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A REPORT ON
RECOMMENDATION TO FRED WESTEN ON THE DECISION TO RECRUIT MIMI BREWSTER
Prepared by
Affiliated to:
Indian Institute of Management Indore
February 2014
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
07-02-2014
Professor
Faculty Block-C, First Floor
IIM Indore, Rau-Pithampur Road,
Indore – 453331.
Dear Dr. Kushal,
This letter consists of the recommendation on the case ‘We Googled You’ by ‘Diane Coutu’. We considered four plausible options that Fred Westen could use.
After a thorough analysis of all four options based on various evaluative criteria, we recommend that it would be best for Fred to hire Mimi for the company’s US operations. This would save Hathaway from any arising conflicts with the Chinese Government and keep Hathaway from joining their competitors.
If any further discussion is required please feel free to get in touch with me.
Sincerely,
Devashree Mutha
3013PGP124
Sec A
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The report discusses the various options available with Fred Westen, CEO of luxury apparel retailer Hathaway Jones, with regard to recruitment of the best candidate for heading the company’s China operations. It further analyses these options based on five evaluative criteria. Weights are attached to every criterion to gauge the level of relevance of each one. This evaluation of each available option finally leads to the best possible solution to Fred’s problem. The report finally recommends that Fred should go ahead with his instincts and hire Mimi despite her past online history since she is a brilliant candidate. However, to avoid any negativity with the Chinese government incase her online history was to come up, he should ask her to join the US operations instead.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Fred Westen, CEO of luxury apparel retailer Hathaway Jones has a serious discussion with his wife regarding the implications of shared online content on the internet. Hathaway Jones’ sales in the US retail
RECOMMENDATION TO FRED WESTEN ON THE DECISION TO RECRUIT MIMI BREWSTER
Prepared by
Affiliated to:
Indian Institute of Management Indore
February 2014
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
07-02-2014
Professor
Faculty Block-C, First Floor
IIM Indore, Rau-Pithampur Road,
Indore – 453331.
Dear Dr. Kushal,
This letter consists of the recommendation on the case ‘We Googled You’ by ‘Diane Coutu’. We considered four plausible options that Fred Westen could use.
After a thorough analysis of all four options based on various evaluative criteria, we recommend that it would be best for Fred to hire Mimi for the company’s US operations. This would save Hathaway from any arising conflicts with the Chinese Government and keep Hathaway from joining their competitors.
If any further discussion is required please feel free to get in touch with me.
Sincerely,
Devashree Mutha
3013PGP124
Sec A
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The report discusses the various options available with Fred Westen, CEO of luxury apparel retailer Hathaway Jones, with regard to recruitment of the best candidate for heading the company’s China operations. It further analyses these options based on five evaluative criteria. Weights are attached to every criterion to gauge the level of relevance of each one. This evaluation of each available option finally leads to the best possible solution to Fred’s problem. The report finally recommends that Fred should go ahead with his instincts and hire Mimi despite her past online history since she is a brilliant candidate. However, to avoid any negativity with the Chinese government incase her online history was to come up, he should ask her to join the US operations instead.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Fred Westen, CEO of luxury apparel retailer Hathaway Jones has a serious discussion with his wife regarding the implications of shared online content on the internet. Hathaway Jones’ sales in the US retail