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.
China is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations. The history of China as recorded in traditional historical records extends back as far as 5,000 years. Recorded history is supplemented by archaeological records dating back to the 16th century b.c. Turtle shells with markings reminiscent of ancient Chinese …
China Life Insurance Company Limited (“China Life”) is China’s largest life insurance company and the second-largest by market value globally (US$129 billion; RMB 1,032 billion). With a market share of approximately 40 percent with less than 4 percent of the population insured, China Life—and the China insurance market …
China Mobile Limited (“China Mobile”) is China’s leading mobile services provider, having developed the largest mobile phone network and subscriber base in the world. The combination of continued rapid growth in China’s economy, rising consumer purchasing power, the development of the rural economy, and the acceleration of consumer …
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is a state-owned fuel-producing corporation in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). CNPC’s core businesses include oil exploration and production, natural gas and pipelines, refining and marketing, and chemicals and marketing. The company’s origin can be traced to its beginning as a …
As global trade increases so does the number of contracts between parties in different countries. If, as may easily happen, a dispute arises out of a contract it is very important to both parties to know which court or body has the authority to decide that dispute. A …
Citigroup is one of the most diversified financial services companies in the world. It was incorporated in 1998 through a merger between Citicorp and Travelers Group. It operates globally and has established competitive advantage in its global presence, broad distribution, valuable brands, unmatched scale, and efficiency and product …
The City commonly refers to the City of London (a small district within Greater London), and by way of metonymy, to the financial industry operating there, and the culture thereof—just as Wall Street is used to refer to more than simply the street and what is on it. …
A clearing house for Britain’s large-value time-sensitive interbank, business-to-business, and home purchase transactions in pound sterling, the Clearing House Automated Payments System (CHAPS) facilitates low volume, high-value transactions. CHAPS uses a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) process similar to that of Fedwire whereby transactions are quickly cleared and settled …
A wire transfer system for large-value wholesale real-time interbank settlements, the Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is the largest private-sector global clearing house for cross-border dollar transactions, accounting for 95 percent of all international payments conducted in dollars. Wholesale payments are large interbank payments for purposes such …
Clearing houses are institutions devoted to the exchange of information and the fulfillment of payment processing. A financial clearing house assures that two parties to a transaction do not default. Financial clearing houses include institutions devoted to the clearing of transactions involving the trading of financial securities and …
The Capital Market Authority (CMA) is the regulatory body responsible for the Egyptian securities market. Like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States, the CMA is principally concerned with the protection of investors and the health of primary and secondary securities markets. To this end, …
CNP Assurances is a French personal insurance company that offers both life and nonlife insurance products and services. It is headquartered in Paris, and in 2008 employed 3,200 people. The origins of CNP Assurances can be traced back to three state-owned insurance companies: the Caisse nationale d’assurance en …
Coaching in a sporting context has been used throughout history and has acquired a high status. It was the tool used to enable the athlete to run that bit faster, throw that bit farther: In essence, to win. In the business world, coaching is increasingly seen as one …
CoCom stands for the “Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls.” CoCom during the Cold War was essentially an economic arm of the alliance of North Atlantic countries. Set up in 1949, it served to prohibit businesses from selling arms and other sensitive products that might have dual civilian …
Collateral refers to assets given or pledged as security for payment of a loan. Houses, cars, and other types of property are examples of tangible assets used as collateral. A potential problem with collateral arises if one is unable to pay off a loan as scheduled: The collateral …
Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are assets that are used as collateral and then pooled together in order to be the basis of new securities that provide cash flows. A company buys the debt instruments, collects the cash from the debts, and then sells securities that are in effect …
A collateralized loan obligation (CLO) is a debt security, a promissory note, with a pool of commercial loans as its collateral. The backing of the promise of the borrower to repay the loan is guaranteed by debt instruments they own. Historically collateral was some type of asset, such …
One of the top performers in gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Latin America, Colombia is considered an important emerging market for many foreign direct investors. Economic growth, however, is still hampered by the country’s decades-long internal armed conflict. As of 2008, Colombia, which became a republic in …
The Commerce Control List (CCL) is a list maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Similar lists are maintained by other countries. The Bureau of Industry and Security was originally called the Bureau of Export Administration, and references …
The commercial use of outer space centers around the commercial applications of satellite technology, along with a growing space tourism industry. The exploration of space began with communications satellites—Sputnik, the Soviet satellite launched in 1957, was equipped with radio transmitters, as was the American satellite that followed the …
