...old town...there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see...” During the nineteen twenties and thirties America took a big down hill slide. The stock market crashed, people lost their jobs, and most middle class families were in poverty. When the stock market crashed on October 28, 1929 America went rampant. All the citizens who had shares in corporations were trying to sell them back all at once. This led to factories and corporations to close down. Since the factories and corporations were closed, people had no source of income. There was also a glitch in the banking system so everyone who had a bank or savings account lost everything in their account. When people got word of this situation they went to the banks to try to cash out all of their money. This caused a big interruption in the banks counting systems. During this time there was also a drought so farmers income also went away and people now had no source of food....
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...MRKT 5000 Marketing September 04, 2011 Jim Koch And The Marketing of Samuel Adams Beer Executive Summary Currently, the United States beer market is segmented into many segments. The two largest domestic brewers, brewers located within the United States, are Anheuser-Busch and Miller. These two companies control 50 percent and 29 percent of domestic beer sales, respectively. With 80 percent of the beer market controlled by the two megabrewers the United States is a tough environment for a small craft brewer like Samuel Adams to survive. The U.S. population is over 311 million people, the world’s third largest population after China and India. American consumes nearly 200 million barrels of beer a year, or 20 gallons per person, second only to China which has four times the amount of people the United States. Samuel Adams Boston Lager is brewed by the Boston Beer Company and founded by 1984 by Jim Koch using his great–great–grandfather’s 1870 beer recipe. Due to the economic downturn and other environmental forces the general beer market has been flat in recent years, yet quality craft beers like Samuel Adams has seen double-digit growth. The craft brewing industry has had a strong growth curve over the past decade and Samuel Adams has been positioned perfectly to capture this momentum. Technological advances have been a positive development for the Samuel Adams brewing and packaging...
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...Case Study: Jim Poss Jim Poss is the owner of the Seahorse Power Company; a fresh startup specialized in the green energy based on environment friendly methods of power generating. Unfortunately, this choice of cleaner power based industry penalized Jim’s company as a major part of sales is seen lost. Jim accumulated experience and knowledge through many occupied jobs but the significant one was at Solectria, a manufacturer of transportation and energy systems. Opportunity follow up: Jim sent a proposal to Spire Corporation about the solar-powered trash compactors. However, Spire managers were rather interested in the idea to be presented as a marketable business plan. Jim was pursing an MBA program at that time which helped him somehow to achieve the required business plan. After many tries, Jim was unable to present a well established plan to convince Spire executives. They claimed the lack of end user visibility of the product. Jim finally let himself be convinced by wind-based energy and started looking at resources needed by this kind of ventures. Trash industry attractiveness: Jim went then to concentrate on trash industry and he rapidly observed huge waste of labor and energy resources in the traditional processes of garbage collection, transportation. Billions were spent in 2000 and 2001 according to the market study done by Jim. He and Alex were the looking closely to expand this business opportunity to include retail and food establishments...
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...driven by this core technology:- a) Retail Sales b) Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Sales Appointment of a New CEO: Bitstream hired Mr.Jim Sole as the president in 1992. Jim had roughly 20 years of experience in a variety of sales management in IBM and Xerox companies. As he took over Jim had to face several problems. They were: 1) Financial, 2) Re-organizing the whole setup 3) Achievement plans for goal attainment After analyzing the various dimensions of the above mentioned problems Jim suggested/implemented some major ideas for growth. One of the ideas was to introduce a new Project called “The Network Print Manager”. For the Network Print Manager Project, which was basically always connected with a networking environment, Bitstream selected Novell Networking. Jim and his management team went through various R&D research studies and finally decided to launch this with the help of Novell networking Value added resellers in the market. Hence, indirectly, Bitstream got the market product positioning without much effort. Since Novell’s VARs all sell PC networks to their customers, any customer of one of Novell’s VARs is a potential customer of Bitstream’s new product. To build an organization to pursue the opportunity Jim thought of employing an executive search firm to search for someone who had some earlier experience with networking...
