the occasion of my first year with the La Rochelle Graduate School of Management, I undertook my work placement in a company called Container Link, in Poole, in the south-east of England. This experience, lasting three months, gave me the opportunity to live through a total immersion in an...
The identification, enumeration and survival of probiotic cultures in commercial bio yoghurts
Rapport de stage - 41 pages - Biologie
My work placement in Northern Ireland took place on the Loughry Campus, which provides education and training programs for students who aspire to pursue a career in the agro-food industry and also for postgraduate persons. In recent years, Loughry has developed a wide range of courses in Food...
Nursery School and Gender Construction
Rapport de stage - 6 pages - Sociologie & sciences sociales
I chose to study the links between nursery schools and gender construction because I wanted to show how this institution plays an active role in the representations children have of their social role as boy or girl. As my research is mostly about the toys and the games of the children in the...
Learned centered approach
Rapport de stage - 4 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
In the teaching process, there are two main categories of actors: teachers, and students. I found important to notice that, through years, the students' environment changed a lot (school violence, diversity of the population, etc.) and therefore their needs changed as well. In the Secondary...
The British Council (2009-2010)
Rapport de stage - 7 pages - Stratégie
My school HEM (High Establishment of Management) organized a special training that is scheduled in the middle of the academic year during 6 weeks for its student's, by choosing one of the institutes within or outside our country specialized in teaching English as a language that...
The changing meaning of luxury in Europe
Rapport de stage - 50 pages - Stratégie
No longer reserved for the selected few, luxury is now within the reach of a much larger consumer segment. In this analysis we ask Europeans what constitutes „luxury? in their everyday life. As the prospects for obtaining a certain level of material wealth is fulfilled - or it is...
Ancient Philosophy: Why did Heraclitus choose to write in paradox form?
Rapport de stage - 3 pages - Histoire antique
Analyzing this question first requires that we examine the notion of paradox. It is in fact not easy to define for the word fits what it is supposed to mean. And we cannot merely define it anyway. However we can try to clarify the notion in order to explain what a paradox...
The action of the International Monetary Fund in the world
Rapport de stage - 6 pages - Relations internationales
“The International Monetary Fund is established and shall operate in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement as originally adopted and subsequently amended” asserts the first clause of the Articles of Agreement. Set up after the Second World War as a response to the world...
Analysis of a Heineken advertisement
Rapport de stage - 10 pages - Marketing tourisme
This is a video commercial made by the Dutch brewer Heineken. The commercial begins at a house party, which is probably a house warming party hosted by a couple. The lady shows her friends around and suddenly walks through the master bedroom and into a gigantic walk-in-closet. Her four friends...
Comparison of the British counter terrorist policies and strategies: The IRA and Al Qaeda
Rapport de stage - 5 pages - Relations internationales
This essay compares the British strategies toward two different cases: the IRA and Al Qaeda. It underlines the main similarities and differences in both cases and also gives an overview of their historical facts. Through the comparison of both cases, this essay shows how the similarities...
Overview of SWOT framework
Rapport de stage - 7 pages - Management organisation
An organization often analyzes the following: How to develop a product, complete a project and solve a problem. The question then arises: How to carry out the above actions? The first step is to set a goal then define the objectives, constraints and finally describe the limits of the action (What...
Importance of HRM for small and medium sized companies
Rapport de stage - 6 pages - Ressources humaines
At the time of globalization, organizations, which can be regarded as an entity or a social system in its own right, are being forced to adapt to business environments which involve quick responses to change, such as new laws, social trends and a new segment of customers, in order to...
Starbucks coffee: Service analysis
Rapport de stage - 5 pages - Management organisation
The first Starbucks store opened in 1970 in Seattle in the US. It was at first, only a coffees beans retailer. After ten years, Howard Shultz joined the company, and after a business trip to Italy in 1983 where he discovered the concept of coffee cafes, he tried to introduce it to...
