www.hbr.org Even as companies are being told that the future lies in globalization‚ some are severely punished for their international moves. A simple test can help you decide what makes strategic sense for your organization. When You Shouldn’t Go Global by Marcus Alexander and Harry Korine Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 When You Shouldn’t Go Global 8 Further
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Zara: Fast Fashion Report Questions 1) With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex´s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex´s relative operating economics? Financial results of Inditex Group and its competitors GAP‚ BENETTON‚ and H&M (Table 1) have to be evaluated under a common bases‚ in other words‚ identifying variables that are common for the four companies due to at the end the business strategy of
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Critically evaluate the ‘World is Flat’ thesis put forward by Thomas Friedman. Thomas Friedman in his recent book ‘The world is flat’ discusses a short history of globalisation in the twenty-first century. His discovering journey took him around the world to investigate the new concept in transnational business. He views himself as Columbus-like‚ but in a new modern word‚ in which he is searching for the sources of today’s wealth. Only to come to a rhetorical conclusion that the world is “flat”
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PG0-002 MAY 6‚ 2011 PANKAJ GHEMAWAT RAVI MADHAVAN Mittal Steel in 2006: Changing the Global Steel Game On January 27‚ 2006‚ Laxmi Niwas Mittal (LNM) and his son‚ Aditya Mittal‚ Chairman & CEO and CFO respectively of Mittal Steel‚ prepared for the press conference at which they would announce Mittal Steel’s unsolicited €18.6 billion bid to acquire the European steelmaker Arcelor. Although Mittal Steel had been a prime mover behind the consolidation of the industry—and most participants
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Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how to develop a competitive supply chain in order to response to the speed of the customer changes in clothing industry. Literatures review – The key success factors of the clothing industry are explained. Also the supply chain concepts related to the industry are developed (Agility‚ Quick Response and Lean) Analysis of Zara’s supply chain – The supply chain network of the company is analysed and each stage of the network is developed
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Outback Steakhouse in Korea: a success story. by Lee‚ Kyuho^Khan‚ Mahmood A.^Ko‚ Jae-Youn Cornell Hospitality Quarterly • Feb‚ 2008 • CQ CASES Interviews with executives and managers of the Outback Steakhouse Korea chain point to the critical success factors that have allowed the chain to expand even in the face of economic turbulence. Opened in 1997‚ the Korean operation first had to survive the Asian currency crisis‚ which it did with assistance from its franchisor. With close cooperation
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Introduction In 2004‚ Wal-Mart claimed to have the largest data warehouse with 500 terabytes storage. In 2009‚ eBay storage amounted to eight petabytes equivalent to 104 years of HD-TV video. Two years later‚ the Yahoo warehouse totaled 170 petabytes1 which is 8.5 times of all hard disk drives created in 1995. Since the rise of digitization‚ enterprises from various verticals have amassed burgeoning amounts of digital data‚ capturing trillions of bytes of information about their customers‚ suppliers
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How IKEA Manages Cultural Issues in China Operations January 4‚ 2013 21:18 Individualism vs. Collectivism Countries categorized as individualistic are characterized by the “I” cultures. Such societies expect its members to take care of themselves and immediate families. Whereas success in individualistic societies brings pride and stature‚ failure brings the feeling of guilt and in most cases leads to loss of self-respect. It is for this reason that individualistic societies value
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3. Problem Formulation As it is evident from the related work discussed in the section 2‚ when small files are stored on HDFS‚ disk utilization is not a bottleneck. In general‚ small file problem occurs when memory of NameNode is highly consumed by the metadata and BlockMap of huge numbers of files. NameNode stores file system metadata in main memory and the metadata of one file takes about 250 bytes of memory. For each block by default three replicas are created and its metadata takes about 368
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Bodawala Priyanka Manish Business and its Environment Dr. Racz Matron and Dr. Márta Szabados August 25‚ 2009. Factors influencing the multinationals and local companies for the market position. INTRODUCTION Couple of years before the policy maker decided to lower down the tariff barriers and to give permission
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