mwww.elsevier.com/locate/worlddev PII: S0305-750X(99)00160-6 World Development Vol. 28‚ No. 5‚ pp. 789±804‚ 2000 Ó 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0305-750X/00/$ - see front matter The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries CHARLES GORE * United Nations Conference on Trade and Development‚ Geneva‚ Switzerland Summary. Ð The introduction of the Washington Consensus involved not simply a swing from state-led
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Business Information System II The Rise and Fall of Iridium Questions 1. Who was to blame for Iridium ’s failure? Why? At what point could you have known Iridium would fail? 2. What is your evaluation of Iridium ’s system design? What impact did the choices that were made have on subsequent evolution of the venture? 3. What is your evaluation of Iridium ’s organizational design? What changes could you have made to increase the probability of Iridium ’s success? Q1. In the case of Iridium several
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Group 1 * Shaghayegh Davari * Wan-Ting Shao * Ananya Chandra * Niteesh Chinta * Shraddha Rane * Swathi Punreddy The Rise and fall of WorldCom This case study WorldCom is a telecommunications company which was led by CEO‚ Bernard Ebbers‚ and CFO‚ Scott Sullivan. In 1999‚ WorldCom was not meeting Wall Street’s revenue and earnings expectations‚ and it appeared that the coming year would produce more bad news. The
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The Rise and fall of Napster It started as an accident. Shawn Fanning was just experimenting and thinking of an easier to go through a search engine for music. What was a simple idea turned out to be a phenomenon in the Internet world. The creation of Napster led to many problems and brought about new issues that involved the entertainment industry and piracy laws. Napster is a software where a compilation of all of its user’s files are held in a central unit and each user is able to use its
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tribes that once fought and detested each other. His successors established the largest empire in the world. Temüjin‚ which meant "Blacksmith" was raised in a nomad family in the modern day Mongolia in the banks of the river Onon. He was the first born son of Yesugei‚ chieftain of the Kiyat sub-clan of the Borjigin Mongols (Tsatsral Batbayar). His great grand-father was Kabul Khan‚ emperor of the Mongol Empire. The name came from the Tartar’s leader‚ who his father Yesugei killed. He was born clutching
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The rise and fall of Nokia Nokia represent the level of manufacturing industry of Finland in the IT area. Several types of Nokia mobile helped Nokia to open up the market. Back to the old days‚ when Motorola is know as mobile gangster‚ Nokia introduced a clear sound‚ smart appearance‚ with large proportion of screen and scrolling text menu mobile phone‚ which had unprecedented sales‚ at the same time whole world remembered the name “NOKIA”. From1992‚ Nokia introduced
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Case Study The Rise and Fall of WorldcomThis case study is about Bernard Ebbers CEO of Worldcom‚ Inc. and Scott Sullivan CFO of Worldcom‚ Inc. once they were boosted the company growth and they got awards. Later on they made frauds by using their influential tactics on employees and company’s board. Those are Assertiveness: it involves applying legitimate and coercive power to influence others by threatening or giving punishment. This tactic was used by sullivans office where they berated and intimidated
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The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg Harvard Business Review Reprint 94107 HarvardBusinessReview JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1994 Reprint Number ROBERT H. HAYES AND GARY P. PISANO BEYOND WORLD CLASS: THE NEW MANUFACTURING STRATEGY 94104 NANCY A. NICHOLS SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AT MERCK: AN INTERVIEW WITH CFO JUDY LEWENT 94106 REBECCA HENDERSON MANAGING INNOVATION IN THE INFORMATION AGE 94105 HENRY MINTZBERG THE FALL AND RISE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING
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Throughout history‚ trade has been the most important contribution to an empire by helping it grow in economy and land. No empire could thrive or grow without have any sort of trade going on within it or with other empires. Every empire had something different to trade with other as in spices‚ metals‚ or even ideas/knowledge of the religion they believed in. Trade was the base of every empire due to the importance of having the constant flow of raw materials or any other things coming in‚ with the
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1. IBM as a product centric organization before its near failure was a bloated organization with 400 000 employees heavily invested in low margin‚ transactional‚ commodity-based businesses. As technology progressed‚ the demand for IBM’s inventions began to diminish. The entire organizational structure was also growing redundant‚ making it more challenging to face off competition from smaller and less diversified competitors. As Louis Gerstner‚ Jr embarked on turning the entire company around‚ there
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