Self-tutoring about international business: the tutor looks at an alleged cartel. Apparently, numerous carmakers have been fined by EU antitrust authorities, to an amount of 458million Euros. The alleged cartel, it seems, involved a mutual agreement among perhaps fifteen carmakers …
Business, economics: carmakers’ cartel activities earn fine Read more »
Self-tutoring about trade: the tutor mentions a couple of statistics about Europe. Preparing to weather a storm of trade challenge, people in Canada have mentioned internal trade barriers – that is, between provinces. The fact that we have any, between …
Business, politics: Europe: internal trade barrier Read more »
Self-tutoring about international business: the tutor looks at some numbers since Brexit. While it’s perhaps easy to find people who bemoan Brexit, some quick numbers might suggest it wasn’t all bad. If one looks at the gdp per capita growth, …
Self-tutoring about the coffee business in Canada and the US: the tutor continues, this time about exports. In my previous post, I compare coffee importation of Canada and the US. Now, to exports, which is perhaps more interesting. Canada exports …
Self-tutoring about trade comparisons between Canada and the USA: the tutor mentions coffee importation. It seems that Canada imports nearly twice as much coffee as the USA, per capita, as suggested by the following: Population: Canada: 38.8 million; US: 342 …
Self-tutoring about business models: the tutor mentions an interesting one. With a colleague, I was talking about the grocery business recently. They mentioned a wholesale operation whose business model is that their profit is the membership fees; theoretically, they break …
Self-tutoring about modern business and comp sci terms: the tutor mentions Kanban and Scrum. Workflow has various meanings, but one idea is that it’s a series of states a job or artifact passes through in order to be transformed to …
Business, computer science: workflows: Kanban vs Scrum Read more »
Self-tutoring about Canadian provinces: the tutor mentions his home one, Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia is kind of like a mini-Canada: diverse, complex, resourceful, and under pressure. Within it are bastions of education and tradition – many different traditions. I haven’t …
Self-tutoring about government involvement in business: the tutor mentions an example. Apparently, Quebec’s government is injecting $413 million into the Airbus A220 program; Quebec’s total contribution to the program might now be at around $2 billion. To put this in …
Politics: government involvement in corporations Read more »
Self-tutoring about business vocabulary: the tutor makes an observation. English-speaking business people seem to think in terms of quarters. In French, it’s apparently the same, but they’re called trimestres. In this case, a trimestre is a three-month period. Source: cambridge.org