...Date and time: November 29, 5pm Name of the Company under study: GOOGLE, INC (Text pages 712-715) Where Headquartered (city/state): Mountain View, Ca Part I: Comprehensive Case Analysis – Developing HR Business Partner Competencies in this Case Analysis 1.0 Background on your Company (Type the Company’s background in 3 paragraphs.). Tip: See the “about us” or company information portion of the company’s website or other source. Keep track of all your sources. They are to be included in Section 10 of this report. The creation of goggle’s company starts in 1996 between two smart students of Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They first try to understand the importance of web pages for people. Their aim was to find the best and faster way to connect people with all information. The company was founded in September 1998, they offer results from a huge amount of Web pages. The results are based on a proprietary algorithm. Google’s technology for ranking Web pages is called PageRank http://www.hoovers.com/company/Google_Inc/hsrfri-1-1njht4-1njfaq.html The company growth gradually because of the index of the Websites and other online content that they made it accessible through their search engine to everybody who has access to internet. The company offers different types of useful search. Today, Google operates the leading Internet search engine, by offering very precise search results from actually billions of Web pages. The company is...
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...Diversity Issues at Google Inc Author’s Name Institution Diversity Issues at Google Inc Background Information about Google Inc Google Inc., headquartered in Mountain View in California deals in search, operating systems, hardware, enterprise and advertising. The company has more than 47000 employees and offers them among the best total returns packages worldwide. Its advertisement platforms comprise AdSense, AdWords, DoubleClick Google Display, and exchange, while it runs the android operating system. Its enterprise package comprises Google Apps, subsuming Gmail, Calendar, and Google Drive, among others. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in 1998. The company expands through innovation of new products and acquisition of smaller tech companies and the subsequent acquisition of their proprietary technologies. The company derives most of its revenues from advertising and presently enjoys a dominant position in the global mobile operating platform and in search (Google Inc., 2015). Organizational Behavior Organizational behavior subsumes the individual and group behaviors of an organization and its members as well as the variables under organizational architecture, culture, structure, and processes. These functions distinguish an organization, portray its stance or character, and moderate its effectiveness. Another rationale for organizational behavior is that it plays a pivotal role in supporting the attainment of organizational goals and objectives...
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...Apple Inc Financial Report Analysis FINC 330 Business finance instructor: Philip Bradley Prepared by: Table of Contents Page 1) Company Description……………………………………………….…...... 2 Company background………………………………………..….. 2 Industry analysis………………………………………………..... 2 Products and services…………………………………….…......2 Investment strategy…………………………………….……...…3 2) Market Analysis……………….………………………………................... 3 Direct competitors…………………......…………………………. 3 Financial performance comparison…………………......………3 Growth comparison…………………......…………………...…...4 Trailing total returns comparison…………………......…………4 Ratio comparison…………………......…………………………. .5 Detailed ration comparison…………………......……………5 3) Financial Performance Analysis………………………………………...... 6 Ratio analysis........................................................................... 6 Detailed analysis................................................................. 7 4) Recommendations ……………………………………………………..… ..8 5) Conclusions……………………………………………............................ ..9 6) Reference…………………………………………………………………...10 7) Appendix……………………………………………………………….....…11 Income statement....................................................................11 Balance sheet.......................................................................... 12 Cash flow........................................................................
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...SWOT ANALYSIS OF GOOGLE [pic] GOOGLE’S BUSINESS STRATEGY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRENGTHS; WEAKNESSES; OPPORTUNITIES; AND THREATS (SWOT) OF GOOGLE BY: KWAKU F. DARKWAH (MBA; B.ED; CTLLS; ASSOCIATE-CIPD; MInstLM) CEO/FOUNDER: ADESUA GLOBAL, GHANA LECTURER-MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT, LONDON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (LSME) FEBRUARY, 2010 IF YOU NEED A FREE UPDATED COPY OF THIS ARTICLE IN PDF FORMAT, JUST SEND YOUR REQUEST TO: [pic]adesuaglobal@gmail.com [pic]This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it [pic] THIS ARTICLE IS DEDICATED TO ALL ASPIRING BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS 1:1 INTRODUCTION Arguably, in the last 10 years since the expansion of information technology as a result of the internet; one astounding firm that has impacted on our lives is Google. All age groups; different ethnic backgrounds; different religious backgrounds; different political backgrounds and affiliations all have been influenced by the impact of this organisation. Debatably, Google is one of the most powerful search engines in the world. Arguably, it can be said that Google is the most visited website in the world. It is now worth in excess of $94billion, although its value has more than halved since December 2007 (Time, 2008). Google attracts about 61.9 per cent of all internet searches online. According to Clark (2007) Google accounts for 56% of all searches on the internet according to the online research firm Comscore...
