Running head: SUN MICROSYSTEMS CASE STUDY PROJECT SUN Microsystems Case Study Project Jeffery M. Anderson, 105225 BBA 3391-06B, Information Systems Cost Analysis Brief History of SUN Technology and Text Summery Sun Microsystems was born after Stanford University, Palo Alto graduate student Andy Betchtolsheim, conceived a UNIX based workstation he deemed the “68000 Unix System” for a networking project named Stanford University Network. Early February 1982 colleagues Vinod Khosla, Scott
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TE AM FL Y ESSENTIALS of Supply Chain Management Essentials Series The Essentials Series was created for busy business advisory and corporate professionals.The books in this series were designed so that these busy professionals can quickly acquire knowledge and skills in core business areas. Each book provides need-to-have fundamentals for those professionals who must: Get up to speed quickly, because they have been promoted to a new position or have broadened their responsibility scope
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Gateway Inc. Theory in Practice Eduardo Ordóñez Professor Meilich BUS 444 May 7, 2004 Ticker: GTW Stock Exchange: NYSE Website: www.gateway.com Company Description Gateway Inc. was first incorporated in Iowa in 1986, with the name of Gateway 2000, Inc. It was then reincorporated in South Dakota in December of 1989 and later in Delaware in January of 1991. In 1993, the company went public, trading on the NASDAQ before transferring its stock to the New York
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Assignment 2 Product, Price & Place Strategy 2150-XXX Include full names and student Ids. March, 2010 Product Strategy Product Concept Core: Convenience that promotes a better future. Actual: A backpack with a built-in, removable, cooler-like lunch box on the bottom. Solar panels on the front that will charge built in batteries that can be used to charge ipods, cell phones, and/or cameras. Compartments for reusable plastic utensils that will be included in initial purchase
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Annual Report A history of delivering strong results More than Approximately Approximately 10,700 retail units operated in 27 countries 245M customers served weekly in our stores in 27 countries 75 % of U.S. store operations management joined Walmart as hourly associates Increase of Increase of More than 59% in earnings per share(1) (1) Data reflects five-year period from fiscal 2009 through 2013. 123% in free cash flow(1)(2) $ 60B returned to shareholders
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1. Describe the history and core business of each company. In a world where anyone can purchase just about anything online, it can be difficult to start and maintain a business selling goods online. Media such as CDs, books, and movies is a common ware being sold on the Internet. Over the last decade, online stores have come and gone so often, many people scoff at their inception. But Amazon.com is not such a company. It is one of the largest Internet sellers of media in the world today, and has
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a new venture. WHAT IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP? The setting up of McDonald’s, however, was entrepreneurship. McDonald’s did not invent anything new; its final product was what any decent American restaurant had produced years ago. But, by applying management concepts and techniques (for instance, by asking what is ‘value’ to the customer), standardizing the ‘product’ across all locations and countries, designing processes and tools, and streamlining training on the analysis of the work to be done and
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Project Report on Retailing Challenges in INDIA Submitted By: Sudev Rajdarshan (2011198) Shriram Tarawade (2011204) Valluru Naveen (2011218) Varun Luthra (2011221) Vasundhara Singh (2011222) INTRODUCTION
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Why IHOP is Better Than the Competition 3 MARKETING STRATEGY 3 Overall Strategy 3 Target Markets 4 Primary Targets 4 Secondary Targets 4 Marketing Mix 4 Price 4 Promotion 4 Distribution 4 Product 5 MANAGEMENT PLAN 5 Operations Standards 5 Personnel Standards 5 S.W.O.T. Analysis 6 Strengths 6 Weaknesses 6 Opportunities 6 Threats 6 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS 7 Financial Future 7 Budget 7 Cash Collections 7 Cash Paid
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LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT Report on Summer Training On the topic “A REVIEW OF RETAIL OPRATION WITH REFRENCE TO FMCG” Submitted to Lovely Professional University In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the award of Degree of Master of Business Administration Submitted by: DEEPAK M 11001433 DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY JALANDHAR NEW DELHI GT ROAD PHAGWARA PUNJAB 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my gratitude to all those
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