KODAK AT A CROSSROAD: THE TRANSITION FROM FILM-BASED TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Case Objectives and Use After reading and studying this case‚ students should be able to (1) understand the forces of change that were reshaping the business environment for firms in the photography industry in the twenty-first century; (2) understand the risks involved in developing corporate level strategy when the cash cow business is in a declining market; and (3) Understand the risks involved in competing in a
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Harvard Case Review and Analysis 1. Jeff Immelt’s strategies for GE were solid in a theoretical sense. The company should have been delivering above-average returns and seen all the positives that he preached about it. The reason this did not happen and they faced some humiliation in 2008 until 2010 were due to GE Capital. Immelt thought that they were diversified enough to survive the economic downturn. However this proved to be wrong. In an interview for BusinessWeek magazine David Magee
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Market Soft Case study Situation: MarketSoft founded by Greg Erman‚ in 1999 had designed an innovative software product that addressed the problem of managing sales leads across the “extended enterprise”. The product eLeads was strategically developed upon extensive research to address three critical areas many of the fortune 1000 companies in the modern times are facing: 1.Leads get lost 2. No qualifying systems for the leads exist and 3.The leads are never tracked. Problems: 1. The entire
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CASE: Kodak Business Imaging Systems Divisions By Problem How does a multinational corporation choose between various manufacturing sites for its products? Kodak’s business Imaging Systems Division designed‚ manufactured‚ marketed and sold microfilm readers and printers. More than 50% of reader/printer businesses were outside the U.S. Kodak’s readers and printers were manufactured in two plants; Rochester‚ NY and Manus‚ Brazil. The Rochester plant served the world market except Brazil. The
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Case Study: Infosys Infosys is a Global IT service company based in India. It was founded in 1981 by 7 mid class men with a capital of $250 borrowed from their spouse. In 2008 the company is employing 85‚013Software Professional and 6‚174support employees. The value of the company was summarized by one of the founder in the sentence: “ professionally owned and managed‚ with good corporate governance‚ good employee management and good ethics.” The company saw an exponential growth coming from
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What did you find impressive about the way Karcher handled the process? (i.e. the things that would work for your company) It is clear from the case study that one of the benefits of Karcher’s approach was that it sparked his imagination and motivated him to look for ideas and invent new features for the Presenter. His method gave him a new sense of inclusion in the product development. Listening to the customer gave him an awareness that the engineer’s personal tastes is not necessarily what
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Eastman Kodak Company: Funtime Film 1. Diagnose the reasons for Kodak’s market share loss and make your assessment of the likely development of the market if Kodak maintained the status quo. Kodak has been losing market share for the past five years to the point it has gone from 76% to 70%. The underlying causes that have generated such losses and have ultimately led consumers to favor competing brands with larger growth are: I. Consumers are tending to view film as a commodity‚ often
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Copies of working papers are available from the author. Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24* Dennis Campbell Srikant Datar Harvard Business School Susan L. Kulp George Washington University V.G. Narayanan Harvard Business School Current Draft: February 2008 ABSTRACT: We analyze balanced scorecard data from a convenience store chain‚ Store24‚ during the implementation of an innovative‚ but ultimately unsuccessful strategy
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Ameritrade – case study Executive Summary Ameritrade provides online brokerage services and operates an Internet-based financial management services business. 90% of the company’s revenues are from the provision of discount brokerage services. The company’s objective is to improve its competitive position in deep-discount brokerage. In order to achieve this objective‚ the company must grow its customer base‚ requiring an investment of $100 million to upgrade its technological capabilities as well
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Eastman Kodak – Case Analysis Problem The problem in this case is concerned with Eastman Kodak losing its market share in film products to lower-priced economy brands. Over the last five years‚ in addition to being brand-aware‚ customers have also become price-conscious. This has resulted in the fast paced growth of lower priced segments in which Kodak has no presence. Kodak plans to address this issue by introducing a new brand‚ “Funtime” in the economy brand segment. Kodak also proposes to replace
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