transition to a five star hotel without firing most of the six-hundred employees or spending a large amount on re-training the existing ones. Discussion 1. Could the management of the HI team have been more culturally sensitive and was its strategy correct to achieve its goals? 2. How could HI have better prepared for the takeover? 3. Could Tian Wen‚ the former Chinese general manager‚ have been used in a more advantageous way? In this case‚ the main focus is collision of the two different
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Capitalists: Trendsetter Inc. TEACHING ENTREPRENEURIAL THOUGHT & ACTION 20 March 2012 Richard T. Bliss‚ PhD Trendsetter Inc. Learning Objectives 1. The entrepreneur/VC relationship 2. Exposure to deal term sheets 3. Moving beyond valuation 4. VC negotiations 2 The Entrepreneur/VC Relationship Entrepreneur VC 3 The Entrepreneur/VC Relationship • Provisions to address adverse selection − due diligence − staging/milestones − use of convertible preferred shares • Provisions to facilitate
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Dove takes on the cosmetics industry Dove is at it again…flying in the face of convention‚ that is. Many of you will be familiar with the Real Curves campaign used to launch Dove’s firming lotion. It was noteworthy because it featured “real” women instead of impossibly slim models. Earlier this year‚ the brand took the campaign into “enemy territory” by advertising on the male media niche of the U.S. Superbowl. Now the brand is undermining the foundations of the cosmetic industry with its new
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Miami School District Negotiation Paper November 2‚ 2012 Brittany Miller MGT 445 Dr. Christina Aleksic Miami School District Negotiation Paper The Miami school district has recently experienced a large number of enrollments and needs to come up with a plan to solve the increase in student population. The school districts solution involves rezoning school boundaries to even out classroom size. Parents have concerns about the restructuring
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Negotiation Skills Case Study Mark is the assistant manager of a book store that is part of a national chain‚ and it is the week of Thanksgiving. He is one of the store’s six salaried employees‚ and the others are fulltime or part-time hourly employees. Besides Mark and the general manager‚ there is Dick‚ the other assistant manager‚ who is getting ready to accept a position elsewhere and who has the accumulated time to give notice at any minute. There are also two section leaders and one community
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Richard Paguirigan National University/Law 402 Professor Hamlin January 22‚ 2012 1. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of Fontaine’s and Gaudin’s negotiating strategy in their deliberations with Reliant Chemical Company. Fontaine and Gaudin started off with a competitive strategy‚ wherein the outcome of the negotiation was more important than the relationship. This is evidenced by the fact that the market for VCM would be oversupplied in a few years due to the building of new chemical
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The Whiplash Negotiation – MetroMart Background Acting in the capacity of the in-house lawyer for MetroMart Supermarkets Limited‚ I was charged with handling a claim against one of our drivers who was accused of careless driving which resulted in his truck colliding into the back of the car of one of our customers. Our driver‚ who has a clean driving record‚ said in his statement that the traffic was really quiet heavy and moving relatively slowly when the plaintiff‚ Mrs. Johnson‚ who was driving
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The nature of negotiation and its process constitutes a number of various factors that leads to an effective or ineffective process and outcome. One of the primary purposes of a negotiation is to come an agreement with another party by exchanging offers and to find solutions to a common issue‚ “whenever we cannot achieve our objectives single-heartedly” (Thompson‚ 2009). Some believe that in order to conduct a negotiation‚ trust is an utmost important factor as negotiators depend on the information
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Abstract International business activities required people to negotiate across cultural and national boundaries. There are many cultural challenges‚ to be considered while conduct business negotiation in cross cultural situation. Cultural dimension theory and negotiation process help to understand these challenges and find the remedies. For instance‚ Hofstede four dimensions and high and low culture context dimensions are two important theories to explain the behavior of negotiator in international
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. What goals (target price‚ opening bid‚ bottom line‚ etc.) did the seller(s) and buyer(s) set for themselves in the negotiation? Did they reveal these goals to their agent? The goals of the buyer were not obviously revealed; because I was the seller I did know that my priorities and bottom line was set and that even though the seller was unable to pay two mortgages if the offer was not fair‚ then we would have to walk away. 2. Did you reach agreement
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