...10/29/13 Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse : The New Yorker ANNALS OF BUSINESS CREATION MYTH Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation. by Malcolm Gladwell MAY 16, 2011 Print More Share Close Reddit Linked In Email The mouse was conceived by the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, developed by Xerox PARC, and made marketable by Apple. I n late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research center in Silicon Valley called Xerox PARC. He was the co-founder of a small computer startup down the road, in Cupertino. His name was Steve Jobs. Xerox PARC was the innovation arm of the Xerox Corporation. It was, and remains, on Coyote Hill Road, in Palo Alto, nestled in the foothills on the edge of town, in a long, low concrete building, with enormous terraces looking out over the jewels of Silicon Valley. To the northwest was Stanford University’s Hoover Tower. To the north was Hewlett-Packard’s sprawling campus. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_gladwell?printable=true¤tPage=all 1/12 10/29/13 Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse : The New Yorker All around were scores of the other chip designers, software firms, venture capitalists, and hardware-makers. A visitor to PARC, taking in that view, could easily imagine that it was the computer world’s castle, lording over the valley below—and, at the time, this wasn’t far from the truth. In 1970, Xerox had assembled the...
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...A Business Analysis Play an important role to a business because they use this as a tools enable to determine how well the performance of the company. Without using these tools there is no action can be develop to determine how business improved. Here are the following procedures when we are conducting the Business Analysis. 1. Investigate and Analyze the Company History and Growth – We must investigate the foundation of the company, their structure and growth enable to find out what is the actual performance of the company. 2. Identify the SWOT Analysis ( Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat ) of the Company. We should start to investigate what is the issue of the company. Find out what is the company Strengths and Weakness and Analyze the Opportunity and Threats within the company external environment. 3. Analyze your finding – This is where you can find out what is the actual situation of Of the company that you are evaluating and also compare the Strengths and weakness within the company to the external Threat and Opportunity. 4. Identify the corporate level strategy – We need to know what is the company strategy and identify what is their mission, goals and objectives. 5. Identify the business level of strategy – We should identify and analyze the competitive strategy, marketing, cost and general focus. 6. Analyzing Implementations – This is the part of your analysis that require you to Identify and analyze the structure...
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...Business and Management Assignment #2: Risk Assessment, Portfolio Management Dr. Bliss Strayer University Corp. Investment Analysis—FIN550 July 27, 2011 Assignment #2: Risk Assessment, Portfolio Management 1. You are given the following long-run annual rates of return for alternative investment instruments: • US Government T-Bills 3.5% • Large-cap common stocks 12.1% • Long-term corporate bonds 6.2% • Long-term government bonds 5.6% • Small-capitalization common stock 14.6% The annual rate of inflation during the period was 2.9%. Compute the real rate of return on these investment alternatives. Invest. Category Rate of Return Rate of Inflation Real Rate of Return(return - Inflation) U.S. Gov. T-Bills 3.50% 2.90% 0.60% Lg.-cap CS 12.10% 2.90% 9.20% L.T. Corp. Bonds 6.20% 2.90% 3.30% L.T. Gov. Bonds 5.60% 2.90% 2.70% Small-Cap. CS 14.60% 2.90% 11.70% 2. The following are the monthly rates of return for Nike and JNJ Using an excel spreadsheet, compute the following: a. Average monthly rate of return for each stock b. Standard deviation of returns for each stock c. Covariance between the rates of return d. The correlation coefficient between the rates of return Month Nike JNJ 1 -5% 8% 2 3% -1% 3 -6% -2% 4 9% 11% 5 -2% -4% 6 3% 6% Mean 33% 3% Standard Deviation 5.72% 6.13% Covariance 0.00146667 Correlation Coefficient 0.50218801 3. Based on five years of monthly data, you derive the following information for the...
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...[pic] Executive Summary Pharmaceutical industry is one of the largest industries in our country. Every year a huge amount foreign currency comes from this sector. Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd., the flagship company, is holding the strong leadership position in the pharmaceutical industry of Bangladesh since 1985 and is now on its way to becoming a high performance global player. It was established in 1958 and converted into a public limited company in 1991. The sales turnover of SPL was more than Taka 5 Billion (US$ 90 million) with about 15% market share (April 2003 – March 2004) having a growth rate of about 16%. Besides fulfilling domestic demand it exports a huge amount of drugs in abroad. It is now exporting medicine in 20 countries. It has achieved the trust of the domestic and foreign people. SQUARE’s Mission is to produce and provide quality &innovative healthcare relief for people, maintain stringently ethical standard in business operation also ensuring benefit to the shareholders, stakeholders and the society at large. As a very large and formal company Square uses different management practices in their corporate world. It does the works of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. follows a systemic way to take a particular decision. Based on the present & previous available data and information the decision is made, focusing & predicting the future consequences. The Planning mechanism of Square involves...
