S w LOUIS VUITTON1 Manu Mahbubani wrote this case under the supervision of Professor Mary Crossan 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, storage or transmission without its written permission
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Globalization Note Series Pankaj Ghemawat and Sebastian Reiche National Cultural Differences and Multinational Business The eminent Dutch psychologist, management researcher, and culture expert Geert Hofstede, early in his career, interviewed unsuccessfully for an engineering job with an American company. Later, he wrote of typical cross-cultural misunderstandings that crop up when American managers interview Dutch recruits and vice versa: “American applicants, to Dutch eyes, oversell themselves
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Globalization Note Series Pankaj Ghemawat and Sebastian Reiche National Cultural Differences and Multinational Business The eminent Dutch psychologist, management researcher, and culture expert Geert Hofstede, early in his career, interviewed unsuccessfully for an engineering job with an American company. Later, he wrote of typical cross-cultural misunderstandings that crop up when American managers interview Dutch recruits and vice versa: “American applicants, to Dutch eyes, oversell themselves
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PART 1 Introduction CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Global Marketing Case 1-1 The Global Marketplace Is Also Local onsider the following proposition: We live in a global marketplace. McDonald’s restaurants, Sony digital TVs, LEGO toys, Swatch watches, Burberry trench coats, and Caterpillar earthmoving equipment are found practically everywhere on the planet. Global companies are fierce rivals in key markets. For example, American auto industry giants General Motors and Ford are locked in
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being more customer-focused than they are. To win over those customers we have two approaches—speed and differentiation. — Zhang Ruimin, CEO Haier Group1 The Haier Group was one of China’s most accomplished and important companies, with estimated global sales in 2007 of $16 billion. Founded in 1984 as the Qingdao Refrigerator Company, the original company was a collectively owned enterprise in the same northeast coastal municipality that produced the popular Tsingtao beer. Haier became a conglomerate
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is international business and who has an interest in it. Students will sift through the globalization debate and understanding the impact of ethics on global businesses. Additionally, students will explore the evolution of international trade from past to present, with a focus on how firms and professionals can better understand today’s complex global business arena by understanding the impact of political and legal factors. The section concludes with a chapter on understanding how cultures are defined
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explores the issue of licensing and how successful firms can become unsuccessful. It is not a case about Apple and why it has become successful. This case study explores the rise of the Apple Corporation. The Apple iPod is one of the most successful new product launches in recent years, transforming the way the public listens to music, with huge ramifications for major record labels. More than 50 million MP3 players are expected to be sold in 2005; over a third more than last year. Mobile phones have
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OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify
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Pepsi nuts over new nut snack Chaitali Chakravarty, ET TEAM Nov 21, 2001, 10.02pm IST enthused by the profits that fritolay has generated, parent pepsi, is adding more to its snackfood subsidiary. the company is set to roll out a new nut-based snack, nutyumz, nationally. also, plans are afoot to eventually drop lehar from the lehar kurkure brand. sources said that lehar kurkure has been earning a substantial amount for fritolay (it accounts for more than one-third of its total turnover) and it
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CONTENTS PAGE 1.INTRODUCTION 03 2.LITERATURE REVIEW 04 3.ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION 09 4.CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 12 5.REFERENCES 14 Introduction: A coin has two sides, its universally
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