Case 4: W.L. Gore & Associates: Developing global teams to meet 21st century challenges. 1. What impress you about this company? Is it well managed- why or why not? * The company has been successful grow from small home operations to massive operations and still has the same culture as in the beginning. * The company has a good record of growth and therefore should also have good profits. * The company operates outside the traditional structure like the mission statement‚ a code
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Gore-Tex Case Study 1) Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired. What activity can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed during the patent protection phase? When a patent expires‚ generally around 20 years after the original filing; the inventor no longer has the exclusive rights to his or her invention thereby opening up the said patent to everyone to use. At this point other companies can offer comparative products at reduced prices. Gore-Tex was
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1.Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired When the patent expires the inventor has no longer exclusive rights to her or hers invention opening it up to everyone. At this point other companies can offer competitive products at reduced prices. It seems that Gore-Tex was smart enough to take advantage of their own patent and expand the product line to include other products using the same technology. 2.What activity can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed
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management style match what business schools tell you about “how to manage”? What is impressive about the company is the level of innovation and the management style. Gore & Associates is technology oriented and is based on continuous innovation. An innovative company needs engaged workers and the knowledge employees need autonomy to be engaged. Gore & Associates took it to the extreme point since everyone in the company has freedom to choose what they want to spend their time on. There are no direct bosses
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“Gore” Short story analysis 4. Amy- Is a major character because she is telling the story and most of the story is about her. The term major character means; a character that plays an important part of the story‚ someone who is part of the plot. When she is explaining her knocking over things and having the silence is her being major. She’s a round character because you get to see all sides of her. Round is a character in fiction whose personality‚ background‚ motives‚ and other features are fully
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Al Capone Case Summary In the beginning it wasn’t like Al Capone had a life that was for the rich and famous. This soon came to show itself around the age of 14. When he was in the sixth grade he was kicked out of school for throwing a female teacher to the ground. From my point of view this was the beginning of a long road of hardship and horror. I must say that I was excited to read about Al Capone and how he came about to be known as scare face. But on another note let me get back to summing
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As taught in our primary school‚ “Global Warming refers to the increase the temperature of the earth due to the absorption of infrared rays of sun by the greenhouse gases — Carbon dioxide being the major one.” After watching the movie “An Inconvenient Truth”‚ I began to realize what we humans have been doing to our home planet. It forces one to think that humans are the major cause of this hazard. It encourages one to believe the fact that there are ways in which we can reduce the effects of global
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Jussim’s article ‘Truth in Stereotypes’ indicates that contrary to popular belief‚ stereotypes are essential in order to make a judgment when first assessing a situation with no prior information. Lee Jussim‚ having earned a Ph.D. in social psychology‚ seems to be qualified to make dissertations regarding this topic. ‘Truth in Stereotypes’ is not the first editorial regarding stereotypes that Jussim has worked on. He has also worked on expositions such as ‘Stereotype (In)Accuracy in Perceptions of
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participating in political activities. However‚ even under such conditions‚ there was a problem with the recognition of the rights of black women since they were experiencing the double burden of being females and being black. In this situation‚ Sojourner Truth became one of the most recognized abolitionist speakers and women rights speakers. In the chosen passage‚ a black woman is appealing to the community with the question regarding the reason for her lacking rights. She raises an important issue stating
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Closer to Truth The documentary begins as Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn‚ the creator‚ writer‚ and host of the public television series Closer to Truth‚ traces back the chain of causation as he struggles with the existence of God. As he begins to discuss the cosmological argument‚ he argues that there should be a cause for everything‚ that everything in the universe must have a cause‚ and that there is a need for a first cause‚ an uncaused cause. However‚ according to him‚ the first cause argument for
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