MBA Course Knowledge Center: August 2012

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Quotations From Bible for The Power of Positive Thinking

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Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale, the author of the very popular book, The Power of Positive Thinking uses quotations from Bible to provide the inspiration and methods for people to believe in positive outcomes and practice positive thinking and action.

I am trying to list those quotes chapterwise.

Chapters of the Book

1. Believe in Yourself

2. A Peaceful Mind generates power

3. How to have constant energy

4. Try prayer power

5. How to create your own happiness

6. Stop fuming and fretting

7. Expect the best nad get it.

8. I don't believe in defeat

9. How to break the worry habit

10. Power to solve personal problems

11. How to use faith in healing

12. When vitality sags, try this health formula

13. Inflow of new thoughts can remake you

14. Relax for easy power

15. How to get people to like you

16. Prescription for heartache

17. How to draw upon that higher power

Epilogue

Quotations from Bible

1. Believe in Yourself

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13).

"According to your faith be it unto you." (Matthew 9:29)

"If ye have faith...nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20).

"If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)

"The kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21).

2. A Peaceful Mind generates power

"...be ye transformed by the newing of your mind..." (Romans 12:2)

3. How to have constant energy

"He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth stength." (Isaiah 40:29)

4. Try prayer power

"Where tow or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them." (Mathew 18:20)

5. How to create your own happiness

"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)

6. Stop fuming and fretting

God neither fumes nor frets. He is peaceful and therefore efficient.

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you..." (John 14:27)

7. Expect the best and get it.

If you expect the best you will get the best

"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." (Mark 9:23)

8. I don't believe in defeat

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13).

9. How to break the worry habit

"... but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

10. Power to solve personal problems

"When two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)

11. How to use faith in healing

"...In him we live and move and have our being." (Acts 17:28)

12. When vitality sags, try this health formula

13. Inflow of new thoughts can remake you

"The Lord is the strength of my life...in this will I be confident." (Psalm 27:1,3)

14. Relax for easy power

We believe we can indeed "do all things through Christ." (Philippians 4:13).

15. How to get people to like you

"If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." (Romans 12:18)

16. Prescription for heartache

Take into your mind and heart one the most marvelous texts in the Holy Bible for moving away from heartache.

"Eye hath not see, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." (I Corinthians 2:9).

17. How to draw upon that higher power

"... They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (Isaiah 40:28-31)

Epilogue

Norman Vincent Peale concluded the book with the statement:

I wrote the book with the sincere desire to help you.

We may never meet in person, but in this book we have met. We are spiritual friends. I pray for you. God will help you - so believe (in yourself, in prayer and in God) and live successfully.

Beatitudes - The Be-Happy Attitudes from Bible

http://nraoblogs.blogspot.com/2012/08/beatitudes-be-happy-attitudes-from.html

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Industry Wide Standards - Do They Promote or Hinder Innovation?

Read the address by Prof dr. Knut Blind

http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17558/EIA-2009-039-LIS.pdf

NonProprietary or Philanthrophic or Free Innovations - Do They Add Value to Society?

Yes must be the answer.

But not every thinker agrees.

Read the paper by

Gilles Saint-Paul
University of Toulouse I - GREMAQ-IDEI; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

May 2002

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 726

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=316768

Product Innovations versus Process Innovations

http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2000/PDFs/milling1.pdf

http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/topics/strategy/process-innovation-the-crucial-facilitator-of-product-innovation

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/213809/1

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COMPANY - Cost Leadership

Southwest Airlines has never deviated from its niche: short-haul, high frequency, low-fare service, all delivered with award-winning customer service.
-- Herbert D. Kelleher, Chairman, President, and CEO

Southwest's current strategy is to position itself as a cost leader with a focus strategy. The company’s management and employees aim to cost-effectively and reliably fly large number of customers on short, non-stop flights, and to have fun doing it.