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...players on the field and the umpire himself. More often than not even the players and the umpire didn’t know for sure. A perfect example of a famous blown call is the Armando Galaaraga and Jim Joyce’s not so perfect game. On June 2, 2010 Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Armando Galaaraga had a perfect game going into the last out of the ninth inning against the Cleveland Indians until umpire Jim Joyce called what should have been the last Cleveland out safe at first.(Johnson) After networks showed the slow motion replay to the fans at home, we could clearly see that the batter was out by at least two steps. The blown call had fans up at some went so far as to call for Jim Joyce’s resignation among other things. Some even went so far as to vandalize his wiki page and start up a web site called firjimjoyce.com. All the while, the only person to be nonchalant about the whole thing was the one person who should be upset- Armando Galaaraga. In fact Armando and Joyce teamed up and co-wrote a book about the game and the infamous blown call. The controversy brought about by the call has led many to argue for expanded use of instant replay in baseball which many feel would take away from the human element. With the introduction of television, broadcast deals brought the introduction of big money for big market teams. This big money has lead to a major shift in competitive balance....
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...Opportumtv Case Jim P Preparation Questions 1. 2. 3. Apply the Timmons entrepreneurship framework (entrepreneur—opportunity—resources) to analyze this case. Pay particular attention to the entrepre neur’s traits and how he gathered resources for his venture. Discuss Jim’s fund-raising strategies. What other options might be considered for raising the funds SPC needs? Is this a good investment? Discuss the growth strategy. What additional mar ket(s) would you recommend pursuing as they move ahead? On his way through Logan Airport, Jim Poss stopped at a newsstand to flip through the June 2004 Notional Ge ographic cover story that declared, “The End of Cheap Oil.” Inside was a two-page spread of an American family sitting among a vast array of household posses sions that were derived, at least in part, from petroleumbased products: laptops, cell phones, clothing, footwear, sports equipment, cookware, and containers of all shapes and sizes. Without oil, the world will be a very different place. Jim shook his head. and here we are burning this finite, imported, irreplace able resource to power three-ton suburban gas guzzlers with “these colors don’t run” bumper stickers! Jim s enterprise Seahorse Power Company {SPC) was an engineering start-up that encouraged the adop tion of environmentally friendly methods of power gen eration by designing products that were cheaper and more efficient than 20th-century technologies. Jim was sure that his...
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...Opportumtv Case Jim P Preparation Questions 1. 2. 3. Apply the Timmons entrepreneurship framework (entrepreneur—opportunity—resources) to analyze this case. Pay particular attention to the entrepre neur’s traits and how he gathered resources for his venture. Discuss Jim’s fund-raising strategies. What other options might be considered for raising the funds SPC needs? Is this a good investment? Discuss the growth strategy. What additional mar ket(s) would you recommend pursuing as they move ahead? On his way through Logan Airport, Jim Poss stopped at a newsstand to flip through the June 2004 Notional Ge ographic cover story that declared, “The End of Cheap Oil.” Inside was a two-page spread of an American family sitting among a vast array of household posses sions that were derived, at least in part, from petroleumbased products: laptops, cell phones, clothing, footwear, sports equipment, cookware, and containers of all shapes and sizes. Without oil, the world will be a very different place. Jim shook his head. and here we are burning this finite, imported, irreplace able resource to power three-ton suburban gas guzzlers with “these colors don’t run” bumper stickers! Jim s enterprise Seahorse Power Company {SPC) was an engineering start-up that encouraged the adop tion of environmentally friendly methods of power gen eration by designing products that were cheaper and more efficient than 20th-century technologies. Jim was sure that his...
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...case is set, Enterprise had $8.2 billion in revenue, approximately 818,000 vehicles, more than 6,500 locations, and more than 61,000 full-time and part-time employees. From 1980 through 2005, the company’s revenues grew at a compound annual rate of 20.5 percent. Now well into their 5th decade of doing business, Enterprise was founded in 1957 by Jack Taylor, who began leasing cars while working with a car dealer in St. Louis, Missouri. When his customers lost the use of their cars due to accidents or the need for repairs, Jack saw the opportunity to rent them replacement vehicles. This led to the creation of Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1962, a company which for much of its history focused exclusively on the "home-city" rental replacement market – local branches near our customers’ homes and businesses rather than at the airport. From the beginning, Enterprise has based its growth strategy on a simple philosophy. Jack Taylor believed that by taking care of customers and employees first, profits would take care of themselves. Taylor focused on doing "whatever it took" to satisfy customers. He hired primarily university graduates and promoted them rapidly, putting them in charge of branch offices that they ran basically as independent businesses. Managers earned most of their compensation based on the profitability of the branch or branches for which they...
