Business
In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
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Case Study: Ikea
CASE A: LUCINDA Case Study IKEA n/a College Operation Management BUS Prof. J January 21, 2010 ________________ Case Study: IKEA Question 1: IKEA’s competitive priority is not just based on one priority but several. Their designs are in line with the corporate mantra, “Low Price with meaning”. They produce quality products at a low completive price. They produce product that are unique and are customizable for the consumer home or office. IKEA is able to
Rating:Essay Length: 323 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 27, 2015 -
Case Study: Let It Pour
Case Study: Let it Pour Health care systems have been a major and complex problem from the day they were formed. Hospitals must run efficiently and still maintain the letter of the law. When laws and ethics begin to mix, the recipe reeks of disaster. Lawsuits, rising health care costs, and greedy CEO’s have added to this already volatile concoction. This case study analysis will attempt to resolve one man’s crisis when he is forced
Rating:Essay Length: 290 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: March 19, 2010 -
Case Study: Let It Pour
Case Study: Let It Pour Many times companies fail due to the inability to solve problems within their organizations. By employing critical thinking skills, managers have the tools necessary to identify and solve problems. A case study of a health care provider will reveal the need for critical thinking skills on the part of managers. First, the problem will be identified. A problem cannot be solved if it is unknown. Secondly, appropriate solutions shall be
Rating:Essay Length: 1,971 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: April 18, 2010 -
Case Study: McDonald’s Success
HEW ANN LI ( C1301571) Short essay questions based on the Case Study given. Answer ALL. 1. Based on the case study, it is stated that ‘People’ come first in the context of McDonald’s success. Describe the impact of international activities on ‘People’ that contribute to its international success. (10 Marks) In order to achieve international success, “people” considered as the most important factor when doing international activities. The people involved including the advisors, vendors,
Rating:Essay Length: 1,621 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: October 20, 2015 -
Case Study: Nike’s Competitiveness
I. Abstract: In this paper, I would like to discuss about what is Porter’s Value chain, and then apply it to the case of Nike, the world largest footwear maker. Here is a brief introduction about the content: I: Abstract II: Introduction: explanation about Porter’s Value Chain III: Case study: Nike, Inc. • Chapter 1: NIKE - The Rise to Be a World Top Shoe-Maker • Chapter II: NIKE's 9 Main Factors of Success •
Rating:Essay Length: 644 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: February 20, 2010 -
Case Study: Priceline.Com 2001
Introduction Business models are possibly the most discussed and least understood facet of the web. Brokerage models, such as Priceline.com are market makers: they bring buyers and sellers together to facilitate transactions. Priceline.com leads the way to a unique new type of e-commerce known as a "demand collection system". Priceline.com is the world's first online buying service through which consumers name the price they're willing to pay. Leveraging the unique attributes of the Internet, Priceline.com
Rating:Essay Length: 1,889 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: December 31, 2009 -
Case Study: Robert Mondavi Corporation
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY……………………………………………..5 2. BACKGROUND OF THE CASE STUDY…………………………….6 3. ANALYSIS & IMPLICATIONS OF PORTER’S FIVE COMPETITIVE PRESSURES……………………………………..7-17 3.1. The Potential Entry of New Competitors 3.2. Competitive Pressures from Substitutes Products 3.3. Bargaining Power of Buyers 3.4. Bargaining Power of Suppliers 3.5. The Rivalry among Competing Sellers 4. ANALYSIS OF THE STRATEGIC GROUP MAPPING……….18-20 5. KEY SUCCESS FACTORS OF THE WINE INDUSTRY………21-23 5.1. World famous growing areas 5.2. Larger growing market for premium wines
Rating:Essay Length: 2,637 Words / 11 PagesSubmitted: March 15, 2010 -
Case Study: Rollerblade
When Rollerblade, Inc. first started up, they had to overcome the obstacles with any new venture company, only no one had ever seen or heard of their in-line skate product. At this time, everyone was still using traditional roller skates, but the idea of in-line skates was not easily adopted right away. Rollerblade, Inc. eventually became a very profitable company with their in-line skates, however, today they seem to have grown to an elephant (profit
Rating:Essay Length: 871 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 20, 2009 -
Case Study: Sauve
The shampoo market was a $1.2 billion industry that was at a maturity point in its life cycle. Unit sales within the industry had only been growing at a compound rate of 2% since 1978. Market share was extremely valuable; 1 point market share was worth roughly $10 million in sales and produced 40% gross margins. The Suave brand, a product under the largest division of Helen Curtis Industries, was “at a watershed”, thought Bob
Rating:Essay Length: 360 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 17, 2010 -
Case Study: The Eastman Kodak Company – a New Era in Digitisation
Question: 1. Discuss the pressures for change Kodak has experienced. Kodak is all the while the leading photography company in the photographic industry. Due to the change from film photography to digital photographic services in the photographic industry, the development has caused an organisational change to Kodak. As a result of market pressures, the company is now fighting new competitors. This changes had causes Kodak to undergo a major change in its organisational structure. In
