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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Evaluation for “the Flight from Conversation” Time flows; things change. The development of technology enables people to both access the world and people more rapidly. We immediately know the news that happen all over the world because of the Internet; we make friends with people thousands miles away through social networks; and we can have artificial intelligence or applications like SimSimi to accompany us when we are lonely. With time‚ these connections can start to replace real face-to-face
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have chosen aviation as my career. Ever since I went for a ride in my friends Dad’s Zenith Skyjeep I have had a passion for flying. I was thrown back by the whole atmosphere of the flight. Soon after this I decided to make sure it wasn’t a one off. I went for a trial flight with Quantum Aviation in Whangarei. This was undoubtedly enough‚ I was hooked. The start of this year presented itself with two options. I had to decide between having a gap year or getting stuck into
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office has turned into a reality. Employees can now more easily connect themselves with businesses. When the new work pattern emerges‚ many companies and staffs advocate it‚ because it seems to have some advantages; however‚ the deficiencies should not be ignored. Even though‚ technology allows‚ businesses should not give employees the choice to work remotely because it would affect management‚ performance and privacy of the companies. Companies should not allow employees to work remotely whenever the
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Characteristics of good employees There are characteristics for good employees but the most important characteristics are dependability and having a positive and proactive attitude. Being dependable means that the employee can takes instructions and orders from others and works as teamwork with other people. When people or clients can depend on the employee that means that he should be a team player and not always about himself because the good employee
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One of the major challenges management faces is motivatingemployees to do their best at work. Successful organizations have motivatedand enthusiastic employees. In this paper I will summarize three articles I’ve found in Harvard Business Review and relate them to chapter 16 from our text on motivation. In this summary I will show the relationship between a motivated workforce and corporate performances. I will then apply the concepts from the articles and the text to management in a personal organizational
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Flight dynamics –II Stability and control Prof. E.G. Tulapurkara Chapter 1 Introduction (Lectures 1‚2 and 3) Keywords : Importance of stability and control analysis ; brief historical background ; basic concepts – static stability‚ dynamic stability‚ longitudinal‚ lateral and directional stability‚ control fixed and control free stability ; controllability; subdivisions of the subject; course outline. Topics 1.1 Opening remarks 1.2 Brief outline of historical developments 1.2.1 Early developments
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the eassy I will discuss the meaning and importance of equity in taxation since Adam Smith included it as one of the Canons of taxation. Equity is defined as “redistributive taxation induces allocative distortions by driving a wedge between the price the consumer pays and the price the producer receives” (Begg et al. 2005‚ p.219). There are two types of equity to be considered: the horizontal equity‚ and vertical equity. “The horizontal equity requires that people in similar situations should be
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The story "Flight Patterns" by Sherman Alexie begins as the main character‚ William‚ wakes up to the sound of his alarm and prepares for his day of travels. It is in the first few paragraphs of this short story that I initially question why this literary work is entitled "Flight Patterns". As I turned the page‚ my question is later answered. Although‚ it was not answered before reading seemingly pointless information about Williams life‚ such as: his taste in music‚ his weekly exercise regimen‚ he
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THE IMPACT OF MOTIVATION ON JOB SATISFACTION AMONGST EMPLOYEES OF A NATIONAL BROADCASTER XOLANI ENOCH TYILANA SHORT DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree MAGISTER COMMERCII in BUSINESS MANAGEMENT in the FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT at UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG STUDY LEADER: PROFESSOR WOLHUTER BACKER OCTOBER 2005 Acknowledgements I dedicate this work to my country South Africa. I also want to express my sincere gratitude to my family
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