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...many new users. This book has strengthened its position as the most widely used strategic management textbook on the market. Author’s Background: Charles Hill, Professor of management and organization. His position held at the University of Washington since 1968. His specialties are strategy, international business, and micro economics. Table of contents: List of Figures: Glossary: Index: Appendix: Bibliography: Others: SUMMARY: Google Inc (Google) is the world leader in internet searches. By 2007 63% of internet searches were through Google, surpassing other search engines such as Yahoo and Microsoft MSN. Goggle has also developed web based tools such maps, toolbars, G-Mail and acquired the popular you Tube. After dominating the web search industry since its search engine was introduction in 1998, however, Google has attracted many competitors who try to provide millions of users worldwide with similar services. Many believe that there is room for competition and as a result, Yahoo!, Amazon.com and Microsoft MSN are fostering partnerships with smaller technology companies and making significant capital investments in order to unseat Google. The Internet fodders lucrative business opportunities and the technology advances such as i-Pads, e-books and cell phones provide the hardware to house web based tools. While Google is still the number one search engine and a developer of popular applications, historically the rise and fall of internet organizations can...
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...Innovation from Google’s Free Food Strategy Melany Eltz Professor Troy Hudgins BUS 302 Monday, May 4, 2015 Google aims to make the web accessible and useful to people from all backgrounds and experiences (Diversity), and their campus is a workplace that is both innovative and academic. Its environment is constructed to provide comfort and limitless opportunities for its employees. Google created a unique work environment that attracts, motivates, and retains the best players in the field (Organizational). There are altitudes of jobs for anyone and everyone in all kinds of areas of concentration, from, art and literature to engineering. They provide a broad range of employees and interns that work there. This provides the company to be more advanced then other companies due to the diversity of people and their experiences. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful (Company). There are three business models that can lead a company to great success and make the company worth millions. These three business models are, consumer devices, ad-supported consumer services, and business software-as-a-service. Google had just about maximized their potential in the ad-supported consumer services model (Google’s). This is what makes Google such a successful company for both employees and users around the world. Google is committed to bringing together people—in our workforce, our industry, and on the web—who have a broad range...
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...ANDROID OPERATION SYSTEM INTRODUCTION Android is a mobile operating system that is currently developed by Google, it is based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android’s user-interface is mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely corresponds to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching to manipulate on-screen objects along with a virtual keyboard for text input. In addition to touchscreen devices Google has also developed android for other platforms such Android TV for Television, Android Auto for Cars and Android Wear for wristwatches. Each of these platform have special interface to sooth the platform. Variant of Android are also used on Notebooks, game console, digital camera and other electronics. As smartphones and tablets become more popular, the operating systems for those devices become more important. Android is such an operating system for low powered devices that run on battery and contain hardware like Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, cameras, light and orientation sensors, WiFi and UMTS (3G telephony) connectivity and a touch screen. Like all operating systems, Android enables applications to make use of the hardware features through abstraction and provide a defined environment for applications. Unlike on other mobile operating systems like Apple’s iOS, Palm’s web OS or Symbian, Android applications are written in Java and run in virtual...
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...Organizational Commitment and Communication - Google Com/530 How can an organization be successful? What does it take? There are many factors that make an organization successful. Google is a great example of an organization that meet the following factors: great leadership, sources of power, motivational theories, and commitment of the workforce. The most important factor is leadership. Bonita C. Stewart, is the vice-president of U.S. sales for Google. According to Stewart, “It is very important, especially today, to lead from behind, and to inspire risk taking as well as innovative thinking. It takes courage to be able to do that. But at the same time, you have to have a depth of knowledge and expertise” (Chappell, 2011, para. 2). It is very important to have discipline to achieve your goals. At Google they have a flat structure rather than a bottom up hierarchy; they believe everybody can come up with great ideas. Having a flat structure makes every employee feel equally important. Eric Schmidt said in an interview, “Google is run by its culture and not by me….We operate under the assumption that everyone including me is extremely dispensable, because ultimately Google is bigger than the individuals who make it. Google is about a mission” (Carlson, 2009, para 3). Organizations use different sources of power that affect group and organizational communication. There are five sources: expert power, positional power, reward power, coercive...
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...This paper will discuss Google Inc. (name of MNE) concerning globalization and its HRM strategies. Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation that provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, and software and advertising technologies. The company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry and Sergey met at Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages. Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. HRM Function There are several factors that affect the HRM of Google Inc. Some of these are discussed in the succeeding paragraphs. Globalization impacts the company in the following ways: The first impact of globalization is Google provides a variety of services for people and businesses. They provide a variety of tools to help businesses of all kinds succeed on and off the web. Their advertising programs, which range from simple text ads to rich media ads, help businesses find customers, and help publishers make money off of their content. They also provide cloud computing tools for businesses that save money and help organizations be more productive. Google builds products that makes the web better. With products like Chrome and Android, Google makes it simpler and faster...
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...AMAZON.COM: GLOBAL STRATEGIC ANALYSIS IN INTERNET AND ONLINE INDUSTRY: THE FUTURE OF ONLINE SHOPPING COMPETITION SYSTEMS. 5/6/2015 Group Global Strategic Analysis Project for MGMT 471 Role of the Global Corporation Executive Summary Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States.[12] Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, Blue-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand Amazon Basics. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom & Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products.[13] In 2011, it had professed an intention to launch its websites in Poland[14] and Sweden.[15] Names of All Group Members Awes Alrefae 8993 Yaman Naqawa 8282 Ahmad Alazmi 11608 Mohammed Alghoul Amazon.com: Global Strategic Analysis in internet and online industry: The Future of online...
