Brand managers Marcilie Smith Boyle (HBS MBA Class of 1996) and Allison Warren were getting together for their weekly Kingsford Charcoal ("Kingsford") debriefing meeting in February 2001 at Clorox's corporate offices in Oakland, CA. As the job-sharing brand managers for the $350 million charcoal business, Smith Boyle and Warren had a lot to discuss during their Wednesday "overlap" day. Both women were assigned to the brand in July 2000, just as it became apparent that the summer results were going to come in below forecast. Since the 1980s, Kingsford had continued to enjoy steady, moderate growth of 1-3 percent in revenues each year. During this time, the charcoal category as a whole had been growing as well. However the summer of 2000 represented the first softening in the overall charcoal category in several years, and Smith Boyle and Warren were tasked with determining the causes and coming up with recommendations.…
Attached is a flyer of the event. Whether an in-kind or financial donation, we would greatly appreciate any assistance that your store may be able to offer is to help make this day enjoyable and successful.…
Part of the reason is that Sears simply didn't sell as many kit houses in that time period, as the Modern Homes business was still getting off the ground. I think another reason is that houses built from 1908-1913 in the older suburbs tended to be located in areas that were part of of suburban downtown redevelopment efforts and were consequently razed. I've found pre-1913 Sears houses in places like the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago, Des Plaines, Woodstock, and now, Itasca.…
Certainly Pacesetter’s business is of the utmost concerns, but the community is just as important. Aviva is proud to continue Pacesetter’s longstanding commitment to giving back, which includes giving days off to employees to fulfil their altruistic endeavors. For Aviva, issues tied to her family certainly matter--such as participating with the Pacesetter Team in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day walk each year and contributing to crohn’s disease and colitis efforts--but she also strives to give to as many worthy causes she can. Other issues that matter deeply to her include the St. Jude's Children Hospital, the exoneration of Leo Frank and other endeavors whenever presented to her.…
Thompson, C. (2012, August 27). Second Mile foundation to close, transfer cash and programs to Texas-based charity | PennLive.com. Retrieved May 2, 2014, from…
On March 25, 1911, 141 people were tragically killed in a completely preventable fire that consumed three floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Those killed were mainly young female immigrants, many of whom couldn’t speak English. Nothing as gruesome had been seen in New York since the 1890’s. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was a man-made disaster, that brought to light the horrible working conditions of the industrial era.…
This experiment was performed to compare how quickly a scented and an unscented candle will burn. The tests were done by comparing the length that the candles will burn in 30 minutes - using unscented, rose scented and apple scented candles.…
Have you ever wondered whether a candle burns more quickly on a hot day, than on a cold day? Or is it the other way around? This science fair project was carried out to compare how quickly a candle will burn at different room temperatures. The experiment was done by measuring how much of a candle will melt in 30 minutes when placed in an environment with surrounding temperatures of 20°C, 25°C and 30°C.…
Problem: What are the requirements for and characteristics of a candle flame? What are the products of the combustion of a candle?…
I am doing my report on what the impact of the Triangle Factory Fire has to do with how our world. It obviously has had many changes and impacted a lot on our world.…
Learned a difficulty to grab the market share in a same way as competitors did.…
Title VII protects employees from being discriminated against based on sex, race, color, national origin and religion. In this case, Fragrante was denied a job position. He was not denied that position based on his religion, sex, race, color or national origin. He was not given the position because of his strong accent when speaking. Being able to speak and be understood by the public was a part of that position. The strong accent prevents that. I believe the Bona Fide Occupational Qualification applies more to this case than title VII. Bona Fide Occupational Qualification allows certain employment discrimination. This discrimination must be business necessary and job related. Honolulu’s division of motor vehicles and licensing had every right…
The current dilemma with World Kitchen is to continuing making Pyrex themselves, or to contract the manufacturing out and buying it that way. This problems has arisen because of the aging Pyrex plant in Charleroi needs an upgrading and they have decided to look at it to see if it is better to outsource it or to upgrade the plant and continue to make it. Pyrex was first started in the early 1900’s by Corning Glass Works. It was made by mistake when Bessie Littleton the wife of a Corning chemist ask her husband to bring home s some strong shatterproof glass for her to use in the kitchen. What her husband did was bring two jars home, made of low- expansion glass. Bessie had cooked a sponge cake in one of the glasses and she found out that the cooking time was shorter, it did not stick to the glass, the flavor washed off of it and did not stick to the glass, and she could see through it to see how the cake was baking. The Chemist then took the cake to his work the following day and had his coworkers look at what she had made with the glass he took home. They then began a two year process to perfect the glass and to start selling it. So in 1915 Pyrex started to hit department and China stores everywhere. World Kitchen was formed in 2000 and is the current owner of Pyrex. World Kitchen already outsources a bunch of their products and this is so they can stay competitive with the competition. That is because with a lot of their current products they are made cheaper overseas versus the cost it would be to make them in the states. By 2006 World Kitchen only owned two plants in United Stated the Pyrex one in Charleroi and a Corelle Plant. The two plants use different forms of technology, the Charleroi plant uses tempering the thick translucent glass while the Corelle plant uses a processes by pressing three layers of thin strengthened opaque glass together. In the Charleroi plant they have a furnace that has to run 24 hours a day and it is…
A. The first step is to gather the equipment you will need (The Basics and Cool Candlemaking Ideas, p. 1).…
A breast cancer awareness month was organized by the Hershey Company which consisted of a “220-miles charity bike ride and limited-edition pink packaging.”…