TOYOTA: THE ACCELERATOR CRISIS The root cause of their problems is that the company was hijacked‚ some years ago‚ by anti-family‚ financially oriented pirates. Jim Press‚ former President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) Toyota Motor Sales‚ U.S.A.‚ Inc. On February 24‚ 2010‚ Akio Toyoda‚ the grandson of Toyota Motor Corporation’s founder‚ Kiichiro Toyoda‚ endured a grueling question-and-answer session before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The
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Google‚ Inc. was ranked by Fortune magazine as the best place in the U.S. to work in 2009‚ and it has reached another zenith by becoming the most popular Web site. Google‚ Inc.’s goal of providing benefits and rewards is to “strip away everything that gets in our employees’ way” (Google‚ 2009). Google‚ Inc. provides a standard package of fringe benefits‚ but on top of that are first-class dining facilities‚ gyms‚ laundry rooms‚ massage rooms‚ haircuts‚ carwashes‚ dry cleaning‚ commuting buses –
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Google Inc. Marketing Case Study Analysis Submitted by: Lynne Abt Prof. Paul Guyette BUS 689: Marketing Strategy & Policy Rivier College May 06‚ 2007 Industry Background Search engine companies haven’t been around for very long with most of them coming into existence in the mid 1990’s. Many of these companies are already gone or in a state of gobbling each other up to compete with the bigger companies. Yahoo seems to be the grandfather of the currently existing crop starting in 1994. The
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Case Study Analysis Template1 Analyst’s Name: ¶ Date: ¶ Case Study Name: ¶Google Inc.‚ in China I. The Pre-Analysis: A. Perspective: A.1. Describe the perspective2 of the author(s) of the case study and the possible biases that might result from that perspective: ¶ The case study is titled Google Inc.‚ In china‚ written by Kirsten E. Martin for the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. Kirsten Martin is the Assistant Professor of Business and Economics at
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Acquisition of Motorola by Google On August 15‚ Google announced an agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility‚ based in Libertyville‚ Illinois‚ for $40 per share. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. Benefits of the deal Google and Motorola Mobility together will accelerate innovation and choice in mobile computing. Consumers will get better phones at lower prices. Motorola Mobility’s patent portfolio will help protect the Android ecosystem. Android‚ which is open-source
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more concentrated (i.e.: dominated by fewer firms)? ● Is search a winner-take-all business? ● In renewing its deal with AOL‚ could Google afford to pay AOL more than 100% of the revenue generated from AOL searches? ● How did Microsoft’s maximum affordable bid for AOL’s search traffic compare to Google’s? In addition to enhancing its core search business‚ should Google also branch out into new arenas? Which of the follow would you recommend: ● Building a full-fledged portal like Yahoo’s; ● Targeting
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Increase in online advertising Online video increasing Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (one day per week) on projects that interest them 1‚300 résumés a day Froogle.com / Google Product Search Threats Potential Yahoo/Microsoft alliance Facebook Click fraud Copyright disputes stemming from Google Book Search and the digitization of millions of books Censorship
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Google failures. GOOGLE ANSWERS. In competition with Yahoo! Answers‚ Google created Google Answers a program which goal was to answer all kind of questions users could have. The program counted with a team of researchers guaranteeing correct‚ quality answers‚ despite this‚ users favored Yahoo!’s. WHY? First mistake Google made was charging clients for posts. People didn’t want to pay when they could use Yahoo‚ which is totally free‚ although their answers don’t have the same quality as the ones
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Google Android Strategy Memo to the CEO Mahipal Raythattha‚ Joseph Moore‚ Dingchao Lu‚ and Samuel Yang March 11‚ 2009 In this paper‚ we analyze the future of the smartphone operating system market and consider strategies that Google Android can employ to survive and grow. INDUSTRY OVE ERVIEW: STATE OF THE MARKET New Entrant N ts o Smart tphones are e a growing part of the more mature cell‐phon ne market. Mobile ph hone sales d declined ove erall in 2008 8‚ but smart
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study of two internet giants‚ Google and Yahoo!‚ will show that although one company is not generating as much as the other is‚ there are ways that it can improve future cash flows. Current RatioThe current ratio of an organization shows its ability to meet its short-term financial obligations (Investor Words‚ 2009)‚ by taking the current assets divided by current liabilities. At the end of 2008‚ Google ’s ratio was $8.77 million and $8.49 million at the end of 2007
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