Introduction: Ciba-Geigy founded in 1750s has come to many changes in their business strategy from case-by-case decisively to be one of proactive planning for the future with corporate portfolio planning which allowed Ciba to decentralise into diversified businesses. At their latest reorganization‚ Ciba had five categories: Development‚ Growth‚ Pillar‚ Niche and Core allocated from 14 divisions with 33 sub-business units. Each division in each category has separate responsibility to the whole
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COURSE TITLE : “Human Resource Management” . COURSE CODE : EM-553. A Case Study On Management Development in Ciba-Geigy Ltd. (Novartis) Submitted To Professor Dr. Shahid U Ahmed Department of Management University of Dhaka Submitted By Md. Muyedul Islam ID # 3-09-16-034 Tahmina Afnan ID # 3-09-17-037 A.K.M. Majharul Huque Talukder ID # 3-09-16-021 Md. Farid Uddin ID # 3-09-16-028 Muhammad Abdul Malek ID # 3-09-16-019 Hasanuzzaman
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v. Alza Corp.‚ the court found independent standing as the licensee had completely unrestricted rights to sue for infringement. The licensor‚ University of California‚ gave an exclusive license to Ciba-Geigy. Alza claimed that Ciba-Geigy lacked standing‚ but this was rejected by the court because not only did the licensor give the licensee the right to sue infringers‚ they also agreed to not file any infringement suits of its own. The licensee was allowed to pursue
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Ciba’s Acquisition of Allied Colloids giddy.org http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~igiddy/cases/cibaalliedcase.htm This is a case study of a competitive merger‚ in which the Swiss chemicals company‚ Ciba Specialty Chemicals‚ played the role of a White Knight in a bidding war for a British chemical company‚ Allied Colloids. The case study is intended to highlight a number of interesting and important features of hostile and competitive M&As and related issues. Read the following articles‚ news releases
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis)‚ the Atlanta-based Ciba Vision sells contact lenses and related eye-care products to optometrists and consumers. Although the company produced some innovative new products in its early years‚ such as the first FDA-approved bifocal contacts‚ by the mid-1980s it remained a distant second to market leader Johnson & Johnson. Making matters worse‚ in 1987 J&J brought out a new‚ disposable contact lens that threatened Ciba Vision’s sales of conventional
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Ciba Specialty Chemical’s Case Analysis 1.) What caused Allied Colloids to become a takeover target? On March 12th 1998 Ciba Specialty Chemicals (SC) announced its acquisition of Allied Colloids‚ a company known as a global leader in water treatment. Allied Colloids acquisition aligned with Ciba’s goals in the form of establishing a new pillar for profitable and sustainable growth in the area of water treatment additives. Being the ambitious company that Ciba was‚ they realized that Allied Colloids
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Located in West Africa and bordering the Atlantic‚ Nigeria is a big country that occupies 356‚667 square miles with a total population of 168 million. Nigeria is abundant in natural resources like coal‚ gold‚ lead‚ iron‚ salt‚ copper‚ and zinc‚ but it is best known as a big producer of oil. Thanks to its size‚ population‚ and resources‚ Nigeria is dubbed as “the giant of Africa” (Falola‚ 4). According to World Bank Data of 2010‚ Nigeria has an annual percentage growth rate as 8.0%‚ one of the world’s
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NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Hello‚ my name is Mesoma Ejeh and I’ll be talking about Nigeria. Off all the feautures of Nigeria that acronym missed a very important one.It’s my home.Probably 98% of this class knows little to nothing about Nigeria so I will cover our foods and drinks‚our people and culture‚our fashion and its impact to the world and Nigeria’s location‚season‚weather and cilmate. For Starters Nigeria is in west Africa.North of Nigeria would be Niger‚ south‚ the Atlantic Ocean and the
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NIGERIA The Federal Republic of Nigeria comprises thirty six states and its Federal Capital Territory is Abuja. Nigeria is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The Flag The flag of Nigeria consists of three equal sized vertical stripes - the right and left stripe are green; and the middle stripe is white. The Nigerian
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http://peoplesdailyng.com/changing-nigerians-identity-diaspora/ http://olorisupergal.com/nigeria-rich-country-poor-people-by-gbenga-ogunbiyi/#.UpH2I9Lik8o Nigeria is a member of both the Commonwealth of Nations‚ and the African Union. LANGUAGE There are hundreds of languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language of Nigeria‚English The languages spoken in Nigeria are said to be 521. The official language is English while the major ones that are spoken are Hausa‚ Igbo‚ Yoruba and
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