Spanish retailer‚ Zara‚ has crafted a sweet success story riding on its image as a low-cost‚ high fashion store. Nirmalya Kumar and Sophie Linguri take to the High Street to look at Zara’s route from rags to riches. I n 1975‚ the first Zara store was opened in La Coruña‚ in Northwest Spain. By 2005‚ Zara’s 723 stores had a selling area of 811‚100 square metres in 56 countries. With sales of e3.8 billion in the financial year 2004‚ Zara had become Spain’s best-known fashion brand and the flagship
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Textron Case 1) How does Textron make money? Textron is able to make money as a result of 4 defining aspects of its business model: a. Textron is a conglomerate: by purchasing a variety of companies‚ Textron is able to share technology between its business units thus increasing its competitive advantage in these respective units. For instance‚ lessons learned in aerodynamics at Bell Helicopters can be used in the construction of aircraft at Cessna. Additionally‚ because of Textron ’s
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Cases Summary CJUS 350 Angela McIntosh The three cases that are mentioned and studied are Brady v. Maryland‚ Giglio v. United States‚ and United States v. Agurs. These cases are important to the history of how cases are presented and with what evidence is made available to the jury. With Brady v. Maryland‚ it was the first time that the Supreme Court recognized that the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause is to ensure and guarantee that the criminal defendants are given
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notes: This case uses the multiplicative version of the DuPont model to analyze operations at two retail companies. Both companies have very straightforward financial statements and most students are familiar with the companies. The analysis can be as simple or as multi-faceted as instructors choose. The case begins with the qualitative side of financial statement analysis. The questions here are unstructured so that instructors can tailor the case to their preferences. The case then walks students
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CASE 9: Horniman Horticulture 1. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the company Horniman Horticulture. - Horniman Horticulture has a variety of strengths and weaknesses‚ among them are a mix of quantitative numbers to support the performance as well as qualitative factors to support the performance. We should address the management to start with and their business philosophies. One of the co-owners Bob Brown has a very strong work ethic‚ which he has achieved through his fathers personal
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Cor porate Social Responsibility in Supply Chain Management: A Case Study on NTUC FairPrice Cooperative Ltd Singapore Written by Chua Ker Sin Senior Executive Singapore Compact for CSR With contributions from Ms Evelyn Sue Wong Advisor‚ Research and Publications Singapore Compact for CSR Case Study: Singapore The case was developed with the cooperation of Singapore Compact for CSR solely for educational purposes as a contribution to the Project entitled “New Corporate Procurement
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Case 11 Horniman Horticulture 1. What is your assessment of the financial performance of Horniman Horticulture? a. Horniman has strong profitability and no long term debt. Revenues are growing and the net profit is growing with it. They have continued to grow revenues while keeping COGS stable at 48-53%. SG&A is also a steady 38-39%. In addition the ROA and ROC are both way above industry standards. However‚ the company’s cash available has dramatically decreased from 11 to less than 1% over the
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Motivational Theories on Human Behaviour in Organizations 1.3 Motivation & Job Satisfaction Readings: Luthans‚ F. (2008): Organisational Behaviour.Chapter 6 Robbins‚ S.P.‚ Judge & Sanghi‚ Seema (2009): Organizational Behaviour. Chapter 6 Case Study: Keeping the Volunteers Working Hard at Amnesty International UK. Behavior in Organizations by Greenberg and Baron. Pp 285-286. 2 3 Application of Motivation Concepts 3.1 Job Characteristics Model 3.2 Employee Recognition and Involvement
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Vodafone case study Vodafone improves customer acquisition and retention with Accelerated Intelligence™ Overview The UK mobile telecommunications market is one of the most competitive in the world and‚ as a consequence‚ customer attrition or ’churn’ is high. In 2005‚ as part of a strategy to build on its market leadership‚ Vodafone UK began the quest for a competitor intelligence tool that would help its sales advisors reduce customer attrition and secure new sales. Vodafone wanted a service that
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Labor Relations at TKM From the time it started production operations in 2000‚ TKM had had a history of disturbed relations between the management and the workers. Prior to the strike and lockout in January 2006‚ the plant had experienced three other strikes: two in 2001‚ and a strike and a lockout in 2002 that lasted for almost two months. The first strike at TKM began in April 2001‚ and it went on for about two days. The second one was in June the same year. In 2002‚ the company decided to call
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