Case Analyses March 12‚ 2012 Burlington Industries‚ Inc. v. Ellerth 524 U.S. 742 (1998) I. FACTS: Kimberly Ellerth quit her job as a sales person at Burlington Industries after working there for 15 months. Her reasoning was that her supervisor‚ Ted Slowik‚ was sexually harassing her. Ellerth did not inform any other supervisors‚ and therefore the company was unaware of Slowik’s actions with Ellerth. Despite her refusals with Slowik’s advances‚ Ellerth did not suffer any tangible retaliation
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Apple‚ Inc. 2014 and the Global Smartphone Industry Learning Objectives • The dynamics of industries and customers change over time and its implications for strategic actions • The nature of sustainable competitive advantage • The timing of strategic moves • Multisided business platforms • The challenge of reinvigorating competitive advantage through innovation • The role of technology standards in competitiveness • Role
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What is the evolution of the industry structure over time and its implication for strategic positioning? PC buyers can be classified in to home‚small- and medium-sized business (SMB)‚corporate‚ education‚ and government. Home consumers represented the biggest segment‚ accounting for nearly half of the worldwide shipments. Evolution : Though the first commercial computer (UNIVAC) was released in 1951 the credit of mass marketization of computers should be given to Apple-I computer in 1976. Though
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APPLE CASE STUDY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT GENERAL INFORMATION • Apple Inc.‚ is a multinational consumer electronics and computer software corporation. • Headquartered in California. • Formerly known as Apple Computer Inc. • Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and 2009. APPLE STRATEGY • The transformations that occurred during the years from inception to present day have included many strategic management variations that drove the equipment and software
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SCM Case Analysis: Apple‚ Inc. Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management Capella University April 23‚ 2014 Apple is one of the most widely known companies in the world. They started as a computer company in 1976. Apple is now a Fortune 500 company and have been voted as having the best supply chain for the past several years by the IT research team Gartner. Many factors make them number one. Apple was not always the supply chain kings. A smart firm recognizes their weaknesses‚
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Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) declared today its new deals and profit objectives for the Company through 2018. In particular‚ the Company detailed that it has set up goals for add up to Company deals to develop to $2.2 billion before the finish of the 2018 schedule year with net wage from proceeding with tasks expanding to $150 million. Weakened income for each offer from continuing with activities developing to $4.25 per share amid a similar period. The Company showed that it means to accomplish
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1. Introduction to Apple Company Steve Jobs alongside Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Inc. under the objective of nurturing innovation in the computer business. Like any other company‚ the starting of Apple Inc. involved challenges of dealing with competition‚ winning the market share‚ unfavorable response from customers‚ lack of innovation‚ and lack of recognition by potential clients. With all these challenges acting against the ability of Apple to thrive in the computer business
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Apple Company Apple Company The Apple Company it’s one of the most successful companies nowadays. This paper talks about how the company starts its empire‚ and the methods they use to advertise‚ sell and have the competitive advantage over the rest of the companies. The beginning of the most innovative company today started not so successful as it is today. Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs were friends since college
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Cultural Uniformity versus Heterogeneity. Cultures differ from organization to another depending upon the leaders of the organization on how they shape organizational culture. It is merely dependant on the core business of the organization and vital values that needs to be embedded in an organization. They are many organizations who adopt uniformity in their organization cultures whereas others they adopt heterogeneity prospective in their organization culture. Nowadays many organizations prefer
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“Marketing Apple” Joshua Alvarez Marketing 3331 Fall 2014 Marketing Apple Apple Inc. was founded on April 1‚ 1976 in a garage by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak‚ the young entrepreneurs brought different strength to their fledgling company. Jobs had a flair for conceptualizing products‚ while Wozniak had the technical know-how to make them happen. Apple Incorporated is an American corporation that designs and manufactures computer hardware‚ software and other consumer
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