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... Case 1.“When in Bogota…” Case summary. Jim Reynolds, an acquisition editor for Academia Press (college-level business textbook publisher) has arrived from New York, USA to Bogota, Colombia. He was intended to combine leisure and business. He met his old college friend Rodrigo Cardozo and spent some good time his family. But his primary aim was to conduct a series of meetings with directors of business schools at various Bogota Universities and establish business contacts in the Colombian market, as his company has seen future opportunities in Latin America. The deal was important not only to his company, but for him also, as it was a good possibility to get a promotion. He scheduled the meeting and went for the first one on Tuesday. He was supposed to meet 3 professors at 11:00, but two of them arrived half an hour later. Then they offered Jim to go for a lunch, during that time they were not discussing the business matters at all, all the conversations were about the dishes and the sights of Bogota, the professors seem to be simply not interested in Jim’s offerings. The lunch finished at 2:30, but Jim hasn’t accomplished his goal at all, he was didn’t understand what went wrong and very upset about it. When he came to his friend’s home later, he met friend’s father Dario, who was a businessman and had conducted business with people from different countries. He told about the meeting and asked for the advice. Dario reminded that Jim is Bogota now, not in the USA and the way...
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...Good to Great Book Analysis By Zain Muzammil Jim Collins “Good to Great” sold 3 million copies and became one of the top sellers in its genre. In the book, Collins takes up a daunting challenge in the book: identifying and evaluating the factors and variables that allow a small fraction of companies to make the transition from merely good to truly great. The extensive research conducted by Jim Collins and his team of analysts provides extravagant turnarounds of a few successful companies that were able to turn themselves from merely great to the greatest in the industry. Jim Collins believe that a great companies are always accompanied by “Great Leaders”, and he states them as Level 5 leadership. Great leaders cannot be selfish nor can they let their egoistic nature- from the position- to with-held the success of the company. Rather Jim narrates that they should be humble and modest. Ken Iverson, who lead Nucor’s transformation from bankruptcy to being one of the most successful companies in the world, was reported as being one of the most humble and modest CEO by board member Jim Hlavacek. Another key factor that Collins underscores as a part of Good to Great is the nature of the leadership team. He coins it as “First who and then what”. It is very important for a company to illustrate and reflect on the kind of leadership that a company has. If you have all the right people on the bus who willing to accomplish the unthinkable only then can a company...
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...Course Name: Organization Culture Pike Place Fish Market According to the fourteen-minute video world famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle was almost ready to go out of business and close shop. But a consultant Jim Bergquist with the nudge from his wife convinced the struggling fish shop to give him three months to turn the business around and after the initial three months were up and there was no change. The owner John Yokoyama could just fire him. It turned out that Jim Bergquist helped Mr. Yokoyama understand different concepts such as building organizational commitment, trust, and coaching as the way to build a successful business. Some of the changes that the consultant stressed seemed to work such as the overall building organizational commitment. Support is a key in any work environment the more there are, the better relationships that employees, managers, supervisors and owners have. It is easier to go to a workplace environment with support from other individuals there. Another way Jim Bergquist helped Pike Place is getting everyone in the business to share the same values and empower the employees to merge their values and the business values together. Additional influences that Jim Bergquist helped the struggling fish market with information from a model of emotions, attitudes and behaviors as a guide to turn Pike Place into a thriving business. This is why a consultant such as Mr. Bergquist can be extremely helpful in reshaping a business is because it’s hard...
