Category: Business Essay Examples
See our collection of business essay examples. These example essays are to help you understanding how to write essays on business-related topics. The word “business” can refer to a particular organization or to an entire market sector (for example: “the financial sector”) or to the sum of all economic activity (“the business sector“). Compound forms such as “agribusiness” represent subsets of the concept’s broader meaning, which encompasses all activity by suppliers of goods and services. Also, see our list of business essay topics to find the one that interests you.
METRO AG is the holding company of the METRO Group, an international retail company headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany. METRO AG was formed through a merger of Asko Deusche Kaufhaus AG, Kaufhof Holding AG, and Deutsche SB-Kauf AG and became a public company on July, 25, 1996. The METRO …
Mexico (population 106,682,500 in 2008, the 11th most populous country in the world; gross domestic product $1.022 trillion in 2007) is a nation in search of itself. Over the last century it has undergone changes which, while fundamental, have not yet enabled it to sustain substantive improvements to …
The MibTel Index tracks stocks on the Borsa Italiana, Italy’s main stock exchange, located in Milan. Privatized in 1997 and purchased by the London Stock Exchange 10 years later, the Borsa is responsible for Italy’s stock market, derivatives market, and fixed-income market. One hundred thirty brokers, both domestic …
The development of the microfinance sector is based on the assumption that the poor possess the capacity to accomplish income-generating economic activities but are limited by lack of access to and inadequate provision of savings, credit, and insurance facilities. The micro financial services capture the various financial needs …
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide financial services to the poor, who are normally excluded from the formal banking sector. The failures in reaching out to the poor by government schemes had generated a group of MFIs to engage in income-generating activities due to inadequate provision of savings, credit, and …
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan; its main business areas are banking and securities. As of September 30, 2007, it included 44 affiliated companies and 525 consolidated subsidiaries with 47,124 employees (BTMU, MUTB, MUS) and 78,300 employees worldwide. It reported gross profits of 3.512 trillion …
A micro-multinational (mMNE) is a firm that, from birth or soon thereafter, controls and manages value-added activities in more than one country. Other common terms for the phenomenon of a rapidly internationalizing firm are international new venture, born global, global start-up, metanational downstairs, and infant multinational. The major …
Microsoft is a multinational information technology company that manufactures, licenses, acquires, and supports a range of software for use on computing devices. Its portfolio of interests also includes publishing, computer hardware, and a cable TV channel. The history of Microsoft is, to a great extent, the history of …
The term Middle East has no objective basis. It is an idea of late-19th-century imperial geography used to define a group of countries that stretch around the Mediterranean. Depending on which countries are included, the Middle East is said to encompass the region of modern-day Turkey; the eastern …
Millea Holdings, Inc., a holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, was created in April 2002 as the umbrella structure for the international insurance businesses of Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire. Millea Holdings was the first publicly owned holding company in Japan integrating life insurance and nonlife insurance operations. …
The Millennium Development Goals are outcome based international development targets that were agreed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York in September 2000. Eight Millennium Development Goals are defined. These goals incorporate 18 more precisely defined targets with a total of 48 indicators. Development targets were …
Mitsubishi is the name of the one of the most powerful Japanese keiretsu. A keiretsu is a business group loosely held together through cross-holding of stock, meetings of the chief executive officers of the constituent companies, and use of a common logo. It is a format that has …
Mitsubishi Electric is one of the world’s largest industrial electronics companies. The firm conducts its business through six business segments: energy and electric systems, industrial automation systems, information and communication systems, electronic devices, home appliances, and others. Mitsubishi Electric offers a range of products, from security systems to …
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan; its main business areas are banking and securities. As of September 30, 2007, it included 44 affiliated companies and 525 consolidated subsidiaries with 47,124 employees (BTMU, MUTB, MUS) and 78,300 employees worldwide. It reported gross profits of 3.512 trillion …
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Mitsui), is a Japanese company with headquarters in Tokyo. Its main business areas are mineral resources and energy, global marketing, consumer services, and infrastructure; its workforce numbers 42,621 employees worldwide in 161 offices in 68 countries. As of March 31, 2008, it reported gross …
The world’s largest steel enterprise, Mittal Steel was established in 1976 by Lakshmi Narayan Mittal (1950–) in Kolkata, India. The richest person in Europe and fourth-richest in the world with net worth of $32 billion, the London-based Indian steel magnate Mittal had brought Mittal Steel to the forefront …
The Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (MHFG), established in 2003 with JPY 1.54 trillion in capital, is a bank holding company that engages in managing and operating banks, long-term credit banks, specialized securities companies, and other subsidiaries. As of March 31, 2008, (consolidated) it reported gross profits of JPY …
Modernization theory refers to the development processes that developing countries—or traditional communities—employ in their adaptation processes to modern technologies, cultural and social change, and adjustment to regional or global economic disequilibrium. Recognizing the far-ranging implications of increasing social and regional inequalities in the wake of colonization and decolonization …
Monetary intervention is the action of a government, especially outside the course of its ordinary activity, to influence the economy. Typically this involves changes to the interest rate and/or the money supply, in order to manipulate the economy’s growth, the strength of the nation’s currency, or inflation. Attitudes …
Under a classical gold standard, there is little need for a central bank other than to provide coordination to the payments system. The value of money is determined by the supply of and the demand for gold. Thus the classical gold standard is the ultimate form of a …
