An Integrated Approach to Strategy Running Case Featuring Wal-Mart Wal-Mart’s Competitive Advantage (Chapter 1) ● Working Conditions at Wal-Mart (Chapter 2) ● Wal-Mart’s Bargaining Power over Suppliers (Chapter 3) ● Human Resource Strategy and Productivity at Wal-Mart (Chapter 4) ● How Wal-Mart Became a Cost Leader (Chapter 5) ● Wal-Mart’s Global Expansion (Chapter 6) ● WalMart Internally Ventures a New Kind of Retail Store (Chapter 8) ● Sam Walton’s Approach to Implementing Wal-Mart’s Strategy
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cause great firms to fail / Clayton M. Christensen. p. cm. — (The management of innovation and change series) Includes index. ISBN 0-87584-585-1 (alk. paper) 1. Creative ability in business. 2. Industrial management. 3. Customer services. 4. Success in business. I. Title. II. Series. HD53.C49 1997 658—DC20 96-10894 CIP ISBN 0-87584-585-1 (Microsoft Reader edition) 3 Contents In Gratitude Introduction PART ONE: WHY GREAT COMPANIES CAN FAIL 1 How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights
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BLACKBERRY Takeover by FAIRFAX by by Anubhav Gaur SMBA12045 Section B Anubhav Gaur SMBA12045 Section B TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknoledgement Summary blackberry ltd. Section 1.1 : History Section 1.2 : Strategic Changes Section 1.3 : Success in Market place Section 1.4 : Changes in Financial Fortunes Section 1.5 : Financial Fortunes FAIRFAX LTD. Section 2.1 : Corporate Governance Section 2.2 : History Section 2.3 : Credit Ratings MERGERS & ACQUISATIONS Section 3.1 : Legal
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magine a criminal using your nanny cam to watch your house Can You Trust Your Fricge? TODAY'S INTERNET OF THINGS IS FULL OF SECURITY FLAWS. WE MUST DO BETTER By Alan Grau • Illustration by J D King or to scream at your child—or even to post footage of your home on a crime boss's website. And suppose your refrigerator were spewing spam e-mail, enraging people you'd never even met. The Internet of Things has been touted as many things. But what you haven't heard is that it could
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[pic] AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH – AIUB ‘ Business to Business marketing’ Report on: Intel Submitted to: Khan tahsina nimmi Lecturer Department of Marketing School of Business Submitted By: |Rased Abdur |09-14501-2 | |Anoy Md Shakib Ahamed |09-14497-2
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S w W11594 FROM IN-HOUSE TO JOINT R&D: THE WAY FORWARD FOR NOKIA DENMARK PhD student Marcus Møller Larsen and Professor Torben Pedersen wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation prohibits any form of reproduction
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an exploration as follows: Broadly, what are the implications of the Multiple Aspiration & Poverty Lines (MAPL) theory for brand positioning, communication and portfolio management? What drives brand success in the Indian context? What strategies have these brands used to achieve success- to what degree are these brands wedded to symbols of aspiration /belongingness in each social class? How did the brands that were not so successful in the Indian market falter on making the right connections
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THE TRANSITION TO MOBILE IS DANGEROUS 4 TRAP #1 - CLINGING TO LEGACY: ‘PORTING’ A COMPUTER APP OR WEBSITE TO MOBILE 8 TRAP #2 - CREATING FEAR: FEEDING MOBILE ANXIETY 17 TRAP #3 - CREATING CONFUSION: CRYPTIC INTERFACES AND CROOKED SUCCESS PATHS 23 TRAP #4 - CREATING BOREDOM: FAILURE
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CUTTING EDGE: OUR WEEKLY ANALYSIS OF MARKETING NEWS 12 March 2014 Welcome to our weekly analysis of the most useful marketing news for CIM, CAM and Sales Leadership Alliance members. Quick links to sections Marketing trends and issues Advertising Consumer perceptions of expense This study examines whether consumers make judgments about brands not just on the basis of what is communicated in advertising but on how the message is communicated. In particular it investigates the effect
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but companies are still largely feeling their way Inside this issue Cautionary tales David Gelles finds reasons to be careful when companies take advertising online Page 2 B2B Paul Taylor sees a chance for business to gain traction with customers Page 2 Ownership Ajay Makan looks at the wide variety of corporate responses Page 2 Viral campaigns April Dembosky looks behind the success of internet sensations Page 3 Marketing budgets Tim Bradshaw says campaigns via social media are still often
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