The Apple corporate culture
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Apple Computer Inc. is an American multinational corporation founded on the first of August, 1976. Strong because of its 35000 employees, the firm dropped the word 'Computer' in 2007. Created by Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, Apple is currently a significant success....
Managing Director of LVV - Emma Van Nijmegen
Case study - 6 pages - Management
The organizational change of LVV started in early 1996 when Emma van Nijmegen, the new Managing Director of LVV, was appointed as its head. She totally transformed the company which was non-profitable into a market-focused organization. The main goals that she wanted to carry out were to change...
IKEA's advertising
Case study - 14 pages - Management
The 'home sweet home' is back. From now on, the house will be perceived as a protective bubble which opens to the external world, and is also as a place where each one develops their personal activities. The consumers have an increasingly large choice, in the extremely vast options of...
Potential Market: Decathlon in India
Case study - 8 pages - Management
India is a new world power and its importance is steadily growing. The recognition was long in coming, but now everyone ranks this ancient British colony in the same place as China. India is intended to follow the same road. At the same time, Decathlon, one of the leaders in the sector of...
British Petroleum - Transformational Leadership in a Transnational Organization
Case study - 10 pages - Management
The company BP, in the past named British Petroleum is a British company, of research, extraction and oil refining founded in 1909. After its merger with Amoco, Atlantic Richfield (Arco) and Burmah Castrol, it became the largest company of The United Kingdom and the third largest oil company in...
Doing Business and Living in India
Case study - 13 pages - Management
This report is designed for companies or people who currently do business with India (ns) or intend to do so in the future. It will benefit managers who plan to work in an intercultural context. This work promises "to develop new skills for working in India" and "to appreciate the role of...
EADS and Intercultural Management
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Since the 1980s, the number of Merger & Acquisition operations has surged on the European and international markets. During the year 2000, the value of the international Merger & Acquisition (M&A) ventures was greater than $1000 billion and more than half were carried out by European companies....
L'Oreal case study: Strategic Management
Case study - 12 pages - Management
L'Oreal is a French-based company specialized in the development, manufacture and marketing of cosmetics and dermatological products. Created in 1907 by Eugene Schueller, the brand has considerably developed itself in a highly competitive market with constant change. L'Oreal has succeeded in...
Innocent Drinks or how a non-corporate attitude can be an exemplary corporate culture
Case study - 3 pages - Management
My company being a small one (4 people, me included), I couldn't really write a whole essay about corporate culture. I decided to base my paper on the company that motivated me i.e, Fresh Marketing. Founded in 1998, after a very original market survey , it's main objective is to create...
Glaxo Smithkline : inter-cultural overview
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In today's markets, international trends represent a large part of exchanges. In most cases, companies act on an international level: they try to sell their products all over the world in order to find new opportunity markets. They expect to find competition-advantaged resource providers on...
Strategic management assignment: Marks & Spencer case study
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Marks & Spencer is a British clothing and food retailer created in 1884 at Leeds (www.marksandspencer.com). It is the largest retailer in the United Kingdom and the firm is listed on the London stock exchange. The company was in a terrible crisis of growth in the early 2000s. Competition became...
Organizational development Daimler Chrysler: a failed merger
Case study - 14 pages - Management
When Daimler and Chrysler announced that they would merge, it was seen as the main industrial merger seen since a very long time. This merger was expected to give birth to a new industrial giant which was supposed to become the fifth largest automobile manufacturer worldwide. The merger between...
Revolution at Oticon : the spaghetti organization (1994)
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Oticon is a famous Danish manufacturer of high-quality hearing aids, which is based in Hellrup in Denmark. It is a niche company which was born in 1904. At that time hearing aids were not available in Denmark. Hans Demant decided to import hearing aids there as his wife was hard of hearing. The...
Intercultural management : EADS's merger
Case study - 12 pages - Management
Intercultural management is born from the process of expansion of business areas, or globalization. To expand business activities, companies can not only develop their industry on their own market, they also have to make strategic choices like joint venture, merger, acquisitions, alliances, and...
Interview with Mr Steeven Mallet, financial director of the USA subsidiary of the Clarins group
Case study - 6 pages - Management
For this assessment, I decided to interview Mr Steeven Mallet, the financial director of the American subsidiary of Clarins Group, situated in Miami. As part of our course, our classmates were supposed to go to study in New York but I have never been there before. So I thought that it could be a...