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... Competitors gained market share using aggressive marketing and sales tactics, and Blue Star was selling antiquated products and using inefficient processes for settling claims. With falling revenues and margins, Blue Star became an acquisition target and was bought by Anthum, a Fortune 100 company. At the conclusion of the deal Anthum brought in an injection of cash, a reputation for operational excellence, and a new vice president of sales, Jim Blaylock. The CEO of Anthum described Jim as bright, experienced, successful, and “more energetic than the Energizer Bunny.” Jim had joined the corporation immediately after college; because of his “potential” the company sent him to law school and rapidly promoted him into increasingly responsible positions. Senior management had tremendous confidence in Jim’s leadership abilities and appointed him as the vice president of sales in Blue Star Health, even though he had no previous sales experience. Steve was initially impressed with Jim’s freshness and energy; he was constantly touting “Midwestern values” and the “work ethic of the Mid-west.” However, the sales management team soon became disenchanted with his views: Steve and his sales team were working 70 to 80 hours a week and becoming exhausted and frazzled. Moreover, Jim’s interactions with internal and external clients were lessons in poor human relations. He seemed to seek confrontations, and as time passed, his behavior became steadily more extreme. Jim harangued people, ignored...
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...BlackBerry Jim Balsille The inventor/ innovator of blackberry is Jim Balsille. He was born in Seaforth, Ontario. After high school Jim went to University of Toronto to pursue Business of commerce degree. After he did his masters at Harvard University and he did his PhD at Wilfrid Laurier. In 1992 Jim made a company called Research in Motion (RIM), this wireless technology that revolved communications with the development of blackberry. Balsille serves as Rim’s Chairman and Co- chief executive officer. Rim shared offices with a guy named Mike Lazaridis and they both ran Rim and Blackberry. They were successful businessmen in Canada and had a successful business which ran for a long time. Rim released Rim 900, the first device that is capable of using a keyboard. Rim helped blackberry to add voice calling capabilities and helped blackberry to release a colour screen. In the early 2000’s Blackberry was the most common cell phone, this cellphone was ahead of other cell phones in the market. This cell phone created many buzzes throughout the business world because most of gadgets on the phone was helpful. Some of the gadgets that were built into his phone are text messaging, push email, web browsing, internet faxing, and multi touch interface. Blackberry gave their Email service to many companies after becoming successful in the cell phone market. Many stockbrokers and celebrities were purchasing blackberries. Blackberry...
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...Historical Influences in To Kill a Mockingbird The Great Depression was a “time of devastation and uncertainty”, also it was a time “bread lines and debt” in the American history (McCabe 12). After the stock market crashed in 1929 there was a height during the time that “ the unemployment rate had reached nearly 25 percent” (McCabe 12). In To kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee had many historical influences several from real life events. Harper Lee drew her influences from Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and Scottsboro trials. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws are a racial caste system. Jim Crow are a bunch of harsh against Blacks laws (Pilgrim). The Whites did these actions because they disliked any benefit made Blacks including economic and political (Pilgrim). If the Blacks are to disobey then the punishments could be a lynching (Pilgrim). The Jim Crow laws are seen in To Kill a Mockingbird. One of the laws that you could see was “ Never assert or even intimate that...
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...economic opportunity of the 21st century. John Doerr Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers Results Expected Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to 1. Discuss the pressures and demands in the marketplace that are driving opportunities for entrepreneurs with an eye toward sustainability. 2. Explain ways that entrepreneurial companies can gain competitive advantage by orienting products and processes that take environmental issues into account. 3. Describe the role that sustainability plays in building dynamic and profitable ventures. 4. Discuss the five facets of looking through a sustainability lens, and describe their impact on opportunity assessment, resources, and the team. 5. Provide insights into and analysis of the Jim Poss case study. Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Clean Commerce Is an Opportunity Sea Change As noted by perhaps the most famous modern venture capitalist in the world, John Doerr, the clean commerce and sustainable enterprise movement is 1 one of the most exciting and promising opportunity sea changes of this century. Everyone is going green. Each week brings a new announcement of a company embracing sustainability and environmental issues. Those ahead of the pack have grasped that the environment is a growing source of strategic opportunity for companies. It is now clear that there is a revolution We are extremely appreciative of...
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