Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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Case 8 – Samsung: From Gallop to Run 1. Samsung in 1993 was commonly noted for copying the higher technological powers like Sony and selling a cheaper‚ and not as good quality devices to customers. Instead of leading the way they were simply walking in the already paved path of tech world. When Lee Kun-hee became CEO of Samsung Industries he had it in his mind to become a leader. With a large investment in research and development he made that dream possible by hiring on plenty of fresh‚ young
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Corporate Ethics As a global company with approximately160‚000 employees and operations in 61 countries worldwide‚ Samsung Electronics is fully committed to complying with local laws and regulations as well as applying a strict global code of conduct to all employees. It believes that ethical management is not only a tool for responding to the rapid changes in the global business environment‚ but also a vehicle for building trust with its various stakeholders including customers‚ shareholders‚ employees
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The strategy of Samsung Samsung’s strtegy has many admirable things to learn . One of the point to make the success of Samsung is its managers interested in long-term growth rather than short-term profit. .Strategic thinking of the Samsung Group is focused on developing target market and making a huge bet on them. That ‘s the reason we don’t mention the short-term stratgy of Samsung bacause it isn’t the main point of Samsung;strategy and we can learn just a little thing from it. Come back to
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Another key factor in understanding problems faced by Samsung in dealing with the new generation of “digital natives” is to understand not only broad national traits mentioned before‚ but specifically the work ethics prevalent in Korean businesses. The case mentions that South Korea has the longest working week hours among all OECD countries. But this information appears dry until you realize specific reasons why those hours are so long. Some of the examples are: Our recommendation in hiring an
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Samsung electronics is a company with its capital in Samsung Town Soul‚ South Korea. Samsung Electronics unlike other electronic companies started it business operations on other products and not electronics. It started off as fish exporter vegetables and fruits exporter in China which was the business activity of the founder Byung-Chull Lee in 1938. Samsung expanded its activities again for the second time and also not in the electronics arena. It expanded to ship building‚ financial industry‚ chemicals
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The new Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park and with offices in Korea and Israel is led by Young Sohn‚ President and Chief Strategy Officer of Device Solutions‚ Samsung Electronics. "We see tremendous opportunities and transformations over the next five years driven by Big Data centered around mobility‚ cloud‚ and the Internet of Things‚ and Samsung will be a significant part of this revolution‚" said Sohn. "This is an exciting opportunity for us to
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Samsung Electronics is the largest affiliate of Samsung Group- a Korean brand. According to Forbes (2013)‚ it is the 20th biggest company in the world in term of market value. There are a wide range of electronic devices which are provided by Samsung such as refrigerators‚ air conditioners‚ cameras‚ tablets‚ phones‚ especially TVs and smart phones. It has several subsidiaries in over 50 different countries and employs almost 370‚000 people in FY2011 (Samsung‚ 2012). The main market of this company
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SAMSUNG « Inspire the world‚ create the future » SAMSUNG « Inspire the world‚ create the future » JAPANESE AND KOREAN MARKET JAPANESE AND KOREAN MARKET TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I/ THE COMPANY 1) History of the company a) From the 30’s to the 70’s b) From the 70’s to the 90’s c) From the 90’s to 2000’ d) From 2000 to Present 2) Key Datas and Key areas of Business a) Key Datas b) Key Area c) Key Products 3) Company’s
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Samsung Electronics Case A.) Samsung has a competitive advantage‚ which grew from its focus on the quality of its memory chips. The company’s early insistence on creating quality goods and constantly improving the production process allowed it to gain the largest market share among competitors. Samsung was able to build reliable products because its management fostered a culture that emphasized quality in the production process. The company reinforced this culture with an incentive program that
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