UNIT 2 CASE Study xi Unit 2 Case Study: Hong Kong Disneyland Margaret Taylor MGT 614: Global and Transnational Management Dr. Laura Mays Tiffin University May 26th‚ 2013 UNIT 2 CASE STUDY 1 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to analyze the management strategies of Hong Kong Disneyland ‚and the issues that have arisen. Hong Kong an amusement park built by the Disney Corporation
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BACKGROUND: The Walt Disney Company (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16‚ 1923‚ by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio‚ the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production‚ television‚ and travel. Taking
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Apple Mini Case SWOT Strength: 1. Strong brand name and customer loyalty. Weakness: 1. Limitation on customer segmentation because Apple has limitation on its price and product varieties. Opportunity: 1. Chinese economy is still booming right even though the economy is kind of slow down right now‚ it still has a lot of room to grow. If Apple could catch the chance‚ for sure it has a lot of business opportunities. 2. Largest population in China so there is a lot of potential customers
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Bonny van Dongeren BUS 508 Dr. Steed 28 April 2014 Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies The Apple Corporation has very strong ethical and social responsibilities within the corporate world. Apple currently has a great position on their customer service and significant value. This is important when it comes to upholding a positive image. They have also violated a lot of these ethical and social responsibilities which has caused it to hurt Apple Corporation’s reputation. A couple of
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22-03-2012 Morena Xodo (matr. 639471) COOPER INDUSTRIES’ CORPORATE STRATEGIES Cooper industries’ is a broad company that strongly uses M&A strategy of diversification. But diversification for Cooper doesn’t mean just ‘adding‚ adding and more adding’. Division managers seek for ‘complementary acquisition’ defined as logical extensions of Cooper’s existing products or markets; furthermore they keep examining what they have‚ not being afraid to get rid of companies that have served their useful
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person unbolted the box from its base and took it back to the office where it was pried open. The contents were delivered the next day. It is not important whether this folktale is true or not. What is important is that this story illustrates Fedex’s corporate culture: every employee helps in the achievement of FedEx’s reputation of reliable overnight delivery. All organizations have their own folktale. What’s yours? “This is the way we do things around here.” Do you not tell this to every employee
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From: Joanna Zeng‚ Senior Vice President for Sustainability at Nestlé To: CEO and the board of directors‚ Nestlé Subject: Implementing a sustainability strategy to improve corporate performance Date: April 18‚ 2013 Recommended Action: The task was to develop a sustainability strategy that Nestlé ought to implement to improve our corporate and environmental performance. And we recommend adopting “eco-efficiency” programs which focus on lowering costs and optimize organizational processes. In
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References: (1970). "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits." New York Time. Reprinted in Harvard Business Review: Ethics for Executives Series. (1991). "The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders". Business Horizon. August/July‚ pp. 39-48. Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)‚ and‚ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Table of Contents Industry Analysis 3 Business Strategies Analysis 5 Business Strategy Evaluation & Recommendations 6 Specialization‚ Learning by doing 7 mutual adjustment 7 direct supervision 7 standardization of work processes 7 standardization of work outputs 7 standardization of worker skills 7 Coordination mechanisms 7 Coordination by plan 8 Coordination by feedback 8 Interdependence 8 Pooled Interdependece 8 Sequential Interdependence 8 Reciprocal Interdependence
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Home Depot’s corporate strategy is intensive growth strategy to capture the home improvement market share by expanding into new areas‚ purchasing competitors‚ and moving into other countries. The largest impact to Home Depot’s growth success has been from the large investment to expand their ecommerce presence‚ as well as‚ improve their physical stores. By inking the two together by ordering online and picking up in the store process‚ Home Depot has scored a homerun with its online expansion.
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