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    MKT 555 Professor Bao 11/3/2010 Case assignment 4: Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk. Question 1: what caused the failure of HP’s Kittyhawk project? Kittyhawk was the smallest hard disk drive in the world produced by Hewlett-Packard in the 1900s’. However‚ despite of the general manager’s (named Bruce Spenner) entrepreneurial spirit and risk taking‚ two years later‚ Kittyhawk sales failed. A few reasons caused the failure of HP’s Kittyhawk project. Firstly‚ in this market

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    Ethics and Compliance - Hewlett Packard Introduction How a company conducts business is important. The U.S. Security and Exchange commission has established guidelines for publicly traded companies so investors and creditors have easy access to the information they need to evaluate the risk to invest or extend credit to a company (Kimmel‚ Weygandt‚ & Kieso‚ 2007). In this paper Hewlett Packard’s ethics policy‚ U.S. Security and Exchange compliance‚ financial ratios reported in their

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    MGT 441 Supply Chain Management of Hewlett Packard and Dell Inc. Faculty Advisor: Gary Solomon Student: Luke P National University 2 August‚ 2012 Executive Summary Creating and maintaining a successful supply chain within a business can prove to be one of the largest challenges in developing a successful foundation. Learning the processes involved and understanding the approaches necessary to achieve success can be lessons studied over a life time; the possible

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    Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A) The first hard drive‚ a magnetic information storage and retrieval device for computers and other electronic products‚ was developed by IBM engineers in 1956 in San Jose‚ California. This hard drive was the size of two side by side refrigerators and could store 5 MB of information. Incredible technological progress ensued‚ and by the early 1990’s‚ disk drives had decreased from their original bulky configuration to 2.5 square inches

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    In 1992‚ Hewlett Packard made the decision to produce 1.3 inch disk drives‚ leapfrogging over the 1.8 inch format to position themselves as market leaders for the smaller drive. Prior to this time‚ HP prided itself on its leadership position within this industry and its ability to innovate more quickly than its competitors. However‚ the Disk Memory Division (DMD) was lagging behind the company standard‚ comprising only 3.2% of total HP revenues in 1992. HP was trying to use the Kittyhawk project

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    In September 1995‚ John Peter‚ a marketing manager of Hewlett Packard Asia Pacific (HPAP) was evaluating the company’s long term strategic investment options for doing business in Vietnam. Hewlett Packard Asia Pacific was a subsidiary of the Hewlett Packard (HP) Company‚ and its headquarters was located in Singapore. Vietnam had recently adopted an open-door policy after the U.S. lifted its embargo on the country in February 1994. The country had a population of over 70 million‚ and foreign

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    one of the five generic competitive strategies is Dell employing? How well do the different pieces of Dell’s strategy fit together? In what way is Dell’s strategy evolving? ANSWERS As we know strategy can be define in many ways. Based on the former CEO of General Electric‚ He said that strategy means making clear-out choices about how to complete. So what are the elements of Dell’s strategy to be the worldwide leader in personal computer? Dell has few elements of strategy to achieve his goal

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    Introduction Hewlett-Packard is currently a successful company operating within the computer and printer industry. In addition to its huge market coverage‚ HP has also been earning billions of dollars through quality products and ingenious development of new technologies. Despite this success‚ the increasing competition in the industry encourages the company to apply new marketing strategies that will position its products better in the market. One of the possible solutions for this

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    Case Study: Dell‚ Inc. 1. History of the company. In 1983‚ Michael Dell started his own business while in college. The company he started was PC ’s ltd.‚ which was the forerunner to Dell Inc. today. Dell started his business with a simple concept which is made to order computers. The computers were to be direct sales to consumers. Dell maximized his profits by bypassing distributors and retailers. Although he his product was sold by retailers he soon took the product out of the stores and

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    Dell Inc. in 2008: Can it overtake Hewlett-Packard as the Worldwide Leader in Personal Computers? Dell is a global company that delivers products and services in more than 190 countries and over 40000 employees who live and work on six continents. The company deals in enterprise computing products‚ desktops‚ monitors‚ printers‚ notebooks‚ handhelds‚ software and peripherals with a focus on fully integrated improved environmental performance into business. The company had gone through many ups

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