(section 007) Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm or anytime by appointment Instructional Material: Strategic Management Concepts By Frank Rothaermel - McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. - 2012 – First Edition‚ Paperback - ISBN 978 0 07 732445-2 Cases for the class: available at: HBSP 1. Wii Encore? By Andrei Hagiu‚ Hanna Halaburda; Product#: 709448-PDF-ENG‚ Revision Date: Aug 25‚ 2011 2. TiVo 2007: DVRs and Beyond. By David B. Yoffie ‚ Michael Slind; Product#: 708401-PDF-ENG‚ Pub.
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Chapter Case Study WEIGHT WATCHERS VS. JENNY CRAIG 1 Ever wanted to lose weight? For about 71 million Americans‚ the answer is yes.2 For weight-loss companies‚ that’s the right answer. The weight-loss industry‚ worth over $46 billion in 2004‚ is growing steadily because lifestyles and food choices are working against the desire to lose weight. Most Americans spend their days sitting in front of a computer and their evenings sitting in front of a television. Restaurant meals‚ prepared foods
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BUSS 5114 - People‚ Organisations and Leadership Study Period 1 2014 Assessment Task 2: Minor Case Study 2500 words (35% of total grade) Read the Buddy’s Snack Company case study below and answer all the following questions: 1. Consider the situation of Lynda‚ Michael and Kyle. Explain how each employee’s situation relates to Equity Theory. 2. Explain the motivation of these three employees in terms of the Expectancy Theory of motivation. 3. Explain how you would attempt to motivate each
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CASE STUDY 1 SEC ENFORCEMENT RELEASE- BRISTOL-MYERS 1. Access the SEC website‚ www.sec.gov‚ and do the following: -go to “Information for Accountants” -go to “The Division of Enforcement Chief Accountants Office” -go to “Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases” - then go to the enforcement release related to Bristol-Myers dated August 4‚ 2004. 2. What were the broad areas which the SEC addressed? 3. Of these issues‚ which one was by far the most significant in terms of dollars involved
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www.sciedu.ca/rwe Research in World Economy Vol. 3‚ No. 1; March 2012 Globalization and Economic Growth: A Case Study in A Few Developing Countries (1980-2010) Abdolmajid Arfaei Moghaddam (Corresponding author) Department of Civilization and Government Studies‚ Faculty of Human Ecology‚ University Putra Malaysia‚ Tel: +603-894-67058 E-mail: marfaeim@hotmail.com Ma’rof Redzuan Department of Social and Development Science‚ Faculty of Human Ecology‚ University Putra Malaysia‚
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ERP Planning (course code : ERP 562) Introduction This course provides a overview of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems‚ Business process reengineering and their impact on organizations. SAP is introduced to illustrate the concepts‚ fundamentals‚ framework‚ general information technology context‚ the technological infrastructure‚ and integration of business enterprise-wide applications. Objectives: This module provides a broad understanding of the functionality and capabilities of
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Case study: supply and demand The aim of this case study is to examine how the ideas and techniques for self-management you read about can be used and adapted to fit personal circumstances. In this case – the story of Asma‚ a mother of two young children returning to paid employment – you will be asked to think how the ideas might be useful to her in managing her return. You may be asking why a decision to go back to paid work is being discussed in the context of a course about management. You may
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and expanding its fleet of rental cars from 7000 to 24‚000. The case describes the company’s processes and facilities as well as its pricing and promotional strategies. It also describes a number of significant changes that the company has made in the last year‚ including a move to allow rentals for as little as an hour that was designed to position easyCar as a competitor to local taxis‚ buses‚ trains and even car ownership. The case also explores several legal challenges the firm faced‚ including
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Case studies Temsa Globals product strategy Temsa global is an automotive company with factories in Adana‚ Adapazari ‚ Egypt. It produces buses‚ minibuses‚ and light trucks in its factories in Turkey. The company started out its business as a licensor of Mitsubishi products in 1984‚ when it could manufacture only the licensed products. Since 2001‚ Temsa Global has gradually developed design capabilities to support the shift in its products strategy .In 2009‚ Temsa R&D and Technology Inc
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Tesco – Business Transformation Case Study Who would have thought that the food retailer famous for the slogan “Pile It High‚ Sell It Cheap” launched by Jack Cohen on an East End market stall in 1919‚ would have grown into one of the largest non-food retailers in Europe by 2007? What was it about Tesco that enabled it to move from being the poor relation to J. Sainsbury in the 1970s and 1980s to become the largest UK food retailer in the first decade of the 21st century? What was it that happened
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