Interview of a sales person of Renault in Guyancourt
Rapport de stage - 7 pages - Management organisation
The interview was conducted in Renault Guyancourt, the Renault Center, close to Paris. The interview was arranged by me since the salesperson interviewed is my cousin. First of all, I have to say that it was rather hard to manage a time when we were both available which is the reason why,...
The link between financial reporting and capital markets: Evaluating the extent of development and use of International Accounting Standards
Rapport de stage - 4 pages - Finance
“As capital markets play an increasingly central role in today's modern economies, policy-makers are confronted with the question of how to assure the continued effective functioning of these markets and, in particular, how to develop a sound financial reporting infrastructure.”...
Walmart Overseas: An analysis
Rapport de stage - 13 pages - Stratégie
The idea behind what would become Walmart was a store that would offer a large variety and volume of products offered at low prices, everyday. Sam and J.L. Walton, the founders of Walmart, believed that American small towns would benefit from a large retail shopping center because of the everyday...
Probation report: Six week training course at the Lannion local mission
Rapport de stage - 11 pages - Psychologie
This report is a summary of my probation during my third year as faculty of the psychology department. This work had been requested by my faculty for the validation of my license in the year 2009-2010. I did this training course at the local mission of Lannion for six weeks, alternating this...
International logistics and procurement (2010-2011)
Rapport de stage - 15 pages - Logistique
Definition of procurement: It can be defined as the purchase of goods or services at the optimum possible cost, in the correct amount and quality. These goods/services are also purchased at the correct time and location by signing a contract. Definition of logistics: It is to get...
The implementation of Kosta Boda in the French market
Rapport de stage - 15 pages - Stratégie
Kosta Boda is a Sweden company of design and making high quality of glassware and art glass. Founded in 1742, Kosta Boda is today a reference in this sector in Sweden. Its originality, its know-how and numbers of famous designers inside the company gave to Kosta Boda an image of...
Recruitment and selection
Rapport de stage - 14 pages - Ressources humaines
The process of recruitment and selection is fundamental within the function of Human resources. It defines itself as the research for candidates by taking into account the necessary adequacy between the needs of the company and the profiles of the candidates. The objective being that the...
Business Ethics: Dior
Rapport de stage - 10 pages - Stratégie
Christian Dior was founded in 1905 in Normandy. In 1946, Dior opened his legendary home at 30 Avenue Montaigne. In February 1947, Dior launched his first collection called Corolle, where women were drawn like flowers. It was the beginning of the success story. Every fashion book said that...
AMD: A customer-centric approach to innovation
Rapport de stage - 9 pages - Management organisation
AMD was founded in 19691 by Jerry Sanders, formerly of Fairchild Semiconductor. The company started to focus on microprocessors in the mid 1970s. It designed and manufactured microprocessors for the computing, communications, and consumer electronics market. The company employed 9,000...
Promoting Democracy
Rapport de stage - 8 pages - Sciences politiques
Chapter four of Payne's book deals with the notion of democracy, which is a very old one. Democracy is a process, that is to say it is in constant evolution. Today, we can say that most developed countries are democratic, and each country has followed a different path to achieve democracy....
The Truman Show: Movie Review
Rapport de stage - 6 pages - Cinéma
Many elements in the Truman Show illustrate the reality of our current society and how it works. I will particularly talk about the attitude of viewers who, perhaps unwittingly, are partly responsible for the broadcasting of this kind of program (reality TV shows). I shall also tackle the...
Human resources and recruitment
Rapport de stage - 12 pages - Ressources humaines
Privacy could be defined as “the freedom to selectively reveal one's self” (CSO Magazine, Logan Roots). Today, we may be frustrated by all the existing instruments created to collect those private pieces of information that most of the time we released by ourselves....
Managing cultural diversity in South Africa
Rapport de stage - 10 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Rainbow Nation- a term used to describe post-apartheid South Africa, when multicultural diversity emerged i.e, a country with a strong history and a rich diversified culture. Here you will find the important elements to be successful in doing business with South Africans. We will start with an...