HRM at Southwest
http://www.arichall.com/academic/papers/om5210-hrm.pdf

http://www.theclci.com/resources/TheSouthwestAirlinesWay.PDF

Measurement of Competitive Strategy

Measurement of Competitive Strategy at Product Level

Praveen Nayyar
Faculty Stern School of Business
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/om/faculty/nayyar/compstrt.pdf

NAICS Code Industries - Cost Leaders and Differentiators

Goods-Producing Industries

Natural Resources and Mining
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (NAICS 11)
Crop Production (NAICS 111)
Animal Production (NAICS 112)
Forestry and Logging (NAICS 113)
Fishing, Hunting and Trapping (NAICS 114)
Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry (NAICS 115)
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 21)

Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 211)
Encana Oil & Gas
Mining (except Oil and Gas) (NAICS 212)
Support Activities for Mining (NAICS 213)
Construction
Construction (NAICS 23)
Construction of Buildings (NAICS 236)
Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (NAICS 237)
Specialty Trade Contractors (NAICS 238)
Manufacturing
Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33)
Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311)
Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing (NAICS 312)
Textile Mills (NAICS 313)
Textile Product Mills (NAICS 314)
Apparel Manufacturing (NAICS 315)
Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing (NAICS 316)
Wood Product Manufacturing (NAICS 321)
Paper Manufacturing (NAICS 322)
Printing and Related Support Activities (NAICS 323)
Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing (NAICS 324)
Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325)
Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing (NAICS 326)
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing (NAICS 327)
Primary Metal Manufacturing (NAICS 331)
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (NAICS 332)
Machinery Manufacturing (NAICS 333)
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing (NAICS 334)
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing (NAICS 335)
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 336)
Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (NAICS 337)
Miscellaneous Manufacturing (NAICS 339)
Service-Providing Industries

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities
Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42)
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (NAICS 423)
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods (NAICS 424)
Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents and Brokers (NAICS 425)
Retail Trade (NAICS 44-45)
Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers (NAICS 441)
Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores (NAICS 442)
Electronics and Appliance Stores (NAICS 443)
Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers (NAICS 444)
Food and Beverage Stores (NAICS 445)
Health and Personal Care Stores (NAICS 446)
Gasoline Stations (NAICS 447)
Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores (NAICS 448)
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores (NAICS 451)
General Merchandise Stores (NAICS 452)
Miscellaneous Store Retailers (NAICS 453)
Nonstore Retailers (NAICS 454)
Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49)

Air Transportation (NAICS 481)
Ryanair
South West Airlines

Rail Transportation (NAICS 482)
Water Transportation (NAICS 483)
Truck Transportation (NAICS 484)
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (NAICS 485)
Pipeline Transportation (NAICS 486)
Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487)
Support Activities for Transportation (NAICS 488)
Postal Service (NAICS 491)
Couriers and Messengers (NAICS 492)
Warehousing and Storage (NAICS 493)
Utilities (NAICS 22)
Information
Information (NAICS 51)
Publishing Industries (except Internet) (NAICS 511)
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (NAICS 512)
Broadcasting (except Internet) (NAICS 515)
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting (NAICS 516)
Telecommunications (NAICS 517)
Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518)
Other Information Services (NAICS 519)
Financial Activities
Finance and Insurance (NAICS 52)
Monetary Authorities - Central Bank (NAICS 521)
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities (NAICS 522)
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (NAICS 523)
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities (NAICS 524)
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (NAICS 525)
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (NAICS 53)
Real Estate (NAICS 531)
Rental and Leasing Services (NAICS 532)
Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works) (NAICS 533)
Professional and Business Services
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 54)
Management of Companies and Enterprises (NAICS 55)
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services (NAICS 56)
Administrative and Support Services (NAICS 561)
Waste Management and Remediation Services (NAICS 562)
Education and Health Services
Educational Services (NAICS 61)
Health Care and Social Assistance (NAICS 62)
Ambulatory Health Care Services (NAICS 621)
Hospitals (NAICS 622)
Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (NAICS 623)
Social Assistance (NAICS 624)
Leisure and Hospitality
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71)
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (NAICS 711)
Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (NAICS 712)
Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries (NAICS 713)
Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72)
Accommodation (NAICS 721)
Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722)
Other Services (except Public Administration)
Other Services (except Public Administration) (NAICS 81)
Repair and Maintenance (NAICS 811)
Personal and Laundry Services (NAICS 812)
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (NAICS 813)
Private Households (NAICS 814)

Encana Gas and Oil - Cost Leadership

http://www.encana.com

Encana Oil and Gas USA is a progressive company that has worked to define itself as a high growth, low-cost leader in unconventional natural gas production.

