2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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record rate. Carolyn relished the thought of finally being able to staff up for increased production. She hoped that the strong sales growth meant the company could reinstate the bonus pool that had been discontinued when the financial crisis struck. Bui her excitement was short-lived. Gino’s face grew serious. "As most of you know‚" he said‚ his emotion neatly overcoming him‚ "about eight months ago my nine-year-old daughter‚ Nicole‚ was diagnosed with Batten disease." His listeners nodded sympathetically
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travel route report by users. The core of their business now is the user base since their business model is all around number of user’s. Waze plan to make money through location-based mobile ads for local businesses. At present‚ they rely on TV to growth up the customer base‚ that was successful way after practice. However‚ there are many mapping industry to compete with Waze‚ such as Trimble Navigation Ltd. ‚ Garmin Ltd. ‚ and Google etc.‚ but they believe their advantage‚ faster update and unique
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Case Study Analysis: Why Dine Equity’s CEO Julia A Stewart Manages Like a Teacher? Summary: Julia Stewart is an extremely successful businesswoman who brought in the techniques that her father used in teaching his US history class into the world of restaurant management. Julia takes her skeptical father to several Taco Bell restaurants to show him how she has been using techniques learnt from watching him. She identifies the importance of crediting employees for their work and thereby increasing
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY‚ MANAGEMENT‚ AND LOGISTIC INTRODUCTION OF MANAGEMENT (BPMN1013) RESEARCH OF CASE STUDY PREPARED BY: GROUP 11 TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0. Acknowledgement…………………………………………………3 2.0. Case study 2.1- Case 1- McDonald’s : Grilling Up an Empire……………….4 2.2- Case 9- Sony Corporation : An Evolution of Technology…14 2.3- Case 10- Nike :Spreading Out to Stay Together…………….23 3.0. References…………………………………………………….….42 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Special thanks to
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Quantitative Methods • Dance with Chance • Black Swan 4 QUANTITATIVE METHODS CASE MAPPING Chapter Basic Concepts of Scales & Measurements Detailed Syllabus Nominal‚ ordinal‚ interval and ratio scales. Review of central tendencies and dispersion Session Key Concepts 1 Scales Case Study College Canteen’s Decreasing Beverages’ Sales: Analysis Dilemmas Abstract Meant for ‘Scales of Measurement’‚ this case study presents Raghu’s • analysis dilemma‚ the owner-manager of Matrix canteen‚ which sells
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International Management II (Core Competencies) Case Study Bank of America (A) by Alexander Beil Christoph Hillgärtner Florian Schlegelmilch Harvard Case Study: Bank of America List of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction / Definitions Overview “Bank of America” Product development processes Strength and weaknesses of the systems Learning through experimentation Conclusion / Learnings Summary Questions for group discussion References 1 Harvard Case Study: Bank of America 1. Introduction /
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) approach - sony‚ amazon Systemic approach Strategy process Understanding the external envoironment (M2) PESTEL from SMA environment = remote/industry environ.. Customers & markets Unserstanding the internal environment (M3) SWOT from SMA Growth options in products nad markets (M4) Strategic options‚ themes and implementing the final strategy (M5&6) Leadership and decision-making (M7) Strategic thinking big picture’ Linling strategic thinking and strategic planning Strategic stretch
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Module 7 Case Study 2: Transforming customer service for BRANZ Ltd. Abstract Porter’s value chain describes a comprehensive format of creating value within any business venture. It explains how to alter business inputs into outputs that are of greater value than the initial cost of creating the same outputs. According to Michael Porter‚ analysing the chain of activities in any organization will be of more value to the output and services compared to the summation of the cost of these activities
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made contributions to the field are Michael Dell and Andy Grove. Michael Dell is the founder and CEO of Dell Computers. Andy Grove the former CEO and cofounder of Intel. How these two men got started in their perspective fields and the obstacles they have overcame to make their companies on the Fortune 500 list. We will compare their styles‚ changes they made‚ and how they kept their companies on top of their perspective fields. Michael Dell started his computer company in college dorm
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