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...Google Inc. JT Velasco Dr. Brian Collin BUS302 May 3, 2015 Founded in 1998 by two Stanford University Ph.D. students, the very popular search engine, Google, is a name that plays on the word google- the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeroes- a reference to the huge amount of data online. With 200 million daily searches, the company has turned a profit by focusing on searches alone and not adding other services. By focusing on plain text, avoiding ads, and using sophisticated search algorithms, Google provides a fast and reliable service. Perhaps, the ultimate sign of success, the brand is now often used as a verb- “to google” is to search online. Google provides various internet products and services like Gmail, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google News, and Google Books just to name a few. The company’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” (Google History & Trivia). Today, Google Inc. is awarded as the “Best Company Work For” by Fortune Magazine and the “Great Place to Work Institute” in the year 2014. This certainly describes the importance of Google as the company where people want to work. The company wants it to be a place which brings smart, talented people from diverse background, who could bring whole self to work. There has to be some qualities in the employees that make the company such a success. The qualities are, expertise, taking responsibility for solving complex problems and...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The report intends to provide the CEO of Yahoo! Inc with a marketing and financial plan to turnaround the company. Yahoo! Inc is facing significant threat from rival companies such as Google, MSN, AOL, Face book etc. The report has provided an overview of the company and the industry in which it is operating. The industry analysis has been done using porters five forces analysis. The analysis indicates that Yahoo! Inc is facing a moderate threat of new entrants. The industry has a moderate level of bargaining power of suppliers. On the other hand, the buyers have a higher degree of power. Moreover the threat of substitute products is also high. Yahoo! Inc is facing competition in the domains of search, communication, advertising and social networking from some major companies as rivals, thus resulting in high threat of competitors. The report has also analyzed the position of the competitor companies from their market and financial position. Yahoo is focusing on the target market of people belonging to different age groups, professions and lifestyle. The marketing and financial plan is based on the central objective of increasing the market share, sales and revenue of the company. It has been recommended that in the domain of marketing, the company should focus on developing its search, communication and media functions to fulfill the individual, professional and social needs of the people. Moreover, investment in social networking can also be beneficial....
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...Compensation Management(BUS 409)Dr. Antony J. JacobStrayer University2/3/2013 Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation that provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, and software and advertising technologies. It is the world’s 36th -largest company measured by market capitalization. The company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry and Sergey met at Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages. Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google provides a variety of services for people and businesses. They provide a variety of tools to help businesses of all kinds succeed on and off the web. Their advertising programs, which range from simple text ads to rich media ads, help businesses find customers, and help publishers make money off of their content. They also provide cloud computing tools for businesses to save money and help organizations be more productive. Google also builds products that make the web better. With products like Chrome and Android, Google makes it simpler and faster for people to do what they want to online. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. When it comes to Google’s compensation...
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...Business Analysis of Apple, Inc. Padma L. Dongre MGT521 Nov 28, 2011 Dr. Stephen McCann Background. Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices. It sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions. The Company sells its products worldwide through its online stores, retail stores, direct sales force, and third-party wholesalers, and resellers. In addition, the Company sells a variety of third-party Macintosh ("Mac"), iPod, iPhone, iPad compatible products, including application software, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones, and various other accessories and peripherals through its online and retail stores. The Company sells to education, consumer, creative professional, business, and government customers. The Company's fiscal year is the 52 or 53-week period that ends on the last Saturday of September. The Company's strategy also includes expanding its distribution network to effectively reach more of its targeted customers and provide them with a high-quality sales and post-sales support experience. Financial Analysis: Detailed financial statements are available in Appendix A. This information provides immense detail in the financial status of Apple, Inc. over time. Combined with data regarding product sales, much can be derived to analyze Apple’s strength. Revenue rose 40% in 2011...
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...Panel, and more • Chrome,™ Gmail,™ Google Search (Google Now™), Google+,™ Local,™ Google Maps,™ Messenger, Navigation, Play Books, Play Magazines, Play Movies & TV, Play Music, Play Store,™ Hangouts,™ Google Voice Search,™ and YouTube™ Interactivity • VuTalk – draw and share notes in real time between compatible devices1 • QSlide Function – overlay up to two windows with adjustable sizing and transparency on the primary screen for easy multitasking • QuickMemo – create and share personalized memos by taking screen captures and adding handwritten drawings or messages • QuickMemo Overlay - hover a QuickMemo note over any screen such as Dialer or Browser and instantly share your personalized memos with every page • Home Button LED – specified colored and patterned light provides charging status and notifications such as alarms, calendar reminders, new messages, missed events and others • QuickTranslator – translate sentences and phrases from 44 different languages into 64 native languages • Polaris® Viewer 4 – PC-like office suite app for viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets • FileShare – share your files with other compatible LG phones • Quiet Mode – specify times to disable notifications for calls and messages • Multilanguage Support – select from 53 different keyboard input languages • Connect to Social Networks – send quick updates to Google+, Twitter,®2 Facebook,®2 and other social networks • Full HTML Web Browser with Google Search • Text, Picture, Video, and...
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