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...Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm Chapter 2 1) Because of to minimize or eliminate threats and exploit opportunities, so managers should analyze the external environment 2) This involves a continuous process of environmental scanning and monitoring as well as obtaining competitive intelligence on present and potential rivals. These activities provide valuable inputs for developing forecasts. In addition, many firms use scenario planning to anticipate and respond to volatile and disruptive environmental changes. 3) The general environment consists of factors that can have a dramatic effect on a firm's strategy. Typically, a firm has little ability to predict trends and events in the general environment, and even less ability to control them. We divide the general environment into six segments: demographic, socio-cultural, political/legal, technological, economic, and global. A. THE DEMOGRAPHIC SEGMENT Demographics are the most easily understood and quantifiable elements of the general environment. Demographics include elements such as the aging population, rising or declining affluence, changes in ethnic composition, geographic distribution of the population, and income level disparities. B. THE SOCIOCULTURAL SEGMENT Socio-cultural forces influence the values, beliefs, and lifestyles of a society. Examples include a higher percentage of women in the workforce, dual-income families, increases in the number of temporary workers, greater...
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...Task 1(A) Global Marketplace Activity (A1) Being the largest hospital corporation in the world, with over 160 hospitals, 100 surgical clinics, and a never ending amount of specialty facilities, supplies are an essential component to the successful day to day operations. In the event that those supplies were not able to be delivered on time, the possibility of not being able to provide properly for our patients would be immense. And with the company receiving certain supplies from all over the world, it is very possible that due to measures beyond the hospital corporations control or the supplying company that delivery of supplies could be delayed due to inclement weather, natural or manmade disasters. This in turn could have a substantial impact to the quality of care provided and received. In addition, the hospital corporation is also a key component to several ongoing research projects for treatment, cures and vaccinations for various diseases and infections, all of which rely on the supplies provided by other research facilities or specialty supplies provided by specific supply companies who could be impacted by these potential disasters, which would debilitate and prolong the success of the research projects effected. Risk Source (A2) The source for the first risk identified would be nothing more than age and continual use. The boiler at the Disaster Recovery site is the original boiler for the building which is approximately 50 years old, and even though the boiler...
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...social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals. All organizations have a management structure that determines relationships between the different activities and the members and subdivides and assigns roles,responsibilities and authority to carry out different tasks. Organizations are open systems. They affect and are affected by their environment. Because a managers plays very significant role in planning and making decisions of the company. Managers also planning,organizing,directing and controlling to achieve organizational goals set. Besides that,managers also have skills like technical skills,human skills and conceptual skills. So ,all this skills can enhance the effectiveness of the managemant. How do you feel about having a manager’s responsibility in today’s world characterized by uncertainty,ambiguity and sudden changes or threats from the enviroment? Describe some skill and qualities that are important to managers under these conditions. Firstly, All of us already realize that managing a business has never been easy. There have a lot of challenges and problems facing managers. However, it well be that he challenges faced today are greater and more relentless than the past year. This reason make I would feel very nervous about being a manager today.The biggest reason maybe globalization. Globalization has been created the situation which there is much more competition than there was in the past year. This make the...
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...Effects of Quality Management on Domestic and Global Competition Paper University of Phoenix MGT/449 Clark Mc Carrell Jr. June 01, 2012 Effects of Quality Management on Domestic and Global Competition Paper Time is a precious commodity in most Americans lives. People try to create more time in their everyday lives by cutting corners and the use of modern technology. Cell phones, lap tops and e-mailing help create time in today’s work force, but with all that technology people still need to find time to eat. Many Americans turn to Fast Food as an alternative to waiting at a restaurant or even making a meal for themselves. Fast Food really took off in the early 1900’s and man named Walter Anderson to advantage of the concept of fast food. In 1916 Walter started making and selling hamburgers on a street corner in Wichita, Kansas and a few years later he partnered up with a man named Edgar Waldo Ingram and opened the first White Castle Restaurant. White Castle became an instant success and continued to expand throughout the mid-west and east coast. One of the reasons for White Castle’s success was the menu. The menu consisted of just a few choices. Hamburgers, Coke, Coffee and Pie were the only items on the menu. The customers loved this for the quickness and convenience. White Castle was the first with warm take-out and the folded napkin. Other entrepreneurs tried to copy White Castles success, but most ultimately failed. The success of White Castle...
