Internet Mini Case #10 Intel Corporation J. David Hunger In 1968‚ Robert N. Noyce‚ the co-inventor of the integrated circuit‚ and Gordon E. Moore left Fairchild Semiconductor International to form a new company. They took with them a young chemical engineer‚ Andrew Grove‚ and called the new firm Intel‚ short for integrated electronics. The company successfully made money by manufacturing computer memory modules. The company produced the first microprocessor (also called a “chip”) in 1971.
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BACKGROUND Global Financial Corporation (GF) offers financing services for customers purchasing heavy construction equipment from its parent company Global Equipment Company (GEC). GF’s Bakersfield‚ California office is setup to process the loan applications for the western United States. A recently appointed Vice President of GF‚ Nancy Rodriquez‚ is also in charge of managing the Bakersfield office. She has received a memo from the Director of Marketing at GEC with a complaint stating that the
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Social Responsibility 1. If you were the manager of “Bally’s Grand Casino”‚ would you treat Elaine Cohen any differently? What would Friedman (“Increase Profits”) and Allen (“Schizophrenic Conception”) advise the manager to do? Use ethical methods and legal concepts to support your position. Elaine Cohen‚ a 73 year old widow‚ is a consistent gambler who spends her retirement savings on casino gambling. The Bally Grand casino‚ where Elaine spends her money‚ is treated very well. The casino “comps”
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EXAMPLE OF STUDENT-WRITTEN STRATEGIC AUDIT (San Miguel Corporation and A. Soriano Corporation) I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance According to Soriano‚ the companies had developed their budgeting and long-range planning system several year earlier but‚ despite the many advantages these gave them‚ they still were not satisfied with their ability to respond to the rapid changes in the environment around them. They‚ therefor‚ search for a process that would enable
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Handbook of Innovation‚ Oxford University Press 2004. Abstract This paper undertakes a brief evaluation of the trends in the internationalization of innovative activities. We provide a taxonomy of R&D internationalization strategies‚ and discuss the main relevant theoretical and empirical issues‚ before discussing the centripetal and centrifugal forces underlying the nature and evolution of cross border innovation. We address the issue of international technology partnering as a key strategy that is
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Electronics Corporation About company -Since its founding in 1950 by Thomas Merton‚ Merton Electronics had been a distributor for GEC‚ a large manufacturer of electrical and electronics products for consumer and institutional market. -Over the years‚ in addition to the GEC products‚ the company had added noncompeting lines of electrical appliances‚ records‚ compact discs‚ and cassettes. -Four years later‚ it entered into an exclusive import agreement with the Goldstone Corporation of Taiwan‚
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not justify making the IFC’s largest investment yet. Summary of facts The Mozal project‚ a $1.4b aluminum smelter in Mozambique‚ is a joint venture between Alusaf‚ the aluminum subsidiary of the Gencor group‚ and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of South-Africa‚ a government owned development bank. Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world and only recently emerged from a 17-year civil war that had destroyed the country’s infrastructure. Both parties would each own 25%
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Deforestation is the removal of damage of forest vegetation to the extent that the effected area can no longer support its natural flora and fauna (Thomson‚ www.dmc.engr.wisc.edu). I think that the four main causes of deforestation which interrelate with each other are logging‚ agriculture‚ ranching and population growth. There is an argument called the tragedy of the commons theory which will be discussed. One cause of deforestation is logging. Logging is the practice of cutting down trees‚ then
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Case Questions: 1. Option #3 suggests Stryker Corporation to build its own facility to manufacture its own PBCs. Under the current situation that some contract manufacturers have weak performance in quality and delivery‚ the benefits of this option are obvious as following: First of all‚ option #3 promised the highest degree of control over quality and delivery‚ which can solve the major problem that Stryker has faced with recently. On the other hand‚ self-manufacturing offers an opportunity
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ABB is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich‚ Switzerland‚ operating in robotic and mainly in the power and automation technology areas. ABB Sea Brown Boveria was formed in 1988 from the merger of Asea AB (Sweden) and BBC Brown Boveria (Switzerland). It ranked 143rd in the Forbes Ranking (2010). ABB is one of the largest engineering companies as well as one of the largest conglomerates in the world. ABB has operations in around 100 countries‚ with approximately 145‚000 employees in
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