Strategic management Why strategy? Important simultaneous changes • Terra trends (e.g. aging populations, climate change) • Economic trends (e.g. debt crisis, unemployment) • Technology trends (e.g. nanotechnology, 3D printing, cyber physical systems) • Meta trends (e.g. religions, multiple modernities) Informed customers • More transparency, more information Smart competitors • Innovation, efficiency and surprises Aggressive new global players • China, Hedge Funds Increasingly
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Case Analysis – Week10 DMBA604 9043 – UMUC Summer 2008 July 20, 2008 James Rarick 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Lessons Learned .....................................................
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R. EISENMANN rP KERRY HERMAN Google Inc. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. — Google’s mission statement yo In December 2005, Google paid $1 billion for a 5% stake in Time Warner’s America Online (AOL) unit. The implied $20 billion valuation for AOL came as a surprise; JPMorgan had recently valued the unit at $13.7 billion.1 However, the partnership was important to Google, which had signed a fiveyear deal to
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Are you a Coke or Pepsi drinker? Do you pull into McDonald's golden arches or prefer to "have it your way" at Burger King? When it comes to toothpaste, which flavor gets you brushing, Colgate or Crest? If you think it's just your taste buds that guide these preferences, you may be surprised by what neuroscientists are discovering when they peer inside the brain as it makes everyday choices like these. DEFINITION: Neuromarketing is the application of neuroscience to marketing, how a person’s
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nieuws voor de fabrikanten van luxe goederen, aldus de Boston Consultancy Group. Volgens Boston Consulting Group voelt 88 procent van de Chinese vrouwen zich zeker over hun financiën. In de VS ligt dat percentage op 62 procent. 87 procent van de Chinese vrouwen is niet bang voor baanverlies, tegenover 44 procent in de VS. De Boston Consultancy Group vroeg een groep Chinese vrouwen naar hun favoriete merken: L’Oréal en Lancôme werden vaak genoemd in het beauty-segment, Apple en Samsung wat betreft technologie
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5. Apple’s comeback 6. Small Solutions & Alternatives 7. i Products 8. Acquisitions 9. SWOT Analysis 10. SWOT Analysis Conclusion & Recommendation 11. Strategic Management the Steve Jobs Way 12. PORTER’S Five Forces 13. Microsoft, Apple & Google 14. Fundamental Analysis 15. Financial History 16. Graph Analysis 17. Case Study: Apple’s lawsuit on Samsung, what happened? 18. The components of the lawsuit 19. Bibliography
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Cosmopolitanism, Neo-liberalism, and Global Corporate Social Responsibility Introduction With the rise of globalization come several opportunities as well as threats. On one hand there is the opportunity to overcome problems such as world hunger, poverty, and abuse of human rights. However, on the other hand, globalization could pose as a threat against cultural diversity, as well as allow large corporations and rich governments to exploit human and natural resources in less developed countries
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E-commerce 2014 business. technology. society. tenth edition Kenneth C. Laudon Carol Guercio Traver Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 11 Social Networks, Auctions, and Portals Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 1 Social Networks and Online Communities Internet began as communications medium for scientists Early communities were bulletin boards, newsgroups (e.g., the Well) Today social networks, photo/video sharing
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To my mother and grandmother, whose engineering endeavors paved the way for my own. Copyright © 2011 by Gayle Laakmann. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States
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landscape of information technology. Computing in the “cloud” alludes to ubiquitous and inexhaustible on-demand IT resources accessible through the Internet. Practically every new Internet-based service from Gmail [1] to Amazon Web Services [2] to Microsoft Online Services [3] to even Facebook [4] have been labeled “cloud” offerings, either officially or externally. Although cloud computing has garnered significant interest, factors such as unclear terminology, non-existent product “paper launches”, and
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