Rating:Essay Length: 579 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 29, 2010 -
Case Study: Vina San Pedro
Case Study #2 Vina San Pedro Business Policy Instructor: Ismatilla Mardanov David M. Whitfield April 15, 2002 Case Study: Vina San Pedro Background: Vina San Pedro (VSP) was the third largest winery in Chile, with 1998 sales of 37 billion Chilean pesos (CP). Bonifacio Correa had planted the original vines with French stock in 1865 on the farm in Molina that the family had owned since 1701. For years, VSP wines enjoyed a reputation of
Rating:Essay Length: 859 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: May 13, 2010 -
Case Study: “second Life Strategy of American Apparel”
The Internet has become a very important part of today’s life. Its rapid expansion during the past few decades has broadened significantly the horizons for many activities. As a result several organizations such as large or smaller corporations have taken advantage of the new opportunities that the Web had to offer. In this essay we examine the example of American Apparel which opened a store in a virtual reality network called Second Life. American Apparel
Rating:Essay Length: 317 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 20, 2015 -
Case Studymarketing Verses B2c Marketing
: B2B Marketing Verses B2C Marketing Craig Rintoul University of Phoenix EBUS/400 Group ID: PD05BSM01 Stephen Young B.S., M.B.A. September 14, 2006 B2B Marketing Verses B2C Marketing Opportunities Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing is different. Some people think marketing is marketing and whether it is marketing to consumers or marketing to businesses, it is still just marketing to people. E-commerce is rapidly becoming the new frontier of the 21st century. As a business
Rating:Essay Length: 1,064 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: January 5, 2010 -
Case Studymarketing Verses B2c Marketing
: B2B Marketing Verses B2C Marketing Craig Rintoul University of Phoenix EBUS/400 Group ID: PD05BSM01 Stephen Young B.S., M.B.A. September 14, 2006 B2B Marketing Verses B2C Marketing Opportunities Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing is different. Some people think marketing is marketing and whether it is marketing to consumers or marketing to businesses, it is still just marketing to people. E-commerce is rapidly becoming the new frontier of the 21st century. As a business
Rating:Essay Length: 1,064 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: January 22, 2010 -
Case Title: Tivo: Global Branding and Advertising
Case Title: Tivo: Global Branding and Advertising Background 1. Tivo Founded in 1997 by Jim Barton and Michael Ramsay who left Silicon graphics with a vision to make a home network that would integrate all household communications, but settled on focusing on the television. 2. They created a device that was a digital video recorder with capability to allow users to pause live shows or rewind/forward recorded shows. In addition it allowed the users to
Rating:Essay Length: 1,075 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: February 2, 2010 -
Case: Hector Gaming Company
RUNNING HEAD: ASSIGNMENT 5 CASE ANALYSIS Kim L Chau California Southern University MGT 86529 Dr. Flores September 28, 2015 ________________ Case: Hector Gaming Company Introduction: Under the leadership of their founder, Sally Peters, the Hector Gaming Company (HGC) has generated phenomenal growth in the educational gaming space focusing on young children as its target market. Over the past fours years of operation, the company has generated 25% on capital investment returns with zero debt, has
Rating:Essay Length: 1,357 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: October 11, 2015 -
Case: Iteam
Introduction & Background iTeam Inc is based on Walnut Creek, California just outside of San Francisco. It produces, markets, and sells its own line of computer systems, peripherals and consumer electronics to corporate customers and electronics retailers. They house their own research and development team and have historically found success by being a low-cost provider over the past five years. Their sales are currently focused only in the United States, and they have generally sold
Rating:Essay Length: 1,123 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: December 11, 2009 -
Case: Jeans Therapy Levi's Factory Workers Are Assigned to Teams
1. What went wrong with Levi’s move to teams in their plants? Levi’s was too late in attending global competition. To catch the market, they had to drastically redesign their strategy. But the major problem of Levi’s was doing nothing to understand the human side of management change. Levi’s did not align the company’s culture, values, people, and behaviors to encourage the desired outcome. Levi’s did not capture value; responsible for designing, executing, and living
Rating:Essay Length: 1,027 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: March 23, 2010 -
Case: John Higgins
Case: John Higgins 1. How would you describe Higgins’s and Prescott’s attitudes toward implementing U.S. personnel policies in the Japanese operations? Higgins and Prescott both have different opinions toward implementing U.S. personnel policies in the Japanese operations. I would describe Higgins’s attitude more against the U.S. personnel policies and more toward the Japanese ways of doing things, considering he would rather spend his time in Japan. I would describe Prescott’s attitude more for the U.S.
Rating:Essay Length: 605 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: February 25, 2010 -
Case: Kristen's Cookie Company (a)
1. How long will it take you to fill a rush order? Action Needed Time in min Clean Bowl, Add ingredients, and Mix 6 Dish Cookies onto Tray* 2 Put cookies in Oven, Set Timer & Temp. 1 Baking* 9 Remove cookies and cool 5 Bag cookies* 2 Accept payment 1 Total 26 * Per dozen cookies 2. How many orders can you fill in a night, assuming you are open four hours each night?
