be the production cost and what would be the selling cost, knowing those data, you can estimate the profit for a certain period, and with that, you can know if its profitable to start in this area. It’s important to understand, before starting a business to have the whole thing strategically planned. To have a good innovation starting I would say you need to try to develop in a market pull instead of technology push. With this, is easier to get your technology out there and sell it for sure, because
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שאלה 1 הרגולציה שהייתה קיימת בענף חברות התעופה בארה"ב עד 1978 קבעה חלוקה של מסלולים בין חברות התעופה והגדירה תעריפים עבור טיסות. כתוצאה מכך התחרות בענף הייתה מתונה ועלויות חדשות גולגלו בעיקר לכיוון הצרכן, מה שאיפשר לענף שולי רווח סבירים ויציבים. תחת הגנה זו התאפשרה לענף התעופה התפתחות בתחום תנאי התעסוקה ואיכות/טבע השירות. הסרת הרגולציה ב-1978 פתחה את השוק לתחרות על מסלולים ומחירים. חברות LCC נכנסו לענף ,חזקו מעמדן בגזרת הטיסות האזרחיות והיוו איום ממשי על חברות התעופה הקיימות (the incumbents). הענף
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10/8/12 The Sustainable Supply Chain ‑ Harvard Business Review The Sustainable Supply Chain An Interview with Peter Senge by Steven Prokesch To make progress on environmental issues, Peter Senge says, organizations must understand that they’re part of a larger system. Senge, the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning, a faculty member at MIT Sloan School of Management, and the author of The Fifth Discipline and The Necessary Revolution, spoke with HBR senior editor Steven Prokesch
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Harvard Business School 9-600-047 March 3, 2000 A FALL BEFORE RISING: THE STORY OF JAI JAIKUMAR (A) D 434. It would seem almost as though there were a cordon drawn round the upper part of these great peaks beyond which no man may go. The truth of course lies in the fact that, at altitudes of 25,000 feet and beyond, the effects of low atmospheric pressure upon the human body are so severe that really difficult mountaineering is impossible and the consequences even of a mild storm may
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when it chose to diversify into additives and other specialty chemicals, developing these products within their own research laboratory in 1953 (Bartlett & Winig, 2012). Kent Chemical Products has grown throughout the years from its core domestic business to an international operation struggling to fully integrate globally. In 1998, CEO Ben Fisher decided global expansion would be Kent’s top priority stating, “Our goal is to remake Kent from a U.S. company dabbling in international markets to one
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Samsung Electronics 1. Introduction: With the introduction of new Chinese competitors in the DRAM market it is necessary for Samung to access their strategy for the future. Looking at past trends in the DRAM market, current market situation, and projections for the Flash market, the best option for Samsung is to focus their efforts on growing the Flash technology, while maintaining their DRAM output. This is the best course of action
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(both from Harvard Business Press). The seven seismic shifts of perspective and responsibility by Michael D. Watkins How Managers Become Leaders June 2012 Harvard Business review 65 SPOTLIGHT ON LEADERSHIP arald (not his real name) is a highpotential leader with 15 years of experience at a leading European chemical company. He started as an assistant product manager in the plastics unit and was quickly transferred to Hong Kong to help set up the unit’s new Asian business center. As
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BRIEF CASES THOMAS R. PIPER JEFFREY DEVOLDER Jones Electrical Distribution -HARVARD ~BUSINESS \g7 PUBLISHING 4179 APRIL 6, 2010 After several years of rapid growth, in the spring of 2007 Jones Electrical Distribution anticipated a further substantial increase in sales. Despite good profits, the company had experienced a shortage of cash and had found it necessary to increase its borrowing from Metropolitan Bank-a local onebranch bank-to $250,000 in 2006. The maximum loan that Metropolitan
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Positioning Analysis Profitability The introduction of Clean Edge as a niche product would yield an increase in operating profit of $3.62 million and $27.75 million (1st and 2nd year respectively) after taking into account the cost of cannibalization. In comparison, introducing it as a mainstream product would result in a decrease in operating profit of $14.22 million for the 1st year and an increase of $17.06 million in the 2nd year. From the aforementioned figures, we can conclude that introducing
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Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto Swordplay as Philosophy by Scot Conway As an interesting historical aside, my mother’s maiden name was Arakawa. Her mother’s maiden name was Fujiwara. Musashi Miyamoto was a member of the noble family of Fujiwara, a family was one of the most powerful noble families as long as a thousand years ago. Musashi Miyamoto apparently did not have any children, so there is no chance that my grandmother was a descendant, but it is at least an interesting historical
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