There was a flash of light so powerful it could be called a sun. An explosion so powerful it turned sand into glass. A sound so loud that it was heard 100 miles away. The world’s first atomic bomb had just exploded. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the United States nuclear development project. It was lead by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer‚ who was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The program was hurried
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• History Sony‚ is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato‚ Tokyo‚ Japan. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics‚ products for the consumer and professional markets. its founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka derived the name from sonus‚ the Latin word for sound‚ and also from the English slang word "sonny"‚ since they considered themselves to be "sonny boys". In late 1945‚ after the end of World War II‚ Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop
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industry‚ SONY Corporation. In analysing how SONY Corporation is competitive‚ the study utilised SWOT‚ resource audit‚ core competencies and value chain analyses for the industry attractiveness. Practical and strategic recommendations are elicited in relation to some pitfalls observed in the case study. Furthermore‚ analysis on the possible steps taken by SONY are also discussed. SWOT ANALYSIS Strengths. One of SONY’s most potent strength is that they are one of the world’s best known
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Sony Corporation and the Video Game Console Market: 1 A Competitive Analysis By Ryan Bogner‚ Peter Hung‚ Guan Wang‚ and Steven Wang 1 This report evaluates Sony Corporation’s strategy in the console gaming market from the top-down perspective of the entire corporation. Executive Summary Sony’s current strategy in the video game console market is simple: use the technologically superior Playstation 3 as a loss leader to introduce the Blu-ray optical drive2 into consumers’ homes and leverage that
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History How and when was the organization founded? Sony was founded by two engineers‚ Akio Monita‚ a physicists and Masaru Ibuka. It was Ibuka who‚ after the end of World War II‚ originally founded a radio repair shop. The following year his friend Akio Monita joined him with twenty other fellow workers from the Japan Precision Instrument and Co. company and together they formed a company named Tokyo Tsushin Kenkyujo (Tokyo Telecommunications Laboratory). It was on that day; May 7th of 1946
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“SONY VAIO” CASE ANALYSIS Name: Kinney Rucker Cohort: North End Date: 24th Jan 2015 Main Issues and objectives of the report: The main issue is: The product manager is having a difficult time to create a finalized marketing plan for Sony’s new VAIO laptops. The heart of the issue is the manager can doesn’t know which segment to target for the VAIO; due to‚ too much information. In December Sony encourage to all product managers to use a new corporate study that segmented consumers on a global
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Individual Case: Sony Targets Laptop Consumer in China China Marketing GSB5138 Spring 2014‚ MP4 Professor: Caleb H. Tse Name: Jorge Eduardo Cortés E-mail: jecortes@skku.edu Sony Targets Laptop Consumer in China 1. Compare the consumer interview results with the CLUES report data. Why is there so much redundancy between the two studies? How are the four key consumer goals identified in the consumer interviews related to the CLUES segments? The
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The formation and evolution of Sony Ericsson alliance Creativity and flexibility is required in order to succeed in the mobile-phone industry. No other industry changes faster‚ or experiences more sudden and rapid changes to fortunes (Bowman 2006‚ pg 1). The industry was shaken by the alliance of two consumer electronic giants in October 2001‚ Sony Corporations and Ericsson AB. Sony Ericsson mobile communications is a fifty-fifty joint venture between Japan’s Sony Corp. and Sweden’s Ericsson AB
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Sony “Sony. Like no other.”‚ is Sony Corporations slogan and one could not describe it better. Sony is a multinational conglomerate that is a leading manufacturer of electronics‚ video‚ communications‚ and information technology. Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. However Sony is just like its slogan states‚ “Like no other”. In 2005 Sony incorporated the Extended Copy Protection and MediaMax CD-3 on a total of 102 different titles of music CDs. This company that seemed
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KENT GRAYSON rP os t KEL614 Revised April 5‚ 2012 Sony Targets Laptop Consumers in China: Segment Global or Local? op yo Richard Lopez‚ product manager for Sony Corporation in Hong Kong‚ had one week to finalize his plan for marketing VAIO laptop computers in China before presenting it to senior management in January 2011. Lopez was struggling to decide which segment (or segments) to target and how to position VAIO for this segment. At the heart of his struggle was an unusual problem—too much
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