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.
A monetary union is defined in general as two or more otherwise independent states joining together to share a common currency. Traditionally, sovereign states have issued their own currencies for both domestic and international exchange. Nevertheless, in the past, countries have elected to join together in some sort …
Money laundering is a process whereby one or more financial transactions are carried out in order to disguise or conceal the identity behind, the source of, and/or the destination of money. Usually this is undertaken to obscure connections with crime, and also to prevent payment of taxation, although …
Money supply is the amount of money available for use in transactions. Money is an asset that is accepted by others as a medium of exchange for goods and services. Today, money in most countries is “fiat” money—money that has no commodity value and is legal tender by …
Monochronic and polychronic are terms coined by American anthropologist Edward T. Hall to describe how cultures and societies differ in their perceptions of time. In polychronic societies, people perform several activities simultaneously and take a fluid approach to scheduling time. To polychrons (or people from polychronic cultures), time …
Monopolistic advantage theory, first proposed by S. H. Hymer in his doctoral thesis and later expanded by C. P. Kindleberger, explains the reasons multinational corporations (MNCs) are able to compete successfully against local firms. It is a microeconomic theory that makes the firm the center, as well as …
Morgan Stanley is a U.S. investment banking and global financial services provider. Its clients and customers include corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. The corporation’s headquarters is in New York City. Morgan Stanley has about 600 offices in 33 countries and approximately 45,000 employees around the world (2008). …
Morocco is one of the fastest-growing emerging markets in Africa. It is rapidly expanding, developing, and opening up opportunities for businesses. Morocco is strategically located in northwest Africa and is less than 15 km. away from Spain. It boasts a range of climates and geographical features from Atlantic …
The mortgage and credit crisis of 2008 is a financial crisis that originated in the United States but contributed to the global economic crisis of 2007–09, and has its most direct origins in the housing bubble and the disastrous consequences of irresponsible subprime lending. Though not solely complicit …
Most favored nation (MFN) status, or treatment, is a multilateral trading agreement between member countries. MFN status stipulates that each country extend tariff and regulatory treatment to other member countries that is no less preferential than their existing trade agreements. The agreement ensures that those from one country …
Motivation is generally defined as the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal. The three core concepts when explaining motivation—intensity, direction, and persistence—refer to how hard an individual tries, where the effort is channeled, and how long the effort …
Motorola is an American multinational enterprise specializing in telecommunications and related technologies. The company is headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois, and has used the name Motorola as its trademark since the 1930s. Motorola was founded in 1928 by Paul and Joseph Galvin under the name …
Diversity is increasing within organizations at an astronomical rate. Organizations are increasingly operating in multicultural contexts, building strategic alliances, exporting work, and facilitating mergers and acquisitions inside and outside their primary domain of work. Concurrently, organizations are implementing work groups with greater frequency to integrate the knowledge of …
Multidomestic structure is a multinational firm’s organizational structure that reflects the philosophy that the world is comprised of many unique markets—usually defined at the national level. By this multidomestic philosophy, for example, many food companies acquire and/or establish business units in as many countries in which they do …
During the 1960s, the Kennedy administration implemented a quota system to protect domestic cotton producers. In 1962 the Long Term Agreement Regarding International Trade in Cotton Textiles (LTA), a set of bilateral quota agreements, was signed under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). This agreement was …
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, established in 1988, provides political risk insurance to private companies investing in developing markets. As a member of the World Bank Group, its principal goal is to encourage foreign direct investment in developing markets by augmenting privately and publicly available political risk insurance …
Multinational corporations (MNCs) have multiple sources of advantage that enable them to expand across countries. However, they also suffer from competitive disadvantages, i.e., the condition a firm faces when it creates lower value for its customers and lower profits for itself than its competitors. A competitive disadvantage is …
Multinational, international, global, or transnational corporations are those that operate in more than one country—not simply exporting goods from one country to another, but offering services in multiple countries or operating production facilities in more than one country. Because the demands of their businesses require them to operate …
The Mundell-Fleming model is a theoretical model in international macroeconomics. The model demonstrates that the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies in the open economy depends on the exchange rate regime. The Mundell-Fleming model was developed in the early 1960s by Robert Mundell (b.1932, 1999 Nobel Laureate in …
Known in English as Munich Re, the Munchener Ruckversicherung-Gesellschaft (Munich Reinsurance Company) is the second-largest reinsurance company in the world. It has its headquarters in Munich, Germany, and currently has some 5,000 customers located in 160 countries. The company was founded on April 19, 1880, by Carl Thieme, …
Science advances through the interaction between theory and measurement. Without appropriate measurement, there is no way to assess the accuracy of theory quantitatively. Thus, it is no surprise that efforts to measure economic activity date back centuries. Among the early attempts to gauge national income were those of …
