and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$24.1 billion in its fiscal year 2012 (ending May 31, 2012). As of 2012, it employed more than 44,000 people worldwide. In 2010 the brand alone was valued at $10.7 billion, making it the most valuable brand among sports businesses. The company was founded on January 25, 1964, as Blue Ribbon Sports, by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1971. The company takes its name from Nike, the
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NEGOTIATION S P E C I A L R E P O R T Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Helping you build successful agreements and partnerships Business Negotiation Skills 5 Common Business Negotiation Mistakes In this Special Report, the experts and editors from Harvard’s Program on Negotiation offer advice from past issues of the Negotiation newsletter to help you avoid common pitfalls and build better relationships and agreements with your colleagues, clients, and those closest to you. You will
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It’s far more than the cliché “getting close to the customer” What the Hell Is ‘Market Oriented'? by Benson P Shapiro The air hung heavy in French Lick, Indiana. A tornado watch was in effect that morning, and the sky was black. In a meeting room in one of the local resort hotels, where top management of the Wolverine Controller Company had gathered, the atmosphere matched the weather. Recent results had been poor for the Indianapolis- based producer of flow controllers for process industries
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Nintendo Case Digest – Team Pops BA 170 THR Nintendo, a pioneer of home video game consoles, has redefined how video games are to be played in this modern age. The innovative Nintendo Wii, with its unconventional remote-like game controller, proved to be a huge success for the Japanese corporation, instantly taking the top spot again after almost a decade of trailing behind Sony and Microsoft in the realm of video game consoles. Positioning Wii to become the go-to-game console of hardcore
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Managing Organizations & Leading People C200 Tuwanna McDaniel WGU Student 000555757 Managing Organizations & Leading People Task 1 Managing Organizations & Leading People C200 A1. Organization Description Describe the organization and its objectives Youth Villages is a residential mental health treatment facility for children founded in 1986. The owner Patrick Lawler, combined two residential campuses at that time to create one Youth Villages. The company's main goal then and now is
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change Making sourcing more efficient Boosting yields at a factory Closing a plant Lessons observed Tie training to business goals. FOOTNOTE Listen Select: Section: Applied Insight Tools, techniques, and framewoeks for managers Putting leadership development at the heart of a major operations-improvement effort paid big dividends for a global industrial company. Few companies can avoid big, periodic changes in the guts of their business. Whatever the cause- market maturation, a tough macro-economic
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systems for managing and motivating their high-performance and high-potential employees—and for getting rid of their mediocre ones. Management thinkers have widely endorsed this approach: Larry Bossidy, in the best-selling book Execution, for example, calls this sort of differentiation among employees “the mother’s milk of building a performance culture.” But focusing exclusively on A players puts, well, the horse before the cart. High performers aren’t going to add much value to an organization if they’re
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| 2014 | | MGT 306 | [Apple Inc] | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Introduction into Apple: Apple Inc. was founded in 1976 and incorporated in 1977; it is headquartered in Cupertino, California. Apple’s focus is designing and developing personal computers and other software programs
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Ainsworth There are calls for more funding to be put into the mental health system. Mental health advocates fear more lives will be lost if more support is not given to the sector. Transcript LEIGH SALES: The battle over scarce government dollars is in its final weeks ahead of the Federal Budget on May 10th. The Cabinet met today to discuss what's in and out and tomorrow night, the Prime Minister will set out her framework for what's already being sold as a tough budget. Mental
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“How am I doing as a leader?” asks Larry Bossidy, CEO of AlliedSignal in a meeting with his operating mangers. “The answer is, how are the people you lead doing? Do they learn? Do they visit customers? Do they manage conflict and initiate change? Are they growing and being promoted? “When you retire, you won’t remember what you did in the first quarter of 1994, or the third. You’ll remember how many people you developed – how many you helped have a better career because of your interest and dedication
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