other apparel retailing chains, continued a trajectory of rapid, profitable growth by posting net income of € 340 million on € revenues of € 3,250 million in its fiscal year 2001 (ending January 31, 2002). Inditex had had a heavily € oversubscribed Initial Public Offering in May 2001. Over the next 12 months, its stock price increased by nearly 50%—despite bearish stock market conditions—to push its market valuation to € 13.4 € billion. The high stock price made Inditex’s founder, Amancio Ortega,
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Court Rye Market Research Nintendo DS – Marketing Strategy Problem/Situation Description: Ten years ago Nintendo dominated both the console and handheld gaming industry. Today the gaming industry has grown so much that it is competing directly with the movie industry! Growth in this industry is occurring in the demographic of 18-34 year olds. Nintendo is primarily focused on 5-17 year old gamers with its first party software, especially in the handheld gaming market. As the industry expands
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knowledge and skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 I Chapter 4 The performance gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 I Chapter 5 Sourcing and developing knowledge and skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 I Next steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 I Case examples Unilever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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With the 2004 winter holiday season in full swing, the management team at Carnival Cruise Lines had much to celebrate. More than 3 million passengers would sail with Carnival this year, an all-time high (Exhibit 1 presents passenger numbers for Carnival and the industry). Before year’s end, Carnival was set to launch the 110,000-ton, 2,974-passenger Carnival Valor, the 20th ship in the fleet (Exhibit 2). When the Carnival Liberty joined the fleet in early 2005, Carnival’s cruise capacity would lead
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f e a t u r e a r t I C Le 647 Interaction Effects of Globalization and Institutional Forces on International HRM Practice: Illuminating the ConvergenceDivergence Debate By Yongsun Paik Irene Hau-Siu Chow Charles M. Vance In the face of globalization, scholars continue to debate about whether a convergence in human resources practices will prevail, or a trend of divergence perspective will persist. Building on institution theory, this article helps to explicate this debate by examining
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S w 910M51 CLOSING THE GAP – THE CHANGING HOME CARE ENVIRONMENT (A) Rida Elias wrote this case under the supervision of Professor Roderick E. White solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation prohibits any form of reproduction
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25, 2006 PANKAJ GHEMAWAT JAN W. RIVKIN Creating Competitive Advantage Some companies generate far greater profits than others. The pharmaceutical maker ScheringPlough produced an economic profit of more than $10 billion during the period 1984-2002. That is, the accounting profit it generated exceeded its cost of equity capital by that amount. Over the same period, U.S. Steel produced an economic loss of nearly $500 million; its cost of capital exceeded its accounting profit by a wide margin
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Determinants of NPAs in the Indian Public Sector Banks: A Critique of Policy Reforms Dr. Pradip Kumar Biswas* and Ashis Taru Deb** The paper analyzes the process leading to formation and perpetuation of high levels of NPAs in Indian Public Sector Banks (PSBs). It distinguishes between random and non-random reasons of NPA formation in PSBs. It points out that a high degree of arbitrariness is involved in defining NPAs as it fails to capture diversity in terms of the seasonal and cyclical nature of
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multi-dimensional perspective on salesperson commitment. Journal of Business& Industrial Marketing, 12(6), 354-367. Mowday, R. T., Steers, R. M., & Porter, L. W. (1979). The measurement of organizational commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 14, 224-227. 2. Book, two authors. Toller, M., & Fielding, J. (1998). Global business for smaller companies. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing. 3. Book, one author. Sekaran, U. (2003). Research methods for business: A skill
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+852 2719-8557 26 December 2006 (Incorporates minor revisions of the 3 July 2005 and 2 November 2005 versions, and extends the conclusions/ implications. Updates all sections except section 4 to include data for the most recent years and, in the case of China, incorporates the revisions following the 2004 economic census. Section 4 will be updated once the 2005 1% population sample survey data become available.) 1. Introduction The rapid economic growth of China since the
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