Carlos Ghosn: Multicultural leader as CEO of Nissan and Renault
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
As we have seen in class Cross-cultural management studies the behavior of people in organizations around the world and trains people to work in organizations with employee and client populations. This case study is a perfect example of a good cross-cultural management. In this case...
Business ethics: German car manufacturer BMW
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
International firms are more dealing with an International orientation by developing the business in new emerging markets and consolidating the loyal ones. In order to be effective, they have to control many elements in the same time: accountancy, human resources or sales department are really...
Michelin off-shoring in China
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Michelin is a tire company that was created by Edouard and Andre Michelin in 1888 in Clermond-Ferrand, France. The company created the removable tire; the train tire and the green tire that reduce fuel consumption. Today the company has become the biggest tire manufacturer in the world with 20%...
Mobilicar case study
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The American car market accounts for 16, 2% of the world's total car market but has experienced a decline in the total number of sales during year 2009 (Datamonitor, 2009). This means that many Americans have become dependent on public transport or other ways of moving across cities. However,...
Corporate social responsibility in India
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Corporations can now have workers in India to execute production within hours via online matchmakers. From administrative responsibilities to executive orders, full-scale solutions have produced a huge infrastructure for inexpensive labor in India for multinational corporations. With businesses...
SOPA's effect on the online culture
Case study - 26 pages - Business strategy
Slashdot.org was founded in 1997 by Rob CmdrTaco Malda, and is now owned by Geeknet, Inc. Numerous editors and coders run the site. Users can submit a news story through the use of a web submission form, where it will be moderated and edited for proper grammar and spelling. Users...
FNAC: A successful online business
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Since several years, companies have understood the importance of Internet. Nowadays, Internet takes an important place in our life. Indeed, new technologies modify between the various actors of the professional world (clients, suppliers and the internal working of the company). Companies have...
Carrefour group: Case study
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
According to Carrefour financial reports Carrefour particularly relies on both Borrowing and Shareholder's equity at approximately the same level. If we look closer at the charts we can notice that: -In 2007 shareholder's equity was up to 11,770...
Bangalore: Online OTC healthcare market outlook 2012
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Online OTC healthcare segment witnessed exponential growth reaching Rs 2.5 million, with year-on-year growth of 65 in 2011-2012. The market is stipulated to grow at 35-40 annually in next 18-24 months (2012-2014). The segment witnessed strong transaction volume sales of 40% on year-on-year basis...
Bangalore: Online beauty and personal care market outlook 2012
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Online beauty & personal care segment witnessed higher double digit value sales growth of 19 on year-on-year basis in 2011-2012. It further registered annual transactions increase of 10 on year-on-year basis in 2012. The segment is stipulated to witness average annual growth of 25% with respect...
Strategic supply management
Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy
The objective of this group assignment is to research on the strategic role of an organization within its supply chain management, as well as its efficiency and effectiveness in performing its role in physical distribution management. There is also a need to look at the organization's good...
Ethics and governance: On Apple Inc.
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Tim Cook wrote that any accident was deeply disturbing, and issues concerning working conditions was a cause of concern, and every year they inspected more factories, thus raising the bar for their partners and getting deeper into the supply chain, and added that they have made a great deal of...
Sample cover letter
Sample letter - 1 pages - Business strategy
I read with interest your posting for (position) on the (job board). I believe that I possess the necessary skills and experience you are seeking and would make a valuable addition to your company. As my resume indicates I possess more than (years) of progressive experience in the (job field)....
Picard marketing strategy
Case study - 20 pages - Business strategy
The creation of Picard in France coincides with the beginning of frozen food in the USA but the technology in France was far from being as advanced. Therefore, in 1906, Raymond Picard created les Glacières de Fontainebleau, begun by manufacturing and by delivering blocks of ice which...
Business game
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The "Business Game" is an educational tool for the discovery and use of knowledge, skills, life skills related to the company, concretely, fun and interactive. This educational tool is based on software modeling a competitive environment and the action of companies in this environment. The...
