STRATEGY SESSION 12: Corporate strategy and diversification Reading: - Grant: Chapter 15 SESSION 13: Acquisitions and restructuring Case: Vivendi: Revitalizing a French conglomerate - How good was the strategy followed by Dejouny? - What have been the key decisions made by Messier? How has he been able to create value? - Considering what happened to Vivendi after 1998‚ where did Messier go wrong? Reading: - Grant: Chapter 16 SESSION 14: Diversification and the corporate office Case: PepsiCo
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1.4.1 Klaus Esser 8 1.4.2 Chris Gent 8 2 The Proceedings Of The Merger 9 2.1 Mannesmann Wants Orange 9 2.2 Vodafone Wants Mannesmann 9 2.3 Mannesmann Fights With All Means 9 2.4 Vivendi: The White Knight? 10 2.5 Finally Vodafone Wins 11 3 The Future: Bright And Sparkling? 11 3.1 Vodafone – Mannesmann: The Biggest Player 11 3.2 Creating A New Brand: Forget About “Mannesmann” 13 3.3
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Etymologically Utopia means “nowhere” but in reality it means everywhere. It starts at the personal individual level to reach the community and beyond. Someone once said “everybody wants to change the world‚ nobody wants to change himself”. We all remember Martin Luther King: “I have a dream”. We recall Cervantes with his famous Don Quixote de la Mancha. We also have the worst with Hitler and the Holocaust . Jesus himself came up with his own utopia: “my kingdom is not of this world" ( john 18:36)
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Sunil Bharati Mittal is the Chairman & MD of Bharti Group‚ India‚ The largest Telecommunication player of India having its presence in more than 17 Circles of India. Today‚ Airtel has a national network with a presence in nearly every major sector. The Company is one of the India’s Largest Telecomm sector Company having a Market Capitalization of more than Rs.60‚000 Crores. Sunil Mittal & his brothers own 32% of the Company and are therefore worth something like above Rs.20‚000. - Sunil
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Jeffrey Immelt 8. Selective acquisitions: As 2003 began‚ GE finalized plans to acquire Vivendi-Universal Entertainment. Immelt felt that this acquisition was crucial to growing the NBC business within GE as the deal would provide them with important content‚ production facilities‚ cable distribution and a strong management team. 9. Focus on creativity & innovation: Shortly after the Vivendi
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BCG Matrix Explained: How to Use and Create your BCG Matrix The BCG Matrix is also known as BCG Growth Share Matrix. The BCG Matrix tool and chart (originally developed by the Boston Consulting Group company) are used for developing marketing strategies and performing marketing analysis related to planning and analysis of portfolio of products and services (market offering). The portfolio of market offering analyzed with the BCG Matrix Tools is generally portfolio of products and services offered
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chess. Then when they got purchased in 1994 they came out with their first game Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. Blizzard has changed hands many times over the years. CUC International in 1996‚ Havas in 1998 and in that same year got sold to Vivendi‚ and then in 2008 Vivendi merges with Activision using Blizzards name in the resulting company Activision Blizzard. Blizzard has many games under their belts and many have earned them top honors throught the years. Diablo‚ Diablo II‚ and Diablo: Lord of Destruction
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Half-Life Version 1.1.1.1 Readme File 12/2/02 ******************************************************************** About This Document: This document contains last-minute information about Half-Life‚ including questions you may have concerning the game or your computer. If you have a question‚ check to see if it is addressed here first: you may save yourself a call to Technical Support. ******************************************************************** I. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS II
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Group (B.C.G) Matrix Although the BCG matrix enables us to assess the value of sales for each product or service‚ it is largely limited and therefore critiqued in academia. Davidson (2007?) describes how “the BCG matrix defines future profitability solely in terms of high market growth and high market share” without exploring other factors. The popularity of this model may therefore result from its “conceptual simplicity”. Davidson expresses how “the BCG model picks business winners” however
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In 2011‚ Boston Consulting Group was named one of the Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work for. “Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is One of Only Two Companies to Make the Top dozen Every Year Since 2006; Earns First Place Honors Among Smaller Companies for the Fourth Time and Continues to Enjoy the Highest Ranking Among Consultancies by a Wide Margin” (BCG). BCG continues to be ranked highly by employees and clients because of their personal relationships and their ability to seek change to
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