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Brain Consultancy RE: Securing Inventec’s Future Success Being one of Taiwan’s leading Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), in 2005 Inventec stands at a crossroads. So far Inventec’s economic activities focused on designing and manufacturing electronic products for OEMs, mainly western companies, which distributed them using their strong brand names. Since 1995 notebook PCs have been the mainstay of Inventec’s business (Appendix A). However computer industry-wide price and margin erosions
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brothers Joseph and Joel Roberts, along with a chemist, Charles Lachman, who contributed the "L" in the Revlon name. Starting with a single product — a new type of nail enamel — the three founders pooled their resources and developed a unique manufacturing process. Using pigments instead of dyes, Revlon developed a variety of new shades of opaque nail enamel. In 1937, Revlon started selling the polishes in department stores and drug stores. In six years, the company became a multimillion dollar organization
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MORGAN NORTH STANLEY RESEARCH AMERICA Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC Adam S. Parker, Ph.D Adam.Parker@morganstanley.com +1 212 761 1755 Brian T. Hayes, Ph.D Brian.T.Hayes@morganstanley.com Antonio Ortega Antonio.Ortega@morganstanley.com November 26, 2012 Adam J. Gould, CFA Adam.Gould@morganstanley.com US Equity Strategy The 2013 Playbook We are launching our 2013 US equity outlook today. We have been cautious on US equities for much of the last two years. Our concerns
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Appendix : Comprehensive Cases Case 1: Managing Motivation in a Difficult Economy Learning Goals In this case, you’ll have an opportunity to assess a motivational program designed to re-energize a troubled company’s workforce. Acting on behalf of the company’s executive board, you’ll evaluate the board’s current strategy based on survey data. You’ll also advise board members about improving the effectiveness of this program based on what you’ve learned about goal setting and motivation
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disorders, pain management, and cardiovascular disease. Biovail's core competency was its expertise in the development and large-scale manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. It leveraged this expertise by focusing on (1) enhanced formulations of existing drugs, (2) combination products that incorporated two or more different therapeutic classes of drugs, and (3) difficult-to-manufacture generic pharmaceuticals. In the United States, Biovail distributed a number of pharmaceutical products. These
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Appendix : Comprehensive Cases Case 1: Managing Motivation in a Difficult Economy Learning Goals In this case, you’ll have an opportunity to assess a motivational program designed to re-energize a troubled company’s workforce. Acting on behalf of the company’s executive board, you’ll evaluate the board’s current strategy based on survey data. You’ll also advise board members about improving the effectiveness of this program based on what you’ve learned about goal setting and motivation
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Management .................................................................................................... 3 Project Scope Management ............................................................................................................ 3 Project Time Management .............................................................................................................. 3 Project Cost Management ..................................................................................
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Farm subsidy payments are over $10 billion and are authorized to make payments to people “who aren’t even farmers anymore” (Morgan, Gaul, Cohen, 2006, para. 3). This has been going on, in some cases, over 10 years (para. 6). As long as you owned the farmland, you don’t even have to be growing anything and you would continue to receive a subsidy check (para. 3). Bottom line is all these billions of dollars in government subsidies contribute to lowering the cost of processed foods; not a good
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disorders, pain management, and cardiovascular disease. Biovail's core competency was its expertise in the development and large-scale manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. It leveraged this expertise by focusing on (1) enhanced formulations of existing drugs, (2) combination products that incorporated two or more different therapeutic classes of drugs, and (3) difficult-to-manufacture generic pharmaceuticals. In the United States, Biovail distributed a number of pharmaceutical products. These
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