This report documents work carried out in the course of a team project concerning the case study: “British Airways – USAir: Structuring a Global Strategic Alliance”. The project fulfills partial requirements of the Strategic Management course of Harvard Summer School and has been completed by a team of two students. The case is about alliance of two airline companies‚ namely British Airways and USAir. In this case‚ we are focused on investigating the alliance process in detail by using strategic
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Introduction British Airways PLC Flying an extensive route network of more than 300 different destinations in more than 70 countries‚ with nearly 250 aircrafts in service‚ British Airways is today the largest airline in the UK and the leader in terms of transatlantic flights globally. They are a group mainly based in Heathrow Airport‚ London Gatwick and Manchester‚ where they operate international & domestic scheduled air services for carriage of passengers‚ freight & mail. In addition‚ British Airways
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1. British Airways Plc (BA) founded in 1974‚ was in the control of government for thirteen years and went into privatization in 1987. The industry operates about 240 aircrafts‚ serving about 120 destinations throughout the U.K and Europe including the Middle East‚ Africa‚ South and North America‚ Asia and the Pacific. British Airways competes with various other airlines in the industry but still it has maintained its domination in various parts of the aviation industry in the United Kingdom and Europe
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Change Management in British Airways Name Class Affiliation Instructor Date Table of Contents TOC o 1-3 h z u HYPERLINK l _Toc353214240 Introduction PAGEREF _Toc353214240 h 3 HYPERLINK l _Toc353214241 Context of the change PAGEREF _Toc353214241 h 3 HYPERLINK l _Toc353214242 Evaluation of the nature of such changes PAGEREF _Toc353214242 h 4 HYPERLINK l _Toc353214243 The change management strategy PAGEREF _Toc353214243 h 5 HYPERLINK l _Toc353214244 The challenges and difficulties in implementing
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goals……………………………………………………………………...………………………………..7 Compromises………………………………………..……………………………………………………………..7 British Airways culture………………………………..………………………………………………………..8 Suggested solutions………………..…………………………………………………………………………….8 Recommendations……………….………………………………………………………………………………9 References..……………………………………………………………………………………………………….10 2 Introduction: What the company does? The British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the UK. Its headquarters is at the waterside near the main hub
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British Airways‚ pg. 239 2. What lessons emerge from each perspective and what recommendations would you draw from each in constructing your advice to BA management. British Airways management did approach the large-scale change to its employees by implementing the swipe time cared through a change management process. According to the case study the employee unions were made aware of the change and had minimal conversations regarding how‚ when‚ and ramifications of its implementation. Nadler’s
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2009 Structural Perspective: British Airways André Costa Choi Sin Man Jiyun Baek 0 1 – Introduction In different working fields‚ companies face the pressure of globalization‚ and they must find new ways to overcome this challenge. The following example‚ introduces the case of British Airways‚ which needs to deal with the globalization issue trying to reduce the operational costs‚ increase profits and provide suitable services to customers. According to British Airways annual report from 2008/2009
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1. What was life like at "old" British Airways? • Employees were embarrassed to mention they worked for the company. • British Airways stumbled into its 1979 state of inefficiency in large part because of its history and culture. • British Airways faced the worst crisis in its history in the late 1970’s early 1980’s. • Unless they took immediate action they were heading for a loss of at least £100 million within that present financial year. • They faced the potential that by that following
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Changing the Culture at British Airways 1. Problems you identified from the case Macro: The first problem changing the culture at British Airways was the merger of the BOAC and BEA. In 1971‚ the Civil Aviation Act became law and the board was to control policy over British Airways but both BOAC and BEA remained autonomous‚ each with its own chairman‚ board‚ and chief executive. This caused a split within British Airways throughout the 1970s and in the mid-1980. The second problem BA faced was
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Explanation of what a marketing audit is: The purpose of a marketing audit is to review and appraise existing marketing activities and to look at the way the marketing is planned and managed‚ giving the opportunity for a systematic examination of each element of the organisations current marketing activity and achievements‚ and to objectively evaluate the effectiveness of the organisations investment in marketing. The marketing audit assists in the evaluation of the whole marketing activity‚ and provides
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