Knowledgeable and dedicated employees have resulted in recognition for Encana for their reclamation technologies and BMPs, cost structures that are among the lowest in industry, and community outreach efforts.

Encana uses Lifespan Planning Approach (LPA) to natural gas extraction. Encana has found that successful initial reclamation, guided every step of the process by Lifespan Planning, can greatly increase final reclamation success and significantly lower costs by eliminating the direct and indirect costs of failed reclamation attempts. Every Encana well pad since 2008 has been drilled with this approach in mind.
The LPA requires thorough site inventory and analysis and the implementation and maintenance of BMPs based on this inventory and analysis. To accomplish this task, Encana utilizes about 20 highly trained personnel to work each well pad. In every step of the process, team stops to ask questions about overall efficiency.

http://www.oilandgasbmps.org/resources/casestudies/encanaLPA/index.php

2012
http://www.justmeans.com/press-releases/Encana-named-to-Corporate-Knights-Best-50-Corporate-Citizens-list/9384.html

Helping Small Farmers to Think - Better Growing and Marketing

http://www.ruralfinance.org/fileadmin/templates/rflc/documents/1132328579282_Helping_small_farmers_think_about_better980322567.pdf

Niche Market - How to determine Market Niches?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_market

http://ag.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/nichemarkets/01whatarenichemarkets.pdf

Niche marketing and strategic investment
http://sbaer.uca.edu/research/icsb/2009/paper1.pdf

Market Literacy for Subsistence Businessmen

For subsistence businessmen, financial resources and market access or channels to reach the markets are important. But equally important is market literacy and entrepreneurial literacy.

Madhu Viswanathan and his associates are advocating this idea and taking various initiative to test their theoretical conjecture in real life situations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125187240878878743.html

http://business.illinois.edu/subsistence/docs/EnablingMarketplaceLiteracy.pdf

Subsistence Business versus Profitable Business

Subsistence Business

Any business with a lax business model, allowing only for the owner(s) to maintain a middle-class or lower lifestyle.

( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=subsistence%20business )

The Role of Systemic Adaptability in Subsistence Consumer-Merchant Management of Business and Family
http://www.uwyo.edu/sustainable/recent-research/docs/rosasystemicadaptability.pdf

The Divide between Subsistence and Transformational Entrepreneurship
Professor Antoniette Schoar, MIT
2009
http://www.mit.edu/~aschoar/SubsistenceVsTransformationalEntrepreneurs.pdf

Employers of Wisconsin area in survey indicated that now, they consider both online and full-time MBAs equivalent for recruitment if the degree is earned through an accredited program. This is a change in thinking from the earlier position five years back.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-06/employers-warm-up-to-online-mbas

Environmental Management - Apple Inc. Policy and Initiatives

http://www.apple.com/environment/

http://www.apple.com/environment/energy-efficiency/

http://www.apple.com/environment/faq.html

Friday, August 24, 2012

Environment Management - Microsoft

Driving environmental sustainability practices with Microsoft Dynamics
http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/en/gulf/environment.aspx

Microsoft partners deliver solutions that help you reduce your energy demands, manage your resource consumption and environmental footprint, and rethink your business practices to achieve your sustainability goals.
http://www.microsoft.com/environment/products-and-solutions/partner-showcase.aspx

Environment Management - Google Company Initiatives and Projects

Keeping our environmental management and workplace safety standards high
http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2012/01/keeping-our-environmental-management.html

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Content Marketing - 2012 Collection

Worth of Content
http://karlan.yale.edu/p/AdContentWorth_mar09Final.pdf

The decade in Online Advertising - 1994 to 2004
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr11/cos448/web/docs/week6_reading2.pdf

