CASE #4: 3M Canada: Industrial Business Division PROBLEM RECOGNITION * The target is to increase growth rate from 3-5% to 12-15% in 18 months * OEM market is mature with limited prospects of expansion * Ultimately shifting overall focus from OEM market to MRO market * High unfamiliarity and low exposure to the MRO market * IBD’s share of distributor sales was 2% of distributors’ revenue * Transitioning focus from Special and Niche accounts to Large National accounts
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CASE on PLANNING: The ADAMS CORPORATION I. Viewpoint. Price Millman‚ the new President & Chief Executive Officer of the Adams Corporation [“Adams”] II. Statement of the Problem: Despite continuously increasing sales in the past 20 years‚ Adams’ net profit has continuously dropped during the same period. The new controlling owner group wants a new corporate design that will improve effectiveness. III. Objectives: To formulate and implement a new corporate design that will improve
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Biological and Chemical Outline Biological and chemical warfare has been around since the beginning of time. From poison tipped arrows to purposely transmitting smallpox to individuals. There has been ongoing political conflict on biological and chemical warfare for quite some time for legitimate reasons too. Biological and chemical warfare is very deadly and sometimes inhumane‚ but on the other hand it is very cost efficient and is very effective at doing its job. Biological and chemical warfare
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Multinational Corporations (MNC’s) are an integral field of study in International Political Economy (IPE) due to its economical and political powers excered in the global market. An MNC is a cooperation that has a home base along with foreign locations abroad where they practice their productivity through foreign direct investment (FDI). there is a specific relation between the home and foreign locations of the cooperation; for example most MNC’s are home based in the United States‚ Japan or Europe
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Assignment File 37 Assignment 4 Due date: 7 June 2010 Read the case ’ Strategic and Organizational Change at Black & Decker ’ and answer the questions below. Each question carries 25% of the marks for this assignment. Questions How would you characterize Black & Decker ’s international expansion during the 1950s and 1960s? What strategy was the company pursuing? What was the key feature of the international organization structure that Black & Decker operated with at this time? Did Black
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Cerner is an international healthcare information technology corporation specializing in providing complete systems for hospitals and other medical organizations to manage and integrate all electronic medical records‚ computerized physician order entry‚ and financial information. Cerner is based out of Kansas City‚ MO and was founded in 1979 and was originally named PGI & Associates. It was renamed Cerner in 1984 when it rolled out its first system‚ PathNet. The company went public in 1986‚ and today
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SHARP® CORPORATION: BEYOND JAPAN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT TABLE OF CONTENT PROBLEM STATEMENT ……………………..…… 3 ANALYSIS ………………............… 3 DISCUSSION OF ALTERNATIVES ………………………….. 4 RECOMMENDATION …………………………. 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY …………………………. 5 CITATIONS ………………………… 7 EXHIBITS ………………………… 8 PROBLEM STATEMENT Sharp Corporation needs a major overhaul of its business model. Sharp’s previous
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Benefits: (1). Controlled quality By choosing option 3‚ Stryker Corporation can control the quality of PCB by itself. PCB manufactured in its own facility can meet Stryker’s quality requirement better than those from different contract manufacturers. Moreover‚ the quality can be more stable. Stryker would not suffer from the risk of contract manufacturers’ bankruptcy any longer. (2). Reduced cost and higher efficiency Stryker Corporation can relief its human resource from looking for new suppliers
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integration. What is interesting‚ Ghemawat became the youngest ‘guru’ included in the guide of the greatest management thinkers of all time published by The Economist in 2008. Among other research articles‚ he is an author of “The Cosmopolitan Corporation’ published in Harvard Business Review’ in May 2011. In his short thesis‚ Ghemawat claims that the global approach to the business mangement many thinkers adopt is wrong. According to his dissertation “the vast majority of firms are deeply rooted
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on what special rights and restrictions are attached to the shares‚ and how the profits of the corporation are paid out to the shareholders‚ there is the possibility of double taxation: the corporation must pay taxes on its profits and the shareholder may be subject to taxation on the profits paid out. This can result in greater taxation than if a corporation was not used for the business. C corporations pay taxes on profits when corporate income is distributed to owners (shareholders) in the form
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