Cross Cultural Management : Expatriate Interview
Case study - 3 pages - Management
Jean Claude T is a 51 years old Frenchman who works and lives in Shanghai, China. He is married and has two children who study at the university. He was an expatriate for a French automobile company, Citroën, for many years. He has spent three years in Hungary and six years in Kuala Lumpur,...
Intercultural management: European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS)
Case study - 13 pages - Management
During the beginning of the 90's, the European industries of aeronautics and space already cooperate in many partnerships and common programs. Soon the need for gathering seems to be essential to the concentration movements on the US market. Indeed, Northrop and Grumman merged in 1993, as...
Knowledge management and innovation: Celtic linen's case
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Knowledge management has been identified as one of the most important resources that contribute to the competitive advantage of an organization. This is due to the fact that knowledge management helps the organization to create, acquire, share and use knowledge in order to enhance learning and...
Amy's Ice Cream
Case study - 5 pages - Management
The case study we examined and presented on was entitled Amy's Ice Cream and came from the chapter on service encounter. This report will outline how we as a group organized and managed our presentation and detail what we would do differently if given a second chance. The planning for...
British Petroleum and the BTC pipeline
Case study - 7 pages - Management
The BTC (Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan) project is a 1,770 km long pipeline which will transport up to one million barrels of oil per day from the Sangachal terminal next to Baku in Azerbaijan, then through Tblisi in Georgia, and finally to a new marine terminal at Ceyhan in Turkey. Eleven large oil...
Cross Cultural issues: Airbus moving to China
Case study - 8 pages - Management
This paper will talk about Airbus and what kind of cultural issues it would face if the company decided to move its manufacturing unit to China. Firstly, I will describe the French way of doing business to establish the points where the company needs to make efforts to change. I will then...
Intercultural management: cultural differences in IKEA's business
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Globalization is today part of most companies. If they want to become more influent, they have to enter new markets and open new subsidiaries. But for this, they have to study the market well that they want to enter because there can be some economical, political and cultural differences. This...
Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merger
Case study - 6 pages - Management
In 1998 Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merged to become DaimlerChrysler, a leading carmaker group that was supposed to benefit from significant synergies between the two companies. Actually this industrial combination aimed at preserving, strengthening and expanding the different brands of the former...
International management: Grupo Bimbo
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Since the end of the Second World War, the international exchanges took an increasing scale and continued to develop in all the domains: goods, capital, knowledge, technology and culture. All the continents became interdependent and the ecological problems which touch the whole planet contribute...
Intercultural management: case of Sony
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Sony Corporation is one of the leaders and main manufacturers in several industries including communications, information technology, electronics, and entertainment. This Japanese company has faced a huge number of challenges since its foundation in 1946. Being a major actor in motion pictures,...
Intercultural management: An introduction to the Russian culture
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Russia has inherited the powerful heavy industry of the USSR, especially steel mills, refineries and chemical plants. The sectors of weapons and the Aerospace are still well developed. Since the beginning of the 1990's, the planned economy turned to a market economy. The economic and...
Crisis Management: a Report on Pfizer and the Trovan Crisis
Case study - 14 pages - Management
We decided to study the Trovan crisis that affected Pfizer as we found it particularly interesting. If one delves into the circumstances which contributed to provoke the Trovan crisis, it is indeed an intriguing story. We also thought that it would be quite enriching to analyze how a...
Cultural Profiles for Effective Workplace Communication in New Zealand
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Since time immemorial, human beings have been communicating through a multitude of channels, expressing themselves in different languages, sharing ideas and discovering faraway foreign cultures. However it seems that, despite all these new developments and technologies wherein, communication is...
Strategic management: credit agricole - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Credit Agricole is the first bank group in France owning 28% of the household market. This group is also the first in Europe regarding revenues of retailing banks and the fourth group in the world concerning the equity level. Leader of the proximity banks in France with 39 local funds or region...
Dubai Land: would the pharaons have dared?
Case study - 9 pages - Management
Dubai Land' is a huge entertainment and leisure complex, in terms of investment, size and attractions. More ambitious than any entertainment destination in the world, it intends to become one of the most visited places in Middle East and worldwide. The objective is clear, become a new leisure...
