ALCACER DAVID COLLIS MARY FUREY The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire? In November 2005, Robert Iger, the newly appointed CEO of the Walt Disney Company, eagerly awaited the box office results of Chicken Little, the company’s second computer-generated (CG) feature film. He knew that, for Disney as a whole to be successful, he had to get the animation business right, particularly the new CG technology that was rapidly supplanting hand-drawn animation.1 Yet the company
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Employees Research Aim The aim of this research is to explore if the concept of hot Desking is a helpful technique which increases the productivity of an employee and helps in the cost savings for the organizations. The paper would discuss the use of hot Desking at different companies and the survey questionnaires, and interviews are conducted for the employees of different companies that would identify the importance of the concept of hot Desking. Research Objectives According to the research aim
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Lens Crafter Case Study Dawnmarie E. Gaines Professor: Gary Reinke Business 430- Operations Management January 14, 2016 INTRODUCTION Lens Crafters was founded in 1983 by Dean Butler, a 38-year-old who had previously worked at Procter & Gamble (lens crafter 1983). A knowledgeable marketer, Butler had managed the Ivory liquid, Cheer laundry detergent, and Folger's instant coffee brands for the venerable Cincinnati consumer goods company. Lens Crafters has always been focused on providing
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downloads, increased demand for digital technologies that offer greater access and mobility, and an overall increase in consumer demand for access to digital media, esonic has a more than favorable forecast of success in entering the digital music market. Despite fierce competition from established online music providers such as Apple’s iTunes and Napster, esonic will find more than enough room for growth. Through strategic alliances with software and hardware technology firms, esonic can further magnify
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Ferrero SPA Corporation Ferrero is Italian manufacturer of chocolate and confectionary products being founded in the modest beginnings of 1946, when Pietro and Giovanni Ferrero started the company as a confectionary shop in northwest Italian town of Alba (Datamonitor, 2009). Today Ferrero International is the world’s fourth largest companies in the confectionery Market with 16 plants and 36 commercial companies all around the world, having 20,000 employees generating 35,000 cores of turnovers
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FRANK T. ROTHAERMEL DAVID R. KING Tesla Motors, Inc. January 1, 2015. Elon Musk, chief executive officer (CEO) of Tesla is taking it easy on this New Year’s Day. While having his coffee, he scrolls through some recent issues of The Wall Street Journal on his iPad. A headline from one current story jumps out at him, “Gasoline prices have declined for 88 consecutive days, the longest streak of falling prices on record.”1 The slide in gas prices, which began in September 2014, also happened to coincide
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Journal of Business Research 55 (2002) 389 – 400 Benefits associated with supplier integration into new product development under conditions of technology uncertainty Gary L. Ragatza,*, Robert B. Handfieldb, Kenneth J. Petersenc a Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1122, USA b North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA c University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Abstract In many
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the responsibility of conducting a research study to estimate the sales potential of your products in the domestic (U.S. or Canadian) market. Discuss key issues and concerns arising from the fact that you, the manager, are also the researcher. Key issues and concerns 1. The key issues and concerns relating to any research project such as to estimate the sales potential in the domestic market, first points to the issue of defining the purpose of the research, the area sales manager or researcher
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Enterprise Resource Planning: Developments and Directions for Operations Management Research Robert Jacobs and Elliot Bendoly Operations and Decision Technologies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Decision and Information Analysis, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 Abstract Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has come to mean many things over the last several decades. Divergent applications by practitioners and academics, as well as by researchers in alternative fields of study, has
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use of barcodes was in 1966. However, there was no standard to be used for the industry as a hole. Therefore, the National Association of Food Chains requested and industry standard for barcodes. (History of Barcodes | eHow.com) In response, Logicon Inc. developed the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code. It was the first barcode standard. (Bar Codes - The History of Barcode) A UPC-A barcode symbol On April 3rd 1972 a form of barcodes was chosen as the industry standard. It was the IBM
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