KATZ GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Syllabus STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (BSPP 2409) Instructor: Dr. John C. Camillus Donald R. Beall Professor of Strategic Management 338 Mervis Hall Phone: 412/648-1599 Fax: 412/383-7226 E-mail: camillus@katz.pitt.edu Administrative Assistant: Ms. Janice M. Trygar 341 Mervis Hall Phone: 412/648-1529 Fax: 412/648-1693 E-mail: jmtrygar@katz.pitt.edu Office Hours: 1) Mondays 11:00 am to 12:00 noon 2) Wednesdays 2:00 pm
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This case deals with the ethical dilemma that Tobacco manufactures face when selling tobacco products in third world countries. First, there is the ethical dilemma of business versus health. The opening and development of the tobacco business in Third World countries like China, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Africa, is considered against the health consequences of tobacco use which according to an Oxford University epidemiologist, has estimated to cost 3 million lives annually rising to 10 million
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Running head: SUN MICROSYSTEMS CASE STUDY PROJECT SUN Microsystems Case Study Project Jeffery M. Anderson, 105225 BBA 3391-06B, Information Systems Cost Analysis Brief History of SUN Technology and Text Summery Sun Microsystems was born after Stanford University, Palo Alto graduate student Andy Betchtolsheim, conceived a UNIX based workstation he deemed the “68000 Unix System” for a networking project named Stanford University Network. Early February 1982 colleagues Vinod Khosla, Scott
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mathematical operations and logical comparisons, consist of very large scale integrated circuits, can perform billion operations per second, numbers taking from memories as input and results stored in memory as output. -Control Unit: controls the other five compo of the comp system, enables the comp to take advantage of speed and capacity of its other compo, list of operations called a program, these operations read from memory, interpreted and carried out one at a time (stored program concept). –Cache
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MGT401 Term Paper on Submitted To: Submitted By: Mohammad Rezzaur Razzak Kamrijjaman Department Coordinator ID-12304076 BBS sec-01 Date of Submission – 15.12.14 Letter of Transmittal 15th December, 2014 Mohammad Rezaur Razzak Associate Professor BRAC Business School BRAC University Mohakhali, Dhaka. Subject: Submission of
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employees (Forbes, 2013). Revenue for APPL in 2013 has risen from $155.97bn in 2012 to $170.87bn in 2013 (Market watch, 2013) which is a 9.6% increase. The objective of the Porter’s 5 forces model is to identify and elucidate the current levels of competition existing with a market, by examining what the 5 forces involve. ‘The model therefore provides a detailed and nuanced picture of the industry and to make an in-depth analysis with an idea of what factors one can try to influence in order to
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aRtIcle RepRInts call 800-988-0886 oR 617-783-7500, oR vIsIt hbr.org Before I published The Innovator’s Dilemma, I got a call from Andrew Grove, then the chairman of Intel. He had read one of my early papers about disruptive technology, and he asked if I could talk to his direct reports and explain my research and what it implied for Intel. Excited, I flew to Silicon Valley and showed up at the appointed time, only to have Grove say, “Look, stuff has happened. We have
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Before the eighties, computers were large and bulky. IBM and a couple of companies were leading the way towards a smaller PC and mainframes. Intel (which started in the mid-sixties) was starting their own revolution which was making a difference in the burgeoning computer environment. Microsoft and Apple were not yet there, but the biggest thing is that there was no internet. Not like we know it today. No IP Addresses as well. In the seventies, there was a beginning to networking and the IP
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1 Over the past two years Linux has spread like wildfire through corporate data centers. Companies once dependent on expensive proprietary systems from Sun, IBM, or HewlettPackard have replaced them with dirt-cheap Dell or no-name servers that are Intel powered and loaded with the Linux operating system. Linux now runs almost 15 percent of all servers and is growing at about 23 percent a year. And even mainframe systems have joined in, with IBM estimating that over 10 percent of its mainframe sales
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