The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business increasingly has been viewed as a major cause of social‚ environmental‚ and economic problems. Companies are widely perceived to be prospering at the expense of the broader community. Even worse‚ the more business has begun to embrace corporate responsibility‚ the more it has been blamed for society’s failures. The legitimacy of business has fallen to levels not seen in recent history
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National Competitive Advantage of China in Electric Mobility: The Case of BYD Corresponding Author: Kasperk‚ Garnet Center of International Automobile Management‚ RWTH Aachen University Templergraben 64‚ 52062 Aachen‚ Germany‚ gk@im.rwth-aachen.de Phone +49 241 80 93348‚ Fax +49 241 80 93248 Wilhelm‚ Jan Chair of Organization‚ RWTH Aachen University‚ Templergraben 64‚ 52062 Aachen‚ Germany‚ jw@im.rwth-aachen.de Wagner‚ Wolfgang Volkswagen Corporate University‚ China Cuipingbeilixiqu‚ 16Haolou-1Danyuan
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unit of the Nestlé group based in Switzerland. Since the 90’s Nespresso sell machines‚ which have a market success. Packaged portions of espresso coffee are one of the fastest growing segments of the coffee market. It has between 20 and 40% of the value of ground coffee sales in the European coffee market‚ which totals USD 17 billion. Nespresso sales have been growing at an average of 30% per year over the past 10 years and more than 20 billion capsules have been sold since 2000 at a current selling
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World Wide‚ Inc. Value Chain Activities The approaches Wolverine followed to configure and coordinate its value-chain activities worldwide include global sourcing‚ outsourcing‚ business process outsourcing‚ offshoring and contract manufacturing. Global sourcing refers to the procurement of products or services from suppliers or company-owned subsidiaries located abroad for consumption in the home country or a third country. Outsourcing is the procurement of selected value-adding activities‚ including
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important fact is that pharmaceutical industry is a stable market and its growth rate generally tracks the economic growth of the country with some multiple (1.2 timesaverage in India). Though volume growth has been consistent over a period of time‚ value growth has not followed in tandem. The product differentiation is one key factor‚ which gives competitive advantage to the firms in any industry. However‚ in pharmaceutical industry product differentiation is not possible since India has followed process
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Porter’s 5 Forces Introduction The model of the Five Competitive Forces was developed by Michael E. Porter in his book „Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors“in 1980. Since that time it has become an important tool for analyzing an organizations industry structure in strategic processes. Porter’s model is based up on the insight that a corporate strategy should meet the opportunities and threats in the organizations external environment. Competitive
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Porter Analysis of the Zara Fashion Chain The Zara fashion chain‚ with 546 stores in 30 countries today ?from which 340 are outside Spain- and ?2914‚3 millions of total sales in 2002‚ is undoubtedly the group?s locomotive (Inditex‚ 2003). In 2002 it represented 33% of the group?s total stores‚ accounted for 72% of the group?s total sales and contributed to the holding?s total profits for ?540.4 millions (Inditex FY2002 Results Presentation‚ 2003). Moreover‚ Zara with 75-90 new stores within 2003
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bean supplier in East Asia. Indonesia’s biggest competitive advantages include its low cost‚ high production capacity (availability of supply)‚ efficient infrastructure and open trading/marketing system (business environment). Although the cocoa value chain in Indonesia has experienced phenomenal growth over the past few decades‚ its continued competitiveness is threatened by inconsistent and poor quality production. Widespread pest infestation‚ especially from the cocoa pod borer (CPB)‚ is a primary
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A Zara - What did we learn? The case examines Zara‚ or its parent Inditex‚ that has established a super quick response value chain system. Traditional apparel value chains take months before a fashion season begins‚ but Zara is able to observe what is hot (and what is not selling) and responds quickly on the up-to-date fashion trends. As a result of Zara’s outstanding results‚ Inditex has expanded into 40 countries by 2001. • A quick comparison (see Class PowerPoints for financial
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Rugby‚ and the headmaster is a real historical figure‚ Dr. Thomas Arnold‚ who is famous for introducing the concept of “muscular Christianity”. The hero‚ Tom Brown‚ whose name epitomises ordinariness‚ is high spirited‚ mischievous and reckless. His values courage cares little for his academic studies and on the other hand he is unswervingly loyal to his friends and to his loving family. The similarities between “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” and “Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone” are that Harry Potter
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