Faculty of Economic & Business كلية االقتصاد واإلدارة Syllabus Strategic Management (BUS 420) Muhammad Zafar Yaqub‚ Ph.D.‚ MBA‚ MA (Eco.)‚ MA (Pol. Sc.) Room No. 479‚ 4th Floor Department of Business Administration Voice Direct: +966 2 70470 Mobil: +966 565 466737 Email: zafar.yaqub@yahoo.com Skype ID : mzyaqub COURSE DESCRIPTION With the advent of the (global) marketplace becoming more and more dynamic and tough due to an ever-intensifying competition‚ a key determinant/antecedent of the firms’
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Financial Analysis Project MSF Cohort 2 Xiaoyan Wang(Jessica) December‚2012 Abstract Today’s personal products market has become more competitive than ever. With economic and political uncertainty in many parts of the world‚ The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. has invoked a number of unique and diverse strategies in order to gain customer loyalty while attracting new customers for staying as a leader in personal products industry. This paper focuses on analyzing The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.‚ including
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workers as a key economic resource of the twenty first century. If an employee leaves a company to work for a competitor‚ what types of knowledge could be ethical for the employee to share with the new employer and what types of knowledge would be unethical to share? The hardest thing to deal with being inside a company‚ is when you lose one of your employees to one of your competitors. You worry if that employee is going to give inside information that could cause harm to your company. Companies
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Background In the case‚ background in 1990’s China Government open beer market to foreign investor. China is a huge‚ future potential market‚ a lot of foreign brewers enter to the Chinese market and making multi million dollar investment on production facilities as well as labor market. However a few years later most of the foreign brewers were still running at loss. On other hands the local brewers with untrained management‚ problematic human resource and poor quality product and weak marketing
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COMPANY OVERVIEW OF DOMESTIC DIRECT COMPETITORS OF SIME DARBY (GENTING BERHAD) Genting Berhad (Genting)‚ a holding company for the Genting Group‚ operates resorts‚ casino and plantations. It also develops properties‚ manufactures paper and generates electricity. The company primarily operates in Malaysia. It is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia and employs 36‚000people. The company recorded revenues of MYR6‚943.8 million (approximately $1‚968.3 million) during the fiscal year ended December
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Questions Create a company in an existing industry in Zimbabwe; Come up with a mission statement‚ vision and values Do a SWOT Analysis PESTELI Do a competitor analysis Company Name The name of the company is Revival Insurance Brokers (Pvt) Ltd‚ it was inspired by a drive to doing things differently and it means the revitalization‚ renewal and reinforcement of the insurance broking business. Company background Revival Insurance Brokers (Pvt) Ltd (RIB) specialises in the provision of
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Minicase: Can Brazil Become a Global Competitor in the Information Technology Outsourcing Business? 1. Use the theories of international trade and investment that have been presented in this chapter to help explain Brazil’s intentions and actions regarding the international information technology sector. The IT Service industry has expanded rapidly. Many companies worldwide have made the decision to outsource this industry to offshore companies. Worldwide demand has increased growth to 40 to
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[pic] “All Races‚ All Sexes‚ All Ages” [pic] Makeup Art Cosmetics SWOT-analysis Executive Summary This report is to find out what M·A·C’s strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats are. The research question is stated like: Should M·A·C adapt their promotional tools in the Dutch market in order to increase their sales and brand awareness? After analyzing the external and internal environment‚ it became clear what the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats are
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Brazil has emerged as a global competitor in a range of sophisticated technology sectors. They have launched active campaigns to build a strong international competitive position in the information technology off shoring business. Their IT out sourcing sector is small relative to India ’s. The theory about international trade states that the differences in endowment factors of production‚ levels of technology that determine the factor intensities used‚ efficiencies with which these factor intensities
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SWOT: L’Oréal Strengths i) Innovation L’Oréal is able to think outside the box. Its expansion through skin care device Clarisonic demonstrates its ability to venture outside regular product categories to drive growth. Clarisonic drives growth in the stagnant North American market. Clarisonic is one of the most successful stories in consumer appliances in recent times recording strong growth between 2007 and 2012. It has proved successful in the otherwise stagnant North American market
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