Rating:Essay Length: 1,204 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: December 16, 2009 -
Case: Lasik Vision Corporation
Information given for the Company: In 1998, Lasik Vision Corporation was the first laser vision correction provider in North America to offer “affordable, value-pricing” and to promote it with direct-to-consumer advertising. At the time, this was a new approach for a medical services company and allowed it to capitalize on a larger mass appeal for the procedure. Dr. Wallerstein was the National Medical Director of LASIK Vision Corporation and oversaw medical standardization, and Dr. Cohen
Rating:Essay Length: 1,276 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: April 5, 2010 -
Case: Nursing Staff
University of the East Recto, Manila Graduate School NURSING STAFF (Case Study) Submitted in partial fulfillment Of the course requirement In HBO 510 Human Behavior in Organization To Blandina S. Panelo, Ph.D.C. Professor By Randy C. Olap Lorbie Torres Zhang Chaoyi February 17, 2007 2nd Semester, S.Y. 2006-2007 BACKGROUND This action took place on the general surgery floor of a small hospital in western Wisconsin. For several months the hospital trustees had debated the feasibility
Rating:Essay Length: 792 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: February 2, 2010 -
Case: The Accra Beach Hotel
Case: The Accra Beach Hotel I. SITUATION ANALYSIS: A. Case Summary The case is about the Accra Beach Hotel on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The hotel manager got a request from the West Indien Cricket Board (WICB) about hosting several cricket teams while the West Indien Cricket Servies, which is an important international sporting event. The head of the WICB was asking for a discount for 50 of the 141 rooms of the hotel.
Rating:Essay Length: 1,527 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: June 8, 2010 -
Case: The Fall of Arthur Andersen
This paper aims to examine if and how the organizational structure and corporate culture in a consulting firm can affect employee behavior. The focus will be on the case of Arthur Andersen (AA), a former auditing and consultancy firm, and its staff. Special attention will be paid to the positive and negative implications of incentives in relation to employee behavior and its impact on AA as a whole. In the concluding part, ideas and suggestions
Rating:Essay Length: 1,207 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: May 11, 2011 -
Case: Toyota, Ford, Gm, and Volkswagen Вђ“ Some Differing Opinions
1. GM and Ford have quickly pushed the development of large Internet sites to create an environment where suppliers must compete for business. Ford and GM argue that these Internet sites should reduce cost because the negotiations are streamlined. How do you think the suppliers view these sites? Some suppliers, depending on their size might not have the technological infrastructure to participate in the AutoX-change. This will obviously limit their ability to work with theses
Rating:Essay Length: 640 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: February 11, 2010 -
Case: Western Oceanography Institute
Case: Western Oceanography Institute This case illustrates the importance of building social networks within an organization. Astrid Young appears to be technically competent, but she ignores the need to build positive relationships with project stakeholders. As a result she has little positive credit to absorb the fallout when Murphy�s Law strikes the project. 1. How would you respond to the Director at the end of the case? This is an emotionally charged situation, and before
Rating:Essay Length: 591 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 9, 2010 -
Cases Involving Worker’s Compensation - a Lose-Lose for Employers
Cases involving Worker’s Compensation- A lose-lose for Employers In society we are faced with the fact that we must work in order to be financially sound. And throughout the course of time, laws we put in place where if you ever got hurt on the job that you’re working for, you would be covered with a policy called worker’s compensation. It has saved lives for certain people, allowed certain people to continue their normal life
Rating:Essay Length: 1,308 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: February 15, 2010 -
Cases Where Traditional Economics Doesn't Work
Content 1. Introduction…… …………………………………………………………………….….3 2. Traditional economics theories ………………………………………...……………….4 3. Cases where traditional economics doesn’t work……………………………………….6 4. Conclusions…………………….………………………………………………...….….10 5. Bibliography………………………………….………………………...………………11 1. Introduction. Economic theory is described as the result of the accumulation of knowledge. It is assumed that the opinions dominant today represent the highest stage of knowledge about the economy as today’s physics is superior to that of the 19th century. This superiority can be questioned. Theories are always embedded in certain paradigms, worldview
Rating:Essay Length: 1,544 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: March 4, 2010 -
Cash and Carry Stores
The objective of this report is to study the potential of cash and carry stores in India. Extensive research is done to find out the acceptability of these stores in India, how they operate and how would/has the Indian retail industry changes with the introduction of these stores. The report is divided in five chapters which are briefly described below. Chapter 1 - Introduction and overview: The first chapter of the report explains the concept
Rating:Essay Length: 507 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: June 4, 2010 -
Cash Flow Issue
Cash flow is the stamina of any operation without which the business will cease to exist. The Boeing Company and its suppliers are all facing very similar issues as Lawrence Sports. A restrain on cash flow due to supply chain setbacks; a shortage of key components from subcontractors is the focus of this problem. “Problems with software coding, documentation and a shortage of tiny fasteners needed to hold the aircraft together were the main reasons
Rating:Essay Length: 486 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 19, 2010