Chadwick‚ Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)‚ Harvard Business School Case (HBS Case 9-104-073). Substantive Issues Raised Division managers at Chadwick had complained to the Controller about the continual pressure to meet short-term financial objectives. As a producer of consumer products and pharmaceuticals‚ divisions at Chadwick engaged in long-term projects with uncertain payoffs. Managers did not believe that using a single target‚ return on capital employed‚ linked current actions
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Apollo Tyres Ltd is the leading tyre manufacturing company in India. They are engaged in manufacturing automobile tyres and tubes. They are having their manufacturing facilities at Trichur in Kerala and Vadodara in Gujarat. They are the first Indian tyre company to launch exclusive branded outlets for truck tyres and also the first Indian company to introduce radial tyres for the farm category. The company was incorporated on September 28‚ 1972. They started their production in the year 1977 at Perambra
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A strategy to centralise small parts helps to maintain growth The objective Argos has seen more rapid growth than almost any other comparable UK retailer over the last few years. Until recently its strategy for supporting the supply chain needed to maintain this growth was to build new RDCs (Regional Distribution Centres). Each RDC stocked virtually the full range and supplied Argos stores in its region. In 2000 a review of the supply chain strategy indicated that there would be benefits from the
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I. INTRODUCTION Ben and Jerry’s is an ice cream company brought into existence in 1978 in the form of a first scoop shop at a renovated gas station in Vermont. It was found by two men names Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Company revenues increased at a high rate from under $300‚000 in 1980 to almost $10 million in 1985 to $78 million in 1990 and to nearly $150 million in 1994. Growing with time‚ Ben and Jerry’s came up with an ongoing stream of exotic flavors‚ opening additional scoop shops
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Native American Culture The author who wrote hundreds of children’s books Joseph Bruchac grew up in the small town of Greenfield‚ New York. His grandma graduated at Albany Law school and kept books at the house which Joseph started to read and wanted to write his own books. His grandpa owned a little general store and his grandpa showed him how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish. Joseph Bruchac promotes Native American Culture through his works Our Stories Remembers‚ Code Talkers‚
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Subrahmanyam Robert E. Kraut Patricia M. Greenfield Elisheva F. Gross “I really want to move to Antarctica—I’d want my cat and Internet access and I’d be happy.” —16-year-old HomeNet participant (1995) Kaveri Subrahmanyam‚ Ph.D.‚ is assistant professor of child development at California State University‚ Los Angeles. Robert E. Kraut‚ Ph.D.‚ is professor of social psychology and humancomputer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Patricia M. Greenfield‚ Ph.D.‚ is professor of psychology at the
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Personal Narrative It was the summer of 2016 when an unplanned event occurred. Instead of my mom‚ my dad‚ Hunter and I spending our last few weeks of summer on the lake‚ visiting friends and family‚ or even getting ready for school we were in and out of the veterinary office. As we entered the air conditioned vet clinic we were all very nervous. “Hello‚” the lady at the front desk said. The vet came rushing out. ”They are here for Tex‚” she said upsettingly. We followed her back. Tex‚ our normally
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GROWTH OF AIRLINE INDUSTRY IN INDIA In December 1912‚ the Indian State Air Services in collaboration with UK based Imperial Airways introduced the London -Karachi - Delhi flight‚ the first International flight to and from India. In 1915 Tata Sons Ltd. started regular air mail services between Karachi and Madras and on January 24‚ 1920 Royal Airforce started regular airmail services between Karachi and Bombay. Construction of Civil Airports in India started in 1924 (Calcutta‚ Bombay and Allahbad)
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How did CEMEX elect to compete in a Blue Ocean? How might the changes that they undertook be viewed from the perspective of core competencies? CEO Zambrano realized that due to the consolidation and commoditization of the construction products industry‚ traditional concrete manufacturers would struggle to survive if they did not expand into uncharted markets. Until the late 1990s‚ CEMEX had focused almost exclusively on cement. However‚ customers found little use for cement unless paired
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In conclusion‚ Chipotle should continue on its strategic plan of international growth by entering into China. After having invested in Europe‚ Chipotle has accumulated experience and gained organizational learning over time‚ and can now increase its resource commitment to foreign markets. With one of the largest economies in the world‚ China has only increasing economic growth and purchasing power. Expanding into China would be a worthwhile investment because Chipotle would have the first-mover’s
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