Psychologist Abraham Maslow first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" and his subsequent book Motivation and Personality. This hierarchy suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other‚ more advanced needs. This hierarcy is most often displayed as a pyramid. The lowest levels of the pyramid are made up of the most basic needs‚ while the more complex needs are located at the top of the pyramid. Needs
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Case 9 & 10 Analysis Seagate Technology Buyout The Hertz Corporation Advanced Corporate Finance MW 2:00-3:15 PM Question 1 On page 1‚ the “value-gap” is two-fold. It signifies an under-valuation of Seagate’s core disk drive operating assets due to unfavorable public market investor preferences. Furthermore‚ the value of the Veritas share price has caused the Veritas stake to far outweigh the value of Seagate’s stand-alone market capitalization. Since Seagate does not own at least 80%
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Re: Seagate Technology 1. Describe the main terms of the Seagate Technology buyout? Why is Seagate undertaking this transaction? Is it necessary to divest the Veritas shares in a separate transaction? What are other alternative ways to create value? The primary contemplated terms would be to sell Seagate’s disk drive mfg assets including $765M in cash to Suez Acquisition Company controlled by Silver Lake Partners. The purchase would be financed by equity put up by Silver Lake and also by an‚
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EVALUATING BUSINESS STRATEGY* Richard P. Rumelt November 28‚ 1993 trategy can neither be formulated nor adjusted to changing circumstances without a process of strategy evaluation. Whether performed by an individual or as part of an organizational review procedure‚ strategy evaluation forms an essential step in the process of guiding an enterprise. For many executives strategy evaluation is simply an appraisal of how well a business performs. Has it grown? Is the profit rate normal or better
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Contents Introduction 2 What is operations strategy? 3 Operations 3 Strategy 5 Operations strategy 6 The content of the operations strategy 8 The process of the operations strategy 9 Sustainable alignment 9 Substitutes for strategy 11 Implementation 11 Conclusion 13 Bibliography 14 Introduction In a world‚ where humans do their best to survive‚ a never ending need for goods and services is always in people`s mind. In order to meet with these requirements‚ raw materials and processes
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Contents Introduction 2 Business Concept 2 Four Perspectives of Operation Strategy 2 Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Perspective 3 Top-Down Perspective 4 Bottom-Up Perspective 4 Market Requirement versus Operations Resources 4 Market Requirement Perspective 5 Operation Resources Perspective 5 Conclusion 5 Reference 6 Introduction Zara is a Spanish fashion and accessories retailers that founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalia Mera (Ledesma‚ 2013). Zara designs‚ manufactures
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Seagate Case Study Effective Global Strategic Resourcing Analysis The key to a successful supply chain and its integration with customers and supplies lies in its ability to communicate wants‚ needs‚ and realities. Seagate has taken communication to its highest level by creating visibility at every level of its supply chain. This visibility is the Holy Grail for Seagate because it is a form of communication that breeds trust and transparency throughout every level of its supply chain.
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Globalization & Strategy Globalization is a process of interaction and integration of different nations that is sped up by technological progress such as the internet‚ communication‚ advanced mode of transport especially air travel as well as the growing number of non-English speakers mastering English language. Strategy is a direction or scope of an organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil the stakeholders’ expectations
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intensive‚ heavy investments which is not feasible if the Seagate Inc. remains a public company The other capital reorganisations alternatives are involving significant tax liability and considering the present nature of events that Seagate is a public Company‚ the tax liability will result to loss of the wealth of the shareholders where the capital restructuring option involves corporate taxes as well as personal tax liability. The stock of Seagate Inc.‚ experience an adverse value gap‚ Such that the
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The process of operations strategy – substitutes for strategy? (Week 9) Lecture aims This lecture is a little different from the other lectures in the book. It deals with a number of ‘new’ approaches to the management of operations that are often seen as operations strategies‚ but are not actually strategies in themselves. Six of the more important ‘new’ approaches are treated in this lecture‚ namely‚ Total Quality Management‚ lean operations‚ Business Process Reengineering‚ Enterprise Resource
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