Friday, August 3, 2012

International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers

2011 Production Statistics
http://oica.net/category/production-statistics/

Agribusiness Plans - Collection

Student Agribusiness Plans

Professor Bill Brown
University of Saskatchewan

http://agbusinessplans.usask.ca/
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Acme Lamb 07
AgriPark03
Beef Feeding & Slaughter 07
Beef Slaughtering and Processing 05
Big Catch03
BioStuff01
Bird Seed 07
Biodigester 05
BrewPub03
Bridge City Stables02
Cafe 07
Cattle Co 04
Carolinny00
Ceres01
Cool Spring Ranch02
Custom Sprayer 07
CUTO99
Dykal03
Eastern Agrow02
Evergreen Acres99
EXcel Consulting99
From the RootUp99
Fudge Factory 06
Golden Flax Processing Plant 07
Grain Price Txt Messaging Service 07
Green Trac03
Groundmakers05
Gryenders98
Gypsum Recycling 07
H32Feeders02
Hunting and Fishing 05
Hunting Ranch 05
Ice Cream 07
Lentil Pasta Sauce 06
Meat on a Stick 07
Meats 05
Natural Fertilizer 05
Noodle Processing 07
North Country Organics03
NorthWest Feeders03
On Farm Bakery 05
Organic Beef 07
Organic Farm02
Organic Grain 07
Organic Meat03
Organic Oat 07
Organic Weed Control 05
Pea Frac01
Pea Processing 96
Pioneer Challenge01
Plains Milling98
PP Retreat01
Pumpkins03
Retail Store 06
Riverview98
Saskatoba00
Saucy Productions 07
Seed 07
Seedlings 05
Snack Food Store 06
South Valley Winery03
Strawberry Crowns 05
Strawtegic99
Tree Bien02
TripleC98
U-Pick Orchid 07
Virtual Prairie Feeders01
West Can Beef01
XXXX Fish 05

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Organizational Health on Top of Performance - McKinsey Consultants

Colin Price and Scott Keller are advocating that organizations have to maintain their health status well above their competitors apart from delivering current performance to do well in the future. If you neglect you health, you will fall ill and your performance will suffer. The well known idea in personal life is now extended to organizational life with 10 years of data collection and analysis by two McKinsey consultants Colin Price and Scott Keller.

Read their presentation on the concept and its importance and implementation details.

Webcast dated 13 December 2011
http://download.mckinseyquarterly.com/keller_price_beyond_performance_webex.pdf

Visit number of video presentations by Price and Keller
http://mgmtvideo.blogspot.com/2012/08/beyond-performance-organizational-health.html

Related Research papers

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/hanges/Lowry%20and%20Hanges.pdf

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Use of London Olympics for Advertising, Business and Marketing

http://www.london2012.com/business/advertising-and-trading-regulations/

Olympics for Marketing - Concept, Issues and Challenges - Articles

Using Olympics for Marketing - CIM Note
http://www.cim.co.uk/filestore/resources/factfiles/marketingtheolympics.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18182541

http://www.thetourismbusiness.com/documents/HospitalityReview.pdf

Brand Republic Olympics 2012 Marketing Related Articles
http://www.brandrepublic.com/go/olympics2012/

Best Olympic Marketing Campaign Selections

Three campaigns that deserve medals - Forbes.com sites 30.7.2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/07/30/marketing-at-the-london-olympics-three-advertisers-who-deserve-medals/

Interesting Olympic Ads - British Airways, P&G and Visa - 15.7.2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robschwartz/2012/07/15/olympic-ads-with-metal-potential/

Individual Company Olympic Marketing Campaigns

Cadbury's Campaign
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/02/cadbury-ads-2012-olympics

Coca-Cola
http://www.4-traders.com/THE-COCA-COLA-COMPANY-4819/news/The-Coca-Cola-Company-Global-Ads-for-London-2012-Olympic-Games-14024636/

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More videos of Coca-Cola Move to the beat campaign

http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/olympic-games/coca-colas-song-for-london-2012-mark-ronson-katy-b.html

McDonalds
We all make the games.
http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2012/06/28/mcdonalds-reveals-marketing-plans-during-london-2012-olympics-we-all-make-games

Procter and Gamble
http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/p-g-launches-olympic-advertising-blitz--1404904.html
http://www.boston.com/business/news/2012/07/13/olympics-near-ramps-marketing-effort/IjC7T6o5XOUE0Wfx4T7lnM/story.html

Wall Street Journal

How WSJ beat NBC's Olympic coverage embargo
http://mashable.com/2012/07/30/wall-street-journal-nbc-olympics/

London Olympics and B Schools
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-18/the-b-school-olympics

London Media Centre Articles
http://londonmediacentre.synapticdigital.com/Latest-Stories/Business/global-business-leaders-unite-to-promote-british-expertise-during-london-2012/s/64b3fd7b-0d50-4221-b724-2e49ae6d423d

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