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...QUESTION You are the project manager responsible for the overall construction of a new international airport. Draw a dependency map identifying the major groups of people that are likely to affect the success of this project. Who do you think will be most cooperative? Who do you think will be the least cooperative? Why? As an project manager in building a new international airport, important tasks of the project managers across any work scope or vertical is to ensure that the planned projects get finished well in time within the given budget and the planned time frame. Project management is one of the most high ranking areas of study and plays a meaningful role in organizations across all the scope. The main responsibilities of the project manager contain appropriately and strategically mapping available backup with the project. A project manager need to check and identify the different kinds of risks and also need to identify the danger of the project on time to avoid the delaying in project due date. There are both good and bad side in being as project manager. Some people will help company to finish up the project on time while others may lead to a danger. Likewise is the case of a project manager responsible for the overall construction of a new international airport. The project is huge with lots of stakeholders and unimagined level of complexities.The dependency map drawed in following picture and the were cateorgazid according to most cooperative group and least...
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...BAB II NETSCAPE’S INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING 2.1. Case Summary Pada tahun 1990-an, industi internet, perangkat lunak dan telekomunikasi sedang berkembang pesat, dan pada tahun 1994 mulcul lah suatu perusahaan yang bernama Netscape Communication Corporation. Kehadiran Netscape ternyata mendapat respon yang sangat baik dari pasar. Kemampuan Netscape dalam inovasi membawa “Netscape Navigator” menjadi peramban web terkenal dan paling banyak digunakan pada era 1990-an. Tingkat pertumbuhan Netscape pada tahun 1995 cukup signifikan, revenue Netscape per Juni 1995 meningkat 23,89% dari revenue yang diperoleh per Desember 1995. Kendati Netscape belum mampu menghasilkan profit, namun perkembangan Netscape bagus dan dperkirakan akan terus tumbuh. Untuk terus mengembangkan perusahaan, Netscape tentu saja membutuhkan dana segar yang dapat dijadikan modal. Saham preferen yang ada di Netscape pun dikonversi menjadi saham biasa. Hingga pada akhirnya pada bulan Agustus 1995 dikabarkan bahwa Netscape akan melakukan penerbitan saham perdana/ Innitial Public Offering (IPO). Keputusan Netscape untuk melakukan IPO atau menjadi perusahaan go public relatif cukup mengejutkan, mengingat kehadiran Netscape di industri baru berumur 16 bulan dan sampai pertengahan tahun 1995 Netscape belum menghasilkan profit. Padahal berdasarkan data IPO Market sejak tahun 1990 sampai dengan 1994, rata-rata perusahaan yang melakukan IPO telah berumur 6-7 tahun. Setelah keputusan Netscape akan melakukan IPO, perusahaan...
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...DATE OF SUBMISSION 4/9/2012 | [Type the company name] | ROB PARSON AT MORGAN STANLEY | WAC ASSIGNMENT 2 | SUBMITTED TO – PROF DANESH GOJER SUBMITTED BY – DHAIVAT NANDA (65936) YASH PAREKH (60489) LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL To, Paul Nasr, Senior Managing Director, Morgan Stanley. Subject- Report on decision concerning Rob Parson's promotion according to the performance evaluation. Herewith enclosed is a report on the decision to be taken whether to promote Rob Parson. The decision is based on the performance evaluation of Rob Parson and effects it would have on the organisation. I have addressed all the potential problems followed by the recommendation based on the evaluation of the options. The report is submitted for your consideration and necessary action. Regards, Andrew Felton, Management trainee. Executive Summary The internal environment at Morgan Stanley is one of teamwork, employee development, dignity and respect. Rob Parson's external performance has been noticeable. The rate at which he has been getting business for the firm is avid by the fact that his efforts were instrumental in helping this company reach from the 10th position...
