ankaj Ghemawat, Raymond Hill, L.G. Thomas "Southern Co. Investment in CEMIG" Harvard Business School Case 707-512 In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive privatization of Brazil's electric sector. Brazil's privatization was, in turn, part of a world wide movement toward deregulation
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Lee, H. 2010. Don’t Tweak Your Supply Chain – Rethink It End to Tend. Harvard Business Review. Vol. 88, Issue 10, 63-69 As a company, sustainability is important, and you have to undergo certain steps in order to achieve maximal sustainability. Main points: -Sustainability should be integrated in the core of the operations. -Work together with operations close to yourselves in order to gain sustainability. -Examine the all the links in your supply chain and decide whether or not they can be
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Hacking Into Harvard Discussion Questions: 1. Suppose that you had been one of the MBA applicants who stumbled across an opportunity to learn your results early. What would you have done, and why? Would you have considered it a moral decision? If so, on what basis would you have made it? I would have not made the decision to learn my results early and honestly it would have been from fear of being caught or someone finding out which could possible ruin my chances at something great. Not checking
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MGMT 6170 February 18, 2012 Harvard Business Case Analysis How would you categorize Kearney’s commitment to the company? How might you change or maintain this commitment? Eugene Kearney is very committed to Old Colony Associates (OCA). Kearney is committed in that he has been with the company for 13 years, loves going to work every day and aspires to maintain a higher level management position. However, he clearly needs to make improvements to his current level of commitment to OCA. Kearney needs
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Making sustainability profitable Haanaes, K., D. Michael, J. Jurgens, S. Rangan. March 2013. Harvard Business Review. Vol. 91, Issue 3, Page 110—114 “We are moving to a world of scarce resources, in which companies will increasingly need to consider their total return not just on assets and equity, but on resources” ¹. Sustainability leads to innovation and effectiveness. It is hard for companies to believe that a sustainable production manner can be less expensive than a ‘quick-lowering-cost’
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Harvard Business Case 10-16-07 The Overhead Reduction Task Force: A Case Analysis The Facts Central Foods Corporation just hired a new General Manager, Georgia Dixon, to run the deteriorating Countertop Appliances Division. This new division was formed after Central Foods acquired Kitchen Help, Inc. six years ago. With sales decreasing quite dramatically over the past three years and overhead costs at their peak, Dixon is in charge of implementing positive changes in her department. For
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62 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW Many have argued that the Internet renders strategy obsolete. In reality, the opposite is true. Because the Internet tends to weaken industry profitability without providing proprietary operational advantages, it is more important than everfor companies to distinguish themselves through strategy. The winners will be those that view the Internet as a complement to, not a cannibal of, traditional ways of competing. Strategy and the by Mich36l E. Porter Internet
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Infosys: Summary In 1981 Narayana Murthy and six colleagues established Infosys with $250; it is an organization created for professionals by professionals that promised to be fair to its “infoscions” (employees), customers, and shareholders (Delong, 2006, p. 1). The company’s overall vision was to become a “global company” that developed wealth in an honorable manner by redistributing funds to the poor and provide fairness to all (Delong, 2006, p. 3). Infosys worked in the information technology
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There are 3 points which are in dispute between owners and players. These are 1) Roster depreciation 2) Overstated players salary expense 3) Related-party transactions 1. Roster depreciation Owners say that they bought the Zephyr’s in 1982 for 24 million dollars, and insist that it is applicable to the amortization of 50% of that price over a period of six years. On the other hand, players say that the depreciation expense arises only when a team is sold, and moreover, the depreciation is not real
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The case of White House Passes The presidential residence of United States of America is probably one of the most secure and locked up places in the this Earth. That does not mean that the visitors are allowed. Indeed, there is a separate section of the office in the White House which handles all sorts of visitors’ passes. And not only visitors’ passes, but also passes related to scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and any such requirement. Even the pizza delivery man has to obtain a pass
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