Case Study WORKPLACE VIOLENCE On Wednesday‚ January 26‚ 2005‚ 54-year-old Myles Meyers walked into Daimler Chrysler’s Toledo‚ Ohio‚ assembly plant holding a double-barrel shotgun under his coat. Myers‚ a Jeep repairman‚ approached Yiesha Martin‚ a 27-year-old stock supervisor‚ and stated his intentions. He was there to murder three supervisors: Mike Toney‚ 45‚ Roy Thacker‚ 50‚ and Carrie Woggerman‚ 24. Afterward‚ he said‚ he would turn the gun on himself. "1 was shaking and I started to cry
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Morrissey Forgings‚ Inc. This heavily disguised case is set in the "mature" woodstoves business in 1986. It is not based on The Vermont Castings Company. The issue is product line strategy based on product line profitability. In early 1986‚ Tim Morrissey was reviewing the disappointing 1985 results of operations for his company (see Exhibit 1). The business had been founded in 1938 by Tim’s grandfather as a modernization of an older iron forge company which Tim’s great-great-grandfather had
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nextgeneration products. That advice hasn’t been much help to navigationproduct makers like TomTom‚ Garmin‚ and Magellan. Free navigation apps‚ now preloaded on every smartphone‚ are not only cheaper but better than the stand-alone devices those companies sell. And thanks to the robust platform provided by the iOS and Android operating systems‚ navigation apps are constantly improving‚ with new versions distributed automatically through the cloud. The disruption here hasn’t come from competitors
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rP os t HKU978 NIKHIL CELLY op yo HAIER IN INDIA: BUILDING PRESENCE IN A MASS MARKET BEYOND CHINA In a short 25 years‚ Haier Inc had emerged from being a small refrigerator factory in northeast China to becoming the world’s biggest appliance seller by retail volume. It had exported to developed markets in the 1990s‚ set up factories overseas and created a global retail chain that made it an unmatched success in China. This company that made its name by exporting refrigerators
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Situation Royal Bank Canada is a financial institute that owns and operates RBC Insurance - a Canadian owned financial institute headquartered in Mississauga‚ Ontario. Operating globally‚ RBC Insurance has over 5 million clients in the United States‚ Canada‚ and in international markets. Through its operating entities‚ RBC Insurance provides a wide range of travel‚ life‚ health‚ home‚ auto‚ wealth and reinsurance‚ as well as creditor and business insurance services‚ to individual and group clients
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increased rate of unemployed and job dissatisfaction. As imply‚ many people engaged in direct selling because direct selling have the vast opportunities available to young and old alike to earn additional income to supplement their lifestyle‚ and in this case‚ their golden years. The context of this study will define what sales agent is‚ how they perform; what are the importance of rewards to the effectiveness performance of sales agents in selling products and how does distributors motivate their salespeople/sales
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I. Situation Analysis. Tweeter is a specialty electronics store‚ which dealt in middle and high end electronics in the New England area. The majority of consumers in the market for electronics are interested in price and Tweeter is in most cases well above the other retailers advertised starting prices. The middle and high end electronics are sold at around the same prices in all stores‚ but the product offerings made by Tweeter and the competitors advertising has made it price somewhat uncompetitive
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I Case Study: AdMob Index I. II. III. 1 2 List of Figures ................................................................................................................... II List of Tables ..................................................................................................................... II Abbreviations ................................................................................................................. II Introduction ......................................
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HKU833 STEPHEN KO AIRASIA: FLYING LOW-COST WITH HIGH HOPES AirAsia started out as a Malaysian government-controlled‚ full-service regional airline that offered slightly lower fares than its number-one competitor‚ Malaysia Airlines (“MAS”). In December 2001‚ private entrepreneur Tony Fernandes took over the debt-ridden airline for the symbolic sum of US$0.26. Despite the air-travel downturn following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks‚ Fernandes believed that the timing for entering
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Sample Case Analysis – Google 22-BA-5080-002 Summer Semester‚ 2013 SUMMARY One of the major drivers of future success for both Google and Microsoft is the ability of both companies to use software applications to “drive eyeballs” to advertisers. Each company is positioned differently in this regard. Microsoft has a sizable‚ mature installed base of app users‚ but the company’s business model is currently focused on selling these apps as a consumer product to users‚ rather than on advertising
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