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...
The downfall of Lehman Brothers and its relation to the current financial crisis
Rapport de stage - 15 pages - Théories économiques
In this report, we will study the financial crisis experienced by the Lehman Brothers and its subsequent collapse in 2008. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial-services firm, and one of the most important primary dealers in the U.S. with respect to treasury securities and...
Mathematical Solution for the attitude of Phoenix lander's radar (rapport de stage)
Rapport de stage - 27 pages - Mathématiques
I was very lucky to go to the United States and finally get this kind of an internship because, I had been given the opportunity to work in one of the most productive scientific sector of the country, The Californian Institute of Technology. This American college is one of the research centres of...
Placement report: Assurances générales de France of Allianz AGF
Rapport de stage - 24 pages - Finance
The AGF Group is a major player in insurance and financial services, both in France and in more than twenty countries around the world. It has more than 60 billion clients from more than 70 countries world-wide. Backed by the n° 1 in European insurance, Allianz AG, of which it is a major...
Human Resources Management Comparison: France and US
Rapport de stage - 10 pages - Ressources humaines
Human Resources Management, summed up recently by Storey, is "a distinctive approach to employment management which seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of a highly committed and capable workforce, using an array of cultural, structural and personnel techniques"...
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...
Case study of Chalet Exquis, an online business
Rapport de stage - 19 pages - Stratégie
“The range of digital media is vast and is growing rapidly. The internet provides a wide variety of activities, including electronic mail, global information access and retrieval systems, discussion groups, multiplayer's games and file transfer facilities.” (chris fill, fifth...
Comparative analysis of the key success factors in a public relations agency in GB and other countries. (Placement report)
Rapport de stage - 15 pages - Management organisation
During June and July, I did my first internship in a public relations company based in London, called Bell Pottinger. I didn't know exactly what the challenges were in this field, so it was a chance to learn many new things. Chime Communications PLC is the holding company of 35 companies...
Designing a waiting room for children in a hospital, supervised by Eureka, the Museum for children
Rapport de stage - 23 pages - Architecture
This is the report about my placement in EUREKA!, the children's museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. In the following pages, this report attempts to highligh a global view of a design project such as a children's waiting room in a hospital and on a wider scale, the work of an...
Strategic management
Rapport de stage - 8 pages - Management organisation
Context: Our firm, SYNERGIA is a medium-sized company that makes environmentally friendly cosmetics - cosmetics cover different and important sectors of goods such as make-up, alcoholic fragrance, beauty and care products, hair care, body products (…) We operate, up to this present-day,...
Tata Motors: Current and new business strategies
Rapport de stage - 11 pages - Management organisation
With USD 8.8 billion revenues in 2007-08, Tata Motors is the largest Indian automobile company; it holds a very good place on the Indian market because it is the leader in commercial vehicles and among the top three in passenger vehicles. The company is also the world's fourth largest truck...
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...
Integration of E-business within the company - The Redoute
Rapport de stage - 12 pages - Stratégie
The Redoute was created in the 1820s. In the past, it was a company specialized in woolen shadowing. Its founder, Charles Pollet, named it in honor of the street where the company was originally implanted, it was the street of “The Redoute”, in Roubaix, in the North of France. For more...
Living one semester abroad: Overseas experience report
Rapport de stage - 24 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
But when I look back now that summer seemed to last forever and if I had the choice yes, I'd always want to be there. Those were the best days of my life'. This quotation of Canadian singer Bryan Adams sums up pretty well what I think about my exchange program in the United States, with...
Prédictions de rendements viticoles autrichiens à l'aide de données satellitaires et météo
Rapport de stage - 20 pages - Informatique
Les méthodes de prévisions de rendements agricoles basées sur l'imagerie satellitaire sont nombreuses et se construisent autour d'approches machine learning diverses. Ce stage fut une introduction au développement d'une chaîne de traitements de ce type, de la récupération des données...