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...Steve jobs (1955-2011) The man who thought differently Introduction From the start his path was never predictable .Steve Jobs was given for adoption after birth, he dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty-one , he created Apple in his parent’s garage with his friend Steve Wozniak. Quickly rising to the top of the industry, Jobs pushed all boundaries and cultivated what became the intrinsic hallmark of his genius-his perfectionism, taste and design style. But soon after success, Jobs was fired from the top spot of his own company . Finding himself a beginner again , Jobs entered into one of the most creative periods of his life. Through Pixar, the iPod and the iPhone , Jobs revolutionized the major industries of movies, music and phones. The father of four would be repeatedly compared with the inventor Thomas Edison and auto magnate Henry Ford. People described him with the strongest words: Visionary. Showman. Artist. Tyrant. Genius. Jerk. Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. STEVEN PAUL “STEVE” JOBS was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs. Jobs was taught how to work on electronics in the family garage , how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radio and television. As a result he became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering. In the late 1973 Jobs took a job as technician in Atari Inc.( a video game and home computer company).Steve Wozniak...
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...| MANAV RACHNA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | A PROJECT REPORT ON SANDEEP TEWATIA ROLLNO.- 10/FIP/U1/BBI/008 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The study was conducted by the assistance of several individuals. I really appreciate their help and hereby thank them. I would like to give special thanks to the following people: 1 Firstly, I would like to thank Ms. Divya who had supervised the study and was in charge of the entire project. Her presence and assistant was remarkable and so I am grateful to her. 2 Secondly, I would like to thank the outlet managers who were interviewed. They took out time from their busy schedules to help me proceed with my study. Their assistance was very significant and so I am grateful to them as well. 3 Thirdly, I would like to thank all other people who provided me with the resources to conduct my study. Their help and assistance was very valuable and so I would like to acknowledge them as well. Overall all the above-mentioned people had a great role in my study. Their direct and indirect help indeed proved to be a great help. OM BUILDCON PVT. LTD. ------------------------------------------------- Company Profile HEAD OFFICE | : | 648, SEC. 16A, FARIDABAD, HARYANA | TELEPHONE | : | 0129-4070524 | FAX | : | 0129-4074648 | E-MAIL |...
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...Scientific Management and Human Relations Approaches in the 21st century Authored by: Nguyen Thi Kim Anh Submited to: Mr. Tran Quoc Trung Foreign Trade University Submission date: May 22, 2015 The development of management in the 21st century is seen as the result of a process of change from the past. Managemant specific to the driver and guide all parts of an organization, usually economic organizations, through the establishment and change of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual real and intangible value). Surely, the managers always hoped that they could find the appropriate management approach and effective to increase work efficiency, labor productivity, as well as enable them to easily manage job and humans. The birth of the company from the years of 1780s to mid 1800s has created a significant influences on management, making it became a necessary element for the survival of a company. However, until the start of the 20th century, the knowledge of management was unified, development and transmission. Early 20th century, writers management called Mary Parker Follett defines management as "the art of getting the work done by others.". Since then, there have been many management methods and the human approach were launched, which included: Scientific Management and Human Relations Approaches. The founding father of Scientific Management is Frederick W. Taylor ( 1856 – 1915). He came from a mechanic in the US, who has made the positions as foreman, chief...
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...Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, 1-2 (2007), pp. 38-53 Islamic Microfinance: A Missing Component in Islamic Banking Abdul Rahim ABDUL RAHMAN 1. Introduction Microfinance means “programme that extend small loans to very poor people for self employment projects that generate income in allowing them to take care of themselves and their families” (Microcredit Summit, 1997). The World Bank has recognized microfinance programme as an approach to address income inequalities and poverty. The microfinance scheme has been proven to be successful in many countries in addressing the problems of poverty. The World Bank has also declared 2005 as the year of microfinance with the aim to expand their poverty eradication campaign. The main aim of the paper is to assess the potentials of Islamic financing schemes for micro financing purposes. The paper argues that Islamic finance has an important role for furthering socio-economic development of the poor and small (micro) entrepreneurs without charging interest (read: riba’). Furthermore, Islamic financing schemes have moral and ethical attributes that can effectively motivate micro entrepreneurs to thrive. The paper also argues that there is a nexus between Islamic banking and microfinance as many elements of microfinance could be considered consistent with the broader goals of Islamic banking. The paper, first, introduces the concepts of microfinance, and presents a case for Islamic microfinance to become one of the components of Islamic...
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