Case study: Quality compliance at the Hawthorn Arms
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Globalization and the process of internationalization of the companies involve more and more the field of HRM. Many companies underestimate the difficulties linked to the management of its employees when they growth. Through this case study, we will see the main challenges in international...
The future of the Internet
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
The internet is not perfect, as nothing else is. Some may see this as a cause to restructure the internet in order to respond to the many problems that arise mostly from giving the freedom to create to every person with a terminal. Should data creation be restricted by a system of checks and...
USD/CNY: Exchange rates
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
Initially China followed a policy of keeping its exchange rate extremely low. However, it soon realized the adverse affects of its policy and started appreciating its currency. From the period of 2004 to March 3, 2012, Yuan appreciated by more than 23% and fluctuated between 8.2800 to 6.3039....
A snapshot of Portuguese economy
Case study - 1 pages - Business strategy
Portugal's banking and financial system is sound, competitive and well managed. Despite being not as large as other EU nations, the banking system in Portugal can be compared with other EU nations in terms of profitability, efficiency and solvency. The challenges for the banking system of...
Marketing mix strategies of Nike and Reebok in India
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Marketing mix is a very important part in crafting marketing strategy of a company. Many companies who do not focus on their marketing mix well enough face troubles. There are a lot of perils for a company that does not devise an excellent marketing mix strategy for its target customers. There...
Google's recruitment and selection practices
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Google is a rapidly growing organization. The speed at which it is growing is difficult for the HR department for the company keep pace with filling the new vacancies. The company has to fill around two hundred positions every week. It is a tough task alone, but given the company's HR department...
Fujifilm strategy
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Fujifilm is more of an elephant than a lion. It is a huge company, but it is not very aggressive. Instead the organizational culture is more passive. It can be stated here that winners firms lead other firms and do not follow them. Unfortunately, Fujifilm falls in the second category. Needless to...
Combating employee turnover
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
A study done on employee turnover describes employee turnover as a gradual process. There are several factors that lead to employee turnover such as Job Characteristics, On-boarding, Relationship, Work Environment and Individual Differences. Once a person is exposed to turnover factors, he looks...
Capital asset pricing model
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Capital Asset Pricing Model is a tool to calculate the required rate of return for a security. It takes into account the return that an investor can earn on risk free security (usually government T-Bills), risk premium (difference between the return on risk free investment and return on...
America Movil - Strategic management
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
America Movil was established in September 2000 in a spin-off from Telmex and Telcel, the leading provider of telecommunications services in Mexico. The spin-off was implemented using a procedure under the Mexican General Corporations Law (Ley General de Sociedades Mercantiles) called "escisión"....
Kompan: Supply chain
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Now Kompan has a flexible production platform - modular product architecture, which is suitable for a large number of product variations . It enables the mixing of different components and creating different end-products, making the customization easier. A great advantage of this type of product...
Case study: Digital cameras and the run for the pixel count
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Question: What do you suggest digital manufacturers do to reduce the current perception paradox that increased pixel numbers means better pictured quality? Please use the perception process to substantiate your answer. Answer: By the invention of digital sensors technology, digital cameras have...
The product life cycle
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
The Product Life Cycle is a cycle in which every product goes through at different rates over a period of time. I believe that this theory is still relevant today as it helps the business to make key decisions based on where each product is on the stages of the life cycle. The concept of the...
The implementation of CRM systems in banks: The case of Caisse d'Epargne
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Since a few years, many banks have adopted strategies of Customer Relationship Management. CRM can be defined as an approach based on new communication and information technologies, in order to identify the customers' needs and expectations to provide them with adapted products and services. One...
Airbus and Boeing: A real life duopoly
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
Another Nose in the Trough and Plane Poker were two articles on the air craft industry which were published by The Economist in late 2010. While these two articles might have been published in different issues of the famed magazine, when we consider the aircraft industry it is simply inevitable...