Dell CSR Company Profile Michiel van Dijk & Irene Schipper Amsterdam‚ May 2007 Dell – CSR Company Profile Colofon Dell CSR Company Profile By: Michiel van Dijk & Irene Schipper February 2007 Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen (SOMO) Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations This document is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivateWorks 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2
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Dell – Supply Chain Management Case Study 1 Case Contents 1. Introduction......................................................................................................2 2. Dell – Company Overview ...............................................................................2 3. Dell Products and Services .............................................................................3 4. Dell – Key Facts ................................................................................
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Southwest Airlines Internal Analysis Introduction This internal business analysis is on Southwest Airlines‚ which was founded in 1967 by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. The main focus for Southwest Airlines was to provide low cost flights for their customers‚ and also have exceptional customer satisfaction. Southwest is a leading airline company that continues to do well in an industry that has been historically challenging. For instance‚ in the span of two years (2005-2007) five major airlines
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1. Why did Dell decide to invest in Brazil? Dell decided to invest in Brazil because of its strategy to expand internationally. Dell had operations in many countries but did not have any manufacturing plants in Latin America‚ which was the fastest growing market for computers. Brazil was the ideal place for its manufacturing plant in Latin America because it presented a huge potential market for Dell since it was Latin America’s largest country with over 170 million people. Dell felt that the
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The background and history of Dell began in 1984 with Michael Dell as the founder which has been known as the most innovative entrepreneur for marketing computers. Dell began his adventure with computers in 1983 by selling PC components out of his college dorm room at the University of Texas. He bought RAM chips and disk drives for IBM PCs at cost from dealers and resold them in newspaper and magazine ads for 10-15 percent below regular cost. One year later he was already running sales of $ 80‚000
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Summary Internal communications appears to be one of the less written about and discussed elements of management theory‚ human resources and public relations. Rather it is a multifaceted function crossing many organisational boundaries and one requiring strategic acknowledgement. Consideration of whether IC creates tensions‚ of what sort and why shall be drawn out here alongside analysis of the responsible and influencing factors affecting it. Contents Introduction Definition of internal communications
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How and why did the personal computer industry come to have such low average profitability? The PC industry has started to develop fast in the 80 ’s when IBM launched its first PC series and later on when numerous small companies entered the market. PC is a new product and companies had to create the demand to it from the scratch. We shall apply the Porter ’s 5 Forces model to examine the PC market and see how forces of competition influence the profitability of the market players. (See Appendix
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obtenida referente al caso “Dell en China: Replanteamiento Estratégico” y a un análisis previo utilizando el modelo de las 5 fuerzas de Michael Porter. La industria de computadoras personales en China es un mercado atractivo debido al alto crecimiento que tiene este país con respecto a la tecnología‚ Internet y los dispositivos informáticos. “Dell‚ es la empresa más grande del mundo en la venta de computadoras”‚ y logro incursionar a este mercado desde 1995. Cabe señalar que Dell logro entrar a este mercado
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Anthony Moore SGI versus Dell: Competition In Server and Cloud Computing I. The History‚ Development‚ and Growth Rackable Systems was founded in 1999 by Mark Barrenechea in Milpitas Silicon Valley‚ California‚ as a specialist server company. Rackable had achieved much success until late 2006 when much larger companies‚ such as IBM‚ HP and Dell‚ began a price competition‚ driving down cost and Rackable Systems profit margins as well. During the 2000’s Rackable changed business strategies
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Matching Dell Between 1994 and 1998‚ the revenue of Dell Computer Corporation rose from $3.5 billion to $18.2 billion‚ and profits increased from $149 million to $1.5 billion. The company’s stock price rose by 5‚600%. During the same period‚ Dell grew twice as fast as its major rivals in the personal computer market and tripled its market share. In the first half of 1998‚ Dell reported operating earnings that were greater than the personal computer earnings of Compaq‚ Gateway‚ Hewlett Packard
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