Rapport de stage informatique en Angleterre
Rapport de stage - 35 pages - Informatique
Rapport de stage en anglais effectué au CTAC (centre de recherche) à l'université de Coventry en Angleterre, dans le cadre d'une formation en IUT Génie Electrique et Informatique Industriel (GE2I) à Nancy.
Visual Arts Technician at the Drumcroon Gallery
Rapport de stage - 14 pages - Arts
This report is constructed as follows: the first part presents the gallery explaining its functioning and its philosophy in order to make my role in the organization easier to understand in the second part. The third part of the report analyses the problems I had to face, and what I learnt during...
Internship Report - Publicis Frankfurt GmbH (2006)
Rapport de stage - 43 pages - Marketing des services
I undertook and completed my 1st year internship assignment within the highly reputed international German advertising agency Publicis Frankfurt GmbH from 1st September 2005 to 31st July 2006. Publicis Frankfurt is ranked among Germany's top 4 advertising agencies. Publicis Frankfurt has a...
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....
Schneider presents the best manufacturing processes to satisfy customers' requirements
Rapport de stage - 37 pages - Logistique
During the course of BA in business management (final year), we had to work in a foreign country. To improve my level of English, I took up an internship in Nu-Lec Industries, a company of Schneider Electric located in Brisbane in Australia. Schneider Electric is a worldwide company known to the...
Walt Disney World in Orlando: trainee as park greeter (2008)
Rapport de stage - 12 pages - Management organisation
I stayed for two and a half months at the Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I worked at the main entrance of Typhoon Lagoon, and thereafter in the Water Park as a park greeter. I was determined to work at Walt Disney World because I was sure that I would acquire sufficient experience and...
Training Period Report at Issues & Answers
Rapport de stage - 40 pages - Marketing des services
My work placement as an international intern in the global Market Research company named Issues & Answers Network, allowed me to discover the Market Research field and to work in an international environment coping with different cultures. Furthermore, this work placement allowed me to discover...
Dunnes Stores Georges Street - Loyalty Card Program
Rapport de stage - 14 pages - Marketing consommateur
The purpose of this study is to understand how loyalty programs represent a specific area with specific rules to be efficient and attracting customers with special rewards requires constant adaptation in the approach of driving a promotional strategy. Among the changes associated with the...
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 within...
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...
Environmental issues linked to North-South relations posing a challenge for Geopolitics
Rapport de stage - 10 pages - Sciences politiques
Economic globalization, global media flows and the Internet seem to make our traditional conception of geopolitics, in terms of political geography and international relations, no longer appropriate. The deepening impacts of globalization, especially within North-South relations, have undeniably...
Developing the Museums' volunteer programmed: "intouch:insideout" project
Rapport de stage - 14 pages - Arts
The brief for this project is to develop the intouch volunteer programme that is currently run by the Imperial War Museum North (IWMN) and the Manchester Museum. The funding for the current scheme is due to expire in 2009 (Management studies briefing 2008) and a key aspect of the project is to...
Croissance de micro-algues au sein d'une lagune à forte charge : Influence du temps de rétention hydraulique sur la production de biomasse et sur les capacités de traitement (français et anglais)
Rapport de stage - 7 pages - Biologie
Les lagunes à hautes charges (désignées par l'acronyme anglais HRAP pour High Rate Algal Ponds) sont des systèmes naturels destinés à l'épuration d'eaux résiduelles issues de l'industrie ou de zones urbaines. Ce système repose sur une interaction entre les micro-algues de ces lagunes (qui...
EU enlargement (past and present) has arguably been a real achievement of the integration project but how far can the EU enlarge and will any potential problems outweigh the advantages?
Rapport de stage - 7 pages - Questions européennes
‘EU enlargement generally means increasing the size of the Union by incorporating additional members. This is a process that can take a number of years, as the candidate states attempt to align their economy and regulatory structures to those agreed to by the existing members. The decision...
The process of state and nation-building in Germany
Rapport de stage - 12 pages - Relations internationales
According to Waly and Denly, 'judged purely by its success in creating a nation-state, German history has to be deemed a failure until the nineteenth century'. Even though historians still argue over the beginning of Germany's history, some of them emphasize the importance of the...