important * The company has a really strong leadership. The fact that Li & Fung was and is still, in a way, a family business make the leader strongly committed to the success of the firm. Plus both of the current directors are really well publicly traded * Both of the Brothers educated at Harvard Business School * Victor completed his Ph.D and Taught at Harvard for 4 years * 1972 He returned to Hong Kong to modernize the company management * Really good global sourcing network
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Case analysis : SG Cowen – New Recruits 1. What are the key decision points used by S.G. Cowen in making hiring decisions? What is your evaluation of the process used by the firm? SG Cowen utilized a well‐developed, tiered process to make hiring decisions on potential candidates. SG Cowen first conducts informational sessions at on‐campus recruiting events to describe the firm, its benefits and steps in the recruiting/hiring process. They use these first‐round interviews, in advance of the
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that’s babysitting. Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones. Then they manage the resulting distress. The Work of Leadership by Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 2 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 3 The Work of Leadership 14 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the
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advances to the next year and presents the financial results of your investments. The Case Study is a real-world case study, which will help you to know what’s going on in the real corporate world. Curtin University has bought the copyright from Harvard Business School and paid almost half of the Finance Simulation: Capital Budgeting, New Heritage Doll Simulation for each student. The simulation is a useful software and tool containing all information and calculations in order to help the CEO to make
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Marketing Myopia, Journal Article 1 Sylvia DeSormeau Marketing Management, MKT 308 Rob Koonce, Instructor May 1, 2009 "Marketing Myopia" is an article published in the Harvard Business Review originally in 1960. The very fact that it is still being used as a teaching tool in a marketing class in 2009 speaks volumes for the article's central message, that top executives must define their industries correctly. It seems simple enough, and yet Levitt supplies the reader with many examples of industries
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tackle the challenges of product companies. Although they are valuable to service managers, they aren't sufficient for success. In this article, Harvard Business School's Frei explains why and urges companies to add some new ones to the mix. After years of extensive research and analysis, she offers an approach for crafting a profitable service business based on four critical elements: the design of the offering, employee management, customer management, and the funding mechanism. Just like a product
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Chateau Margaux Case Study International Business March 19th, 2012 “Who knows whether this ancient system will still be working in 20 years or so?” (Executive Manager of Chateau Margaux). This quote, spoken by an executive manager, very proficiently sums up what is happening to the Chateau brand. The Chateau brand has always prided themselves in their unique process for creating one of the world’s finest wines. However they refuse to change their ways because they are afraid it would damage
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sales resources. Hill-Rom’s new approach is to apply the appropriate sales approach to the specific preferences and needs of two types of customers: prime and key. I think the new approach of Hill-Rom is indeed effective given the nature of its business. However, I think caution must be taken since customer segmentation can be done in many ways depending primarily on the nature and size of an organization, and in some cases segmentation may not be very useful. For example, customer segmentation
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internally to fill leadership positions. The company typically had a very low turnover rate which resulted in an older and more tenured workforce. Over the years, Southern Company developed a group of leaders that possessed a profound level of business knowledge and aligned with the organization and culture. Southern Company hired a large number of people in the late 1970s and 1980s, so by 2003, most of those individuals that had remained with the company were beginning to retire. At Southern
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Olga Vidisheva—founder and CEO of Shoptiques.com, an online platform that allows small fashion boutiques from all over the world to have an online retail presence. Vidisheva, a Harvard Business School grad, left a job with Goldman Sachs to develop her idea for Shoptiques in Y Combinator. She’s since raised $3 million in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Benchmark, SV Angel, William Morris Endeavor Agency and Y Combinator. Shoptiques revenue hit $3 million in 2014. Oliver Miao—Co-founder
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